History Main / BemoaningTheNewBody

*** In "Profit and Lace", Quark is surgically altered to appear as a woman, which he hates due to Ferengi culture being very misogynistic.

** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': The season 2 episode "Charades" has Spock, a HalfHumanHybrid, turn fully human after a shuttle accident brings him into contact with medical technology from an energy-based being. While initially enjoying his humanity, being able to experience sensations such as the taste of bacon or being able to react to other people's jokes with genuine emotion, Spock needs to pass as Vulcan in order to impress T'Pring's family so that he can become engaged to her.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Rascals", Picard, Ro, Keiko, and Guinan are [[FountainOfYouth de-aged]] to 12-year-olds. While Guinan takes it in stride, Picard and Keiko are annoyed at the adults' not taking them seriously, and Ro outright hates it because she doesn't want to be "short and awkward", HatesBeingCalledCute, and due to her DarkAndTroubledPast she doesn't have the association of childhood with fun that the others have.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12920056/1/The-Gammus-Chronicles The Gammus Chronicles]]'', a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic set during Hermione's fifth year at Hogwarts, she curiously casts a spell called ''Gammus Imataria'' on herself. However, due to saying a key word of the spell wrong, Hermione later finds out - to her horror - that it makes her turn into a ComicBook/SheHulk every time she [[HulkingOut loses her temper]]. Hermione, who prides herself on her intelligence, panics at the idea of being stuck with a body as unnaturally tall and muscular as hers is now, and [[TheGadfly Moaning Myrtle]] doesn't help by warning her that, with her [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation now-green skin]], the other students might mistake her for a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]]. Luckily for Hermione, however, her discomfort at her transformation actually proves vital to undoing it, because once she stops feeling angry and starts crying at the thought of being regarded as a freak, she shrinks back into her normal human form again. Hermione's reaction to becoming a She-Hulk differs wildly from [[TransformationExhilaration Luna]] and [[RevelingInTheNewForm Ginny's]], primarily because ''they'' properly appreciate the newfound [[AmazonianBeauty strength and attractiveness]] that comes with their new forms.

** Early in "Dawning Of An Endless Night," you're sent on the trail of Joe Slater, the only surviving crewmember of the ''Lady Margaret''. As it happens, Joe isn't doing so well: [[spoiler:he's becoming a [[FishPeople Draug]]. He's not only horribly disfigured, but in agony from the transformation, the species of coral now infesting him, and the fact that he can [[VaderBreath barely breathe out of water]] -- to the point that he's had to move into the sewers. For good measure, he's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grappling with the guilt]] of having stolen the artefact that brought the Draug to Kingsmouth in the first place.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Gamzee throws the bodies of Vriska and Tavros, two trolls with wildly conflicting personalities (one a borderline sociopath, the other a meek and passive NiceGuy) into Jane's kernelsprite. The resulting sprite, Tavrisprite, is a hideous monstrosity who hates itself and screams in horror at its new form. It quickly commits suicide by exploding, resulting in Vriska and Tavros splitting back into themselves again in the afterlife.

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'': MadScientist Doctor Madro points his transformation ray at Alex, which converts him into a gorilla (after first changing him into a chicken). Alex escapes into a nearby village but gets locked in a pen by Animal Control. Alexandra and Melody finagle him out of there, mainly by shaving all the fur off his head so that he can pass for human. Just before defeating Madro, the Pussycats manage to use the transformation ray on Alex, which restores him to human form. However, he's now completely bald, and ashamed of his appearance, since his default look is '60s beatnik hipster.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': The Season 1 Episode "Who You Gonna Call?" features a character that wants to avert this in an... unusual fashion. [[spoiler:The client of the week is an individual with Disassociative Identity Disorder; the "main" personality, Robert Dunn, has an alter named Regina King, who is a trans woman and has been seeing a therapist behind his back in order to receive gender-affirming care. A third alter, "Martin Brody", killed Regina's previous therapist in order to prevent her from transitioning, and nearly does the same to a new one she finds.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Matt Hagen is an actor who is turned into the misshapen blob monster called Clayface by overexposure to an experimental cosmetic cream called Renuyu that he needed to hide his disfiguring injuries. While his shapeshifting powers are incredible, he can't live a normal life, as any attempts to maintain a human form are only temporary. He spends his introductory episodes raging against Roland Daggett, who created the cream and attempted to murder Matt when he wanted to stop committing crimes on Hagen's behalf.

Such bemoaning can range from snarky annoyance at an inconvenient form to having a FreakOut, TearsOfFear, passing the DespairEventHorizon, and being DrivenToSuicide over the new body. It's almost always an OhCrap moment if the transformation was unexpected. Expect transformed characters to say "DontLookAtMe", or "IAmAMonster" and/or "WhatHaveIBecome" if the new form is particularly monstrous (or if the character is displaying ComicalOverreacting). The more negative reactions to BaffledByOwnBiology, a KarmicTransformation, and VoiceChangeSurprise can also count. There are also complex situations where you can simultaneously like and dislike the form for different reasons. It's possible that you will someday come to like the alternate form or at least feel more neutral about it.

** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime series, Zampano and Jerso hate the fact that they have been turned into chimeras. While they can shapeshift back between human and animal forms, they don't feel like real humans and want to find a way to get their old bodies back, which is why they agree to join Alphonse, Edward and their allies. By contrast, Heinkel and Darius actually like their chimera bodies due to practical reasons, and while they also join Edward and co., they don't have any interest to become fully humans again.

** ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'': At the end of the story, [[spoiler:Motoko Kusanagi is killed after being painted as an enemy to the state]]. Batou figured out that she left her cyberbrain in a storage somewhere and was using a RemoteBody. After Batou finds a new prosthetic body to put her cyberbrain inside, Motoko comments that he should've spent a little more time searching for something she'd be more familiar with, because he grabbed a male prosthetic body that happens to look vaguely female. She doesn't really mind, as she wasn't going to inhabit it for much longer anyway.
** ''Anime/{{Ghost in the Shell|1995}}'': Motoko's body is destroyed by a sniper while she's transferring memories with Project 2501. Batou is on hand to monitor the situation, and was creating a back-up in case she were to be lost in the process. He saves her just at the last second and takes her back to a safehouse. After transferring her memories into a doll-like little girl body, Motoko comments about it. Batou says its the only thing he had available.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': The action of ''Recap/AsterixAndObelixAllAtSea'' kicks off with Obelix accidentally petrifying himself by overdosing on magic potion. Getafix is able to restore him, only to [[FountainOfYouth regress him to childhood]] in the process; once Obelix belatedly notices that [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing his clothes no longer fit]], he's horrified. Over the course of the next few pages, he's reduced to tears over no longer being able to eat three roast boars in a single sitting, and only cries harder when he realizes that he no longer has his superpowered strength and can't even give Panacea a menhir as a present. Soon after, he tries to tackle a Roman patrol in his usual style... and is ''easily'' captured, leaving Obelix chained up in the hold of a galley bound for Rome.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderBoy'': Madame Monstrosity has kidnapped Spider-Boy's friend Christina, and puts her into a machine to be turned into a Humanimal. She screams that she doesn't want to be turned into ''[[AnythingButThat that]]'', as the cliffhanger of issue 5. Issue 6 opens by revealing that animal to be a pigeon. She gets mutated, and hopes Spider-Boy will rescue her -- but he's been captured himself. She realises there's a benefit though -- she can now talk to birds, and by doing so she's able to get word to other superheroes, which leads to Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl and some others coming to look for them in issue 7.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12920056/1/The-Gammus-Chronicles The Gammus Chronicles]]'', a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic set during Hermione's fifth year at Hogwarts, she curiously casts a spell called ''Gammus Imataria'' on herself. However, due to saying a key word of the spell wrong, Hermione later finds out- to her horror- that it makes her turn into a ComicBook/SheHulk every time she [[HulkingOut loses her temper]]. Hermione, who prides herself on her intelligence, panics at the idea of being stuck with a body as unnaturally tall and muscular as hers is now, and [[TheGadfly Moaning Myrtle]] doesn't help by warning her that, with her [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation now-green skin]], the other students might mistake her for a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]]. Luckily for Hermione, however, her discomfort at her transformation actually proves vital to undoing it, because once she stops feeling angry and starts crying at the thought of being regarded as a freak, she shrinks back into her normal human form again. Hermione's reaction to becoming a She-Hulk differs wildly from [[TransformationExhilaration Luna]] and [[RevelingInTheNewForm Ginny's]], primarily because ''they'' properly appreciate the newfound [[AmazonianBeauty strength and attractiveness]] that comes with their new forms.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': When Tiana first [[BewitchedAmphibians turns into a frog]], she screams, and expresses disgust at being green and slimy. Naveen tells her [[TechnicalEuphemism that the secretion isn't slime but rather mucus]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': When the [[ChildrenAreSpecial children]]'s lack of [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve belief]] is making the Guardians' magic less powerful, it shrinks the EasterBunny down to the size of a normal bunny. He hates this, because he doesn't want to be [[BunniesForCuteness cute]].

* ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' focuses almost entirely on Gregor's experience on being inexplicably turned into a specimen of 'vermin'; due to his condition, he's horribly abused by the rest of his family, [[spoiler:culminating in his father injuring him in such a way that, combined with his family talking about him behind his back, causes Gregor to die of starvation one night]].

** ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' kicks off with the dead engineer Saunders being depressed over his new status as a [[VirtualGhost hologram]]: quite apart from being unable to touch anything, he's also left saddled with a truckload of bureaucracy, [[FantasticRacism not allowed shore leave with the rest of the crew]], and left with the awful knowledge that because his marriage is now null and void, his wife will meet someone else. He's so upset that he tries to thump the desk in front of him in a rage, only for his hand to pass right through it and [[GroinAttack smash himself in the balls]]. As such, when Flight Coordinator [=McIntyre=] commits suicide and dooms Saunders to be switched off so that the more important crewmember can take his place as ''Red Dwarf's'' hologram, Saunders nothing short of overjoyed.

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': It is left ambiguous whether the aliens lack genders in their normal forms or have something other than the human sexual binary, but Sally initially takes poorly to being made a woman. She puts in a request to switch, which takes until the fourth season episode "Two-Faced Dick" to be approved, at which point she is swapped with Dick, to the dismay of both (Sally coming to enjoy being a woman in the meantime). The usual GenderBender, FreakyFridayFlip tropes come into play as they have to pretend to be each other, including on a double-date with each other's partners, before [[StatusQuoIsGod being switched back]].

** During the Classic Series (and a few times in the revival such as with the 12th Doctor), it was a running gag that upon seeing what they now look like following regenerating, the Doctor would react with anything from mild disappointment to flat out momentary horror. For example, the Fifth Doctor, upon first finding a mirror, was left staring stunned only to finally somberly say "that's the trouble with regeneration. You never know what your end up with." However, they usually come around to it or start to see the positives after having awhile to adjust.

** During "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk: Polymorph II]]" the eponymous [[PrimalPolymorphs domesticated shapeshifter]] sneaks aboard Starbug and attacks the Cat, [[EmotionEater eating his coolness.]] As a result, Cat is immediately transformed into Duane Dibbley again, and is once more left reciting "Duane Dibbley?!" in utter horror.

*** In the ending of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E26BrokenLink Broken Link]]", Odo is forced to submit himself the Founders' judgement so he won't die from their virus; the Founders cure him... but in an ironic punishment for siding with "[[FantasticSlur Solids]]" over his fellow Changelings, [[BroughtDownToNormal they strip him of his powers and make him into a human]]. Odo is left ''extremely'' depressed, not just because he's trapped in a single body for the rest of his life, but because it means he'll never be able to rejoin the Great Link, ''and'' he's stuck with the face of his ShapeshifterDefaultForm so he can't fit in with humans either.

*** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E12TheBegotten The Begotten]]": having finally come to terms with losing his powers, Odo finds himself regaining them thanks to the baby Changeling he was caring for. He immediately celebrates by becoming a bird and soaring across the Promenade, [[TransformationExhilaration reverting with a jubilant smile on his face]]... only for it to become a look of sadness as he realizes that [[spoiler:this only worked because the baby Changeling was dying and wanted to help him in its final moments.]] In the follow up at the start of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow In Purgatory's Shadow]]", Odo doesn't regret having his powers back, but after getting used to being human and even enjoying certain parts of it, he's a little downcast at going back to the Changeling lifestyle -- especially since it means getting rid of his human furniture: he can't sleep in a bed anymore without [[HarmlessLiquefaction reverting to liquid]] and sliding off the mattress.

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': In the radio play, novel, and television show, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are plunged into a world where RealityIsOutToLunch by the Infinite Improbability Drive, and find themselves beginning to transform, much to their alarm: Arthur's legs and arms drift off into the sunset, leaving him wondering [[SkewedPriorities how he's supposed to operate his digital watch now]]; Ford begins transforming into a penguin, and angrily demands an explanation from Trillian.

* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'': In the Enchanted Earth, Sir Dan can accept a mission from the local witch to retrieve seven pieces amber from a nearby ant's nest in return for a magical weapon. Unfortunately, she doesn't tell him that this will require him to be [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunk down to the size of an insect]], so when he accepts, the newly shrunken Dan is left angrily jumping up and down on the spot and demanding an explanation in [[ResizedVocals chipmunk speech]].
* In ''VideoGame/NieR'', Emil is a young boy who is [[CursedWithAwesome unable to look at any living thing without turning them to stone]]. Mid way through the game he's forced to [[spoiler:turn fellow party member Kaine to stone]]. After a five-year time skip [[spoiler:he seeks a MidSeasonUpgrade in the lab where he first got these powers, so he can undo this...but to his horror he's transformed into a MechanicalAbomination who resembles a large round head with a skeleton body.]] This is blunted by Nier and Kaine still accepting him, but [[spoiler:this is quickly undone by Nier's town [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer forcing Emil and Kaine to sleep outside its walls.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Morgana believes that he was once human, and has somehow been converted into an amnesiac cat-like creature that just flat-out turns into a cat when outside of the Cognitive Realm, and want nothing more than to return to being human. [[spoiler:It's {{Subverted}} when it turns out that Morgana was never human to begin with, and was created by Igor in an attempt to hold the last hopes of humanity as a ploy to stop Yaldabaoth, God of Control]].
* ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'': The ultimate twist of the game is that [[spoiler:the player character isn't Curtis Craig at all, but a clone of him created by the entities of Dimension X after Paul Warner threw the real Curtis through the portal when he was a child. This original Curtis is the BigBad of the game, a [[TranshumanAbomination horribly mutated psychic blob]] hooked up to an organic life support system and only capable of communicating through [[AstralProjection the Hecatomb]]; he's understandably enraged at his sorry state of being -- and wants to [[GrandTheftMe seize the clone's body as his own]].]] As such, when the truth is finally revealed, the Hecatomb is quick to give vent to roughly two decades worth of grievances against his mutated body in the ensuing MotiveRant.

* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': After Wheatley experiences his FaceHeelTurn and betrays Chell, he ends up trapping [=GLaDoS=]'s AI in a processing unit that's powered by a potato battery. A large part of her interactions with Chell from this point forward involve her complaining about how powerless she is in this state, as she's forced to engage in an EnemyMine before Wheately completely destroys the Aperture facility with his incompetence.
* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': A BrainInAJar that Raz discovers in his attempts to re-unite Ford Crueller's fractured mind ends up experiencing sensory overload to the degree that they cannot function after they're put in the body of mail room clerk Nick Johnsmith; their mind is the first place where Raz encounters the Panic Attack BossInMooksClothing, representing just how overwhelmed the mind of [[spoiler:Helmut Fullbear]] feels after being in a state of suspended animation for over twenty years.

** Initially, Simon believes that he's arrived at [[UnderwaterBase Pathos-II]] as his usual human self; as such, when the roof of the comm center collapses and floods the room, he's not only shocked when he doesn't drown, but finds to his extremely vocal horror that [[HandsLookingWrong his hands are suddenly]] covered in rubbery black skin and [[RoboticReveal studded in glowing diodes]]. As such, his first meeting with Catherine features Simon desperately trying to deny that he's now "a walking talking diving suit with some electronics slapped on for good measure," until he has no choice but to accept it.

* The Necromancer, villain of the second story arc of ''WebComic/{{Bethellium}}'' is introduced having trouble getting his new zombie body to walk and speak properly. He's annoyed how it seems to take a little longer each time to get used to being corporeal.

** In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", the crew [[MerlinSickness ages backwards]]. The ones the least keen with this are Amy, because [[FormerlyFat she was fat as a child]], and Zoidberg, who is dismayed at having to go through all his larval stages.

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'': MadScientist Doctor Madro points his transformation ray at Alex, which converts him into a gorilla (after first changing him into a chicken). Alex escapes into a nearby village, but gets locked in a pen by Animal Control. Alexandra and Melody finagle him out of there, mainly by shaving all the fur off his head, so that he can pass for human. Just before defeating Madro, the Pussycats manage to use the transformation ray on Alex, which restores him to human form. However, he's now completely bald, and ashamed of his appearance, since his default look is 60's beatnik hipster.

** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'': Zampano and Jerso hate the fact that they have been turned into chimeras. While they can shapeshift back between human and animal forms, they don't feel like real humans and want to find a way to get their old bodies back, which is why they agree to join Alphonse, Edward and their allies. By contrast, Heinkel and Darius actually like their chimera bodies due to practical reasons, and while they also join Edward and co., they don't have any interest to become fully humans again.

