History Main / ShapeshiftingHealsWounds

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The fact that morphing heals all wounds is mentioned OnceAnEpisode and is crucial to the team's continued survival, having recovered from horrific wounds up to and including limb loss. It is, however, very tiring.

* Tamago of the Big Mom Pirates from ''Anime/OnePiece'' can only transform into a new form when his previous one has been beaten, becoming progressively more like a giant rooster as he goes. Naturally, once he's taken on the new transformation, any injuries he's incurred from the previous one disappear.

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werecreatures]] instantly heal all injuries every time they transform. Since this is the only way to heal permanent injuries such as nerve damage and missing limbs, some players of Adventurer mode will [[CursedWithAwesome deliberately become werecreatures]] with this in mind. This has led to an [[GoodBadBugs interesting side effect]] where cutting a werecreature to pieces and reanimating the pieces as a {{Necromancer}} caused each body part to eventually [[FromASingleCell regenerate into a full-sized clone of that werecreature]].

** [[GalacticConqueror Frieza]] is a villain with a number of OneWingedAngel forms, and as he successfully transforms into the next form, the previous form's damage is healed, as shown when he loses part of his tail in his second form, but as soon as he transforms into the third, the tail has regrown.
** [[UltimateLifeForm Cell]]'s take on the OneWingedAngel is more parasitic, in that he literally needs to consume other characters to attain his new forms - but each one always has him end in perfect health despite the damage he took previously. It's justified in his case, however, as he has FromASingleCell regeneration, and the increase in power allows him to heal the damage he might have taken.

* ''Literature/TheMermaid'', has Amelia, who can transform between a mermaid and a human woman and is hired by P.T. Barnum as an attraction. A man shoots her in the stomach to punish her for [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny arousing men's lust]]. She falls into a coma for three days. Levi has almost given up hope for her when he has the idea to put her in the harbor, as being immersed in saltwater is what triggers her transformation. As soon as she transforms, she recovers completely, and when she turns back into a human she shows no sign of injury.

* ''Project Videogame/AlteredBeast:'' Lorewise, at least, Luke can technically regenerate from injuries as he transforms into one of his beast forms. In a subversion, he has a WoundThatWillNotHeal on his chest, courtesy of his rival, Brad, whose Weretiger claws are laced with a certain virus that causes cellular necrosis; Luke retains the scar even in his beast forms. In gameplay, he retains his current HP whenever he transforms.

May be justified by the way the shapeshifting works: if it causes the cells to morph and regenerate (ShapeshifterBaggage and all that), it can also logically heal wounds. The "rapidly regenerating cells" may be a RequiredSecondaryPower that can also be exploited as a HealingFactor.

* {{Characters/Mystique}} is sometimes stated to have a limited healing ability as a secondary effect of her body control. If counts enough for a healing factor draining vampire in ''{{ComicBook/Wolverines}}'' to target her.
* Kamala Khan from ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'' has a limited healing factor which seems to be both connected to her morphing powers, because she can't use them while she's healing, and CastFromCalories, because she becomes utterly ravenous as well. It hasn't come up much after introduction though, only referenced after saving her from a gunshot wound when she squees over working with Wolverine.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'': Getting a Fire Flower powerup allows Mario to gain two hitpoints / {{Single Use Shield}}s, since getting hit while in Fire Mario form drops him to his Super Mario form rather than the standard Mario one.

** The auxiliary Animorphs were recruited thanks to this, by offering the morphing power to severely wounded or paralyzed teens who couldn't be restored via surgery. Some of them still couldn't be healed by the morphing process, but being able to spend up to two hours as an animal that moves more gracefully than any human ever could (or able to communicate via thought-speak) is a good enough substitute. [[spoiler:This also works on Tobias' mother, who was rendered blind, covered in scars, and amnesiac after a car accident. Morphing heals her eyes and makes her scars vanish, but memories are still gone]].

*** In Megamorphs #2 Tobias' wing gets broken and isn't fixed after demorphing, while surrounded by hungry dinosaurs. It gets healed later [[spoiler:by the aliens who lived on Earth in the Cretaceous]], but no explanation is ever given for why it failed to work in the first place, though he does passively blame the Elimmist for it (who had given back his morphing power to begin with).[[note]]Author KA Applegate has revealed that she simply ''forgot'' morphing could heal injuries, and since she had already written a part of the story where Tobias has to deal with the broken wing, it is presented as a mystery internally.[[/note]]

May be used to extend a ShapeshifterShowdown. Compare ShapeDiesShifterSurvives.

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*** In Megamorphs #2 Tobias' wing gets broken and isn't fixed after demorphing, while surrounded by hungry dinosaurs. It gets healed later [[spoiler:by the aliens who lived on Earth in the Cretaceous]], but no explanation is ever given for why it failed to work in the first place.[[note]]Author KA Applegate has revealed that she simply ''forgot'' morphing could heal injuries, and since she had already written a part of the story where Tobias has to deal with the broken wing it is presented as a mystery internally.[[/note]]