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** Majin Buu has a literal transformation ray that he fires from his antennae, he normally uses it to turn people into [[SweetTooth candy]].

* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Troublemaking kids have this for [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands for seemingly no reason]] and use it to turn characters into other characters, resulting in, [[YouAreGrounded well, you guessed it.]]

* Majin Buu from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has a ''literal'' transformation ray that he fires from his antennae, he normally uses it to turn people into [[SweetTooth candy]].
** There's also Monster Carrot from very early on, who can transform people he [[TheMagicTouch touches]] into carrots.

* In ''[[VideoGame/SiN1998 SiN (1998]]'', lead character and badass police officer John Blade is turned into a mutant by Elexis Sinclaire, the head of a pharmaceutical company marketing a dangerous designer drug. After surviving through a number of tests you are forced into completing by Sinclaire's private security force, you find the magic machine that transforms you back into a human again (making this a transformation needle, not a ray). Coincidentally, you also get your gun, your uniform and your wireless communication with your sidekick back once you've gone through the process.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** The Man of Steel and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} every so often encounter Red Kryptonite which has various transformative effects on Kryptonians. Pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}}, each chunk of red kryptonite had a different effect on Superman which lasted for 24 hours before wearing off, and then he would be immune to the effects of that one chunk.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', exposure to three different Red-Kryponite asteroids turned Kara into a wereworld, a balloon woman and a mermaid in the same story.

* ''Mystery In Space'': One of the regular features of the 60s comic was the story of a space explorer who had been shot by four different rayguns at the same time, each wielded by a different kind of alien. The result was that each ray changed the part of his body that it hit to be like that of the owner of the gun. Now a freak, the man decided to change his name by combining parts of the names of his assailants (whose motives were never made clear). Strangely enough, the letters made a perfectly pronounceable word and so was born ''Ultra, the Multi-Alien''. One arm (and the part of his torso it was attached to) had become super strong, the other could generate magnetic force, one leg could shoot lightning, and with the other he could fly, even though it had just one tiny wing on it. Naturally, he became a crime fighter.
* The gamma radiation that turned Bruce Banner into ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk has repeatedly been weaponized or otherwise used as a transformation ray, usually to round out his supporting cast or give him someone new to fight for a big event.
* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'': Walter Langkowski created one such gamma ray device to use on himself so he could give the nascent team some needed muscle. Except he inadvertently tapped into the realm of the Great Beasts and was fused with one of them instead, creating Sasquatch.
* A radioactive spider gave Peter Parker his ComicBook/SpiderMan powers.
* Cosmic rays created the ComicBook/FantasticFour.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** From the late 1950s through the early 1960s, due to ExecutiveMeddling prompted by the monster-movie craze, many stories featured rays or other {{Phlebotinum}} that transformed the Caped Crusader into a fish-man, a human buzz saw, a giant genie and other bizarre creatures.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'', the BigBad builds an evolving raygun to transform other humans into psychic mutants.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'': The concept was revisited in where it turns out Gorilla Grodd's big plan is to use an amped up transformation ray to turn the entire world into apes like him. After the plan fails, Luthor just shoots Grodd and takes over the Injustice Society weeks earlier than he'd planned.

* In ''VideoGame/SiN'', lead character and badass police officer John Blade is turned into a mutant by Alexis Sinclaire, the head of a pharmaceutical company marketing a dangerous designer drug. After surviving through a number of tests you are forced into completing by Sinclaire's private security force, you find the magic machine that transforms you back into a human again (making this a transformation needle, not a ray). Coincidentally, you also get your gun, your uniform and your wireless communication with your sidekick back once you've gone through the process.

* Both ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'' used this a few times, for example Xander being split into two in “The Replacement” and Angel being memorably turned into a two-foot tall {{muppet}} in “Smile Tome”.

** [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The film version]] of Ford and Arthur being picked up be the Heart of Gold has them turned into sofas.

* In ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Dr. Cortex's unique gimmick is that he can turn enemies into platforms with his ray gun. He can turn them into solid ones to stand on or gelatinous ones to bounce off of.
* ''Videogame/SpaceAce'' had the "Infanto Ray", wielded by the evil alien Borf, which could turn people (usually Dexter/Ace) into children.

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