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When an immensely powerful character has to have their power [[Transformation Sequence|sealed for some reason]], the artists (usually overly fond of [[Super-Deformed]] or "chibi" characters) will represent this by drawing the character in her depowered or "sleep mode" state as a tiny, delicate, and incredibly doll like version of her normal self with the wardrobe to match. This can vary, be it [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] or a more standard [[Kawaiiko]]. A normal sized character can be turned into '''Sleep Mode Size''' if she has her powers temporarily drained.
Another version is the character just looking like a child version of herself. Sometimes the cast knows about ''only'' that version despite suggestion. [[The Reveal]] will show her to be extremely powerful... and probably really good looking.
This can also be done with dragons or other large
[[Super Robot
Compare with [[Eyepatch of Power]], [[Statistically Speaking]].
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* Newest addition to ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Pantherlily has his own version of this, where he becomes the same size as the other cats in Fairy Tail.
* Many magical characters in ''[[Ah!
** In both the manga and television series, the demon queen Hild leaves behind a tiny fraction of her power after visiting, which is still enough to take the form of a little girl. While Urd finds it embarrasing, Hild's introduction suggests that simply ''appearing'' in the mortal world without throttling her power somehow would easily take out a few city blocks (or, in the anime, the entire city).
** Belldandy manifests in a tiny-sized version of herself immediately after the Lord of Terror arc, when the goddesses were cut off from their heavenly power supply.
* In [[CLAMP]]'s manga ''[[Wish]]'', all but the most powerful angels take on a [[Super-Deformed]], powered-down form at night, while demons do so during the day.
* [[
* Kerberos from ''[[
* From ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', Washu is an extraordinarily powerful entity, perhaps even a literal goddess, who can change her appearance at will. For whatever reason, almost all the time she chooses to look like a precocious red-haired nine-year-old girl. She is quite capable of looking like a very attractive adult woman when she feels like it, though she doesn't do it very often.
** The OVAs have a reason - she was badly burned in a relationship when her husband ditched her and took their child due to their social standings. She decided that she'd rather be a child and not worry about those responsibilities than deal with that again. Of course, she'd throw that away in a heartbeat to be with Tenchi...!
** From the same series, Ryo-Ohki. Normally a cute fuzzy "cabbit", she can transform into the universe's most powerful space battleship. This is doubled up in the OAV, after she gains a Humanoid form. Though it has an adult size, she normally shrinks it down to a little kid's when she uses it. She has trouble walking bipedally in a form so top heavy, y'see. The manga spinoff even featured a storyline where she practiced how to walk with boobs.
* ''Zenki'' is about a demon prince sealed into a childlike form in order to control his powers. His [[Kid
* Chrono in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is another sealed-into-child-form demon, thanks to a crippling (for demons) injury suffered in the past; though he can temporarily re-adopt his adult form, he is loath to do so, since it requires [[Cast From Lifespan|draining time from his partner's lifespan]].
** Amusingly, he looked fairly cool in his chronologically first appearance in this shrunken form, with a serious face and tattered mod on his nineteenth-century Indian leathers, but during the main storyline he seems to have chosen a 'ridiculously cute' tailcoat and shorts style. Possibly for harmlessness points, since he's a known demon working with a Church organization.
* In the manga of [[Sailor Moon]], the attractive and probably powerful mentors of the senshi are forced to take the form of adorable cats while on Earth.
* Possibly invented by [[Osamu Tezuka]] for ''[[The Three
* In addition to getting more or less being [[Brother Chuck
** Caro's pet dragon Freidrich spends most of his time the size of a large cat. In serious fights however, he can be unsealed to about the size of a truck.
** And then there's Vivio and Einhart. While their normal forms are that of kids, they can use their magic to take up older forms. Vivio says that this form is much better in terms of fighting, as the two use martial arts, compared to Nanoha and Fate at their age.
