History VoluntaryShapeshifting / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/OnceUponATime2017'': Bai Qian can turn into a nine-tailed fox and Ye Hua can turn into a dragon.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' gives us the aforementioned T-1000. Capable of imitating almost anything it touches, but not replicating it, since it is made out of liquid metal. It's able to turn its limbs into various weapons such as knives or hooks. Complex machinery such as guns is a problem, because they have specific components such as chemical reactions and moving parts. It also often imitates people it's just killed in order to move around freely (its default appearance being a cop) or to get closer to its target. Due to its natural liquid form being able to reassemble at will, it is [[NighInvulnerable virtually indestructible]] by any means of conventional weaponry.
** The T-X from ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' is a downplayed version of this. It's composed of liquid metal over a solid Terminator skeleton. Due to this it can't do quite as much reshaping as the entirely liquid metal T-1000, in exchange for having the hardware to do some things the T-1000 couldn't, but it can still alter its appearance and take on people's identities.
* Jareth from ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' can turn into an owl.
* Creator/JimCarrey played ''Film/TheMask'' in the movie with the help of groundbreaking makeup and animated effects.

* ''Film/ItCameFromOuterSpace'': The aliens can copy humans and their memories, but give themselves away through their awkward speech patterns and ability to stare into the sun without blinking.

* The girls from ''Film/TheCraft'' could make themselves look like other people using disguise magic.

* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Due to Heath Ledger's death]], a mechanism was written into ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' where dishonest people [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter tended to have different faces than their real ones]] when transported into the imagination world. Fitting this trope, it's somewhat implied that Parnasus ''could'' use this beyond clothes, but chose not to so as to be properly recognized by the others. Played totally straight -- in the fantasy if nowhere else -- by the one that gave him the Imaginarium: [[spoiler:no less than {{Satan}} himself.]]
* The Djinn in ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' can take on the form of others, but he has to [[FaceStealer use their faces for it]]. The Djinn in the fourth film does it without restriction at one point.
* Loki from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse can create illusions that mimic shapeshifting. He does so particularly often in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', in one scene even impersonating various other characters for fun. Also in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Thor tells a story from their childhood about Loki turning into a snake for a prank, which appears to be an example of actual shapeshifting, as Thor mentions picking the snake up -- Loki's illusions are consistently intangible. However, [[InformedAbility this ability]] has never been displayed onscreen.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Emma Silverfox in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', can transform her body into diamond, bullet proof skin.
** Emma Frost in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', can turn into a crystalline form of herself that is immune to psychic influence, but isn't immune to Erik's powers. There is debate/retcons/etc. over whether or not they're both versions of ''the'' Comicbook/EmmaFrost.
** The Mark X Sentinels in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', in addition to the an ice-form they can turn into a diamond-like form, which they do later on in the film [[spoiler:just before chopping off Sunspot's arm and killing him]]. Considering one of the mutants experimented on to create them was Emma Frost, it makes perfect sense.
** Mystique, just like in the comics, is a master shapeshifter. Wolverine is one of the only people who isn't fooled by her guises since [[TheNoseKnows she can't get quite get the scent right]]. [[spoiler:The Mark X Sentinels' ability to shapeshift is the result of experiments performed on Mystique.]]
* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' had an interesting inversion with the character Magenta. She can change her shape at will, but only to the form of a guinea pig (with purple hightlights, no less). Turns out to be rather useful (like the other [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway lame]] powers in the movie), in a ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman scenario.
* ''Film/DetectiveDee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame'': An important plot point hinges on a certain acupressure point that allows you to completely alter the shape of your face. For Chinese audiences, the impact is heightened by [[spoiler:iconic character actor Richard Ng transforming into equally iconic character actor Teddy Robin]]. A Hollywood equivalent would be if Creator/SteveBuscemi [[LatexPerfection ripped off a rubber mask]] to reveal himself as Creator/ChristopherWalken.

* ''Film/TheGoldenChild''. At one point Sardo Numspa changes his form from a rat into his normal shape and back into a rat again.

** As Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids notes, the fact that changelings exist but are never otherwise used in the films is also a wasted ChekhovsGun.
* Carmen Electra played a parody of Mystique in ''Film/EpicMovie2007''. In one scene, Peter requests her to transform into [[ShapeshiftingSquick increasingly bizarre forms]] to please his various fetishes: unibrows, giant butts, flabby arms, etc.
* Professor Browne in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'' pulls this off when he uses Miss Price's spell to turn himself into a rabbit in order to gain access to the castle the Nazis have imprisoned Miss Price and the children.
* ''Film/MagicInTheWater'': According to legend, the monster Orky has evaded capture due to his ability to transform into anything, including a human.
* ''Film/{{Bit}}'': Vlad can turn into animals like rats, and also mist.
* In ''Film/{{Eternal}}'', Elizabeth's RightHandAttackDog is actually her maid Irina who can transform into a Rottweiler.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Doric is able to morph into seemingly any animal she wishes, though she defaults to the shape of an owlbear for combat.
* ''Film/GrandmothersFarm2'': Near the end of the movie, we see the djinn change from human form to cat form.

* ''Film/ItCameFromOuterSpace'' (1953). The aliens can copy humans and their memories, but give themselves away through their awkward speech patterns and ability to stare into the sun without blinking.
* Vampires in film since ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' starring Creator/BelaLugosi. Its second sequel ''Film/SonOfDracula'' was the first movie to actually show {{transformation sequence}}s.

* Carmen Electra played a parody of Mystique in ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]''. In one scene Peter requests her to transform into [[ShapeshiftingSquick increasingly bizarre forms]] to please his various fetishes: unibrows, giant butts, flabby arms, etc.

* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Doric is able to morph into an owlbear.

* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'': Doric is able to morph into an owlbear.