Basic trope: Large rodents.
- Straight: The rodents are about the size of an average adult human.
- Exaggerated: The rodents are about the size of a skyscraper.
- Downplayed: The rodents are about the size of a capybara.
- Justified:
- The rodents come from a planet with more oxygen than Earth.
- The rodents come from a time period when Earth had more oxygen.
- The rodents are a species that exists in real life, such as capybaras.
- Inverted: The rodents are downright minuscule, smaller than ants.
- Subverted: Turns out that the rodents are actually large dogs in disguise.
- Double Subverted: The dogs are in disguise to blend in with the real giant rodents.
- Parodied: The rodents are so big they can carry smaller rodents on their backs, those rodents being larger than a human.
- Zig Zagged: The mice are the size of capybaras, and the capybaras are the size of mice.
- Averted: The rodents are no bigger than normal.
- Enforced: A rat just happened to crawl through the miniature city that formed the Front Forced Perspective Shot during one of the takes and the producers decided to Throw It In!.
- Lampshaded: "Why are all the rodents huge around here?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Square-Cube Law
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror: The rodents are carnivorous, and because of their large size, they need to eat a lot. The normal prey for this species is too small for the giant counterpart to subsist on, but humans are the perfect size, and the human protagonist happens to be nearby.
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