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* The ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' episode "Cy-Kill's Shrinking Ray" had Cy-Kill use a shrink ray on Leader-1, Turbo and Scooter.
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* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', the levels inside Cortex's space station. One hit equals instant death for Crash or Coco as they shrink beyond sight.
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheHugeAdventure'', Dr Neo Cortex invents a planetary minimiser to shrink the entire planet. Amusingly since not just Crash but ''everything else'' is shrunk as well, it has no real affect on the gameplay, and you spend the whole game collecting crystals as per formula to power a machine Coco is making to reverse it.
** Not one but ''two'' of Coco's podium animations in ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' involve her shrinking in some way. Her space age animation involves her using her telporter belt, only to react with annoyance when she comes out wrong, with all but her head shrunk. Another is ''Alice in Wonderland'' themed, with Coco unable to resist eating a nearby mushroom, with the expected homage.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', both WHOOP and many villains utilise size modifying technology in their methods. No less than three episodes feature one or all of the girls stuck tiny sized and having to find the device needed to change back. Taken to extremes in one episode where the three of them are made microscopic.
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* The eleventh issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Ewoks}}'' comic book had Kneesa shrunk by the Fleebogs.
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* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Chote Chote Motu Patlu", Motu and Patlu accidentally get themselves shrunk by Dr. Jhatka's new shrink ray. The two spend the episode trying to get others' attention so can return to normal.

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* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Chote Chote Motu Patlu", Motu and Patlu accidentally get themselves shrunk by Dr. Jhatka's new shrink ray. The two spend the episode trying to get others' attention so they can return to normal.
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* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Chote Chote Motu Patlu", Motu and Patlu accidentally get themselves shrunk by Dr. Jhatka's new shrink ray. The two spend the episode trying to get others' attention so can return to normal.
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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Shrunk Doc", the docs use a shrink ray to make Lamput tiny. A bump during the drive back to the lab causes the ray to shrink their vehicle; Lamput is still inside the car and drives it to evade his pursuers.
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** Also happens to Jolyne in Part 6 after coming across Gwess, whose Stand, Goo Goo Dolls, shrinks anyone Gwess wants to shrink so she can keep them as pets. Anyone who rebels against her gets torn apart by the Stand!

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* In ''The All New WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} Hour'' short "The Incredible Shrinking Popeye", Popeye shrinks to the size of a mouse when he's exposed to a weed-shrinking mist in the park. It doesn't affect the flowers he's picked for Olive, who has invited him to dinner at her house.



* 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.

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* 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 ''Magic School Bus-esque Bus''–esque sequence. And other times, characters imagined there imagine they are little in bad dream sequences.



* This happens to WesternAnimation/TheRobonicStooges in "Flea Fi Fo Fum".



** Another episode where Slouchy wishes to be the tallest Smurf also causes the other Smurfs to be shrunk to bug size.

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** Another episode episode, where Slouchy wishes to be the tallest Smurf Smurf, also causes the other Smurfs to be shrunk to bug size.



* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode ''Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV'', when [=SpongeBob=] is left with Mermaid Man's utility belt, he ends up shrinking everyone in sight.
** This is also the main plot of the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge", where [=SpongeBob=] himself gets shrunken down to size due to the intense heat coming from the grill.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode ''Mermaid "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV'', IV", when [=SpongeBob=] is left with Mermaid Man's utility belt, he ends up shrinking everyone in sight.
** This is also the main plot of the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge", where [=SpongeBob=] himself gets shrunken down to size due to the intense heat coming from the grill.



** Additionally, a ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''-based segment of a 1991 ''Theatre/DisneyOnIce'' show had Don Karnage using a shrinking machine to turn [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald]], and an Franchise/IndianaJones {{Expy}} into dolls.

