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5	[[caption-width-right:290:Sheesh, the dude in his hand has a bigger head than him!]]
6	->''"...and the hero is old hand Chris Redfield, whose tiny, dorky head on absurdly muscled body looks like someone left a Chia Pet on top of a fridge."''
7	-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''', on his [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review]] of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''
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9	ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, when a huge creature is shown to have a small head not proportionate to its body. If this creature is on the side of good, it will indicate that this creature is a DumbMuscle or TheBigGuy, but if it's on the side of evil, it will serve as TheDragon or TheBrute to the BigBad.
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11	This is often used with large scary characters, because it makes them look that much bigger and intimidating (muscle-building works anywhere but the head, so they'll look even bigger by comparison). Another possible reason for this is that baby humans' heads are massively larger in proportion to their body than an adult's is, so our brains may be wired to percieve individuals with proportionately smaller heads as a tougher opponent.
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13	Compare TopHeavyGuy (big upper body, small from the waist down) and {{Gonk}}. The exact opposite is WaddlingHead and BigHeadMode. Not to be confused with ShrunkenHead.
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16	!!Examples:
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21	* ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'': Callismon's head is rather out of scale with the rest of its body.
22	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
23	** Although he is hardly ever seen in full on screen, the Colossal Titan is revealed to be this in his character model: his head, while huge compared to a human, is a great deal smaller compared to his body than one would expect.
24	** The Beast Titan, though nowhere near the size of the Colossal, has a similar shape, with utterly enormous shoulders and a wide body, but a disproportionately small head.
25	* In ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'', Naruzo Machio seems like your standard {{Bishonen}} in a track suit, but will at any given moment PecFlex so hard his clothes explode, showing off an ''absurdly'' muscular body that still has his {{Bishonen}} face. He's been compared to a "Head photoshopped onto a shaved gorilla's body" though in the larger ''Manga/KenganAshura'' world [[WorldOfMusclemen he's actually pretty typical]].
26	* In the first 3 parts of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', the protagonists are typically seen this way. Particularly Jonathan Joestar of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]], with his head being hilariously smaller than the rest of his entire body, which is [[MemeticMutation made fun of by the fandom.]]
27	* Takeo Go from ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'' has [[https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/a/image/1542/90/1542900337550.jpg an extremely tiny head on his massive body]], which even other characters in universe remark on.
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31	* The Brazilian painting ''Art/{{Abaporu}}'' by Creator/TarsilaDoAmaral is notorious for the central being's oversized feet and hands and its very small head.
32	* One theory about Art/TheSphinx is that it originally had a well-proportioned head, but the face eroded away, so a new, smaller head was carved out of the existing one. Specifically, that head was most likely a lion head. If put in a computer simulation and turning time backwards, the Sphinx would have looked into the constellation "Lion" -- ''8000 years'' ago.
33	* A basic principle in art is that human heads are all about the same size, and that height is best communicated by the size of the head compared to total height (about 6.5 heads for an average man), and in the pre-photography days, it was common for portraits to exaggerate the stature of the men who commissioned them by manipulating head size. George Washington was a particular abuser of this, and some of his portraits depict him as over 7 feet tall.
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37	* Comics in general: During MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks this was a very common art style. Some characters were designed during this period, thus it's part of their character design, others used to have normal proportions, but DependingOnTheArtist got drawn this way.
38	* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' volume ''[[Recap/AsterixAndTheRomanAgent Asterix and the Roman Agent]]'' features Magnumopus, a hulking Roman legionary whose pointed head required a tiny helmet. Convulvulus, the titular agent, uses him as part of his plan to sow discord among the Gauls. He has Magnumopus sneak behind Geriatrix, knock him out with his club, and leave the helmet behind, leaving Geriatrix to believe he was felled by a tiny Roman, confirming the other Gauls' belief that the Romans have the magic potion.
39	* {{Inverted}} in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': The ''Highland Laddie'' miniseries shows in issue 4 the various horrible ways superpowers can backfire without RequiredSecondaryPowers (holding your own eyes that just melted out of your head, for example), one guy is shown with a wizened, shrunken body and [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk an enormous, angular, greenish head.]]
40	* M.O.D.O.K. in ''[[ComicBook/IronMan2020Event Force Works 2020]]'' hijacks Ultimo's body by replacing his head to become [=UltiM.O.D.O.K.=] The titular team then lampshade that he went from a giant head with a tiny body to a giant body with a tiny head.
