In media, not everything is the same size as it is in real life. Sometimes it's bigger. Sometimes it's smaller.
Tropes:
- Amphibian at Large: Giant amphibians.
- Animals Not to Scale
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
- Baby Planet: A very small planet.
- Bat Out of Hell: Often an oversized bat (but not always).
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Oversized arthropods.
- Bonsai Forest
- Canis Major
- Casually Powerful Giant
- Closer than They Appear
- Dangled by a Giant
- Enormous Engagement Ring
- Firewood Resources: Resource icons/sprites are simplified at the cost of scale and accuracy.
- Fungus Humongous
- Giant Board Game
- Giant Enemy Crab
- Giant Flyer
- Giant Food
- Giant Logistics: the logistics of looking after a giant.
- Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower
- Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword
- Giant Spider
- Giant Squid
- Giant Woman
- Gigantic Gulp: Huge beverages.
- Mega-Microbes
- Mega Neko
- Overly Long Tongue
- Pint-Sized Kid
- Riding in the Palms of Giants
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Giant rodents.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Large-scale measurements (such as planet sizes, long time periods, and space travel distances) tend to be vastly over- or underestimated in science fiction.
- Short Teens, Tall Adults: Teens are shorter than adults despite usually being old enough to have reached adult height.
- Sizable Snowflakes
- Space Compression
- Towering Flower
- Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction
- Turtle Island
- Units Not to Scale
- Waist-Deep Ocean
