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* A rather extreme example in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Usopp is initially 174 cm, and he gets sent to an island where he meets Heracles who seems to be almost twice his height. Usopp feasts on the food of the island and becomes very obese. He also suddenly is twice Heracles' height. There may be some YourSizeMayVary involved (which Oda tends to do with his very short and very tall characters), but still, Usopp should have grown to well over 5 meters. And yes, when he loses all that weight, he becomes his former height again.

* Justified in the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "[[Recap/KimPossibleS4E7GrandeSizeMe Grande Size Me]]". At first, Ron's weight gain is portrayed realistically, he just grows a BalloonBelly with all the consequences of being unhealthy. After he falls into a vat of MutagenicGoo, however, he loses all apparent health issues and grows taller as he gains weight. It turns out that the stuff was a failed SuperSerum that only worked when subjects ate extremely unhealthy food, and even then, [[HulkingOut the results]] were undesired. This leads to a parody AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle stinger wherein Ron warns of [[SpoofAesop the dangers of exposure to mutagenic substances]] to the audience, to the confusion of onlookers.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E2WeightGain4000 Weight Gain 4000]]", Cartman starts drinking the eponymous energy drink, thinking he would buff up. By the time Kathy Lee Gifford comes to town, Cartman is so fat that he's [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-reallyfat.jpg almost a head taller than the other boys]]. An alternate depiction of this scene in the ClipShow spoof "City on the Edge of Forever" shows a muscular Cartman that [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-gonewrong!.gif still manages to appear taller than he usually is]].

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* Stocking ends up gaining so much weight in one episode of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' that she stands about 20 feet tall. She's so fat that Panty -- aside from taking a moment to laugh at her -- runs on top of Stocking while kalinka dancing to travel around the city on her like a giant ball.
* A rather extreme example in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Usopp is initially 174 cm, and he gets sent to an island where he meets Heracles who seems to be almost twice his height. Usopp feasts on the food of the island and becomes very obese. He also suddenly is twice Heracles' height. There may be some YourSizeMayVary involved (which Oda tends to do with his very short and very tall characters), but still, Usopp should have grown to well over 5 meters. And yes, when he loses all that weight, he becomes his former height again.

** [[Characters/DragonBallBroly Broly]] is already very tall in his base form, but [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/kami_sama_explorer/5491583299/ gains several feet as the Legendary Super Saiyan.]] This is the most immediate contrast between his and Trunks's "Super Saiyan 3rd Grade" his form was inspired by. Trunks ''only'' gained muscle mass.

* Whenever ComicBook/{{Bane}} uses Venom to increase his strength, he usually also gets taller and more muscular. More so in media outside the comics.

* In ''The Grand and Bountiful Trixie'' (a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic), Trixie eats some enchanted food that fattens her up impossibly quickly. As explained in the narration, the spell also increases her muscle mass and enlarges her skeleton--so she remains mobile, even as she bloats up to an "elephantine" size and towers over Princess Luna.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Mayor Shelbourne was a rather small-looking guy when he was first introduced. After gorging himself on the food created by Flint Lockwood's machine, he becomes super fat and grows several times his normal height.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the eponymous character starts off scrawny looking and is shown to be short or about the same height as those around him. When he gains muscle mass, suddenly he is taller than almost every other character in the movie. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that Hercules was about 14 when he started training and nearly 18 when he concluded it. The fact that he's a demigod could also have something to do with it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Hal Stewart was originally somewhat short and plump, but once he receives Metro Man's DNA by Megamind, he gets a HeroicBuild and becomes as tall as Metro Man.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the supersoldier serum makes Steve Rogers taller as well as more muscular. Possibly this is the main cause of [[PainfulTransformation his agonized screams during the process.]]
* Taken to an extreme during Sherman's NightmareSequence in ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'' where he grows fatter and fatter to the point of becoming tall as a giant as well.

* The short-lived nineties SketchComedy ''The Edge'' had a sketch where Delta Burke gains so much weight she turns into a literal giantess, rips the roof off the ''Series/DesigningWomen'' set and eats the rest of the cast.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', Steve gets infected with the T-Veronica virus and it causes him to grow into a hulking muscular hunchback brute that is several feet taller than he was previously. After he is attacked by Alexia's tentacles, he reverts back to his human form and also returns to his normal size.

* The FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' starts out in his normal human form. In the second phase, he uses powers that make him incredibly muscular and taller as well.

* ''VideoGame/SushiCat'' thrives on this logic, as most levels involve him just trying to get ''tall'' enough to do a thing and deciding that gorging himself on sushi is the best way to accomplish this. One of the more egregious examples is eating enough to reach the height of a ''Ferris wheel''.

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* Justified in ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'', Seamus's obesity and gigantism are both caused by a botched LongevityTreatment. And even after he has his metabolism stabilized and drops 117 kilos he is still more than 2.3 meters tall.

