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* Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' can open up and spawn smaller, weaker copies of themselves.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', Living Doll

* The Human Doll from ''TheTick'' has this superpower.

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas!'', one waiter serves a tray containing another waiter, and so on, until a tiny one gives Cindy Lou Who a srawberry.

** In the sequel there is a civilization inside a locker in a train station. At the end we see our civilization is inside a locker inside an alien train station.

* TengenToppaGurrenLagann. The titular mech is the size of a galaxy, piloted by Choginga Gurren Lagann, the size of a moon, piloted by Arc Gurren Lagann, the size of a spaceship, piloted by Gurren Lagann, the size of a house, piloted by Simon, the size of a man. [[CaptainObvious Simon pilots himself.]]

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas!'', one waiter serves another waiter, and so on, until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.

* From ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas!'', one waiter serves another waiter, and so on, until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.
* At the end of the AnimatedAdaptation of ''HortonHearsAWho'', the Who mayor finds a speck of dust in which there appears to be another even smaller race.

* One of the toys in the first ''ToyStory'' is a nesting egg.
* From ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
** A Mr. Hyde character that keeps a smaller Hyde under his hat, who in turn has a smaller Hyde under his hat.
** A nested doll appears in the "Making Christmas" sequence, the smallest doll of which contains a live scorpion ([[FridgeLogic We never see it opened]]).
* In ''IceAge: A Mammoth Christmas'', Scrat gets a giant acorn from Santa, which opens up to reveal another acorn inside, and another, and another and another, until eventually he gets the real (small) acorn in the middle.

* The closing credits of ''{{Cars}} 2'' showed [[TheOtherDarrin Fillmore]], Sarge, Luigi, and Guido as nesting dolls.
* One of the Misfit Toys in ''RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' is a clown nesting doll, whose smallest doll contains a wind-up mouse.
* The present DonaldDuck receives from [[Disney/SaludosAmigos Jose Carioca]] and Panchito Pistoles at the very beginning of ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros''.

* One ''TomAndJerry'' short, "Safety Second", has Tom cornered by a large firecracker. Instead of blowing up, it breaks apart to reveal a smaller firecracker, which then reveals a smaller firecracker, and so on until all that is left is a tiny firecracker. Tom holds it in his hand and places it on his nose, and then it blows up in a huge explosion.

* A couch gag in Season 9 of ''TheSimpsons'' has Homer run in front of the TV alone and the top half of his body pops off to reveal Marge. Inside Marge is Bart, inside him is Lisa and inside her is Maggie.

* One of the Misfit Toys in ''RudolphtheRedNosedReindeer'' is a clown nesting doll, whose smallest doll contains a wind-up mouse.

* In the ''{{Community}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Abed's Uncontrolable Christmas", a gift labeled "Meaning of Christmas" has two nested boxes inside. Inside the last one is a DVD of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', which represents "[[TakeThat lack of payoff]]".

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' has Steve opening a present with an increasingly smaller present inside each one.

* One episode of ''BluesClues'' has Steve opening a present with an increasingly smaller present inside each one.

* In the first ''MenInBlack'' film, there's a whole other galaxy inside a pendant. And in The Stinger, it's revealed that the MIB universe is actually a part of an alien's marble collection.

* In ''TheSorcerorsApprentice'', Morgana's prison is a literal nesting doll. She's trapped at the center, and each of the other layers imprisons a different Morganan ([[BlackMagic evil magician]]).

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* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL,'' Housaku Yasai uses a called "Tomato Matryoshka" which allows him to summon another "Tomato Matryoshka" from his hand or deck when it is Normal Summoned.

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* In a ''FabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' comic, Fat Freddy brought home a shrink-wrapped package of marijuana. It had another layer of shrink wrap inside, which had another layer, which had another... although just before Franklin and Phineas would have killed him for spending their drug money on plastic bags, there was indeed a tightly compressed bag of marijuana at the very center.

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* The closing credits of ''[[{{Cars}} Cars 2]]'' showed [[TheOtherDarrin Fillmore]], Sarge, Luigi, and Guido as nesting dolls.

* The closing credits of [[{{Cars}} ''Cars 2'']] showed [[TheOtherDarrin Fillmore]], Sarge, Luigi, and Guido as nesting dolls.

* A [[YuGiOhCardGame Yu-Gi-Oh! card]] called "Tomato Matryoshka" allows you to summon another "Tomato Matryoshka" from your hand or deck when it is Normal Summoned.

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''!, one waiter serves another waiter, and so on, until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.

* In first ''MenInBlack'' film, there's a whole other galaxy inside a pendant. And in The Stinger, it's revealed that the MIB universe is actually a part of an alien's marble collection.

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', one waiter serves another waiter, and so on, until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.

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* In a FreakBrothers comic, Fat Freddy brought home a shrink-wrapped package of marijuana, which had another layer of shrink wrap inside, which had another layer, which had another... although just before Franklin and Phineas would have killed him for spending their drug money on plastic bags, there did turn out to be a tightly compressed bag of marijuana at the very center.

* In first ''MenInBlack'' film there's a whole other galaxy inside a pendant. And in The Stinger it's revealed that the MIB universe is actually a part of an alien's marble collection.

* Inverted in ''The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins'' (also by DrSeuss): Cubbins' hat contains a hat which is exactly like the hat. Removing the 2nd hat reveals a 3rd had which is also exactly the same. At hat 451 the hats actually start to get bigger.

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* In the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Chase" Picard's old archeology professor brings him a [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kurlan_naiskos Kurlan naiskos]] as a gift. An ancient relic, the figure opens up to reveal several smaller versions of the figure inside.

* Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' can open up and spawn smaller, weaker, copies of themselves.

* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', one waiter serves another waiter until Cindy Lou Who gets a strawberry.

* In ''IceAge: A Mammoth Christmas'' Scrat gets a giant acorn from Santa, which opens up to reveal another acorn inside, and another, and another, and another until eventually he gets the real (small) acorn in the middle.
* In the DaffyDuck cartoon, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Hare The Million Hare]]'' (1963), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3tvUDZO9I Daffy & Bugs compete to win a prize]]. The prize turns out to be a "[[WorldwidePunomenon million box]]"... which proves to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: an enormous wooden box, with ''one million'' tiny cardboard boxes inside.
* One ''TomAndJerry'' short has Tom cornered by a large firecracker. Instead of blowing up, it breaks apart to reveal a smaller firecracker, which then reveals a smaller firecracker, and so on until all that is left is a tiny firecracker. Tom holds it in his hand and laughs, and then it blows up in a huge explosion.
* A couch gag in Season 9 of ''TheSimpsons'' has Homer run in front of the TV alone and the top half of his body pops off to reveal Marge. Inside Marge is Bart and inside him is Lisa and inside her is Maggie.

Matryoshka Object

Laconic: A container that holds a smaller version of itself.