*** Also in Johto, there's tribal fight between a horde of Vineplume and a horde Bellossom, who all involuntarily evolved due to the wind carrying dusts of Leaf Stones and Sun Stones. The couple of Vineplume and Bellossom who get along with each other are only able to do so because they wanted to evolve into the opposite form and have an identity crisis because of that, and therefore they don't want to partake in the tribal fight.

** When Yzma sics a bunch of guards on Kuzco and Pacha, Pacha ends up launching a bunch of potions at them with a TableFlip, turning them all into animals. One of them, turned into a cow, proves how much of a [[{{Pun}} coward]] he is by asking Yzma if he can go home.

->'''Raina:''' I was supposed to become something divine, something transcendent. My grandmother said I'd be an angel, not some gnarled freak of nature covered in thorns.
->'''Calvin:''' You always did like flowers.
->'''Raina:''' They ''hurt'', and it's all your fault.
-->--''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', "Aftershocks"

** ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'': At the end of the story, [[spoiler:Motoko Kusanagi is killed after being painted as an enemy to the state]]. Batou figured out that she left her cyberbrain in a storage somewhere and was using a RemoteBody. After Batou finds a new prosthetic body to put her cyberbrain inside, Motoko comments that he should've spent a little more time searching for something she'd be more familiar with, because he grabbed a male prosthetic body that happens to look vaguely female. She doesn't really mind, as she wasn't going to inhabite it for much longer anyway.
** ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'': Motoko's body is destroyed by a sniper while she's transferring memories with Project 2501. Batou is on hand to monitor the situation, and was creating a back-up incase she were to be lost in the process. He saves her just at the last second and takes her back to a safehouse. After transferring her memories into a doll-like little girl body, Motoko comments about it. Batou says its the only thing he had available.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Young Saotome Ranma fell into a cursed pool while training in China. The curse causes him to become a girl when doused with cool water; warm water undoes this effect. Ranma's girl form causes no end of trouble for him, especially when meeting his host family, the Tendos. At the end of chapter one, Ranma is willing to swim all the way back to China to seek a way to break this curse.

-->'''Turlough:''' So back in Moscow, one of those horrible creatures is walking around, [[GrandTheftMe wearing my skin]]? And look at us! These bodies are weak and feeble, patched together with scrap metal! Hardly a fair exchange.
-->'''Alexei:''' You're taking this better than I did. It was ''weeks'' before I could cope.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': The action of ''Recap/AsterixAndObelixAllAtSea'' kicks off with Obelix accidentally petrifying himself by [=ODing=] on magic potion. Getafix is able to restore him, only to [[FountainOfYouth regress him to childhood]] in the process; once Obelix belatedly notices that [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing his clothes no longer fit]], he's horrified. Over the course of the next few pages, he's reduced to tears over no longer being able to eat three roast boars in a single sitting, and only cries harder when he realizes that he no longer has his superpowered strength and can't even give Panacea a menhir as a present. Soon after, he tries to tackle a Roman patrol in his usual style... and is ''easily'' captured, leaving Obelix chained up in the hold of a galley bound for Rome.
--> So I go back to childhood! So I lose my strength! The Romans aren't afraid of me anymore and I'm their prisoner... (''crying'') Oh Asterix, please come and help me out of this!

** Also in ''Century: 2009,'' Haddo's prophesied Moonchild (AKA [[spoiler:Harry Potter]]) attempts to use pills to hold back his transformation into the Antichrist, and when he finally runs out, he's left groaning in horror and disgust as he begins to [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprout eyeballs all over his head]], trying vainly to hold back the tide with willpower. He immediately rounds on Haddo in a temper tantrum, bitterly demanding to know if this was what he wanted all along.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': When [[spoiler:Wallace]] finds out that he is a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-rabbit]], he [[InelegantBlubbering bursts into tears]] and sobs, "I don't want to be a giant rabbit!".

-->'''Donkey:''' Oh, no! I've been abracadabra-ed into a Fancy Feastin', second-rate sidekick!
-->'''Puss:''' At least you don't look like some kind of bloated roadside piñata! You really should think about going on a diet!
-->'''Donkey:''' Yeah, and you should think about getting yourself a pair of pants. I feel all exposed and nasty!

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-->'''Mr. Krupp (in Melvin's body):''' I'm...I'm a kid again.
-->'''Melvin (in Mr. Krupp's body):''' And I'm old and fat and bald and ugly, and I have bad breath and creepy nose hairs and...
-->'''Mr. Krupp:''' ''[[ImStandingRightHere HEY!]]''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': During the Classic Series (and a few times in the revival such as with the 12th Doctor), it was a running gag that upon seeing what they now look like following regenerating, the Doctor would react with anything from mild disappointment to flat out momentary horror. For example, the Fifth Doctor, upon first finding a mirror, was left staring stunned only to finally somberly say "that's the trouble with regeneration. You never know what your end up with." However, they usually come around to it or start to see the positives after having awhile to adjust.
** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]'', the zygon who shapeshifts into [[NerdyInhaler Osgood]] bemoans getting a body with asthma.
* ''Series/Fallout2024'': In "[[Recap/Fallout2024S1E7TheRadio The Radio]]", [[spoiler:Thaddeus has his crushed foot treated with potions from a glorified SnakeOilSalesman, and it initially appears to work perfectly. Unfortunately, after accidentally getting shot in the throat with an arrow from a booby trap, he realizes that he's now sporting his own HealingFactor and may actually be mutating into a Ghoul. On top of being shocked at surviving what should have been a fatal injury, he's left groaning in dismay as he notices the subtle deformations on his neck where the arrow was removed: the Brotherhood of Steel [[FantasticRacism kill Ghouls on sight]] -- and [[OhCrap a Brotherhood vertibird is on its way to rescue him]]. As such, he has no choice but to take Maximus' advice and run like hell while Maximus keeps the Brotherhood focussed away from Thaddeus and Lucy.]]

