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-->--'''Leela on {{Futurama}}'''

* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two" has Leela meeting [[ActorAllusion Alkazar]], whom she believes to be the other [[LastOfHisKind last of her kind]]. Turns out he was really a shapeshifting cricket who tried to seduce five women to keep his five castles clean.

* Played around with in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' in an early story arc. During a [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] game the resident [[RulesLawyer prick]], Mike, complained about newcomer [=PeeJee=] throwing off the [[FiveManBand group dynamic]] by also playing a female character. The [[DungeonMaster DM]], sick of Mike's whiny shit, retconned information about a magic item Mike had picked up in the previous game-- a belt. Mike never took the time to find out what it did; his character immediately put it on and promptly turned male (and now looked like a Player Avatar). The {{squick}}tasdedness comes later, when [=PeeJee=] used magic, in-universe and adherent to all ''D&D'' rules, to create Redneck Trees that proceeded to rape Mike's character.

* In ''Webcomic/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' In the comic "Eden" , God [[spoiler: takes the form of Adam and engages in sex with Eve, who does not know that she is not doing it with Adam. Adam calls out "Honey?" upon seeing what is happening.]]

* In ''TheKAMics'' the Ratatosk started the Squirrel Wars because he was egged on by a cute harem squirrel that turned out to be the god Loki. Although, considering that in the Norse myths Loki once took on the form of a mare to draw off a giant's horse & later got pregnant, this behavior was not out of character...
* In ''ThePerryBibleFellowship'' In the comic "Eden" , God [[spoiler: takes the form of Adam and engages in sex with Eve, who does not know that she is not doing it with Adam. Adam calls out "Honey?" upon seeing what is happening.]]
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Princess Voluptua revealed to Bob early on that her HelloNurse appearance was an illusion and that she was actually a [[StarfishAliens Starfish Alien]]. Consequently, they have never pursued a relationship, although his girlfriend Jean still dislikes her hanging around him in all her GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe glory.

* Played around with in ''SomethingPositive'' in an early story arc. During a [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] game the resident [[RulesLawyer prick]], Mike, complained about newcomer [=PeeJee=] throwing off the [[FiveManBand group dynamic]] by also playing a female character. The [[DungeonMaster DM]], sick of Mike's whiny shit, retconned information about a magic item Mike had picked up in the previous game-- a belt. Mike never took the time to find out what it did; his character immediately put it on and promptly turned male (and now looked like a Player Avatar). The {{squick}}tasdedness comes later, when [=PeeJee=] used magic, in-universe and adherent to all ''D&D'' rules, to create Redneck Trees that proceeded to rape Mike's character.

* [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=594 This strip]] in Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy:

* In ''WapsiSquare'', Justin [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/fringe-paranormals/ once dated a werewolf]] who liked to change in the middle of sex. Justin wasn't really into it.
* ButImACatPerson includes background references to the use of the shapeshifting Beings in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].

* There are many shapeshifters in ''Webcomic/{{Danandmabsfurryadventures}}'', mostly of the extremely-shape-flexible but size-inflexible Incubi/Succubi variety. Then there's Pyroduck, who can shift between a humanoid form and a giant brown dragon form. His girlfriend, Alexi, [[spoiler: averts]] [[http://dmfa.katbox.net/comic/1075-this-happens-a-lot/ it, much to his dismay.]]

** By the way, how do we define a gender of a shapeshifter that can take ANY form, male AND female?
*** [[{{Futurama}} Shklee]]?

** In the second ''[[Film/X2XMenUnited X-Men]]'' movie she seduces Wolverine. He's fairly surprised when she mimics Storm, a little conflicted at Jean Grey's appearance, but profoundly creeped out when he sees her shapeshift into Rogue (essentially a movie version of his traditional underage female sidekick). Turning into Brian "Original Lecter" Cox was just icing on the [[MemeticMutation Do Not Want]] cake.

*** Lampshaded in the {{DC Nation}} fan-verse when the characters are taking the 5000 question "internet purity test." Gar's girlfriend (an OC with similar shapeshifting abilities) asks, tongue-in-cheek, "Honey, just how DO we answer those bestiality questions?"

* Another classic Marvel case is Lyja, a Skrull spy who got married to Johnny Storm, the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, in the shape of the Thing's former girlfriend Alicia Masters. The marriage was anulled after the truth came out, but since Lyja actually fell in love with Johnny, she later dated him again in a different human shape as "Laura Green". When she finally wanted to admit the deception he told her already because only one person kissed him like that. Awww. Unfortunately Onslaught intervened, and the two weren't reunited. But in the [[{{Spider-Girl}} MC-2 timeline]] Johnny and Lyja are happily married and have a son called Torus.

