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** The ''[[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe]]'' (usually the best authority on how superpowers in Marvel work, though that isn't saying much) often claims that characters who shapeshift or change size do so by "drawing mass from another, possibly extradimensional source", although they never attempt to explain the nature of this other dimension.
* [[Spider-Man]] writers occasionally lampshade this, and there has been at least one [[Retcon]] that Spidey is actually ''stronger'' than the proportionate strength of a spider—or even simply possessing a spider's strength-to-weight ratio, which is likely what the creators originally meant.
** One of his [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|less-formidable foes]], the Walrus, claims to possess the same strength-to-weight ratio as a walrus. [[Super Dickery]] pointed out that this would make him ''weaker'' than an ordinary human, because a walrus is larger than a human. The laws of physics were nonetheless basically told to go fuck themselves, as The Walrus indeed turned out to have [[Super Strength]]. Of course, the Walrus himself was the one making this claim, and [[Dumb Muscle|he's not very bright
* The Hulk is known to get stronger and larger as he gets angrier (maximum height is roughly twelve feet); this might be justified, though, as his relative muscle (and presumably bone) mass increases as well as his height. Furthermore, Hulk is generally not depicted as merely scaling up; in most depictions, the cross-sections of his arms and legs increase out of proportion, which would balance things out some.
** It's been implied that he draws his strength from outside of his own body, and therefore muscle mass would be irrelevant.
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