A common type of
Silliness Switch is making all characters in a game have really big heads. For shooter games, this can make
headshots easier to nail.
A distant cousin of
Super-Deformed chibi versions of manga characters.
Examples:
Platformers
Shooters
- Golden Eye 1997 has DK Mode, which also includes longer arms.
- The Time Splitters series had a big head mode cheat that could be unlocked (as well as a No head, tiny head and spinning head mode amongst others).
- In Armor Games' Indestruc2Tank, one of the unlockable secrets is making the heads of people in comm units bigger.
- Unreal Tournament 2003 had this as a mod.
- BIONICLE Heroes for the DS has this, making enemies easier targets.
- As an unlockable Mutator in Gears of War 3, Big Head mode also pitches up everyone's chatter to match their silly proportions. Sadly, it does not apply in cutscenes.
- Team Fortress 2: In the Ghost Fort map, one of the Wheel of Fate effects is this for everyone. Another is the inverse, tiny heads for everyone.
Sports Games
Other Games
- Tekken 2 has this, being released in 1996 when Big Head Mode was popular. It hasn't returned in any sequels.
- In Toon Town Online, one of the rewards for completing a "Just for Fun" Task is your Toon to receive a giant head for a varying period of time, depending on which Playground tasks you're working on.
- One of the game mods of Wasted Youth.
- In Mortal Kombat 4, this is one of the Kombat Kodes. For some reason, it also affects the skeleton hands that Shinnok summons in his fatalities. In one of them, they get too big to fit through the portal.
- Batman Arkham City has this.
- In LEGO Lord of the Rings, hitting someone with the Ent-Draught makes their head swell up.
- Scribblenauts has the Lolwut.
Non-Video Games
- Emporio Ivankov can do that in One Piece.
- Soun Tendo from Ranma ½ tends to do this when upset (usually when finding yet another long lost fiancée or the like that Ranma has been promised to marry), sometimes with demonic assets like a snake's tongue or tentacles.
- A common feature in Naruto fanfiction is the "Big-Head no jutsu", used by teachers (ie: Iruka Umino and the Sandaime) to quell unruly students in class.
