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** In ''Spearhead from Space'', the serial that first introduced the Autons, the creatures themselves look like mannequins unless tweaked to look (mostly) human; however, their leader gestates into the Ultimate Form with which to Take Over The Earth. It is...'' a giant, tentacled squid''.\\\
Technically, the tentacled squid is called the Nestene Consciousness, a creature with an affinity for polymers and plastics (or, if the Ninth Doctor is to be believed, the byproducts of making said plastics). The abomination described is its ''only'' form. (Of course, by the time of "Rose," the Consciousness had lost its squiddishness, and resembled a big face in a vat of molten plastic, apparently having lost its physical form in the Time War.) The point being, the Autons don't turn into it; rather, it ''controls'' plastic, and Autons are what we call the plastic soldiers under its command (at least in the old series.) Mannequins are already in the right shape to become {{Mooks}}, so that's the Nestene Consciousness's weapon of choice.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': "MakeMyMonsterGrow!" Every ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Power Rangers'' season except for ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' has had this, with each BigBad using a different growth method. Also, growing comes with different other advantages for the monster: sometimes any damage taken or weapons lost while small will return (including whatever you broke to shut down its main means of terrorizing the populace. Uh-oh!), and sometimes it will gain a new form much like a BigBad can. ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' has the latter happpen often. Sometimes, entirely new powers are gained.

** The pre-Franchise/PowerRangers sentai series ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' has this because of the "better living through mad science" ways of the villain organization. Remaining a puny human will never do, and nor will failure to upgrade a monster or cyborg form that has proven ineffective. That's why the generals all have multiple forms. As of 38 (as far as has been English subtitled) Kemp leads the pack, going from Kenji to Dr. Kemp to Beauty Beast Kemp to Fear Beast Kemp. (He got a head start, beginning the series with his "Dr." and "Beauty Beast" forms, whereas the others' "Dr. [name]" forms were all they had.)

* In ''Spearhead from Space'', the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial that first introduced the Autons, the creatures themselves look like mannequins unless tweaked to look (mostly) human; however, their leader gestates into the Ultimate Form with which to Take Over The Earth. It is...'' a giant, tentacled squid''.
** Technically, the tentacled squid is called the Nestene Consciousness, a creature with an affinity for polymers and plastics (or, if the Ninth Doctor is to be believed, the byproducts of making said plastics). The abomination described is its ''only'' form. (Of course, by the time of "Rose," the Consciousness had lost its squiddishness, and resembled a big face in a vat of molten plastic, apparently having lost its physical form in the Time War.) The point being, the Autons don't turn into it; rather, it ''controls'' plastic, and Autons are what we call the plastic soldiers under its command (at least in the old series.) Mannequins are already in the right shape to become {{Mooks}}, so that's the Nestene Consciousness's weapon of choice.

** In the spinoff FactionParadox series, the more the TimeLord Expies regenerate, the more like this they become until they're nothing but sentient masses of weaponry and defensive devices. You wouldn't like to meet 'em.

** Ah, no. The tentacled squid is called the Nestene Consciousness, a creature with an affinity for polymers and plastics (or, if the Ninth Doctor is to be believed, the byproducts of making said plastics). The abomination described is its true form. It's established that it arrived in a meteorite shower--the phrase "some assembly required" seems apt--and each meteorite, containing a part of the Consciousness, animated the mannequins/dummies created by Auto Plastics (hence, "Auton") and gave them the mission of collecting the rest of the meteorites. In other words, it possesses plastic products. The monster itself was in some kind of an incubation or life-support chamber, waiting for the rest of its "bits" to arrive. Of course, by the time of "Rose," the Consciousness had lost its squiddishness, and resembled a big face in a vat of molten plastic, apparently having lost its physical form in the Time War.

* The Mayor in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer,'' spent a whole season getting there.

* In ''Spearhead from Space'', the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial that first introduced the Autons, the creatures themselves look like mannequins unless tweaked to look (mostly) human; however, their leader gestates into the Ultimate Form with which to Take Over The Earth. It is...''[[NaughtyTentacles a giant, tentacled squid]]''.

* The Man in Black/Jacob's Enemy on {{Lost}} has quite a doozy of a final form: [[spoiler:the Smoke Monster.]]
** [[spoiler:Though in reverse. He is able to take this form throughout the entire series except during the finale battle, since he became mortal again which was required to do so in order to kill him.]]

