History Main / OurGiantsAreBigger

* In ''Manga/MySisterAndGiant'', giants are typically 8-15 meters tall, making Elis very short by their standards at 5 meters. It is but one in a long list of ways she stands out from the rest of her people, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer all of which contributed towards her ostracization]].

* Creator/ShintaroKago's ''Manga/SuperConductiveBrainsParataxis'' features a race of colossal humanoids cloned from fossils and known as Surdlers. To be used as HumongousMecha for civilian and military purposes, they are extensively modified -- [[LossOfIdentity their organic brains are swapped out for computers]], [[BodyHorror their faces and genitals replaced by cybernetic implants]], and occasionally, [[{{Squick}} additional limbs or extra torsos are grafted on]] to suit the tasks they are built for. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that [[EarthAllAlong the clones are in fact ordinary humans]] and the advanced civilization enslaving them consists of {{Lilliputians}} [[{{Transhuman}} produced by miniaturization technology]].]]

* In David Anthony Durhams ''Acacia'' trilogy the Auldek are between seven and eight feet tall and a race of {{Blood Knight}}s whose civilization has fallen into decadence. They are also NighInvulnerable and immortal due to containing multiple souls.

* "Literature/PrinceIvanTheWitchBabyAndTheLittleSisterOfTheSun": As running away from her murderous sister, Prince Ivan runs into Vertodub the Tree-Extractor and Vertogor the Mountain-Leveller (two Russian folklore giants known in Germany as ''Baumdreher/Holzkrummacher'' and ''Steinzerreiber/Felsenkripperer'', respectively). He asks each of them for asylum, but both giants kindly reply they cannot take care of him, sadly, because they will die as soon as their current forest-uprooting and mountain-levelling tasks are done.

** The White Witch, herself seven feet tall and strong enough to bend iron like taffy, is rumored to be Giant and half [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Jinn]]. The prequel ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' reveals that she's a [[spoiler:{{sufficiently advanced alien}} of unknown genealogy, though every member of her civilization was superhumanly tall like her]].

* Most giants in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' are fairly genial and usually on the side of the good guys, although there are some 'evil' wild giants who eat other sentient creatures.
** The [[GentleGiant Gentle Giants]] featured in the fourth book eventually turn out to be [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom less]]-[[ToServeMan than]]-[[ImAHumanitarian gentle]] (though smarter than most of the other dim-witted giants).
** The White Witch is rumored to be Giant and half [[OurGeniesAreDifferent Jinn]]. [[spoiler:She's a {{sufficiently advanced alien}} of unknown genealogy but every member of the civilization was huge.]]

** The Ancient Giants are mountain-sized primordial beings of diverse appearance who roamed the world long ago and shaped it with their awesome power until they were eventually forced to leave Earth due to the spread of humans. The first two episodes feature the last two remaining - a hairy fellow with a stone nose and ears named Jorgen and his girlfriend (identified in tie-in books as Illus), who resembles a mountain in the shape of a woman in a dress. Other Ancient Giants are detailed in supplemental material, and the Season 3 episode "The Giantslayer" shows many of them on-screen, such as the seven-headed Jadarrokk and the snow-covered Kald.

* Giants are also part of the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs universe]], they are gentle in general if well treated. One shows prominently in episode "Gargamel's Giant" been manipulated by Gargamel but showing to be gentle at the end. In "The Littlest Giant" is shown that giants may be perfectly well adjusted and civilized, whilst in "The Magic Fountain" a brutish giant tries to kill and eat Johan a Peewit. Bigmouth, the most recurrent character, is technically an Ogre, although he just looks like a oversized human.

