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

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has a stable romantic relationship between Nale and [[HornyDevils Sabine]], which includes a, shall we say, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0365.html interesting subversion]].

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* An incredibly disturbing example occurs in ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'': one male student is [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a giant snail]]. Another male student mocks him for this, [[KarmicTransformation then ends up the same the next day.]] As snails are hermaprodites, they end up ''mating with each other.''

* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', we have [[spoiler:King]] and his [[AttractiveBentSpecies popularity for shipping]] with all the girl dogs. [[spoiler:King]] is a BalefulPolymorph and [[spoiler:a human named Joel]].

* Changelings in ''TabletopGame/{{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]].

** In "Frogs of War", Ben is a bit disturbed that transforming into his [[FrogMan Inkursian]] form Bullfrag [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody causes him to find the Inkursian Princess Attea attractive]]. Attea becomes pretty smitten with him in turn, and she'd rather have him be Bullfrag all the time, though she doesn't pass on human Ben either.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' 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 [[NoYay Ben's Tetramand form and begins flirting with him]]... until he turns human. [[HumansAreUgly Cue disgust]].
** She does, however, later try to encourage him to turn back into Fourarms...[[{{Squick}} Cue Ben's reaction.]]
** Averted later with another female Tetramand in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''. Princess Looma spends most of the episode pursuing Kevin to force him to honor their engagement. After Ben is tricked into [[BestHerToBedHer defeating her]], she immediately switches her affections to Ben. Her father does consider Ben's ability to change into a Tetramand with the Omnitrix a bonus.
** In "Frogs of War", Ben is a bit disturbed that transforming into [[spoiler:his Inkursian form Bullfrag]] causes him to find [[spoiler:Princess Attea]] attractive. [[spoiler:Princess Attea]] becomes pretty smitten with him in turn, though she'd rather have him be [[spoiler:Bullfrag]] all the time.

** Peoples living north and east of Japan -- Ainu, Koryaks, Inuits -- believed that ''all'' animals of any age are shapeshifters, who can take off their "coats" and become human or [[LittleBitBeastly almost human]] (e.g. hiding a fox tail in a ponytail). They have many variations of "fox wife" story, some identical to [[{{Kitsune}} Japanese story about Ono of Mino]], some different. In one Inuit version the human husband catches up to his runaway fox wife when they stop for a night in the home of some married couple. They decide to swap wives, and it goes mostly fine. But in the morning the hosts become a female hare and a ''piece of shit''. The fox runs away in disgust and has to be chased again.

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Image", shapeshifter Miss Martian takes on the form of ComicBook/BlackCanary to engage in a little TeacherStudentRomance roleplaying with Superboy. Canary's boyfriend ComicBook/GreenArrow was amused (after briefly expressing shock that Dinah would cheat on him with a juvenile student). Dinah was ''not''. J'onn explains that among Martians (who can read each others minds) this is regarded as a harmless game because everyone knows it's fake, but Dinah has a quiet talk with Miss Martian explaining that it's different for humans.

--> '''Nale:''' ''"Must... resist... urge to assert...heterosexuality! For the sake... of the plan!"''
--> '''Sabine:''' ''"Honey, I am a shapechanger, it's not like we never tried-"''
--> '''Nale:''' ''"Not! Helping!"''

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Image", shapeshifter Miss Martian takes on the form of ComicBook/BlackCanary to engage in a little TeacherStudentRomance roleplaying with Superboy. Canary's boyfriend ComicBook/GreenArrow was amused (after briefly expressing shock that Dinah would cheat on him with a juvenile student). Dinah was ''not''. J'onn explains that among Martians (who can read each others minds) this is regarded as a harmless game because everyone knows its fake, but Dinah has a quiet talk with Miss Martian explaining that it's different for humans.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': In "A Bicyclops Built for Two", Leela meets [[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.

* In many accounts, an incubus can not produce sperm to impregnate women in their sleep, so he gets it from other human men while in the form of a succubus. This explains when a child looks nothing like its father but comes a lot after the neighbors sons. Damn these rapist demons!

