History Main / ToonTransformation

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the second segment of a Halloween episode Bart and Lisa were sucked into an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the second segment of a Halloween episode Bart and Lisa were sucked into a Itchy and Scratchy cartoon.

* This happens to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames when he falls into the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' universe in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''. Conversely, this didn't happen to UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan in [[Film/SpaceJam the first movie]].

* This happens on ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', and even allowed Creator/LeonardNimoy to make a guest appearance after [[spoler: what appeared to be]] his last live-action TV appearance.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'', Horse [[FisherKingdom starts to become more and more cartoonish the longer she says in Centaurworld]]. Near the end of episode 7 [[spoiler: she fully transforms from a more realistically drawn war-horse into a short, chubby, cartoony horse.]]

* Inverted several times in the opening theme for ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
* ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'' - the band goes through a mirror after being taunted by Master Blaster (the BigBad), and goes to the Flipside (an animated world) through a mirror.

* This happens on ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', and even allowed Creator/LeonardNimoy to make a guest appearance after his last live-action TV appearance.

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* This happens on ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', and even allowed Creator/LeonardNimoy to make a guest appearance after his last live-action TV appearance.
* If there had been another season of ''Series/QuantumLeap'', there were plans that Sam would leap into an animated character.

* The 2006 Creator/CartoonNetwork television movie ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'', where Golly temporarily turns Jimmy into a cartoon knight on a horse, to save Robin from being run over by a train.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Smile Time" Angel finds himself turned into a muppet-like felt puppet. Not strictly speaking a cartoon, but related.
* The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie ''WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits In Hocus Pocus Park'' has a live action little girl and the normally live action costumed Splits turning into cartoon figures after entering a mysterious billboard.
* The intro to the TV special ''Free to Be, You and Me'' has all of the carousel riders eventually turning into animated characters when their horses detach from the carousel. They are also seen turning back during the ending sequence.

* TheNineties intro to Plaza Sésamo, where some of the puppets and kids get on a bus, and go through a strange rainbow, taking them to an animated Plaza Sésamo.
* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' DVD special ''Elmo's Alphabet Challenge'', Elmo, Telly and Abby Cadabby enter Abby's tablet computer and become CGI versions of themselves. At the end it's inverted, when the antagonist of the computer game follows them back to Sesame Street, and becomes a Muppet.

* The late 90's/early 00's show at Disney MGM Studios, Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Live!. It's the invert this time: Doug's animated friends jump out of the projected screen, and become live actors.

* In ''VideoGame/StayTooned'', once a group of cartoon characters [[RefugeeFromTVLand jump out of your TV]], the CGI apartment building you're in gets "tooned" into hand-drawn graphics. A live-action boy even gets changed in the process. Your objective is to search the apartment building and find the [[MacGuffin remote control]] that can send the toons back to TV Land and reverse this trope.
* Most of the toons from ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' are former employees of the animation studio. Ink Bendy is the only one who wasn't originally human. Due to having no soul he wandered aimlessly around the building then turned psychotic after being locked away for years.
** The [[https://youtu.be/ZbFgLZGfTwk trailer]] for the upcoming sequel, ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheDarkRevival'' seems to show the protagonist gradually turning into one of the ink Toons.

* The direct-to-video series ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcDonald'', where Ronald gets onto a type of slide, and turns into an animated caricature of himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', in which Kevin, and his dog Duke, played by live-action actors in a physical room, are sucked into Videoland by the Ultimate Warp Zone where they become cartoons.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'', where Howie Mandel occasionally turns into a cartoon for the show, during the ColdOpen.
* Inverted several times in the opening theme for ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
* This happens to Lucky Piquel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', which is a curious case as he was already animated but he changes from a realistic looking Disney human into a miniscule comedic looking toon. Much to his dismay given his attitude to toon shenanigans being less than a glowing one.
* The opening of ''WesternAnimation/TheCompletelyMentalMisadventuresOfEdGrimley'' has a live-action Ed (in stop-motion animation) getting out of bed and putting on a cartoon Ed Grimley outfit.
* The opening of season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon has live still shots of the Beatles dissolving into their cartoon counterparts.
* A later episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' had an evil spirit take the form of cartoon character Sammy K. Ferret, who comes to the real world and starts transforming people into toons (including Egon into a bird, Ray into a pig, and Winston into a dog.)

