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* Blunt Trauma is attacking [[Empowered]]! No, it was just his action figure Ninjette threw into the air to train Emp.

* A [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] from the Italian comic ''[[Sturmtruppen]]'', as the sergeant is training the desert troops:

'''Recruit:''' ''(pulls out a meter and measures the distance to the palm, that turns out to be inches high and just on top of the nearest dune)'' Two meters and 15 centimeters, Sergeant! }}

* In an issue of ''Robin'', where Robin, Catwoman and the Psyba Rats are all investigating a house built by a rich practical joker, the Psyba Rats notice something odd about one hallway:

'''Razorsharp''': Really? Because I thought we were actually getting larger. }}

 

* There is a Olsen Twins's film where they parody this when they visit a little person house, at first when they see it and mention how little it looks, the guy with them says that the house is actually far away.

* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', [[Indiana Jones]] misjudges a heroic rope swing onto a moving jeep, missing it, before he says the line below. This, his being fooled by the optical illusion in ''The Last Crusade'', and his older self being depicted with an eye patch, have led to some fans believing one of his eyes is going bad.

* In ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'', Azeem the Moor shows Robin the approaching riders through his telescope. Unfamiliar with this technology, Robin starts swinging his sword at the suddenly-close enemies.

* ''[[Labyrinth]]'' did this with some pieces of scenery that turned out to actually be made up of multiple objects.

* The opening hallway that leads to the edible room in ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]'' is far shorter than it actually appears; the hallway gets smaller and smaller to the end.

* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story ''The Sphinx'' is about a man seeing a terrifying monster walking on the hill outside the cottage where he's staying. It turns out at the end that it was an insect crawling on a spider web very close to his face.

* [[G. K. Chesterton]] references the trope in the ''[[Father Brown]]'' story "The Song of the Flying Fish":

* A short story about a monstrous dragon on a distant mountain. But in actuality, the dragon always ''appeared'' to be the same size no matter how far away the viewer was, so when the protagonist climbed the mountain he found the dragon to be much smaller.

 

* A hilarious incident in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' involving some Japanese investors, as well as {{spoiler|a jet pack and a rat suit}}.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Dougal]] from ''[[Father Ted]]'' apparently can't tell the difference between small toy cows and real ones which are far away.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]''

** The Doctor once explained that the [[Bigger on the Inside|TARDIS]] works by neatly subverting this trope. Two identical boxes are put side-by-side to show they're the same size. Move one farther away. Which one's bigger? Well, neither, they're still the same size. But what if you could make it so that the relative dimensions in space were actual?

** In the episode where Homer joins the Army, he escapes during wargames. As he's lying in bed with Marge, he looks out the window and comments on the helicopter in the distance... except it's a spy drone the size of an RC toy, and it's right in his window.

** Also in "Hurricane Neddy", when the folks want to help Ned rebuild his house, they end up doing a very poor job. One hallway looks normal from a distance, but due to forced perspective it is actually shorter and narrower than it looks.

'''Barney:''' Come on in! It's your master bedroom! ''(Ned shuts door)'' Ow! My nose! }}

* In an episode of ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'', a bug on the lens of Simon's telescope caused them to think there was an alien invasion on its way to Earth.