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* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' to ridiculous extremes. Raoul's horse (Kokuō-gō) ranges from being a noticably tall normal horse, to casually bury a man with a single stomp (with an estimated height of one hundred feet). Humans are not an exception, as ones in the background often look freaking enormous, even compared to a big guy like Kenshiro, which elevates many from "[[Giant Mook]]" to "size of a goddamn garage". For example Zeed once stood behind a man he was about to kill and looked like he was over a story tall.
* Not only the Zentradi of ''[[Macross]]'', but the [[Humongous Mecha]] they pilot, have severe scale issues. A Valkyrie ought to be able to fit into the pilot's compartment of a Glaug or Regult, but they're nowhere near big enough for that to work.
** Later series got better. In [[Macross Frontier|Frontier]] macronized Clan Clan, whose [[Humongous Mecha|Quedluun]]-[[Powered Armor|Rau]] was out of commission, has donned FAST pack and applique armor of a VF-25 over her spacesuit as if it was a [[Powered Armor]].
* ''[[One Piece]]'' is often surprisingly good about this, despite having characters who vary in size between about 3' tall to 8'8", and that's just the main cast. Secondary characters and especially villains can get enormous. The group of pirates known as the ''Seven Warlords of the Sea'' (see Moria below) have an ''average'' height of around 15 feet, but change slightly to suit whoever they're talking to.
** Sometimes, though, particularly on the interior of a ship, the taller characters like Brooke will shrink ever so slightly to keep it from looking too silly that they're all able to fit under the same roof.
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** The Tailed Beasts also appear to vary in size. The most notable example is the Nine-Tailed Fox; his first appearance portrays him as towering around 300m over the forests on the outskirts of the Leaf Village (implying that the trees are only 50m tall), a human being only the size of his pupil. Throughout the series, he is portrayed as being about a third that size<ref> mainly because only half of his chakra is sealed inside Naruto</ref>. {{spoiler|However, in the latest fight between Naruto/Kurama and five of the Tailed Beasts, the fox aura is just as big, if not a little smaller, than the other beasts.}}
* Kuniko's boomerang in [[Shangri-La]] ranges from 2-3 feet long to almost her height.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'':
** An Oozaru's size seems to vary depending on what they're interacting with. When Goku is tearing apart the castle, he seems to be almost as big as the whole thing, but when interacting with his friends, he appears to be about as big as a chunk of the castle he had earlier picked up and threw. The anime adds a bunch of padding and changes the scene around so that he stays pretty consistently on the larger end of the size scale, but that still makes him seem smaller the second time he transforms. Z and GT are a bit better about this.
** Also Chi Chi's father the Ox King in his first appearance he was a giant and the other characters were much much smaller than he was, about midway through the series he seems to get a bit smaller but still a giant, in Z he seems to be just barely taller than Goku.
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* The relative scale of ''[[Bionicle]]'' characters varies wildly from medium to medium. A very early example is a Nesquik cereal TV ad (since promotional CDs were given away in cereal boxes back then), in which Toa Tahu appears among a group of human kids, and seems to be about as tall as a normal adult. According to official supplementary story material, he is actually about 7 and a half feet tall.
** The infamous introduction scene from the movie ''The Legend Reborn'' has a supposedly 40 million feet tall Mata Nui robot looking considerably shorter when standing, not even reaching out of the planet's atmosphere. This robot and its smaller prototype also caused a lot of head-scratching for comic illustrators, since they had to appear small enough to fit into pictures with normal-sized characters.
** Even when it came to the toys, scale issues still arose when comparing older figures to newer ones. The original toys have usually been short and stout, while later, more articulated figures used longer limbs and larger body pieces, and thus became taller themselves, even though they were supposed to be the same size as their ancestors. This was only ever addressed in the '08 storyline, in which it was explained that an energy source caused the Light Matoran to grow larger than normal. Just to let you know how things have changed since the line's debut in '01: the small [[Little People|Matoran]] have grown to be almost as big as the original Toa toys. In turn, the first Toa sets only reach up to the later Toa figures' waist.
== Video Games ==
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*** To be fair on this one, Malfurion was recently turned into a [[Biological Mashup]]. The same process making him get bigger is not so unreasonable.
** While player characters are always the same size as other players of the same race/gender combo, the pets of hunter players grow as they gain levels. Additionally, some large pets like Devilsaurs, which are essentially tyrannosaurs and taller than many buildings, will shrink to a more manageable "slightly bigger than the largest playable races" size when tamed.
