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* [[Cats Are Mean]]: You just knew that the cat was going to try to eat poor Scott when he got small enough.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]/[[Downer Ending]]: Mileage will vary on which one this is. Scott's voice-over monologue at the end has him accepting the inevitable and reaffirming that no matter how small he is, he will still matter in this universe. That doesn't change the fact that he will eventually shrink to ''atomic size'' or worse, that his wife assumes that their cat had eaten him.
* [[Cats Are Mean]]: You just knew that the cat was going to try to eat poor Scott when he got small enough.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Spiders that live in webs don't normally leave them to hunt.
* [[Giant Spider]]: Technically, the spider is normal sized, it's Scott that's small, but from his POV, it ''is'' giant.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: William Schallert, as Scott's physician, in one of his earlier roles.
* [[Hollywood Science]]: Due to the [[Square-Cube Law]] but may have been mildly averted; see below.
* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: The trope namer of course