** For quantity, several {{Big Bad}}s tie with ''four'' advanced forms. Most recently, [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Dai Shi]] has a human form, a [[DigimonFrontier Lowemon]]-ish lion armor form (with similar transformation!), a Phantom Beast King form, ''and'' an eight-headed dragon form (his true self, as seen in a carving at the beginning of the series.) He's not alone, though: [[Series/PowerRangersInSpace Ecliptor]], [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Trakeena]], and [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Olympius]] can boast the same number of forms.

* The Wraith from the StargateVerse have very versatile organic technology. Even their ships are alive but are restricted by their power generation capabilities. In the final episode, one Wraith got the right idea and wired the most potent energy source in the known universe into a Hiveship (Wraith equivalent of TheBattlestar). It used the extra energy to grow more armor and guns, resulting in a '''HUGE''' (3200+ meter long) monster of a ship armed with dozens of cannons. Asgard plasma beam weapons which could easily neutralize a normal hive in about half-a-dozen shots ''barely even scratched'' the Superhive. Plus, the increased sensor sensitivity...

** Some Orphenochs in ''KamenRider555'' can also take on advanced forms. There are ''no'' giant-sized vehicles to deal with them (though the vehicles they ''do'' have are quite weapon-laden and sometimes extend/expand. However, these are not typically used for giant monster-busting; more for faster or more numerous enemies, or for when you really, ''really'' want a rival Rider dead.)

* ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}'' and ''KamenRiderKiva'' had monsters occasionally assuming gigantic monster forms (dubbed Gigandeaths and Sabbats, respectively). This typically only happened when they needed to show off the newest Den-O form's CoolTrain car or Castle Dran. CG costs are expensive.
** ''KamenRiderDouble'' also does this, usually to show off Double's/Accel's new bike extensions, all in ConspicuousCG.
** KamenRiderBlack: The High Priests [[spoiler: sacrifice the stones keeping them alive to complete]] Nobuhiko's transformation into Shadow Moon. He then [[spoiler: rewards them by powering them up into Great Mutant forms and making them his lieutenants.]]

** Throughout ''KamenRider,'' there are many monsters who are humans/former humans who can power up, or are monsters hiding as humans (still this trope; hence its alternate title "Behold My True Form.") Every [[KamenRiderFaiz Orphenoch]], [[KamenRiderKiva Fangire]], [[KamenRiderKabuto Worm]], [[KamenRiderDouble Dopant]], [[KamenRiderOOO Greeed]], and so forth is this.

** In ''KamenRiderDragonKnight,'' the ''{{Mooks}}'' did this. It didn't do them much good. A flashback reveals that the ''advanced'' {{Mooks}} can become ''more-advanced, flight-capable ones.'' It...still didn't do them any good, but hey, what matters is that [[RuleOfCool it looked awesome]]. The last two or three episodes give us ''all three types'' of cannon fodder as well as various monsters in an all-out war against the Riders.
** It ''is'' a tradition for the more recent ''Rider'' series (''Den-O'', ''Kiva'', ''Double'', and ''[[KamenRiderOOO Oz]]'') to have the monsters do this. The only one to break the sequence was ''KamenRiderDecade'' (released between ''Kiva'' and ''Double''), which makes up for it by having the ''good guys'' do it -- [[GratuitousEnglish FINAL FORM RIDE]].

** A few main human villains eventually do this in order to reach their goals. [[spoiler:[[BigBad Tennoji]] in ''KamenRiderBlade'' fuses himself with the artifical Category Ace Kerberos in order to try and win the Battle Fight himself. In ''KamenRiderOOO'', Dr. Maki absorbs five Purple Core Medals to mutate himself into a Greeed, completing his transformation in episode 42.]]

* Zogu, the BigBad of ''{{Ultraman}} Gaia'' first appears as an angelic entity to trick Gaia and Agul, then defeat them. When round two comes around, they're ready for his tricks and beat the tar out of him. In response, Zogu undergoes the ''reveal your true form'' version of this trope and turns into an absolutely massive, centaur-like beast that can crush skyscrapers under his feet. After a lengthy fight, he's finally killed by a combined beam attack but Gaia and Agul were supercharged with the power of Earth's monsters and at their strongest at the time.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': "MakeMyMonsterGrow!". Every ''SuperSentai''/''Power Rangers'' season except for ''HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''JAKQDengekitai'' has had this, with each BigBad using a different growth method. Also, growing comes with different other advantages for the monster: sometimes any damage taken or weapons lost while small will return (including whatever you broke to shut down its main means of terrorizing the populace. Uh-oh!), and sometimes it will gain a new form much like a BigBad can. ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' has the latter happpen often. Sometimes, entirely new powers are gained.

