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16	In RealLife, you have a set adult height (unless you have some sudden growth disorder such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly Acromegaly]]) and no amount of weight gain, whether from fat or muscle, will increase it (well, gaining some muscle might make you stand up straighter, but that's about it). In fiction, however, especially in animation, getting fat or muscular will increase a character's height. This is done both to exaggerate how big the character has become, as well as making the character easier to draw.
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18	HeavyVoice might be combined with this. Compare BalloonBelly.
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21	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
26	** Broly is already very tall in his base form, but [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/kami_sama_explorer/5491583299/ gains several feet as the Legendary Super Saiyan.]] This is the most immediate contrast between his and Trunks's "Super Saiyan 3rd Grade" his form was inspired by. Trunks ''only'' gained muscle mass.
27	** Likewise, in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', the female Universe 6 Saiyan[[note]]Mostly [[MirrorUniverse heroic and further evolved versions]] of Universe 7 Saiyans that we know.[[/note]] Kale is the [[GenderFlip counterpart]] to Broly. As a result, when she accesses her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide "Super Saiyan Berserker" form]], her feeble muscle mass and stature drastically increase to [[StatuesqueStunner tower over most of her comrades]].
28	** Super Saiyan 4 from ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' makes anyone who uses it taller, more so than it increases muscle mass in the case of [[TheNapoleon Vegeta]].
29	* ''Manga/KenganAshura'' combines this trope with NotDrawnToScale and YourSizeMayVary.
30	** Julius, the most muscular character in the series, is often drawn as being at least OneHeadTaller than the rest of the cast, even though his official height (205 cm) is not that much greater than many of the other heavyweight fighters, most of whom stand at over 190 cm.
31	** The sequel, ''Omega'', introduced Carlos Medel, a boxer who has changed his weight class several times over the course of his career, and appears to grow taller as his weight class increases.
32	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
33	** During the TimeSkip, Usopp gets sent to an island where he meets Heracles who seems to be almost twice his height. Usopp feasts on the food of the island and becomes very obese. He also suddenly is twice Heracles' height. There may be some YourSizeMayVary involved (which Oda tends to do with his very short and very tall characters), but still, Usopp should have grown to well over 5 meters. And yes, when he loses all that weight, he becomes his former height again.
34	** Twenty malnourished years of prison labor made Hyogoro lose most of his muscle mass and more than half of his height. Though it's left to our imagination if the height loss is from undereating or [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens an exaggerated effect of old age]].
35	* Stocking ends up gaining so much weight in one episode of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' that she stands about 20 feet tall. She's so fat that Panty -- aside from taking a moment to laugh at her -- runs on top of Stocking while kalinka dancing to travel around the city on her like a giant ball.
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39	* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', it's a RunningGag that Professor Limen spontaneously grows more muscular whenever he gets angry or pumped-up. Whenever that happens, he becomes noticeably taller than usual.
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43	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Whenever Bane uses Venom to increase his strength, he usually also gets taller and more muscular. More so in media outside the comics.
44	* In ''ComicBook/DP7'', after the [[MassEmpoweringEvent White Event]], David Landers puts on a huge amount of both muscle and height to fuel his new SuperStrength, all of which is accompanied by painful growth spurts.
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48	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has a dream [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1987/ga870517.gif where he never stops eating and grows to the size of a planet]].
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52	* In ''The Grand and Bountiful Trixie'' (a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic), Trixie eats some enchanted food that fattens her up impossibly quickly. As explained in the narration, the spell also increases her muscle mass and enlarges her skeleton, so she remains mobile even as she bloats up to an "elephantine" size and towers over Princess Luna.
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56	* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Mayor Shelbourne is a rather small-looking guy when he is first introduced. After gorging himself on the food created by Flint Lockwood's machine, he becomes super-fat and grows several times his normal height.
57	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the eponymous character starts off scrawny looking and is shown to be short or about the same height as those around him. When he gains muscle mass, suddenly he is taller than almost every other character in the movie. This is {{justified\|Trope}} by the fact that Hercules was about 14 when he started training and nearly 18 when he concluded it. The fact that he's a demigod could also have something to do with it.
