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[[Our Giants Are Bigger|Giants]] are pretty cool guys. They punch harder, take more hits, and aren't afraid of breaking [[Square-Cube Law|certain laws of physics]]. There's a problem with having giants as part of the main cast, though: they don't fit in small places. If [[The Hero]] has to lead his [[True Companions]] through the [[Elaborate Underground Base]] or the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]], the [[Gentle Giant]] can't really follow along if his hand can completely block off the entrance. It also becomes much more difficult to keep everyone on panel or camera if there are huge height discrepancies.
Fortunately, animators have found the solution to this problem: completely disregard any sense of scale! Sure, the giant is half the size of the building... on the ''outside''! [[Bigger
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.
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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 [[Shapeshifter Baggage]]).
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
A subtrope of [[Artists Are Not Architects]].
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** Ankylomon shrank after his first appearance in ''Digimon Adventure 02''.
** In the second ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' movie, Angemon and Angewomon are shown to be stonking larger than they usually are.
* ''[[Pokémon (
** In the anime, Charizard's size would change all the time. It's usually about 1.5 times Ash's height (even then that's larger than the 5'07'' given in the game), but sometimes seems to be about the size of a car.
** 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
* 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.<br /><br />''[[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.
** 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]].
* ''[[
** 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.
** In Gecko Moria's initial appearance, his foot was twice as big as a normal-sized man was tall. By the time he actually got involved in the action, he had shrunk to a more managable 18 feet or so.
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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.
* ''[[
** 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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** In-universe explanation, the second Godzilla (in the Heisei series) was created by newer and stronger weapons than the first Godzilla (in ''Godzilla vs King Ghidorah'', he's created by contemporary nuclear weapons, very powerful indeed). So "better weapons = larger monster" when it comes to Godzilla.
** A major point of criticism for ''[[The Godzilla Power Hour]]'' was that Godzilla's size varied greatly within scenes, such that Godzilla could carry the entire ship with two hands while a human character can just barely fit in his palm in a later shot.
*** The Roland Emmerich / Dean Devlin 1998 ''[[Godzilla (
*** In ''Godzilla: Final Wars'', either Godzilla shrank or Zilla grew, in their short scene together Zilla stands nearly as tall as Godzilla despite his horizontal build.
* Ditto ''[[King Kong]]'', who was able to straddle the World Trade Center and loom over the skyline of New York in the posters for the 1978 and 1933 movies, but was somewhere around 20 feet tall in the film, tops.
** In the 1970s Dino de Laurentis remake, Kong's size varies quite dramatically from scene to scene, most likely for the same reason. It has been said that "[[Strong
** In the original, he also gets bigger when he arrives in New York. So it's not so much "everything is bigger in America" as "America makes everything bigger"?
** By rights, Kong, who ''climbs'' buildings, should be much shorter than Godzilla, who knocks them down. But when they appeared on screen together, they were about the same size.
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* 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 next -- in its first full reveal it appears several times larger than the mountain it's supposed to be landing in front of. (It also famously casts a dark shadow despite being festooned with lights.)
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** 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.
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** In ''[[Star Trek V The Finale Frontier]]'' for a scene involving the characters climbing a vertical shaft they wanted it to seem like a genuinely MASSIVE tunnel. Official schematics list a Constitution class ships like the Enterprise as having around 24-25 decks (some areas in engineering aren't officially classified as Decks), but "Deck 79" appeared and fans were appropriately curious.
* [[Averted Trope|Avoiding this]] was a major concern of the [[Transformers Film Series]], not only regarding the established height of these giant robots but regarding how they transform from their alternate mode into those giant robots. They had to fit inside their vehicle. Realistically Optimus Prime's original cap-over semi-truck design would have resulted in a relatively small robot mode, and so made him a long nose semi. Same thing with Bumblebee's change from a VW Beetle into a Camaro. They also had to play with Starscream's transformation scheme so that he didn't completely tower over every other robot, if it was similar to G1 Starscream he should have been upwards of 60 feet tall.
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* ''[[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
== Live Action TV ==
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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
*** 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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== Video Games ==
* ''[[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 ''[[
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Maybe it's a sign that he's growing with age?]]
*** In ''[[
** Princess Peach's size has also slowly increased over time. She used to be much smaller than Mario post Super Mushroom. These days, she's about [[One Head Taller]] than him in the same state. Heck, she's even taller than freaking lugi nowadays.
*** They apparently averted this for her in ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii
{{quote| ''"I thought it'd be nice to have her as a playable character, but the Toad characters had a similar physique to a Mario character than Peach does."''}}
** 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 ''[[
*** 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. (
* 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]]''.
* To anybody who has ever played ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', what they do with the heights of bosses (especially at later levels) seems somewhat ridiculous. Just look at the fight with [[Evil Overlord|Illidan]] in the [[Supervillain Lair|Black Temple]]. Illidan's size can be somewhat justified because he consumed the [[MacGuffin|Skull of Guldan]] and is a giant evil demon night elf thing, but Akama and Maiev are -also- just as big as he is - which is considerably larger than the average player. Same thing goes for Kael'thas, Lady Vashj, and pretty much every other major end boss whose larger size isn't explained by ties to the [[Eldritch Abomination|Old Gods]] or the Lich King.