41	* [[Creator/HarveyComics Stumbo the Giant]] wasn't initially like this, having a proportionate, plump, big-nosed head. As time went on, though, and the character evolved -- becoming a less clumsy, more clever giant who acted as a guardian to Tinytown, and growing even larger -- artist Warren Kremer altered his appearance as well, giving him a smaller, baby-faced head on a very thick, long neck that emphasized his size and friendliness. Before long, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/harveycomics/images/4/40/Hc_stumbo_49.jpg Stumbo looked so little like his old character indica]] that it had to be changed.
42	* Strong Guy of the 90s incarnation of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' actually looks like this rather than a style choice of the artist. This is because his BlessedWithSuck mutation causes him to add muscle mass whenever he absorbs kinetic energy, but with the side effect of putting him in incredibly pain all the time and leaving him at the point where any further absorption would kill him [[spoiler: and indeed he suffers a fatal heart attack fighting the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], when the Hulk's punches caused him to absorb energy faster than he could burn it off]].
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46	* Alice the Goon (and all other Goons) from ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}''. Their heads are about the same size as their shoulders (which admittedly are larger than average).
47	* ComicStrip/{{Thrud the Barbarian}} has this, fitting, since the point of the comic is to parody the BarbarianHero genre.
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51	* Tiny-headed behemoths are [[https://twitter.com/sattou0 sattou]]'s stock in trade.
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54	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
55	* ComicBook/TheKingpin in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is a rare human example. Due to NonstandardCharacterDesign, his body is like a mountain of fat and muscle with shoulders that by all rights shouldn't fit ''anywhere'' with their width, yet his head is lower than his shoulders and comparatively minuscule, and he has no neck to speak of.
56	* A similar human example comes in "Big" Jack Horner of ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. For the largest by far of the three main antagonists (discounting the ''bears''), his head is remarkably small, but chubby cheeked with hanging jowls to illustrate his appreciation for pies.
57	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', [[spoiler:Plankton's superhero form takes this trope to its zenith -- he's ''seriously'' built, but you can barely see his head in some shots]].
58	* In the FinaleMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'', the song "Small but Mighty" has a part where Pretty Boy morphs into a beefy giant with a disproportionately small head.
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62	* ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' introduces the B2 Super Battle Droids, buffed-up version of the B1 droids whose head size doesn't change much. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/fry8er/am_i_the_only_one_that_just_noticed_the_b2_super/?rdt=46953 As helpfully pointed out by Reddit]].
63	* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': This is the effect given off by Bruce Banner inside the Hulkbuster when he opens the helmet part, his normal-sized head poking out of the Hulk-sized machine.
64	* The aliens (robots?) who come to retrieve the four elemental keystones at the start of ''Film/TheFifthElement'' have very large hulking bodies with massive shoulders and bellies, but their heads are much smaller than a human's.
65	* ''Film/TheHobbit'': When the dragon [[Characters/MiddleEarthFilmSmaug Smaug]] is airborne with his full wings spread, we see that his head is actually quite small, at least in proportion to the rest of his body (but that's still very large in human terms, since Smaug's body is supposed to be the size of a Boeing 747).
66	* Mr. Hyde in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. [[spoiler:Also the much larger "Super-Hyde" in the film's climax.]]
67	* Godzilla in the ''Film/MonsterVerse'' quite noticeably has a stockier body and a proportionally smaller head than previous incarnations of the character, though somewhat HandWaved by the more realistic take on the design to make him more bottom-heavy.
68	* Pinhead in the ''Film/PuppetMaster'' series, hence the name. Not quite a behemoth at about 20 inches tall, but he has an exaggerated TopHeavyGuy build with roughly human-sized hands, and a ''teeeeny'' tiny pointy head about the size of his ''thumbs'', which makes his (proportionately) huge frame look all the more eerie.
69	* The Goombas in the ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' movie were done this way. You know, the exact opposite of [[WaddlingHead how they looked in the games.]]
70	* In ''Film/UltramanSaga'', Giganto-Zetton's default form have a disproportionately small head compared to its body, which towers over skyscrapers and absolutely dwarves the Ultras.
