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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Used in ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' to make it look like Bucky is posing with a real car, as opposed to a small model of one.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Phaeton, who is obviously Hitler's [[Expy]] in ''[[Exo Squad]]'', gets this treatment in propaganda broadcasts all the time, despite standing over two meters tall without any camera effects. That is, before {{spoiler|he contracts the Automutation Syndrome}}.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", Moe gets a girlfriend through an internet dating site; the photo she sends him is taken in this style, of her in front of the Empire State Building and taken from a very low angle (so she appears almost as tall as the building due to forced perspective). When he meets her in person, she's actually about 3 feet tall - made even better when she admits that it wasn't even the real Empire State Building in the background, but that the shot was actually taken at Legoland!
* Used in-universe in one episode of ''[[Rocket Power]]'': while making a video, they actually show the camera being placed low, pointing near-vertically, and talk about how that makes the jumps seem higher.
* Used in ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra/Recap/
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Josef Stalin]], another vertically-challenged dictator of the 30s, used this technique as well to disguise his true height.
* David Miscavige, the leader of [[Church of Happyology|a different kind of army]], seems quite fond of this. Other tactics to not make him look like a midget include wearing very high shoes, posing in group shots with the shortest members of the church surrounding him and the tallest members standing ''way'' in the back, and standing next to [[Tom Cruise]] a lot.
* [[Benito Mussolini]] would always be photographed from a slightly low angle, as visible in [http://maximus.pl/pliki/grafika//historia/mussolini.jpg the photo he used for his autobiography]. He was only 5' 6"...although he still dwarfed the diminutive, 5' 0" Vittorio Emmanuel III.
* Portraits of Napoleon, as you might expect, were usually flattering, and often made him look taller than he was. Painters sometimes shortened objects near him or cut off his legs while increasing the size of his coat. In reality, Napoleon was of average size for his time. His reputation for shortness originated from a confluence of misconceptions and perpetuated enthusiastically by his archnemesis, Britain.
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