** A rare heroic example in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' (and the sentai ''[[MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'') the FiveManBand have OneWingedAngel forms instead of the traditional HumongousMecha.

*** Miratrix turns into a monster bird with the power of the MacGuffin of the week and completely manhandles the Rangers' strongest machines. Unfortunately for her, Ronny and Tyzonn are able to remove the MacGuffin from its place before she can finish the Rangers. (In SuperSentai, this was the One Winged Angel form of ''another'' villain who isn't in PR. Mira's counterpart Shizuka had a ''different'' OWA form.)

*** The two main Fear Cats use Flurious' technology to go from feline monsters to awesome black-armored gun-toting warriors, a permanent upgrade. In the ''[[GoGoSentaiBoukenger Boukenger]]'', the Ashu Gai and Rei used the Gordom Engines to become the Questers.

** The pre-Franchise/PowerRangers sentai series ''ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' has this because of the "better living through mad science" ways of the villain organization. Remaining a puny human will never do, and nor will failure to upgrade a monster or cyborg form that has proven ineffective. That's why the generals all have multiple forms. As of 38 (as far as has been English subtitled) Kemp leads the pack, going from Kenji to Dr. Kemp to Beauty Beast Kemp to Fear Beast Kemp. (He got a head start, beginning the series with his "Dr." and "Beauty Beast" forms, whereas the others' "Dr. [name]" forms were all they had.)
** However, the BigBad of ''Jungle Fury'''s parent sentai ''Gekiranger'' has a doozy: Rio (lion armor guy) doesn't have the dragon form because [[spoiler: that came from Gekiranger baddie Long. Long goes from a boyish young man to a Phantom Beast General form, fair enough. However, when he reveals that yes, he ''is'' the BigBad, and only wants Rio to become the Phantom Beast King so he'll ''go out of control and destroy the world,'' and that fails, Long takes on his true multi-headed dragon form.]] And for the teamup with the following series, ''{{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}'', Long returns and eventually possesses the MonsterOfTheWeek, Nunchuk Banki, to become Long Banki. So ultimately, he's got as many bodies as Dai Shi.

** In ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', after throwing copies of past Rangers at the Gokaigers, evil space pirate Basco ta Jolokia unleashes his true form in #31, resulting in a CurbStompBattle.
** In ''TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', Enter and Escape did pretty well in their from-time-to-time fights with the Go-Busters, utilizing tentacle arms and dual-guns respectively. When they start to take on the Go-Busters more frequently, they don special battle-suits but don't actually transform, since the suits lack gloves and helmets. However, when the Go-Busters bring out their [[SuperMode Powered Custom]] forms, Enter and Escape finally decide to get One-Winged Angel forms, upgrading to powerful robotic bodies when they're needed. Escape goes first, upgrading to Escape Evolve in #37, Enter goes next, becoming Enter Unite in #40.

** Black-haired, black-eyed, black-garbed Willow at the end of season six could definitely be said to be at least partially this.

* Without their encounter suits, the Vorlons of ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' look like holy creatures from the observer's mythologies. But when angered, they look...different...

*** The two main Fear Cats use Flurious' technology to go from feline monsters to awesome black-armored gun-toting warriors, a permanent upgrade.

** In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace,'' the Psycho Rangers didn't have Zords, instead transforming into giant monsters. This is the same series with Ecliptor's four forms, and Darkonda's three: standard Darkonda, Darkliptor after absorbing Ecliptor, and a powerful but insane form he mutated into after taking a strength enhancer that had been poisoned by Ecliptor for the Darkliptor incident [[spoiler: (and separating from Ecliptor and using him as a shield once the fight went bad.) The poison seems to count as CursedWithAwesome, though: after seemingly being taken out by, but soon recovering from, the Megazords' first finishing move, he's suddenly much saner and still ultra-powerful.]]