* In episode 9 of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', "Jumbo Johnny", Johnny impatiently downs an entire month's supply of a muscle-building supplement to bulk up and wakes up morbidly obese the next morning. He's clearly taller than he normally is, but it isn't until he drinks one more can that he grows into a stories tall blubbery giant. When he's given a diet supplement to reverse the effect and [[HereWeGoAgain again takes it all at once]], the next morning he'd regained his original proportions but become less than a foot tall.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Sumo Kaz", Kaz, Ami, and Yumi get super fat and grow several times their height.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', when Jade turns into T-Girl she gains muscle all over her body, but [[TopHeavyGuy only her upper body gets taller while her lower body stays the same height]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Frenchfry", Lilo, Stitch, and Pleakley get taller as they're fattened up. Averted with Gantu, as he's really tall to begin with.

* The second claymation short shown before the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E1ComputerIntruder Computer Intruder]]" had Bogus come across a container full of [[FoodPills dehydrated food tablets]] and a vial of water used for the re-hydration process. After experimenting with one of the tablets, he eats all of the tablets and drinks the entire vial of water, which in turn causes him to become massively bloated within seconds.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Weight Gain 4000", Cartman starts drinking the eponymous energy drink, thinking he would buff up. By the time Kathy Lee Gifford comes to town, Cartman is so fat that he's [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-reallyfat.jpg almost a head taller than the other boys]]. An alternate depiction of this scene in the ClipShow spoof "City on the Edge of Forever" shows a muscular Cartman that [[http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cartman-gonewrong!.gif still manages to appear taller than he usually is]].
* In a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer eats and eats and eats and eats, eventually growing to the size of a small building. This is because he ate an alien BlobMonster and [[YouAreWhoYouEat became one]].
* Justified in the episode "Grande Size Me" of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. At first Ron's weight gain is portrayed realistically, he just grows a BalloonBelly with all the consequences of being unhealthy. After he falls into a vat of MutagenicGoo however, he loses all apparent health issues and grows taller as he gains weight. Turns out the stuff was a failed SuperSerum that only worked when subjects ate extremely unhealthy food, and even then [[HulkingOut the results]] were undesired. This leads to a parody AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle stinger where Ron warns the [[SpoofAesop dangers of exposure to mutagenic substances]] to the audience, to the confusion of onlookers.
* In the 1937 short "WesternAnimation/{{Pigs Is Pigs|1937}}", Piggy starts the short as a slightly chubby, but tiny piglet. After he's force-fed by a mad scientist for an entire day, he's swollen to look like a giant beach ball with little stubs for limbs and is far taller than he was before getting captured thanks to having been fattened up.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode [[WhatIf "Anthology of Interest II"]] sees Bender turned into a human being who immediately goes on an over-eating binge. One montage later he arrives at the Professor's presentation grossly overweight and somehow several feet taller than when he started. The DVDCommentary jokingly handwaves it by claiming he gained a lot of weight on the soles of his feet.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Kobra-Venom transforms Mammoth from a scrawny beanpole into a massive, misshapen hulk: far taller, heavier, and more muscular than he had been before.
* In the episode "Weight Gaining" of ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'', Rikochet is forced to gain weight to be able to challenge three students who are twice his size. He gets so obsessed with gaining weight that he eventually grows large enough to try eating a Mr. Squishy Spongecake truck and [[IAmAHumanitarian its driver]]!
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** After his wife died, Tuttle became so morbidly obese that he was completely immobile. His also grew upwards in the process.
** In one episode that spoofed ''[[{{Series/TheDeadZone}} The Dead Zone]]'' a convolution of events leads to a baby raccoon abandoned in the Smith's basement with only a stockpile of protein powder for food and a workout machine to pass the time. It ends up bulking up to an estimated eight-foot-tall behemoth.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has the gang squaring off against the Gluten Demon, which is attacking every restaurant and chef in town by devouring all of their gluten-rich foods. Shaggy and Scooby are tasked with [[BigEater eating all of that food before the demon can get to it]] to lure it out. The two are genuinely ecstatic to do so, binge for hours, and end up becoming not just incredibly round and fat, but roughly eight feet tall each and [[StoutStrength immensely strong]]. They then take on the Gluten Demon in a sumo wrestling match, as they're now "too full to be scared"; during the battle, both Shaggy and Scooby shrug off the damage of being thrown into several cars, while the cars themselves are totally destroyed.

* The main protagonist Munch (pictured above) from ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'' grows as his belly gets bigger. This even affects gameplay, as after a certain weight level he can't fit into tight spaces and can cause him to get stuck in said tight spaces if he gets to that size while in them. His final weight level can even span most of the screen height-wise (even though at that point he's immobile)!

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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Kobra-Venom transforms Mammoth from a scrawny beanpole into a massive, misshapen hulk: far taller, heavier, and more muscular than he had been before.

In RealLife, you have a set adult height (unless you have some sudden growth disorder) and no amount of weight gain, whether from fat or muscle, will increase it (well, gaining some muscle might make you stand up straighter, but that's about it). In fiction, however, especially in animation, getting fat or muscular will increase a character's height. This is done both to exaggerate how big the character has become, as well as making the character easier to draw.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' that spoofed ''[[{{Series/TheDeadZone}} The Dead Zone]]'' a convolution of events leads to a baby raccoon abandoned in the Smith's basement with only a stockpile of protein powder for food and a workout machine to pass the time. It ends up bulking up to an estimated eight-foot-tall behemoth.

