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* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'s'' animated adaptation, Peter was often [[ForcedTransformation transformed into all kinds of humanoid animals]], usually as a sanction for [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught trying to mess with the game's rules]] or TemptingFate.

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* The Franchise/{{Superman}} family:

* There was a period in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} when Franchise/{{Batman}} was either getting a superpower or experiencing a bizarre transformation (alien, genie, giant, merman, flat flying disc, etc) every month. It would always SnapBack at the end of the story.
** It still happens every now and then. There's even an {{Elseworld}} based on Bruce Wayne becoming a Franchise/GreenLantern. (Or a pirate, or a knight...)
** And according to Creator/GrantMorrison, ''every single wacky [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] transformation'' is now canon. Albeit with most of them {{retcon}}ned into being hallucinations brought about by the sensory deprivation experiment he underwent in "Robin Dies At Dawn!", or by the many chemical weapons Batman's rogues tend to use.
* ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' is built on this trope, with the various runs having the protagonist(s) come in possession of a mysterious artifact that looks a bit like a rotary telephone dial without the phone attached. Pressing a certain sequence on it transforms the user into a "superhero", or at least something with (usually quirky) super powers, for a short period. The original comics would have about three transformations per story: each transformation was usually unique, and the latest transformation would be met with some kind of thought like "I wish I was (some previous transformation) again", because that form would have made solving the problem easy; some of them did occur multiple times over the course of the series, though.
** In late 90's Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes comics, we learn that by the 30th century, the Dial had wound up in a museum, and then... ''ahem...'' [[StickyFingers comes into the possession]] of a little girl named Lori Morning who uses it to become a super heroine in the AntiHero team Workforce.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Due to living with two supergenius sisters, the titular Johnny usually goes through many different metamorphosis, including becoming nearly every kind of animal there is and gaining actual superpowers on more than one occasion/
* Clover in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' tended to be subject to fanservice inducing transformations.
** Similarly, Alex would always be the one to trade faces with the villain in the cases of a partial body swap machine. (Yes, there were multiple cases of this) Except when it came with a good dosing of physical transformation, then it belonged to Clover.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'s'' animated adaptation, Peter was often [[ForcedTransformation transformed into all kinds of humanoid animals]], usually as a sanction for [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught trying to mess with the game's rules]] or TemptingFate.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' takes the theme from [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove the film it was based on]] and runs with it, having Kuzco be exposed to transformation potions so often, he could almost be considered a VoluntaryShapeshifter.
* In one of the first few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AlienatorsEvolutionContinues'', Wayne Grey is used as a human guinea pig to develop a vaccine against a virus the aliens are using to attempt to spread. The cure leaves him NotQuiteBackToNormal, and from that episode on he manifests random mutations when alien activity peaks again.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. Usually invoked by Johnny himself or his sisters.

* Agent Jay from ''WesternAnimation/MenIBlackTheSeries'' has undergone several mutations throughout the series: having been host to a shape-manipulating symbiote, shrunk to the size of a mouse, turned into one of the Worms, gained SuperIntelligence one episode, SuperSpeed another, became a Human Torch {{Expy}}, and one time gained literal Swiss Army superpowers.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'s'' animated adaptation, Peter was often [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into all kinds of humanoid animals]], usually as a sanction for [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught trying to mess with the game's rules]] or TemptingFate.
** Of course, this was based on his transformation into a monkey in the original movie.

* Rick Jones, the sidekick to the entire MarvelUniverse.

Not to be confused with ComicBook/PlasticMan, a literal Silly Putty superhero.

** At least [[DaChief Perry White]] got off scot-free, right? [[http://www.superdickery.com/perry-gets-powers-aga-wait-perry/ ...Oh.]] [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081231010330/marvel_dc/images/a/a7/Action_Comics_278.jpg Never mind.]]

* In one of the first few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Evolution}}'', Wayne Grey is used as a human guinea pig to develop a vaccine against a virus the aliens are using to attempt to spread. The cure leaves him NotQuiteBackToNormal, and from that episode on he manifests random mutations when alien activity peaks again.

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%* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. Usually invoked by Johnny himself or his sisters.

-->''Dear Diary,''\\
''I became Turtle Boy today. I was better than last time; I only fell on my shell once and a nice man was there to flip me over. I don't know quite what set it off -- the [[GreenRocks radioactive meteorite]] I was investigating or that [[AppliedPhlebotinum mystical talisman]] my girlfriend gave me.''\\
''It was certainly better than yesterday: a combination of Omega Radiation and a kryptonite candle turned me into Melting Lad. I really don't understand how [[ImMelting melting is a superpower]], but I was a puddle for half the day. Franchise/{{Superman}} had to use his super-sculpting skills to put my atomic structure back together. I have to remember to get him something good for his birthday. Maybe a tie?''\\
''Well, tomorrow is a new day. Let's hope I don't get any more weird or wacky powers -- I don't know how much I can handle, to be honest. It's never just super-strength or flight, it's always something weird, like {{lycanthropy}} or becoming super-fat (again, ''how'' is that a superpower?).''\\
''Tomorrow looks to be better, though, diary. I only have one assignment with Ms. Lane: to photograph STAR Labs' new particle decelerator. [[TemptingFate Here's hoping there are no mishaps]].''
-->-- From the diary of [[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen James Bartholomew Olsen]]