*** This trope is particularly ridiculous in the case of the Caverns of Time raid, The Battle of Mt. Hyjal. You start off with Jaina Proudmoore helping you out. She's a normal-sized NPC you can encounter several times throughout the game. But in this raid? She's around 20 feet tall. For no reason. Thrall is similarly enbiggened.
** Bridging points both made above and below in the [[Warcraft]] III example, player size can also vary with various spells and items. Highlighting the Power = Size formula, we currently have [http://www.wowhead.com/item=78473 this endgame weapon], which can allow players to practically reach raid boss size after gaining several stacks of the effect.
* This shows up in Warcraft III as well, with Heroes being arbitrarily larger than normal units (seriously, compare the Paladin to the Peasant; ho-lee shit). There's pretty good odds that it's something to do with the Warcraft Universe itself; wherein size is actually a good indicator of power, and as characters become more powerful they ''actually grow bigger''.
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** This is more a case of [[Units Not to Scale]], since it's only his map sprite that appears to be huge in proportion to the surrounding landscape. Lavos' map sprite size relative to that of the players' map sprites is roughly the same as his close-up image relative to that of the players.
* A subversion of the usual: Jocinda Smith from ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' is supposed to be rather short. When you actually play as her, she's one of the tallest on the field.
* Ridley from the [[Metroid]] games initially seemed to be only slightly taller than Samus. Then, in the 3D games he was given a dramatic size increase to the point where he can hold Samus in one claw. This was often brought up in online discussions about why Ridley wasn't a playable character due to size reasons in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' and spawned the "Ridley is too big!" meme.
* In the [[Katamari Damacy]] series, every member of the royal family varies in size from level to level. The cousins are the most obvious, as they can go from being a few centimeters tall to a kilometer in height to better suit the scale of the level they're in. [[King of All Cosmos|The King himself]] can either stand on the Earth and tower at about 3000 kilometers, or he can be several orders of magnitude larger than the Earth itself.
* Much like the anime, the ''Digimon'' games often do this, but at least once they manage to do it within the same game. As an example, [http://youtu.be/yw404jsp2g8?t=5s Beelzemon] and [http://youtu.be/yw404jsp2g8?t=1m30s Gallantmon] are both roughly the same size (around six foot, based on the buildings) in the opening cutscene of ''[[Digimon World 3]]''.
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* [[Lampshaded]] by Lisa in [[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.
* Bonbon from ''[[My Little Pony Tales]]''. She's a [[Big Eater]] though, which may be a scapegoat to the artists.
* In the ''[[Cars]]'' series films, all trucks, buses, trains, boats, and aircraft are depicted as being much larger than they are in real life so that they can all carry cars inside them. Also, the Popemobile in the sequel is for some reason depicted as being much larger than the one in real life since he had to carry a car version of the Pope (who ironically resembles the ''actual'' Popemobile, except that the glass compartment in which the real Pope rides in is changed into the Pope's miter). In fact, if all of those vehicles are correctly-proportioned to the cars themselves, then none of the cars will actually fit inside them! (unless if you're a forklift, that is)
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** Perhaps this trope is averted with her since she's usually always the same consistent size compared to everyone else, but is only depicted as being small so she can exist as a character. Lets not even get Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy involved in this, since they are actual humans. I guess the [[Rule of Funny]] applies there. The size of Bikini Bottom and it's citizens also tend to change from episode to episode in comparison to the environmental surroundings. It's easy to understand that sometimes the characters are depicted as human sized living in a city underwater, and other times they're smaller than [[David Hasselhoff]]'s foot.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Ron Stoppable's [[Non-Human Sidekick]], Rufus, usually rests comfortably in Ron's pocket. When other characters aren't around for comparison, though, Rufus tends to be somewhat larger in comparison to furniture and other objects, about the size of a small cat. To be fair this is [[Truth in Television]], rats, mice, cats have bones very similar to most small children and can fit into places that are a bit smaller then they are.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''
** Timmy Turner of isn't particularly small, but still falls victim to this trope from time to time. Regular-sized adults frequently clench him in a single hand, and one scene in an early episode actually shows Timmy standing in his dad's hands, no larger than a basketball.
** [[Rich Bitch|Trixie]] [[Asian Airhead|Tang]], also not particularly small, is always depicted as being taller than Timmy, but how much taller she is than him also tends to vary.
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