History Main / ShrinkRay

* [[WesternAnimation/Dan Vs.]]: Elise invents a shrink ray. [[spoiler: Dan ends up using it to shrink her and his nemesis: Gigundo Mart.]]

* One of the recurring gadgets in ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' is a "Small Light". A flashlight-like shrink ray which shrinks any object and person down and does wear out eventually as seen in one movie. There's also a "Big Light" which does the opposite.

* Dr. Jhatka invents a big shrink ray in the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Chote Chote Motu Patlu". Motu and Patlu accidentally set it off, causing them to shrink, and they spend the rest of the episode trying to get people's attention so that they can be unshrunken.

** Once when [=SpongeBob=] accidentally shrinks the entire town with Mermaidman's UtilityBelt.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'s'' "The Incredible Shrinking Molly", they meet up with a MadScientist who's invented a shrink ray.

* In a commercial for [[Advertising/EnergizerBunny Energizer batteries]] featuring [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Boris and Natasha]] from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', Boris attempts to shrink the Energizer Bunny with a shrink ray. He accidentally shrinks himself and Natasha instead, nearly getting them squished by the Bunny as a result.

* ''Series/WildWildWest'' had an episode where Dr. Loveless built one and used it to shrink Jim West and an Indian woman.

*** "Experiment-A-Palooza" has him enlarging Stitch to become a giant. Not only that, because [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments X-210/Retro's]] abilities were also used on Stitch, the blue experiment is also reverted to his original programming and goes on a rampage.

* In a commercial for Energizer batteries featuring [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Boris and Natasha]] from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', Boris attempts to shrink the Energizer Bunny with a shrink ray. He accidentally shrinks himself and Natasha instead, nearly getting them squished by the Bunny as a result.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2757 SCP-2757 ("Dr. Wondertainment's Projector Fantastico™")]]. When the SCP-2757 projector is used with the film SCP-2757-1g ''Professor Abnormal's 101 Experiments'', one of the devices used on the experimental subjects is a ShrinkRay.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', resizing technology is used recurrently by both WHOOP and villains. The dilemma of no less than ''three'' episodes involves one or all three of the girls being stuck tiny-sized and having to relocate the trope device so they can grow back.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} 1973''/74 episode "Gulliver's Gigantic Goof''. The villain Dr. Hiram Gulliver uses one on the Superfriends.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'', the two child aliens Jesse and Yumyulack habitually shrink humans in order to dump them into a terrarium in their room, where they have built a
primitive scavenger society that forms a secondary plotline to the series.

* In ''Western/SolarOpposites'', the two child aliens Jesse and Yumyulack habitually shrink humans in order to dump them into a terrarium in their room, where they have built a

** The shrinking formula named "Reduso Liquid" in issue 31 is used to shrink humans down to microscopic size and was intended by the woman who created it to be used in surgery.

* ''Film/AntMan''. The BigBad hasn't perfected the technology to successfully shrink a person and survive the process, so he uses a handgun-like prototype to commit murder and dispose of the body, now a small puddle of LudicrousGibs which he flushes down the toilet. Ant-Man also has throwing disc devices that can shrink or expand inanimate objects, which he uses as {{Improvised Weapon}}s.

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** TheMaster is armed in many of his appearances with a ray gun called the Tissue Compression Eliminator, which simultaneously kills the target and shrinks the corpse down to a convenient-to-dispose-of size. It kept the rule about shrunk objects having less mass, but mostly averted the one about living creatures surviving the process. The novelizations explicitly state at one point that the death is due to realistic SquareCubeLaw effects. The one case where a person miniaturized by the TCE survives is when [[spoiler:TheMaster accidentally miniaturizes himself]]. Two characters in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip have survived the Tissue Compression Eliminator, ComicBook/DeathsHead presumably because he is a robot and less subject to SquareCubeLaw (later sources would suggest he'd been artificially enlarged, and the TCE merely restored his "natural" size), and Izzy for unknown reasons.

* ''Series/{The Avengers|1960s}}'' episode "Mission... Highly Improbable" has a device that sends out a ray that shrinks objects or people down to the size of toys.

-> '''Amy:''' How can we be in here? How do we fit?\\

--> -- ''Series/DoctorWho''

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* Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions had an episodic kids' show called ''Dr. Shrinker'' in TheSeventies, in which five or six people were shrunk down to less than six inches.

