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| rdfs:comment | - Bees and moths whirr above you like helicopters. Flowers and blades of grass loom over you. Familiar household objects are like huge, immovable obstacles. Your fellow human beings blot out the sky with their immense, towering girth. Sound like a bad case of the Mondays? Think again: you've been shrunk! A subset of Shapeshifting. Often times this is how the human protagonists are introduced to (and/or imprisoned in) the Mouse World. Considered somewhat hokey to do in live-action nowadays, even in Sci Fi, owing to the Square-Cube Law. In cartoons, however, you can get away with it.
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| abstract | - Bees and moths whirr above you like helicopters. Flowers and blades of grass loom over you. Familiar household objects are like huge, immovable obstacles. Your fellow human beings blot out the sky with their immense, towering girth. Sound like a bad case of the Mondays? Think again: you've been shrunk! The plots of Shrinking Man stories tend to involve hapless victims of Applied Phlebotinum suddenly becoming one finger tall (Magic Pants included), struggling to navigate a formerly friendly environment (such as a house or yard) and spending the rest of the episode trying not to get killed or eaten while attracting the notice of normal-sized folks who might be able to change them back to normal. (Don't expect the message to get across immediately.) A subset of Shapeshifting. Often times this is how the human protagonists are introduced to (and/or imprisoned in) the Mouse World. Considered somewhat hokey to do in live-action nowadays, even in Sci Fi, owing to the Square-Cube Law. In cartoons, however, you can get away with it. If the characters are shrunk down far enough, they could embark on a Fantastic Voyage Plot. Depending on how the shrinking works, they may or may not get their clothes to shrink with them--resulting in Empty Piles of Clothing or something similar. Contrast with Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever. See also Shrink Ray. Examples of Incredible Shrinking Man include:
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