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5	[[caption-width-right:350:And this is ''before'' he [[OneWingedAngel takes the form]] of a giant, demonic PigMan.]]
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7	->''"I wish you could see my prototype. It's not as... ah, well, not as ''conservative'' as yours."''
8	-->-- '''Obadiah Stane''', ''Film/IronMan1''
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10	The DavidVersusGoliath plot is where the hero is the underdog in comparison to the villain. One of the easiest ways to have this come across visually to audiences is to literally make the villain physically larger.
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12	Aside from the villainous characters themselves being big, their tools and resources also tend to be bigger. If the hero has PoweredArmor, the villain has a HumongousMecha. If the good guys come from TheGoodKingdom, the bad guys come from TheEmpire. If the hero has an average-sized CoolSword, the villain has a {{BFS}}. At the climax of a SpeculativeFiction work, the villain may go OneWingedAngel to increase his size and strength. In High School settings the local AlphaBitch or JerkJock is often taller than the protagonist (and the AlphaBitch tends to wear heels for good measure[[note]]Interestingly, though, she's still rarely taller than her average ''male'' classmate. That's usually the province of the HugeSchoolgirl, whose height leads her peers to consider her ''less'' feminine and attractive.[[/note]]). The list goes on and on.
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14	Furthermore, this trope is hard to invert. The language of visual media has practically inherent connotations of size being directly proportional to strength and power so thoroughly that it is genuinely difficult to make a smaller villain without the audience developing concerns and undeserved sympathy for the antagonist having to face off against a [[HeroicBuild big, strong hero]]; it requires lots of time and effort to work through this tendency prior to any such confrontation between hero and villain. Exceptions to this trope, when they do exist, usually make the smaller villain a PintsizedPowerhouse and/or [[BrainsEvilBrawnGood much more intelligent and cunning than the hero]]. These villains include among their ranks the DepravedDwarf, MisterBig, and evil examples of TheNapoleon and KillerRabbit.
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16	There are other practical reasons for this in VideoGames, particularly in the Action or First Person Shooter genres. One reason most bosses tend to be larger than the hero is to make it easier for the player to tell when they've landed a hit. One reason LedgeBats are so annoying is their tiny size makes it nearly impossible to judge an attack properly. Several examples of ThatOneBoss can be a result of a tiny BossInMookClothing that's hard to hit. Likewise, there's a point where a playable character's model can obscure the screen and induce FakeDifficulty.
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18	This is the reason why LargeAndInCharge is more common among villains.
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20	The most possible GoodCounterpart of this trope is GentleGiant.
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22	!!Example subpages:
23	[[index]]
24	* EvilIsBigger/LiveActionFilms
25	* EvilIsBigger/VideoGames
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28	!!Other examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', most of the evil guys tend to be veritable behemoths of muscle or fat, or at least very tall and imposing. Our heroes, except for Franky and Brook, are average sized. This is best seen in the Wano arc, where Kaido and Big Mom, the antagonists, are massive, and even their commanders are far bigger than the protagonists.
33	* Guts from ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' is no shrimp himself, but the Apostles and other monsters he faces tend to be gorilla-sized at the very least; plenty are the size of a house once they go OneWingedAngel, and the very biggest are more like ''[[{{Kaiju}} mountains]].''
34	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Almost all Soul Reapers are human size, while most hollows are larger than human size (and some of them are a ''lot'' larger than human size).
35	** Many Arrancar hollows have Resurreccion forms that are much larger than their normal human-like forms.
36	* The ''Anime/BraveSeries'' has notably used it for over ''half'' of their installments, particularly since said installments were one of the few with toys of the villains, though all of them have had a MonsterOfTheWeek that fits the description.
37	** While the BigBad of ''Anime/BraveExkaiser'', Dino Geist, constantly fluctuates his size DependingOnTheArtist, a constant factor is that he is ''always'' depicted as ''freaking gigantic''. His jet mode alone is larger than a large ''cruise ship'', and in robot mode, the head heights of his underlings, who already stand at least three stories high, are either under his knees or ''above his ankles'', and he's easily twice as tall as the heroes in their combined form. In fact, the only one who comes ''close'' to matching his height is ''Great'' Exkaiser, and even then the scaling is rarely ''that'' consistent.
38	** Another example is Draias from ''Anime/TheBraveFighterOfSunFighbird'', also the BigBad of his own series. His component dark beasts alone are the size of the heroes' combined forms, but in his default robot form, he easily towers at least ''twice'' their height. Much like Dino Geist before him, the only one coming ''close'' to matching Draias in height is ''Great'' Fighbird, though that scaling goes out the window after Draias achieves his almost ''country-sized'' "Organic Draias" form.
39	** ''Anime/TheBraveFighterOfLegendDaGarn'' instead has a downplayed version; the Red Geist mecha used by DiscOneFinalBoss Redlone. While not as titanic as either Dino Geist or Draias, the Red Geist is still at least three heads taller than the heroes' combined mecha, only being matched in head height by Great Da-Garn GX.