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** 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 [[
* 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''.
* Lavos from ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* 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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== Webcomics ==
* 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.
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'': The size of rent-a-zilla is awfully inconsistent. [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1061 Here], it's around twice the size of Yuki, [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1075 here] it's about the size of a four-story building, while [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1108 here] Yuki seems to be about the size of rent-a-zilla's eye...
* In [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=28427 this week] of strips from ''[[Narbonic]]'', the author's commentary points out that she couldn't keep the giant robot's size consistent from one day to the next.
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* ''[[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 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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* Gantu from the ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' franchise varies in size too, especially in the TV series. One scene he towers over Lilo's house, the next he could conceivably fit inside it.
* In the episode "Planet Jackers" in [[Invader Zim]], Zim and the jackers look ''enormous'' in relation to Earth, and IIRC we could see the curvature of the planet from their perspective while <s> they were fighting on it</s> Zim was getting [[Curb Stomp Battle|crushed]] on it. Not as extreme as some other examples, but stil...
* The ''[[
* On the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "[[Attack of the
** Phineas is usually shorter than Isabella, but sometime's he's the same height or taller.
* [[Lampshaded]] by Lisa in [[The Simpsons]] episode: "Simpsons Tall Tales".
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* [[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 ''[[
* 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.
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* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', in one panel Black's Munna looks a lot bigger than it previously did. This is worth pointing out because his Munna bellyflopped on his head and looked like it should've sent him toppling over. Fans joked that constantly feeding off Black's dreams made it fat.
* The main character of ''[[Ginga Densetsu Weed]]'' Weed's size varies from scene to scene. He's a puppy, so he's smaller than the rest of the dogs, but how small depends on the scene.
* Luffy of ''[[
* In ''[[
== Comic Books ==
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* 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.
* The Oompa Loompas in the [[Tim Burton]] version of ''[[Charlie and
* According to the filmakers, the balloons holding up Carl's house in ''[[Up]]'' were rendered bigger in long shots for the sake of visibility.
* 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.
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== Live Action TV ==
* 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]].
** Ex Astris Scientia has an article about several problems with the ''Defiant'' including [http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/defiant-problems.htm contradictory sizes.]
* [[Little Britain]] plays this for laughs in the Dennis Waterman sketches.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** As Spongebob advanced as a series, and especially when the movie came out, they made it fairly clear that the residents of Bikini Bottom are all about the natural sizes that your average <s> artificial</s> sea sponge, crab, or starfish normally would be. This reasonably justifies comparing Sandy Squirrel and even Plankton to the rest of the cast, but still doesn't quite explain Pearl, who is a teenage whale.. Even if she was just a baby, she'd still be about 7 times larger than all of Bikini Bottom.
** 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.
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** 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.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'': Woody stands two or three feet high most of the time, yet there are times where he seems to be much smaller. In one cartoon, for example, he is able to fit through the finger holes of a bowling ball.
* Warren T. Rat, [[Big Bad]] of the film ''[[An American Tail]]''. At one point he is dwarfed by the fat rat at the sweatshop, and later, is shown the same size as the rest of the cats in his gang. It seems his size varies depending on whether or not he's in his rat costume, which if you think about it makes what at first may appear a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] into [[Fridge Brilliance]].
* Bobby Hill's of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' height varies from episode to episode especially in the later episodes, in some episodes he reaches Hank's shoulder and in others he barely reaches his stomach.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Nanomech looks about 3 or 4 inches in most shots (a little smaller than Greymatter), but then Kevin was able to shoot him out of a regular drinking straw, which would make him less than 1/4 of an inch tall.
** The ''[[Live Action Adaptation|Alien Swarm]]'' movie that introduced Nanomech explicitly shows him shrinking.
* Fans on the ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' Wiki have pointed out that Noah's height varies from scene to scene and season to season. He's supposed to be the third shortest, but in the newest season he's close to Tyler and Owen in terms of hieght, so either he grew on purpose or not having him on the show for a season made the animators mess up.
** Cody's height also varies, usually compared to Gwen.
*** And then there's Sierra; she's the tallest girl by a wide margin and the third-tallest regular cast member, but her height isn't entirely consistent. In the most notable case of this, she was standing next to Duncan in on shot, who's on the upper end of average. In the first shot, he was about level with her chin. In THE VERY NEXT SHOT of them, he was nearly as tall as she was.
* Eddy of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' is the shortest of the older kids, but how short tends to vary. Usually, he is about up to Edd's chin and up to Ed's chest in height, but one episode depicts him as a being shorter than even Sarah and Jimmy, the youngest of the characters.
** However, that particular episode was about how he hates that he is short and longs to be taller, so it may have been done for that reason.
* [[Danger Mouse]] and Penfold would occasionally be the size of humans whenever the animators forgot they're supposed to be tiny.
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