* ''PowerRangers'': "MakeMyMonsterGrow!". Every ''SuperSentai''/''Power Rangers'' season except for ''HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''JAKQDengekitai'' has had this, with each BigBad using a different growth method. Also, growing comes with different other advantages for the monster: sometimes any damage taken or weapons lost while small will return (including whatever you broke to shut down its main means of terrorizing the populace. Uh-oh!), and sometimes it will gain a new form much like a BigBad can. ''PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' has the latter happpen often. Sometimes, entirely new powers are gained.

** For quantity, several {{Big Bad}}s tie with ''four'' advanced forms. Most recently, [[PowerRangersJungleFury Dai Shi]] has human form, [[DigimonFrontier Lowemon]]-ish lion armor form (with similar transformation!), Phantom Beast King form, ''and'' eight-headed dragon form (his true self, as seen in a carving at the beginning of the series.) He's not alone, though: [[PowerRangersInSpace Ecliptor]], [[PowerRangersLostGalaxy Trakeena]], and [[PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Olympius]] can boast the same number of forms.
** Dai Shi's sidekick Camille has ''three'' forms: human, armored, Phantom Beast General.
** In the aforementioned Lightspeed Rescue, in a few cases, the monsters have to grow ''twice'' to fight the Supertrain Megazord, which is a good two or three heads taller than the average giant monsters.
** A rare heroic example in ''PowerRangersMysticForce'' (and the sentai ''[[MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'') the FiveManBand have OneWingedAngel forms instead of the traditional HumongousMecha.

** A similar thing happens in ''PowerRangersJungleFury''. The Zords are actually manifestations of primal spirits unlocked through martial arts.
** ''PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has it like it's going out of style, with Moltor being the only major villain to have just one form. Namely:

** In ''PowerRangersInSpace,'' the Psycho Rangers didn't have Zords, instead transforming into giant monsters. This is the same series with Ecliptor's four forms, and Darkonda's three: standard Darkonda, Darkliptor after absorbing Ecliptor, and a powerful but insane form he mutated into after taking a strength enhancer that had been poisoned by Ecliptor for the Darkliptor incident [[spoiler: (and separating from Ecliptor and using him as a shield once the fight went bad.) The poison seems to count as CursedWithAwesome, though: after seemingly being taken out by, but soon recovering from, the Megazords' first finishing move, he's suddenly much saner and still ultra-powerful.]]
** ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' makes a habit of it, too. Mesogog turns into a monster that is very strong and separates into ''five.'' Zeltrax uses a mystical 'tree of life' and gains a second, thorny form - and as a case of WeCanRebuildHim, Zeltrax's standard form may count as the OWA form of Terrence Smith. The White Ranger clone has access to the same SuperMode as the good White Ranger, and Elsa...does returning midseason with a new haircut, and inexplicably stronger count?
** The pre-PowerRangers sentai series ChoujuuSentaiLiveman has this because of the "better living through mad science" ways of the villain organization. Remaining a puny human will never do, and nor will failure to upgrade a monster or cyborg form that has proven ineffective. That's why the generals all have multiple forms. As of 38 (as far as has been English subtitled) Kemp leads the pack, going from Kenji to Dr. Kemp to Beauty Beast Kemp to Fear Beast Kemp. (He got a head start, beginning the series with his "Dr." and "Beauty Beast" forms, whereas the others' "Dr. [name]" forms were all they had.)
** However, the BigBad of Jungle Fury's parent sentai Gekiranger has a doozy: Rio (lion armor guy) doesn't have the dragon form because [[spoiler: that came from Gekiranger baddie Long. Long goes from a boyish young man to a Phantom Beast General form, fair enough. However, when he reveals that yes, he ''is'' the BigBad, and only wants Rio to become the Phantom Beast King so he'll ''go out of control and destroy the world,'' and that fails, Long takes on his true multi-headed dragon form.]] And for the teamup with the following series, {{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}, Long returns and eventually possesses the MonsterOfTheWeek, Nunchuk Banki, to become Long Banki. So ultimately, he's got as many bodies as Dai Shi.

** Invoked in ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' but on 2 different levels - the MonsterOfTheWeek Zodiarts can go into a "Last One" state, which involves adding some weapons or other bling to the existing monster suit, while the Horoscopes (Zodiarts evolved and promoted to CoDragons) have a "Supernova" form much closer to this trope, a hideous and always massive CG-rendered monstrous form.

* Without their encounter suits, the Vorlons of ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' look like holy creatures from the observer's mythologies. But when angered, they look... different...