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** Additionally, a ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''-based ''Tale Spin''-based segment of a 1991 ''Theatre/DisneyOnIce'' show had Don Karnage using a shrinking machine to turn [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald]], and an Franchise/IndianaJones {{Expy}} into dolls.
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* ''Radio/DimensionX'': In "[[Recap/DimensionX16BeyondInfinity Beyond Infinity]]", Eva and Allen enter his father's experimental ShrinkRay to hide from the [[SecretPolice totalitarian police agency]]. However, [[YearInsideHourOutside time passes more quickly when you're small]], so their descendants are long dead within only ten seconds.
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* ''Series/HeyYouWhatIf'': "You Could Shrink Yourself?" has Zigi being shrunk down to the size of a mouse to retrieve the remote control from and under the couch, and then explains all of the physical changes this would actual entail.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode, "Itty Bitty Fred", Fred's homemade reducing formula shrinks him to mouse size.
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* The graphic novel ''In the Small'' features this happening to every human on Earth due to a mysterious blue flash. Shrunken, terrorized by animals and unable to use most technology, they need to rebuild everything in miniature.

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* The graphic novel ''In the Small'' ''ComicBook/InTheSmall'' features this happening to every human on Earth due to a mysterious blue flash. Shrunken, terrorized by animals and unable to use most technology, they need to rebuild everything in miniature.



* In ''Big Bang Comics'', the CaptainErsatz equivalent of the Atom is the Hummingbird, who was shrunk by an alien ray that was destroyed before he could be re-enlarged. As such, he's stuck permanently at a maximum height of six inches, though among his powers is the ability to temporarily shrink even smaller.

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* In ''Big Bang Comics'', ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'', the CaptainErsatz equivalent of the Atom is the Hummingbird, who was shrunk by an alien ray that was destroyed before he could be re-enlarged. As such, he's stuck permanently at a maximum height of six inches, though among his powers is the ability to temporarily shrink even smaller.
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* The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCa6foND0O8 My Incredible Shrinking Master]]" of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' has Tony shrunk to 6 inches tall. He must climb to tabletops and avoid a huge cat (whose meows sound like lion roars).In another episode, Jeannie is mad at Tony and shrinks him to six inches tall.He has to spend the night in a drawer, sleeping on a book.

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* The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCa6foND0O8 My Incredible Shrinking Master]]" of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' has Tony shrunk to 6 inches tall. He must climb to tabletops and avoid a huge cat (whose meows sound like lion roars).In another episode, Jeannie Jeannie's bottle is mad at Tony and missing; she says she'll sleep in Tony's bed then shrinks him Tony to six inches tall.tall inside a drawer.He has to spend the night in a drawer, sleeping will sleep there, on top of a book.
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* The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCa6foND0O8 My Incredible Shrinking Master]]" of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' has Tony shrunk to 6 inches tall. He must climb to tabletops and avoid a huge cat (whose meows sound like lion roars).

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* The episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCa6foND0O8 My Incredible Shrinking Master]]" of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' has Tony shrunk to 6 inches tall. He must climb to tabletops and avoid a huge cat (whose meows sound like lion roars).In another episode, Jeannie is mad at Tony and shrinks him to six inches tall.He has to spend the night in a drawer, sleeping on a book.
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* ''Series/TheAvengers'': Steed gets shrunk down to a few inches tall by a shrink ray in "Mission...Highly Improbable". He still manages to save the day.

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* ''Series/TheAvengers'': ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': Steed gets shrunk down to a few inches tall by a shrink ray in "Mission...Highly Improbable". He still manages to save the day.
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* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': In the manga version of the series, both [[BigBad Victor]] and [[ActionGirl Tokiko]] are shrunk after getting hit Madoka Maruyama's Bubble Cage buso renkin[[note]]the anime changed Bubble Cage's power to simply creating explosions]]. While Victor isn't shrunk by much, Tokiko was reduced to the size of a doll until she defeated Maruyama.

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* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': In the manga version of the series, both [[BigBad Victor]] and [[ActionGirl Tokiko]] are shrunk after getting hit Madoka Maruyama's Bubble Cage buso renkin[[note]]the anime changed Bubble Cage's power to simply creating explosions]].explosions[[/note]]. While Victor isn't shrunk by much, Tokiko was reduced to the size of a doll until she defeated Maruyama.
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* Happens only in the manga version of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', when Tokiko is hit multiple times by Madoka's Bubble Cage.

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* Happens only in ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': In the manga version of ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', when the series, both [[BigBad Victor]] and [[ActionGirl Tokiko]] are shrunk after getting hit Madoka Maruyama's Bubble Cage buso renkin[[note]]the anime changed Bubble Cage's power to simply creating explosions]]. While Victor isn't shrunk by much, Tokiko is hit multiple times by Madoka's Bubble Cage.was reduced to the size of a doll until she defeated Maruyama.
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* ''WesternAnimation:KryptoTheSuperdog'': The aliens from planet Teeniton do this to Kevin and Krypto in "Teeny Tiny Trouble".