40	** ''Anime/TheBraveExpressMightGaine'' has two similar examples to Red Geist above, except that these are instead piloted by TheRival. The first is Hiryu, which matches Might Gaine, the tallest of the Brave Express Team's combiners. The second is Goryu, who instead matches the taller ''Great'' Might Gaine. The one who plays this the straightest however is the series' ''true'' BigBad, who is at least the size of the team's HQ.
41	** ''Anime/TheBraveOfGoldGoldran'' starts out with Zazorigun, large transforming scorpion that serves as the DiscOneFinalBoss[='s=] main ''fortress'' and is accordingly the size of a modestly-sized apartment complex, with the heroes' mecha no bigger than it's ''eyes''. The second one is Deathgarrygun, who is several times as large as Zazorigun in both incarnations; Deathgarrygun in its original default configuration is around the size of the ''Mt. Fuji mountain range'', while the second variation formed from combining ''several'' of them results in a behemoth the size of ''mainland Japan''. Both of these are ''grossly oversized'' when compared to the toy scaling, as the actual toy for Deathgarrygun is a head ''shorter'' than the Goldran toy.
42	** The King of Braves ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has had two examples both in the original series and it's anniversary OVA followup; the first was the origianl series' second-to-last FinalBoss, the Z Master, which was at least the size of a continent. The second was Pisa Sol from the OVA, who was the size of the ''entire SUN''.
43	* Zig-zagged across the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise:
44	** The climactic battles Goku faces against both Demon King Piccolo and his {{Reincarnation}} namesake in ''Manga/DragonBall'' involve the latter supersizing themselves - and Goku [[KidHero wasn't all that big to start with]].
45	** Zig-zagged with Freeza: he is pretty small in his normal form, but grows bigger and bigger with forms two and three. When he reaches his final form, Krillin expects a huge monstrosity, but Freeza ends up more than one head smaller than Goku. [[note]]Though still far taller than Krillin[[/note]]
46	** Cell plays this straight with his Imperfect and Semi-Perfect forms, both of which are at least 8 feet tall (he towers over Piccolo, who is around 7'5).
47	*** Cell's perfect form is actually a {{Downplayed\|Trope}} example, in that it's the shortest of his forms, but Goku's fight with Cell includes a shot of the two of them squaring up to each other, highlighting that Cell is still about a head taller than Goku even ''without'' his organic "crown".
48	** Super Buu is visibly taller than any of the heroes, including Piccolo or the grown-up Gohan. Kid Buu, by contrast, is an outright shrimp...and a mindless, planet-destroying force of nature.
49	** The original Broly stands, according to official sources, at 7 ft, 7 inches, making him almost two feet taller than Goku. And that is in his ''base form''. In his Legendary Super Saiyan form, he is almost ten feet tall (9'11 according to official sources).
50	* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' TheFederation focuses its resources on producing one kind of mobile suit. [[TheEmpire The Principality of Zeon]], in contrast, squanders its resources on the construction of a number of huge mobile armours, including the Brau Bro, the Elmeth, and the colossal Big Zam (itself piloted by [[GeniusBruiser seven-foot tall]] [[FourStarBadass Admiral]] [[TheBrute Dozle]] [[RoyallyScrewedUp Zabi]]).
51	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'': The Gundam that Gato steals, the [=GP02=], is a massive brick of a mobile suit that completely dwarfs protagonist Kou's suit in both height and width. After the MidSeasonUpgrade Kou gets the much larger Dendrobium, Gato gets the absolutely gigantic Neue Ziel. Played with in that the Dendrobrium's thrusters give it much greater length when compared to the Neue Ziel.
52	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', the [[StateSec Titans]] are the ones who build the Psyco Gundam and the Psyco Gundam Mark II, both of which stand the height of a small skyscraper. Those mobile suits designed by [[BigBad Paptimus Scirocco]], while not as huge, still tend to be larger than average, with his final ride, the PMX-003 The O being a hulking LightningBruiser taller than any AEUG mobile suit and two or three times as wide.
53	** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' the [[TheJuggernaut Destroy Gundam]] is put into action by Blue Cosmos, the coalition of racist groups behind the Atlantic Federation. A [[CompositeCharacter combination]] of the aforementioned Big Zam and Psyco Gundam, the Destroy is a walking WeaponOfMassDestruction that burns its way across Eurasia before being halted in downtown Berlin.
54	** In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', the Devil Gundam is extremely large for a mobile suit, and is the principal antagonist of the series. Interestingly, it is largely immobile, so its lieutenants do most of the real fighting.
55	* This trope is all over the place in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. If Kenshiro is not mowing down a bunch of punk {{Mook}}s, he will probably be fighting some enormous sized brute, such as Uighur or the even bigger [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Devil's Rebirth]]. Raoh himself, while not as huge as the previous examples, is still a giant among men (and some episodes, such as the ones showing his duel with Juza, make him seem even larger).
56	* Played with in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''. The Youma are bigger than people; the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide awakened beings]] are even bigger(some being 100+ metres tall/long) with one exception, and yet the heroines are normal-sized, if taller and a lot thinner than average, women; any fashion model could pass for one with the right makeup and contacts. The tallest, Galatea, is pegged at 185cm officially.
