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| 16 | ->''"One of you?! You would make me one of you? Filthy! Slimy! Freaks!"'' |
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| 20 | A Karmic Transformation is when a character is transformed into something they hate (or at least something they think they're superior to). It can be either temporarily or [[{{Metamorphosis}} permanently]]. It is either way [[{{Irony}} ironic]] and often {{Anvilicious}}. The most popular version of this is perhaps that of a [[ColorMeBlack white racist turning black]], followed closely in popularity by sexists [[GenderBender becoming the opposite sex]] because these are easy targets. Then there is "the hunter becomes the hunted" plotlines where the hunter is [[ForcedTransformation completely]] or [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent partly]] transformed into the animal they were hunting. |
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| 22 | Note that this isn't always a good idea, especially if the character won't learn a lesson from it. If the transformed character figures out some way to make the transformation CursedWithAwesome, they may use their new abilities to exact a very unpleasant revenge on whoever transformed them. |
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| 24 | The transformation can be made doubly maddening when the transformation is inflicted to ''save'' their life, as an EmergencyTransformation. If the character ''continues'' to hate whatever it is that they were turned into, the situation might smack of [[BoomerangBigot Boomerang Bigotry]]. |
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| 26 | A variation is when the character hates members of another group because he ''envies'' them, and resents the fact that they (supposedly) have it better than he does. In this case, the transformation will likely teach two lessons: to be sensitive about other people's problems and to [[BeYourself be happy with who you are]]. |
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| 28 | SisterTrope of TransformationConventions (the object or being a character transforms into fits their personality). ColorMeBlack is a sub-trope of this. If the transformation is self-inflicted and not loathsome, that might be BlackLikeMe. Many consider this to be a CoolAndUnusualPunishment, especially to the BrokenAngel. See also: KarmicDeath, InAnotherMansShoes, SelfPerceptionShapeshifting, and BeautyToBeast. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 34 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 35 | * The Capri Sun drink commercials featuring [[Advertising/RespectThePouch the Disrespectoids]] have each of the titular kids morphed as a penance for how they "disrespected" the Capri Sun pouch; for example, a girl who sat on a pouch is turned into a walking whoopee cushion. |
| 36 | -->-- "Respect the pouch! Respect it!" |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 40 | * ''Anime/ArmitageIII'': The titular character is a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, and her partner is a policeman who hates robots and synthetic humans, but who slowly needs more and more cybernetic parts. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'': This is what Inori finds her body-swapping situation with Tarte due to her fear of ferrets. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'': [[spoiler:The Homunculus Pride, who is known to detest humans, is turned into a tiny human fetus by Ed.]] |
| 43 | * ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': [[spoiler:Shou Tucker, a MadScientist who turned both his wife and daughter into chimeras, ends up turned into a chimera himself]]. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': In the adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', Skull Kid turns Kafei into a child because Kafei (walking home from his bachelor party, late at night) turned down an invitation to play with the Skull Kid by saying "Kids like you should be in bed!" |
| 45 | * ''Literature/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': Emilia Ludowell is a pureblooded demon who is racist against humans and human/demon hybrids. When she makes the mistake of attempting to murder Anos Voldigoad's human mother and hybrid friends, the enraged Anos kills her, then immediately reincarnates her in the body of a hybrid. When she realizes what has happened to her, she is horrified and attempts suicide, but Anos informs her that he put a curse on her that she will reincarnate as a hybrid every time she dies, until the end of time. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/NyanKoi'': Junpei Kosaka is cursed to change into a cat because he accidentally knocked the head of a statue of a feline god. He treats cats badly because he's allergic to them, but to break the curse he needs to help 100 of them. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/OriginSpiritsOfThePast'': Shunack, who not only caused the Forest to overrun the world but is attempting to destroy it, [[spoiler:gets turned into a tree along with Agito. Agito gets better, but Shunack doesn't]]. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 49 | ** Ranma himself becoming a SexShifter is a debated example. He's a brash, macho guy who regularly insults his fiancee's femininity, but has his own masculinity undermined by constantly turning into a short, cute girl (and the various humiliations this leads to). However, readers are divided on how much sexism is an intended character flaw of Ranma's or just the manga showing its age. |
