Giantess

In a surviving fragment of Naevius' poem on the Punic war, he describes the Gigantes Runcus and Purpureus (Porphyrion): Eduard Fraenkel remarks of these lines, with their highly unusual plural Atlantes, "It does not surprise us to find the names Titani and Gigantes employed indiscriminately to denote the same mythological creatures, for we are used to the identification, or confusion, of these two types of monsters which, though not original, had probably become fairly common by the time of Naevius".

Similarly Arthur C. Clarke's story Cosmic Casanova describes an astronaut's revulsion at discovering that an extraterrestrial female he adored on a video screen is in fact thirty feet tall.

In the latter series, the giantess-superheroines Tara and Garganta combine immense size and strength with beauty and femininity, and have a cult following among both men and women.

The 1993 remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, starring Daryl Hannah in the title role, was advertised as a comedy; many scenes did parody earlier size-changing movies (most notably The Amazing Colossal Man), although the central theme was feminist.

The heroine Nancy, formerly a cipher to her domineering father and husband, is empowered by her new-found size and starts to take control of her destiny, and encourages other women to do the same.

Monsters vs. Aliens features a satirization of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman in which the main protagonist, Susan Murphy, is clobbered by a radioactive meteor that causes her to grow up to 49 feet, 11½ inches, becoming Ginormica.

In Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, Cassie Stradford, a college student, steals a drug and injects herself with it to make her pretty.

Giantesses have also appeared in some television series such as Genie in the House, Snorks, Schoolhouse Rock, Jackie Chan Adventures, Braceface, The Electric Company, The Muppet Show, Dexter's Laboratory, Futurama, Justice League Unlimited, Animaniacs, Toonsylvania, Kids Next Door, Archie's Weird Mysteries, Harley Quinn, The Powerpuff Girls in Attack of the Fifty Footed Woman, Totally Spies!

The Schoolhouse Rock episode "Unpack Your Adjectives" includes a scene where a tall girl grows into a 34-foot giantess, causing only her legs and sandals to be seen.

In the first episode of The Electric Company, Judy Graubart grows into a giantess while holding up a sign for the kid audience to read that says "giant".

[10] Lana Del Rey plays a giantess walking around Los Angeles in the music video for her cover of Sublime's "Doin' Time".