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Image", shapeshifter Miss Martian takes on the form of BlackCanary to engage in a little TeacherStudentRomance roleplaying with Superboy. Canary's boyfriend GreenArrow was amused (after briefly expressing shock that Dinah would cheat on him with a juvenile student). Dinah was ''not''.

* Subverted by a short-lived [[TheDefenders Defenders]] character called Cloud who initally had two forms, a small cumulus that could project rain, wind and lightning, and a blatant {{Fanservice}} young woman wearing strategically placed scraps of nimbus that always seemed on the point of blowing away. However, once every character with testosterone had got the hots for her, she discovered that she could just as easily coalesce from cloud form into a male body: and did, to general consternation.

** ChrisClaremont has gone on record as saying he intended Mystique and Destiny, her (female) lover, to both be Nightcrawler's biological parents.

* In ''TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' there's a scene where it's Tin Thing (Gonzo)'s turn to see the wizard. The wizard first appears as this very beautiful [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe green skinned woman]]... but when Gonzo fails to react to this, she turns into a ''chicken'' just like Camilla!

* A NativeAmericanMythology example is [[{{Trickster}} Coyote]]. One story details how he took a fancy to the wife of a village hunter, so one day when the husband was out hunting he met up with him and turned 'him' into a coyote while Coyote himself took on the husband's form and headed back to the village to sleep with 'his' wife. The young woman didn't even know what had happened until the next day an old (wise?)woman told her that she smelt of Coyote. This toper presumes he returned the husband, thus the woman's confusion. How the [[IWasQuiteALooker old woman knew what Coyote smelt like]], however...

* The potential inherent in Tonks' sex life is a common thread in ''Main/HarryPotter'' [[Main/{{Fanfic}} fanfiction]], both good and bad. In one fic, she describes how she got revenge on a cheating boyfriend by turning into ''his mother'' in the middle of sex.

One of the cleaner subtropes involves a hero seduced by an exploitative shapeshifting minion. This can also apply to metaphorical shapeshifters, such as people with JekyllAndHyde complexes. It usually suggests an amount of mischief, if not outright wickedness, since it may not be so much a plan to trick the hero as their own little perversion. There are a few ways for the hero to handle this situation:

A significant subtrope of PowerPerversionPotential. See also SenseFreak, HornyDevils, ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange and ShowingOffTheNewBody.

!!Examples

* An interesting non-comedy example appears in ''{{Runaways}}'', with Karolina and her GenderBender fiancé(e) Xavin. Xavin initially presents herself as male, then promptly transforms into a female when Karolina reveals that she's a lesbian. Thereafter, there's an ongoing thread in the comic about Xavin's transformations; it's never exactly clear what Xavin's "real" sex is, if he/she even has one, and the other Runaways are not entirely comfortable with this. A complication arises when Xavin, knowing that Karolina has feelings for their team-mate Nico, transforms into Nico's shape to please Karolina. It... doesn't really work.

** Other characters who have plenty of fanfiction invoking this trope include but are certainly not limited to [[{{Batman}} Clayface]] and [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Beast Boy]].

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Image", shapeshifter Miss Martian takes on the form of BlackCanary to engage in a little StudentTeacherRomance roleplaying with Superboy. Canary's boyfriend GreenArrow was amused (after briefly expressing shock that Dinah would cheat on him with a juvenile student). Dinah was ''not''.

* This in inverted in ''{{UC}}: Deviating from Normality'', where a shapeshifting demon [[http://www.wanderingchaos.com/uc/103107.html tries]] to find something that will turn Nicodemus on. Instead, he finds something that turns ''him'' [[spoiler:inside-out]].

* This in inverted in ''UC: Deviating from Normality'', where a shapeshifting demon [[http://www.wanderingchaos.com/uc/103107.html tries]] to find something that will turn Nicodemus on. Instead, he finds something that turns ''him'' [[spoiler:inside-out]].

* There was a sci-fi story in which a race of aliens were taught by a human stranded on their planet to transform into humanoid forms (and wage war, which was a foreign concept to them). The shapeshifted beings ended up being attractive by human standards because a human taught them their new form. Years later, a human exploration party arrives. One human guy (a bit of a perv) commands one of the aliens to transform while he's getting it on with her. She's initially hesitant, then very reluctantly obliges... and ends up driving him insane, because her original alien form looks kind of like a huge lobster/bug that directly triggers subconscious human fears.

* This is, unsurprisingly, subverted by Deadpool with his shapeshifting girlfriend Copycat (whose power doesn't just let her assume appearances, but memories, personalities and even superpowers). Deadpool recognizes that shapeshifting is [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity driving Copycat crazy]], and that he should discourage her from using it... right after she goes through a list of other female superheroes he wants to nail.