History Main / IncredibleShrinkingMan

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy Shrinks at various points throughout the series. {{Lampshaded|Trope}} in "Incredible Shrinking Town".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode, "Itty Bitty Fred", Fred develops a homemade reducing formula to help him lose wait, only for it to shrink him to mouse size. It eventually wears off and Fred returns to normal, [[ARottenTimeToRevert right when he and Barney are doing a ventriloquist act on television]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode, "Itty Bitty Fred", Fred's homemade reducing formula shrinks him to mouse size.

** In ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalMirrorStarringMickeyMouse'', Mickey can get shrunk by interacting with a wizard doll and he explores the area mini-sized before being subsequently chased by a toy duck. Much later on, Mickey can use a magnifying glass on the tiny ghost in the attic, and activating the event's trick causes the two to switch sizes, with the ghost getting the upper hand as Mickey has now become miniscule in size compared to him.

* Happens to the 5 main girls in ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo GoGo!]]'' when one of the villains gives them a fake version of the Rose Pact that shrinks them.
** Happens again to the girls of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', this time when they accidentally stumble upon Majorina's Magic Hammer, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Aka]][[{{Youkai}} oni]] had thrown out for [[MundaneUtility being useless as a fly swatter]].

*** The premise of ''Mario Party DS'' has Bowser baiting the playable characters into a trap and shrinking them with a magic staff called the Minimizer. Thus, almost everything in the game is a MacroZone, with boards such as DK's Stone Statue (actually Donkey Kong himself [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]]) and Bowser's Pinball Machine (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), and minigames like Study Fall (a GameOfChicken where the goal is to stop as low as possible on a blackboard) and Rail Riders (where the players get speed sliding down a staircase bannister to see who can jump the farthest across a foyer). [[spoiler:Donkey Kong shattering the Minimizer near the end of the story [[NoOntologicalInertia results in the effects reversing]], and ultimately the final boss battle and ending sequence have your character at normal size for the first time since the introduction cutscene.]]

* In 2011 Tongue and Groove Theatre in Austin, TX did a stage version of Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan. Scott Carey's journey of shrinking smaller and smaller was depicted through shadow puppetry, pantomime, and other visual effects. Clips of the production can be seen [[youtube:GXmDfKW1Sql here.]]

* In the ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' episode "Mini Italians", Mario, [=SMG4=] and X eat a Poison Mushroom and shrink down in size. Mario figures out the trio can go swimming in toilets with this ability, however the other two want to go back to normal. And that's how they spent most of the episode trying to find a Mushroom.

* 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.

* ComicBook/{{The Atom}}s have this as [[LegacyCharacter their]] power; some plots involve them or other characters shrinking and then having the size controls taken away/[[PhlebotinumBreakdown break]].

* The most famous film examples are ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan'' with Grant Williams and its DistaffCounterpart with Lily Tomlin.
** It should be pointed out that the SquareCubeLaw may have been somewhat averted in this particular movie because Scott Carey very slowly shrinks, thus giving his body a chance to adapt to his changing size.
** 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.
** Both films were based on the novel by Creator/RichardMatheson, who also wrote ''Film/IAmLegend'' and scripted the two Series/{{Kolchak|TheNightStalker}} TV movies. Matheson also wrote an unfilmed sequel where Scott's wife shrinks and engages in an ActionGirl quest to find him, then their adventures getting back to the house as they both start returning to normal.
** As noted in Creator/StephenKing's ''Danse Macabre'', Richard Matheson originally made the eponymous man shrink a constant rate of 1/7th of an inch per day rather than by a given proportion, resulting in the Fridge Logic of what happens when he gets to that height.
** The Lily Tomlin vehicle ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'' made her decreasing size, caused by exposure to [[LongList too many household cleansers, food additives, and hygiene products]], a parable about out-of-control consumerism.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Wunschpunsch'', The episode "Big Shrinking Spell" ivolves Bubonic and Trannia casting a spell that makes everyone (except the witch and wizard themselves) shrink whenever they touch liquid.

* ''WesternAnimation/Wunschpunsch'': In the episode "Big Shrinking Spell", Bubonic and Trannia cast a spell that makes everyone (except themselves) shrink whenever they touch liquid.

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in general, anyone who shrinks below a certain limit (apparently somewhere between cellular size and molecular size) shifts into a "microverse" - the theory is that a shrinking person is actually displacing 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 the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk for a while), and the (now ExiledFromContinuity) ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}''.

** In ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalMirrorStarringMickeyMouse'', Mickey can get shrunk by interacting with a wizard doll and he explores the area mini-sized before being subsequently chased by a toy duck.

* In ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalMirrorStarringMickeyMouse'', Mickey can get shrunk by interacting with a wizard doll and he explores the area mini-sized before being subsequently chased by a toy duck.

See also {{Sizeshifter}}. Contrast with AttackOfThe50FootWhatever. See also ShrinkRay. For characters who are ''naturally'' small, see {{Lilliputians}}.

* Bumblebee from the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' and ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' was accidentally 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 ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4540557/1/bHuge_b_bSuccess_b Huge Success,]]'' [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony]] decided to look at Dr. Pym's pym particles without permission and ended up being 6 inches tall.

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* There was an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon where Dr. Wily plotted to shrink cities so he could hold entire populations hostage. Naturally Mega Man and Rush were shrunk also.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Nano of the North", the girls are shrunk down to fight the Nanobots.

*** Lightning is an item that is often received by players who are lagging behind. When used, it zaps everyone but the user with a bolt from the skies, making them spin out and drop any items they have. When shrunken, drivers' top speeds are reduced, and they're vulnerable to being SquashedFlat if a normal-sized driver runs over them, cutting their speed as well.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' has the trope-naming MacroZone, an otherwise ordinary house. The only paths to it on the world map require entering a large hole in a hill and exiting from a small hole on the other side, resulting in Mario being temporarily reduced to the size of an ant whenever he passes through them.

*** ''Mario Party 4'' introduced the Mini Mushroom, a white-spotted pink mushroom that's primarily used to grant access to certain passages and events exclusive to being small. Unfortunately, it also reduces your Dice Block from a 1-10 count to a 1-5 count, making it harder to reach such goals with it.
*** The 1-vs-3 minigame "Crate and Peril" in ''Mario Party 6'' and ''The Top 100'' has the solo player suck the trio into a crate they're holding, shrinking them in the process. The minigame has the solo player tilt the box in an attempt to slide Spiny shells into the three of them, while the trio's goal is to survive until the 30 seconds are up.

* One episode of ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' has Rito at the receiving end of Lala's shrinking machine. Considering this is ''[[{{Ecchi}} To Love-Ru]]'', you can expect [[MarshmallowHell what comes from]] [[PantyShot Rito's new perspective.]]

** 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.

* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo'' sequels, Dot goes to eat the root that enables her to talk to animals so she can apologize to some ants her brother was tormenting, but she accidentally eats the root next to it, which makes her shrink down to the size of a bug (and makes her able to talk to them). After trying to get the attention of her brother and mother, she goes on an adventure among the bugs until her friend Kangaroo shrinks down, too, and brings her some of the root that will restore her to her normal size.

%%* Done to MK in ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013''.