"Leela, evolution has programmed our fabulous male brains to take anything anyone else thinks is important, and make it bigger!"
— Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
Everything is better when it's BIG. You know you wish you had tropes this BIG. Unless, of course, you're Tiny Tropes.
Overlaps with Length Tropes and Height Tropes.
T R O P E S:
BIGGER BODY PARTS:
- Breasts:
- Buxom Is Better: Women with large breasts are considered more desirable.
- Big Breast Pride: A woman is proud of having large breasts.
- Boobs of Steel: A well-endowed woman who is also very strong.
- Gag Boobs: Comically oversized breasts.
- Most Common Superpower: Superheroines with large breasts.
- Face:
- Forehead of Doom: A character with an oversized forehead.
- Gag Lips
- Gag Nose
- Lantern Jaw of Justice: Good guys have huge chins.
- Genitals:
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Having a bigger penis makes you better at sex.
- Big Prick, Big Problems: having a bigger penis causes you problems.
- Black Is Bigger in Bed: The stereotype that black men have huge penises.
- Gag Penis: A comically oversized penis.
- Hair:
- Other:
- Balloon Belly: A character gets a big, round belly from overeating.
- Curves in All the Right Places
- Giant Foot of Stomping
- Growing Muscles Sequence
- Hartman Hips: Character has wide hips.
- Long Neck
- My Brain Is Big: A character has a huge head to show that they are intelligent.
- The Right Hand of Doom
- Shoulders of Doom
- Weight Taller
BIGGER BUILDINGS:
- Big Fancy Castle
- Big Fancy House
- Big Labyrinthine Building
- Bigger on the Inside: A building's interior is somehow much larger than it's exterior.
- Evil Tower of Ominousness
- Star Scraper
- Unnecessarily Large Interior
BIGGER CLOTHING:
BIGGER CREATURES:
- Always a Bigger Fish
- Amphibian at Large
- Animals Not to Scale
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The story has a giant (something) go on a rampage.
- Behemoth Battle
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Giant insects.
- Big Friendly Dog: A large, amiable canine.
- Canis Major: Giant dogs.
- Colossus Climb: Climbing your way up a giant being in order to hit it in areas where it is vulnerable.
- Cute Giant: An adorable giant.
- Dire Beast
- Eldritch Abomination
- Fungus Humongous
- Giant Animal Worship
- Giant Enemy Crab
- Giant Equals Invincible: Being gigantic means that nothing can hurt you.
- Giant Flyer
- Giant Spider
- Giant Squid
- Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies
- Kaiju
- Kraken and Leviathan
- Large and in Charge: The largest member of the group is also the leader.
- Large Runt
- Make My Monster Grow: A monster is made gigantic.
- Mega-Microbes
- Miracle-Gro Monster
- Mega Neko: A giant cat.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: The numerous portrayals of giants in media.
- Robeast
- Rodents of Unusual Size
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: A huge being with a disproportionately small head.
- Towering Flower
BIGGER FOOD:
- Big Eater: Character has a tendency to overeat.
- Dagwood Sandwich
- Giant Food
- Gigantic Gulp
BIGGER MEDIA:
- Bigger Than Jesus
- Bold Inflation
- Doorstopper
- Epic Movie
- Prolonged Video Game Sequel
- Summer Blockbuster
BIGGER PEOPLE:
- Adipose Rex: An overweight king.
- Amazonian Beauty: A tall, strong and beautiful woman.
- Big Beautiful Man: An attractive, overweight man.
- Big Beautiful Woman: An attractive, overweight woman.
- The Big Guy: The size, strength, and force of the good guys.
- Big Fun: A nice, fun-loving fat guy.
- Chubby Chaser
- Genius Bruiser: A person who is both highly intelligent and incredibly strong.
- Gentle Giant: A big person who is also very friendly.
- Giant Mook
- Giant Woman
- Heroic Build
- Huge Schoolgirl: An unusually tall schoolgirl.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: Having big muscles means you're very strong.
- Our Giants Are Bigger
- Statuesque Stunner
BIGGER VEHICLES:
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier
- Base on Wheels
- Enormous Engine
- Hummer Dinger
- Humongous Mecha: A giant robot someone controls from within.
- Super Robot Genre
- Tank Goodness
- Unnecessarily Large Vessel
BIGGER WEAPONS:
- Big, Bulky Bomb
- BFG: A ginormous gun.
- BFS: A ginormous sword.
- Colony Drop
- Fuuma Shuriken
- Great Bow
- Hand Cannon
- Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon
- More Dakka
- Telescoping Staff
- Wave-Motion Gun
Other BIG STUFF
- Giant Footprint Reveal: A huge pit turns out to be a footprint left by a big creature.
- Enormous Engagement Ring
- Everything Is Big in Texas
- Frank's 2000-Inch TV
- Grand Romantic Gesture
- Inflating Body Gag
- It's Snowing Cocaine
- No Indoor Voice: Character tends to shout their dialogue.
- Over-the-Top Christmas Decorations
- Pinball Scoring
- Sizable Snowflakes
- Sizeshifter: A character who can change their size.
- Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction
Meta-BIGGER
- Compensating for Something (a common Lampshade Hanging, because Freud Was Right)
- Evil Is Bigger (the reason many of these tropes are more common among villains)
- Square-Cube Law (Some of the above tropes are impossible in real life because of this)
This list is okay, but the King of All Cosmos wants a bigger, nicer list.
