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* The cast of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' have legs that seemingly telescope to twice their normal size whenever they have to crouch or kneel, because Schulz had to make room for the knees. Usually the legs are barely one quarter of their height.

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': The animators don't bother keeping Conan's height consistent, especially not compared to the adults (most egregiously, Conan sometimes doesn't even reach Kogoro's ''kneecaps'' in some episodes). The fandom likes to joke that APTX 4689's effect is still ongoing.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' When talking about Acnologia who in his first appearance was bigger than the trees in a forest while towards the end of the series he was as tall as a 3 story house.

** Vegeta's size [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zags]] depending on the medium and the part of the story. Overall, he grows noticeably taller over the course of the series. In the Saiyan Saga, he's drawn in a way that emphasizes his BigGuyLittleGuy dynamic with Nappa. Once Nappa's dead, he's drawn closer in height to the main characters. At the end of the manga, in one panel he's standing next to Bulma and is clearly shorter than her, but is far closer to her height or even taller in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The mountain that hold the watchtower of Ostirith changes its size in any shots it appears. If Ostirith is filmed from the ground or appears in background, the mountain is barely taller than then hills that conjure Tirharad and can be easily concealed by them. But if the the scene is shot from Ostirith, everything bellow looks extremely shrank, giving the impression of a very high altitude that doesn't exists in other shots.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The mountain that hold the watchtower of Ostirith changes its size in any shots it appears. If Ostirith is filmed from the ground or appears in background, the mountain barely has the size of a taller hillock that can be be easily concealed by the smaller hills that conjure Tirharad. But if the the scene is shot from Ostirith, everything bellow looks extremely shrank, giving the impression of a very high altitude that doesn't exists in other shots.

** In the original games, Lillie was slightly taller than characters her age and even her older brother, Gladion (although Gladion gets slightly taller than Lillie in the "Ultra" version of the games), though this was later proven to be a small oversight in their heights that Lillie's height was fized to be just slightly smaller than Gladion's. In the anime, taking place before the Ultra versions, she's shrunk down slightly to more average height, though she can still range anywhere from practically Mallow's height (who is the tallest in the kids' group) to being a little shorter than Ash depending on the shot.

** Goh's Cinderace is somehow smaller enough to measure the same size as the boys and is the same size as Ash's Lucario, when Cinderace (4'7'') are actually almost a foot taller than Lucario (3'11'') in general.

** Ash's Shiny Noctowl is abnormally small enough to perch on his shoulder than the usual Noctowl, who are ''5'3'' and stand taller than him.

** In the original games, Lillie was slightly taller than characters her age and even her older brother, Gladion (although Gladion gets slightly taller than Lillie in the "Ultra" version of the games). In the anime she's shrunk down slightly to more average height, though she can still range anywhere from practically Mallow's height (who is the tallest in the kids' group) to being a little shorter than Ash depending on the shot.

** The Monarchs vary a lot between the card game and the anime. In their first appearances, they're big enough to loom over the entire city (though that can be chalked up to dramatic effect). When one of them actually gets played, they're [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140906182308/yugioh/images/d/d2/ZaborgtheThunderMonarch-JP-Anime-GX-NC.png big]], but only about as big as one of Kenzan's dinosaurs. Some of them look to be [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140911012334/yugioh/images/a/a2/GranmargtheRockMonarch-JP-Anime-GX-NC.png even shorter.]] When they show up in the game proper, their size varies even more; Mobius varies from [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708190749/yugioh/images/thumb/5/5b/PridefulRoar-BP02-EN-C-1E.png/300px-PridefulRoar-BP02-EN-C-1E.png a bit taller than Breaker]] to [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120616113826/yugioh/images/thumb/2/21/InverseUniverse-BP01-EN-C-1E.png/300px-InverseUniverse-BP01-EN-C-1E.png so big that Mid Shield Gardna would have to stretch to reach his knee.]] To make things even more complicated, Granmarg, who was shown to be smaller in the anime, shows up compared to his brothers as [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130708011511/yugioh/images/a/af/MarchoftheMonarchs-CBLZ-EN-C-1E.png the biggest of them all.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has what seems to be a deliberate example of this trope in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'' with Tamami Kobayashi and Hazamada Toshikazu. When they were antagonists, they were depicted as towering over adults. However, after being defeated by [[AudienceSurrogate Koichi]] and [[TheHero Josuke]], respectively, they were reduced to around Koichi's size. This change coincides with a significant spurt of ArtEvolution that took place after their villain arcs but before they were reintroduced later. The anime does this away: Tamami already appears as a midget when he fights Koichi while Hazamada is just a [[TeensAreShort rather short teen]] (He's still taller than Koichi but Josuke towers over him). A popular fan theory explanation is that since early parts of ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' were largely told from [[CowardlyLion Koichi]]'s point of view, Tamami and Hazamada were drawn as tall and imposing during their fights, but were later drawn as being close to Koichi's height after [[DefeatMeansFriendship they were defeated in battle and Koichi no longer feared them]], especially Hazamada, who was defeated ''by'' Koichi in the latter's first step on his TookALevelInBadass CharacterDevelopment arc.