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

->''"I've just got one question. If you can change your form into anything you like, why didn't you change it in the one place it counts?"''
-->-- '''Leela''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* A mid-series arc in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' had the [[GenderBender eponymous character]] being bewitched into falling in love with his rival, Ryoga, by a "[[LovePotion Fishing Rod of Love]]." When Ryoga was creeped out by it, Ranma turned into a girl to appease him. It didn't work. But later on, girl-Ranma goes to considerable lengths to get Ryoga to love her back, culminating with [[DisproportionateRetribution a kiss that fuels Ryoga's drive to kill her]]. After she tries to kill Akane, Ryoga defeats her by accidentally undoing the spell, to his relief. But then when he tries to confess to Akane, he accidentally grabs the wrong person: Ranma, who has returned to her senses. She's {{Squick}}ed out and pulverizes Ryoga.

* In ''{{Manga/Gantz}}'', resident ButtMonkey Inaba Kouki has a crush on the resident hottie Reika. During a routinely brutal mission, he's approached by a battle worn Reika who claims that everyone else is dead and begs Inaba to have sex with her in the middle of a mall foyer (just go with it). Turns out [[spoiler:Reika was a shape shifting alien in disguise. A ''male'' alien in disguise.]]
* From ''{{Rebirth}},'' Deshwitat has a sparring match with an ancient, bearded CulturedBadass vampire. During the battle, said ancient vampire (in a bout of humor) playfully transforms himself into a hot young half-dressed woman to throw him off from attacking him. Deshwitat, baffled and enraged, orders him to change back. He certainly does, but only his head, leaving the rest of it the same.

* Hard to say if it goes here, or in TransformationTrauma, in one [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] story, ComicBook/{{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.

* The ''{{WesternAnimation/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.
* ''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 [[NoYay Ben's Tetramand form and begins flirting with him]]... until he turns human. [[HumansAreUgly Cue disgust]].

* In the opening of the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Image", shapeshifter Miss Martian takes on the form of ComicBook/BlackCanary to engage in a little TeacherStudentRomance roleplaying with Superboy. Canary's boyfriend ComicBook/GreenArrow was amused (after briefly expressing shock that Dinah would cheat on him with a juvenile student). Dinah was ''not''.
* 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, [[{{Troll}} at which point he changes into Gene Shalit]].

* There was a sci-fi story ['Life Form', by Alan Dean Foster] 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.

* 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.]][[note]]Medieval concepts of honor have more to do with reputation than anything a modern westerner would recognize as an honorable code of behavior. A child by rape gets the double whammy of being seen as tainted by their father's crime and being a bastard.[[/note]]

* As in the standard folklore, in the film ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' KingArthur is son of Igraine and Uther Pendragon. He is shapeshifted by Merlin as Igraine's husband (that, at the moment, is painfully dying on the battlefield for extra drama); because {{Squick}} was not already hitting the eleven, Uther is in full metal plate armor, with the queen laying under him. Ouch. No time to undress?

* Another Marvel example: [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Spidey villain]] Electro was once dating a shapeshifter (or perhaps employing a shapeshifting prostitute) who demonstrated a number of possible forms for that night's... entertainment, including [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Susan Storm/Richards]].
** ... including [[FoeYay Spider-Man]]...
** ... If [[FridgeLogic we knew then what we know now]]...

->"''I've just got one question. If you can change your form into anything you like, why didn't you change it in the one place it counts?''"

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

* ''Webcomic/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.]]
** And again with Kara Lynn, who [[spoiler: has standing orders to earn her Master's family money as an exotic dancer and prostitute, and [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-seven-page-13/ changes form to suit the fetishes of the highest bidder]].]]

** Loki was pretty much the master of this trope, being an [[TheTrickster 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 [[TheTrickster 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...

* An early novel by Scott Westerfeld (author of the ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' trilogy), ''Polymorph'', centered around a man and his sexual encounters via shapeshifting.
** It's about a ''person'' (originally female) that has an extra organelle that allows her to shapeshift. She's pretty much forgotten her original form and lives off of disability checks (shapeshifting can create convincing-looking disabilities and fake identites). A lot of the squick comes with the antagonist, and how the love interest gets treated in the epilogue...

* In ''Zerophilia'' (2005), Luke finds out he's got a Rare Genetic Disorder that allows him to change gender at will. This makes for some awkward comedy when he starts to like a girl whose brother starts to like Luke's girl-self. [[spoiler:Luckily, it turns out that the girl and the brother are one and the same, another zerophiliac, and the two all live happily ever both-genders after.]]

* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': the human Fred Kwan falls in love with the Thermian Laliari. Thermians are [[StarfishAlien octopus-like]] aliens who use advanced holographic technology to appear human. When Fred and Laliari get intimate her control slips and the tentacles come out. Bystanders are thoroughly squicked, but Fred doesn't mind one bit.