58	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Hal Stewart is originally somewhat short and plump, but once he receives Metro Man's DNA by Megamind, he gets a HeroicBuild and becomes as tall as Metro Man.
59	* In "WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs1937", Piggy starts the short as a slightly chubby, but tiny piglet. After he's force-fed by a mad scientist for an entire day, he's swollen to look like a giant beach ball with little stubs for limbs and is far taller than he was before getting captured thanks to having been fattened up.
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63	* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the super-soldier serum makes Steve Rogers taller as well as more muscular. This is possibly the main cause of [[PainfulTransformation his agonized screams during the process]].
64	* In ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', this happens to Violet Beauregarde after chewing until the gum reaches the blubbery dessert flavor. After turning a different shade of blue, she swells up in a roughly 20 feet living blueberry. This adaptation is an outlier, as the book and other adaptations (even animated ones) generally keep Violet's height the same.
65	* Taken to an extreme during Sherman's NightmareSequence in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996'', wherein he grows fatter and fatter to the point of becoming tall as a giant as well.
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69	* The short-lived nineties SketchComedy ''The Edge'' has a sketch in which Delta Burke gains so much weight that she turns into a literal giantess, rips the roof off the ''Series/DesigningWomen'' set and eats the rest of the cast.
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73	* The FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' starts out in his normal human form. In the second phase, he uses powers that make him incredibly muscular and taller as well.
74	* ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'': Halflings are typically quite short, but the tremendously fat Melvin Underbelly is even taller than the Overlord!
75	* The boss of chapter 3 in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' uses the Crystal Star to bulk himself up, which gives him bigger arms and has him grow several feet taller. He loses these traits when he is defeated.
76	* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', Steve gets infected with the T-Veronica virus, which causes him to grow into a hulking muscular hunchback brute that is several feet taller than he was previously. After he is attacked by Alexia's tentacles, he reverts back to his human form and also returns to his normal size.
77	* ''VideoGame/SushiCat'' thrives on this logic, as most levels involve him just trying to get ''tall'' enough to do a thing and deciding that gorging himself on sushi is the best way to accomplish this. One of the more egregious examples is eating enough to reach the height of a ''Ferris wheel''.
78	* The main protagonist Munch (pictured above) from ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'' grows as his belly gets bigger. This even affects gameplay, as after a certain weight level he can't fit into tight spaces and can cause him to get stuck in said tight spaces if he gets to that size while in them. His final weight level can even span the entire screen height-wise (even though at that point he's immobile)!
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82	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', while playing ''VideoGame/FableII'', Nanase starts out the same height as Ellen but [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2009-12-01 becomes]] one head taller upon using her XP becoming more buff and retains the height increase after pies make her fat.
83	* Justified in ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe''. Seamus's obesity and gigantism are both caused by a botched LongevityTreatment, and even after he has his metabolism stabilized and drops 117 kilos, he is still more than 2.3 meters tall.
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87	* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode, "[[FountainOfYouth Musta Been a Beautiful Baby]]", Tails balloons up after eating a ton of instant food powder and [[InstantMassJustAddWater washing it down with water]]. Not only does he become bloated, he becomes huge in height, too.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
89	** After his wife died, Tuttle became so morbidly obese that he was completely immobile. His also grew upwards in the process.
90	** In one episode that spoofs ''Series/TheDeadZone'', a convolution of events leads to a baby raccoon abandoned in the Smith's basement with only a stockpile of protein powder for food and a workout machine to pass the time. It ends up bulking up to an estimated eight-foot-tall behemoth.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has the Cluemaster, who is seen early on as an ordinary-sized, chubby child some thirty years in the past, but after losing at a game show, winning a lifetime supply of Kremelos and ''never'' working past it, looks in the present -- with his exaggerated bulk hidden under a great orange (burlap?) costume -- to be about nine feet tall and a thousand pounds.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': A flashback in “Every Which Way But Ed” reveals Nazz was not only [[FormerlyFat much heavier]], but much taller as well.