57	** But the most evil/dangerous villains are smaller than them. [[BigBad Priscilla]] is [[PintsizedPowerhouse south of average for a Claymore in human form]] and [[HumanoidAbomination about 2m and with a shape that might pass for human if fully clothed and her horn sawed off]], awakened. [[spoiler: The Organization's men are all creepy runts in black.]]
58	* In ''Anime/PrettyCure'', the Pretty Cure are teenagers, most of them are around 14, a few are younger or older. The villains are either adults or humanoid beings who are taller than average people or AttackOfThe50FootWhatever.
59	** Seiren from ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' is a black cat fairy, but she's taller than fairy mascot Hummy. Seiren's human form Ellen is as tall as the heroines Hibiki and Kanade. And Eas from ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'' is as tall as Love, but smaller than HugeSchoolGirl Miki.
60	** Ira and Regina from ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' are smaller than the heroines, unless you count Aguri's human form who is smaller than them.
61	* Discussed ''Manga/SgtFrog'', where Space Detective Kogoro (average human height) is about to fight Keroro (about two feet tall), but stops because he can't fight Keroro without looking like a huge bully. Keroro solves this by putting on a MobileSuitHuman to give them approximately equal size.
62	* In the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' franchise, if a card is considered magical, evil, dangerous, and/or cursed, odds are that the monster it summons is ''big''. (In fact, when Yugi first summoned Osiris in his duel against Bakura, Jonouchi yelled "It's the most humongous Duel Monster ever!") It was the same with the [[Manga/YuGiOhR Wicked Gods]], the [[Anime/YuGiOhGX Sacred Beasts]], and the [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Earthbound Gods]]. The Numbers in ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' are a partial exception, as not all of them are big, but one of them, Number 9: DysonSphere, holds the current record for physically biggest monster in the anime, being the size of a small star.
63	* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', regular Titans are anywhere from 5 to 15 meters tall with the Colossal Titan dwarfing everyone at ''60 meters''.
64	* In ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'', both [[BigBad Big Bads]] fit this trope. In a game where the LimitedLoadout restricts you to monsters whose sizes sum to three, Azi Dahaka is size ''four.'' And when Yamigedou went OneWingedAngel, the resulting monster took up two cards.
65	* In ''Manga/SazanEyes'': pretty much all the bad guys tower over the (admittedly young) protagonists: Benares is a giant of a man who surpasses Yakumo in height and bulk even before turning into a literal giant, Kaiyanwang/Shiva is extremely tall and pretty much all the Nine-Headed Dragon Generals (with the exception of the old Spazug and the TokenMiniMoe Wu Gui) and Shiva's guards (except for the normal-sized Kelara and Hamu) are at the very least AHeadTaller than the heroes, even the adults.The sole exceptions are Koko and Amara, who are both very imposing.
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69	* ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': PlayedWith. Lucifer is probably the same size as the loyal angels, it's just that Creator/AlexandreCabanel's composition has the former at the very foreground and the latter at a fairly farther background. Consequently, the perspective makes look Lucifer, the titular fallen angel, considerably bigger than the good guys in the back.
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73	* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', the primary antagonist for most of the series is Big M. His name is self-explanatory, for starters. While he's not especially large, he is slightly taller than most human characters and robots you can find on Planet Xing. In fact, in Season 10, they made him ''even bigger'', and in the [[Animation/HappyHeroesTheStones third movie]] he's bigger still. Little M., the assistant of Big M., is over half the length of the man he serves when the series begins; in Season 10, he's half the length instead; and in the movie, Big M.'s length is equivalent to about three Little M.'s placed on top of each other.
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76	[[folder:Comic Books]]
77	* ComicBook/{{Superman}}: Several of Supes' most powerful enemies, like {{ComicBook/Darkseid}}, [[GalacticConquerer Mongul]], [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Doomsday]] and even ComicBook/LexLuthor in his power suit, are notably larger than him, although Luthor's typically smaller than him without the suit.
78	** Kept in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' despite Clark Kent being played by the [=6'3''=] Tom Welling; Alder, Doomsday and Titan are portrayed by Dave Batista ([=6'6''=]), Dario Delacio ([=6'8''=], and his exoskeleton added a lot of size) and Kane ([=7' 0"=](!)), respectively.
79	* While they are both powerfully built, highly experienced warriors with super-human powers, the fact of the matter is that ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is 5'3" (160cm) and his ArchEnemy[=/=]EvilCounterpart ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} is 6'6" (198.1cm)
80	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' averts this with [[ArchEnemy Loki]] who is typically drawn as being smaller than Thor, though some of Thor's other enemies, like Surtur, Kurse and Mangog play this straight.
81	* ComicBook/IronMan nemesis Titanium Man towers over our hero, in a colossal battlesuit that, DependingOnTheArtist, has been anywhere between 8 and 11 feet tall.
82	* ComicBook/TheKingpin is all-around bigger than both ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, being 6'7" to their respective 5'10" and 5'11" (or 5'5" and 6 feet respectively in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe) and built like a sumo wrestler.
83	* ComicBook/{{Spawn}} also has much larger enemies like Violator,Malebolgia,Urizen,Tremor,Omega Spawn,and Behemoth.
84	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
85	** ComicBook/{{Venom}}, as an EvilCounterpart to the web-slinger, looks like a bigger, muscular and monstrous version of him.