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74	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', the Mountain Troll is described as having a head that looks like a coconut perched on a boulder.
75	* Creator/LFrankBaum's ''[[Literature/LandOfOz The Emerald City of Oz]]''. The Whimsies are one of the groups that conspires with the Nome King to conquer the Emerald City. They are huge, hulking humanoids who have heads that are very small for their bodies. They wear large, garishly painted masks to cover their heads.
76	* In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', the traditional troll concept of masculine attractiveness is said to be something along the lines of a monolith with an apple perched on top.
77	* In the second ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, one of [[BigBad Visser Three]]'s alien morphs is an armored monster as tall as a telephone pole but with a disproportionately tiny head.
78	* Ichabod Crane in "Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow" is described as quite tall (albeit quite skinny too) with a disproportionately small head.
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81	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
82	* According to the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' theory about the Brontosaurus, it was thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end.
83	* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' kaiju Red King has a disproportionately tiny skull-like head on top of a hulking body. Appropriately, the species is almost always depicted as strong but dumb and loses to Ultras easily despite being able to tear other monsters limb from limb.
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86	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
87	* Smaller wrestlers are encouraged not to make their heads look too big, especially if they have a good build otherwise. An especially small head on a larger wrestler can be distracting however, such as that of Jerry Stubbs, who had muscles on top of muscles but still couldn't be too threatening with his balding pea head. His solution was to don a mask and become Mr. Olympia.[[/folder]]
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90	* One episode of ''Series/MrMeaty'' has Josh get turned into one by a demon known as "Wedgelor", and is far from pleased about it. Josh wished that his body was big and strong, but [[JackassGenie Wedgelor]] only made him so below the neck; as he puts it, "You only asked for your body to be big and strong, [[ExactWords not your head]]!"
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94	* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Some mechs look this way due to the shape of their cockpit. Perhaps the most well-known example is the [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:3050U_Thug.jpg Thug]], an 80 ton assault mech with huge shoulders and arms but a head that's recessed into its torso to the point that it doesn't even look like it has one. It's a rather appropriate look, given the mech's name.
95	** Another example in the [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Ursus Ursus]]. No, the apparent {{Cephalothorax}} isn't the head. It's the tiny dome squished at the top, barely visible between the huge eyebrow/pectoral slabs. It's so small that it suffers from the Cramped Cockpit flaw despite the 'Mech being a medium-weight and not the light or ultralight class of 'Mechs usually saddled with tight confines.
96	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
97	** DependingOnTheArtist, this will happen to the SpaceMarines (who are never seen outside their PowerArmor), especially if they go overboard with the ShouldersOfDoom.
98	** Also, the biggest [[MiniMecha tau battlesuits]] like the Riptide have the same heads as battlesuits half their size. It's not the pilot's actual head anyway.
99	* Grin, TheBrute of the Hell Club from ''TabletopGame/TheOthers2015'', wears [[HellBentForLeather a gimp mask]] on his comparatively tiny head.
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103	* ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'':
104	** The Scorponok toy of is the largest Decepticon toy of its generation, and still one of the largest toys in the entire franchise, but Lord Zarak, the Headmaster who transforms into Scorponok's head, is still the same size as the ones for smaller toys, which makes his head comparatively small. However, his visored helmet mostly makes up for the discrepancy.
105	** Hasbro tried to avert the issue with the 2016/2017 Titan Masters figures, new versions of the Headmasters, by adding pop-out side fins to Voyager Class figures and having the head fit inside a helmet in Leader Class Figures (so that the Titan Master figures only formed the face of the larger robot, not the entire head).
106	** "Scramble City'' style toys often had this issue as well, as the toys were intended to turn into [[CombiningMecha the limbs of larger robots]] using their heads as pegs. This meant that all Scramble City figures had small, square heads that looked quite tiny on their bodies (even though the toys themselves were already on the small side).
107	* An attempt to avert Missing Part Syndrome (where a toy would become unplayable with the loss of a crucial component, such as the Headmaster partner) led to the hilariously tiny peg-head of ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' Omega Supreme. His proper head is a riff on the popular Headmaster concept, but if you lose the little robot that becomes his proper head, you can still pop up the peg that the head would connect to. The peg head has a very simplistic structure and barely qualifies as having a face, but you'd still have ''something'' you could call a complete robot, even if the resulting replacement head was comically puny.
