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* ''[[Digimon]]'' as a whole is very guilty of this.

** [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.

* ''[[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.

* Toyotomi Hideyoshi, from the second season of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' is a great example of this. The man can't seem to stay the same size for ten minutes! He can go from just [[One Head Taller|a head taller]] than the main character in one scene, and in the next, he can be almost on par with Honda Tadakatsu. His final episode fight with Masamune features this trope in spades.

 

 

* [[Godzilla]]'s height has varied so much it's pretty hard to tell how big he's supposed to be. Movies often cite an exact height for the monster. Originally he was supposed to be 50 meters tall. The Godzilla of ''Godzilla 1985'' was 80 meters tall, and he grew to 100 in ''Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah''. This is all well and good, but the special effects were often... inconsistent in this way. The generally excellent (in terms of both sfx and story) ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' featured a particularly grievous blunder in scale in a scene featuring a psychic girl standing on an oil platform facing down Godzilla. Godzilla was supposed to be 80 meters tall. He looked maybe 20.

** Some shifts in scale occur, mostly in regards to at least being visible. Optimus was able to hold Sam and Mikaela in one hand and later pinched a pair of glasses between his fingers, realistically the glasses would be over a foot long in comparison.

 

 

* ''[[Christian Humber Reloaded]]'': Season-Bringer, the dragon who's described as being roughly the length of a small country and weighs about as much as a ''continent.'' Until he somehow manages to be the copilot in a small spacecraft that's only big enough to seat two people...

* [[Humongous Mecha|Mecharu]] and [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|George]] of ''[[Snow Angels]]'', due to [[Rule of Funny]].

 

 

* [[Humongous Mecha]] scenes in ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers]]'' have been inconsistent of late as [[The Powers That Be]] get a bigger CGI budget. The [[People in Rubber Suits|rubber suits]] for the Zords are the same size even when the mecha, as seen in effects shots, aren't. Bear with us for this one, 'cause it's sort of hard to explain quickly or without the names:

** A classic scene of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' has an overgrown Goldar reaching for an escaping bus. The bus is the size of a matchbox compared to Goldar's hand. The very next shot show Goldar toying with the bus, now about same size as Goldar's own fore-arm.

 

 

* 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.

** 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.

 

 

* ''[[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.

* 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]]''.

 

 

* A mild version of this occurs in ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]''. Buck is taller than the average human, but how tall exactly seems to vary a bit, from being about a head taller to what seems like a few feet. There's also one panel with Buck and Hyraxx where Hyraxx seems to be about half of Buck's height, while in all other panels she reaches to his chest. However this is probably because of the angle of the shot (the view in the panel is upward from near floor-level, which messes the perspective somewhat) rather than the relative sizes of the characters changing.

{{quote|"Like any proper ''dai kaiju'' ('giant critter'), her size varies from one scene to another, and that is as it should be."}}

 

 

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

 

* In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bi3erz2Ek8 2008 commercial] of Orangina, you have chameleon strip dancers who are as big as the rest of the cast. But then at the 1:16 mark, you see a chameleon dancing to one of the plant people... who are ''small''.

 

 

* Though she's hardly giant, Teddy in ''[[Eiken]]''. In the back of the first volume of the manga the author admits that he draws her without much aforethought so both in and out of costume her size can vary greatly from panel to panel.

* In ''[[Magical Nyan Nyan Taruto]]'', the height of the [[Catgirl|anthropomorphic cats]] varies between scenes, with scenes depicting ''just'' those characters generally depicting them as roughly one or two feet tall, while scenes in which they interact with human characters frequently give them apparent heights of up to a meter.

 

 

* [[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe|Marvel's Official Handbooks]] are a handy reference point for every fanboy who wants something to argue over. By way of an example, [[Wolverine]] has been consistently listed as 5'3" (about 1.6 metres), and Jubilee an inch or two taller. Despite this Wolverine tends to tower over Jubilee, to the point where she must be about 4'6". When they stand next to other characters, their height tends to appear more as listed.

* Doll Man's [[Sizeshifter|shrinking ability]] is supposed to be limited to switching between his normal height and 6 inches tall, but he has been portrayed anywhere from a few inches to a couple of feet tall, often varying in size within a single story. One comic cover shows him large enough to be tied to seperate bathtub faucet knobs, while another cover has him smaller than a handgun.

 

 

* In ''[[Pinocchio]]'', Jiminy Cricket goes inside a lock to pick it. The lock seems to be no deeper than Jiminy is tall, and yet the scenes from inside the lock make it seem cavernous. Also, Jiminy is significantly larger in long shots simply because he'd be invisible otherwise.

* In [[Madagascar]] II the penguins size changes a couple of times throughout the movie, usually they are a couple inches shorter than the monkeys but in one scene Skipper is small enough to to fit in Mason the monkey's hand.

 

 

* Foreign translations of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' simply ''cannot'' agree on Gollum's size. Sometimes they keep him about the same size as Bilbo, sometimes (such as in the Japanese translation), he's ''enormous'', much larger even than a human.

 

 

* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' the USS ''Defiant'' was designed to be a small, dedicated warship when [[The Federation]] generally avoided such titles. In general the actual measurements should allow it to fit ''inside'' the saucer section of the TOS Enterprise, and while it is always portrayed as being rather small at other times it would barely fit inside the TNG Galaxy Class saucer section. The problem was worse in the days of physical models, which were never built on the same scale and so had to rely on composite shots and forced perspective tricks. At other times it's done for dramatic effect, as the arrival of the Enterprise-E in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' either makes the Defiant really small or the Ent-E very large to highlight the scene as a [[Gunship Rescue]].

* [[Little Britain]] plays this for laughs in the Dennis Waterman sketches.

 

 

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Plankton tends to vary in size even within the same scene. Generally, he is anywhere from the size of a golf ball and small enough that a microscope is required to see him.

* While not strictly a character, NICOLE of the [[Sat AM]] [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] cartoons would vary from the size of a pocket calculator to the size of a [[Doorstopper|textbook]] between appearances.

 

* In ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', the size of the birds is all over the place. The birds in the bird cafe look normal-sized, but a Chakar Partridge is able to easily overpower the human heroine, three pigeons are able to physically intimidate her, and a finch is able to give the heroine a ride on a scooter. A rock dove is also able to drag the heroine along, but at the same time her human physical strength is prized by the other birds (which she can grab and throw out of the window as punishment) and she has [[RPG Elements|an outrageously high Vitality stat]]. There is also a scene where Hiyoko thinks the corpse of a dead dove is 'either a chicken or a turkey', implying it's somewhere between those two sizes.