86	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} with ComicBook/{{Carnage}}, who became Venom's own Evil Counterpart after the latter's [[CharacterizationMarchesOn characterization shifted]] to be more of a AntiHeroSubstitute, and is generally portrayed as being a lean and mean LightningBruiser. While he can still be drawn as pretty buff DependingOnTheArtist, it's never to the level of Venom, who is musclebound even in his civilian identity.
87	* ComicBook/WonderWoman typically averts this with most of her villains either being around the same height as Diana or shorter than her. However, this is played straight with [[WarGod Ares]], [[ComicBook/HerculesUnbound Hercules]], [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Asquith]], the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 First Born]], [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 D'grth]] and ''especially'' [[GiantWoman Giganta]].
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91	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The "patchwork body" avatar composed by [[spoiler:Ni/Elder Brother (Ghidorah's right head)]] for himself using [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon the Many]] is apparently significantly larger than [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]] is.
92	* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': [[EnemyWithin All for One]] is over 7 ft. tall, easily dwarfing Luz, an average-sized teenage girl. In fact, all the {{Big Bad}}s in the story are taller than TheHero, being grown men and all.
93	* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' plays it straight, subverts, and averts it depending on the situation.
94	** Godzilla Junior, resident BigGood kaiju, 100 meters tall. Grand King Ghidorah, resident ArchEnemy, 150 meters tall. Godzilla is larger than the gyaos he fights however, it's more a matter of their being more than [[ZergRush one]].
95	** Arguably one of the most benign and heroic kaiju, Mothra, is also the smallest of the core six in terms of mass.
96	** Subverted with Godzilla Senior's "children". The most heroic, Godzilla Junior, is the smallest; but it's AmbiguouslyEvil Xenilla who's in the middle. The largest is Biollante, who is a neutral party.
97	** Monster X is the [[NobleDemon "good"]] side to the split personality and is around 100 meters tall. Kaizer Ghidorah is his SuperPoweredEvilSide and is 45 meters taller as well as more massive.
98	** The Sirens are older and with the exception of Sonata, taller than the Rainbooms.
99	** However in the Crystal Empire Arc, Xenilla's unicorn body is slightly larger than King Sombra despite being the LesserOfTwoEvils and going after Sombra; though King Sombra is larger than Princess Cadance.
100	** Though both can shift in size to shrink or grow, in their default forms, Goddess of Creation, [[GodIsGood Harmony]] is smaller than God of Extinction, [[AnimalisticAbomination Bagan]].
101	** [[spoiler: Both Godzilla Junior and Xenilla, when they finally team up, are smaller than a charged up Grand King Ghidorah]].
102	** [[spoiler: Once Sci-Twi gives into her Windigo powers, she becomes the much-taller Frostbite Sparkle]].
103	* ''Fanfic/KaijuRevolution'': In general, the malevolent monsters are bigger than their benevolent opponents (i.e., Pulgasari is bigger than King Caesar, Jyarumu is bigger than Mothra, Kumonga is bigger than Varan, Komodithrax and Baragon, etc). [[spoiler:King Ghidorah is taller than any other Kaiju in the series except Biollante]].
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107	* This is a common trope among Creator/{{Disney}} villains:
108	** In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', the good guys are mice, but the villain is a ra... [[InsistentTerminology big mouse]].
109	** Jafar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is at least a head taller than everybody else in the movie that he interacts on-screen with.
110	** Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'' is towers every other human character in the movie, being only a tad shorter than Phoebus.
111	** Shan Yu from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' towers over all the heroes, except for Chien Po.
112	** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': The grasshoppers are much bigger and stronger than the ants, which Hopper exploits to terrify the ants into submission.
113	** Doctor Facilier from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' combines this with LeanAndMean, towering over most of the cast with the possible exception of Big Daddy La Bouff and Louis.
114	** The closest thing ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' has to a villain is an enormous [[BearsAreBadNews demon bear]], so any fight between him and a human will obviously have this dynamic. However, even in the final battle between [[spoiler: the demon bear and the [[ForcedTransformation queen turned into a bear]], the BigBad is noticeably much bigger than the MamaBear (which is justified, since male bears are bigger than females)]].
115	** In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Ralph faces [[spoiler:King Candy / Turbo, who had been consumed by a cy-bug but [[AssimilationBackfire his consciousness had taken over its body]], resulting in]] a creature that dwarfs [[TheBigGuy Ralph himself.]]
116	** Inverted and then played straight in ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''. Madam Mim is probably the shortest character in the film, but all her transformations during the WizardDuel against Merlin are larger than his own.
117	* Creator/DreamWorksAnimation:
118	** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'': Drago Bludvist towers over the rest of the cast at 6'10".
119	** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'': [[Characters/KungFuPanda3 Kai]] is a giant yak who towers over all of the other characters.
120	* While Darkseid is usually depicted as tall, his ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueWar'' incarnation is the size of a small ''house.''
121	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Bowser's ominous floating volcano island is at least three times as big as the city of the penguins. And Bowser himself is the biggest character we see.
