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13->''"Ow! Wait. How did you punch me? The hologram was so much taller than you. It defies logic."''
14-->-- '''Heinz Doofenshmirtz''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
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16Some clothing seems to [[OneSizeFitsAll expand and shrink]] to fit whoever is wearing it. However, sometimes, it's the exact opposite. The clothing stays exactly the same, but the person within changes to fit the costume.
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18Maybe this is done [[SuddenlyObviousFakery to keep someone's identity hidden from the viewer]], or maybe just for a joke. But, whatever the reason may be, the people wearing these seem to be a lot more elastic than when they stop.
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20Note that this [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has nothing to do]] with BecomingTheMask or BecomingTheCostume.
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22Usually a case of FullBodyDisguise, or occasionally LatexPerfection. Compare BiggerOnTheInside, OlderAlterEgo, YourSizeMayVary and TotemPoleTrench. More exaggerated examples of ClarkKentOutfit tend to cross into this trope.
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30* A strange minor example in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Snegurochka has normal human feet, but typically wears almost perfectly-cylindrical snow boots that aren't wide enough for them to possibly fit inside.
31* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the AnimatedAdaptation's ''New Captain Amagai Shuusuke'' {{Filler}} arc, a young girl who tries to assassinate Princess Rurichiyo is revealed to be a much taller male {{Ninja}} in a FullBodyDisguise.
32* ''Anime/LupinIII'':
33** ''Anime/LupinIIISevenDaysRhapsody'' has Zenigata confront a jockey in the locker room. After shaking him, nuts and bolts fall off, and the guy grows ''taller''; it's Lupin in disguise!
34** Also, in ''Anime/LupinIIIStolenLupin'', Lupin disguises himself as an extremely fat man.
35* Naruzo Machio in ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' looks pretty normal when wearing his tracksuit. Then [[PecFlex he strikes a pose to show off his muscles]], tearing the suit off and growing into a TinyHeadedBehemoth.
36* Nagumo of ''Manga/SakamotoDays'' can create {{Full Body Disguise}}s that defy all physical dimensions. He's not only made himself look taller and more muscular, but was able to make Taro look identical to his shorter and much thinner ''[[DisguisedInDrag wife]]''.
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40* ''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}'': Downplayed, as Trellis spends the first five books wearing bulky armour, and looking roughly adult-sized. When he's finally is shown out of it in ''Escape From Lucien'', he's revealed to be a lot skinnier, and around [[OneHeadTaller half a head taller than Emily]].
41* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Comicbook/{{Anarky}} is really a thirteen year old boy who wears a costume with a built in head extender to appear as a much taller man in his earliest stories, beginning in 1989. This costume element was eventually dropped by 1997, with the fictional explanation being that the character had grown to fill out the costume. This was in fact clever cover for the reality that the extender was difficult to draw in action scenes. Further, it had only been intended to fool the reader as a red herring in the character's first appearance, but other artists had continued using the extender needlessly, or dropped it on their own, creating confusion as to the costume's official design. Giving a direct explanation to never need the extender again created a uniformity for all artists to follow thereafter.
42* ''ComicBook/GIJoe'': [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the case of Zartan as he's a trained contortionist.
43* ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'' The all-time prize for this trope ''has'' to go to Ronin turning out to be Echo. "He" was originally going to be Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, and until the unmasking, there was nothing even remotely androgynous about the character's bulky, masculine body shape. Seriously, it's like pulling the cowl off [[Comicbook/TheDarkKnightReturns Frank Miller's hulking Batman]] and finding Harley Quinn underneath.
44* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': During the 1980s "Gang War" arc in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'', ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} poses as ComicBook/TheKingpin by wearing a FatSuit. However, given the Kingpin is noticeably taller than Daredevil, this does raise some questions about how he faked the greater limb length and could still use his hands.
45* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Downplayed, since Rorshach is revealed to wear elevator shoes and a thick coat to make him look bigger and taller.
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49* ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' from ''Dragon Magazine'' #68 (December 1982). A man who's 6 feet tall and weighs maybe 300 lb. becomes an elven woman at least two feet shorter. When asked how he did it, he says "Special shoes". [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070812 Read it here.]]
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53* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', villain Warren T. Rat spends most of the movie disguised as a rat, and not much bigger than the mouse protagonists. When he removes his costume to reveal that he's actually a cat, he becomes much bigger, albeit still smaller than the other cats.
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57* The ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' had the CEO of acme dresses as Granny as somewhat believable. Then he had his 2 meters minion disguised as Sylvester. And then the Tazmanian Devil disguised as Tweety.
