History Main / IGotBigger

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fans had grown to love the 9 year old Nanoha Takamachi and her friends. Cue it's third season, set 10 years later, with fully grown characters.

* Most attempts at calculating time jumps regarding the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} 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.

* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'': 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.

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[[caption-width-right:303:[[AllLovingHero Kari]] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' (left) and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' (right). She went from a small [[TheCutie cutie]] to an elementary school DudeMagnet.]]

[[caption-width-right:3034:[[AllLovingHero Kari]] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' (left) and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' (right). She went from a small [[TheCutie cutie]] to an elementary school DudeMagnet.]]

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[[caption-width-right:304:[[AllLovingHero Kari]] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' (left) and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' (right). She went from a small [[TheCutie cutie]] to an elementary school DudeMagnet.]]

* ''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. He has since aged normally, being 17 in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' and looking 17.

* 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.

* Coby of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is almost unrecognizable after training under Vice Admiral Garp.
* 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.]]
* ''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.

* 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.

* In ''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.
* Sakura is a bit surprised to find out that Manga/{{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.

* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 [[GagBoobs has the largest breasts of all the high-schoolers in the series]]

* ''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]].

* 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 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.]]

* 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.
* ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog''. Pretty much the epitome of this trope.
* 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 ''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.

* ''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.

* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'': 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.
* 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.

* ''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.

* Sothe between ''Franchise/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' 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.
* 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 GagBoobs.
* ''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)

** 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.

* 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.
* After spending ''years'' [[NotAllowedToGrowUp as preteens]], [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Red and Blue]] return to the fold as grown men in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.

* 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.]]

* 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.

* Between her final year of high school and the three-year timeskip, Haru from ''Webcomic/CrossHeart'' hit a surprise growth spurt.
* 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.

* 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/HarveyStreetKids'': A flashback from "Girls Just Wanna Save Fun" shows that Lotta, before her growth spurt, used to be even shorter than Tiny.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', [[{{Tomboy}} Alix]] is one of the shortest members of the heroes' class. [[spoiler:Her [[FutureBadass future self]], on the other hand, [[TeensAreShort towers over the lot of them]] when she travels back in time to the present day.]]
* 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.

* 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]]), though {{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.

* 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.

* ''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.
* Sothe between ''Franchise/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]''.
** Ike and Boyd both grew a lot taller between the games as well. Many other characters even comment on the radical height increases with all three characters throughout the second game. Tormod's comments to Ike is the most amusing of them all.
* While the younger version is never seen in-game, it's implied to be the case with [[AmazonianBeauty 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 GagBoobs.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', through the game's use of TimeyWimeyBall, it turns out that the [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness 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.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' 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.

* Siegfried in [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]. He started out the shortest playable character at 157 cm at age 16 in Soul Edge, grew to 165 cm in Soul Calibur, 168 cm in Soul Calibur II and 172 cm in Soul Calibur V, although Retcon may be in play.

* In the Unlimited Blade Works route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', 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.

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* 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. Now they are more or less the same size as TT. It's especially noticeable in Dodo's case as he's the younger one and started out as smaller than his brother. Now, when you put them side by side, he's clearly the larger and heavier one.

* ''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.

* A season premier 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.