** A more typical giant would be ''Meganthropus'', an actual hominin close to ''Homo erectus'' but that had twice the bone density of a gorilla, and is thought to stand 8-9ft. tall. We say "would be" because the latest analyses of the fossils show that they were identical to ''Homo erectus'', and not as large as previously thought.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': Two types of giants exist in the show's universe - The semi-mythological Ancient Giants (inspired in part by ancient myths of giants as god-like entities from the time before humans) and the forest giants (who draw more from fairytale depictions of giants).
** The Ancient Giants are mountain-sized primordial beings of diverse appearance who roamed the world in ancient times and shaped it with their awesome power until they were eventually forced to leave Earth due to the spread of humans. The first two episodes (adapted from the second book) feature the last two remaining - a hairy, long-necked fellow named Jorgen and his girlfriend (identified in tie-in books as Illus), who resembles a walking mountain in the shape of a woman (in fact, she actually resembled a mountain while she was sleeping). Other Ancient Giants are identified in supplemental material, and the Season 3 episode "The Giantslayer" shows many of them on-screen, such as the seven-headed Jaðarrokk and the snow-covered Kald.
** Forest giants are the closest living relatives of the Ancient Giants, and unlike them, are still present in the world today. They are much smaller than their cousins, being "merely" as tall as a very large tree, and have furry bodies and antlers. Their shorter stature is a major sore spot for them, and they tend to be a bit crabby as a result (like the one Hilda encounters in episode 11, who is quite offended by her failing to notice his presence).

** The giants of Eldraine, a farytale-inspired plane, are primarily simple brutes and raiders who live in the Wilds, although a few are knights in the court of Garenbrig, most notably including the court's ruler, [[https://scryfall.com/card/eld/185/yorvo-lord-of-garenbrig Yorvo]]. There is also a culture of more civilized giants, who are still nonentheless fairly hostile to "smallfolk", that live in Stormkeld, a huge castle in the clouds reacheable by climbing up an immense beanstalk. These tend to be blue-skinned and taller than common giants. They are ruled by [[https://scryfall.com/card/woe/220/beluna-grandsquall-seek-thrills Beluna Grandsquall]], who is apparently an old friend of Yorvo's.

* Willie the Giant in the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'' is the villain in this ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' adaptation. He's several stories tall, looks quite human, and lives in his castle high in the clouds. He's also a giant ''magician'', being a consummate shapeshifter. He keeps a magical animate harp imprisoned, whom Mickey, Goofy, and Donald need to save.

** ''TabletopGame/PalladiumFantasy'': Giants are about 14-20 feet tall and come in many of the same classic flavors as ''D&D''(though with their own names and a few twists, such as the Algor(Frost) and Nimro(Fire) Giants having {{Breath Weapon}}s), Cyclops' being able to create lighting bolt weapons(ala Myth/GreekMythology), and the Jotan(their version of Hill Giants) actually being ''smart'' and master craftsmen rivalling Dwarves. and also include the noble Titans and the mutant Gigantes. There is even an entire kingdom of giants in the shadow of two volcanoes.

* In ''TabletopGame/SpearsOfTheDawn'', the giants of the Mountains of the Sun are roughly ten feet tall, with jet-black skin, flame-coloured hair and handsome, well-proportioned forms. [[ImmortalProcreationClause They do not age, but can also not reproduce other than with humans,]] and with those their offspring is [[HalfHumanHybrid human with only a few giantish features]] such as an ImplausibleHairColor. They were once the allies of the Nyalans and taught them much of their superior crafts, but they have since then grown hostile to humanity and shut themselves away.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' giants are the barbaric remnants of a once-great civilization devoured by the Ogres. Drunken, inbred and incredibly stupid, the giants roam the Old World fighting for whoever can provide them with enough to sate their enormous appetite for booze and bloodshed, most often the Greenskins and the Warriors of Chaos.
** The ''Storm of Magic'' supplement introduces the Bonebreaker Giant, which is almost thrice as tall as a normal giant, which itself is already 5-6 times taller than an average human.
** The ''Monstrous Arcanum'' includes Chaos Siege Giants, which have had armor and massive weapons grafted directly onto their bodies by the Chaos Dwarfs to turn them into living engines of war.