** "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E09OutOfTheirMinds Out Of Their Minds]]" features the entire crew of ''Moya'' (except for Zhaan) being [[FreakyFridayFlip body-swapped by a freak accident]]. Nobody aboard is entirely comfortable with this, though Aeryn and Rygel are the most aggravated by their new bodies: Rygel, who's stuck in Crichton's body, is irritated by the fact that he's constantly stumbling around on his human-sized legs and needs a tutorial on how to urinate. Meanwhile, Aeryn is stuck in Rygel's body and frustrated at the loss of independence that comes with being smaller than everyone else ''and'' having arms too short for manual labour. She's even ''more'' annoyed when Crichton gets over his uncertainty over being trapped in ''Aeryn's'' body and [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman starts playing around with her breasts]].
** Downplayed in "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E13LookAtThePrincessTheMalteseCrichton Look At The Princess Part 3: The Maltese Crichton]]." Here, Crichton has been [[TakenForGranite transformed into a metal statue]] as part of his marriage to Princess Katralla; when the crew get around to asking him (via psychic headset) how he feels, Crichton isn't in any pain, but remarks "I'd really like to pick my nose."

--->'''Rimmer:''' I still have the same drives, the same feelings, the same emotions... but I can't ''touch'' anything. Never again will I be able to brush a rose against my cheek, cradle a laughing child, or interfere with a woman sexually.
--->'''Lister:''' Rimmer, you never used to do any of those things anyway.

*** In the ending of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E26BrokenLink Broken Link]]," Odo is forced to submit himself the Founders' judgement so he won't die from their virus; the Founders cure him... but in an ironic punishment for siding with "[[FantasticSlur Solids]]" over his fellow Changelings, [[BroughtDownToNormal they strip him of his powers and make him into a human]]. Odo is left ''extremely'' depressed, not just because he's trapped in a single body for the rest of his life, but because it means he'll never be able to rejoin the Great Link, ''and'' he's stuck with the face of his ShapeshifterDefaultForm so he can't fit in with humans either.
--->They left it this way on purpose. To make sure I'd never forget what I was... and what I've lost.
*** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E12TheBegotten The Begotten]]": having finally come to terms with losing his powers, Odo finds himself regaining them thanks to the baby Changeling he was caring for. He immediately celebrates by becoming a bird and soaring across the Promenade, [[TransformationExhilaration reverting with a jubilant smile on his face]]... only for it to become a look of sadness as he realizes that [[spoiler:this only worked because the baby Changeling was dying and wanted to help him in its final moments.]] In the follow up at the start of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow In Purgatory's Shadow]]," Odo doesn't regret having his powers back, but after getting used to being human and even enjoying certain parts of it, he's a little downcast at going back to the Changeling lifestyle -- especially since it means getting rid of his human furniture: he can't sleep in a bed anymore without [[HarmlessLiquefaction reverting to liquid]] and sliding off the mattress.

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* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': In the radio play, novel, and television show, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are plunged into a world where RealityIsOutToLunch by the Infinite Improbability Drive, and find themselves beginning to transform, much to their alarm: Arthur's legs and arms drift off into the sunset, leaving him wondering [[SkewedPriorities how he's supposed to operate his digital watch now]]; Ford begins transforming into a penguin, and angrily demands an explanation from Trillian.
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-->'''Lizzie:''' What's going on? Where's my body? (''despairing'') And why do I suddenly smell like Halloween?
-->'''Luke:''' Let me put it this way: you know how dad likes to call you... ''pumpkin?''
-->'''Lizzie:''' (''screams in horror'')

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Gamzee throws the bodies of Vriska and Tavros, two trolls with wildly conflicting personalities (one a borderline sociopath, the other a meek and passive NiceGuy) into Jane's kernelsprite. The resulting sprite, Tavrisprite, is a hideous monstrosity who hates itself and screams in horror at its new form. It quickly commits suicide by exploding, resulting in Vriska and Tavros splitting back into themselves again in the afterlife.

* ''{{Website/Neopets}}'': The Faerie Dust TCG card shows a Blue Zafara mid-way through transforming into a Brown Skeith, with the caption, "Going undercover is one thing, but did you really have to make me brown and smelly?"
* Website/SFDebris: During Chuck's review of ''Film/TheThing1982'', he jokingly poses a scenario in which the two Things that have assimilated Norris and Palmer [[VillainsOutShopping have a friendly chat]] about how stressful the situation's got, during which Norris-Thing grumbles over having the rotten luck to accurately shapeshift into a man with a ''heart condition,'' and remarks "I'm just gonna have the fucking heart attack and [[OneWingedAngel get it over with]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': When [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicTwilightSparkle Twilight Sparkle]] [[HumanityEnsues becomes human]] for the first time, she unleashes a horrified SkywardScream and has a massive panic attack, but she does get used to this new form over time.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Criss Cross Crisis", [[FreakyFridayFlip the entire town swaps bodies with each other]], and all three Powerpuff Girls all react in varying levels of distress. Buttercup breaks down in TearsOfFear when she ends up in Professor Utonium's body (especially [[FingerlessHands since she's not used to having fingers]]). Blossom yelps in surprise when she realizes she's in Ms. Bellum's body. Bubbles [[FailedASpotCheck initially doesn't even notice]] that she's in the Mayor's body until [[DelayedReaction she talks to herself in the mirror]], then she does a SpitTake and [[FaintInShock passes out]]. She later refuses to go out because she's [[BaldnessAngst unhappy about being bald]] until Blossom gives her a comb-over.

* ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': Played with. The portal tree between Equestria and Earth turns anyone with magic from a pony to a human, and vice-versa. Neither species minds being turned from one species to another (some of the humans, like Harry, seem to enjoy being a pony more than a human). However, switching from being a biped to a quadruped (or vice-versa) takes some getting used to, with ponies turned human (and vice versa) [[StumblingInTheNewForm needing a lot of time and practice before they can effectively walk around as either species]]. Ponies also express disappointment that some of their favorite foods don't taste as good to human taste buds.