| 50 | ** Herb, who gets the same curse, fits much more clearly. He is the leader of a civilisation of truly horrid misogynists who shunned all contact with human women and kept up their numbers (and bred for strength) by using Jusenkyō to change animals into women. Their children were taken from their mothers and forbidden any contact with the opposite sex once they were weaned. Attempting to create a "test girl" in this way led to him getting a Nyanniichuan curse and then getting stuck in female form for added measure. He was able to remove the latter on-panel, and though not seen afterward, could probably access the Spring of Drowned Man to cure himself fully. |
| 51 | ** Anime-only Kin'nee is a hulking thug who loves to destroy things and mindlessly obeys the orders of his crazy cult because it means he gets to hurt people. His Spring of Drowned Priest curse turns him into a tiny, weak, pacifist, and devout Buddhist whenever he gets splashed with cold water. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'': Chin Yisou deliberately turns Hakkai into a youkai literally seconds after he went on a revenge-driven rampage against the youkai who kidnapped and raped his sister. More specifically, a human who slays 1,000 youkai ''becomes'' a youkai, combining this trope with HeWhoFightsMonsters. In Hakkai's case, Chin Yisou happened to be #1,000. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': |
| 54 | ** Kaneki starts out as a normal young man with fairly [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman typical attitudes]] who regards Ghouls as monsters. He isn't malicious so much as uninformed but soon finds himself transformed into a HalfHumanHybrid and forced to deal with life as a Ghoul. Initially, he insists that he's still human and not a "monster", which earns him both a verbal and physical beating from Touka. He quickly changes his tune and realizes he is perhaps the only person capable of seeing both sides of the conflict. |
| 55 | ** In the sequel, '':Re'', [[AntiHumanAlliance Aogiri]] has been kidnapping [[HunterOfMonsters Ghoul Investigators]] for use in experiments to create another HalfHumanHybrid just like Kaneki. The choice of subjects seems to be one part practicality (most are {{Badass Normal}}s), and one part this trope. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'': When the snail people start to appear, [[spoiler:the bully who torments the first one becomes a snail himself. After the teacher destroys the eggs produced by the first two snail people, he also transforms]]. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'': This happens to anyone who betrays the contract with their contracted demon without the protection of a grimoire, like Okada and Himoi. |
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| 60 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': The final demise of Dr. Myers, a scientist who has been involved in animal experiments. [[spoiler:He is turned into a gorilla and suffers the same fate.]] |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/BillyTheCat'': After spending so much time tormenting animals, Billy ends up trapped in a cat's body. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'': Tristan [[spoiler:raped a woman trying to protect the infant Mordred]], and is subsequently [[ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex reincarnated as a woman]]. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': In "Man and Wolf", Deadly Nightshade is injected with the same serum she's been using to turn people into werewolves to motivate her to cure all the others while she's still got her mind left. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'': "The Doggy Flute" sees the title object used by a Chinese wizard to turn rude people into dogs, so Iznogoud buys it to use on the Caliph. He first transforms the wizard into a dog as practice, then returns to the palace, playing the melody all the while so he doesn't forget it and turning everyone he passes into a dog. But when he tries to perform in front of the Caliph, a competing flautist causes him to forget the melody, so he rounds up all the dogs he has transformed and plays the melody that undoes the transformation, one dog at a time (in each case, getting beaten up by the irate victims of his spell) until he finds the wizard -- who delivers LaserGuidedKarma to Iznogoud by grabbing the flute and turning him into a dog. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'': In issue # 30, Spawn turns the leader of TheKlan into a black person, and then the leader gets lynched by the rest of the Klan members. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'': Lucy Lane uses magically-enhanced PoweredArmor to attack Kryptonians, not caring if they are good like ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -her main target- or bad like General Zod. In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', her super-suit gets destroyed during a battle, causing her body to get destroyed and reconstructed as a Kryptonian/human hybrid. This would be awesome, but her father and former allies now hate Lucy or regard her as a guinea pig. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 69 | ** ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' has [[spoiler:Magneto becoming human, with other characters pointing out that he's now been turned into something he considers worthless]]. |