* Belphemon (pictured above), an antagonist from ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' literally has a form called ''Belphemon Sleep Mode'' that he spends most of his time in, that looks like an adorable demonic koala bear chained up (albeit, "Sleep Mode" is nonetheless about the size of an elephant). He only awakens once every 1000 years. When he does, he becomes a [http://cards.wtw-x.net/images/Bo-1146%20Belphemon.jpg giant] [http://cards.wtw-x.net/images/DM-213%20Belphemon.jpg bestial] [http://cards.wtw-x.net/images/DM-084%20Belphemon.jpg demon] that mindlessly wreaks destruction. "Tamed" [[Digimon]] are capable of assuming [[Evolutionary Levels|three or four]] (depending on the individual) extremely powerful, often gigantic battle forms by feeding off their [[The Kid
* Cz (yes, that is her actual name) from ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' is introduced as an innocent-looking seven- or eight-year-old girl. However, her true form {{spoiler|as one of the Peacemakers}} is that of a fully-grown adult woman.
* Kon from ''[[Bleach]]'' is a borderline example. Technically, he doesn't HAVE a body, but for the most part, he inhabits an animated, lion-like teddy-bear. However, if he inhabits a human body, he can supercharge its legs, providing tremendous running, jumping and kicking abilities. Too bad [[Flanderization]] kicked in...
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* Dohko, Shiryu's teacher and saint of Libra in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' has been in powersaving mode for centuries, until the beginning of Hades' saga. Then he goes from an quiet [[Old Master]] to a handsome and powerful Gold Saint.
* Koenma from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has a "toddler" form (for which he is teased mercilessly) and a "teenage" form that he begins to adopt more and more frequently as the series progresses.
** Mind, the latter is an
** He also displays considerable power as a floating baby, but none whatsoever in his first 'human form' arc, and in the second he still has no combat ability, just 'raise dead' and 'force field of destiny' (which doesn't even work). The power for both has been stored up in his pacifier.
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* Frieza from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' adopts this practice, with each of his lesser forms being more or less a limiter he placed on himself - however, his true form is [[Bishonen Line|the smallest and most fragile-looking of all of his forms]].
* Maya from ''[[Tenjou Tenge]]'' passes as a child to conserve her chi. Amusingly, her clothes don't change size. They're designed to (barely) fit both sizes; in child mode they look like a kimono, while in adult mode they become a miniskirt and barely-there shirt.
* In ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' Klan Klein is a Zentraedi whose natural form is a fifty-foot tall, well-endowed adult woman. Like all Zentraedi she can "micronize" her body to human-size, but due to a genetic defect her micronized form resembles a [[Moe Moe|short pre-teen girl]]. Though this is often [[Played for Laughs]], it [[Deconstruction|plays hell with her love life]]: as her childhood friend (and romantic interest) Michael points out, no adult would be caught dead making a move on her for fear of getting arrested.
* In ''[[Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok]]'', Loki looks about ten most of the time. If he gathers enough power by draining the evil from people's hearts, he can transform into an adult for a while.
* [[
* Evangeline A.K. McDowell, the powerful [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampiress]] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', was captured, [[Power Limiter|De-powered]] and cursed with "School Hell", stuck to remain a middle-schooler to atone for her sins. An inversion; her "sleep mode" is her real appearance (turned as a child) and her full power form is [[Older Alter Ego|an illusion]].
** Worth mentioning that [[Half-Human Hybrid|Kotarou]] changed into a small dog when his powers were sealed.
** Don't forget the age-changing pills introduced during the School Festival arc, and used heavily during the last arc to age Negi and Kotaru and loli-fy the girls to disguise them considering {{spoiler|they're all wanted in connection to the gate port terrorist attacks thanks to Fate.}} Also, Kaede can use her ninjutsu to take on a child-like form (which she uses mainly to rub it into Mana's face) as demonstrated in the second chapter of vignettes right before the Magic World arc.
** Poyo {{spoiler|Rainyday}} has an impressive demon form, although she starts out resembling a human girl. The same is probably true of her younger sister {{spoiler|Zazie}}.
*** So does Poyo's rival, {{spoiler|Mana Tatsumiya}}.
* Mugetsu from ''[[
* If [[One Piece|Luffy]] uses Gear Third, he gains gigantic limbs capable of smashing walls like eggshells. After using it, he reverts to a form where he is incapable of using his devil fruit ability for an amount of time roughly equal to gear third time. This form, of course, is about two feet tall.
