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* ConvertedIntoAWeapon: A person is voluntarily or involuntarily transformed into a weapon, with no way of changing back under their own power.
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* MonMode: Humans transforming into mons.
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* SuperGenderBender: Being transformef into superhero/supervillain member of opposite sex
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* TransformationConventions: PersonalityPowers applied to shapeshifting and transformations, often involving AnimalStereotypes.

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* TransformationConventions: PersonalityPowers applied to shapeshifting and transformations, often involving AnimalStereotypes.The object or being a character transforms into fits their personality.
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* PersonalitySwap:Trading a Personality with someone else
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* TauntingTheTransformed: A character reacts to the sight of a transformation with mockery.
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* CantShiftWhileShifted: A shapeshifter has to return to their default form to shift into something else.
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* MermanityEnsues: A character ends up obtaining aquatic traits, either as an ApparentlyHumanMerfolk, a mermaid, or a fish, by a variety of ways.
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* HandsLookingWrong: Realizing your body and hands don't look right.
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* GoodShapeshiftingEvilShapeshifting: Heroic shapeshifters transform differently to villainous shapeshifters.
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** DivergingEvolutionaryPhases: Different, alternative phases in their metamorphosis different from the more typical of their species.
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* ShapeshifterStruggles: Being able to transform oneself can cause a multitude of unforeseen issues.
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* SelfPerceptionShapeshifting: Transforming to match your self image.
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* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: A set of animal footprints gradually turn into human footprints (or vice versa), in indication that the footprints are made by a were-creature or other animal-human shapeshifter.
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* WomanWereWoes: Female shapeshifters have difficulties male ones don't.

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* YouSexyBeast: For cases where a less human form is considered more attractive.

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* YouSexyBeast: For cases where a less human form is considered more attractive.YouAreWhoYouEat: [[ImAHumanitarian Eating]] [[ToServeMan people]] allows certain kinds of shapeshifters to look like whomever they ate.



* TravelTransformation: Transforming to get new or better ways to travel.
* TurningBackHuman: When someone's transformation is finally reversed, allowing them to regain their humanity (or otherwise revert back to their original form).



* WaterTriggeredChange: A shapeshifter's transformation activates when they come into contact with water.



* TravelTransformation: Transforming to get new or better ways to travel.
* TurningBackHuman: When someone's transformation is finally reversed, allowing them to regain their humanity (or otherwise revert back to their original form).



* WasOnceAMan: It turns out that there's a monster or other strange creature, who used to be an ordinary human being.
* WaterTriggeredChange: A shapeshifter's transformation activates when they come into contact with water.
* YouAreWhoYouEat: [[ImAHumanitarian Eating]] [[ToServeMan people]] allows certain kinds of shapeshifters to look like whomever they ate.

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* WasOnceAMan: It turns out that there's a A monster or other strange creature, who used creature turns out to be have formerly been an ordinary human being.
* WaterTriggeredChange: A shapeshifter's transformation activates when they come into contact with water.
* YouAreWhoYouEat: [[ImAHumanitarian Eating]] [[ToServeMan people]] allows certain kinds of shapeshifters to look like whomever they ate.
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* YouSexyBeast: For cases of a less human form being considered more attractive.
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* TelescopingRobot: A robotic character opens or extends parts of their body to reveal tons of weapons.
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* MacGuffinTurnedHuman: [[MacGuffin The object that everyone is looking for]] turns out to have been transformed into a person.
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* DevolutionDevice: AppliedPhlebotinum that makes something revert to a previous "stage" of evolution.
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* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: Someone's mouth is literally removed from their face.
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* EvolutionPowerUp: A power-up or transformation is called evolution.


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* PowerUpgradingDeformation: A person's body gets deformed in some way, but in turn they become more powerful.
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* SappingTheShapeshifter: For mere mortals, a shapeshifter can only be defeated by slowly exhausting them and -- often -- their forms.



* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: As soon as they're revealed as such, shapeshifters just can't resist flaunting their powers.



* SappingTheShapeshifter: For mere mortals, a shapeshifter can only be defeated by slowly exhausting them and - often - their forms.



* ShapeshifterShowoffSession: As soon as they're revealed as such, shapeshifters just can't resist flaunting their powers.

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* BeastMan: They don't have to be based on wolves...



* LimbSensationFascination: So ''that's'' what a tentacle feels like.



* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Behavior is frequently influenced by another form's instincts, during or after the morph.



%%* TwoFacedShapeshifter: A shapehifter who uses their abilities to impersonate others for evil or criminal purposes -- Rogue launched trope, restore only if properly launched.



* JustWokeUpThatWay: And avoided a bunch of {{Phlebotinum}}, [[ItRunsOnNonsenseoleum Nonsenseoleum]], or FunctionalMagic by skipping straight to the results.

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* JustWokeUpThatWay: And avoided a bunch of {{Phlebotinum}}, AppliedPhlebotinum, [[ItRunsOnNonsenseoleum Nonsenseoleum]], or FunctionalMagic by skipping straight to the results.



* LimbSensationFascination: So ''that's'' what a tentacle feels like.



* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Behavior is frequently influenced by another form's instincts, during or after the morph.



%%* ShapeshiftingIncludesClothing: Your clothes 'do' change when you change, even if you change them before.



* LegoGenetics: Genetic engineering can be used to transform an ordinary organism into some sort of [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid mutant being]] after getting their DNA fused with that of another species.

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* LegoGenetics: Genetic engineering can be used to transform an ordinary organism into some sort of [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid mutant being]] after getting their DNA fused with that of another species.



* SlimeGirl: A person (usually a woman/girl) who is made out of slime.



* WerebeastTropes: Everything regarding people who turn into [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent animalistic monsters]].

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* ToyTransmutation: A character is transformed into a toy of some kind.



* TransformingConforming: A shapeshifter or other transforming characters must play by the rules of their chosen form.



* PuppetPermutation: Transformation into a puppet doll.



* ToyTransmutation: A character is transformed into a toy of some kind.



* PuppetPermutation: Transformation into a puppet doll.



* {{Transhuman}}ism: The (artificial) evolution of humans into something different.
* TransformingConforming: A shapeshifter or other transforming characters must play by the rules of their chosen form.

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* {{Transhuman}}ism: {{Transhuman}}: The (artificial) evolution of humans into something different.
* TransformingConforming: A shapeshifter or other transforming characters must play by the rules of their chosen form.
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* PrimalPolymorphs: Shapeshifters that prefer a simple life, usually in the wild, sometimes as animals.

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* AllWitchesHaveCats: Exaggerated. While the cat is the most common {{familiar}} for WitchesAndWizards, sometimes, witches don't just own a cat, but have the ability to transform into one, or they don't own a cat, but they ''are'' one.
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* AllWitchesHaveCats: Exaggerated. Sometimes, witches don't just own a cat, but have the ability to transform into one, or they don't own a cat, but they ''are'' one.

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* AllWitchesHaveCats: Exaggerated. Sometimes, While the cat is the most common {{familiar}} for WitchesAndWizards, sometimes, witches don't just own a cat, but have the ability to transform into one, or they don't own a cat, but they ''are'' one.
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* AllWitchesHaveCats: Exaggerated. Sometimes, witches don't just own a cat, but have the ability to transform into one, or they don't own a cat, but they ''are'' one.
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* ElementalShapeshifter: Transforming oneself (in whole or part) into one of the ElementsOfNature.

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* ElementalShapeshifter: Transforming oneself (in whole or part) into one of the ElementsOfNature.NaturalElements.

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