** TheMaster is armed in many of his appearances with a ray gun called the Tissue Compression Eliminator, which simultaneously kills the target and shrinks the corpse down to a convenient-to-dispose-of size. It kept the rule about shrunk objects having less mass, but mostly averted the one about living creatures surviving the process. The novelizations explicitly state at one point that the death is due to realistic SquareCubeLaw effects. The one case where a person miniaturized by the TCE survived is when [[spoiler: TheMaster accidentally miniaturizes himself]]. Two characters in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip have survived the Tissue Compression Eliminator, ComicBook/DeathsHead presumably because he is a robot and less subject to SquareCubeLaw (later sources would suggest he'd been artificially enlarged, and the TCE merely restored his "natural" size), and Izzy, for unknown reasons.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy The Invisible Enemy]]" includes a FantasticVoyagePlot (using a shrink ray based on the same technology as lets the TARDIS be bigger on the inside, allowing a bit of handwaving about the issues of shrinking living things).
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]", by the same writers, had another shrink ray based on the same technology, built by a Time Lord friend of the Doctor's so the two of them could shrink down and hitch a lift into the villain's base.
** Lampshaded in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]". The episode featured a robot that can shrink people and transport them inside itself. When Amy and Rory are captured, Rory explains that they were hit by a "miniaturisation ray" because "Well, there was a ray, and then we were miniaturized."
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek Into the Dalek]]" also features the FantasticVoyagePlot, except the Doctor and Clara, plus several {{Red Shirt}}s, are shrunk in order to go inside an apparently good Dalek and try to help it. Inside, they end up triggering the Dalek equivalent of an immune system (floating AttackDrones). [[spoiler:Instead of teaching the Dalek to be good, the Doctor accidentally lets the Dalek absorb his deep hatred for the race, causing the Dalek to turn his innate hatred on its own people. The Doctor is horrified by the implications]].
* The Dada aliens[[note]]Yes they're based on ''that'' UsefulNotes/{{Dada}}[[/note]] from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' (and a number of subsequent ''Franchise/UltraSeries'') are famous for using these to capture humans and take them back home to be used as scientific guinea pigs.
** Their [[{{Expy}} expies]] in ''Series/UltramanCosmos'', the Gigi, used similar technology. In this case, it was to make room for colonists on their overpopulated planet. Another episode showed that the same shrink rays can also be used to enlarge objects when a friendly Gigi scientist helps EYES and Cosmos fight some evil members of her kind by enlarging Musashi's RobotBuddy Clevergon to kaiju size.
** The crow-like Raybeaks from ''Series/UltramanTiga'' used Shrink Rays to kidnap humans and place them in tiny capsules so they transported to their homeworld to become slaves. In the [[{{Macekre}} 4Kids dub]], they instead intend on turning humanity into collectibles ("You'll be bigger than ''Pokemon''!").
* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "Mission... Highly Improbable" has a device that sends out a ray that shrinks objects or people down to the size of toys.
* ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' has his ''chiquitolina'' pills (chiquito means small, a rough translation will be ''smalline pills'') that shrink him down to the size of an insect.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "Gambit", Avon and Vila smuggle Orac inside a casino for some gratuitous cheating by using 'molecular reduction'. In this case no ray is used; the MagicalComputer simply does this to himself.
* Seen twice so far in the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', [[SizeShifter Ray]] creates a device that can shrink and expand objects, although the effects are temporary, and the expanding feature was just in case they didn't want to wait for the shrinking to wear off.
** An episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has a metahuman who can shrink things, which can only be changed back if they're affected by his powers a second time. Also, he just happens to be the man that the team are looking for some information about in that episode. Guess what happens to Cisco and Ralph after they try to stop him escape a confrontation.

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* In ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'', comic "[[http://pbfcomics.com/243/ The Shrink Ray]]"
* Steve thinks of creating one in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3451.html episode 3451]] of ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2757 SCP-2757 ("Dr. Wondertainment's Projector Fantastico™")]]. When the SCP-2757 projector is used with the film SCP-2757-1g ''Professor Abnormal's 101 Experiments'', one of the devices used on the experimental subjects is a ShrinkRay.
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* The ComicBook/{{Superman}} villain ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} is the owner and inventor of one of the oldest ones in mainstream science fiction, which he uses to shrink and bottle cities. In the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Creator/DCComics, ComicBook/{{Superman}} had one that could be used to allow people to enter the bottled city of Kandor (which was originally shrunk by Brainiac using a shrink ray). Notably, Superman's shrink ray worked by exchanging one full-size per!son for one shrunken Kandorian, making them swap sizes. It was many years before he could find a way to enlarge all of Kandor on its own, and permanently. Brainiac's shrink ray, on the other hand, was this trope played straight.
* The Creator/DCComics hero ComicBook/TheAtom had the ability to alter his size and weight at will. DependingOnTheWriter, he can also shrink other people and objects.
* Pym Particles in the MarvelUniverse, which can shrink and grow things. Discovered by [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]], he uses them to both shrink and grow under the moniker of Ant Man/Giant Man/Goliath/Wasp/Whatever he feels like calling himself today. In ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'', SHIELD contacts Giant Man to provide them with gas that shrinks Godzilla for more manageable size for several issues.

* On the cover of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' #365, Supergirl shrinks Superman down to tiny size with a Shrink Ray Gun as shown [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/116_4_365.jpg here]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' has Gru plotting to use a shrink ray to steal the moon. [[spoiler:Not only are the effects temporary, but their duration are inversely proportionate to the subject's original mass (i.e., the bigger the object, the faster it grows back to normal).]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie'': When Roger learns that Doug and Skeeter have became friends with the swamp monster, he hires several science kids to build him a 50-foot KillerRobot to defend himself. They build a 6-foot tall robot instead, then whip out a ray gun to shrink Roger down to the appropriate size.
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* Dr. Thorkel has one in ''[[Film/DrCyclops Dr. Cyclops]]''.