* In ''Film/CharlieAndtheChocolateFactory'', this happens to Violet Beauregarde after chewing until the gum reaches the blubbery dessert flavor. After turning a different shade of blue, she swells up in a roughly 20 feet living blueberry. This adaptation is an outlier, as the book and other adaptations (even animated ones) generally keep Violet's height the same.

* In ''ComicBook/{{DP7}}'', after the White Event, David Landers puts on a huge amount of muscle and height, which hurts him whenever he has a growth spurt.

* In ''Film/CharlieAndtheChocolateFactory'', this happens to Violet Beauregarde. This does not happen to her in the book and other adaptations.

* In ''Film/CharlieandtheChocolateFactory'', this happens to Violet Beauregarde. This does not happen to her in the book and other adaptations.

In RealLife, you have a set adult height (unless you have some sudden growth disorder) and no amount of weight gain, whether from fat or muscle, will increase it. In fiction, however, especially in animation, getting fat or muscular will increase a character's height. This is done both to exaggerate how big the character has become, as well as making the character easier to draw.

* The main protagonist Munch (pictured above) from ''VideoGame/TribalHunter'' grows as his belly gets bigger. This even affects gameplay, as after a certain weight level he can't fit into tight spaces and can cause him to get stuck in said tight spaces if he gets to that size while in them. His final weight level can even span most of the screen height wise (even though at that point he's immobile)!
* ''VideoGame/SushiCat'' thrives on this logic, as most levels involve him just trying to get ''tall'' enough to do a thing and deciding gorging himself on sushi is the best way to accomplish this. One of the more egregious examples is eating enough to reach the height of a ''ferris wheel''.

* In episode 9 of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', "Jumbo Johnny", Johnny impatiently downs an entire months supply of a muscle building supplement to bulk up and wakes up morbidly obese the next morning. He's clearly taller than he normally is, but it isn't until he drinks one more can that he grows into a stories tall blubbery giant. When he's given a diet supplement to reverse the effect and [[HereWeGoAgain again takes it all at once]], the next morning he'd regained his original proportions but become less than a foot tall.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "Sumo Kaz", Kaz, Ami and Yumi get super fat and grow several times their height.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Frenchfry", Lilo, Stitch and Pleakley get taller as they're fattened up. Averted with Gantu, as he's really tall to begin with.

* Justified in the episode "Grande Size Me" of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. At first Ron's weight gain is portrayed realistically, he just grows a BalloonBelly with all the consequences of being unhealthy. After he falls into a vat if MutagenicGoo however, he loses all apparent health issues and grows taller as he gains weight. Turns out the stuff was a failed SuperSerum that only worked when subjects ate extremely unhealthy food, and even then [[HulkingOut the results]] were undesired. This leads to a parody AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle stinger where Ron warns the [[SpoofAesop dangers of exposure to mutagenic substances]] to the audience, to the confusion of onlookers.
* In the 1937 short "WesternAnimation/{{Pigs Is Pigs|1937}}", Piggy starts the short as a slightly chubby, but tiny piglet. After he's force-fed by a mad scientist for an entire day, he's swollen to look like a giant beach ball with little stubs for limbs, and is far taller than he was before getting captured thanks to having been fattened up.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Kobra-Venom transforms Mammoth from a scrawny beanpole into a massive, misshapen hulk: far taller, heavier and more muscular than he had been before.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' that spoofed ''[[{{Series/TheDeadZone}} The Dead Zone]]'' a convolution of events leads to a baby raccoon abandoned in the Smith's basement with only a stockpile of protein powder for food and a workout machine to pass the time. It ends up bulking up to an estimated eight foot tall behemoth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Mayor Shelbourne was a rather small-looking guy when he was first introduced. After gorging himself on the food created by Flint Lockwood's FLDSMDFR, he becomes super fat and grows several times his normal height.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Hal Stewart was originally somewhat short and plump, but he gets a HeroicBuild after he receives Metro Man's DNA by Megamind.

* In episode 9 of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', "Jumbo Johnny", Johnny impatiently downs an entire months supply of a muscle building supplement to bulk up and wakes up morbidly obese the next morning. He's clearly taller than he normally is, but it isn't until he drinks one more can that he grows into a stories tall blubbery giant.

** Super Saiyan 4 from ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' makes anyone who uses it taller, more so than it increases muscle mass in the case of Vegeta.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Hal Stewart was originally somewhat short and plump, but after he receive's Metro Man's DNA by Megamind, he turns muscular and becomes much taller than he was before.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Mayor Shelbourne was a rather small-looking guy when he was first introduced. After gorging himself on the food created by Flint Lockwood's FLDSMDFR, he becomes super fat and grows several times his normal height.

* ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'': Halflings are typically quite short, but the tremendously fat Melvin Underbelly is also taller than the Overlord!