Giantesses are imaginary, gigantic women. They are widely believed to be mythological by the humans of modern-day, since the term "giantess" is so generic, it seems possible to describe female giants not native to Earth which fall under the very forgiving criteria as giantesses. This includes the female giant : either a mythical being , such as the Amazons of Greek mythology, resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength or a human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality (see gigantism ).
33-473: In 543 , according to the folk etymology for the name of Neringa Municipality , there was a giantess girl named Neringa on the seashore formed the Curonian Spit , who helped fishermen. The Titanides, sisters and children of Titans , may not have originally been seen as giants, but later Hellenistic poets and Latin ones tended to blur Titans and Giants. In a surviving fragment of Naevius ' poem on
66-468: A Giantess', which aims to promote healthy body image in young girls and spread the message that 'We are all beautiful. The giantess theme has also appeared in motion pictures, often as a metaphor for female empowerment or played for absurd humor . The 1958 B-movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman formed part of a series of size-changing films of the era which also included The Incredible Shrinking Man , The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock , and Village of
99-608: A giantess walking around Los Angeles in the music video for her cover of Sublime 's " Doin' Time ". 543 Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 939211725 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:59:12 GMT Absurd humor Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy , absurdist humour , or absurdist comedy )
132-541: A man whole before finally picking up a man (played by Italian footballer Gianluigi Buffon ) and kissing him. Natasha Stefanenko plays a giantess in the Italian advert Natasha Stefanenko : La gigantessa , where she rescues a horse from a spaceship and puts it back in its place and she accidentally breaks a building by sitting on it and Anna Campori provides the voice of Natasha in this advert. Giantesses have also appeared in some television series such as Genie in
165-767: A principal exponent of this, especially in The Exterminating Angel . It is a prominent feature in the television and cinematic work of the British comedy troupe Monty Python (1969–2015). Other examples include The Falls by Peter Greenaway and Brazil by Terry Gilliam . Surrealist humor has become increasingly popular in both children- and adult-oriented western animation, most notably in shows such as Regular Show , South Park , SpongeBob SquarePants , Aqua Teen Hunger Force , and more recently, Smiling Friends . Contemporary Internet meme culture, such as Weird Twitter and YouTube poop ,
198-498: A result, much of their art was intentionally amusing. One example is Marcel Duchamp 's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's function as expressed by its title as well as its incongruous presence in an art exhibition. The word surreal first began to be used to describe
231-434: 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. However, the drug had a side effect when she starts to grow taller and taller until she
264-417: A scene where a mermaid grows into a giantess caused by a machine. 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. She then stomps on a small boy who wouldn't stop laughing at how tall she grew. In the first episode of The Electric Company , Judy Graubart grows into a giantess while holding up
297-447: A series of scenes significantly different from what the audience might ordinarily encounter in daily life. The unique social situations, expressed thoughts, actions, and comic lines are used to spark laughter, emotion, or surprise as to how the events occurred or unfolded, in ways sometimes favorable to other unexpectedly introduced characters. Surreal humour in theater is usually about the insensitivity, paradox, absurdity, and cruelty of
330-431: A sign for the kid audience to read that says "giant". Pamela Anderson plays a giantess version of her V.I.P. Character Vallery Irons in the music video for the song " Miserable " by the rock group Lit . In the video, the band members perform on Anderson's body and are eventually devoured by her at the end. Kylie Minogue appears as a giantess in the music video for the single " Giving You Up ". Lana Del Rey plays
363-539: A type of aesthetic of the early 1920s. Surreal humour is also found frequently in avant-garde theatre such as Waiting for Godot and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead . In the United States, S. J. Perelman (1904–1979) has been identified as the first surrealist humour writer. Surrealist humour appeared on British radio from 1951 to 1960 by the cast of The Goon Show : Spike Milligan , Peter Sellers , and Harry Secombe . The Goons' work influenced
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#1732780752055396-536: A video screen is in fact thirty feet tall. Size-changing heroines have appeared in such comics as Doom Patrol , Mighty Avengers , Marvel Adventures Avengers , Team Youngblood , and Femforce . 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. Conversely, size-changing villainesses, such as Wonder Woman foe Giganta , use their strength and beauty for less altruistic purposes as
429-418: A weapon to crush their foes. Giantesses are also common in the manga and anime mediums of Japan . She-Hulk 's nickname is "The Jade Giantess", due to the main character growing in size and more powerful when becoming She-Hulk. The giantess also appears in modern-day art, illustration and fashion. UK based illustrator Emma Melton has used the giantess as a symbol in her illustrated fashion line 'Blessed by
462-473: Is Bébinn who comes from a kingdom known as "The Land of Maidens" which is entirely populated by other giantesses, who are her one hundred and forty nine sisters, with the only males in her land being her father and three brothers. In Turkish folklore, a man sucking milk of a "giant mother" ( dev anası ) is a common narrative. In this theme, a man is supposed to drink the milk of a giantess without being noticed. Thus, he will become an adoptive child of her and
495-426: Is a 50-foot-tall giantess. The Incredible Shrinking Woman , which parodies The Incredible Shrinking Man , ends with Lily Tomlin becoming a giantess. Outside of Hollywood , giantesses have also appeared in special interest films. AC Comics giantess Garganta is featured in a live action DVD movie available from accomics.com entitled Gargantarama , which also includes giantess scenes from many movies as well as
528-519: Is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning , thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical . Portrayals of surreal humour tend to involve bizarre juxtapositions , incongruity, non-sequiturs , irrational or absurd situations, and expressions of nonsense . Surreal humour grew out of surrealism , a cultural movement developed in the 20th century by French and Belgian artists, who depicted unnerving and illogical scenes while developing techniques to allow