93	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]" sees Bender turned into a human being who immediately goes on an over-eating binge. One montage later, he arrives at the Professor's presentation grossly overweight and somehow several feet taller than when he started. The DVDCommentary jokingly handwaves it by claiming he gained a lot of weight on the soles of his feet.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS1E03 Nighty Nightmare]]", after Jon tells Garfield that he eats too much, Garfield has a nightmare where he eats anything and everything. His gorging doesn't only make him much heavier, but he grows proportionally taller as well. At his fattest, he's about the height and girth of an apartment building.
95	* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Sumo Kaz", Kaz, Ami, and Yumi get super fat and grow several times their height.
96	* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', when Jade turns into T-Girl, she gains muscle all over her body, but [[TopHeavyGuy only her upper body gets taller while her lower body stays the same height]].
97	* In episode 9 of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', "Jumbo Johnny", Johnny impatiently downs an entire month's supply of a muscle-building supplement to bulk up and wakes up morbidly obese the next morning. He's clearly taller than he normally is, but it isn't until he drinks one more can that he grows into a stories tall blubbery giant. When he's given a diet supplement to reverse the effect and [[HereWeGoAgain again takes it all at once]], the next morning he'd regained his original proportions but become less than a foot tall.
98	* Justified in the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E7GrandeSizeMe Grande Size Me]]". At first, Ron's weight gain is portrayed realistically; he just grows a BalloonBelly with all the consequences of being unhealthy. After he falls into a vat of MutagenicGoo, however, he loses all apparent health issues and grows taller as he gains weight. It turns out that the stuff was a failed SuperSerum that only worked when subjects ate extremely unhealthy food, and even then, [[HulkingOut the results]] were undesired. This leads to a parody AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle stinger wherein Ron warns of [[SpoofAesop the dangers of exposure to mutagenic substances]] to the audience, to the confusion of onlookers.
99	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Frenchfry", Lilo, Stitch, and Pleakley get taller as they're fattened up. Averted with Gantu, as he's really tall to begin with.
100	* The second claymation short shown before the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E1ComputerIntruder Computer Intruder]]" has Bogus come across a container full of [[FoodPills dehydrated food tablets]] and a vial of water used for the re-hydration process. After experimenting with one of the tablets, he eats all of the tablets and drinks the entire vial of water, which in turn causes him to become massively bloated within seconds.
101	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' episode "Weight Gaining", Rikochet is forced to gain weight to be able to challenge three students who are twice his size. He gets so obsessed with gaining weight that he eventually grows large enough to try eating a Mr. Squishy Spongecake truck and [[ImAHumanitarian its driver]]!
102	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has the gang squaring off against the Gluten Demon, which is attacking every restaurant and chef in town by devouring all of their gluten-rich foods. Shaggy and Scooby are tasked with [[BigEater eating all of that food before the demon can get to it]] to lure it out. The two are genuinely ecstatic to do so, binge for hours, and end up becoming not just incredibly round and fat, but roughly eight feet tall each and [[StoutStrength immensely strong]]. They then take on the Gluten Demon in a sumo wrestling match, as they're now "too full to be scared"; during the battle, both Shaggy and Scooby shrug off the damage of being thrown into several cars, while the cars themselves are totally destroyed.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVII Treehouse of Horror XVII]]", Homer eats and eats and eats and eats, eventually growing to the size of a small building. This is because he ate an alien BlobMonster and [[YouAreWhoYouEat became one]].
104	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E2WeightGain4000 Weight Gain 4000]]", Cartman starts drinking the eponymous energy drink, thinking he would buff up. By the time Kathy Lee Gifford comes to town, Cartman is so fat that he's [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-reallyfat.jpg almost a head taller than the other boys]]. An alternate depiction of this scene in the ClipShow spoof "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E7CityOnTheEdgeOfForever City on the Edge of Forever]]" shows a muscular Cartman who [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-gonewrong!.gif still manages to appear taller than he usually is]].
105	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Kobra-Venom transforms Mammoth from a scrawny beanpole into a massive, misshapen hulk: far taller, heavier, and more muscular than he had been before.
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