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* ''WebVideo/HewysAnimatedMovieReviews'' has a studio in the second dimension, where Hewy can host guest co-reviewers who are 2-D themselves. It gets destroyed when he tries to duplicate Flint Lockwood's food machine from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''.
* When sent to Cartoonland in Season 2 of ''WebVideo/WorldsGreatestAdventures'', Rufus is transformed in an animated chalk-drawn stick figure.
* ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'' saga revolves around several people who "transform into cartoon characters." However, aside from one character's eyes, they remain live-action. However, he transformation causes them to take on a more over-the-top appearance, act like cartoon characters, and operate under ToonPhysics.
* Reviewer Blog/UnshavedMouse became a 2D cartoon character in June 2015, after spending years reviewing various animated movies.
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* Burger King did a campaign called "Simpsonize Me" in conjunction with the release of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''. This included a commercial where Kang and Kodos transform live-action people into cartoon Simpson characters. While most people become characters that at least visually seem to match their cartoon counterpart, some transformations border on VictimizedBystander territory, such as a slim cop becoming the fat Chief Wiggum and a bride turning into Selma Bouvier - leading her husband-to-be to scream in shock and try to run away.
* A Japanese commercial for Lotte Fits' gum had a man interacting with several women who spontaneously transformed into characters from ''Haruhi Suzumiya'', perhaps in his mind. It contained, oddly, ''three Yuki clones in cat ears.''

* The Creator/MarvelComics character ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick. Junior high school class clown Steve Harmon's molecules stretch across 3741 dimensions, turning Steve into a cartoon clown.

* In relation to the ''Roger Rabbit'' deleted example below, ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' enters the cartoon world to pursue a homicidal pink rabbit, and gets an "actual" (toon) dog face over his own head. Much like Eddie Valiant, he is eventually able to remove it. In the story a guy ends up in the toon world after falling into a coma, and by the time Dylan gets to him, he has almost completely turned into a cartoon of himself, and initially refuses to return to the world of the living, especially since his girlfriend died and became a Jessica Rabbit-inspired toon. However, she commits a IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy by pretending that she hates him and that convinces him to wake up to reality.

* In the 1996 movie adaption of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James, and an assortment of insect and arachnid friends, become stop-motion figures when they go inside the peach. Justified, since it is a ''magic'' peach, enchanted by crocodile tongues.
** Subverted at the end of the film where even though James changes back after climbing out of the peach, the insects all remain stop-motion.
** This is because the transformation was done by the tongues themselves. James' change-back was due to coughing his up.
* The ''Film/FatAlbert'' movie has an inversion. Fat Albert and the gang start out as cartoons, then become live-action when they jump through the TV screen.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'' - A prominent example. A wave of paint covers the library, turning the main character and the library into living illustrations.

* ''Film/CoolWorld'' is an in-verse sitch, apparently. Any "human" who is killed by a "doodle" resurrects as a doodle themselves. The artist is also afflicted when the dimensional barrier is broken. Holli's goal is to become "real" by having sex with a human. It works, but the effects are unstable, and she starts going back and forth between cartoon and live-action.
* ''Film/TheCongress'', where Creator/RobinWright and other people take drugs to meet in some kind of collective hallucination that looks like a world of toons, where she turns into an animated caricature of herself. In ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' fashion, in the animated realm people can take different variations of the chemical drug to change their animated appearance into a historical figure or various fictional characters.
* ''Film/StayTuned'', where Roy Knable and his wife Helen get TrappedInTVLand, and at one point they become cartoon mice menaced by a robot cat.
* The end credits of the TV movie ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', in which the rock star [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]] plugs into a tricked-out amp, with a spark of electricity that travels down the wire to his bass, which spreads to his body turning him from live action to animated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', the owl sings musical notes, turning the little boy into an animated cat (as well as his room).
* The 1970 movie ''WesternAnimation/ThePhantomTollbooth'', in which Milo enters a tollbooth, which makes him animated (he messes with this quite a bit, realizing what the tollbooth does), to get to the Kingdom of Wisdom.
* A DeletedScene in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' originally has Eddie Valiant gain an animated pig's head over his own head when he enters Toontown.
* Happens to Milo the Jack Russell terrier at the end of ''Film/TheMask'' after donning the Mask of Loki to fight off Dorian Tyrell's mooks.
* The fish in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'' starring Mike Myers.
* Zig-zag: ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' caps off with the live action Beatles telling what they took with them from the movie as souvenirs (Paul's "love" appears in his hand animated), with John telling the others that singing will stave off an impending Blue Meanie attack.
* The 1991 film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103223/ Volere Volare]]'', at the time touted as the "Italian ''Roger Rabbit''", features a man dubbing sound effects for old cartoons suddenly turning into a cartoon character himself -- with cartoon MaleFrontalNudity!