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!!Examples

-->''Dear Diary,''
-->''I became Turtle Boy today. I was better than last time; I only fell on my shell once and a nice man was there to flip me over. I don't know quite what set it off -- the [[GreenRocks radioactive meteorite]] I was investigating or that [[AppliedPhlebotinum mystical talisman]] my girlfriend gave me.''
-->''It was certainly better than yesterday: a combination of Omega Radiation and a kryptonite candle turned me into Melting Lad. I really don't understand how [[ImMelting melting is a superpower]], but I was a puddle for half the day. Franchise/{{Superman}} had to use his super-sculpting skills to put my atomic structure back together. I have to remember to get him something good for his birthday. Maybe a tie?''
-->''Well, tomorrow is a new day. Let's hope I don't get any more weird or wacky powers -- I don't know how much I can handle, to be honest. It's never just super-strength or flight, it's always something weird, like {{lycanthropy}} or becoming super-fat (again, ''how'' is that a superpower?).''
-->''Tomorrow looks to be better, though, diary. I only have one assignment with Ms. Lane: to photograph STAR Labs' new particle decelerator. [[TemptingFate Here's hoping there are no mishaps]].''

From the diary of [[ComicBook/JimmyOlsen James Bartholomew Olsen]]:

''"Dear Diary,''

''I became Turtle Boy today. I was better than last time; I only fell on my shell once and a nice man was there to flip me over. I don't know quite what set it off -- the [[GreenRocks radioactive meteorite]] I was investigating or that [[AppliedPhlebotinum mystical talisman]] my girlfriend gave me.''

''It was certainly better than yesterday: a combination of Omega Radiation and a kryptonite candle turned me into Melting Lad. I really [[WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow don't understand how]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway melting is a superpower]], but I was a puddle for half the day. Franchise/{{Superman}} had to use his [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands super-sculpting skills]] to put my atomic structure back together. I have to remember to get him something good for his birthday. Maybe a tie?''

''Well, tomorrow is a new day. Let's hope I don't get any more weird or wacky powers -- I don't know how much I can handle, to be honest. It's never just super-strength or flight, it's always something weird, like [[ContagiousPowers lycanthropy]] or becoming super-fat (again, ''how'' is that a superpower?).''

''Tomorrow looks to be better, though, diary. I only have one assignment with Ms. Lane: to photograph STAR Labs' new particle decelerator. [[TemptingFate Here's hoping there are no mishaps]].''

''Until tomorrow,''\\
''Jimmy."''

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. Usually invoked by Johnny himself or his sisters.

** Similarly, Alex would always be the one to trade faces with the villain in the cases of a partial body swap machine. (Yes, there were multiple cases of this)
*** For the sake of completion, it was Sam who took on all the brainwashing.
*** Except when it came with a good dosing of physical transformation then it belonged to Clover.

* Due to a near-fatal exposure to basilisk venom, the male lead character of A. Lee Martinez's ''Monster'' wakes up with a different superpower - some awesome, some trivial, some cool but flawed - every time he goes to sleep. His skin also turns a different color for each such power, so he can usually tell what ability he'll have by checking if he's blue, green, glowing yellow, etc.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' takes the theme from [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove the film it was based on]] and runs with it, having Kuzco be exposed to transformation potions so often, he could almost be considered a VoluntaryShapeshifter.

* There was a period in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} when Franchise/{{Batman}} was either getting a superpower or experiencing a bizarre transformation (alien, genie, giant, merman, etc) every month. It would always SnapBack at the end of the story.

* ''WesternAnimation/MartinMorning'' changes into a new character (spy, robot, eskimo, etc.) every morning.

* There was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] "filler" series called ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' where a kid found some mysterious artifact that looked a bit like a rotary telephone dial without the phone attached. Pressing a certain sequence on it would transform him into a "superhero", or at least something with (usually quirky) super powers, for a short period. The plot typically went "something bad happens, kid uses dial, kid turns into something weird, kid figures out how to use new abilities to solve problem, repeat sequence, repeat sequence ''again''" (there were usually three transformations per story). Initially each transformation was unique (and the latest transformation would be met with some kind of thought like "I wish I was (some previous transformation) again" because that form would have made solving the problem easy), but some of them did occur multiple times over the course of the series. The heroes (and the villains they fought) were [[AudienceParticipation sent in by readers]]. Brought back in the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] with ''two'' kids, a boy ''and'' a girl, again in the 2000s as ''H-E-R-O'', with the dial being passed from user to user, and yet again in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} as ''Dial H'', this time with the dial discovered by an unemployed schlub.

