History Main / GiganticMoon

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', when Shrek and Donkey look are [[StargazingScene stargazing]] at their makeshift camp, the moon appears to be larger than both put together. Though given that this takes in a fairytale world, their moon may just be that large and/or close.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', when Shrek and Donkey look at the night sky at their makeshift camp, the moon appears to be larger than both put together.

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* The Moon from ''Manga/SoulEater'' in the sky is as large as a nearby building. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that, while it's pretty high up, it's technically still in Earth's atmosphere, and Medusa sitting on it near the beginning of the series and Ashura being imprisoned in it later show it's actually [[BabyPlanet much smaller than it should be]].]]

* The ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' [=OVAs=] show a moon that, in one scene, is so big that the bottom 15% or so half fills a row of windows about ten meters across. To get that kind of size with a real camera, you'd need a lens with a focal length measured in meters, and you'd have to photograph the (indoor) scene from a couple kilometers away.
* In ''Anime/KurauPhantomMemory '', the full moon looks awfully huge behind the flying silhouettes of Kurau [[spoiler:and later Christmas]], to make some lovely framing.

* The moon in ''[[VisualNovel/EfaFairyTaleOfTheTwo ef: A Tale of Memories]]'' is huge.
* In Miyazaki's ''{{Anime/Ponyo|OnTheCliffByTheSea}}'', the moon comes so close to earth it appears huge.
* ''Anime/ShamanicPrincess'' is full of [[SceneryPorn lush watercolor backgrounds]] which, given it's occult-centered subject matter, naturally include selectively huge depictions of the moon.

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', when Homura and Kyoko discover that [[spoiler:nothing exists outside their town]], a few scenes play out with a moon that one might think is only a few thousand miles away, given its size.
* The second opening of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' end with the Yorozuya trio standing on a rooftop and looking at a gigantic moon. the 10th opening have them, again on a rooftop, in front of one.
* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': Bunchou is seen standing in front of a absolutely huge moon when he make a dramatic arrival in chapter 43.
* Much like the movie, ''Manga/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasZerosJourney'' has one on Christmas Eve.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' features a gigantic CheesyMoon in the background when Manolo serenades Maria at night.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' features a large moon in the backdrop when the main characters [[http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lion-king-log.jpg walk across a plank]].
* The moon in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is pretty big and doesn't have any craters.

* ''Film/TheSecretOfMoonacre'' has a continuously-full moon that gets larger and larger as the movie goes on. It's an actual plot point, as the moon will destroy the earth unless Maria gives back the moon jewels.
* Subverted in ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', where a gigantic moon rises behind a hill only to be revealed to be a hot-air balloon.
* ''Film/{{Fido}}'' has a shot of a zombie grandma as a silhouette in front of a huge moon.
* The 1996 film adaptation of ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' has an extremely large moon [[http://metrograph.com/uploads/films/unspecified-1469565115-726x388.png riding the night sky]].
* ''Film/LesbianVampireKillers'' has a shot of a werewolf on front of a giant moon.

* The moon in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' is extremely huge [[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/441104609_f1a0ed4338_o.png in the scene where we first see the Oracle's Temple]]. Some say it's a visual metaphor, others say [[RuleOfCool it just looks cool.]]
* Invoked in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', as Bruce ''drags'' the moon closer to Earth just to make the evening more romantic for his wife. This has the effect of [[RealityEnsues causing a tsunami later on]].

* In ''Series/TerraNova'', the moon is shown to be huge due to it apparently moving back a centimeter each year, and this being 85 million B.C. However this doesn't quite work. The moon would have been about 3,000 kilometers closer... that's less than one percent of its current average distance, around 380,000 kilometers. The moon's distance varies by nearly 40,000 km ''every month'' due to its eccentric orbit. To a normal person, the moon 85 million years ago would have looked exactly the same.

* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games from the 3D era have an EasterEgg where, if you shoot the moon with a sniper rifle, it grows larger and larger until, after 5-6 shots, it reverts to its normal size.

