History Main / TemporaryBulkChange

In most western animations and animes, you have a character whose size can moderately or drastically change for just a few minutes as the scene calls it, or even for the whole episode. However, when the scene or episode ends, usually the affected character will be back at their regular size as if nothing ever happened. Characters may either [[ShapeshifterBaggage gain weight, lose weight]], [[GrowingMusclesSequence grow muscles]], or be inflated with air or liquid according to the script. Rarely used in television and/or film since the actor has to wear heavy padding and special make-up, which is expensive and makes them very uncomfortable

*** You mean he wasn't already a complete JerkAss?
*** Let's just say his new look makes him a much bigger one.

*** Wait wait wait FORMER weight problem
**** Yes, the problem where he couldn't stand up under his own weight.

** Don't forget the [=Y2K=] episode. Peter eats an entire year's supply of dehydrated food, and looks no different. Then he complains that he's still hungry and drinks a glass of water, and immediately balloons out to fill half the room.

* On two separate occasions did [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc6bF-oqxxk Clover]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_RXtnw9t0 Alex]] of ''TotallySpies'' [[AmazonianBeauty bulk up]] due to artificial methods ({{nanomachines}} and [[SuperSerum a serum]], respectively). It seems that poor Sam was the only girl left out of the fun. Sadly, Alex gets the NoGuyWantsAnAmazon treatment despite maintaining her beauty (for the record, Alex's growth starts around 4:30 in the video).

In most western animations and animes, you have a character whose size can moderately or drastically change for just a few minutes as the scene calls it, or even for the whole episode. However, when the scene or episode ends, usually the affected character will be back at their regular size as if nothing ever happened. Characters may either [[ShapeshifterBaggage gain weight, lose weight]], [[GrowingMusclesSequence grow muscles]], or be inflated with air or liquid according to the script. Rarely used in television and/or film since the actor has to wear heavy padding and special make-up, which makes them very uncomfortable

In most western animations and animes, you have a character whose size can moderately or drastically change for just a few minutes as the scene calls it, or even for the whole episode. However, when the scene or episode ends, usually the affected character will be back at their regular size as if nothing ever happened. Characters may either [[ShapeshifterBaggage gain weight, lose weight]], grow muscles, or be inflated with air or liquid according to the script. Rarely used in television and/or film since the actor has to wear heavy padding and special make-up, which makes them very uncomfortable

** In [[http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Ai-Kora/Musashi-Quality/88 chapter 88]], this happens to some of the girls in Hachibei's dorm after Gokou Ooba, a chubby-chasing rich boy who fell for the fattened-up version of Ayame, slips a "bountiful body drug" into the dorm's water supply. The chapter ends with Gokou's [[{{Meido}} army of maids]] confessing their love for him, taking the drug, and inflicting severe bruises on their beloved master when the plumped-up maids all try to hug him at once.

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* In the ''RockosModernLife'' episode "Tickled Pinky", after Heffer gets an emergency liposuction, he shrinks down to wire-thin size, but is back to normal next episode.

** One episode had Homer gain weight (up to 300 lbs) on purpose in order to claim disability and work from home. When there was a fatal problem at the power plant, he literally plugs the problem (unintentionally) with his fat ass. The episode's end averts the trope somewhat by showing Mr. Burns deciding to give Homer liposuction.

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* Amy on ''{{Futurama}}'' used to be fat as a kid, so when the entire crew become younger in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", she regreses to her childhood weight as well. In "The Prisoner of Benda", the cast goes through a series of {{Body Swap}}s, and when Amy ends up on Leela's body, she starts overeating again, resulting in a fat Leela. Hermes offers to swap minds with her, claiming that Amy's overeating couldn't make his body any worse. When everyone's minds are back in their proper bodies at the end of the episode, Leela is back to normal, and Hermes has become thinner as well, after both saw [[spoiler:Fry and Leela making out in Farnsworth's and Zoidberg's bodies]] and lost their appetites

*** In a subplot, Stewie temporarily gains weight when he attempts to mock Chris' obesity by gorging himself continuosly right in front of Chris. By the end of the episode he is normal size again.