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125	* Sunday, from ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'' is described as "too big to process." He's not more than eight feet tall, however, but his terrifyingly jolly personality can't possibly hurt...
126	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Gregor Clegane is the WorldsStrongestMan and a completely immoral psychopath. He's notable for burning half of his kid brother's face off for a minor slight and hinted to have murdered his father. He's employed as a PsychoForHire by Tywin Lannister, using him to "forage," which is essentially raping and pillaging the lands of his enemies. While he's no battlefield commander, he's considered TheDreaded in single combat because, at almost 8' tall, he makes the largest warhorses look like ponies and wields a greatsword in one hand.
127	* In ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', Vermin are invariably larger than Redwallers, though badgers tower above all others (and are good guys).
128	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
129	** Inverted in one sense - the major villains, the [[AlienInvasion Yeerks]], are actually slug-like {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s who require hosts to stand against the other species (both humans and aliens), who are both much taller than them. This doesn't make them less dangerous in any way.
130	** Played straight with BigBad Visser Three, a major antagonist with the morphing power who uses it primarily to go OneWingedAngel on the heroes.
131	** David, the SixthRangerTraitor, always goes for the morphs that make him bigger than the others; like a golden eagle instead of a falcon and an orca instead of a dolphin.
132	* One of Odium's primary minions in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are the thunderclasts, giant stone monsters several times bigger than a human.
133	* Tolkien described Sauron's physical form in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' as, "Very terrible. The form that he took was that of a man of more than human stature, but not gigantic."
134	** This trope also perfectly describes the duel between Fingolfin and Morgoth in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', with the Elf king darting about under the Dark Lord's hammer blows until he tires and Morgoth crushes him.
135	** Additionally, the forces of evil in Tolkien's work most often have the numerically-superior armies, larger fortresses, and [[GiantMook giant mooks]] like trolls, dragons and oliphaunts that the heroes lack. Only the orcs are mostly smaller than humans.
136	* In ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', the Grey Angels are all not only omnicidal, but also over three metres tall.
137	* In Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' the Giants surrounding the deepest pit of Hell are chained and so big Dante first mistakes them for towers. However, Lucifer, the ultimate representation of evil, is so big that his arms are to giants what giants are to mortal men.
138	* In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', once Vimes comes back to his senses after having [[spoiler: the Summoning Dark]] egg him on for weeks about the need to take vengeance on the dwarfs who'd attacked his home, he feels quite sickened about having beaten up their bodyguards. It's mentioned that humans ''always'' tend to feel this way after human-vs-dwarf melees, because by human standards dwarfs are child-sized, so harming them makes a human feel like a villain or child-abuser. Indeed, when Vimes first attacks a dwarf in the novel, this trope is side-stepped because the dwarf is about to kill someone even ''smaller'': [[spoiler: Vimes' infant son.]]
139	* In ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'', the undines who serve bad guy Abaia are an aquatic race of giant, and eternally growing, women. Severian at one point describes them as having fingers as long as his own arms. Their good(is) counterpart, the hierodules, are of regular human size. [[spoiler: Baldanders]], who tall-but-not-remarkably-so Severian fights a duel against at one point, is another example of an extremely large and decidedly nasty person, frequently described as a giant.
140	* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' franchise, Voldemort is described a few times as being very tall while Harry Potter is never said to be any taller than average. Bellatrix Lestrange is also said to dwarf Harry.
141	* In ''Literature/QuestForFire'', the [[CannibalTribe man-eating Kzamms]] are the tallest men known to the protagonists and their most feared enemies. Later subverted with the Blue-haired men, a tribe of scary-looking giant apes who turn out to be peaceful gorilla-like herbivores.
142	* Really shows up in R.S Belcher's ''The Brotherhood of the Wheel'' and ''King of the Road''. Mundane evils like the [[BlackKnight Lodge Master]] of a branch of [[ReligionOfEvil the Zodiac Lodge]] and child abductor, Emile Dia, are described as hulking. There's Mike "Cherokee" Locklear who's a couple of inches over 6 feet and muscular. He's corrupting the Blue Jocks motorcycle club and is rivals with heroic Hector Sinclair for its leadership (Hector's a small man, he's shorter than his mother - a tall woman who's just a few inches below 6 feet). Motorbike-riding supernatural serial killer "Pagan" is a big guy who grows even bigger when he's channelling the "Horned Man". The evil biker and sorcerer, Viper is 6'5" and all muscle. Finally there's the Harlequins, a cult of serial-killing clowns. They use an alchemical face paint that increases their size, strength and longevity. The oldest of the Harlequins, the High Harlequins, date back from before WWI and have NBA height with NFL width. Besides the [[WhoYouGonnaCall Brotherhood of the Wheel]], the only other group opposing the Harlequins are...a couple of small, geeky junior high kids - the oldest not yet 14. The only good big guy so far is Emmett, a member of the "Brethren", who's been fighting the Harlequins since the Great Depression. He's been stealing and using Harlequin facepaint for decades, so he's easily the same size as a High Harlequin and so strong that he gave the one of them a NeckSnap using only one hand.
143	* ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'': Inverted, as Hyde is noted to be shorter than Jekyll due to the way the evil nature of a person works.