* The moon in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'''s Crescent Moon Village is absolutely huge in the sky (about a bit bigger than many background buildings, or double the size of Wario and the pirate ghost).
* In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', the moon is absolutely ''enormous'' in the sky, taking up at least half of it and easily dwarfing any background structures and details. There are certain camera angles in which the Moon occupies all visible sky.

* ''VideoGame/TheTalosPrinciple'' has normal-sized moons in most levels, but B-2 has an impossibly gigantic moon and most of the puzzles have moon-themed names. This leads to an EasterEgg [[spoiler:where you can turn the moon around to reveal an [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Aperture Science]] logo. This is justified as the entire game takes place inside a computer simulation]].
* The moon in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' appears at least twice as large as it should be. This is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:an effect of an EldritchAbomination known as "Moon Presence" taking a keen interest in the town of Yharnam, and being only kept at bay by another old god for a time]].
* The moon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is enormous and takes up quite a bit of the sky in most outdoor backgrounds, foreshadowing for the events of disc 3.

* The Moon is a central theme in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', as the powers from the Umbra Witches are Moon-related. That is probably why it is so ''fricking huge''.
* The Moon which is seen during the Second Era in ''VideoGame/HypeTheTimeQuest'' is pretty massive, at least five times as big as it swould be in real life. Although the same goes with both the Sun and the stars.

* The Moon as seen in the opening sequence of ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}'' is huge (it's obscured by clouds much of the time however).
* During the ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' Splatfest event in September 2018, an unexplained and unusually large moon could be seen in the night sky from Inkopolis Square. The reason for this was that in Japan, the Splatfest was themed around the Japanese moon-viewing festival, which it happened to coincide with. No references to the moon-viewing festival were present outside of the Japanese version, but the large moon remained present in all regions.

* PlayedForHorror in the WebVideo/Local58 episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BD-ba-aXQo "Skywatching"]]. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The extremely large moon brainwashes the camera man into worshippping it.]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode "Dude, Where's My Ranch?", Lisa and guest character Luke are looking at the night sky and comment on how big the moon seems. The camera then pans back to show the landscape they're on - with the moon taking up half the screen.
-->'''Luke''': You should see it when it's full!
* The moon in the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kissyfur}}'' is bigger than it should be.

* PlayedForHorror in the WebVideo/Loca58 episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BD-ba-aXQo "Skywatching"]]. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The extremely large moon brainwashes the camera man into worshippping it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' features a large moon in the backdrop when the main characters [[http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lion-king-log.jpg walk across a plank]].

** Possibly justified as it's never explicitly stated that the movies take place on Earth.

* The moon in ''VideoGame/WarioLand 4'''s Crescent Moon Village is absolutely huge in the sky (about a bit bigger than many background buildings, or double the size of Wario and the pirate ghost).

Subtrope to WeirdMoon. See also FullMoonSilhouette, which can overlap if the foreground characters are too large/close for the effect to be anything other than artistically created.

* In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', the witches comment on how much bigger the moon is in Genua than in Lancre. Since the moon orbits much closer to the Disc than ours does to Earth, and the witches are now a lot nearer the Rim, this probably isn't an illusion.

* ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' features a large moon in the backdrop when the main characters [[http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/lion-king-log.jpg walk across a plank]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'', both moons are bigger than Earth's moon. The red one takes the cake however, being ridiculously enormous.

* Most ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games content themselves with an inexplicably gigantic moon. In the intro for ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'', the moon is portrayed in such a size it would actually be [[https://youtu.be/kYfzDiCxDyA?t=67 BIGGER than the Earth itself]], unless the satellite has broken orbit and is on a collision course for Eastern Europe.

* Invoked in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', as Bruce ''drags'' the moon closer to Earth just to make the evening more romantic for his wife.

* When Toutousai is first introduced in the manga ''Manga/InuYasha'', he is riding his three-eyed bull in front of an giant full moon.

** Nonetheless [[http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/37-our-solar-system/the-moon/the-moon-and-the-earth/31-how-close-was-the-moon-to-the-earth-when-it-formed-intermediate simulations suggest]] the Moon was just after being formed at only 20.000-30.000 kilometers away (ie: 18-12 times closer, thus proportionally bigger).