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A [[Visual Pun]] where an extremely short character is introduced in a manner that makes them appear much taller than they actually are. Also the inverse, where someone ([[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever|or something]]) of great size or height is made to appear normal-sized at first, or perhaps introduced in a shorter or chibi-like form.
A subtrope is [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]], where this is done via a large shadow cast on the wall. [[Depth Deception]] is the [[Super Trope]] -- all examples that don't involve people should go there. May involve the use of [[Hitler Cam]]. See also [[Mister Big]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In a sketch on ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', Benny and Jackie Wright (a small man, under 5 feet tall) see a pair of wallflowers sitting at a dance. They decide to ask the girls to dance - Benny will ask the tall one and Jackie will ask the short one. The girls accept and stand up, revealing that - due to how the chairs they were sitting on were designed - the "tall one" is short and the "short one" is tall.
* The ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' episode "Once a Hero", where Abby went to government-oriented science exhibition to look for someone who could lend her usage of a very specific device of... some kind, required to identify a particular evidence, and this trope happens, as the person at the stand is revealed to be much smaller than he looks. Abby doesn't look surprised.
* In one episode of ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'', the main characters spend a while worrying about the dreaded (*glances around* *whispers*) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oTjs7msqV7E#t=444s Grand High Arbiter of Misuse of Power] coming from Ultron to punish George for cheating in a lottery. The arbiter eventually arrives preceded by an earthquake and we see a figure in a black robe, seen from below, filling the screen and taking menacingly in a booming voice. Then we see that he's two inches tall and standing on a table. Janet squashes him.
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