*** Kamdor... can open his faceplate to show a ''different'' faceplate. Kind of a letdown after Miratrix's transformation.

** ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' makes a habit of it, too. Mesogog turns into a monster that is very strong and separates into ''five.'' Zeltrax uses a mystical 'tree of life' and gains a second, thorny form - and as a case of WeCanRebuildHim, Zeltrax's standard form may count as the OWA form of Terrence Smith. The White Ranger clone has access to the same SuperMode as the good White Ranger, and Elsa... does returning midseason with a new haircut, and inexplicably stronger count?

** Invoked in ''KamenRiderFourze'' but on 2 different levels - the MonsterOfTheWeek Zodiarts can go into a "Last One" state, which involves adding some weapons or other bling to the existing monster suit, while the Horoscopes (Zodiarts evolved and promoted to CoDragons) have a "Supernova" form much closer to this trope, a hideous and always massive CG-rendered monstrous form.
* In ''Spearhead from Space'', the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial that first introduced the Autons, the creatures themselves look like mannequins unless tweaked to look (mostly) human; however, their leader gestates into the Ultimate Form with which to Take Over The Earth. It is... ''[[NaughtyTentacles a giant, tentacled squid]]''.

** Heck, all of the vamps are examples to a degree. They just need to put their "GameFace" on.

* Let's not forget ''PowerRangers'': "MakeMyMonsterGrow!". Every ''SuperSentai''/''Power Rangers'' season except for ''HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''JAKQDengekitai'' has had this, with each BigBad using a different growth method. Also, growing comes with different other advantages for the monster: sometimes any damage taken or weapons lost while small will return (including whatever you broke to shut down its main means of terrorizing the populace. Uh-oh!), and sometimes it will gain a new form much like a BigBad can. ''PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' has the latter happpen often. Sometimes, entirely new powers are gained.

** In ''PowerRangersInSpace,'' the Psycho Rangers didn't have Zords, instead transforming into giant monsters. This is the same series with Ecliptor's four forms, and Darkonda's three: standard Darkonda, Darkliptor after absorbing Ecliptor, and a powerful but insane form he mutated into after taking a strength enhancer that had been poisoned by Ecliptor for the Darkliptor incident [[spoiler: (not to mention separating from Ecliptor and using him as a shield once the fight went bad.) The poison seems to count as CursedWithAwesome, though: after seemingly being taken out by, but soon recovering from, the Megazords' first finishing move, he's suddenly much saner and still ultra-powerful.]]

** The pre-PowerRangers sentai series ChoujuuSentaiLiveman has this because of the "better living through mad science" ways of the villain organization. Remaining a puny human will never do, and nor will failure to upgrade a monster or cyborg form that has proven ineffective. That's why the generals all have multiple forms. As of 38 (as far as has been English subtitled) Kemp leads the pack, going from Kenji to Dr. Kemp to Beauty Beast Kemp to Fear Beast Kemp. (He got a head start, beginning the series with his "Dr." and "Beauty Beast" forms, whereas the others' "Dr. [name]" forms were pretty much all they had.)

** ''KamenRiderDouble'' also does this, usually to show off Double's/Accel's new bike extensions, all in ConspicuousCG of course.

** Throughout ''KamenRider,'' there are many monsters who are humans/former humans who can power up, or are monsters hiding as humans (still this trope; hence its alternate title "Behold My True Form.") Basically, every [[KamenRiderFaiz Orphenoch]], [[KamenRiderKiva Fangire]], [[KamenRiderKabuto Worm]], [[KamenRiderDouble Dopant]], [[KamenRiderOOO Greeed]], and so forth is this.

** Invoked in ''KamenRiderFourze'' but on two different levels - the MonsterOfTheWeek Zodiarts can go into a "Last One" state, which basically involves adding some weapons or other bling to the existing monster suit, while the Horoscopes (Zodiarts evolved and promoted to CoDragons) have a "Supernova" form much closer to this trope, a hideous and always massive CG-rendered monstrous form.

* The Wraith from the StargateVerse have very versatile organic technology. Even their ships are alive but are restricted by their power generation capabilities. In the final episode, one Wraith got the right idea and wired the most potent energy source in the known universe into a Hiveship (Wraith equivalent of TheBattlestar). It used the extra energy to grow more armor and guns, resulting in a '''HUGE''' (3200+ meter long) monster of a ship armed with dozens of cannons. Asgard plasma beam weapons which could easily neutralize a normal hive in about half-a-dozen shots ''barely even scratched'' the Superhive. Not to mention the increased sensor sensitivity...

