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->''"Hey, when the hell did you get taller than me?"''
-->-- '''Kamina''' to Simon, ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''

UsefulNotes/{{Puberty}}, being the race towards adulthood, [[HormoneAddledTeenager can do weird things to kids.]] Hair starts growing everywhere, attraction to other people starts popping up, and, well, you grow up. Some people don't just grow up, though; they get BIG.

This trope describes characters who are seen for the first time after an extended period or {{time skip}}, and have grown a few inches up (or out, or both, or a LOT). It usually happens to the guys, and is usually meant to accentuate the amount of time that has passed: the little kid you used to noogie is now big enough to knock you out with one punch. Sometimes, they replace TheBigGuy of the last generation. Can be used as a gag if the smallest kid is the one who grew the most.

[[PintSizedKid Pint-Sized Kids]] tend to end up under this trope due to the major size gap between them and grownups. {{Tiny Schoolboy}}s, however, aren't always so lucky. Compare to SheIsAllGrownUp and BreastExpansion. Contrast ComicBookTime.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Captain of the 7th Squad, Komamura Sajin, appears to be about the height of his friend, Tosen Kaname, when they first meet, if much wider. By the time the main storyline starts... Well, uh...
* ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'':
** Over the summer Satoshi hit a growth spurt. He had to quit his {{crossdresser}} ways as he couldn't wear his sisters clothes anymore.
** Osamu begins growing noticeably as well. The boy he has affections for calls him disgusting now that puberty has made him taller, his voice deeper, and his body left soft. [[spoiler:After that they stop talking but Osamu keeps crossdressing]].
* Can anyone recall that [[TheLoad runty, skinny, and generally useless]] kid Raki from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''? [[BadassNormal Guess who]] is still looking for Clare after the TimeSkip.
* In ''Anime/{{Danganronpa 3}}'', during the ''Side: Despair'' arc, Hiyoko Saionji is introduced as short and childlike as she comes off [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair in the game]]. After her teacher, Chisa Yukizome, gets back from being reassigned to the Reserve Course for a few months, Hiyoko is much taller, like in the newspaper clipping seen at the end of the game, and Chisa wonders if the kimono-clad young woman is Hiyoko's older sister.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Takeru and Hikari were a few years younger than the other kids and about half their height. Come ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' and they're the same age and height as the older kids were back then. (In turn, the older kids are a bit taller too, but the difference isn't nearly as drastic.) Later, in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', they're virtually indistinguishable from the "older" kids in terms of height.
* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** Goku starts out rather runty. Thanks to [[BigEater his appetite]], that doesn't last long. [[AllThereInTheManual It's revealed in ''Daizenshuu'']] that this is a facet of Saiyan physiology, who tend to have growth spurt phases. Note that there isn't much difference between a 12 year old Goku and his 15 year old self, but he grows nearly double the size in the following three years. Although, like humans, this differs from Saiyan to Saiyan. [[Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman Jaco]] also notes that Saiyans have longer childhoods than humans. They stay small and then suddenly spurt to their full size when they reached a certain age. This is shown to be the case at least with Goku, Goten, and Kid Trunks as of ''Super.'' Future Trunks and Gohan seemed to age and grow gradually in ''Z''.
** Aversion: Krillin manages to stay the same height across 3 different series after his growth spurt.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'', Goten and Trunks finally start to look like teenagers with Piccolo being astonished at how suddenly they've grown.
* Momiji from ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. He was originally a short, [[DudeLooksLikeALady feminine looking]] boy who seemed [[OlderThanTheyLook too young]] to be a high schooler but late into the manga he's shown tall and {{bishonen}}. He still keeps his bunny backpack though.
* After a 3-month timeskip in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Ed grew noticeably taller (he also did so in the first anime's movie). He still has his BerserkButton though, so tell him that at your own risk. By the end of the manga he's noticeably taller than Winry, compared to the beginning where he was far shorter than her. This is played for laughs early on, as Ed speculates that his automail's weight is preventing him from growing.
** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' though he's still considerably short, barely being taller than his biologically fourteen year old brother and is still shorter than Winry. He's considerably shorter than Noah as well.
