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The same lack of scale holds true for tiny characters as well. Unless size is specified, characters who are simply stated to be "small" tend to bounce between the size of a housecat and a rat, or for even smaller characters, a rat and a roach. Don't be surprised if a fairy who fits in a character's shirt pocket later turns out to be as big as a baseball in a later fight.
Note that this trope mostly applies to animation and special effects. It is rather... difficult... to modify the size of an actor in a live-action series. Though in some cases there might be a size discrepency due to the visual requirements of keeping two actors of wildly different heights in the same frame. See [[Scully Box]] for that. This trope does not cover creatures or characters that can [[Shapeshifting|change size or shape at will]], though their giant or tiny forms may fall victim to this trope on their own (and see [[
Compare [[Units Not to Scale]], in which overworld sprites or models in video games are left unscaled for the player's convenience. See also [[Bigger On the Inside]] and [[Clown Car Base]], in which the scale-bending properties belong to the location, not the character. See also [[Depending On the Artist]], [[Off-Model]], and [[Animals Not to Scale]].
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** They actually went and explained this in ''Bowser's Inside Story''. Bowser's adrenaline makes him randomly grow to kaiju sizes from time to time, though in the game it only kicks in during extreme emergencies and it's the only way to save his life.
** And now in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', it repeats. Bowser is now really huge (he's big enough to stomp all over Toad Town, and for Peach to fit in the palm of his hand) and he's shown sitting on a castle as a throne. But in this case it's justified as coming from the power of the Grand Stars; whenever Mario beats one out of him he shrinks to normal size.
*** And the Sun appearing at the end of the final level of the first ''Galaxy''. When Mario arrives there, it's huge and full of holes, and his final battle with Bowser even takes place inside that Sun, but when Bowser is defeated, he is seen [[Space Does Not Work That Way|standing on]] [[Convection, Schmonvection|the Sun's surface,]] except that the Sun is now smaller and no longer hollow!
** And the castle at the end of World 4 in the original ''[[Super Mario Bros (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros]]''. When Mario beats World 4-3, the castle is huge, but at the start of World 5, the castle is tiny!
* Similar to Bowser, Petey Piranha is pretty inconsistent in his size. In his first appearance in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' he was as big as a small house. In ''[[Mario Kart]] Double Dash!!'', Petey is as large as Donkey Kong. His size grows again in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''.
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