108	* The ''[[http://tinyheadedkingdom.com/ Tiny Headed Kingdom]]'' is a line of stuffed animals [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin with tiny heads]]. In this case, it's actually used to make them cuter rather than disturbing.
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112	* The Brute from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is a husk composed of krogans and turians that has a small turian head on a spinal cord, attached to an enormous krogan body.
113	* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', the Goliaths have what appear to be shrunken heads under their massive helmets. Shoot the helmet off and their skulls will spring out and wobble around freely on its elongated, rope-like spine, making headshots even harder than the tiny target would be on its own. [[TurnsRed It also royally pisses them off.]]
114	* This detail is mentioned in regards to the Tank in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. The virus that turned everyone into zombies accelerated its muscle mass to obscene proportions, forcing it to run like a gorilla since its arms were now almost as long as the body. However, its head is still the same size, and it no longer has any neck to speak of (nor even a lower jaw) because of the muscle growth.
115	* The Meat Head enemy in ''Videogame/YakuzaDeadSouls'' has a ridiculously buff, armored upper body, with his only weakness being his normal-sized head and the surrounding tissue.
116	* Blunderbores from ''VideoGame/DiabloII''. Alchemical enhancements increased the physical muscle mass of those warriors far beyond normal proportions. Apparently they didn't bother to make their head proportional to the rest of their body.
117	* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': The cybernetic Handymen enemies have normal, human-sized heads on their massive, ape-proportioned bodies.
118	* The Bouncers from ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' are giants with disproportionately small heads, and disproportionally large fists.
119	* Each of the Weapons from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', most visible on Diamond Weapon and [[{{Superboss}} Ruby Weapon]]'s battle models.
120	* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the giant robots that appear periodically in Mann Versus Machine have disproportionately small heads in comparison to their massive size.
121	* A few of the Kremlings from the ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'' series, especially Klubba and Kudgel from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''.
122	* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' has main character War, whose gargantuan, terrifying-looking armor covered in demon faces is offset by his teeny-tiny head set in a red hood.
123	* Two of the bosses from ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' have oversized bodies... and ridiculously small heads. Namely Kraven the tiger (thanks to his massive armor) and Kraven's muscular wolf henchman, Lykane, whose head is smaller than his fists.
124	* ''VideoGame/SkeletonKrew'': The OneWingedAngel form of the FinalBoss, Dr. Kadaver, is a giant crab-like monster with two equally huge human limbs large enough to take up most of the boss arena, towering over your heroes, with his human-sized cranium planted on top of the monster.
125	* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'':
126	** Terran marines wear powered armor that weighs several hundred pounds, adds about a foot of height, and greatly increases their bulk. The hemispherical bubble helmet of the suit is framed or even overshadowed by the oversized thorax, backpack, and ShouldersOfDoom; whenever the visor is raised to reveal the marine's actual human head, it looks absolutely tiny in comparison to the suit. The armors of Marauders and Firebats are even bigger and thus skew the proportions even more.
127	** The Ultralisk is a giant quadrupedal war beast used by the Zerg Swarm. Its head is dwarfed by the rest of its body, especially by the great triceratops-like frill that grows behind its head and shoulders, and by four arms that end in huge curved blades.
128	** The Colossus is a Protoss robot so massive and tall that it's the only ground unit in the game which can be targeted by anti-air weapons. It consists of a bulbous body, balanced on a column-shaped midsection and four stilt-like legs. It’s easy to miss the fact that its actual head is a tiny thing near the base of the bulb, with four lit-up "eyes" and some little antennae that move around like feelers.
129	* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheNecromancer'' has a giant centipede monster as a boss... with a regular-sized ''human'' head. It's one of the freakier-looking bosses in the game.
130	* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'':
131	** Montana is the most notable case of this in the game. He's a mountain of a man whose shoulders, arms, and hands, basically his entire upper body, is absurdly massive. His head however is comically small. This along with his equally small legs makes him what even the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0SE_fhI1N8&t=2m53s game itself notes]] as "biologically improbable".
132	** Attikus is a big fat beast with a prominently large and thick neck but his head is actually comparatively small to the rest of his body.
133	** El Dragón though not to an exasperatedly comical degree like Montana, has a head that's comparatively small to the rest of his body as well.
