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** Monika was once kidnapped by an evil wizard who turned her into his crow pet. Although she was rescued and, somehow, "healed", she still turns into a crow whenever she is stressed. If by one turn that gives her the hability to fly, she becomes very small and unable to interact to anyone out of the club. Also, she gained the habit of [[ThievingMagpie stealing brilliant and pretty objects]], refusing to give them back.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': The Omnitrix gives Ben amazing powers, but also the limitations to each alien he transforms into. Ripjaws barely can breath out of water, Heatblast can burn things accidentally, Fourarms doesn't fit in small spaces, Grey Matter can be caught easily because of his small size, etc.

** When morphing cattle to infiltrate a Yeerk-run meatpacking plant, Ax and Tobias inadvertently acquire steers (castrated male cows). But since ShapeshiftingHealsWounds, the team ends up with two large, very territorial, very aggressive ''bulls'' staring each other down and about to charge each other.

** While trapped in the Arctic, two of the team morph wolves and the other fleas so they can travel faster. After finding a dead seal, Marco asks if Jake and Ax (riding him as fleas) want to demorph in order to eat, only for them to awkwardly admit they already ate.

-->-- ''Literature/{{It}}'', Creator/StephenKing



A shapeshifter or magical being takes on a new physical form, and they're revelling in the powers this form grants them. Except... what's this? Turns out this new form has an established weakness, and the rules of that universe mean that they now share that weakness. Particularly aggravating if it's a WeaksauceWeakness.

In cases of {{Forced Transformation}}s or {{Involuntary Shapeshifter}}s it can result in TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy can transform into any animal, but he is bound by the rules of whatever form he takes. The most inconvenient and noticeable being that he can't speak in animal form. And while he can fly if he becomes a bird, he does tire from the exertion of flapping his wings.

* ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'': The antidote created by Mac Krill may turn humans turned into fishes back into humans again, but has the reversal effect on fishes, giving them intelligence and the hability to talk. However, when Fly tricks Joe into drinking more antidote, the fish mutates, turning into a heinous mockery of a human being. And humans can't breath in the water...

In cases of {{Baleful Polymorph}}s or {{Involuntary Shapeshifter}}s it can result in TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody.

* ''Machinima/TeamNeighborhood'': In "Pool Fools", BLU Spy uses one of his disguise masks to transform himself into an ice cube in an attempt to cool himself off during a heat wave, but the intense heat causes him to quickly melt.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': The Omnitrix gives Ben amazing powers, but also the limitations to each alien he transforms into. Ripjaw barely can breath out of water, Heatblast can burn things accidentaly, Four Arms doesn't fit in small spaces, Grey Matter can be caught easily because of his small size, etc.

* ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Whenever Snow White puts the red shoes on, she transforms into a thin, conventionaly beautiful woman. With that, however, she loses all the great strenght she has with her real, overweight body. She decides to keep them because nobody would help her finding her father with her real appearance (though she's not actually ugly), but has to take the shoes off whenever she needs to use force.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': Near the end of the book, ''Literature/AttackOfTheMutant'', Skipper tricks [[BigBad the Masked Mutant]] by making him turn into HollywoodAcid. The Masked Mutant splashed into the carpet, making a big hole in it. Since the Masked Mutant can transform anything solid and change back, but he can change into a liquid he can't change back.

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** Monika was once kidnapped by an evil wizard who turned her into his crow pet. Although she was rescued and, somehow, "healed", she still turns into a crow whenever she is stressed. If by one turn that gives her the hability to fly, she becomes very small and unable to interact to anyone out of the club. Also, she gained the habit of stealing brilliant and pretty objects, refusing to give them back.

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': Except Gwen, the only non-cursed one, all the other members of the club had their lives changed by their respective curses:

** Calpernia, the founder of the club, was accidentaly cursed by her abusive fiancée into becoming a giant, mindless spider at the moon nights (which coincide to her periods). That not only caused her to be pushed away by her own parents but she also has to lock herself in a barn in the said nights, to avoid eating someone. The only thing good is that she became able to understand spiders, who are very protective of the club and the forest; on other hand, they scare the postmans away, keeping Calpernia from receiving letter from her regretting family.