58* Played with ''Film/MenInBlack''. The invading alien Bug spends most of the movie walking around [[GenuineHumanHide in the skin of a local redneck named Edgar]]. In the climax, [[spoiler:the Bug sheds his Edgar suit to reveal that he had folded himself to fit, and he's really much, much larger than a human]].
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62* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
63** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons The Terror of the Autons]]", the Master infiltrates UNIT HQ in a disguise so convincing it was actually portrayed by a completely different actor -- who was significantly shorter than the undisguised Master.
64** The Foamasi in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" were lizard-like aliens who infiltrated by wearing full-body disguises that made them appear human. When one was unmasked and stripped of his disguise, his true form was somehow considerably larger than his disguised form (since the latter was portrayed by a normal-sized human and the former by a normal-sized human in a bulky monster suit). The ExpandedUniverse says that Foamasi have telescopic bones and most of their bulk is a compressible liquid.
65** The Slitheen, introduced in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Aliens of London]]", are a lampshaded version. Like the Foamasi, they're bulky-monster-suit aliens that disguise themselves as humans, but it's explicitly stated that their disguises incorporate advanced size-compression technology (and that even so they find it easier to impersonate large humans).
66* An episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' features Invisapparel, clothing which can hide a pregnant belly making it appear normal and flat.
67* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When Arya Stark uses {{Face Steal|er}}ing to disguise herself as Walder Frey, the rest of her body is inexplicably the size of a grown man's.
68* In the ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' episode "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E10AttackOfTheJackOLanterns Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns]]", twin brother and sister Shane and Shana are revealed to be alien friends of the lead protagonist. When in their human disguises, they are at an average pre-teen kid size, but after removing their LatexPerfection masks to reveal their green Muppet-esque alien heads, suddenly they are ''way'' taller, appearing even larger than an average adult human.
69* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
70** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Users of the mass-produced Ride-Player suits (who range from short girls to fat men) gain identical heights and builds when they [[HenshinHero transform]].
71** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': In the post-series CrossOver with ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', an alternate version of Sougo awakens to the power of [[FutureMeScaresMe Ohma Zi-O]] while still a child, but looks identical to the original adult Ohma Zi-O while transformed (he can also ''[[VocalDissonance speak]]'' in Ohma's baritone without transforming). As Ohma Zi-O is a RealityWarper and [[TimeMaster "supreme overlord of past, present and future"]], he may have simply [[OlderAlterEgo aged himself up to fit the suit]].
72* In ''Series/TheMaster'', due to some obvious use of a BodyDouble, whenever Master [=McAllister=] puts on his ninja garbs, he becomes noticeably thinner.
73* ''Series/MidsommerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS22E1 The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy]]'', the Wolf Hunter suggests a tall antagonist. When the killer is revealed they are significantly shorter than the other suspects and shorter than the costume initially seemed to suggest.
74* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' occasionally have unsuited actors who blatantly don't match the size of the suited stuntman.
75** The {{Sixth Ranger}}s of both ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' and ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' and Justin from ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' are children explicitly shown to grow to adult proportions when they transform.
76** An example based on two costumes instead of two actors: In ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', Doggie K/Cruger's canine snout [[https://twitter.com/rekkadaizanto/status/1433821872987283457 can fit in]] his human-sized [=DekaMaster=]/Shadow Ranger helmet.
77** In ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''; when the overweight Ramirez morphs, his Ranger form starts out thinner and explicitly shrinks down further as the transformation sequence goes on. Possible a JustifiedTrope since Ramirez is long dead and isn't really restricted to the physics of the living.
78** In ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'', several of the Donbrothers explicitly shift from normal proportions to exaggerated ones when they morph: Shinichi becomes excessively muscular, Tsuyoshi's legs double in length, and Tsubasa shrinks down into SuperDeformed proportions. Justified as the Ranger forms are {{Digital Avatar}}s and not actual suits in this series, with Tsuyoshi's and Tsubasa's even being done in CGI instead of physical costumes.
79* ''Series/TheSlammer'': When Melvin and Pete are abducted and replaced by aliens, the aliens' masks not only [[LatexPerfection make them look exactly like Melvin and Pete]], but disguise the fact that they are taller and have longer hands.
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83* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd Edition, a high enough Disguise check would let you successfully pass yourself off as a character an entire size category smaller than you were. So a 6 foot 5 inch half orc that weighed 300 pounds could, somehow, convincingly pass themselves off as a 3 foot tall halfling that weight 50 pounds. This was not actually the silliest thing in that editions rules regarding skill checks.