* ''Series/SecretAdventures'' was mainly a live action series, but OncePerEpisode, the main characters would go on an [[ImagineSpot imaginary]] "secret adventure" where they would turn into cartoon animals in order to learn [[AnAesop a lesson]] relevant to the plot of the episode.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', in which Kevin, and his dog Duke, played by live-action actors in a physical room, are sucked into Videoland by the Ultimate Warp Zone where they become cartoons..

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Smile Time" Angel finds himself turned into a muppet like felt puppet, not strictly speaking a cartoon but related.

* The second ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Do You See What I See", in which a wave of color turns the city into multiple styles of animation and cartoony effects, which also makes Jack's jeep come alive, Andy becoming a cartoonish robot, and Jo becoming a Disney-like princess. All of this was the result of an interactive storybook unexpectedly interfering with a large-scale holoprojector.

* ''Film/TheCongress'', where Creator/RobinWright and other people take drugs to meet in some kind of collective hallucination that looks like a world of toons, where she turns into an animated caricature of herself. In ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' fashion, in the animated realm people can take different variations of the chemical drug to change their animated appearance into a historical figure or various fictional characters, and Robin is against having her looks imitated.

* In relation to the ''Roger Rabbit'' deleted example below, ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' enters the cartoon world to pursue a homicidal pink rabbit, and gets an "actual" (toon) dog face over his own head. Much like Eddie Valiant, he is eventually able to remove it.

* The ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' special, Sonic Live. Sonic pulls two live-action kids into their television screen, turning them into cartoons.

* In the 1996 movie adaption of ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James, and an assortment of insect and arachnid friends, become claymation figures when they go inside the peach. Justified, since it is a ''magic'' peach, enchanted by crocodile tongues.
** Subverted at the end of the film where even though James changes back after climbing out of the peach, the insects all remain claymation.

* In the ''Creator/PBSKidsSprout'' original series "The Chica Show," two eggs hop out of a cuckoo clock, and Kelly, Chica, Stitches, and Bunji become animated. Kelly says "Time to dress up and play" and the cartoon is shown.

* In the ''Creator/Sprout'' original series "The Chica Show," two eggs hop out of a cuckoo clock, and Kelly, Chica, Stitches, and Bunji become animated. Kelly says "Time to dress up and play" and the cartoon is shown.

[[caption-width-right:350: Technically, he's [[InsistentTerminology illustration]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePagemaster'' - A prominent example. A wave of paint covers the library, turning the main character and the library into a cartoon.

* ''Film/StayTuned'', where Roy gets TrappedInTVLand and after one channel switch, and becomes a cartoon mouse menaced by a giant cat.

* In the strictest sense not really an ''anime'' example per se, but this was what a company called Toon Makers [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon had planned]] for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' if they had gotten the rights instead of Creator/DiC's eventual CutAndPasteTranslation. They were going to have the civilian scenes filmed in live action and then the girls would turn animated in a very Filmation's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''-esque style when they transformed. Also they were going to go literally sailing... [[SpaceSailing in space]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358ewVY2nko See here]] the only available clip of (which was recorded from a convention screening on a camcorder hence the low quality and background noise) of what is commonly nicknamed "Saban Moon" due to people assuming the company who made it was Saban.