| 70 | ** ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' has a similar thing. [[spoiler: Again it's Magneto, but it's only a mental transformation.]] |
| 71 | ** And Magneto ''again'' in ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' [[spoiler: Turns out that Ultimate Marvel mutants are all genetic experiments caused by a form of Super Soldier Serum. Magneto's as human as most others.]] |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'': In a [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special Issue]][[note]]part of an imprint-wide {{Metaplot}} involving some sort of bigotry-enhancing Phlebotinum[[/note]] of the 90s spinoff ''Bloodpool'', the titular team attends a concert that's attacked by a disgruntled rock band pissed that the club rejected their act in favor of a trio of black songstresses. After their inevitable defeat, the molecule-manipulating hero Fusion uses his powers to make them "black". |
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| 75 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 76 | * ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': This was the plan Oliver Wendell Jones had, upon learning about apartheid in Africa. He invented a pigment-changing camera, which basically temporarily turned white people black. He tried to send Cutter John with it to Washington DC to use it on the representative from that region (who would have been white), but it doesn't pan out because Cutter John never actually makes it there. When the camera is tested on Steve Dallas, it's hinted that he thinks he became black as karma for various racial slurs he's spouted over the years. He then becomes convinced he's in an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' and starts looking for Creator/RodSerling in the bushes. |
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| 79 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Alan Jonah]] performs horrific experiments on {{disposable vagrant}}s, essentially mutating them into mindless, part-Ghidorah zombies. After falling under the severed Ghidorah head's influence, Jonah himself ends up getting turned into the same kind of creature and [[FusionDance sharing in his victims' fate]]. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/AllBecauseOfUncleGary'': Abigail’s transphobic GirlPosse are eventually transformed into boys by Uncle Gary’s ImperfectRitual. |
| 82 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1573240/1/Android-Scam Android Scam]]'': A teenager who is nicknamed ''Android'' due to having a prosthetic leg lies to Jenny about being a robot so that she'll protect him from bullies. Later he gets infected with Cluster nano-probes that consume him from the inside out and turn him into the real deal. While his change frightens him and his family at first, he learns to accept his new biology and is happy to know Jenny, someone who understands what it's like to be a machine. |
| 83 | * ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'': This happens to Verity Carter from the ''Last Train From Oblivion'' side story. She was a member of the Human Liberation Front, who are little more than {{Right Wing Militia Fanatic}}s with a genocidal mindset towards ''all'' ponies, regardless of whether they're [[DefectorFromDecadence PHL defectors]] or not. While [[NoodleIncident it's still not known]] just ''how'' it happened, Verity was turned into a pony but still managed to [[PhlebotinumRebel retain her personality and free will]] (unlike the newfoals, who are completely {{mind rape}}d into becoming unquestioning machines that follow the Solar Tyrant's every command). Naturally, the HLF turned against her for becoming "one of the enemy" (though she doesn't hold it against them that much). Being turned into a pony has given her quite a bit of perspective, even though she still shares her unit's anti-pony views. |
| 84 | * ''[[https://fimfetch.net/story/205501/fall-of-equestria-equestria-stands Fall of Equestria: Equestria Stands]]'': This becomes the ultimate fate of the caribou king Dainn. After invading Equestria and corrupting a majority of the ponies, with all of the mares forced into [[SexSlave sex slavery]], [[spoiler:Tirek]] turns Dainn into a female as punishment for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil his crimes]]. And not just that, but Dainn's turned into a caricature of an idealized female with [[MostCommonSuperpower a massive bosom]] and HartmanHips that just look downright freakish and difficult to handle. Suffice to say it's a perfect cherry to top off the HumiliationConga he suffers through at the story's end. |