144	* ''Literature/TheSupernaturalsSeries'': In book 1 (''The Earth Titan''), main villain Antaeus towers over the four main characters at a huge ten feet tall.
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148	* The Shadows (and later Vorlons) in ''Series/BabylonFive'' employ massive starships that easily dwarf those of the Younger races, especially during the Shadow war when the villainous spider-looking Shadow ships fought against the smaller Whitestars of the Army of Light. And then they start deploying their Planetkillers which are even larger (the Shadow Death Cloud, for example, can encompass a PLANET, the Vorlon planetkiller dwarfs the already massive Vorlon Dreadnought).
149	** The Minbari Sharlin Warcruiser during the Earth-Minbari war was seen as this in-universe. While Earth ships are of comparable length, because the Sharlin is taller and sleeker, they appear to dwarf even the Nova Dreadnoughts of the time.
150	** The Drakh employ ships that are almost 3 kilometers in length as their standard Cruisers. And they also have the mobile base/ship manufacturing motherships which are almost 30 kilometers in length.
151	* The Magog Worldship from ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' is basically an entire solar system (complete with a small star in the middle) strewn together in a superstructure. The titular ship Andromeda Ascendant is dwarfed by any of the planets in this monstrous construct. And what kind of weapons does a ship/structure of this size employ? Point-singularity projectors aka black hole weapons.
152	* ''Series/CobraKai'': Both Cobra Kai founders are a little over 6 ft., but at 6’ 5’’, Terry Silver towers over ''everyone'' in the series, and his evil schemes far surpass that of John Kreese (or just about anyone in the entire ''Franchise/TheKarateKid'' franchise).
153	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Gregor Clegane is the WorldsStrongestMan and a completely immoral psychopath. He's notable for burning half of his kid brother's face off for a minor slight. He's employed as a PsychoForHire by Tywin Lannister, using him to "forage," which is essentially raping and pillaging the lands of his enemies. While he's no battlefield commander, he's considered TheDreaded in single combat due to his enormous size and strength. Three actors portray him in the show, the shortest being a 6'9 record-holding strongman.
154	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Sauron towers over the stooped Orcs in his service and is a head taller than most Men and Elves even after assuming a human form.
155	* In Season 1 of ''Series/TheWire'', a majority of Avon Barksdale's trusted lieutenants, most notably [[TheDragon Stringer Bell]], are portrayed by some of the tallest actors on the show.
156	* In ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' several of the villains, mostly the BigBad or TheBrute, are at least a head taller than an average human. Some of them are or can grow even larger than the Rangers' HumongousMecha.
157	** In the second season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', [[BigBad Lord Zedd]] created his own evil Zord named Serpentera, which is an enormous dragon who could crush the Thunder Megazord under its feet. Daijinryuu, Serpentera's counterpart in ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' subverts this trope, as it is a neutral god that fights against both the rangers and the villains as punishment for disrupting the balance of the universe.
158	** In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', Dark Specter, the Grand Monarch of Evil, is a humongous space demon as big as a planet, with him only destroyed by a pair of missiles designed to blow up Earth.
159	** [[BigBad Tao Zant]] from ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' is a huge centipede like monster who is at least three times as big as a human.
160	** In the finale of ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', Omni, the BrainInAJar [[ManBehindTheMan behind Emperor Grumm]], gains a form larger than the SWAT Megazord. For justification, his body was transformed from Grumm's ship.
161	** In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger''/''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', during the first battle with Meemy/Imperious, the villain uses his magic to become larger than the Ranges' Megazord ''just because he could''. This ended up back firing on him, however, as it caused him to run out of power, forcing him to retreat.
162	** In ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'', [[AIIsACrapshoot Messiah]]'s final form ends up being a huge figure that towers over the Buster Machines. [[spoiler:This carries over into ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' with the FinalBattle with [[ComputerVirus Evox]]]].
163	* In the various ''Franchise/{{Stargate\|Verse}}'' series, bad guys always have big armies, big ships, big empires, and big egos.
164	* Played straight fairly often in ''Franchise/StarTrek'', where the usually very impressive ''Enterprise'' will be [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Scimitar_and_Enterprise.jpg dwarfed by the bad guys' starships]] (some expanded-universe materials indicate this was ''invoked'' by the Romulans, who designed their D'Deridex class with a lot of empty space, resulting in a ship that is much larger than Starfleet's Galaxy class but only somewhat larger in actual mass, crew and decks). Within the TV series (as opposed to the the movies) the most overt examples are [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]'s Planet Killer and [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'s Borg Cube. This was continued in later shows like Deep Space Nine where Dominion Battleships competed with the D'Deridex in size, or in Voyager where Kazon Carriers, Voth Cityships, and the warships from the Devore, Hirogen, Krenim, Vidiians, Think Tank, and naturally the Borg often intimidated Janeway's ship with their size. Enterprise had the slightly malicious Vulcan Cruisers and the Xindi superweapon. Discovery had the Ba'ul Capital ships, the Klingon Cleave ship as well as T'Kuvma's Sarcophagus ship, and the Emperor's ship the ISS Charon in the mirror Universe.
