Attack of the Monster Musical by Adam Abraham

B-Movies latched on to this trope for a time. Counterattacking from the air is another option, but risks invoking Helicopter Flyswatter.Ī standard plot for animated shows, but tough to pull off seriously for live action. If the hero wants to fight back, he may be in for a Colossus Climb, if deploying Humongous Mecha is out of the question. Imitators often omit the Downer Ending where Kong falls to his death, though. (And if that happens, expect two or more Japanese tourists to shout ' Ahh! Gojira!' and run away.)Įpisodes of this kind are quite likely to include a Stock Parody or Homage of King Kong: The 50-foot (15-meter) whatever will climb a tower, often with a Damsel in Distress in hand and airplanes buzzing like flies. Pet monkeys and lizards, however, tend to seamlessly morph into either King Kong or Godzilla knock-offs along the way, no matter what their original species were. Their voices may get lower as well.ĭiffers from Shapeshifting in that the character generally just becomes a much bigger version of whatever they were before. For humans, expect Magic Pants to be in effect - can't have a giant naked person, after all. This generally violates the Square-Cube Law, but that's okay.

If the victim is a normal person, the growth process will inevitably fry their synapses or they'll go on a power trip with delusions of Godhood, requiring the hero of the story to find a way to put them back to normal just the same.

And the protagonists have a huge problem to deal with.įor maximum disaster potential, the victim of the growth is usually a pet, wild animal, baby human or other character without a firmly developed sense of morality or sentience who might innocently topple the downtown skyscrapers without really meaning it. This is, in essence, Incredible Shrinking Man turned on its head, where the ray gun that zapped the character was set on 'Grow' instead of 'Shrink'.

Attack of the Monster Musical by Adam Abraham