| 85 | * ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'': In the series, Francis usually calls his son Peter a fat stinkin' drunk both in playful and insult manners. However, after accidently falling into a vat of lard during a factory tour at the Quahog Lard Factory in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/A_Star_is_Born..._Kind_Of A Star is Born... Kind Of]]", Francis himself ends up becoming as fat as Peter and gets the mockery of the family the same way he did to Peter. He does revert to his original weight at the end, but it still stands. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy'': [[Film/TheHobbit Smaug]] has always considered himself superior to humans and other non-dragons, but, at the end of the first story, his human lover [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]] unwittingly [[HumanityEnsues turns him into a human]] while saving him from certain death. He finds himself vastly less formidable in this new form he loathes, only a select few people know his real identity as the Dragon Dread, and his stolen treasure is back in the hands of dwarves while he can do nothing about it even after he learns to [[{{Weredragon}} shift between his dragon and human forms]]. [[spoiler:Even his first transformation back into a dragon is a full-blown BodyHorror procedure since it's triggered by the draconic urges he still wishes to pursue, and he once again needs to be rescued from certain death by Kathryn so that he can regain his true form.]] |
| 87 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12478228/1/The-Karma-Circle-Invader-WHO The Karma Circle: Invader WHO?]]'': Zim wakes up one day to find that his robots and lab have all disappeared, the wig and contacts of his PaperThinDisguise have seemingly become real hair and eyes, and his [[BodyBackupDrive PAK]] has apparently disappeared but without leaving him dying, which altogether leaves him as essentially the normal human child with a skin condition he's always claimed to be. This is revealed to be the result of [[spoiler: a pair of aliens forcibly transforming him as punishment for his crimes]], and, with Dib and Gaz (the only ones in the know) playing along with the story that Zim being an alien is just a game they played that Zim took too seriously, Zim is left in the position that Dib has long been in. Namely, insisting that he's an alien, but everyone writing him off as crazy. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/KnowsIfYouveBeenNaughty'': Gaz shows some particularly nasty behavior on Christmas Eve, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating up]] a man desperate to buy her new Game Slave off her for his own kid. As a result of this, [[TheKrampus Krampus]] assaults her and abducts her to the North Pole, where she's transformed and brainwashed into a helpful elf. She's then put to work making toys for nicer children for the rest of her life. |
| 89 | %%* ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion'' has this occur via a Jojo style Stand: with Kusakabe gaining the ability to turn things that offend him Japanese. |
| 90 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/1205443/chapters/2462317 Prayers to Broken Stone]]'': Thorin's [[GoldFever lust for gold]] causes him to start slowly transforming into a dragon. He learns later on that this is the result of a greater curse inflicted on his bloodline by an ancient dwarven clan as punishment for his ancestors not helping them in their time of need; since the clan were forced to resort to letting evil forces painfully transform them into dragons to survive, they decided that it would be fitting for the dwarves who refused to help them to suffer the same fate if they came into contact with dragon gold for too long. |
| 91 | * ''WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfTheAbridgedChronicles'': Ryōga hates his curse even more, given that the creators made him Jewish, and pigs are the most commonly-known un-kosher animals. Of course, that doesn't stop him from taking advantage of the benefits of being a cute little piggy. (Human meat ain't kosher either.) |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/StarWarsGalacticFolkloreAndMythology'': An Arcona myth tells of a man who, during a famine, murdered and cannibalized his own son. When he woke up the next day, he found that he had been transformed into a figure of living sugary dough; after losing several body parts to starving neighbors and wild animals, the transformed cannibal ultimately devoured himself. |
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| 95 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 96 | * Variant: In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'', a child who'd taken out his frustrations on ants is reduced to the size of one, and has to learn to live among them. While he only shrank to ant-size rather than becoming one, the karmic elements of this trope still apply. |