* Two examples from ''[[Soul Eater]]'':
** Ragnarok becomes a smaller and cuter version of himself after a [[Heel Face Turn]], justified by the fact that they apparently removed all the good souls he had eaten.
** Medusa, who after being cut in half, took over the body of a little girl named Rachel and apparently twisted her appearance into a younger version of herself. She then says she's temporarily borrowing the body until she recovers her power, but then again she's a [[Consummate Liar|liar]]. However, she keeps her word this time, {{spoiler|after taking her sister Arachne's body for her own, of course}}.
* After using half of her soul to resurrect Kazuto Tokino [[First-Episode Resurrection|in the first episode]], the Space-Princess Valkyrie of ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]'' is more-or-less permanently stuck as a 6-years old girl. By connecting to the half of her soul stored in Kazuto (read: kissing him), however, she can temporarily assume her full-sized, superpowered form.
* ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* Mashiro in ''[[Tayutama]]'' first appears in the form of a young girl. Only some of her power is intact, though she can still command her group of spirits and use her [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]]. After getting married to Yuuri, she comes into her true adult form, though still goes into her young form sometimes.
* Gid, the Devilukan Emperor from ''[[To
* Shiron the Windragon in ''[[Legendz]]'' is a large blue and white dragon with white feathered wings and an aviator's cap and goggles. However, he prefers to spend his time in the form of a small blue and white hamster-like creature who retains a small version of his cap and goggles. In this form he can only speak by making 'ga-ga-ga' noises. His saga often calls him "nezuccho" meaning "small rat".
* The whole premise of ''[[Kurohime]]''.
* [[Cute Bruiser|Biske]] looks and acts like a 12yr old girl in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]''. In reality, she's about 3 meters tall, and incredibly muscled. She uses the smaller form most of the time, because her real form is 'too bulky'. And ''not feminine or cute at all'', which she does not like. How she trained herself up to look like that while retaining such ditzy priorities the world shall never know.
* Tanaka-san from ''[[
* ''[[Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica|Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica's]]'' [[Person of Mass Destruction|Corticarte Apa Lagranges]] is when introduced, originally depicted in her true form as a tall, beautiful, mature woman. However, for the majority of the series, her massive destructive power is sealed away, and this causes her to take the form of a young girl barely into her teens.
* [[The Grim Reaper|Zarame]] from [[Zombie Loan]] has been reduced, after [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?|a human tricked him]], into a cranky chibi whose squeaky noises [[The Unintelligible|no one can understand]] (except for Michiru and Koume) and who is small enough to sit on Michiru's shoulder - but he's still capable of throwing chibi-sized scythes at the forehead of whoever pisses him off [[Pretty Little Headshots|without fail]], and most he says are threats and insults. While Chika and Sotetsu were rightfully weirded out, Michiru [[I'm Taking Her Home
* {{spoiler|Envy and Pride}} from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' go into this when beaten to the verge of death: {{spoiler|Envy}} becomes a creepy worm-thing with way too many teeth, {{spoiler|Pride}} a maybe even more creepy human baby that's small enough to fit on your palm which it keeps saying 'Mama.'
** And which they ''take home to his former adoptive mother to raise.''
** Envy spends ages as the bug thing, recovers for a while, gets blasted down again, and {{spoiler|commits suicide out of spite toward Mustang and resentment at Ed understanding his personal issues.}}
* Shinobu Oshino of ''[[
* Touhou Fuhai from ''[[Rosario
* Kirara of ''[[Inuyasha]]'' goes into battle as a flying giant saber-toothed cat but spends most of her time as a cute little kitten.
* Nyanko-sensei from [[Natsume Yuujinchou]] takes the form of a maneki neko (lucky cat statue) when he's not in his true one.
▲== Literature ==
* [[Cats Are Mean|Mogget]] and the Disreputable Dog from Lirael are both considered to be similar types of [[Eldritch Abomination]] that have been forced into much smaller, handily compact, forms.
