History Main / TransNature

** 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) gained a hand-beam spell to give people the "Venus" transformation 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.

* In {{ComicBook/Fables}}, we have the fox Reynard who is attracted to female humans and wants to become a human so he can seduce them. [[spoiler:This wish is eventually granted by the witches, making him a shapeshifter with a beautiful male human form.]]

* Children's picture book "Goblinheart: A Fairy Tale" uses this as a metaphor for {{transsexual}} youth. Julep is a fairy who insists they're a goblin. Julep meets a younger goblin named Tuck who is the opposite.

* Reynard the Fox also appears in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', and true to the myth, he fell in love with a human woman. Rather than shapeshifting, however, he convinced Coyote to grant him the power to possess anything with eyes--and he uses it to take the body of a young human male so he can go to the court and woo his beloved...

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' features regular genderswapping with the aid of magic and a superscience transformation gun.

* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''

* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse''

* King Louis from ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', an ape wanting to become a human.
* Another Louis, the alligator from ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', wants to be human so that he can play trumpet in a jazz band. [[spoiler:He doesn't become human, but still gets his wish to play in a band.]]
* In the Disney version of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', Princess Ariel of the Mer-people have a fixation with humans, eventually falling in love with a human and becoming one herself. In this version of the story, humans and mer-people are portrayed as equal, so Ariel's transformation isn't about becoming better or worse.
** The original HC Andersen version is not so nice. In this version, it turns out that God loves only mankind, so the Mermaid is doomed from the beginning simply for being born as a "lesser" species. Since her quest in this version was limited to trying to reach out to her LoveInterest, it's not an example of this trope. Oh, and [[DrivenToSuicide it fails miserably, too]].

** Goes the other way in the "Grillo Parlante" storyline, where Nera and Joshua meet a support group for transgenics who not only identify as normal humans but are trying to will themselves into developing a WeirdnessCensor.

* In ''TheBoondocks'', When [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]] dies, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNCpD3xhsY he will finally become a real white man in the heaven for white racists]].

* In the Disney version of Disney/TheLittleMermaid, Princess Ariel of the Mer-people have a fixation with humans, eventually falling in love with a human and becoming one herself. In this version of the story, humans and mer-people are portrayed as equal, so Ariel's transformation isn't about becoming better or worse.

** And some [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or very less route waiting for right biotechnology which coming anytime soon in near future or longer to want being real life PettingZooPeople. Comparing them to the above Transsexuals is a BeserkButton to many trans groups.

** And some [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or very less route waiting for right biotechnology which coming anytime soon in near future or longer to want being real life PettingZooPeople are somewhat simliar to aforementioned Transsexuals.

** The original HC Andersen version is not so nice. In this version, it turns out that God love only mankind, so the Mermaid is doomed from the beginning simply for being born as a "lesser" species. Since her quest in this version was limited to trying to reach out to her LoveInterest, it's not an example of this trope. Oh, and [[DrivenToSuicide it fails miserably, too]].

* Howard Howe, The main villian in {{Film/Tusk}} seems want to be Walus [[spoiler: since he was recuse by Walus from burning boat when he was young]], he talk about it several times while taking on Main hero, [[spoiler: instead he making the Hero "into" walrus for rest of film]].

** 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]] MagiTech. They find the crystal and Elliot touches it.

** That kind of "trans nature" is pretty common in misogynist cultures, that is ... more or less all human cultures. In some rural regions of Albania, women can, if they have no brothers or other male relatives, go through a ritual that makes them men for the purpose of the law, and enables them to get all the benefits awarded to males. At the price of never being able to have children. Those women are usually not trans as it is understood in the medical sense, they're fine with a female body, just not with the oppression they are subjected to - and sometimes they're forced to officially change gender because the family needs a male head. It is slowly dying out as society becomes more equal.

* The NeilGaiman short story "Changes" has elements of this. A drug designed to cure cancer has the "side effect" of completely changing a person's biological sex. A biological female who takes the drug will become a biological male and vice versa. It's mentioned that the drug has made sex-change operations obsolete, though some people take it to recreationally change sex.

-->'''Doctor''' ''(on negroplasty)'' It's a fairly common procedure, really. Just the reverse of a caucasioplasty just like MichaelJackson had.