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87* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', one sidequest involves Zack finding Wutai spies disguised as various people in Midgar. The last one to find is disguised as a ''small child'' whose NPC dialogue is "[[HiddenInPlainSight I'm a Wutai spy!]]" before you actually do this sidequest. When you speak to him with the sidequest active, he'll run off and ditch the disguise behind a convenient SceneryCensor and suddenly is the size of a regular, tall adult.
88* The ending to ''[[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Earthworm Jim 2]]'' reveals that the entirely humanoid Jim, Psycrow and Princess Whats-Her-Name were all [[spoiler:large, non-anthropomorphic cows in disguises the whole time]]. Jim also wears a salamander costume for an entire level with no regard given to the complete change in body shape, voice and movement ability.
89* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
90** The series has two playable "{{Beast|Man}} Races" - the [[LizardFolk Argonians]] and [[CatFolk Khajiit]]. Both species, at least in their [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness appearances after]] ''Daggerfall'', have elongated snouts much like real-life lizard and cats. However, in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', both races can wear full-face helmets which completely reshape their heads. Their snouts are flattened, and the helmets neatly go over any [[AlienHair spikes, horns, feathers, fur]], or foot-long ears. Weirdly, several helmets have two completely different looks depending on whether the current wearer is ''male or female'', but don't change to reflect their species.
91** Notably, this is averted in their predecessor ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', where these races cannot wear full helmets. Fan backlash, however, led to this concept being dropped, despite logic.
92* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', [[DamselInDistress Princess Peach]] needs to slip into a [[{{Mook}} X-Naut]] uniform...which is around a head smaller than Peach, but still manages to squeeze into one. Peach herself [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] just how tight a fit the uniform is when getting into and out of it.
93* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', [[spoiler:Don Paolo]] spends most of the game [[LatexPerfection disguised as]] [[spoiler:Layton's adopted daughter Flora]], despite the former being much taller and broader-shouldered than the latter.
94* The opera level in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' involves chasing after the Phantom, a very gaunt masked figure. When the Phantom is finally unmasked, he turns out to be the huge, obese Jasper the Critic. The protagonist lampshades how this doesn't make sense, [[AWizardDidIt but you are in someone's mind, so it doesn't have to]].
95* Mr. Fizwidget in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'' turns out to be [[spoiler:Captain Quark]] in disguise, who's at least half again as tall as Fizwidget and [[TopHeavyGuy much broader at the shoulder]].
96* In the first installment of ''VideoGame/TheSims'', different clothing items changed the apparent weight of the wearer.
97* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': To his enemies, the Spy's disguises have LatexPerfection, including the body type. {{Fanon}} thinks that some sort of hologram technology is involved. However, while the Spy's apparent size changes, his physical size (his hitbox) does not. That size difference can occasionally be helpful to the Spy, such as an enemy player shooting at their Heavy and thinking he's been spy-checked, only to find their shots missed the Spy's real body within. Taken to absurd levels when disguising as the Scout, who's hunched stature means that the taller Spy's head is invisible over the disguise. Creative spies can hide all but their real invisible head behind a low barrier, giving them an invisible view of their surroundings.
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101* In ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations]]'' several characters wear the Mask☆[=DeMasque=] outfit throughout the second case, for various reasons, including detective Luke Atmey, whose GagNose is ''far'' too long to ever fit behind the mask.
102** Averted in "Justice for All," where Adrian Andrews gives herself away by wearing a Nickel Samurai costume that is visibly too tall for her (though it nearly went undetected). The same thing happened in the third case of the first game: Jack Hammer wears a Steel Samurai costume that is too big for him, causing the pant legs to reach the ground.
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106* 'Bo is a lapine BrawnHilda in Phillip Jackson's ''WebComic/BattleBunnies''. 'Bo sneers at the monk's robe that Fletch provides, since it has no hope of swathing her girth in page 26. To 'Bo's astonishment, it does exactly that, making her seem as slender as any other monk in page 27.
107* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' -- Justified in the case of plump Abby Primrose's sexy [[PoweredArmor powered armor.]] Like so many [[HigherTechSpecies Nemesite]] devices, it's [[AlienGeometries "tesseracted"]] to be [[BiggerOnTheInside bigger on the inside.]]
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111* In ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Eleanor seems to experience a sort of instant slim down whenever she wears something other than her signature outfit, despite being "chubby" being one of her identifiable characteristics.
112* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': In "Bubba Bo Bob Brain", the Brain becomes a country western singer to broadcast a mind-control message. As part of his costume, he sews himself an extra-long pair of blue jeans and uses stilts to make himself over six feet tall. This results in him repeatedly [[ForgotToMindTheirHead walking into door frames]].
