History Main / IncredibleShrinkingMan

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/Arthur'' several times. First, Buster is scaled down to make him appear tiny on the TV in Buster's imagination. Second, there is a Magic School Bus-esque sequence. And other times, characters imagined there are little in bad dream sequences.

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' did this several times. First for a FantasticVoyage, then twice more in games where everything but the main characters is scaled up to make them appear shrunk.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' deconstructs this with the resizing device [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1056 SCP-1056]]. Shrinking or resizing people with it usually results in their brains and internal organs undergoing re-arrangement or ceasing to work correctly. (In particular, if you're shrunk, your brain becomes smaller and thus you become dumber.)

** Happens again to the girls of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', this time when they accidentally stumble upon Majorina's Magic Hammer, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Red]] [[{{Youkai}} Oni]] had thrown out for [[MundaneUtility being useless as a fly swatter]]...

* In fact, many comic book characters have shrinking (or size-changing in general) as their primary superpower (i.e. {{Ant-Man}}, TheWasp...)

** And of course, there was the appearance of the Atom at the end of ''IdentityCrisis'', [[spoiler:wherein he shrinks out of existence after finding out his ex-wife killed Sue Dibny]].

* Bumblebee from the ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' and ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' was accidently reduced to the size of a small toy. Unlike most shrinking superheroes, she has yet to find a way to regain her original size.

* In the Comicbook/{{Superman}} / {{Superboy}} / {{Supergirl}} DC 'verse, an entire CITY (Kandor) was shrunk to microscopic size so as to preserve it when Krypton exploded. Superman kept it in what appeared to be a five gallon water bottle. Superman and others (notably Jimmy Olsen) would visit after being shrunk by various means but, apparently, any inhabitant who escaped the bottle ''automatically'' grew to "normal" size.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' did this plot twice. In "No Job Too Small", Evil-Lyn shrinks several of the heroes with her Reducto Ray. Also see InsideAComputerSystem below.

** The ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' episode "Day of the Machines"...

Depending on how the shrinking works, they may or may not get their clothes to shrink with them--resulting in EmptyPilesOfClothing or something similar.

* The 1936 short story ''[[http://johnnypez9.blogspot.it/2010/06/he-who-shrank-by-henry-hasse-part-1.html He Who Shrunk]]'' takes this beyond all limits: a MadScientist injects his assistant with a serum that will make him shrink indefinitely. Said assitant shrinks to subatomic sizes, discovers that every atom is actually a solar system, lands on a planet, shrinks below the size of the atoms of ''that'' planet, and so on without end. It's a handy way of visiting innumerable planets without a spaceship[[hottip:*:It was mentioned early on that the serum also conveniently allow you to breath in space]]. [[spoiler:The end of the story has the protagonist visit our Earth.]]

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in general, anyone who shrinks below a certain limit (apparantly somewhere between cellular size and molecular size) shifts into a "microverse" - the theory is that a shrinking person is actually displacng their mass extradimensionally, and when 99.99999999999999% is over there, the rest (and consciousness) follows. Among the notable inhabitants of microverses are Psycho Man, Jarella (a lover of TheHulk for a while), and the (now ExiledFromCcontinuity) ''Franchise/{{Micronauts}}''.

* In the Marvel Universe in general, anyone who shrinks below a certain limit (apparantly somewhere between cellular size and molecular size) shifts into a "microverse" - the theory is that a shrinking person is actually displacng their mass extradimensionally, and when 99.99999999999999% is over there, the rest (and consciousness) follows. Among the notable inhabitants of microverses are Psycho Man, Jarella (a lover of TheHulk for a while), and the (now out of continuity) {{Micronauts}}.
* Colossal Boy has this power in the 2004 relaunch of ''Comicbook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}''. So why's he called Colossal Boy? Because he's from a race of giants, and has the power to "shrink" down to six feet tall. He insists on being called "Micro-Lad."

* The animated version of ''MorkAndMindy'' did this plot as well; when Mork shrunk, he found himself in a microverse populated with warped (or even evil) duplicates of his friends.

* In the ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Small Stuff", our duo is shrunk after going through the dryer.
* Occurs at least twice on ''CaptainPlanet'':

* This is the fate of anyone who messes with Reducto on ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''. ''Back off!''

* Happens to ''TheHerculoids'' in the episode "Tiny World Of Terror".
* ''SpaceGhost'' episode "The Evil Collector".

* ''NightmareNed'' did this where Ned was being tormented by a pair of {{Enfant Terrible}}s.

* In an episode of ''EekTheCat'' called "Honey, I Shrunk the Cat", both Eek and Sharky were accidentally shrunken down by Elmo the elk's shrinking machine. After a failed attempt to grow back to their normal sizes, Eek and Sharky put some astronaut suits on and go to a sick president's nostril and travel inside his head to get a raisin off his brain (despite growing a little bigger amount every single time). After Eek and Sharky remove the raisin, the president sneezes them out of his nose. They did grow back when they eventually fly out the window and crash into the ground.
* In the ''PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' episode "Full Circle", after the villainess Lady Kale tries to harness the ultimate magic of the Crown Jewels, it becomes too much for her and the power ends up shrinking her in size before she fades out to dust.

* In the ''PowerPuffGirls'' episode "Nano of the North", the girls are shrunk down to fight the Nanobots.
* ''InspectorGadget'': "The Incredible Shrinking Gadget"

* Occurs several times on ''CaptainPlanet''.

* Happened to Mario and Luigi in an episode of ''The SuperMarioBrosSuperShow''.

[[caption-width-right:346:"To God there is no zero. I still exist!"]]

* On ''MisfitsOfScience'', seven-foot-tall Dr. Elvin Lincoln had been working on a treatment that would make him shorter; he overdid it a bit and wound up with the ability to make himself six inches tall at will.

** ''DukeNukem3D'' also had a shrink ray weapon that worked both ways. At a few points Duke was required to be shrunk to enter small passageways.