134	* ''VideoGame/OperationMatriarchy'' has the Heavy Experimental Golem enemies, organic SpiderTank mooks larger than vehicles, but somehow retaining their human-sized heads and shoulders.
135	* The Greater Dog of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' looks like a TopHeavyGuy with gigantic arms and torso, but a tiny head and legs. [[spoiler:Subverted, because it's really a normal-sized dog in some kind of [[MobileSuitHuman piloted armor suit,]] meaning that its head is normal for the body it actually ''has''.]]
136	* Hammer of ''Videogame/FableII'' is a rare female example. While not as extreme as others, her head is noticeably disproportionately small for her rather large build.
137	* ''VideoGame/FobiaStDinfnaHotel'' has a giant, multi-limbed monster called "The Pianist", whose head is human-sized. She's one of the creepier-looking boss enemies in the game.
138	* A very common style for some of the larger enemies in ''Videogame/DarkSouls''. The most obvious examples would probably be the shield giants of Anor Londo and the Iron Golem.
139	* Machai monsters from ''VideoGame/GladiatorSwordOfVengeance'' are gigantic purple monsters several times larger than humans, and a long neck with a human-sized head. Which bobs around when they move.
140	* Khan from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' is a huge, heavily armored commander with a relatively small head. His ShouldersOfDoom make this even more apparent.
141	* Reinhardt from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has a comically tiny-looking head when he's in his PoweredArmor. Out of it, he's much more normally proportioned.
142	* Zig-zagged with [[{{Cyborg}} MEC Troopers]] in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'''s ExpansionPack ''Enemy Within''. With the non-combat [[ArtificialLimbs Base Augments]], they're the size of a normal person; when in their [[PoweredArmor Mechanized Exoskeleton Cybersuits]] that they slot into, their heads become disproportionally tiny. Fitting the trope's description, MEC Troopers are very large and intimidating, being among XCOM's heavy-hitters thanks to their [[{{BFG}} enormous primary weapons]] and the best tanks in the game bar none thanks to their extremely bulky [[BodyArmorAsHitPoints armor]] and [[DamageReduction defensive systems]].
143	* Kaiser Sigma in ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'', having Sigma's small head on the massive bulky ultimate battle body.
144	* Dorgo from ''VideoGame/RagingJustice'' a two-headed Circus Freak with a gigantic, musclebound body and both his heads (combined!) smaller than his fists.
145	* Bertram, a character from a side mission in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', is a very tall man with a tiny head.
146	* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' 4: Temperance Type-0483 is a gargantuan, morbidly obese abomination with a tiny, almost non-descriptive head which is also its weak point. Despite this and as noticed by the main characters, shooting it in the head only stun it briefly and deals no damage. [[spoiler: They resort to drop a giant clock face into the head of the beast to finally kill it.]]
147	* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' has [[spoiler:Mr. Grizz, who is a massive, hulking bear with a teeny-tiny head.]]
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151	* Taken to ludicrous extremes in Plague of Gripes's ''Huge Quest'' animation.
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155	* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' Brad, originally scrawny, is decapitated in one arc and is cloned a new body. And it turns out that his genes were meant for a bodybuilder and his growth was stunted, so he's [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-11-08 humongous]] but his head still looks like his old body.
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159	* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Lung's head doesn't grow as quickly as the rest of his body when his power activates, resulting in this during prolonged fights.
160	* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hold-the-fuck-up "Hold the Fuck Up"]] meme is based on these making the titular request, usually with extra-shrunken heads for comedic purposes.
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164	* Emperor Zurg's robot army from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' have the recurring Hornets, and Beetles, a GiantMook variant of the Hornets at least five times larger. Their heads are still roughly the same size, however.
165	* In Creator/TexAvery's ''WesternAnimation/KingSizeCanary'', as the characters get bigger from drinking Jumbo-Gro plant food, their bodies become huge and bloated while their heads and limbs remain relatively small.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
167	** In "WesternAnimation/TheBashfulBuzzard", Beaky tries to wrestle what he thinks is a small lizard out from between some rocks, behind which lie the enormous body of a dragon.
168	** A similar reveal is used in the earlier "WesternAnimation/PrehistoricPorky" with Porky's pet dinosaur, its terrier-sized head peeking out of a small doghouse while the rest of the body lies behind it.