165	* Being an homage to ''Star Trek'', ''Series/TheOrville'' features the titular ship usually facing off against the much larger Krill destroyers and battlecruisers. While we do get a glimpse of one or two Union heavy cruisers (which are ''almost'' as big as Krill warships), they're never around to take on the bad guys.
166	* Kept in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' despite Clark Kent being played by the [=6'3''=] Tom Welling; Alder, Doomsday and Titan are portrayed by Dave Batista ([=6'6''=]), Dario Delacio ([=6'8''=], and his exoskeleton added a lot of size) and Kane ([=7' 0"=](!)), respectively.
167	* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': Gordon Wick, a billionaire military contractor who is one of the series' villains, is 6'3'' and towers over the rest of the conspiracy members, let alone basically the entire cast.
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170	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
171	* The word "Titan" is usually synonymous with giant, and while not all the Titans in Myth/GreekMythology were evil, many were. Cronos broke his promise to his mother by refusing to free the Hekatonkheires after overthrowing his father, ruled as a tyrant, and consumed his children to prevent them from turning against him; it was only due to his wife Rhea's intervention that Zeus was spared and was able to defeat him. The Titans who sided with him were hardly innocent either.
172	* In Myth/NorseMythology, the Jotuns, or giants, were the eternal enemies of the gods of Asgard. Although their actual size varies depending on the story, the most powerful ones (like the illusionist sorcerer Utgard-Loki) tended to be the biggest.
173	* In Christianity, Satan is sometimes depicted as a huge man-eating monster in paintings.
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176	[[folder:Pinballs]]
177	* The pinball conversion kit ''Pinball/{{Gamatron}}'' depicts a HumongousMecha attacking [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs a lunar base.]]
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180	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
181	* Most of the factions in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are taller than humans: the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]] / [[SpaceElves Eldar]], Orcs / Orks, the forces of Chaos (especially Khornates), [[LizardFolk Lizardmen]], Kroot... An exception in ''40K'' is the Tau, who are shorter and less physically capable than humans (which is why they prefer to shoot their enemies from miles away) - but [[BlackAndGreyMorality by the standards of the setting]], they tend to be a lot ''nicer'' than humans. The Skaven in Warhammer Fantasy are also smaller but have far, ''far'' greater numbers... and ''definitely'' count as evil (the Skaven also play this trope straight with some of their units - the Stormvermin are a rare breed of Skaven that are bigger and stronger than normal humans and then there's the various bio-engineered monsters like the Rat Ogres).
182	** Take to extreme levels in 40k ([[SerialEscalation as usual]]) with the C'Tan star gods, who were so massive outside their necrodermis shells that they didn't even ''notice'' planets.
183	** When they're not doing it with individual troops, they're doing it with armies. As a general rule, the Imperium or Empire is ''always'' going to be outnumbered in any situation featuring troops of equal or lower quality on the tabletop, and especially the case in the novels. This is doubled in the case of Space Marines, who are enormous compared to a lot of their opponents (eight feet tall, covered in PoweredArmour, [[SuperSoldier genetically enhanced out the wazoo]]), but it's a response to an incredibly dire situation if there are more than a hundred Space Marines involved, while Orks and the smaller Tyranids generally appear in swarms.
184	** The Norsca are basically Vikings taken straight from a HeavyMetal album cover, and are naturally bigger than southerners... and that's before you get into stuff like Chaos armor and mutations.
185	** When the Traitor Primarchs gave themselves to Chaos and became Daemon Primarchs, most of them got a lot bigger in the process. And they were already huge in the first place. Horus in particular -- during his fateful clash with Sanguinius and the Emperor at the end of the Heresy while possessed by all four of the Chaos Gods, he towered over them both.
186	* Outside of normal animals and some of the punier human cultists, almost everything in TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu is bigger than your own merely human investigator. Especially if you have to face an Outer God or Great Old One and its disgusting children. About the only paranormal thing that may be smaller than your investigator are the Men of Leng and Ghouls. [[AndZoidberg ...And Sand Dwellers]].
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190	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
191	** The BigBad Makuta is larger than the heroes in most of his appearances, being a Titan-class set in his first toy form. As "Ultimate Dume", he is one of the tallest sets, absolutely eclipsing the Toa Metru in height. As "Maxilos" in the Pit, he towers over the Toa Mahri. The final form he takes pushes this trope to the absolute limit, being [[spoiler:the HumongousMecha body of Mata Nui himself, which contains the entire world of the characters'. It's even bigger than the similarly-giant prototype robot form that BigGood Mata Nui takes on in TheFinalBattle, to drive the point home]].
192	** Roodaka and Sidorak, Makuta's CoDragons in ''Web Of Shadows'', make the Toa Hordika look like children by comparison, both in the sets and in the film.
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196	* In ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' this trope gets used in an EvilVersusOblivion way. Allison and her allies are all human-sized. The Demiurges are, technically speaking, villains, but they're (mostly) human-sized, but OmnicidalManiac Jagganoth is set up as the final villain as early as book two and is thirty feet tall. [[spoiler:When the two sides come to blows during the Discordance, Jagganoth spends most of it fighting the much smaller ([[ALighterShadeOfBlack and much less destructive]]) Solomon David, setting up this dynamic between it. Jagganoth and Gog-Agog both later reveal a OneWingedAngel form that dwarf all the other combatants; Jagganoth is still the clear antagonist, while Gog-Agog ends up [[ScrewThisImGoingHome abandoning the others to their fate]].]]