** Unicron, from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', is probably the worst offender of the entire franchise. At the beginning of the movie, he dwarfs an inhabited planet; later, when the Dinobots are fighting him, he is, roughly, a little larger than the size of the tallest (human!) skyscrapers; not that much bigger than Metroplex and Trypticon, the City-bots from season 3.

* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', Apollo Justice is meant to be 5'5" according to the official guidebook, but due to issues with model scaling he appears much shorter, around 5', in the 3D games. To put this in perspective, this makes him appear four inches shorter than his teenage ''[[SenpaiKohai kohai]]'' Athena, and the same height as his also teenage [[BigLittleBrother younger half-sister Trucy]]. This led to many jokes in the fandom that his official height is measured including his five inch long IdiotHair.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Revali is stated to be a young Rito who is a few inches taller than Link. However, by the time of the last memory of the twelve, he is shown to be a whole head taller than Link and almost as tall as Urbosa. This led to some speculation that he experienced a growth spurt before Calamity Ganon struck, though it is unclear if it was a design error.

* ''{{VideoGame/Cuphead}}'': Many antagonists, including [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Cala Maria]], [[TheDragon King Dice]], [[{{Satan}} The Devil]] and [[spoiler:Chef Saltbaker]] appears much bigger during their battle than they look in cutscene, it's even implied to be the case with other bosses such as members of the King's Court. The game being based on rubberhose cartoon, which were known for their surreal fantasy, this is considered part of it.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Kuroko was the same height as Mikoto in a few scenes of the Hyouka Kazakiri arc, when Kuroko is normally a head shorter than her.

* Nemesis' size varies quite a lot in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series. In the original ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3'', his in-game model is actually very much human-sized (he's only marginally taller than Carlos, though he does tower over the somewhat shorter Jill), while in pre-rendered cutscenes he seems to be about 7 feet tall. He's also about 7 feet tall in ''Umbrella Chronicles'' and ''Marvel vs Capcom 3''. In ''Operation Raccoon City'', he's over 12 feet tall, in keeping with Mr. X and other Tyrants.

** 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 [[CombiningMecha Devastator]]. And yet Astrotrain's robot mode is as tall as Megatron. Notably, when Astrotrain returned to animation for the first time in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'', the creators chose to forego all pretense of size-changing and simply make him exactly as big as a character with his altmode and job description would be.

** 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 [[CombiningMecha Devastator]]. And yet Astrotrain's robot mode is as tall as Megatron.

** Later shows tend to make efforts to avert this, by avoiding or reworking characters with too-large or too-small modes (Soundwave rarely turns into a tape deck nowadays, and there hasn't been a shuttleformer in animation since ''Armada'''s Jetfire) and designing characters so they're much larger or smaller if their altmode warrants it (motorcycle Prowl in ''Animated'' is pretty short and slender, while bomber jet Lugnut is a massive bruiser). In general, you can expect cars to be "average", motorcycles to be smaller, and trucks, tanks, and jets to be varying degrees of bigger. Being ''Transformers'', though, the effort given is nowhere near enough to actually work -- but hey, they're trying!