Basic Trope: A creature that is small as a baby, but very large as an adult.
- Straight: Dragons are shown to be toy-sized when they're hatchlings, but quite large when they're adults.
- Exaggerated: Dragons are the size of ants when they first hatch, but are larger than planets as adults.
- Downplayed: Dragons are about the size of housecats when they're young, but are about the size of a bus as an adult.
- Justified: Truth in Television; most large species tend to be fairly small as babies.
- Inverted: Dragons are large as babies, but small as adults.
- Subverted:
- Dragons seem to be small as babies, but this is not the case.
- Many expect that The Hero's pet dragon will be big when it grows up, but it doesn't grow very big at all.
- Double Subverted:
- They're actually much smaller.
- The dragon pet starts to grow larger later on.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Some dragons are much larger when adults, but some aren't.
- Averted: Dragons are not very large as adults.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "How the hell is he supposed to get so big?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The dragon is enchanted with a spell so it doesn't grow much larger than a hatchling.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: While no baby dragons are ever shown, we do see a dragon guarding a clutch of disproportionately small eggs.
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