** The [[spoiler:physically thirteen]] Alphonse spends most of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'' shorter than his eighteen year old brother. After a small timeskip at the end we see Al, now with shorter hair, next to Ed and they're the same height. Edward is short for a man while Al grows up to tower over his brother according to the "Kids" {{OVA}}.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fans had grown to love the 9 year old Nanoha Takamachi and her friends. Cue its third season, set 10 years later, with fully grown characters.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Sakura is a bit surprised to find out that Naruto has grown taller than her in the 2 1/2 years he was gone (he's actually the second-tallest of the Konoha 11 now as opposed to being the shortest).
** Hinata Hyuga's younger sister Hanabi plays this trope straight. She grows noticeably taller between Part 1 and Naruto: The Last, and she surpasses her sister in the New Era.
* Coby of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is almost unrecognizable after training under Vice Admiral Garp.
* Brow in ''Manga/PandemoniumWizardVillage'' is the smallest character in the story, even compared to the other children. At the end, [[spoiler: after a 16 year time skip, he's become slightly larger than his students.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'', Hachimaki's teenage brother Kyutaro becomes [[BigLittleBrother larger than him]] after he returns from outer space, some months to a year later.
* Ayato Kamina undergoes a slight growth spurt over the course of ''Anime/RahXephon'', starting just a smidge shorter than Haruka (166 vs 167cm) and ending up several inches taller than her even in heels. Haruka brings attention to this near the end of the series [[spoiler:just before confessing to him]].
-->'''Haruka:''' You passed me.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Usagi's little brother Shingo has something of a growth spurt between the first and second seasons, going from around half her height to only a little shorter than her (she even comments at one point that it's getting harder for her to physically intimidate him). The practical reason for this is to make him look older than the newly introduced Chibiusa (who also takes over his role as AnnoyingYoungerSibling while he gets a little CharacterDevelopment).
** Chibiusa herself plays this trope straight in the anime version. She got bigger between the seasons; in the manga, she had a physically PlotRelevantAgeUp.
* A few examples in ''Manga/{{Saki}}''.
** In the Achiga-hen spinoff, Ako, as an elementary schooler, is slightly shorter than her friend and year-mate, Shizuno. After they go through separate middle schools, however, Ako is taller and bustier than Shizuno, much to Shizuno's dismay.
** In the main series, flashbacks indicate that Kasumi of the Eisui team was short and flat-chested as a young girl. By the time in which the story takes place, though, she's relatively tall and has the largest breasts of all the high-schoolers in the series.
* Simon of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' ends up taller than his mentor and "big bro" Kamina after the mid-series time-skip. [[spoiler:Because Kamina was killed before the time-skip, it only becomes apparent when a vision of him helps Simon snap out of the Anti-Spiral's LotusEaterMachine. After some words of encouragement, Kamina smiles as he notes that Simon's now towering over him, and the two share a bittersweet laugh before Simon leaves to fight.]]
* Riku from ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' starts out a short elementary school boy at the start of the manga but by the last chapter he's almost as tall as his sixteen ([[VagueAge or so]]) sister and taller than several high school freshman.
* Shuuichi and Riku from ''Manga/WanderingSon''. Nitori started growing several inches during the high school chapters, being taller than almost all the girls. Riku even notices she has grown taller than him when originally he had to look down at Nitori.
* The titular protagonist of ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' is a short kid whose height, even with his ''geta'' ''and'' exaggeratedly spiky AnimeHair, barely reaches Sayaka's shoulder. In the epilogue, which takes place about three years after the final arc, he has now outgrown her.
* ''Manga/ZatchBell2'': Most of the demons have grown significantly over the thirteen years since the first season.
** Gash, while still shorter than Kiyomaro, now comes up to his chest rather than his thigh. And despite them being identical twins, Gash says that Zeon is taller than him now.
** Tio and Kanchomé have both grown about as tall as their partners.
** Brago was previously a head shorter than Sherry. Now, while Sherry is a fully grown woman, Brago is [[HugeGuyTinyGirl twice as tall]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Most attempts at calculating time jumps are made nigh impossible due to their causal and frequent time-traveling exploits but ComicBook/CosmicBoy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl were all young teenagers when they started out and put on a fair amount of height and muscle during their tenure.
