3055: Giants

2025-02-27T21:10:11Z

Firelily: /* Explanation */ list a few other venn diagram comics

{{comic
| number = 3055
| date = February 24, 2025
| title = Giants
| image = giants_2x.png
| imagesize = 341x423px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = I can't get over the suspicion that all those viral pictures are photoshopped and 'Flemish' belongs in the lower right circle.
}}

==Explanation==
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This comic is a {{w|Venn Diagram}} (a [[2721: Euler Diagrams|more exacting subset]] of {{w|Euler Diagram|Euler Diagrams}}) grouping different things with "giant" in the name. The three categories are giants from space, 'geological' features called giants and giants who have been proven to be fictional. In the central overlap of all categories is a possible 'giant', fulfilling all groupings, but normally ''without'' the word "giant" in its name.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Class !! Explanation
|-
| {{w|Red giant|Red Giant}} || Space || A type of large, relatively cool star.
|-
| {{w|Blue giant|Blue Giant}} || Space || An early type of large, relatively hot star.
|-
| Iron Giant || Space, Not Real || Title character from a {{w|The Iron Giant|1999 animated film}} and the {{w|The Iron Man (novel)|1968 children's book}} it was based on (written by English poet and author {{w|Ted Hughes}} and published outside the US as ''The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights'') : a robot from outer space.
|-
| {{w|Frost Giant (disambiguation)|Frost Giant}} || Not Real || Beings from Norse mythology, Frost Giants also appear in Marvel comic/film versions.
|-
| Jolly Green Giant || Not Real || A mascot for a {{w|Green Giant|brand of canned vegetables}}.
|-
| {{w|Cardiff Giant}} || Geologic/Planetary, Not Real || An 1869 archaeological hoax of a supposed petrified giant man.
|-
| {{w|Atacama Giant}} || Geologic/Planetary || A prehistoric {{w|geoglyph}}.
|-
| {{w|Paratethys#Salt Giants|Salt Giant}} || Geologic/Planetary || A huge salt deposit below the Mediterranean sea.
|-
| {{w|Gas giant|Gas Giant}} || Space, Geologic/Planetary || A large gaseous planet, like Jupiter or Saturn.
|-
| {{w|Ice giant|Ice Giant}} || Space, Geologic/Planetary || A relatively large icy planet, like Uranus or Neptune.
|-
| {{w|Man in the Moon|The Man In The Moon}} || Space, Geologic/Planetary, Not Real || A 'face' visible in the near side of the Moon, sometimes shown as a character in children's nursery rhymes. As a feature, it is real, but not a 'real' giant, only an instance of {{w|pareidolia}}.
|-
| {{w|Flemish Giant rabbit|Flemish Giant}} (title text) || Real, but Randall suspects it belongs in Not Real || One of the largest breeds of domestic buns, about the same size as a {{w|Cocker Spaniel}} dog.

|}

Venn diagrams and Euler diagrams are the subject of numerous XKCDs, including [[112]], [[773]], [[1180]] [[2122]], [[2721]], [[2769]], [[2903]], [[2962]], and various others.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}

:Types of Giant

:[A Venn diagram with three categories: In space, Geologic/Planetary, Not real]
:[Only in "In space": Red, Blue]
:[Only in "Geologic/Planetary": Atacama, Salt]
:[Only in "Not read": Frost, Jolly green]
:[Both in "In space" and "Geologic/Planetary": Gas, Ice]
:[Both in "In space" and "Not real": Iron]
:[Both in "Geologic/Planetary" and Not real": Cardiff]
:[In all three: [The man in the Moon]]

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[[Category:Buns]]

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3055: Giants