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==== Large Characters
== Anime and Manga ==
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** Ash's Staraptor; sometimes it comes up to Ash's shoulder rather than about Brock's height.
** [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Episode_030_-_Pok%C3%A9mon_Size_Error.jpg This.] The [[Rodents of Unusual Size|Raticate]] is ''smaller than its pre-evo'' and the [[Big Badass Bird of Prey|Fearow]] is also ridiculously tiny, it's normally a [[Giant Flyer]]. (This is off the subject, but Pikachu's tail is also [[Off-Model|wrong,]] and one of Officer Jenny's eyes is lower than the other.)
* The EVA Units in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' are somewhere between 40 and 200 meters tall. One piece of concept art says Unit 01 is a more realistic ''ten'', but unlike most mecha shows, the creators were honest enough to admit never worrying about anything aside from [[Rule of Cool|what would make an interesting visual]], and as a result the Evas' size relative to buildings, known landmarks, people, etc., changed from episode to episode
''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' seems to more consistently stick with 80m. Conversely, ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' (where a mech's size determines it's probability of getting hit and in some games damage taken) each unit is only '''15''' meters for gameplay purposes.
* ''[[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.
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* Some of the [[Kaiju|bigger]] summons in ''[[Naruto]]'' can be subject to this. Databooks claim Gamabunta to be 100m tall, and in [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-170/page003.html most] [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-430/page002.html appearances] a person is about the size of one of his warts, but he looks [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-096/page003.html even bigger] in his first appearance. A more noticeable example is Gamaken who's first appearance [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-375/page007.html shows him as about the size of a small house], but on his second [http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-430/page002.html he's as big as Gamabunta].
** The anime [[Hand Wave|handwaves]] this with Gamakichi demonstrating a size-altering jutsu that allowed him (and presumably other large summons) to shrink to a more convenient size if needed.
** 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>
* Kuniko's boomerang in [[Shangri-La]] ranges from
* ''[[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.
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* The titular Giant in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' seemed to have varying sizes in different scenes. There was an interview where Brad Bird said they tried to keep the size consistent throughout, but admits that they deliberately made the Giant much taller in one early scene (the shot where where Hogarth is in the car and looks back to see the Giant silhouetted against the night sky).
* A tip of the hat to ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]]'', whose main character never appears to be 50 feet tall. Most of the time she appears to be only two stories high, while in other times she stands almost as tall as an electric pylon, making her about 75 feet at least. As for the famous poster, there she seems to be between 150 and 200 feet.
* The alien mothership in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' appears to change scale from one shot to the
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', the Oliphaunts appear to half or double in size every time the camera moves. Gimli and the halflings seem to change height in some scenes (which is not too distracting, given the races are actually about the same height) but the film-makers managed to be remarkably consistent throughout all three movies.
** Incidentally, Oliphaunts aren't consistent in the books either, Sam being an [[Unreliable Narrator]] whose fear and awe might have "enlarged" them in the retelling.
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*** Also, additional Zords are also seen being released from Brachio, at a size that makes it impossible that they could all fit inside Brachio at once. There are even scenes in ''Abaranger'' that showed ''all'' the ''many'' Dino Zords inside Brachio's inner compartment... something that would require Brachio to be at least five times bigger than the size it's seen to be when ''alongside'' other Dino Zords.
** In ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]],'' the Lightspeed Megazord is the main formation. When the Rail Rescues (giant train cars that carry the Lightspeed Megazord's component mecha) form the Super Train Megazord, and it's seen in relation to the Lightspeed, the Lightspeed looks like a ten-year-old standing next to Daddy. However, when both are in the same fight, the [[Monster of the Week]] is the same height as Lightspeed when in a shot with Lightspeed, and the same height as the Super Train when in a shot with the Super Train.
** ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' outdoes Brachio in terms of [[Bigger on the Inside]]-ness. The Delta Squad Megazord is the main formation, about the size of the other seasons' main formations (such as the Lightspeed and Thundersaurus Megazords.) Its components, the five Delta Runners, are released from the interior of the base, a building comparable in size to other downtown buildings, and we've seen enough of its interior to account for a great deal of its interior space. It's revealed that the base has its own [[Humongous Mecha]] formations, one humanoid, one vehicle. When releasing the Delta Runners while in its vehicle formation, we get to see where they're
*** The funniest thing is, that the SPD control room has a console that looks suspiciously [http://nyappyranger.tumblr.com/post/15155671908/doctor-who-easter-eggs-in-power-rangers-the like a TARDIS console.]
** Probably the series' greatest offender is Serpenterra. In ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Serpentera is '''immense''', making the Rangers' Megazords look like humans in comparison. In ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'', Serpenterra has noticeably shrunk, as Cole seems to be the same size the Red Dragon Thunderzord was.
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* Rankin/Bass had an issue with this between [[The Year Without a Santa Claus]] and the sequel, [[Miser Brothers'Christmas/]] The Miser Brothers are a lot smaller in the sequel than the original.
==== Small Characters
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