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KD Since: May, 2009
21st Sep, 2023 08:13:44 PM

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever is not about large things in general. It's about a super-sized version of something's normal size.

A world that's small (like really small) would be Lilliputians. Even though a 5-6ft tall human would be giant in comparison to them, it doesn't make the human 50 feet tall (or attacking them, necessarily).

Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
22nd Sep, 2023 08:43:15 AM

Perspective and who is doing the measuring matters a lot here- it could apply if, say, you have a chinchilla brought over from somewhere where its size is normal to a Lilliputian world, so long as we are presented things at least partly from the perspective of "Run! A giant chinchilla is attacking the city!"

Edited by Scorpion451
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