** In late 90's Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes comics, we learn that by the 30th century, the Dial had wound up in a museum, and then... ''ahem...'' [[StickyFingers came into the possession]] of a little girl named Lori Morning who used it to become a super heroine in the AntiHero team Workforce.

** In late 90's Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes comics, we learn that the Dial eventually wound up in a museum, and then... ahem... [[StickyFingers came into the possession]] of a little girl named Lori Morning who used it to become a super heroine in the AntiHero team Workforce.

* There was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] "filler" series called ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' where a kid found some mysterious artifact that looked a bit like a rotary telephone dial without the phone attached. Pressing a certain sequence on it would transform him into a "superhero", or at least something with (usually quirky) super powers, for a short period. The plot typically went "something bad happens, kid uses dial, kid turns into something weird, kid figures out how to use new abilities to solve problem, repeat sequence, repeat sequence ''again''" (there were usually three transformations per story). Initially each transformation was unique (and the latest transformation would be met with some kind of thought like "I wish I was (some previous transformation) again" because that form would have made solving the problem easy), but some of them did occur multiple times over the course of the series. The heroes (and the villains they fought) were [[AudienceParticipation sent in by readers]]. Brought back in the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] with ''two'' kids, a boy ''and'' a girl, again in the 2000s as ''H-E-R-O'', with the dial being passed from user to user, and yet again in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} as ''Dial H'', this time with the dial discovered by an unemployed schlub. In late 90's Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes comics, we learn that the Dial eventually wound up in a museum, and then... ahem... [[StickyFingers came into the possession]] of a little girl named Lori Morning who used it to become a super heroine in the AntiHero team Workforce.

* There was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] "filler" series called ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' where a kid found some mysterious artifact that looked a bit like a rotary telephone dial without the phone attached. Pressing a certain sequence on it would transform him into a "superhero", or at least something with (usually quirky) super powers, for a short period. The plot typically went "something bad happens, kid uses dial, kid turns into something weird, kid figures out how to use new abilities to solve problem, repeat sequence, repeat sequence ''again''" (there were usually three transformations per story). Initially each transformation was unique (and the latest transformation would be met with some kind of thought like "I wish I was (some previous transformation) again" because that form would have made solving the problem easy), but some of them did occur multiple times over the course of the series. The heroes (and the villains they fought) were [[AudienceParticipation sent in by readers]]. Brought back in the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] with ''two'' kids, a boy ''and'' a girl, again in the 2000s as ''H-E-R-O'', with the dial being passed from user to user, and yet again in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} as ''Dial H'', this time with the dial discovered by an unemployed schlub. In late 90's Legion of Super Heroes comics, we learn that the Dial eventually wound up in a museum, and then... ahem... [[StickyFingers came into the possession]] of a little girl named Lori Morning who used it to become a super heroine in the AntiHero team Workforce.

* There was a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] "filler" series called ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' where a kid found some mysterious artifact that looked a bit like a rotary telephone dial without the phone attached. Pressing a certain sequence on it would transform him into a "superhero", or at least something with (usually quirky) super powers, for a short period. The plot typically went "something bad happens, kid uses dial, kid turns into something weird, kid figures out how to use new abilities to solve problem, repeat sequence, repeat sequence ''again''" (there were usually three transformations per story). Initially each transformation was unique (and the latest transformation would be met with some kind of thought like "I wish I was (some previous transformation) again" because that form would have made solving the problem easy), but some of them did occur multiple times over the course of the series. The heroes (and the villains they fought) were [[AudienceParticipation sent in by readers]]. Brought back in the [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] with ''two'' kids, a boy ''and'' a girl, again in the 2000s as ''H-E-R-O'', with the dial being passed from user to user, and yet again in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} as ''Dial H'', this time with the dial discovered by an unemployed schlub.

* Clover in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' tended to be subject to FetishFuel inducing transformations.

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* ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, who had (and lost) so many superpowers, there is an entire collection called ''The Many Transformations of Jimmy Olsen''.
** In the {{Elseworld}} story ''[[ForWantOfANail The Nail]]'' Jimmy Olsen is the aide of Metropolis Mayor Lex Luthor because he has extensive experience of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Meta-Human]] affairs due to his numerous transformations. [[spoiler:Deconstructed when it is revealed that without Superman as his best friend, the transformations have driven him insane. And then Luthor used him as a guinea pig for grafting Kryptonian DNA to a human body. One short WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity later and Olsen is the BigBad, using Luthor as a {{Brainwashed}} puppet to bring down anyone who might be a threat to his dream of "New Krypton"]].
** One comic (a lead-up to the ''New Krypton'' story) suggests Jimmy has had this happen to him so many times that it's made his mind impossible to read. Jimmy himself figures it out while being chased by a mind reading assassin. Long story.

* ComicBook/LanaLang also fell into this a lot in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}.

*** At least [[DaChief Perry White]] got off scot-free, right? [[http://www.superdickery.com/perry-gets-powers-aga-wait-perry/ ...Oh.]] [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081231010330/marvel_dc/images/a/a7/Action_Comics_278.jpg Never mind.]]