History Main / TransNature

* In one short in [[WebAnimation/CyanideandHappiness Cyanide and Happiness]] both plays and mock this concept with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_8cfVpXbo son of mother who literally thinking that he "Pyro" fox]] from "forest planet" while it's mother ''trying'' to killed him because she can't accepted his new identity.

* 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.

In fiction, TransNature can take ''any'' form, especially in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Note that trying to regain your true form (after having been cursed, for example) does not count. Starting to identify with your new form does, however.

When a character is a fictional kind of TransNature, it is often a big part of this character being a hero or villain: Either he's a member of a oppressive/evil group transitioning to become one of the good and/or oppressed people, or we have a "[[CategoryTraitor traitor]]" who identifies with the "wrong" group.

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

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* ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'':

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* 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 [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid 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]].

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

* 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 rest of film]].

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* The Literature/MerryGentry series has a number of people who want to be sidhe and often mimic them by dying their hair an unnatural red or getting plastic surgery to get their ears pointed. The later is laughed at by real sidhe because only half breeds have pointed ears.
* In the Creator/IsaacAsimov novella (and later film) ''Literature/TheBicentennialMan'' the robot "Andrew" desires to be human, so he gets various implants to change his robotic/positronic body & mind into biological parts. He finally gets acknowledged as human by the government, [[spoiler:when he dies of old age]].
* Averted in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''Original Sin'' -- it's very popular amongst trendy young humans in the 40th century to undergo radical cosmetic surgery that makes you look like an alien ("body bepple"). The Doctor explains that this doesn't mean they actually ''like'' aliens; like many empires, the Earth Empire has a fascination with its vassal states' cultures but contempt for the bearers of said culture.
* In Cornelia Funke's ''Reckless'', the girl referred to as Fox was given the ability to change into a fox after helping a wounded vixen, and much prefers that form to her original human one. [[spoiler: At least until she realizes that she's fallen in love with Jacob (who is human).]]
* Briefly mentioned in ''Outcast of Literature/{{Redwall}}''; Jodd the hare was raised by squirrels and wishes to be one, to the point that he ties his tail to his ears in the hope of stretching it longer.

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** 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...

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

** In episode ''All About Steve'', There an (possibly first otherkin villain in cartoon) [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Tolkien fan]] also happens be domestic terrorist that ''maybe'' cryptically implies, he's literally ''Bilbo Baggins'' trapped inside of human body or just misguided depressed fan that has done being human by become "dwarf" and believe that human society must be destroyed in order created [[TheMagicComesBack his magical utopia modeled after Middle Earth by any means]].
** In another episode ''Finances With Wolves'', There another villain who [[AnimalWrongsGroup eco-terrorist]] named Arboreus that believes he is tree trapped inside of the human body as major excused why doing these extreme tactics, and he also has [[{{Transflormation}} plans to remove them his private parts with Acorns]].

[[folder: Real Life ]]

* The small rise of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_plastic_surgery Ethnic plastic surgery]] and [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transracial 'Transracialism' or Transracial]] is most known be controversy in recent years due to some people who think they born in wrong race, But unlike above example, there most cases like Infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal Rachel Dolezal case]] that this is subverted for job benefits than actually believe they are psychologically different race.

** That kind of "trans nature" is pretty common in patriarchal 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.

* Humans in general. We told nature to go screw itself and invented tools, and now it's often forgotten that we are animals.

** In another episode ''Finances With Wolves'', There another villain who [[AnimalWrongsGroup eco-terrorist]] named Arboreus that believes he is tree trapped inside of the human body as major excused why doing these extreme tactics, and he also has [[Transflormation plans to remove them his private parts with Acorns]].

* 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 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.

** In later episode ''Finances With Wolves'', There another villain who [[AnimalWrongsGroup eco-terrorist]] named Arboreus that believes he is Tree trapped inside of the human body as major excused why doing these extreme tactics, and he also has plans to remove them his private parts with Acorns.

** In episode ''All About Steve'', There an (possibly first otherkin villain in cartoon) [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Tolkien fan]] also happens be domestic terrorist that ''maybe'' cryptically implies, he's literally ''Bilbo Baggins'' trapped inside of human body or just misguided depressed fan that has done being human "transformed into dwarf" and believe that human society must be destroyed in order created [[TheMagicComesBack his magical utopian model after Middle Earth by any means]].

** In episode ''All About Steve'', There an (possibly first otherkin villain in cartoon) [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Tolkien fan]] also happens be domestic terrorist that ''maybe'' cryptically implies, he's literally ''Bilbo Baggins'' trapped inside of human body or just misguided depressed fan that has done being human "transformed into dwarf" and believe that human society must be destroyed in order created [[MagicComesBack his magical utopian model after Middle Earth by any means]].
** In later episode ''Finances With Wolves'', There another villain who [[AnimalsWrongGroup eco-terrorist]] named Arboreus that believes he is Tree trapped inside of the human body as major excused why doing these extreme tactics, and he also has plans to remove them his private parts with Acorns.