* Zogu, the BigBad of ''{{Ultraman}} Gaia'' first appears as an angelic entity to trick Gaia and Agul, then defeat them. When round two comes around, they're ready for his tricks and beat the tar out of him. In response, Zogu undergoes the ''reveal your true form'' version of this trope and turns into an absolutely massive, centaur-like beast that can crush skyscrapers under his feet. After a lengthy fight, he's finally killed by a combined beam attack but keep in mind, Gaia and Agul were supercharged with the power of Earth's monsters and at their strongest at the time.

** Heck, all of the vamps are examples to a degree. They just need to put their "game faces" on.

* A rare heroic example in ''PowerRangersMysticForce'' (and the sentai ''[[MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'') the FiveManBand have OneWingedAngel forms instead of the traditional HumongousMecha.
** Also, some of the more powerful wizards can take on monster-like PeopleInRubberSuits forms of their own. Two in particular have rubber suit ''and'' Ranger suit forms.

* ''PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has it like it's going out of style, with Moltor being the only major villain to have just one form. Namely:
** Flurious gets the MacGuffin in the end, turns into something that looks like a chess piece or a Monster Pope, and freezes the planet.
** Miratrix turns into a monster bird with the power of the MacGuffin of the week and completely manhandles the Rangers' strongest machines. Unfortunately for her, Ronny and Tyzonn are able to remove the MacGuffin from its place before she can finish the Rangers. (In SuperSentai, this was the One Winged Angel form of ''another'' villain who isn't in PR. Mira's counterpart Shizuka had a ''different'' OWA form.)
** Kamdor... can open his faceplate to show a ''different'' faceplate. Kind of a letdown after Miratrix's transformation.
** The two main Fear Cats use Flurious' technology to go from feline monsters to awesome black-armored gun-toting warriors, a permanent upgrade.
* In ''PowerRangersInSpace,'' the Psycho Rangers didn't have Zords, instead transforming into giant monsters. This is the same series with Ecliptor's four forms, and Darkonda's three: standard Darkonda, Darkliptor after absorbing Ecliptor, and a powerful but insane form he mutated into after taking a strength enhancer that had been poisoned by Ecliptor for the Darkliptor incident [[spoiler: (not to mention separating from Ecliptor and using him as a shield once the fight went bad.) The poison seems to count as CursedWithAwesome, though: after seemingly being taken out by, but soon recovering from, the Megazords' first finishing move, he's suddenly much saner and still ultra-powerful.]]
* ''PowerRangersDinoThunder'' makes a habit of it, too. Mesogog turns into a monster that is very strong and separates into ''five.'' Zeltrax uses a mystical 'tree of life' and gains a second, thorny form - and as a case of WeCanRebuildHim, Zeltrax's standard form may count as the OWA form of Terrence Smith. The White Ranger clone has access to the same SuperMode as the good White Ranger, and Elsa... does returning midseason with a new haircut, and inexplicably stronger count?

** The pre-PowerRangers sentai series ChoujuuSentaiLiveman has this because of the "better living through mad science" ways of the villain organization. Remaining a puny human will never do, and nor will failure to upgrade a monster or cyborg form that has proven ineffective. That's why the generals all have multiple forms. As of 38 (as far as has been English subtitled) Kemp leads the pack, going from Kenji to Dr. Kemp to Beauty Beast Kemp to Fear Beast Kemp. (He got a head start, beginning the series with his "Dr." and "Beauty Beast" forms, whereas the others' "Dr. [name]" forms were pretty much all they had.)
** However, the BigBad of Jungle Fury's parent sentai Gekiranger has a doozy: Rio (lion armor guy) doesn't have the dragon form because [[spoiler: that came from Gekiranger baddie Long. Long goes from a boyish young man to a Phantom Beast General form, fair enough. However, when he reveals that yes, he ''is'' the BigBad, and only wants Rio to become the Phantom Beast King so he'll ''go out of control and destroy the world,'' and that fails, Long takes on his true multi-headed dragon form.]] And for the teamup with the following series, {{Engine Sentai Go-onger}}, Long returns and eventually possesses the MonsterOfTheWeek, Nunchuk Banki, to become Long Banki. So ultimately, he's got as many bodies as Dai Shi.