We learn it was a "last-ditch" scheme because unauthorized planet creation is against the law, and when the planet creation goes out of control, it nearly becomes big enough to qualify as a full planet, leading to the Keronians nearly getting arrested by Space Police officer Poyon. Frog had one of Keroro's last-ditch invasion schemes involve stealing garbage and water from Earth to create a mini-planet. It's really only big enough for his house, family, and a few stray animals. In Goodnight Punpun, Punpun dreams up a small meteor that fits the bill, which he names Punpunia.Mildian in EDENS ZERO is a very tiny planet with a noticeable curvature from ground level, enough to make the main characters confident that the first building they come across on the planet is probably the only one.This doesn't explain how it continues to be a planet now, of course. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods explains that King Kai's planet was once larger, possibly realistically so, until Beerus destroyed most of it in retaliation for losing a game of Hide and Seek. Even if they did, it's still the self-built home of a Physical God, and still set up in a corner of the afterlife, so it might as well be decorated with " A Wizard Did It" in 50-foot-high neon any way the audience looks at it. This should technically make it a neutron star, but then, nobody ever accused Dragon Ball Z of realism. Based on King Kai's vague explanation, it apparently has the same mass as Earth, heavily compressed. Despite being maybe fifty feet in diameter, it strangely has ten times earth's gravity. Not to be confused with LittleBigPlanet, It's a Small World, After All or Planetville. Related to Floating Continent and Space Compression. In photography, this effect is often created with very-wide angle (or fisheye) lenses.īonus points if it's unusually shaped too. Often, this is used for purely aesthetic reasons, particularly on cover art for games and CDs. Perhaps, in enough stories featuring these planetoids, they hold gravity at such smaller sizes because A Wizard Did It. But in fiction, these often sport an entire ecosystem awkwardly compressed into the minute available space.Īlthough Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, they usually aren't this far off the mark on accident this trope usually comes about either because of limitations in technology's ability to represent planets in a realistic scale or just for the sake of aesthetic. In Real Life, a body this small would be called an asteroid or be a natural satellite orbiting a planet a body needs to be hundreds of kilometers across to be rounded under its own gravity, and even larger to support an atmosphere. Emperor Todd Spengo, Mom and Dad Save the WorldĪn inhabitable planet that is far smaller than astronomically possible, often less than a few functional miles in diameter.
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