169	** In "WesternAnimation/ThumbFun", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck confronts the driver of a tiny car. When the driver steps out, however, he's a seven-foot, 300-pound thug with a tiny head hardly visible atop his broad shoulders.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' had a minor recurring character named Bobb, who was a huge muscular giant with a comically small head.
171	* One episode of ''Series/MrMeaty'', "Wedgelor", involved Josh looking to bulk up and accidentally releasing the titular wedgie demon from a jar of protein powder. The demon grants him one wish, and he asks to have a big, beefy and strong body which is granted, but [[ExactWords with emphasis on]] ''body'', leaving him ridiculously disproportionate as well as disgruntled enough to fight the demon over it. Josh eventually loses his bigger body after Parker wedgies the demon.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedWhiskersShow'': The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named]] Tiny Head is an orange and white tabby cat with a kitten-sized head and a high-pitched voice to go with it.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Icy Nights 2", the villain has an army of MechaMooks with [[TopHeavyGuy large, hulking bodies]], but [[TVHeadRobot tiny smart-phones for heads]].
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177	* Paul Dillett, also known as "Freakenstein" and "Jurassic Paul", was a Canadian pro bodybuilder who frequently made the top six in IFBB contests during the 1990s. Not only was he 285 pounds onstage at a height of 6 ft 2 in, but his proportions added a lot to the effect: some say that his head was a teensy bit small in proportion to the rest of him, and that this created the illusion that he was even bigger and taller than he actually was.
178	* Many eunuchs castrated before puberty looked like this, with the absence of testes since childhood increasing their height (since testosterone tells the limb bones when to stop growing, which also explains these guys' CreepyLongFingers and CreepilyLongArms) and often their weight (since testosterone increases metabolism and energy levels, which also explains the LazyNeuteredPet trope) but limiting the growth of their skulls.
179	* Sauropod dinosaurs such as ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Apatosaurus'' and ''Diplodocus'' can reach massive proportions, but their skulls tend to be extremely tiny in comparison, especially when put up against their greatly elongated necks. ''Apatosaurus'', for instance, is calculated to be about 70 feet long and 20 tons with a 20 foot neck, but had a skull about only 2 feet long. Similarly, the stegosaurs, like ''Stegosaurus'' itself, ''Kentrosaurus'' and ''Tuojiangosaurus'', tended to have tiny heads, only with much shorter necks compared to their bodies. ''Stegosaurus'' for example was 20 feet long and weighed 4 tons, but had a skull only about a foot and a half in length. These disproportionate physiques are also partly responsible for the common idea that these dinosaurs were extraordinarily stupid animals.
180	* Giraffes can stand up to 20 feet tall (with nearly a third of that height being neck) and weigh over a ton, but their heads are not much bigger than a horse's.
181	* Ostriches, rheas and emus, whose heads are so small that a 9-ft tall, 350-lb ostrich can be blindfolded by putting a paper lunch sack over its head. The extinct elephant birds and moas were even more extreme. Just to illustrate how tiny an ostrich's head is, know this: one of an ostrich's eyes is about the same size as its ''entire'' brain.
182	* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotylorhynchus Cotylorhynchus]]'' was a synapsid (mammal-ancestor) from the early Permian period which sported a small head and short neck on an enormous, barrel-shaped body. The largest known land animal of its time, the rather odd-looking creature resembled an obese iguana able to palm its own head. It belonged to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caseidae the Caesidae family]], and many of its similarly large, herbivorous relatives had similar proportions to varying degrees.
183	* Spider monkeys have rather small heads for their size, and large hefty males can be husky enough to approach this trope.
184	* Female specimens of the genus ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platerodrilus Platerodrilus]]'', also known as the Trilobite Beetle, retain their larval form upon reaching adulthood, but grow lots of hard armor over everything except their head, which stays tiny.
185	* Stink bugs of family [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessaratomidae Tessaratomidae]] are generally larger than other stink bugs (which themselves tend to be large by insect standards), but their heads are disproportionately small.
186	* In general, an animal's head is only as large as necessary to accommodate complex organs such as the brain, eyes, mouth etc., thus (distantly) related species of the same basic morphology but vastly different sizes (for example cats vs tigers, passerine birds vs birds of prey, jumping spiders vs tarantulas) the bigger species will have a smaller head (or cephalothorax) in proportion to the rest of their body
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