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* Howard Howe, the main villain in ''Film/{{Tusk}}'' seems to want to be a walrus [[spoiler:since he was rescued by a walrus from a burning boat when he was young]]. He talks about it several times while taking on the hero. [[spoiler:Instead, he makes the hero into a walrus for the rest of the film.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' mentions species change surgery as a one-off joke, then much later introduces the minor character Clarissa who considers herself a human trapped in an anthro hamster's body, so she shaves her fur and blunts her claws. She is on medication for depression, like many transsexuals.

* Tobias of {{Literature/Animorphs}} took to morphing early and loved taking the shape of a red-tailed hawk, comparing returning to human form to going back to prison. This led to him entering a serious mission already morphed and falling afoul of ShapeshifterModeLock. While he strugglex a great deal with the consequences of this, including attempting suicide, ultimately he comes to see himself as hawk as much as human. At one point when presented with an opportunity for an impossible boon, he refuses to say what he wants; Tobias tells the others it was to be human again, but the boon he's given is to regain the morphing power and be able to participate with the others - and after "human" becomes one of the morphs he can take, he's happy with this. He hated his human life.

* Bubba from ''Literature/FrostDancers' was raised by humans and thinks he's a human, not a hare.

* One joke in ''FanFic/{{Asylum}}'' has Twilight talking to a donkey who is delusional and believes she's a unicorn.

Supertrope of TransTribulations (for [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender characters]]) and BecomeARealBoy. Sometimes a SisterTrope of AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Compare and contrast TheWhitestBlackGuy and BecomingTheMask.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" is about this trope and later {{downplayed}} it, focusing not only on the title character but on [[spoiler: Kyle and his dad as well.]] Mr. Garrison gets a "vaginoplasty" to become a woman, [[spoiler: Gerald]] gets a "dolphinoplasty" to become a dolphin, and [[spoiler: Kyle]] gets a "negroplasty" to become tall and black. In the end, Mr. Garrison wanted a "peniplasty" (the medically correct term is “phalloplasty”) to become a man again after realizing that he's "just a guy with a mutilated penis". However, his genitalia was used for surgically altering [[spoiler: Kyle and Gerald]], and [[spoiler: since his testicles were used for Kyle's knees, they break]], leaving Mr. Garrison as a woman until he grew new genitalia on a mouse.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" is about this trope and later {{downplayed}} it, focusing not only on the title character but on [[spoiler: Kyle and his dad as well.]] Mr. Garrison gets a "vaginoplasty" to become a woman, [[spoiler: Gerald]] gets a "dolphinoplasty" to become a dolphin, and [[spoiler: Kyle]] gets a "negroplasty" to become tall and black. In the end, Mr. Garrison wanted a "peniplasty" to become a man again after realizing that he's "just a guy with a mutilated penis". However, his genitalia was used for surgically altering [[spoiler: Kyle and Gerald]], and [[spoiler: since his testicles were used for Kyle's knees, they break]], leaving Mr. Garrison as a woman until he grew new genitalia on a mouse.

-> '''Herbert's mother:''' Oh, Herbert... you are my fox.

* ''A Fox Called Herbert'' by Margaret Sturton involves a rabbit named Herbert attempting to live as a fox, which can be [[TransAudienceInterpretation interpreted as a metaphor for childhood gender dysphoria]]. At first his mother insists he's just being silly, until a heated argument with Hebert convinces her otherwise and she has a change of heart at the end, as evidenced by this WhamLine:

May be caused by HumanityIsInfectious, or inversions thereof. In some cases, Trans Nature leads to HumanityEnsues. Note, however, that that trope is usually ''not'' combined with Trans Nature – instead, the animal resents having been transformed to a human. One very common form of Trans Nature is PinocchioSyndrome: a robot, living doll or whatever wanting to become a real human.

Supertrope of TransTribulations (for [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender characters]]) and PinocchioSyndrome. Sometimes a SisterTrope of AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Compare and contrast TheWhitestBlackGuy and BecomingTheMask.

** We also have some cases of regular PinocchioSyndrome, with Pinocchio himself and some of the wooden soldiers becoming human.

** Trill society has a strong taboo against Joined Trill carrying over relationships from previous lives. This is to discourage Joined Trill from marrying their partners across multiple lives and/or taking on multiple roles that will perpetuate centuries-long rule of elite NthDoctors. The general rule seems to also trend to professions that the symbiont has not experienced, in order to make a more Renaissance man.

** Played straight to the hilt by Ellen & Elliot! At first, Elliot was Tedd's much more obviously male friend. He also started off normal to counter Tedd's "MadScientist" theme, though that soon got replaced with a MagicVersusScience theme when he was revealed to be skilled at "Anime Style Martial Arts" including projecting spells from his hands. He gets hit by the "Venus" transformation (becoming an extremely attractive, long-haired girl for a month), he demands that Tedd get him a quicker cure (so as to avoid going to high school with an attractive girl's body for a month). Tedd finds out about a crystal that gets rid of transformative "curses", which should work since the gun is based on [[AWizardDidIt alien]] {{Magitek}}. They find the crystal and Elliot touches it. Long story short, it split him into two people. "Elliot" who got to keep his name (because he was the male one) but now has to burn off his excess magical energy once a day by spending a few hours as a woman. "Ellen", who was created from the "curse" that was removed, is permanently a woman now and only slowly coming to terms with the thought that she might be okay with that. But she still remembers having been a man, mind and body, all her life as well as not being able to date Sarah, the girl she remembers as her girlfriend. She also has the ability to use the anime martial arts but has decided to pursue magic more in order to differentiate herself from Elliot, although she really likes to use her own "Venus" transformation on him, via a hand beam spell that looks like the TF gun's beam. As the strip explores this further, Ellen says she has never felt gender dysphoria over her situation, and doesn't remember ever feeling it as Elliot either, leading Elliot to conclude that he's "gender casual".

** Played straight to the hilt by Ellen & Elliot! At first, Elliot was Tedd's much more obviously male friend. He also started off normal to counter Tedd's "MadScientist" theme, though that soon got replaced with a MagicVersusScience theme when he was revealed to be skilled at "Anime Style Martial Arts" including projecting spells from his hands. He gets hit by the "Venus" transformation (becoming an extremely attractive, long-haired girl for a month), he demands that Tedd get him a quicker cure (so as to avoid going to high school with an attractive girl's body for a month). Tedd finds out about a crystal that gets rid of transformative "curses", which should work since the gun is based on [[AWizardDidIt alien]] {{Magitek}}. They find the crystal and Elliot touches it. Long story short, it split him into two people. "Elliot" who got to keep his name (because he was the male one) but now has to burn off his excess magical energy once a day by spending a few hours as a woman. "Ellen", who was created from the "curse" that was removed, is permanently a woman now and only slowly coming to terms with the thought that she might be okay with that. But she still remembers having been a man, mind and body, all her life as well as not being able to date Sarah, the girl she remembers as her girlfriend. She also has the ability to use the anime martial arts but has decided to pursue magic more in order to differentiate herself from Elliot, although she really likes to use her own "Venus" transformation on him, via a hand beam spell that looks like the TF gun's beam.