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'': MadScientist Doctor Madreau points his transformation ray at Alex, which converts him into an ape-man. Alex escapes into a nearby village, but gets locked in a pen by Animal Control. Alexandra and Melody finagle him out of there, mainly by shaving all the fur off his head, so that he can pass for human. Just before defeating Madreau, the Pussycats manage to use the transformation ray on Alex, which restores him to human form. However, he's now completely bald, and ashamed of his appearance, since his default look is 60's beatnik hipster.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/BroomStickBunny", Bugs tricks his enemy, the ugly Witch Hazel, into drinking a potion that causes her to become beautiful. She is appalled by this (she prefers being ugly) and goes to the genie in the mirror to find out if she's still the ugliest one of all.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'': When [[spoiler:Wallace]] finds out that he is a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-rabbit]], he [[InelegantBlubbering bursts into tears]] and yells, "I don't wanna be a giant rabbit!".

** Orlando [[SexShifter routinely changes sex at random]], and though they [[DeathlessAndDebauched greatly enjoy life]] regardless of whether they happen to be male or female at the time, they find the actual transformation and the time immediately thereafter to be uncomfortable: in ''Century: 1969'', Orlando mentions that transitioning makes them feel self-conscious, especially when becoming female, which they find disconcertingly like shrinking. Later, in ''Century: 2009,'' they happen to transition to female while in the shower - and immediately experience an extremely messy period, Orlando letting out an AtomicFBomb in disgust.
** Also in ''Century: 2009,'' Haddo's prophesied Moonchild (AKA [[spoiler: Harry Potter]]) attempts to use pills to hold back his transformation into the Antichrist, and when he finally runs out, he's left groaning in horror and disgust as he begins to [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprout eyeballs all over his head]], trying vainly to hold back the tide with willpower. He immediately rounds on Haddo in a temper tantrum, bitterly demanding to know if this was what he wanted all along.
* ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'': In "Grindhouse", when the Dassin brothers make the mistake of [[MuggingTheMonster robbing Keyhouse]], Louis Dassin attempts to rape Jean Locke - only to be tricked into following her through the [[SexShifter Gender Door]]. Louis is left shocked and horrified at [[KarmicTransformation being transformed into a woman]], and even more at getting beaten up by the now-male Jean, eventually driving the gangster to run screaming from the house in a blind panic.

** After realizing that he can no longer erase Tessa Dithers' memories, Braun uses his control over the simulation to [[RapidAging age Dithers into her nineties]], both to torture her and to make sure that [[CassandraTruth none of the other residents believe her attempts to reveal that they're in a simulation]]. As such, Tessa is not happy with this and spends the next couple of chapters silently despairing over her aching body and all the age-related ailments that Braun has lumbered her with.
** Downplayed when Mattie AKA the Lone Wanderer enters the simulation. Upon finding that Braun's automatically regressed him into a ten-year-old, Mattie is acutely aware that he's lost access to his adult strength and the talents he gained out in the Wasteland, so he's understandably nervous. However, he forces himself to continue on with as few complaints as possible, focusing on finding James.
** Later, Braun punishes Mattie and Tessa for their attempted rebellion by transforming both of them: [[spoiler: he regresses Mattie [[BackToTheWomb into an unborn infant]], leaving the Lone Wanderer panicking as he gradually realizes why he can't move; ''then'' Braun de-ages Tessa to her twenties just to give her a HopeSpot... and then [[ExpressDelivery makes her nine months pregnant with Mattie]]. Tessa is reduced to [[ScreamingBirth howling with agony as labor sets in]], only growing more miserable as she realizes that [[DarkestHour their attempt to stop Braun has failed]].]]

-->'''Donkey''': Oh, no! I've been abracadabra-ed into a Fancy Feastin', second-rate sidekick!
-->'''Puss''': At least you don't look like some kind of bloated roadside piñata! You really should think about going on a diet!
-->'''Donkey''': Yeah, and you should think about getting yourself a pair of pants. I feel all exposed and nasty!

** Played with in the finale: [[spoiler: Buddy Love is given a dose of Sherman Klump's FountainOfYouth serum, causing him to regress into a two-year-old - and [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing out of his clothes]] - in front of the entire boardroom. Buddy immediately lets out a horrified yelp of "OH SHIT!" but because he's a raging egotist, he gets defensive rather than publicly admit to being in trouble, claiming that his transformation is "[[AllPartOfTheShow all part of the demonstration]]". And when he realizes that everyone in the room is staring at him, he snaps "this is a very impressive package for a toddler!"]]
** Not long after, [[spoiler: Buddy continues regressing and [[HarmlessLiquefaction melts into an animated puddle of blue sludge]]. He's even more alarmed and even more on the defensive about it, to the point of screaming "WHAT THE ''HELL'' ARE '' '''YOU''' '' LOOKING AT?!" at terrified passers-by.]]

-->'''Mr. Krupp (in Melvin's body)''': I'm...I'm a kid again.
-->'''Melvin (in Mr. Krupp's body)''': And I'm old and fat and bald and ugly, and I have bad breath and creepy nose hairs and...
-->'''Mr. Krupp''': ''[[ImStandingRightHere HEY!]]''
* ''Literature/{{Colony}}'': In the second act of the novel, Eddie O'Hare awakens to find that he's been so badly injured that only his head and spinal column could be saved. As such, he's now [[BrainInAJar a head in a jar]] plugged into an extremely unappealing robot body that, in his own words, looks like "Humpty fucking Dumpty". As such, he spends the first few minutes complaining - especially when he realizes that his body is so clumsy that trying to move his leg causes his ''arm'' to reach out and [[GroinAttack crush Mr Styx's testicles]].

* ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': In the finale, [[spoiler: [[BigBad AM]] punishes Ted for {{Mercy Kill}}ing the other playthings by transforming him into a "[[BlobMonster great soft jelly thing]]" incapable of committing suicide or doing anything except [[AndIMustScream suffering AM's tortures for all eternity]]. The last paragraphs feature Ted lamenting his awful new body, the story ending with Ted remarking "[[TitleDrop I have no mouth and I must scream]]".]]

