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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario Bros.]]'': Bowser's size tends to be consistent within individual games of the franchise, but varies greatly within the series. At the smallest, Bowser has been barely double Mario's height. At the largest (not counting the times Kamek and Kammy enhanced Bowser with spells), Bowser is almost [[Kaiju]]-like.
** Bowser's size changes massively in ''Super Mario Sunshine''. When he's sitting with {{spoiler|Bowser Jr.}} in the ending, he's about the size you might assume an adult of his race would be compared to him. In the boss battle preceding it, however, he's enormous.
*** Bowser Jr. himself has changed sizes throughout games. In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', he's smaller than Mario. In ''New Super Mario Bros.'', he's just slightly taller than Mario. In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', he is as tall as, if not taller than, Peach. He shrinks back down to his Sunshine size for spinoffs, though.
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Transformers]]''. Hoo-boy. They managed to avoid it in the 2007 movie, with any exceptions (Frenzy's head fitting into a cell phone) being arguable or having [[Hammerspace]] be an implicit ability of the AllSpark. Notable examples from Generation 1 include a motorcycle transformer becoming as large as a helicopter when forming the leg of a [[Humongous Mecha]], and one about the size of Optimus Prime being able to accommodate a Formula One racer on each of his legs. Robots that transformed into ''transformer-scale cities'' were often shown to be no larger than the rest of their fellows ''who were supposed to be able to fit comfortably inside them''. The list goes on.
** In [[Transformers: The Movie|the G1 movie]], Unicron and everyone around him vary in size according to the needs of the scene. He is anywhere from several kilometers tall (when handling Galvatron) to the size of Cybertron (whose size can also vary; using an earlier episode of the cartoon as reference, is about the size of Earth's moon, although if this were true, the planet he consumed at the start of the movie was too small to even be considered a planet). The comic adaptation states Unicron has a diameter of 120,000 kilometers, which is comparable to Saturn.
** The scale issue is ''[[Transformers]]'' is [http://www.tfwiki.info/wiki/Scale best left to a Wiki that can give it an article unto itself.] (Note the category "Things that don't exist".) The average Transformer, it seems, is about the same size as King Kong or an EVA unit.
*** Broadside transforms from an Earth jet into an entire ''aircraft carrier.'' Astrotrain deserves special mention. He transforms from a 21 m ( 70') locomotive (shown to be normal sized compared to others) to a 56 m (184') shuttle (assuming a real life shuttle) - or into an even bigger shuttle, as witnessed by his ability to carry an entire Decepticon team inside of him - including [[Combining Mecha|Devastator]]. And yet Astrotrain's robot mode is as tall as Megatron.
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* On the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "[[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Attack of the Fifty Foot Sister]]," gigantic-Candace climbed [[Mad Scientist|Doofenshmirtz]]'s building King Kong-style, meaning it was several times taller than her. In the episode "The Lizard Whisperer" [[One Steve Limit|Steve]] is able to easily reach the roof of the same building despite supposedly being ''forty'' feet. Possibly justified in that both sizes were just estimates the characters came up with, but compared to other things around them Candace still seemed much larger than Steve did. (And for the record, Doofenshmirtz's building is known in another episode to be at least thirty-eight stories tall.)
** Phineas is usually shorter than Isabella, but sometime's he's the same height or taller.
* [[Lampshaded]] by Lisa in [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]] episode: "Simpsons Tall Tales".
{{quote|'''Lisa:''' 'Scuse me, [[Paul Bunyan]] never fought [[Rodan]]. And his size seems to be really inconsistent. I mean, one minute he's 10 feet tall, the next his foot is as big as a lake.}}
* [[Scooby Doo]] could be terrible with this some times. For example, one episode's monster of the week was a panther-headed giant taller than most trees. Yet, after they'd managed to knock him down, Freddy walked up to him and unmasked the (now human sized with no explanation whatsoever) monster.
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