* When Fuu on ''SamuraiChamploo'' eats a great deal of food, she temporarily swells to a massive size. In at least one episode, this renders her unrecognizable to a set of police officers when she slims back down afterward. ("Have you seen a girl around here? She was really fat.")

** In an episode about WorldOfWarcraft, the boys are grinding (leveling up through repeating easy tasks) by killing boars. As their characters spend lots of time being active and get more and more athletic and awesome, they spend all their time sat down eating junk and drinking soft drinks, getting fatter and fatter.

* I'm surprised that Master Roshi of DragonBall fame hasn't been mentioned. He can increase his muscle mass from normal old man muscles to bodybuilder muscles within seconds, and lose it even quicker. He wasn't the only one who did things like this, but his was the most extreme.
** Zarbon has been known to change from a skinny {{Bishounen}} to a fat, muscular, lizard monster when he fights.
* In {{One Piece}}, Luffy is able to temporarily increase the size of some of his body parts when he goes into Gear Third. He then shrinks when the effect subsides.
** Luffy also overeats in several episodes and inflates. Sometimes it lasts somewhat long.
* The Miss Nelson/Viola Swamp books. How the heck did Miss Nelson drastically lose enough weight to play Miss Swamp and then go back to normal, again?
* Similar to Roshi (as he's a {{Expy}} of him), Tung Fu Rue in ''FatalFury'' hulks out after losing a fourth of his health and becomes radically larger and more muscular. After getting knocked to one-fourth of his health, he shrinks back to normal. In later games, the trope is discarded, and Tung Fu Rue's "muscle" self is actually his BattleAura.
* In [[http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Ai-Kora/Musashi-Quality/59/2 chapter 59]] of ''AiKora'', Ayame overeats (over the course of a couple of weeks) due to stress from a scandal at her father's company, and becomes rather obese. When she hears that the scandal was cleared and the company's stock had gone back up, she reverts back to her slim figure ''instantly''. Meanwhile, Hachibei had been intercepting all of Ayame's food during the day, and grew as bloated as Ayame had been in just a day. At the end of the chapter, he throws all of it back up, and by the next chapter, he's back to normal.
** In [[http://www.mangatoshokan.com/read/Ai-Kora/Musashi-Quality/88 chapter 88]], this happens to some of the girls in Hachibei's dorm after Gokou Ooba, a chubby-chasing rich boy who fell for the fattened-up version of Ayame, slips a "bountiful body drug" into the dorm's water supply. The chapter ends with Gokou's [[{{Meido}} army of maids]] confessing their love for him, taking the drug, and inflicting severe bruises on their beloved master when the plumped-up maids all try to hug him at once.

** Homer once had lipo to slim himself down after Marge becomes a successful business woman and was afraid she would leave him. The operation left him with extra skin which he had to clip up from the back.

** Another episode when the boys are leveling up their characters by killing boars in World of Warcraft in order to kill the griefer.

** Lois gets her own Bulk Change in "Sibling Rivalry". Peter gets a vasectomy and won't have sex with Lois. The lack of sex causes Lois to start overeating, until one night Peter finds that fat sex is the best sex he ever had. She gets all her fat lipoed out of her after she has a heart attack at the end of the episode.

*** In a subplot, Stewie temporarily gains weight when his attempts to mock Chris' obesity give him an eating disorder. By the end of the episode he is normal size again.

* ''Amagon'', when he transforms into Megagon, ie SuperMode.

** Homer once had lipo to slim himself down after Marge becomes a successful business woman and whas afraid she would leave him. The operation left him with extra skin which he had to clip up from the back.

** One episode had Homer gain weight (up to 300 lbs) on purpose in order to claim disability and work from home. When there was a fatal problem at the power plant, he literally plugs the problem (unintentionally) with his fat ass. The episode's end adverts the trope somewhat by showing Mr. Burns deciding to give Homer liposuction.