History Main / AlwaysaBiggerFish

* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WClUtgjec Mr. Tora]] is one of the higher-ups of a Yakuza group far bigger than the group Ikari's father managed. Turns out her father's group was in financial trouble and sent her to work for that reason, and thus he punished her when Mr. Tora exposed her abuse of connections to him.

'''[[spoiler:Gru]]''': [[spoiler:[[Shut UpHannibal Oh, ''were'' you now?]]]]

'''[[spoiler:Gru]]''': [[spoiler:Oh, ''were'' you now?]]

* "WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie": * When the babies are confronted by the monkeys on the bridge, but suddenly the monkeys started flee in fear because they noticed a huge sapient predator that is on the other side of the bridge: a Vasto Wolf named Scar Snout, who scares them away, and tries to eat the babies.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' is known for having this phenomenon in spades, with high-level predatory monsters being preyed upon by even higher-level ones. Case in point, when the Four Beasts awaken from their centuries of slumber to invade the human world, one of them kills a Regal Mammoth with one attack. In earlier chapters, said Regal Mammoth was probably the largest creature seen in the series so far (being approximately 1.5km in height), and had the ability to inhale hundreds of smaller beasts through one of its two trunks and spitting bones out the other. And then there's what lies in the [[DeathWorld Gourmet World]]...

** [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]] is this to every other threat in the show. Most of them were wild animals who follow their instincts whose threat only encompassed their territories who he proceeded to brainwash into his armies per the Core's order, others were [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]] who didn't make it past their spotlight episode. and Grime and Sasha want to conquer Amphibia but don't show a desire to go beyond; Andrias has higher ambitions and eviler plots than them, planning to conquer the ''[[SerialEscalation multiverse]]''. When Grime's rebellion is thwarted, Andrias immediately sets his own plans into motion, even pacifying the militant toads, proving Sasha and Grime who's the biggest evil around. However, most of the scale of his villainy is actually demanded by [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]].

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Extremely prominent, where high level predatory monsters will be dined upon by even higher level ones. Case in point, when the Four Beasts awaken from their centuries of slumber to invade the human world, one of them kills a Regal Mammoth with one attack. In earlier chapters, said Regal Mammoth was probably the largest creature seen in the series so far (being approximately one kilometer in height), and had the ability to inhale hundreds of smaller beasts through one of its two trunks and spitting bones out the other.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'', the eponymous gang of nine are in the deeps of Moria surrounded by countless goblins... until the goblins themselves start running for their very lives. Turns out a Balrog, an ancient demon and one of the most powerful entities in all Arda had woken up and was ''really'' mad.

** ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': In one story arc, Strange is menaced by the cosmically powerful sorceress Umar. He finds and releases an artificial EldritchAbomination called Zom which is the one thing that scares her. Needless to say this quickly backfires (if Strange couldn't handle Umar, he has no chance of containing something bigger than her), and he has to find a bigger fish yet, going through a ChainOfDeals which ends with the Living Tribunal, ''the'' single biggest fish in the entire Marvel ''Multiverse'' (apart from an unseen, vaguely-defined "[[TheMaker One-Above-All]]"). The Tribunal himself was defeated in the leadup to ''ComicBook/{{Infinity}}''. It seems this was done by the mysterious 'Rabum Alal' -- Sumerian (yes, really) for "Great Destroyer" -- as Black Swan, kind of his herald in a sense, calls him. And now, as of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'', the Living Tribunal [[spoiler:is dead at the hands of the Beyonders]].

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', Gah Lak Tus is one of the biggest threats in that universe. When 616 [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] arrives through a tear in reality, Gah lak Tus tries to consume him. Upon realizing that Galactus is both a kindred spirit and far more powerful, Gah Lak Tus immediately chooses to [[FusionDance merge with him]] and serve him as his new Heralds.

** The story has an intentionally heroic example when we get to see what happens when a giant from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic one franchise]] meets an even bigger giant from [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} another]]. Garble and his gang greed-growth into fully grown, rampaging, 50-70 meter dragons... [[BigDamnHeroes Cue]] the 90 meter tall Anguirus to [[CurbStompBattle show them who's the alpha predator]]. [[StealthPun BIG]] damn heroes indeed.

* ''Film/PaleoARK'':

** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'', Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are exploring a distant alien world. At one point, they are fending off a group of hominid-like predators who have ambushed them in the middle of a jungle, when a humongous newt-like monster rushes out of the shrubbery and gobbles one of the beasts down, prompting the rest of the pack to flee in terror.

* ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'': [[spoiler:The Spaniards in the ending.]]

** ''Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares'': [[spoiler:''The Baby-Sitter'' features "Them", a mysterious force that lurks in the house where the Mitchell family lives, but they have a special protection ritual that, done once a night, keeps "Them" from harming the person who does it. When the titular babysitter is confronted and chased down the hall by a burglar one night, he fails to do the ritual, and "They" attack and eliminate him.]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]", the spaceman Peter Craig discovers a race of ant-size people and uses his size to [[AGodAmI proclaim himself their god]], threatening to kill them all unless they obey, yet he still constantly terrorizes them anyways... until two spacemen who are giants even to ''him'' show up.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'': The intro to the first episode shows a dragon-like creature flying over a stormy ocean, only for a sea serpent to surge out of the water, snatch the dragon in its jaws and dive back into the sea.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': A heroic variant in occurs in "Birth of a Child Swordsman": Yahiko is being chased by the gang of thugs he's been dealing with the entire episode. He leads them into an narrow alleyway where he can fight them one-on-one, but the thugs wise up and approach en masse, knives drawn. Then the thugs look up and notice Kenshin and Sanosuke on the wall behind Yahiko (either of whom would've been enough to make the thugs pause). Most of the thugs flee, but the leader [[RevengeBeforeReason wants to settle the score with Yahiko.]] He ends up giving Yahiko [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome his first victory in a real fight.]]

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', this happens to Younger Toguro. After a few arcs proving to be the strongest, in the arc following his defeat is revealed that, for all his power, he's just considered a B-Class fighter and that there's two more levels above his own. Indeed, compared with the S-Class fighters like Yomi, Mokuro and, especially, Raizen in his prime, Younger Toguro is just a flea.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': A common theme throughout most iterations, especially in the case of Doomsday. Clark Kent is one of the most powerful beings in the world, so the only times he can really face a challenge is when he faces someone from somewhere else with even more power than him.

** In the ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] storyline ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'', the incredibly powerful Adjudicator has stomped over Diana and her allies effortlessly. Before he can obliterate the heroines together with their home worlds, though, he is stopped and whisked away by his ''massively'' powerful overseers, who are not happy about being bothered by his annoying antics.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':