* In Creator/{{Vathara}}'s ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2698347/1/Walk-Through-the-Valley Walk Through the Valley]]'', [[Manga/RurouniKenshin Hiko]] turns himself into one of the less obvious examples of a CatBoy in fiction, giving himself retractable AbsurdlySharpClaws hidden under fingernails, InnateNightVision so acute that he's [[BlindWithoutEm blind without]] his CoolShades, AlienHair that he calls sensory tendrils,{{Knight Templar Parent}}al instincts that had him killing all predators that breached his inner territory ever since Kenshin's second shedding, [[TheAgeless eternal youth]] and an interpretation of the original canon's ''ki''-sense that basically makes him TheEmpath only he can sense trees and animals and he can project images as well as emotion. He's implied to have a hell of a HealingFactor. Making these changes permanent is a felony in the Confederacy—he worked for a hidden branch of its government—and the reader is never given a coherent reason why he'd risk prison and the end of a brilliant career to do this; he and Shakku Arai, his partner-in-crime (literally) had invented anti-aging drugs before he took the serum that would have allowed him to restore his banged up knees and bad back without touching his wrinkles...or the middle-aged spread he must have avoided somehow; he wasn't in do-or-die situation; and then there's this weird line that suggests that even if Hiko isn't consciously aware of any species dysphoria, Arai is:
-->'''Arai:''' I hate what I'm doing, yes,... [b]ut you, Hiko - you hate what you ''are''." A flicker of humor. "Or I should say, what you ''were''.

** Trill must be trained and prepared for a long time before Joining, if they are good enough to be selected, or they may become a person that is far more like past host personalities than the current host's previous personality. Will Riker, who had no idea what symbiosis was like at all, was entirely submerged without realising that there was any alternative. Ezri Tigan, a humanoid Trill who was forced into Joining by circumstance, had at least grown up in a Trill culture and Ezri Dax kept most of her personality.

* In Film/{{Avatar}}, [[spoiler: our protagonist take GoingNative to the logical conclusion, ending the movie with literally becoming a Na'vi]].

* In both continuities of V, alien lizards are evil. Those lizards who side with humanity stop having a real lizard mind, instead developing human personalities/emotions.

* In ''TheBoondocks'', When [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]] die, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRNCpD3xhsY he will finally become a real white man in the heaven for white racists]].

** Afterwards, in the case of [[spoiler:Kyle and his dad]], this was never mentioned again [[WildMassGuessing possibly due from using Garrsion's sexual parts]].

* In {{ComicBook/Fables}}, we have the fox Reynard who is attracted to female humans and want to become a human so he can seduce them. [[spoiler:This wish is eventually granted by the witches, making him a shapeshifter with a beautiful male human form.]]

It can also work as an inversion of InternalizedCategorism: Bob thinks men/humans are bad, but instead of denying himself the good things about being a man/human or doing bad things because he thinks that this is what being a "real" man/human means, he instead ''stop'' being a man/human -- magically changing into something else.

* In {{Fables}}, we have the fox Reynard who is attracted to female humans and want to become a human so he can seduce them. [[spoiler:This wish is eventually granted by the witches, making him a shapeshifter with a beautiful male human form.]]

** And some [[FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or very less route waiting for right biotechnology which coming anytime soon in near future or longer to want being real life PettingZooPeople are somewhat simliar to aforementioned Transsexuals.

** Played with by Tedd, whose androgynous looks cause people to assume that he is a girl anyway. He developed the genderswapping features on the transformation gun just so that he could actually switch back and forth whenever he wanted to, but mostly because he's a ChivalrousPervert and proud of it.

* Howard Howe, The main villian in {{Film/Tusk}} seems want to be Walus [[spoiler: since he was recuse by Walus from burning boat when he was young]] and mentions it and talk about it several times while taking on Main hero, [[spoiler: instead he making the Hero "into" walrus for rest of film]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" is about this trope, 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 realising 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.

** Afterwards, in the case of [[spoiler:Kyle and his dad]], this was never mentioned again.

** And some [[FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or very less route waiting for biotechnology which coming anytime soon in near future.

** And some [[FurryFandom furries]] as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions.