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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake'', [[spoiler:[[GodOfChaos Golb]] rips The Lich apart and [[ForcedTransformation forcefully transforms]] him into one on the geometric shapes that orbits around Golb. The Lich screams in horrific pain and panic as it happens.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' animated series also has some of it, but mostly while Stanley is removing the mask. Which is only sensible, since pulling the mask off basically requires him to ''tear off his face''.
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* Whether or not putting on or removing the titular artefact in ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' animated series also has some varies from episode to episode. Sometimes, the transformation looks ''very'' painful, with applying the Mask causing it to melt onto Stanley's face and turn his whole head into a mass of it, but mostly while Stanley is greenish-brown flesh that ripples and flows unnaturally around a distorted, bug-eyed, pain-filled grimace, and removing it requiring the mask. Which is only sensible, since pulling Mask to pull his face as it stretches like rubber and finally gives way. Other times, the mask off basically requires him to ''tear off his face''.transformation appears almost effortless, with removing it in particular being done in a snap.
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** The Avengers endure some painful transformations in the episode "Gamma World", as part of The Leader's plan to turn everyone in the world into Gamma-irritated monsters. Iron Man's pain receives particular emphasis, as the animators show the toll the gamma blast takes on his shrapnel-embedded heart.
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** The Avengers (except Thor who is TheImmune due to being Asgardian) endure some painful transformations in the episode "Gamma World", as part of The Leader's plan to turn everyone in the world into Gamma-irritated monsters. Iron Man's pain receives particular emphasis, as the animators show the toll the gamma blast takes on his shrapnel-embedded heart.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': The ChristmasEpisode[=/=]VillainEpisode "A Very Devil Christmas" has the Devil go through an agonizing transformation... into SantaClaus. After which he's tasked with SubbingForSanta lest he stay that way forever. Yeah, ItMakesSenseInContext...
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', getting turned into a mutant always involves a good bit of screaming. Makes sense, considering that occasional extra limbs are grown and all of them gain a good amount of extra muscle mass.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', getting turned into a mutant always involves a good bit "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E04MoistVessel Moist Vessel]]", O'Connor's ascension is an ordeal of screaming. Makes sense, considering that occasional extra limbs are grown and all constant agony where he can feel his physical form burning away as his mind is overloaded with the secrets of them gain a good amount of extra muscle mass.the universe.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Goes on the Pill" has a scene of Stan [[GenderBender transforming into a woman]] as a ShoutOut to ''An American Werewolf in London''.
-->'''Francine:''' Ugh, I have a headache from all this screaming.\\
'''Stan:''' Well, not to compete with you, but I have a headache from my skull changing shape.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'':
** The Avengers endure some painful transformations in the episode "Gamma World", as part of The Leader's plan to turn everyone in the world into Gamma-irritated monsters. Iron Man's pain receives particular emphasis, as the animators show the toll the gamma blast takes on his shrapnel-embedded heart.
** Simon Williams' transformation into Wonder Man, in another episode, seems unbearable as well. The other characters mention that Simon became the only person to survive the process.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
** Kevin's transformation into his ShapeshifterMashup form ends with him screaming in agony.
** Ben's final stage of transformation into Benwolf. For most of the episode, he'd just been gradually getting furry and wolflike, then... ouch.
* The 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has Stoker change into a rat-like beast called Stoker Rat when under sunlight. The transformation first occurred in the episode "Changes" and happened again in "British Invasion". The transformation is an ode to the transformation scene from ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': During the episode Operation G.R.A.D.U.T.E.S, Father invents a device that turns all the of the members of the Kids Next Door into animals and the transformations are not pretty. Numbuh 5, who was turned into a gazelle, was screaming in pain until the point she no longer could and the rest of Sector V was also shown to be in a large amount of pain.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' actually has ''five'' instances, all Danny. The first and last sets of two are all seen as excruciating agony. The middle one is NightmareFuel and what follows is just as disturbing and ''really'' should have earned a higher rating.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has Dexter transform into a clown whenever he laughs because another clown's dentures flew off and bit him on his [[{{Pun}} funny bone]] at Dee Dee's birthday party. It's undone at the end when Dee Dee takes up miming lessons to subdue his clowning around and causing destruction throughout the city, then taking him back to the lab to administer an antidote.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldHis9Lives'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vdg2ytDy0 life 7]] (about 3 minutes in, and be grateful [[ShadowDiscretionShot the final takes aren't shown]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** Derek has a particularly painful one when he turns into a mutate.
** Demona is eventually given the ability to become human by day instead of stone. The change is agonizing ''both'' ways. It was actually painless the first time, though, as Puck, who gave her this ability, [[WordOfGod wanted to surprise her]]. When Macbeth (to whom she's magically connected) is nearby, he feels the transformation too.
* PlayedForLaughs in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. As a machine gives Zim his human disguise (offscreen), he screams "Why does it ''hurt?!''" (For the record, his disguise is [[PaperThinDisguise a wig and a pair of contacts]].)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' animated series also has some of it, but mostly while Stanley is removing the mask. Which is only sensible, since pulling the mask off basically requires him to ''tear off his face''.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Season 14 Episode 9 [[Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing It's a Jersey Thing]], when Kyle "transforms" into his Jersey self, "Kyley-B" when South Park is being invaded by New Jersey folk.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Spider-Man himself undergoes this during the "Neogenic Nightmare" arc. It starts with simple bouts of PowerIncontinence, and is then followed with debilitating pain in his sides, which he describes as feeling like "getting a massage from [[WolverineClaws Wolverine]] -- from the inside." Finally, he sprouts [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four extra arms]] before painfully transforming into a monstrous half-man/half-spider creature. An alternate Man-Spider shows up in one of the later episodes when Spider-Man has to team up with his alternates. That Peter accepted the mutation fairly well, but the villain forced him to be Man-Spider at the worst time. Man-Spider's later fate is unknown but presumably he's back to normal.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "I Was a Teenage Gary", [=SpongeBob=] is accidentally injected with snail plasma by Squidward to cure his pet snail, Gary. Squidward assures [=SpongeBob=] that he'll be fine, and he believes him. But the next day, he starts exhibiting snail-like behavior, including meowing, eating snail food, and walking slowly. His fears are turned into reality as he goes through the gradual transformation into a snail.
** In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV", [=SpongeBob=] accidentally puts DesignatedVictim Squidward through a series of increasingly painful and graphic transformations (burning, being cut in half, being skinless, and some that were so grotesque they were only heard offscreen as sound effects that don't bear thinking about) while trying to undo the effects of a "[[IncredibleShrinkingMan small ray]]".
** "The Inside Job" has Plankton going inside [=SpongeBob=]'s body and attaches a sucking helmet to his heart to gain information about the Krabby Patty formula. This ends up causing him to turn into a small version of [=SpongeBob=], with a sequence complete with eyelashes breaking through his skin and his teeth shattering to make way for two goofy buck teeth. Then, at the end, Sponge!Plankton gets attached to Patrick and we get a similar sequence where he becomes a dumb pink plankton.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', getting turned into a mutant always involves a good bit of screaming. Makes sense, considering that occasional extra limbs are grown and all of them gain a good amount of extra muscle mass.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': While at the beginning he just glows pink, in the second half of the epilogue, Steven's body starts to randomly swell up whenever he is in a great emotional distress, because of his untreated trauma and PTSD caused from [[CerebusRetcon everything he experienced in the original series]]. It reaches a breaking point in "Everything's Fine", where he has a spectacular mental breakdown, which the episode ends with pink spikes violently bursting out of his back, starting his corruption into a Kaiju-like rampaging monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** Most of Beast Boy's transformations appear painless, except for the episode when an accidental shower of chemicals caused him to morph into a [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]-like werebeast against his will.
** Also, Red Star, from the episode "Snowblind", definitely has this problem.
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** Donatello's secondary mutation from the "Good Genes" arc of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''. The transformation itself -- which happens after a long illness -- is fairly brief, but still enough to leave him screaming in pain.
** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]], apparently, getting doused in Mutagen and undergoing a mutation is agonizing if you were human. When Mutagen Man is created, he screams that it burns.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** If one of the eponymous Transformers hasn't transformed in an exceedingly long time, or is banged up badly enough, transforming can hurt like hell, or, in extreme cases, be fatal.
** When [[spoiler:Waspinator]] is put into Blackarachnia's transwarp machine in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', he screams and his hands can be seen clawing at the machine. Blackarachnia casually comments that it might hurt a bit.
** Most upgrades the Transformers experience in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' seem to come off this way. Everyone's transition to Transmetal in the season 2 premier was accompanied by screams and bodies collapsing. The changes to Transmetal 2 seemed even worse.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In "The Burden Hardest to Bear", Scourge takes on the Matrix of Leadership, which makes him extremely powerful, but warps his body, which looks extremely painful and even makes him cry.
* Matt from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' always has to brace himself before turning into Shagon.
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{{Painful Transformation}}s in WesternAnimation.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Goes on the Pill" has a scene of Stan [[GenderBender transforming into a woman]] as a ShoutOut to ''An American Werewolf in London''.
-->'''Francine:''' Ugh, I have a headache from all this screaming.\\
'''Stan:''' Well, not to compete with you, but I have a headache from my skull changing shape.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'':
** The Avengers endure some painful transformations in the episode "Gamma World", as part of The Leader's plan to turn everyone in the world into Gamma-irritated monsters. Iron Man's pain receives particular emphasis, as the animators show the toll the gamma blast takes on his shrapnel-embedded heart.
** Simon Williams' transformation into Wonder Man, in another episode, seems unbearable as well. The other characters mention that Simon became the only person to survive the process.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
** Kevin's transformation into his ShapeshifterMashup form ends with him screaming in agony.
** Ben's final stage of transformation into Benwolf. For most of the episode, he'd just been gradually getting furry and wolflike, then... ouch.
* The 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has Stoker change into a rat-like beast called Stoker Rat when under sunlight. The transformation first occurred in the episode "Changes" and happened again in "British Invasion". The transformation is an ode to the transformation scene from ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': During the episode Operation G.R.A.D.U.T.E.S, Father invents a device that turns all the of the members of the Kids Next Door into animals and the transformations are not pretty. Numbuh 5, who was turned into a gazelle, was screaming in pain until the point she no longer could and the rest of Sector V was also shown to be in a large amount of pain.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' actually has ''five'' instances, all Danny. The first and last sets of two are all seen as excruciating agony. The middle one is NightmareFuel and what follows is just as disturbing and ''really'' should have earned a higher rating.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has Dexter transform into a clown whenever he laughs because another clown's dentures flew off and bit him on his [[{{Pun}} funny bone]] at Dee Dee's birthday party. It's undone at the end when Dee Dee takes up miming lessons to subdue his clowning around and causing destruction throughout the city, then taking him back to the lab to administer an antidote.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldHis9Lives'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vdg2ytDy0 life 7]] (about 3 minutes in, and be grateful [[ShadowDiscretionShot the final takes aren't shown]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** Derek has a particularly painful one when he turns into a mutate.
** Demona is eventually given the ability to become human by day instead of stone. The change is agonizing ''both'' ways. It was actually painless the first time, though, as Puck, who gave her this ability, [[WordOfGod wanted to surprise her]]. When Macbeth (to whom she's magically connected) is nearby, he feels the transformation too.
* PlayedForLaughs in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. As a machine gives Zim his human disguise (offscreen), he screams "Why does it ''hurt?!''" (For the record, his disguise is [[PaperThinDisguise a wig and a pair of contacts]].)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' animated series also has some of it, but mostly while Stanley is removing the mask. Which is only sensible, since pulling the mask off basically requires him to ''tear off his face''.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Season 14 Episode 9 [[Recap/SouthParkS14E9ItsAJerseyThing It's a Jersey Thing]], when Kyle "transforms" into his Jersey self, "Kyley-B" when South Park is being invaded by New Jersey folk.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Spider-Man himself undergoes this during the "Neogenic Nightmare" arc. It starts with simple bouts of PowerIncontinence, and is then followed with debilitating pain in his sides, which he describes as feeling like "getting a massage from [[WolverineClaws Wolverine]] -- from the inside." Finally, he sprouts [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four extra arms]] before painfully transforming into a monstrous half-man/half-spider creature. An alternate Man-Spider shows up in one of the later episodes when Spider-Man has to team up with his alternates. That Peter accepted the mutation fairly well, but the villain forced him to be Man-Spider at the worst time. Man-Spider's later fate is unknown but presumably he's back to normal.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "I Was a Teenage Gary", [=SpongeBob=] is accidentally injected with snail plasma by Squidward to cure his pet snail, Gary. Squidward assures [=SpongeBob=] that he'll be fine, and he believes him. But the next day, he starts exhibiting snail-like behavior, including meowing, eating snail food, and walking slowly. His fears are turned into reality as he goes through the gradual transformation into a snail.
** In the episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV", [=SpongeBob=] accidentally puts DesignatedVictim Squidward through a series of increasingly painful and graphic transformations (burning, being cut in half, being skinless, and some that were so grotesque they were only heard offscreen as sound effects that don't bear thinking about) while trying to undo the effects of a "[[IncredibleShrinkingMan small ray]]".
** "The Inside Job" has Plankton going inside [=SpongeBob=]'s body and attaches a sucking helmet to his heart to gain information about the Krabby Patty formula. This ends up causing him to turn into a small version of [=SpongeBob=], with a sequence complete with eyelashes breaking through his skin and his teeth shattering to make way for two goofy buck teeth. Then, at the end, Sponge!Plankton gets attached to Patrick and we get a similar sequence where he becomes a dumb pink plankton.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', getting turned into a mutant always involves a good bit of screaming. Makes sense, considering that occasional extra limbs are grown and all of them gain a good amount of extra muscle mass.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': While at the beginning he just glows pink, in the second half of the epilogue, Steven's body starts to randomly swell up whenever he is in a great emotional distress, because of his untreated trauma and PTSD caused from [[CerebusRetcon everything he experienced in the original series]]. It reaches a breaking point in "Everything's Fine", where he has a spectacular mental breakdown, which the episode ends with pink spikes violently bursting out of his back, starting his corruption into a Kaiju-like rampaging monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** Most of Beast Boy's transformations appear painless, except for the episode when an accidental shower of chemicals caused him to morph into a [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]-like werebeast against his will.
** Also, Red Star, from the episode "Snowblind", definitely has this problem.
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** Donatello's secondary mutation from the "Good Genes" arc of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''. The transformation itself -- which happens after a long illness -- is fairly brief, but still enough to leave him screaming in pain.
** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]], apparently, getting doused in Mutagen and undergoing a mutation is agonizing if you were human. When Mutagen Man is created, he screams that it burns.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** If one of the eponymous Transformers hasn't transformed in an exceedingly long time, or is banged up badly enough, transforming can hurt like hell, or, in extreme cases, be fatal.
** When [[spoiler:Waspinator]] is put into Blackarachnia's transwarp machine in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', he screams and his hands can be seen clawing at the machine. Blackarachnia casually comments that it might hurt a bit.
** Most upgrades the Transformers experience in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' seem to come off this way. Everyone's transition to Transmetal in the season 2 premier was accompanied by screams and bodies collapsing. The changes to Transmetal 2 seemed even worse.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In "The Burden Hardest to Bear", Scourge takes on the Matrix of Leadership, which makes him extremely powerful, but warps his body, which looks extremely painful and even makes him cry.
* Matt from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' always has to brace himself before turning into Shagon.
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