miniaturization technology theme
Technology by which material objects (such as people) can be made smaller in size compared to their surrounding without changing their characteristics otherwise.
17 total · 3 choice · 6 major · 8 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: AntMan (2015) | choice | Hank Pym invented the the Ant-Man suit: a suit allows its wearer to shrink in size but increase in strength. |
| movie: AntMan and the Wasp (2018) | choice | The main novelty of the film is the Hank Pym invented technology that can be used to shrink things down in size. Most notably there is the Ant-Man and Wasp suits which shrink their wearers down to the size of an ant. But also of note is this film is Hank's portable, shrunken laboratory and his collection of shrunken Hot Wheels-like cars. |
| movie: Fantastic Voyage (1966) | choice | A government agency had the technology to shrink things and people to microscopic size. |
| ds96x14 | major | Jadzia, Miles, and Julian are shrunken down to one inch in height |
| movie: Attack of the Puppet People (1958) | major | Mr. Franz invented a machine which could shrink people down to a sixth of their original size. |
| movie: Dr. Cyclops (1940) | major | Alexander Thorkel miniaturizes his colleagues when they neglect to acknowledge his greatness as a scientist. |
| movie: Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | major | The eccentric inventor Wayne Szalinski shrank his own and his next door neighbor's children to a quarter of an inch with his electromagnetic shrinking machine. |
| movie: Honey We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) | major | Wayne Szalinski reassembled his old electromagnetic shrink ray with the intention of reducing in size a giant Tiki Man statue that his wife had been urging him to throw away. But it wasn't long before the Szalinski brothers and their wives found themselves shrunken down because of the ray. |
| movie: Innerspace (1987) | major | Lt. Tuck Pendleton volunteered for a secret miniaturization experiment in which he was placed in a submersible pod and both were shrunk to microscopic size. |
| movie: Avengers: Endgame (2019) | minor | Ant-man became very small in order to sneak into a suitcase. |