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* ''WesternAnimation/ThreeMisses'': A dwarf racing to save Snow White is plucked into the air by a gigantic child--who is then plucked up in turn by a gigantic and very hungry wolf.
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* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': The party are in the Underdark, cornered by a team of undead Thayan assassins who just keep getting back up when killed, when the ground starts shaking and a ''massive'' red dragon breaks down the wall. Everyone starts running.
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* 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.
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* In the 2023 horror film ''Cobweb'', Peter's house is broken into by his school bully Brian, accompanied by Brian's older cousin and a few of the cousin's friends, with the intent of smashing up the house as payback for Peter pushing Brian down the stairs. Unfortunately for them, [[spoiler:Peter has just released his deformed and insane older sister Sarah from captivity after she manipulated him into killing their parents, and Sarah quite literally tears the bullies apart so that she can focus on tormenting her brother for herself]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': A short scene in "[[Recap/AmphibiaS1E03CaneCrazy Cane Crazy]]" has a dragonfly get eaten by a bird on the fly, and said bird immediately gets eaten by an even bigger dragonfly.
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** A short scene in "[[Recap/AmphibiaS1E03CaneCrazy Cane Crazy]]" has a dragonfly get eaten by a bird on the fly, and said bird immediately gets eaten by an even biggerdragonfly. dragonfly.
** [[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]].
** A short scene in "[[Recap/AmphibiaS1E03CaneCrazy Cane Crazy]]" has a dragonfly get eaten by a bird on the fly, and said bird immediately gets eaten by an even bigger
** [[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]].
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* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' has the oceans during the warm and flooded Temperocene Era become filled with all sorts of diverse and abundant marine food sources that a population explosion of marine megafauna [[ItMakesSenseInContext (all descended from]] ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext hamsters]]'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext by the way)]] evolve, such as manatee-like grazers, whale-like filter feeders, dolphin-like crustacean-eaters and walrus-like bottom-feeders, to name a few. This diversity was followed by an abundance of macropredatory phorcas who hunt the varied wildlife: and they become so plentiful that an ''even'' bigger predator, the ''Dunkleosteus''-like sarchon, evolves specifically to eat ''the predators'' themselves in turn.
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* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' has the oceans during the warm and flooded Temperocene Era become filled with all sorts of diverse and abundant marine food sources that a population explosion of marine megafauna [[ItMakesSenseInContext (all descended from]] ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext hamsters]]'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext by the way)]] evolve, such as manatee-like grazers, whale-like filter feeders, dolphin-like crustacean-eaters and walrus-like bottom-feeders, to name a few. This diversity was followed by an abundance of macropredatory phorcas who hunt the varied wildlife: and they become so plentiful that an ''even'' bigger predator, the ''Dunkleosteus''-like sarchon, evolves specifically to eat ''the predators'' themselves in turn.
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Compare to AlwaysSomeoneBetter, SaveTheVillain, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, ExitPursuedByABear, SelfDisposingVillain, EvilerThanThou, HorrifyingTheHorror, and TheWorfEffect (in which the "big fish" character keeps encountering bigger fish). If {{invoked|Trope}}, see SummonBiggerFish. If it's a videogame, and you have to also fight the bigger fish, it's a BaitAndSwitchBoss. For actual bigger fish (and other things), see SeaMonster. If someone thinks they're scaring off an antagonist and it's really because there's a bigger fish around that they can't see, then that's ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou. (That version is usually PlayedForLaughs.)
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* ''VideoGame/DaveTheDiver''; Late in the game, Dave is attacked for a third time by [[EcoTerrorist John Watson]], who's in an armored mini-sub armed with homing torpedoes. Just when it seems John is about to win, a ''Kronosaurus'' appears and destroys his sub, killing him while the marine reptile turns its attention to Dave.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Question" has this happen in ''musical form'' after Gumball and Darwin ask a squirrel about the meaning of life, leading to continuously bigger animals eating each other.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Question" "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E28TheQuestion The Question]]" has this happen in ''musical form'' after Gumball and Darwin ask a squirrel about the meaning of life, leading to continuously bigger animals eating each other.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': A short scene in "Cane Crazy" has a dragonfly get eaten by a bird on the fly, and said bird immediately gets eaten by an even bigger dragonfly.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': A short scene in "Cane Crazy" "[[Recap/AmphibiaS1E03CaneCrazy Cane Crazy]]" has a dragonfly get eaten by a bird on the fly, and said bird immediately gets eaten by an even bigger dragonfly.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Brown Evil" occurs a zombie epidemic that could rightfully be called a butcher's worst nightmare as every piece of meat comes back to life. As a result, Billy is attacked and strangled by a rope of zombie sausages, only to be saved by a dog who eats it. A zombie dog that is.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Brown Evil" "[[Recap/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandyS2E2 Brown Evil]]" occurs a zombie epidemic that could rightfully be called a butcher's worst nightmare as every piece of meat comes back to life. As a result, Billy is attacked and strangled by a rope of zombie sausages, only to be saved by a dog who eats it. A zombie dog that is.
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* In Creator/HollingCHolling's ''Pagoo'', the titular hermit crab is seized by a hungry octopus, but is spared from being eaten when a moray eel bites off the tentacle that captured him.