561-399: Is also influenced by surreal humour. Mary K. Rodgers and Diana Pien analysed the subject in an essay titled "Elephants and Marshmallows" (subtitled "A Theoretical Synthesis of Incongruity-Resolution and Arousal Theories of humour"), and wrote that "jokes are nonsensical when they fail to completely resolve incongruities," and cited one of the many permutations of the elephant joke : "Why did
594-407: The unconscious mind to express itself. The movement itself was foreshadowed by English writers in the 19th century, most notably Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear . The humour in surreal comedy arises from a subversion of audience expectations, emphasizing the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of a situation, so that amusement is founded on an unpredictability that is separate from a logical analysis of
627-597: The 19th century, such as in Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass , both of which use the illogical and absurd ( hookah -smoking caterpillars , croquet matches using live flamingos as mallets, etc.) for humorous effect. Many of Edward Lear 's children's stories and poems contain nonsense and are basically surreal in approach. For example, The Story of
660-522: The American radio comedy troupe the Firesign Theatre (1966–2012). The Firesigns wrote sophisticated comic radio plays, many of which were recorded on albums . Surrealist humour is predominantly approached in cinema where the suspension of disbelief can be stretched to absurd lengths by logically following the consequences of unlikely, reversed or exaggerated premises. Luis Buñuel is
693-571: The Four Little Children Who Went Round the World (1871) is filled with contradictory statements and odd images intended to provoke amusement, such as the following: After a time they saw some land at a distance; and when they came to it, they found it was an island made of water quite surrounded by earth. Besides that, it was bordered by evanescent isthmuses with a great Gulf-stream running about all over it, so that it
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#1732780752055726-516: The Giants . 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
759-755: 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! episode in Attack Of The 50 Ft Mandy , Phineas and Ferb , and The 7D . The Snorks episode "The Littlest Mermaid" features
792-564: 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
825-444: The elephant sit on the marshmallow?" "Because he didn't want to fall into the cup of hot chocolate." "The joke is incompletely resolved in their opinion," noted Elliott Oring , "because the situation is incompatible with the world as we know it. Certainly, elephants do not sit in cups of hot chocolate." Oring defined humour as not the resolution of incongruity, but "the perception of appropriate incongruity," that all jokes contain
858-515: The feature length 1958 B-movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman . Embracing the use of the giantess in popular culture, AC has made it a frequently recurring theme in their products. Giantesses have also appeared in advertisement campaigns, with similar erotic/humorous intent. In 2003, a commercial for the Italian company Puma featured the theme. The giantess, played by model/actress Valentina Biancospino, stomps around town causing havoc and swallowing
891-502: The giantess will not attack him. Those motives are encountered in stories such as Altın Bülbül (Golden Nightingale) and Seksen Göz (Eighty Eyes). In Lewis Carroll 's story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , there are several scenes where the heroine Alice grows to giant size by means of eating something (like a cake or a mushroom). Similarly Arthur C. Clarke 's story Cosmic Casanova describes an astronaut's revulsion at discovering that an extraterrestrial female he adored on
924-461: The modern world. Absurd and surrealist cinema often deals with elements of dark humour : disturbing or sinister subjects like death, disease, or warfare are treated with amusement and bitterness, creating the appearance of an intention to shock and offend. Surreal humour is the effect of the illogical and absurd being used for humorous effect. Under such premises, people can identify precursors and early examples of surreal humour at least since
957-549: The oldest traditions, they are often not notably large and the terms are often left untranslated. Notable gýgjar include: Giantesses are fairly common in the Hindu religion. The demoness Putana (who attempted to kill the baby Krishna with poisoned milk from her breasts) is usually drawn as a giantess. Giantesses are common in the folklore of Britain and Ireland , Scotland and Wales . A notable giantess in Irish mythology
990-544: The same. In Dude, Where's My Car? , five nubile female characters morph into an extraterrestrial 20 foot tall giantess played by Jodi Ann Paterson who picks up one of the characters and eats him. Talk to Her features a sequence in the style of early silent cinema called 'The Shrinking Lover,' where an accidentally shrunken scientist is rescued from his mother's clutches by his lover, who carries him home in her handbag. The shrunken scientist then roams his lover's body while she lies in bed. Monsters vs. Aliens features
1023-473: The situation. Surreal humour is concerned with building up expectations and then knocking them down; even seemingly masterful characters with the highest standards and expectations are subverted by the unexpected, which the scene emphasizes for the viewer's amusement. Either the " goofball " or " straight " character in the scene can react with dull surprise, disdain, boredom, or detached interest, thus heightening comic tension. Characters' intentions are set up in
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1056-689: The time of Naevius". Other giantesses in Greek myth include Periboea , the princess of the giants that participated in the Gigantomachy, and the queen and princess of the Laestrygonians who participated in the attacking and devouring of Odysseus' crew. Female jötnar have a prominent role in Nordic mythology, where they are referred to as gýgr , íviðja and tröllkona . While these terms are often glossed as "giantess", in texts containing
1089-440: Was perfectly beautiful, and contained only a single tree, 503 feet high. In the early 20th century, several avant-garde movements, including the dadaists , surrealists , and futurists began to argue for an art that was random, jarring and illogical. The goals of these movements were in some sense serious, and they were committed to undermining the solemnity and self-satisfaction of the contemporary artistic establishment . As
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