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* ''WesternAnimation:KryptoTheSuperdog'': ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'': The aliens from planet Teeniton do this to Kevin and Krypto in "Teeny Tiny Trouble".
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': In "Honey, I Shrunk The Pets", Nathan, the Mad Scientist kid, does this to Garfield.


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* ''WesternAnimation:KryptoTheSuperdog'': The aliens from planet Teeniton do this to Kevin and Krypto in "Teeny Tiny Trouble".
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* Used for two schemes by the bad guys in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'':
** In "The Shrinking Stone", Urpgor invents a ShrinkRay so the Urpneys can sneak into the Dreammaker's home unseen and then shrink the stone as well. The plan backfires when Albert accidentally swallows the ray, his burping fits causing a growing/shrinking war between them and Rufus. Rufus and the stone are changed back, but the still shrunken Urpneys, outsized and cornered, are forced to retreat so Urpgor can reverse the spell, with the threat Albert will eat them if they don't leave.
** "The Dream Beam Invasion" has Urpgor once again using a shrink device on the Urpney troops, though this time so they can slip into the dreams themselves and sabotage them. When the heroes catch them in the act, Rufus, Amberley and Albert follow suit and shrink into the dream to inflict some payback. Unfortunately for them, Frizz and Nug's spell wears off while doing such, making them giant to the still-shrunken Noops and terrifying them into retreating this time, in what is perhaps the only time the two [[TeamRocketWins got the last laugh on the heroes]].
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* ''VideoGame/MilonsSecretCastle'': Milon can do this with a potion and a boxing glove.

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has "women shrinking out of clothes" as a joke fetish in universe.

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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has "women Unsurprisingly, shrinking shows up a number of times in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** The "Germahn Labs" Q&A strips frequently feature [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2002-03-12 Shrink Soda]], which is exactly what it sounds like. The original recipe [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing shrinks people
out of clothes" their clothing]], although Amanda later attempts to [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2010-01-26 invent a version that shrinks your clothing too.]] It's not entirely successful, in that it does shrink clothing, but not as much as it does people..
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a joke fetish in universe.spell that allows her to shrink people, although she is eventually able to solve the [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2016-10-28 clothing issue.]]
** Tedd also created wands that allow people to shrink down to [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-094 half scale.]] In this case, the spell does shrink clothing with the person, so no one shrinks out of their clothes.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lori's nightmare ends with her being shrunk and put in a jar.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', Lori's nightmare ends with her being shrunk and put in a jar.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lori's nightmare ends with her being shrunk and put in a jar.
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* One episode of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has Lum's cousin Jariten trading an ice cream for a bottle that can shrink big things, when he shows it to Lum she becomes the size of a mouse, he must find the scarecrow he got it from to get a bottle that will return her to normal size.
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* The Mega-Shrinker [[Trope2000 5000]] from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' invokes this.

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* The [[AdvancedTech2000 Mega-Shrinker [[Trope2000 5000]] from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' invokes this.

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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': After their run in with Queen Atomia and learning about her "hydroxo gas" which could shrink people to microscopic size Paula von Gunther could use a liquified form of the gas to shrink people and Gerta's Enlarging Machine to bring them back to their normal size.

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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': After their run in with ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'':
Queen Atomia and learning about her Atomia's "hydroxo gas" which could can shrink people to microscopic size size.
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Paula von Gunther could use developed a liquified form of the hydroxo gas to shrink people and Gerta's Enlarging Machine to bring them back to their normal size.
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* In the ''Music/PreschoolPopstars'' video for "I Didn't Mean to Burp", the Asian girl shrinks, runs around in an area full of ice cream cones, eats one, grows back to normal, then shrinks again after drinking something but goes back to normal for the chorus.
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->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]:''' Aww, a great little actress.

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->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]:''' ->'''Waldorf:''' Aww, a great little actress.
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** Except that wouldn't help at all. The primary problem posed by the SquareCubeLaw for shrinking characters is accelerated loss of body heat, due to greater proportional surface area. That's not something the body can just adapt to.

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