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Compare to AlwaysSomeoneBetter, SaveTheVillain, DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, ExitPursuedByABear, SelfDisposingVillain, EvilerThanThou, and TheWorfEffect (in which the "big fish" character keeps encountering bigger fish). If {{invoked|Trope}}, see SummonBiggerFish. If it's a videogame, and you have to also fight the bigger fish, it's a BaitAndSwitchBoss. For actual bigger fish (and other things), see SeaMonster. If someone thinks they're scaring off an antagonist and it's really because there's a bigger fish around that they can't see, then that's ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou. (That version is usually PlayedForLaughs.)
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* ''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.
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** In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the ''Indominus rex'' proves too much for everything thrown at her [[spoiler:until the ''T. rex'' knocks her through a fence to the edge of the lagoon and [[SeaMonster the mosasaur]] eats her]].
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** The heroes of ''Film/JurassicPark'' are about to get eaten by ''Velociraptors'', but the ''T. rex'' shows up, trounces the raptors and saves the day. How it appeared there without anyone noticing, or why the protagonists are now less terrified than they were earlier, remains completely unexplained (there was a barely noticeable hole in the wall it possibly came in through). [[WordOfGod According to the producers]], they were struggling with the ending when they came to the realization that it was really the hero of the movie, and that was when everything fell into place.
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** The heroes of ''Film/JurassicPark'' ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' are about to get eaten by ''Velociraptors'', but the ''T. rex'' shows up, trounces the raptors and saves the day. How it appeared there without anyone noticing, or why the protagonists are now less terrified than they were earlier, remains completely unexplained (there was a barely noticeable hole in the wall it possibly came in through). [[WordOfGod According to the producers]], they were struggling with the ending when they came to the realization that it was really the hero of the movie, and that was when everything fell into place.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Night of the Living Grim", Billy is attacked by a rope of zombie sausages, which are then eaten by a zombie dog.
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* ''Film/Apocalypto'': [[spoiler:The Spaniards in the ending.]]
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* ''Literature/BeyondReality'' contains more than a few examples of this:
** In ''Cthulhu's Awakening'', the titular [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] is noted to be the size of a mountain and capable of destroying stars under his own power, forcing the protagonists to run for their life as Cthulhu follows them between universes. [[spoiler: Once they get to God's universe however, the omnipotent creator easily dispatches Cthulhu's army of Star-Spawn and turns Cthulhu himself into a plushie]].
** This also happens in ''When Your Reality Cracks'', where Nyarlathotep frees the Interdimensional Goddess known as Celeste to cause chaos across the multiverse, while believing that she is no threat to him. [[spoiler: Halfway through the novel, Celeste shows him just how wrong that assumption is]].
** In ''Cthulhu's Awakening'', the titular [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] is noted to be the size of a mountain and capable of destroying stars under his own power, forcing the protagonists to run for their life as Cthulhu follows them between universes. [[spoiler: Once they get to God's universe however, the omnipotent creator easily dispatches Cthulhu's army of Star-Spawn and turns Cthulhu himself into a plushie]].
** This also happens in ''When Your Reality Cracks'', where Nyarlathotep frees the Interdimensional Goddess known as Celeste to cause chaos across the multiverse, while believing that she is no threat to him. [[spoiler: Halfway through the novel, Celeste shows him just how wrong that assumption is]].
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** Subverted in the premiere of Season 4. Abby and Connor bait the raptor that has been harassing them into attacking the much larger ''Spinosaurus'' so they can finally escape the Cretaceous.
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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': the basic concept is demonstrated in a flashback showing how Jaken came to be Sesshōmaru's servant. Long ago, he was the leader of a tribe of imps who came under threat by a demon who turned out to be the greatest opponent Jaken and his tribe had faced up to that point. Just as the demon was about to kill Jaken, Sesshōmaru happened to be walking by and, considering the demon to be in his way, [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly destroyed it]] [[OneHitKill with one blow]]. Seeing such a great and powerful demon so nonchalantly save his life put Jaken in awe and he abandoned his tribe to follow Sesshōmaru from then on.
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* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': the The basic concept is demonstrated in a flashback showing how Jaken came to be Sesshōmaru's servant. Long ago, he was the leader of a tribe of imps who came under threat by a demon who turned out to be the greatest opponent Jaken and his tribe had faced up to that point. Just as the demon was about to kill Jaken, Sesshōmaru happened to be walking by and, considering the demon to be in his way, [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly destroyed it]] [[OneHitKill with one blow]]. Seeing such a great and powerful demon so nonchalantly save his life put Jaken in awe and he abandoned his tribe to follow Sesshōmaru from then on.
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* In ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'', the protagonist himself, Ainz Ooal Gown, ''is'' the bigger fish. As the former leader of one of the most powerful guilds in Yggdrasil before being transported to the New World, he is easily able to brush off even the most powerful of this world's monsters without so much as wasting a breath.
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* In ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'', ''Literature/Overlord2012'', the protagonist himself, Ainz Ooal Gown, ''is'' the bigger fish. As the former leader of one of the most powerful guilds in Yggdrasil before being transported to the New World, he is easily able to brush off even the most powerful of this world's monsters without so much as wasting a breath.
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* ''Series/PrehistoricPlanet'': The first sequence of the first episode introduces a father ''Tyrannosaurus'' and his brood of chicks swimming across the Western Interior Seaway, stated by [[Creator/DavidAttenborough the narrator]] to be "the land's top predator". However, they soon attract the attention of the largest predator ''period'', a ''Mosasaurus'', a predator stated to be twice the size of a ''T. rex''. However, the documentary goes for a more realistic approach to the scenario; ''T. rex'' might be much smaller, but it's still a huge and powerful animal that can easily defend itself, so the ''Mosasaurus'' focuses on the much smaller and more vulnerable infants.