113* Done realistically in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. When the first Robin disguises himself as Bruce Wayne so as prove Hugo Strange wrong about them being the same person. This required the use of stilts to help sell the disguise.
114* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "Live And Let Squatch", one of Abomina Lafur's ninja penguins is revealed to be Armand in disguise. Her unzips the penguin costume and steps out: transforming from penguin-sized to full-sized Sasquatch (and wearing a tuxedo).
115* Happens in [[RuleOfFunny a humorous fashion]] in the early ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "15 Minutes of Shame", when a talk show hosted by Diane Simmons features a dating couple parodying TheReveal trope; the male Mario was really a woman in a latex mask and mens' shirt, but then confesses that she is not even a woman, and unzips her FullBodyDisguise to reveal a horse much larger than Mario's human size, and then confesses that he is a ''broom'', removing the horse suit to reveal a broom only a little smaller than Mario's man/woman getup that lifelessly falls over.
116* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', where Hermes has a suit that reshapes the wearer's body to make them more athletic.
117* An odd example in the very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero:'' the heavyset female Pentagon representative has just revealed herself to be the Baroness in disguise, by pulling off a mask and wig. She runs over to join the invading Cobra forces — and has somehow suddenly lost whatever padding she was wearing under her clothes, because she now looks like her usual svelte self.
118* ''WesternAnimation/JamiesGotTentacles'': Jamie looks much like a squid except he has dark green skin, four oval eyes and at least seven tentacles. His disguise makes him look like a human boy in a stripy orange and yellow t-shirt and red shorts.
119* In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'' episode "VIP Baby You Know Me", [[WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears Shag Rugg]] dupes Series/TheBananaSplits by having several of his friends disguise themselves flawlessly as doubles of Shag using costumes from a trunk within the Splits' warehouse. Two of Shag's pals who help to trick the Splits, WesternAnimation/YakkyDoodle and WesternAnimation/PeterPotamus, are respectively smaller and ''much'' bigger than the bear cub and yet are as flawlessly disguised as Shag as [[WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy Augie Doggie]] is.
120* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' "A League of his Own" both plays straight and subverts this trope. Johnny has to disguise himself as school girl to play in a girls softball team, and is obviously still a giant man in a wig. However, it turns out later that even more grown men were disguised as girls to play in the teams, and had magically shrunk when wearing their costumes.
121* The final ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episode "Just Chillin'" has a scene where Henry and June, in an effort to make their show more exciting and action-packed, engage in a TraintopBattle with sasquatch Mr. Foot wearing a [[EvilWearsBlack black leather villains' outfit]] with his huge bulky form still showing through. But then at one point [[SuddenlySpeaking the normally-mute Mr. Foot suddenly speaks in a gruff voice]] and then peels off his LatexPerfection ape mask to reveal Creator/JonVoight, after which the rest of his body [[YourSizeMayVary inexplicably shrinks down]] to a normal human body size and shape, still wearing the black outfit.
122* This is standard on ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo.'' The size of a suspect rarely has any correlation to the size of the "ghost" running around. Probably comes from movie serials being at least partly the inspiration for ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''; in the serials, sometimes at the beginning the writers had no idea which character was going to be the true identity of the villain, even after shooting began on the first chapters. The hooded mastermind would be played by an actor who was not part of the actual cast. This would not-infrequently result in the Mysterious Cloaked Bad Guy being quite a bit taller than the cast member eventually revealed as his true identity.
123* Ned Flanders in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is actually incredibly muscular. You'd never guess this by looking at his clothing, which make him appear somewhat fat.
124** Sometimes this is done with various other characters too, like [[ViolentGlaswegian Groundskeeper Willie]].
125** While experience with make-up, voice mimicry and contortion might explain how Sideshow Bob could effectively look and sound like Krusty the Clown when framing the latter for armed robbery, it could only be explained through magic how he disguised his comparatively gigantic long head and mounds of hair within a convincing and highly expressive mask.
126* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' at the end of the episode "Spy Buddies", we have Mr. Krabs flawlessly disguised as Plankton. Note that the latter is one of the smallest members of the show's entire cast. Then immediately afterward we have [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick turning out to actually be other random characters that all vary wildly in size and shape from each other.
127* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', where Octus, a shape shifting robot disguised as a human, has to wear a suit about 1/3 his size. Being a shapeshifter, he just shrinks down to fit in it. To the rest of the characters, however, it seems to be playing this trope straight.
128* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': In the {{Mockumentary}} "The Making of Kon-Ducki", Sweetie Bird unzips her [[FullBodyDisguise "full body costume"]] to reveal she's actually Richard Nixon.
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