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200	* ''Lightning Sentai Blitzenger'': The heroic Blitzengers are pitted up against foes quite bigger than they are: [[MonsterOfTheWeek Oni-Shogun]] is described as being at least eight feet in height and towering over the three Blitzengers that confront him, while [[BigBad Hell King Ha Des]], who leads the Underworld Society that has Oni-Shogun in its employ, is additionally shown to be twenty feet tall.
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203	[[folder:Western Animation]]
204	* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'':
205	** Fang, the sympathetic ''Tyrannosaurus'', when shown side-by-side with the human Spear, appears to be around 8 meters long, which is relatively small for her species. The antagonistic (although more "predatory" than "evil") horned tyrannosaurs in the first episode are slightly bigger, and their leader is humongous with a body length between 20 and 30 meters.
206	** The elite warriors of the villainous ape-men are huge gorilla-like people a lot larger than the heroic caveman Spear. [[spoiler:The black potion their champion drinks turns him even bigger and even more evil.]]
207	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Angelica, being a toddler and usually a enemy to the Babies stands a few inches taller than them.
208	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
209	** Justified in most versions, as most of the Decepticons tend to favor larger military vehicles for their alt-modes as opposed to the smaller civilian vehicles favored by most of the Autobots.
210	** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' subverted this in its final season where Optimus Primal's Optimal Optimus form was much larger than Megatron.
211	** Unicron {{exaggerate\|dTrope}}s this, as he's the size of a small planet. It's even {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWCY1BubSg this action figure commercial]].
212	** Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', although to an inconsistent degree - YourSizeMayVary is a franchise-long issue for ''Transformers''. The Decepticons are typically presented at least as being a head taller than Optimus Prime, but in some shots they're over twice his height. The size difference is still something widely noted about this series: in most series, the characters are kept similarly sized, not always making sense with what they'd turn into. In this one, the guy who turns into a fighter jet is as ridiculously huge compared to the guy who turns into a compact car as he ''ought'' to be, and ''it works'' because you ''want'' the bad guy to be imposing and threatening. Megatron, a V-22 Osprey with some tweaks, naturally towers above everyone who isn't Omega Supreme.
213	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
214	*** Like in most continuities, [[Characters/TransformersPrimeMegatron Megatron]] is much larger and more imposing than Optimus Prime for most of the series, [[spoiler:until Optimus' CameBackStrong upgrade evens things out in Season 3. In the movie finale, things are evened out once more as Megatron's possession by Unicron grants him a larger body]].
215	*** Although he's ultimately an AntiVillain, [[Characters/TransformersPrimePredacons Predaking]] in his dragon mode is the single largest Cybertronian seen in the series (with the exception of Unicron and his manifestations and discounting the animated Nemesis), even dwarfing Optimus and Megatron.
216	* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the heroes are children who fight evil adults, so this Trope is usually applied by default, except in the cases with child villains. (And some of them, like [[TheDragon the Delightful Children]], have adult-sized Mooks most of the time.)
217	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' are ''really'' small, so pretty much ''every'' villain in the cartoon is bigger than they are. (But then, so are most of their allies.)
218	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' took this a step further. Not only is the BigBad (and most humans in general) bigger than the heroes, but the villains' Mooks are a group of ogres bigger than ''he'' is, which he is somehow able to keep in line.
219	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Most of the major antagonists are bigger (or in Tirek's case, end up bigger) than the average pony. In fact, the only one who is normal-sized is Sunset Shimmer! [[spoiler: She becomes good though as of the second movie, Rainbow Rocks.]] When Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon out of jealousy, she made herself Celestia's size to go with the rest of the EvilCostumeSwitch; she's normally larger than mortal ponies but smaller than 'Tia. [[spoiler: Starlight Glimmer is also an aversion, but, just like Sunset Shimmer, she also turns good.]]
220	** Inverted with Cozy Glow, a [[EnfantTerrible pegasus filly]]. She's one of the smallest characters in the show, and is one of the only characters who [[RedemptionRejection rejects redemption]].
221	* AncientEvil Bloodwolf of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' is so large he towers over the entire cast save for the giant Golem.
222	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Bye-Bye Bluebeard", [[VileVillainSaccharineShow the eponymous killer is a giant of a man]], standing six feet eleven inches tall.
223	* ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien Exiled'' has Koto and his mountain lemur tribe who have nearly twice the body mass over any other lemur character. Their size even has a bit of TruthInTelevision to it as they are all indri lemurs, the largest species of lemur in existence.
224	* Inverted with ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': the most recurring threat of the cartoon is Plankton, who is the smallest character of the recurring cast.
225	* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Dr. Doofenshmirtz is a HarmlessVillain who has said "I'm 6'2", but I slouch."
226	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes:'' Ronan the Accuser towers over both Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg, who are about average human height.
227	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Gabriel Agreste is already one of the tallest members of the cast. Transforming into his supervillain alter-ego [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] makes him a full head taller than he already is.
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