* ''ComicBook/LesSisters'': TimeSkip strips show that the 6-year-old little sister Marine will grow up to become as tall as her older sister Wendy, and a [[FanservicePack total knockout]] [[ItRunsInTheFamily like she is]] ([[VagueAge although it's left ambiguous whether Marine's in her late teens or early adulthood by that point]]).
* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] starts out as a rather shrimpy and wiry thirteen-year-old. During his one-month hiatus from being Spider-Man, he fills out considerably and shoots up a few inches. By the time he's 17, he's developed a gymnast-like physique and is almost as tall as Captain America.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} has a dream where Nermal after years of abuse comes back for revenge, and is massive! Cue Garfield waking up and giving his breakfast to the confused Kitten. Although it's been implied [[NegativeContinuity in other strips]] that Nermal is really an adult already.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/ForewarnedIsForearmed'', Akira starts hitting his growth spurt about halfway into his stay in Inaba. It's far more of a nuisance than anything, as gaining several inches over the course of a few weeks means that he quickly outgrows all of his clothes. The lack of money from his parents to replace them raises additional red flags with Dojima, and Akira is soon too big to use the TV in his and Yu's bedroom to enter the TV World.
* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. [[AgeLift 15-year-old]] Ash was already taller than his mother when he began his Pokémon journey, but when he returns to Pallet Town a few months later, Delia finds herself surprised when she hugs him and notices he's a few more inches above her than she remembered (plus having gained some extra muscle from Iris' training).
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* This is lampshaded at the beginning of ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' in which Greg doesn't recognize any of the background characters, because of everyone going through puberty over the summer.
* Mentioned during the climactic SwordFight in ''Film/{{Hook}}'', between the now-adult Peter Pan and aging Captain Hook.
-->'''Pan:''' I remember you being a lot bigger.\\
'''Hook:''' To a ten-year-old, I'm huge.
* Regarding ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' and ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'', fans have noted that Sonic himself has [[https://tekina-fiction.tumblr.com/post/681395324264300544/heart-aflame grown about nine inches taller]] within the eight months between the two films, [[DownplayedTrope despite this information not being commented on in-story]]. Sonic's facial features in the sequel have also become more angular and defined, his spines have become pointier, and his general body frame has become larger.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The protagonist of Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/AmericanGods'', Shadow, starts out as a nerdy runt, blows up over the summer, and decides to [[ObfuscatingStupidity hide his intelligence]] after finding out that people expect someone of his size to be a [[DumbMuscle dumb jock-type]].
* ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog''. Pretty much the epitome of this trope.
* ''Literature/DaddysLittleGirl'': Several characters who knew Ellie as a child express surprise at how she looks as an adult; she was always [[PintSizedKid small for her age]] but over two decades later she stands 5'7. Ellie mentions having had a growth spurt after moving away from Oldham. It also symbolizes how she's no longer a scared little girl, but a grown woman who will stop at nothing to take down her sister's killer.
* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidTheUglyTruth'' the plot features around puberty, and the fact Rowley is maturing faster than Greg. It ends with Greg realizing he could use Rowley's puberty to his advantage. In which he draws a 10-foot Hulk-like Rowley about to cream some bullies.
* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': When he's first introduced as a fifteen year old, Paul Atreides is described as looking small and young for his age. After the TimeSkip, he's grown to be very tall and imposing.
* Bean, from ''Literature/EndersGame'' / ''Literature/EndersShadow'', starts out absolutely tiny, smaller even than Ender was at his age. Doesn't help that he's also the youngest of the group by a fair margin. However, Bean experiences a ''massive'' growth spurt around 11 or 12, and grows to be over six feet tall by the time he's 14. Soon enough, people are referring to him as "the Giant". [[spoiler:And he keeps growing, never stopping, because of some genetic engineering done to him as an embryo. He expects to die of an overtaxed heart or broken spine in his early twenties, if not sooner.]]
* Done subtly in ''Literature/HarryPotter'': In the first three books, Harry often complains about being TheRuntAtTheEnd, with everyone being taller than him, and even [[PlatonicLifePartners Hermione]] being just as tall. This is quietly dropped during the fourth and fifth books, and in the last two there are a couple of offhand mentions of him being as tall as his father by then, and James was described in the early books as being quite tall. There's one acknowledgement in the sixth book, where Hermione mentions that Harry had a clear growth spurt during that summer.