* Olloch the Glutton from the ''[[Fablehaven]]'' series. To contain him, he was shrunk into a tiny stone statue of himself. If you feed him, he awakens, starts eating anything in his path, and grows at an incredible rate. He only reverts to statue form if he eats the person who fed him (though apparently he doesn't shrink again). {{spoiler|At the beginning of the second book, Seth gets tricked into feeding Olloch, who eventually catches up with him and swallows him. Fortunately, at the time he gets eaten, Seth is wearing an impenetrable cocoon, so Olloch reverts to statue form and Seth passes through the digestive system and escapes with his life.}}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Power Rangers]]'', this happens more times than to mention. The most famous example is Rita Repulsa in the original seasons, who was about the size of a Barbie doll after losing her power. In ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'', most every [[Monster of the Week]] was "captured" as a tiny doll in a container.
** Recent [[Super Sentai]] mecha are stored as smaller forms when not in battle.
* [[Barney and Friends
== Toys ==
* The entire premise of Flip Zee Girls dolls. When the child puts the doll to "sleep", the doll's legs fold into a swaddle and a hood goes over the doll's eyes, causing the doll to resemble a baby.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* From ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Twilight Princess'', {{spoiler|Midna's true form is a striking blue-skinned woman slightly taller than Link, but she spends most of the game small and impish}}, due to a curse placed on her. When wearing all four [[
* The main character of ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From The New World'' spends most of the game looking like a 12-year-old boy - albeit a boy with the mysterious ability to manifest an [[Energy Weapons|Energy Blade]] from an ordinary knife - but towards the end, his true form awakens, turning him into an adult - and an [[Implacable Man|unstoppable]] [[Badass]] at that. Which makes it somewhat more acceptable that he ends up dating the VERY adult ensemble [[The Chick|babe]] in the ending. To be fair, he would be in the same age as the said chick {{spoiler|had he not died once. It took five years for his father to gather everything required to revive him and his body didn't age during that time.}}
* Happens with monsters a lot. One example: In ''[[
** Also, the Ice Titan from ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Taller than the colosseum when you're fighting it, but once you beat it, it suddenly becomes so small that it has to run away lest Sora kill it by stepping on it.
* Misha from ''[[Ar
* The 2D ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games, as well as the first game in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' spinoff series, use the "powers temporarily drained" variant in which Mario becomes shorter when he has one hit point left. The ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' games, which use a [[Sprite Polygon Mix]], swap in a noticeably more childlike model for Small Mario.
* The [[Animesque]] ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'' this happens to the Auroch, who ends up as Chiaki's pet.
▲== [[Web Comic]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213184818/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/343 This strip] of ''[[Loserz]]''. (It's in the 4th panel, you have to look for it)▼
▲* The [[Animesque]] ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'' this happens to the Auroch, who ends up as Chiaki's pet.
* Reynardine in ''[[
▲* [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/343 This strip] of ''[[Loserz]]''. (It's in the 4th panel, you have to look for it)
▲* Reynardine in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is trapped in the form of a stuffed wolf toy; but when Annie [[Kid With the Leash|loosens the leash]], he can assume the form of a full-sized wolf. His personality changes drastically based on his form, since (according to him, at least), [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body|the form has a great impact on one's mind]].
** [[Word of God]] is that, in truth, he changes form according to his mood rather than the other way around.
* Toni of [[Hanna Is Not a
* In [[Looking for Group]], Richard got depowered and reduced to a cherub size when [[Sdrawkcab Name|Elttil Hctib]], his abused pet devil... thing... cursed him.
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* Pasquale on ''[[Rose Is Rose]]'' has a gentle guardian angel who is a regular member of the cast. Most of the time he looks just like a floating, robed, and winged version of Pasquale. However, if he senses any threat to Pasquale, or is caught off guard, he instantly transforms into a 300+ foot tall colossus with an enormous, mountain-cleaving sword and a huge spiked buckler.
** Likewise, Rose herself ordinarily looks like your basic American housewife. But given the right provocation, her alter ego, a [[Badass]] biker woman who relishes jalapenos, fast cars, and other "dangerous" things, will emerge (invisible to everyone but Rose).
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Robotboy
* ''[[Mulan]]'' has a little quote from Mushu to the title character after his [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]] moment.
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* [[Blob Monster|Plasmus]] from the ''[[Teen Titans (
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