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

* In one short in [[WebAnimation/CyanideandHappiness Cyanide and Happiness]] mock this concept with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_8cfVpXbo son of mother who literally thinking that he "Pyro" fox]] from "forest planet".

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* The small rise of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_plastic_surgery Ethnic plastic surgery]] and [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transracial 'Transracialism']] is most known be controversy in recent years due to some people who think they born in wrong race, But unlike above example, there most cases like Infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal Rachel Dolezal case]] that this is subverted for job benefits.

** Afterwards, in the case of [[spoiler:Kyle and his dad]], this was never mentioned again [[WildMassGuessing possibly due to using Garrison's sexual parts without noticing cause them dramatized for not doing this again]].

* [[{{Transsexual}} Trans]] people are assigned a gender at birth, usually based on their physical sex, that does not match their self-identified gender later in life. Sometimes occurs due to Intersexuality, i.e. physically being in between male and female or not fitting easily into one or the other, or on rare occassions when something happens to their genitals such as a botched circumcision. Most often the infants are assigned to be female. The whole situation is [[FlameBait very contentious in the Trans community]].

** 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.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Maureen Ponderosa, who started identifies mentally as cat after both her "death tooth" finally fix with eventually [[CrazyCatLady having too much cats]] finally made her snap and begin have various cosmetic surgery procedures done in order to develop more cat-like features and wants calls her as a cat while on trial.

** 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 though she experienced a rough and prolonged transition period (full of weird cravings and feelings from her past lives), she kept most of her personality. The most immediately jarring part was that her then boyfriend suddenly reminded her of her ''son'' from a past life, squicking her out and ruining the relationship.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Maureen Ponderosa, who started identifies mentally as cat after both her "death tooth" finally fix with eventually [[CrazyCatLady having too much cats]] finally made her snap and begin have various cosmetic surgery procedures done in order to develop more cat-like features and claims that she identifies as a cat while on trial.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Maureen Ponderosa, who identifies as a cat and has various cosmetic surgery procedures done in order to develop more cat-like features and claims that she identifies as a cat while on trial.

** Afterwards, in the case of [[spoiler:Kyle and his dad]], this was never mentioned again [[WildMassGuessing possibly due to using Garrison's sexual parts without noticing cause them dramatized of doing this again]].

** Afterwards, in the case of [[spoiler:Kyle and his dad]], this was never mentioned again [[WildMassGuessing possibly due to using Garrison's sexual parts]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': features a colt who wants to be a unicorn. Bubbles gets the Professor to turn him into a unicorn but it backfires and he transforms into a monstrous looking creature. [[spoiler:Eventually his mother appears and informs him he really was a unicorn the entire time, it's just his mane covered up his horn]].

** 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 symboit has not experienced, in order to make a more Renaissance man.

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

* Otherkin. To quote WikiFur, "Otherkin are those who believe that their physical forms do not define or fully encompass their mental states, personality, psychology, or spiritual nature." See the full article [[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Otherkin here.]]

* {{ComicBook/Fables}}:

* In ''WesternAnimation/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]].

* One of StephaniePlum's nieces wants to be a pony when she grows up.
* The MerryGentry series has a number of people who want to be sidhe and often mimic them by dying their hair an unnatural red or getting plastic surgery to get their ears pointed. The later is laughed at by real sidhe because only half breeds have pointed ears.
* In the Creator/IsaacAsimov novella (and later film) ''TheBicentennialMan'' the robot "Andrew" desires to be human, so he gets various implants to change his robotic/positronic body & mind into biological parts. He finally gets acknowledged as human by the government, [[spoiler:when he dies of old age]].

* Briefly mentioned in ''Outcast of {{Redwall}}''; Jodd the hare was raised by squirrels and wishes to be one, to the point that he ties his tail to his ears in the hope of stretching it longer.

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* In Film/{{Avatar}}, [[spoiler:our protagonist takes GoingNative to the logical conclusion, ending the movie with literally becoming a Na'vi]].
* In ''Film/{{Mammoth}}'', our [[SubvertedTrope failed]] MightyWhitey protagonist falls in love with a Thai woman and is quite shocked that she thinks men are better then women and that it's okay because she can be a man in her next life if she is good enough. His wannabe-feminist preaching fails to impress her.
* 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 rest of film]].

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* 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. He has retractable AbsurdlySharpClaws hidden under fingernails, InnateNightVision so acute that he's [[BlindWithoutEm blind without]] his CoolShades, [[AlienHair sensory tendrils]], [[KnightTemplarParent parental instincts]] that almost drove him to kill a friend because she didn't smell or feel right, [[TheAgeless eternal youth]] and an interpretation of the original canon's ''ki''-sense that basically makes him TheEmpath. That is, if they could sense trees and animals. Also, 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:

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* In ''Mammoth'', our [[SubvertedTrope failed]] MightyWhitey protagonist falls in love with a Thai woman and is quite shocked that she thinks men are better then women and that it's okay because she can be a man in her next life if she is good enough. His wannabe-feminist preaching fails to impress her.