* In T. A. Barron's ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin'', Shim, the very, very, ''very'', small giant [[spoiler:commits suicide by jumping into [[ArtifactOfDoom The Cauldron of Death]], which breaks, comes back to life, and grows to be the largest giant.]]
* ''The New Adventures of Elektronik'' by Yevgeny Veltistov take place a year or two after ''Electronic Boy from The Portmanteau''. In the original story, the boy robot Elektronik looks identical to Sergey, a seventh-grader. By the ''New Adventures'', there is a noticeable difference between the two, as Sergey is now taller, allowing the others to easily distinguish the boy from the android. On the other hand, Elektronik is clearly the more mature one.
* In the Literature/{{Redwall}} book The Taggerung, before the time skip, Mhera is very young, half the size of her mother. Deyna is just a baby. After the time skip (Arguably implied to be the equivalent of fifteen years) Mhera is taller than her now slightly shrunken mother, and [[spoiler: Deyna towers over both of them, not to mention very muscular seeing as he trained his entire life as the prophesied (second) greatest warrior who ever lived]]
* In ''XL'' by Scott Brown, Will starts out at 4' 11" near his 16th birthday, when he begins to grow rapidly, for unknown (but not magical) reasons. He's 7' 1" and still growing a year later. He's monitored at a clinic for people with various growth disorders and the object of special attention by the other patients in the waiting room at every appointment.
* Tigerstar of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' had been the runt of his litter until getting older. Not only did he get older and bigger, but he also became a ''giant'' among the Clan cats. It appears that his sons Bramblestar and Hawkfrost share their father's growth spurt as well.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* A season premiere episode of ''Series/GrowingPains'' revolved around Ben being afraid to go back to school because on the last day before the summer break, a bully threatened to beat him up when school started back up. By the end of the episode, he's forced to face the bully only for the bully to realize that Ben had a growth spurt over the summer and was now a head taller than he was. Realizing he doesn't have a chance, the bully runs off.
-->'''Bully:''' You grew!
-->'''Ben:''' You didn't.
* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'': In one episode, the castle is under attack from a barbarian horde, whose leader turns out used to be a weak, athsmatic little runt who's now seven feet tall and weighs two hundred pounds.
* All the Sutton kids in ''Series/LincolnHeights'' grow a little, but Tay is the most noticeable, and he becomes far less wimpy as a result.
* Anthony [=LaRusso=], Daniel's short fat little son on ''Series/CobraKai'', was a minor character in Season 1 and almost entirely written out of Seasons 2 and 3. He returned in Season 4 as a main character, and by that time he was barely recognizable.
-->'''Johnny:''' Who the hell are you... Wait, are you the ''son''?? What'd you do, switch over to Whopper Jrs.?
-->'''Anthony:''' It's called a growth spurt, dipshit.
* The writers of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' found out the hard way why you can't have a kid in a show in which one season equates to about a month of in-universe time. [[spoiler:Walt had to be written out for that reason.]] When Locke saw a vision of Walt, he was [[LampshadeHanging "taller"]], with no in-universe explanation as to why.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' Bobby, a cabdriver/actor, goes to Louie's high school reunion in his place, pretending to be him in order to get back at all the kids who teased Louie in school. Bobby!Louie claims he "shot up" in college.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[TimeTravel as this trope plays out of order]]. Magus is a very tall, stoic, very attractive-looking wizard. Later on, you time travel to the past and meet his child self, who is, like all kid sprites in the game, very small.
* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'': [[MeaningfulName Tiny Kong]] was around the same size as Diddy back in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''. Come ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongBarrelBlast'' and the DS remake of ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', she's twice as tall as him and proportioned more like a human.
* Faeries in ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' undergo this as part of their life cycle, setting in during adolescence and ending after an undisclosed period of time. When Meene was introduced human-sized during the "Forgotten Truths" event, fans speculated that something similar could happen to Notte as well. [[spoiler:As of the second half of Chapter 18, their wish was granted.]]
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', a conversation between the brothers Forde and Franz has the former asking the latter if he's grown taller, which the latter happily confirms.
** While the younger version is never seen in-game, it's implied to be the case with [[StatuesqueStunner Camilla]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', as a support conversation with her retainer Beruka reveals that Beruka's armor used to belong to Camilla herself. Beruka is probably one of the shorter females aside from the [[TokenMiniMoe Token Mini-Moes]] and seems rather flat-chested, while Camilla is one of the tallest characters of ''either'' gender and has massive breasts.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'':
*** Bernadetta starts out as the second-shortest character, but grows significantly over the TimeSkip, becoming taller than Edelgard and Petra.
*** Caspar is one of the smallest male characters pre-timeskip, but after the TimeSkip, he's broad-shouldered and at least a full head taller than most of the female characters, although he's still one of the shortest male characters. (Only Cyril and Ignatz are shorter)
*** Ashe grows a full ten centimeters after the TimeSkip and fills out in the shoulders, although he's still relatively short and slender. (Only Caspar, Ignatz, and Cyril are shorter amongst the male cast)
*** Lysithea is the shortest character pre-timeskip, but after, she's outgrown Edelgard and is nearly as tall as Petra.
*** Cyril ties with Lysithea as the shortest character pre-timeskip, but he grows ''twenty'' centimeters during the TimeSkip and has a more athletic build after.
*** Dimitri grows eight centimeters, and puts on a good deal of muscle mass.
*** Ferdinand grows a modest five centimeters and is broader in the shoulders post-timeskip; it's just less obvious than the others due to his hair growing out.
** Sothe between ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'', as well as Ike and Boyd. Many other characters even comment on the radical height increases with all three characters throughout ''Dawn''. Tormod's comments to Ike is the most amusing of them all.
* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'': In [[VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy the first game]], Jak is 15, and looks 15. But because of his capture between the first two games, he's twice as big when he escapes prison at age 17 in ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'', and resembles a 25-year-old. Though his aging has slowed down, and by ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing'', he's hardly gotten older as a 19-year-old.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' protagonist Sora goes in the opposite direction as Jak. He's 14 in [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the original game]], but physically resembles a 10-year-old boy because he's in the early stages of puberty. When he awakens at the beginning of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', one year later, his body has aged significantly, to the point where he's outgrown his original outfit. This is exemplified in a scene where he imagines himself dancing with Kairi, and is just over a full head taller as he’s imagining her as he saw her last(when he finally sees her again, she’s about as tall as he is). He has since aged normally, being 17 in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' and looking 17.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'':
*** An actual plot point, as Link time-skips seven years and grows up.
*** From the same game, Princess Ruto goes from a bratty little [[FishPeople fish-girl]] to a tall, surprisingly stacked CuteMonsterGirl, Malon goes from an adorable CheerfulChild to TheUglyGuysHotDaughter FarmGirl, and Princess Zelda goes from a cute child to a lovely maiden.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': A flashback in "The Champions' Ballad" shows that young Prince Sidon was rather tiny, only reaching up to about Zelda's knee. In the game's present, he's twice Link's height and towers over the other adult [[FishPeople Zora]], who are already OneHeadTaller than Link on average.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' takes place several years after the events of ''Breath of the Wild'', so most of the child characters have grown into teenagers (save for the Zora, [[ProportionalAging since they age much more slowly than other races]]). In particular, Riju and Tulin were both shorter than Link but are now the same height as him.
* After spending ''years'' [[NotAllowedToGrowUp as preteens]], [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]] return to the fold as grown men in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', through the game's use of TimeyWimeyBall, it turns out that [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness the original tubby, black-eyed design for Sonic]] from the first 3 games and ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD CD]]'' was a pre-pubescent version of the hedgehog, while the modern sleek, green-eyed design is him post-puberty. However, even though he's a head taller than his younger self, Modern Sonic still only measures to about 1 meter (3"3) tall.
* Siegfried in the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''. He started out as the shortest playable character in ''Soul Edge'' (157 cm at age 16), grew to 165 cm in ''Soulcalibur'' (age 19), 168 cm in ''Soulcalibur II'' (age 23), and 172 cm in ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'' (age 40). It's unclear if the time he spent [[BrainwashedAndCrazy as Nightmare]] did anything to stunt his growth (what with [[BodyHorror all the physical deformities]]), although the fact that he continued growing throughout his time as Nightmare and even after, even past 23, an age when men have stopped growing may mean it didn’t. {{Retcon}} may also be in play. ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburVI'', a ContinuityReboot [[AlternateContinuity of sorts]], opted to cut out the middle man and updated Siegfried's height during the ''Soulcalibur'' era to that of his ''SCV'' self, likely to account for reusing his model from that game. As such, {{Retcon}} may be in play, because he, Mitsurugi who was similarly updated to the height of his ''SCV'' self, Kilik possibly so he isn't shorter than Sophitia, Zasalamel, and Hwang are taller than they were during or after the ''Soulcalibur'' era. All but two male characters had a height change. Only four female characters, Seong Mi-Na, Hilde, Cassandra and [[spoiler:Amy as Viola]] have height changes. Most of the men are past their mid 20’s, so the designers seem to believe that men can keep growing after their mid 20’s.
* ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'': Jin Kazama is already tall and muscular as a teenager in his debut game, but after the two-year TimeSkip between ''[[VideoGame/Tekken3 3]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/Tekken4 4]]'', he has become a straight-up bodybuilder.
* In ''VideoGame/WhatRemainsOfEdithFinch'' Edith notices that she has a harder time crawling through the doggy door at the age of 17 than when she was 11. [[spoiler:It's also because she is 22 weeks pregnant at that point.]]
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': In [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 the second game]], Rex is fifteen years old and small for his age; he's mistaken for a younger child on a regular basis, and he's the shortest character in the main cast (not counting [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Tora]]). [[ReestablishingCharacterMoment When he returns]] in ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed Future Redeemed]]'' twenty or so years older, he's tall, built like a brick house, and strong enough to [[DualWielding dual-wield]] [[OneHandedZweihander two greatswords]].

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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
** In the Unlimited Blade Works route, Shirou (5'6") complains a bit about being on the small side. As [[spoiler:the reveal that the 6'2" and very muscular Archer is a FutureBadass version of Shirou]] shows, he has one hell of a growth spurt to expect in the upcoming years.
** An even more dramatic case from the same franchise is Waver Velvet. At nineteen, he was so short that his Servant suggested that he ought to wish on the Holy Grail to make himself a foot taller. Turns out he was able to manage it entirely on his own several years after ''Literature/FateZero'', much to the shock of anyone who's seen him in both stages of life.
-->'''Euryale:''' Just how much pain do you have to endure to [[SheIsAllGrownUp grow into]] ''[[TallDarkAndHandsome that]]!?''
* Battler from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' notes that he recently underwent a growth spurt that left him noticeably taller than just about everyone else in his extended family. He's a bit embarrassed that they all feel the need to comment on it.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Nimue is introduced to the modern arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' in July 2004 at the age of six and [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0068.htm about waist high to the adult and teen characters]]. She suddenly shoots up to [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0340.htm slightly shorter than Ector]] in April 2005, since Adult Nimue is actually one of the tallest characters.
* ''WebComic/BrotherComplex'': During the one year her brother Jack was abroad, Rose was hit with this. It's an exaggerates case, however, [[spoiler:plus the help of a SuperSerum]].
* Between her final year of high school and the three-year timeskip, Haru from ''Webcomic/CrossHeart'' hit a surprise growth spurt.
* Snails from ''Blog/SliceOfLife'', who went from a lanky foal in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the cartoon]] to a muscular motorcycle-riding jock.
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* Toto and Dodo from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' have undergone a significant growth spurt under Claire's care. To start with they were tiny kittens who were able to fit on Claire's hand. A year later, they tower over the smaller cats- with Toto tying for third heaviest with Coco, with only TT and DD being heavier.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Aang, who was TheBabyOfTheBunch, in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' grew to be the tallest one of the group as an adult as seen in the [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61HzbhK1VaL._AC_SX425_.jpg "Old Friends"]] poster. He and Toph were about the same height in the original show and he towers over her in a flashback in the SequelSeries, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.
* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', Cooper Daniels, still being a teenager, is now taller and more muscular, stating that he has a growth spurt as compared with his appearance in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' where he is shorter and chubbier.
* An unlikely case, Dr. Zoidberg of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Upon returning to his home planet for mating season, he visits the tide pool where he grew up, and plucks out a small hermit crab he claims is named Vinnie and bullied Zoidberg when they were younger. Zoidberg promptly taunts him about being the tough guy now and then eats him.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'': A flashback from "Girls Just Wanna Save Fun" shows that Lotta, before her growth spurt, used to be even shorter than Tiny.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': As part of almost everyone becoming a FutureBadass in the BadFuture present in "A Sitch in Time," Kim's younger brothers, Jim and Tim, and [[BlackAndNerdy Wade]] all grow up to tower over Kim and Ron (and get ripped). Justified as all three are prepubescent, so growth spurts are very much in order, whereas Monique, who is already a teenager in the present and thus done growing, has aged without becoming taller.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Joseph comes back from summer camp having undergone a serious growth spurt, gaining a very deep voice, and having grown some facial hair. Bobby spent most of the episode envious despite having spent his summer doing grown-up things with his grandma at a retirement community. Joseph still ended up being incredibly immature either way, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** Alix is one of the shortest members of the heroes' class. [[spoiler:Her [[FutureBadass future self]], on the other hand, [[ShortTeensTallAdults towers over the lot of them]] when she travels back in time to the present day.]]
** Likewise, Chat Noir is significantly taller in his brief appearance in the future.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Gus gains a half-head in height and gets a deeper voice in the space between seasons 1 and 2, as a way to justify his voice actor growing up (he refers to it as "Witch Puberty", which apparently works differently). It's still downplayed somewhat, as he remains the shortest among his friends by about an inch.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'':
** Enzo gets '''huge''' post-TimeSkip. He went from half the size of Bob to a head taller and far more muscular than Bob. Bob even points out the size change when Enzo is about to [[RunningGag run into Bob]] like Enzo did back in season 1. He's bigger than ''Megabyte.'' Thank you, puberty!
--->'''Bob:''' Whoa! I think you're a little too big for that.
** Becomes endlessly awkward when [[spoiler: the system reboots bringing back an exact copy of kid Enzo, in the same room with huge/buff/adult Enzo.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Kid Enzo:''' Who's that big ugly green guy?]]
* In any hypothetical future, ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' portrays shrimpy Gus as tall, muscular, and broad-shouldered. This is pretty much what Gus's father looks like and Gus also meets a very large elderly man [[IdenticalStranger who looked almost identical to Gus when he was a child]], suggesting it's more than wishful thinking.
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* It's not at all uncommon for adolescents and teenagers to go through dramatic growth spurts in a very short period of time. Over the course of a single year, a kid can go from the shortest member in their family to as tall or even taller than their parents.
* In adults, this condition is called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly acromegaly]], and results from [[TheTopicOfCancer a benign tumor]] near the pituitary gland causing an abnormally high production of growth hormone. One of the most extreme cases, Adam Rainer, grew from 111.5 cm (3'8") at age 19 to 218 cm (7'2") at age 33. He died at age 51 at 234 cm (7'8").
* Creator/PatrickWarburton, famous for voice work but also playing the ''live-action'' version of ''Series/TheTick2001'', has said that he was a runty weakling in high school. He sure isn't now!
* Anthony Michael Hall, who convincingly played small, geeky characters early on, then went on to playing convincingly menacing hulks.
* Creator/MatthewLewis, i.e. Neville Longbottom from the Franchise/HarryPotter movies. As ''Podcast/TheWeeklyPlanet'' put it, “He is like this weird little grubby kid, [[HeIsAllGrownUp who turns into]] Creator/HenryCavill.”
* It's the reason why Creator/ElleFanning is now taller than her older sister, Creator/DakotaFanning. At age 11, Elle had an intense growth spurt, where she '''''grew seven inches in a year and a half'''''. Furthermore, during the shooting of ''Film/{{Somewhere}}'', right at the start of her said growth spurt, '''''her feet had grown two sizes bigger in just six weeks'''''.
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