History Main / ShapeshiftingsQuick

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

* The [[TheFairFolk Puca]] of Irish mythology naturally took the form of a [[DarkIsEvil demonic black horse]] but could shapeshift into a human to impregnate people with malformed babies.

* This scene was parodied in ''Film/EpicMovie'', where a Mystique-esque character is asked to change into increasingly hideous (Fatter! Older!) guises for one character's enjoyment during sex.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Queen Chrysalis (A shapeshifting bug pony thing), disguised as Shining Armor's fiance Princess Cadence. She's with him on his ''wedding night'' and is "feeding off of his love". Ew.

* In ''Webcomic/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.

* Bon Clay in ''OnePiece'' has the power to morph into anyone whose face he's touched before. In a memorable fight between him and Sanji, Bon Clay, exploiting Sanji's [[WouldntHitAGirl chivalry]], morphs into Nami, causing Sanji to have a brief dilemma about whether or not to keep fighting him.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Queen Chrysalis(A shapeshifting bug pony thing), disguised as Shining Armor's fiance Princess Cadence. She's with him on his ''wedding night'' and is "feeding off of his love". Ew.

** Loki was pretty much the master of this trope, being an eternal {{Trickster}} with incredibly low sexual restraint (for the Norse gods, at least; he'd be a prude in plenty of other pantheons).

* A Myth/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. How the [[IWasQuiteALooker old woman knew what Coyote smelt like]], however...

* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', a recently [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor turned evil again]] Cole Turner goes to a demonic strip club where he asks a shapeshifter to impersonate his estranged ex-wife Phoebe. The shapeshifter later [[LoveMakesYouCrazy tried to kill and replace the real Phoebe]], worsening the estrangement. At the end of the same episode, he visits the strip club again and asks another shapeshifter to impersonate Phoebe, but this time he kills her.

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

** The best case scenario is that he was wondering about her bear form. Considering her other two shapes are a giant spider and a swarm of flying insects...

* In Arthurian legend, the warlord Uther Pendragon falls madly in [[strike:love]] lust with Igraine, who is already married to Gorlois. Uther asks Merlin for help, and the wizard transforms Uther into a copy of Gorlois. Igraine makes love to the man she thinks is her husband, and conceives Arthur Pendragon of legend. That's right, the honorable KingArthur is [[ValuesDissonance the product of rape by fraud.]]
** Meanwhile her husband is killed in the unjust war Uther had begun against him in the attempt to win Igraine, and he marries her a little later. After she's figured out what happened that night. WordOfGod states they were very happy, but it's pretty full of relationship {{Squick}}.
** And just what does being born of rape have to do with ''your'' honor?

** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' ("So is it true he extend ''any'' part of his body?").
*** Also in one of the comics. "Did I ever mention what a ''wonderful'' power that cosmic cloud gave you?"

** In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' 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.
*** This scene was parodied in ''Film/EpicMovie'', where a Mystique-esque character is asked to change into increasingly hideous (Fatter! Older!) guises for one character's enjoyment during sex.
*** In an issue of ''{{Wolverine}}'', Logan and Mystique apparently sleep together. Logan knew it was Mystique the whole time by her smell, but played along because Mystique was acting WAY out of character and he figured something was seriously bothering her.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter gains shapeshifting powers. At one point, he turns into Britney Spears and gets Justin Timberlake to kiss him, at which point he changes into Gene Shalit.

* Hard to say if it goes here, or in TransformationTrauma, in one [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] story, {{Krypto the Superdog}} accidentally flew through a cloud of [[GreenRocks Red Kryptonite Dust clouds]], and was surprised when he was turned into a pretty Collie. Doesn't sound so bad, or squicky so far, right? Well, he got turned into a ''pregnant'' Collie and had given birth to a bunch of superpuppies.

* In Arthurian legend, the warlord Uther Pendragon falls madly in [[strike:love]] lust with Igraine, who is already married to Gorlois. Uther asks Merlin for help, and the wizard transforms Uther into a copy of Gorlois. Igraine [[RapeIsLove makes love]] to the man she thinks is her husband, and conceives Arthur Pendragon of legend. That's right, the honorable KingArthur is [[ValuesDissonance the product of rape by fraud.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' contains a rare inversion in an episode where Ben meets a trio of crime-fightin' aliens. The female Tetramand, a species of massive red-skinned four-armed aliens, is impressed with [[{{Shotacon}} Ben's Tetramand form and begins flirting with him]]... until he turns human. [[HumansAreUgly Cue disgust]].

* Subverted by a short-lived [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defenders]] character called Cloud who initially 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.

* Jimmy T of the WhateleyUniverse. He can change his shape into pretty much anything and anyone. By the end of Halloween, he has a boyfriend/girlfriend who changes regularly from one sex to the other. Which means...

* Male ''{{Pokemon}}''. Left in the Day-care Center. With a Ditto. The Pokédex entry for Ditto explains that it transforms by [[ScrewYourself copying the other Pokémon's DNA]]. [[FridgeLogic Think about that one for a second.]]

* 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 ComicBook/Onslaught intervened, and the two weren't reunited. But in the [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl MC-2 timeline]] Johnny and Lyja are happily married and have a son called Torus.

** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Film/FantasticFour'' TheMovie ("So is it true he extend ''any'' part of his body?").

* In one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' novels, a Terran man falls in love with one of the chieri, the hermaphroditic, elf-like natives of Darkover, in her female phase. In the middle of their lovemaking, she transforms into her male form.

** The ValuesDissonance enters the picture where Igraine eventually figures it out and IS OKAY WITH THE RAPE BY FRAUD.

See also ShapeshiftingLover, which has a cleaner history in folklore.

* There was a ''LegendOfTheFiveRings'' published module where, in the end, it turned out that the "something foully wrong" with a certain monastery was the fact that the head monk was having sex. The problem was, he was having sex with a bog hag in disguise and didn't know it. In that setting, a bog hag is an evil creature that flays living humans alive and can impersonate them by wearing the flayed skin, most emphatically '''not''' a shapeshifter.
* Lunar {{Exalted}} have shapeshifting powers that let them switch genders, turn into any sort of animal, or both. This power means that they are able to create [[{{Beastman}} Beastmen]] by committing bestiality as, er, either component, and they can be either mother or father, depending on their whims. Their patron deity has a form that appears as a pregnant human [[MisterSeaHorse of either sex]] and it's implied that a sufficiently skilled Lunar Exalted could mimic this trick themself.

* Changelings in ''{{Eberron}}'' are probably masters of this trope. Even gender is merely a guideline to them, provided they stay within general humanoid appearance and [[ShoutOut don't change gender]] [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf while pregnant]].