** In ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'', [[spoiler: Gideon's soul takes over Harrow's body while the latter is in a pocket dimension of [[UnderworldRiver the River]]. The upside is that Harrow's lyctoral regeneration finally kicks in, meaning that she's basically unkillable... but because Harrow erased all memory of Gideon from themselves in an attempt to save her soul, that also included erasing Gideon's instructions to physically condition herself, and as a result, Gideon can barely lift her signature two-handed sword. She still manages to kick ass anyway.]]

** As with the TV show, Rimmer is immediately gloomy after being brought back as a hologram, and most of his first few lines are to lament how depressed he is about it - to the point that he even [[LackOfEmpathy talks over Lister]], who's still in mourning for the rest of the ''Red Dwarf'' crew and almost drank himself to death in grief. For good measure, Rimmer makes it clear that along with the inability to touch anything, he's also bummed over being a "[[FantasticSlur dirty deadie]]" like the other holograms that he and his brothers used to abuse.

* ''Literature/ShrinkingPains'': In the finale, Milo, Doug, and Cass are tied up in a basement by the villains and doomed to die when the rigged boiler explodes -- or in Milo and Doug's case, when a TerminalTransformation occurs. The only way to escape is for Cass to take her first dose of the FountainOfYouth water so she'll be able to shrink out of the ropes and rescue them. Finding herself seven years old again, Cass is quick to express her dismay over being flat-chested and missing her tattoo - to the point that Milo and Doug have to yell at her to get a move on.

* ''Series/Fallout2024'': In "[[Recap/Fallout2024S1E7TheRadio The Radio]]", [[spoiler: Thaddeus has his crushed foot treated with potions from a glorified SnakeOilSalesman, and it initially appears to work perfectly. Unfortunately, after accidentally getting shot in the throat with an arrow from a booby trap, he realizes that he's now sporting his own HealingFactor and may actually be mutating into a Ghoul. On top of being shocked at surviving what should have been a fatal injury, he's left groaning in dismay as he notices the subtle deformations on his neck where the arrow was removed: the Brotherhood of Steel [[FantasticRacism kill Ghouls on sight]] - and [[OhCrap a Brotherhood vertibird is on its way to rescue him]]. As such, he has no choice but to take Maximus' advice and run like hell while Maximus keeps the Brotherhood focussed away from Thaddeus and Lucy.]]

* ''Series/TheGenieFromDownUnder'': In "Baby Talk," Penelope makes the mistake of absently wishing she could hold her childhood doll the way she used to - prompting Bruce to [[BabyMorphEpisode regress her to infancy]] as [[TheDogBitesBack revenge for her poor treatment]] that day. Too young to speak, Penelope can only express the full extent of her irritation via inner monologue, grumbling over how tired she feels all the time and fuming over being put to bed with the doll that caused the trouble in the first place. Worse still, her inability to speak means she can't just wish herself back to normal - leaving her horrified when a gleeful Bruce [[TauntingTheTransformed informs her]] that she'll be left waiting for a full year before she can make another wish.

** "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVBackToReality Back To Reality]]" features the crew waking up to find that they've been playing a ''Red Dwarf''-themed VR game for the last four years, and their real bodies look significantly different. The Cat is dismayed to find out that he's really a massive dork with a pudding basin haircut and an absolutely gargantuan overbite, especially once his real name turns out to be "Duane Dibbley," to the point that he's left incredulously reciting it over the next few minutes. [[spoiler: In the finale, he's so miserable as his new self that he's willing to commit suicide over it - though it turns out that the whole thing is a hallucination caused by the Despair Squid, thankfully.]]

** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIPetePartI Pete Part I]]", upon finding the Time Wand, Kryten's first attempts to test it end up [[FountainofYouth regressing Kochanski and the Cat into five-year-olds.]] They are immediately shocked and upset, demanding that Kryten turn them back immediately; he does so - only for his next attempt at playing with time to leave them with [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim 1970s-style hair and clothes]], much to their horror.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Rascals", Picard, Ro, Keiko, and Guinan are [[FountainOfYouth de-aged]] to twelve-year-olds. While Guinan takes it in stride, Picard and Keiko are annoyed at the adults' not taking them seriously, and Ro outright hates it because she doesn't want to be "short and awkward", HatesBeingCalledCute, and due to her DarkAndTroubledPast she doesn't have the association of childhood with fun that the others have.

*** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E12TheBegotten The Begotten]]": having finally come to terms with losing his powers, Odo finds himself regaining them thanks to the baby Changeling he was caring for. He immediately celebrates by becoming a bird and soaring across the Promenade, [[TransformationExhilaration reverting with a jubilant smile on his face]]... only for it to become a look of sadness as he realizes that [[spoiler: this only worked because the baby Changeling was dying and wanted to help him in its final moments.]] In the follow up at the start of "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E14InPurgatorysShadow In Purgatory's Shadow]]," Odo doesn't regret having his powers back, but after getting used to being human and even enjoying certain parts of it, he's a little downcast at going back to the Changeling lifestyle - especially since it means getting rid of his human furniture: he can't sleep in a bed anymore without [[HarmlessLiquefaction reverting to liquid]] and sliding off the mattress.

* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromHorrorland'': After being separated from the protagonist, Lizzie turns up at the lab in Vampire Village, having been turned into a large newt-like creature by [[BigBad Madison Storm]]. She's not in a good mood and needs you to turn her back with the lab equipment; screwing up in this puzzle can result in her being transformed into various other shapes, all of which Lizzie vocally despises - not helped by the fact that [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Luke]] insists on [[TauntingTheTransformed teasing her about them]], especially if she ends up transformed into a jack-o-lantern.

