History Main / IGotBigger

* ''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]]). When he returns in ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed Future Redeemed]]'' twenty or so years later, he's tall, built like a brick house, and strong enough to [[DualWielding dual-wield]] [[OneHandedZweihander two greatswords]].

* ''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.

** 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 ''LightNovel/FateZero'', much to the shock of anyone who's seen him in both stages of life.

* 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.

[[HormoneAddledTeenager Puberty 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.

** 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]].

** 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.

** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]] 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.

* TimeSkip strips in ''ComicBook/LesSisters'' show that the 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]]).

** Lysithea is the shortest character pre-timeskip, but after, she's outgrown Edelgard and is nearly as tall as Petra.

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'''''.

-->'''Johnny:''' Who the hell are you? Wait, are you the ''son''?? What'd you do, switch over to Whopper Jrs.?

* 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.

* ''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 Wayne]] 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.

* 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. At seven months old, 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.

* 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.

* 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.]]

[[caption-width-right:254:He got taller with age, believe it!]]