** Monika was once kidnapped by an evil wizard who turned her into his crow pet. Although she was rescued and, somehow, "healed", she still turns into a crow whenever she is stressed. If by one turn that gives her the hability to fly, she gets very small and unable to interact to anyone out of the club. Also, she gained the habit of stealing brilliant and pretty objects, refusing to give them back.
** Thermidora was once a lobster princess, but a jealous sea cucumber turned her into a human to separate her from her love. Besides that, she is forced to live on dry land, to wear clothes and live among people. Still, her lobster claws remained; they aren't much good to handle human objects and people out of the club find them scary.
** Calpernia, the founder of the club, was accidentaly cursed by her abusive fiancée into becoming a giant, mindless spider at the moon nights (which coincide to her periods). That not only caused her to be pushed away by her own parents but she also has to lock up in a barn in the said nights, to avoid eating someone. The only thing good is that she became able to understand spiders, who are very protective of the club and the forest; on other hand, they scare the postmans away, keeping Calpernia from receiving letter from her regretting family.
* ''Webcomic/MeganKearneysBeautyAndTheBeast'': To be transformed in a Beast caused [[spoiler:Argus]] to lose temporarily his sentience. He took many years to get his mind back but needs routine and activites to keep anchoured, like reading, gardening and dining with Beauty. Still, he is occasionaly forced into giving in to his feral instincts; when this happens, he runs naked on all fours and hunts in the woods.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': The Omnitrix gives Ben amazing powers, but also the limitations to each alien he transforms into. Ripjaw barely can breath out of water, Heatblast can put fire on things accidentaly, Four Arms is too big for smaller spaces, Grey Matter can be caught easily because of his small size, etc.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The curse affects Eda physically even when she is in her original form. Her hair went gray earlier, she gained a taste for brilliant objects and sleeps in a nest. Not to mention that the potion she must drink frequently to not transform has the collateral effect of making parts of her body detachable, but Eda finds that very useful. When Lilith shares the curse with her sister, her hair gets a gray streak, and she is horrified when her hand gets loose.
* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'': Whoever is turned into a skeleton by Baron Dark can't die and is not easily hurt; in a disaster, their bodies simply disassembled and assembled back. Then Talyn finds out that removing the stone heart from their spines turn them back into humans again, with all the consequent vulnerabilities.

* In the ''[[Literature/ApprenticeAdept Apprentice Adept]]'' a science fiction series by Creator/PiersAnthony, transformation spells work this way. Stile shows a character the spell to turn into a bee and then has to recite the reversal spell in "bee buzz" to turn back into a human.

* ''Literature/{{It}}'': The eponymous monster takes on the form of whatever a child is most afraid of. This usually grants It things like claws and fangs. But It also learns that if the children associate a weakness with that form, It also picks those up as well, such as silver hurting It if It should decide to be a werewolf, or Eddie's belief that his inhaler contains battery acid blinding It when It becomes ''Film/TheCrawlingEye'' [[note]] Adding insult to injury, this is very much a case of WeaksauceWeakness, as readers had already learned Eddie's inhaler contains nothing more than water with a splash of camphor for a medicincy taste and smell.[[/note]]

** In Megamorphs 3, most of the group acquires a TRex. After running into a triceratops, they notice one of them is ripping the triceratops apart, do a quick headcount... and realize it's ''Cassie'' of all people who's lost herself in the morph (presumably out of stress at being stuck millions of years in the past with no way back, and with two of her friends missing). After she snaps out of it, she still feels remorse for a while.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': [[EvilSorcerer Jafar]], for all his [[SmugSnake arrogance and declarations of grandeur]], deeply rankles at the idea of [[AlwaysSecondBest always having someone more powerful than him]] -- in this case, the Genie who gave him his power in the first place -- so once he has Aladdin on the ropes in his [[TheGreatSerpent gigantic cobra]] form, [[GuileHero Aladdin]] heckles him into making his third wish to [[BecomingTheGenie become an all-powerful genie]] himself. As soon as the Genie reluctantly grants his wish, an elated Jafar literally flies through the roof of the Sultan's palace, [[EvilIsHammy bombastically declaring that the universe is now his to command and control]]... Only for Aladdin to dampen his spirits by reminding him that now he's a genie, [[BlessedWithSuck all his phenomenal cosmic power comes at the price of being a prisoner forced to serve whoever holds his lamp]]. Jafar can only helplessly shout a few [[BigNo NOOOO'S]] as Aladdin pulls Jafar inside his lamp, desperately grabbing [[FeatheredFiend Iago]] and taking the parrot with him. By [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]], Jafar has discovered even more downsides to being a genie -- for a start, [[ThouShaltNotKill he can't kill people directly]] anymore, and [[SoulJar destroying his lamp whilst he's still enslaved to it will kill him]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': After ten years trapped in his feral body, Beast starts losing his humanity. He walks on all fours, barely wears clothes and is terribly territorial. Living together with Belle -- and his own effort to improve -- help him to regain most part of humanity back. According to WordOfGod, if she hadn't shown up in time, he would have become an entire animal, for good.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': [[EvilSorcerer Jafar]], for all his [[SmugSnake arrogance and declarations of grandeur]], deeply rankles at the idea of [[AlwaysSecondBest always having someone more powerful than him]]- in this case, the Genie who gave him his power in the first place- so once he has Aladdin on the ropes in his [[TheGreatSerpent gigantic cobra]] form, [[GuileHero Aladdin]] heckles him into making his third wish to [[BecomingTheGenie become an all-powerful genie]] himself. As soon as the Genie reluctantly grants his wish, an elated Jafar literally flies through the roof of the Sultan's palace, [[EvilIsHammy bombastically declaring that the universe is now his to command and control]]... Only for Aladdin to dampen his spirits by reminding him that now he's a genie, [[BlessedWithSuck all his phenomenal cosmic power comes at the price of being a prisoner forced to serve whoever holds his lamp]]. Jafar can only helplessly shout a few [[BigNo NOOOO'S]] as Aladdin pulls Jafar inside his lamp, desperately grabbing [[FeatheredFiend Iago]] and taking the parrot with him. By [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]], Jafar has discovered even more downside to being a genie- for a start, [[ThouShaltNotKill he can't kill people directly]] anymore, and [[SoulJar destroying his lamp whilst he's still enslaved to it will kill him]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': After ten years trapped in his feral body, Beast starts losing his humanity. He walks on all fours, barely wears clothes and is terribly territorial. Living together with Belle - and his own effort to improve - help him to regain most part of humanity back. According to WordOfGod, if she hadn't shown up in time, he would have become an entire animal, for good.

* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': [[spoiler:After Teatime's attempt at killing the Hogfather is thwarted by Susan, the Auditors -who had been untouchable by Death- transform into dogs to kill the deity directly. However, this comes with one fatal mistake, as they are now living beings and therefore within Death's jurisdiction, resulting in him taking the Auditors out in one fell swoop]].

* ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'': In TheMusical, Beetlejuice's attempt to become human by marrying Lydia [[spoiler: actually works... only for Lydia to immediately stab him now that he's mortal.]]

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* ''Webcomic/MeganKearneysBeautyAndTheBeast'': To be transformed in a Beast caused [[spoiler: Argus]] to lose temporarily his sentience. He took many years to get his mind back but needs routine and activites to keep anchoured, like reading, gardening and dining with Beauty. Still, he is occasionaly forced into giving in to his feral instincts; when this happens, he runs naked on all fours and hunts in the woods.

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