** During the endgame, [[spoiler: screwing up in the final showdown with AM and the other supercomputers will result in a bad ending in which the chosen player character is transformed into a "[[BlobMonster great soft jelly thing]]" ala the original short story, with Gorrister, Benny, Ellen, Nimdok, and Ted each getting to narrate their own personalized version of the "I have no mouth and I must scream" monologue.]]
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'': In the finale, [[spoiler: the Nazis seize control of the Colossus at the heart of Atlantis, and [[TheDragon Klaus Kerner]] decides to use it to transform himself into a god as did the ancient kings of Atlantis. However, Indy is able to trick Kerner into powering the device with one orichalcum bead instead of ten, and after a brief HopeSpot, Kerner is reduced to a shrunken HornedHumanoid. Needless to say, Kerner is not happy with this, especially since he and Dr Ubermann had been vocal in the belief that the Atlanteans were already subhuman and destined to be made into "freaks of nature" by the Colossus, while the Nazis "suffer from no such imperfections." With his confidence in his Aryan genes shattered, the mutated Kerner [[DrivenToSuicide takes a flying leap into the lava moat below]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/NieR'', Emil is a young boy who is [[CursedWithAwesome unable to look at any living thing without turning them to stone]]. Mid way through the game he's forced to [[spoiler: turn fellow party member Kaine to stone]]. After a 5 year time skip [[spoiler: he seeks a MidSeasonUpgrade in the lab where he first got these powers, so he can undo this...but to his horror he's transformed into a MechanicalAbomination who resembles a large round head with a skeleton body.]] This is blunted by Nier and Kaine still accepting him, but [[spoiler: this is quickly undone by Nier's town [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer forcing Emil and Kaine to sleep outside its walls.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'': The ultimate twist of the game is that [[spoiler: the player character isn't Curtis Craig at all, but a clone of him created by the entities of Dimension X after Paul Warner threw the real Curtis through the portal when he was a child. This original Curtis is the BigBad of the game, a [[TranshumanAbomination horribly mutated psychic blob]] hooked up to an organic life support system and only capable of communicating through [[AstralProjection the Hecatomb]]; he's understandably enraged at his sorry state of being - and wants to [[GrandTheftMe seize the clone's body as his own]].]] As such, when the truth is finally revealed, the Hecatomb is quick to give vent to roughly two decades worth of grievances against his mutated body in the ensuing MotiveRant.

** Early in "Dawning Of An Endless Night," you're sent on the trail of Joe Slater, the only surviving crewmember of the ''Lady Margaret''. As it happens, Joe isn't doing so well: [[spoiler: he's becoming a [[FishPeople Draug]]. He's not only horribly disfigured, but in agony from the transformation, the species of coral now infesting him, and the fact that he can [[VaderBreath barely breathe out of water]] - to the point that he's had to move into the sewers. For good measure, he's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone grappling with the guilt]] of having stolen the artefact that brought the Draug to Kingsmouth in the first place.]]

** Downplayed in the case of Theodore Wicker in "To Hell And Bach." You investigate the sites that the Oxford demonologist visited prior to his [[HellSeeker willing descent into the Hell Dimensions]], and it turns out that Wicker was transforming himself into a human/demon hybrid in preparation for the journey. Along the way, he noted that he was becoming [[WeakenedByTheLight increasingly sickened by the light as his transformation took hold]]... but this just made him even more determined than ever to complete his transformation. [[spoiler: When you finally run into him in "Into The Inferno," Wicker is fully transformed into an immortal HumanoidAbomination and doesn't regret any of it.]]

** Later on, more horror ensues when it's discovered that [[spoiler: Simon is just a copy of the original Simon's mind produced a century ago and uploaded to a cyborg body on Pathos-II by the [[MechanicalAbomination WAU]]. Not long afterwards, it turns out that said cyborg body is actually the corpse of Catherine's friend Imogen Reed - albeit with a massive chunk of electronics forced through the skull and the whole ensemble held together with Structure Gel.]] Simon is ''revolted.''

-->'''Tavrisprite''': nO,\\
'''Tavrisprite''': nO, No, nO, No, nO, No, nO, No.\\
'''Tavrisprite''': yOU HAVE TO,\\
'''Tavrisprite''': Undo this somehow.\\
'''Tavrisprite''': aRE YOU LISTENING TO ME, cLOWN, aND\\
'''Tavrisprite''': Whoever the fuck you are????????\\
'''Tavrisprite''': mAKE ME STOP 8EING THIS THING!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': In "The Stronger Evil", Shendu attempts to [[DemonicPossession possess]] Jackie so that he can free his fellow demon sorcerors. However, [[SpannerInTheWorks Valmont steps in the way and Shendu ends up possessing his body, instead]]. Literal TeethClenchedTeamwork ensues as both spend season 2 arguing with one another about their situation.

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* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Gamzee throws the bodies of Vriska and Tavros, two trolls with wildly conflicting personalities (one a borderline sociopath and the other a passive NiceGuy) into Jane's kernelsprite. The resulting sprite, Tavrisprite, is a hideous monstrosity who hates itself and screams in horror at its new form. It quickly commits suicide by exploding, resulting in Vriska and Tavros splitting back into themselves again in the afterlife.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': When Twilight [[HumanityEnsues becomes human]] for the first time, she unleashes a horrified SkywardScream and has a massive panic attack, but she does get used to this new form over time.

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Gamzee throws the bodies of Vriska and Tavros, two trolls with wildly conflicting personalities (one a borderline sociopath and the other a passive NiceGuy) into Jane's kernelsprite. The resulting sprite, Tavrisprite, is a hideous monstrosity who hates itself and screams in horror at its new form. It quickly commits suicide by exploding, resulting in Vriska and Tavros becoming themselves again in the afterlife.

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Gamzee throws the bodies of Vriska and Tavros, two trolls with wildly conflicting personalities, into Jane's kernelsprite. The resulting sprite, Tavrisprite, is a hideous monstrosity who hates itself and screams in horror at its new form. It quickly commits suicide by exploding, resulting in Vriska and Tavros becoming themselves again in the afterlife.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': When Mista and Trish switch bodies after being affected by [[spoiler:Silver Chariot Requiem]], Trish freaks out because of now being in Mista's body with its hairy knuckles and smelly armpits.