| 97 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast,'' a spoiled prince turns an old woman away for being ugly. The woman then reveals herself to be a beautiful enchantress. Since the Prince judged her for being ugly, she turns him into a hideous beast. |
| 98 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': The legend implies [[spoiler:Mor'du wasn't the best person, so his transformation could be considered karmic retribution. If the spell is the same one Merida used, it's clear the spell is a karmic response to the pride/ego of the requester — only upon "mending the bond broken by pride" can the spell be reversed. Since Mor'du killed his brothers, mending the bond wasn't possible for him, so his curse stuck.]] |
| 99 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Kenai obsessively hunts down and kills the bear he believes is responsible for killing his brother Sitka. In doing so, he orphans the bear's cub. So the spirits of his tribe turn ''him'' into a bear and see to it that he has to confront the consequences of his actions. |
| 100 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', bratty Inca Emperor Kuzco arrogantly wants to destroy the home of a llama herder named Pacha to build his own personal waterpark, causing all the farmers to be homeless and put out of business. Later that night at dinner, a botched assassination attempt turns Kuzco into an animal... guess what it is? Though kind of ironic considering his llama form was entirely coincidental. |
| 101 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesAndXenaTheAnimatedMovieTheBattleForMountOlympus'' Artemis transforms Gabrielle into an animal to force Xena to help the gods. Later on, Hera transforms her into an animal, too. |
| 102 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', it was Mr. Incredible's actions that heralded the temporary end of the superhero age because of unwanted collateral damage and injury that drew public disfavor. In an ironic twist, he is given the civilian job of an insurance claims adjuster. |
| 103 | * There's a big transformation, reflecting the townspeople's greed, at the end of Jiri Barta's stop-motion version of ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. |
| 104 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Metaphorically speaking. Skinner hates rats (especially Rémy), but when Linguini inherits the restaurant and replaces him as the new head chef, Skinner gets banned from the restaurant and treated by his former employees as if he were a rat too. |
| 105 | * ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': The Evil Queen's jealousy of Snow White's beauty surpassing her own ultimately leads her to disguise herself as an old peddler with a magic potion. Said-magic potion physically transforms her into an ugly WickedWitch for the remainder of the film. Even though it's implied that the Queen has a spell that could reverse the transformation, she never got the chance because [[DisneyVillainDeath she ends up falling to her death]] when attempting to escape the enraged Dwarfs. Thus she dies as the ugliest of them all, a fitting end for one so obsessed with her looks. |
| 106 | * The 1988 Hungarian cartoon ''Animation/WillyTheSparrow'' is about a boy who's turned into a sparrow by the Sparrow Guardian after she discovers he enjoys shooting sparrows for fun. |
| 107 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolfwalkers}}'', Robyn initially wants to hunt wolves like her father Bill, but she ends up becoming a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wolfwalker]] after accidentally being bitten by one. [[spoiler:Later on, Bill becomes a Wolfwalker as well.]] |
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| 110 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 111 | * In the live-action version ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'': |
| 112 | ** Lorenzini (Udo Kier) is kicked by Donkey!Lampwick into the fountain that causes wayward boys to transform into jackasses, and swallows too much of the water. He leaps off a cliff into the sea, [[spoiler: and becomes Monstro the whale]]. |
| 113 | ** After finally becoming a real boy, Pinocchio (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) tricks Volpe and Felinet (Rob Schneider and Creator/BebeNeuwirth) into drinking from the same fountain. [[spoiler:[[MythologyGag They turn into a Fox and a Cat]].]] |
| 114 | ** While we're on the subject, Pinocchio's wish to become a real boy is only granted by learning to do the right thing and be a good person, essentially being a ''positive'' version of this trope. |
| 115 | * In the French film ''Agathe Cléry'', the eponymous racist white skin care business owner played by Creator/ValerieLemercier suddenly [[ColorMeBlack becomes black]]. |
| 116 | * ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'': Quaritch, the main villain from ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', is [[BackFromTheDead brought back to life]] as a Na'vi Recombinant permanently (since his human body has long decayed), a fitting fate for a ruthless and proud human colonel who looked down upon [[FantasticRacism Na'vi as savages]] and destroyed their homes. And while he does enjoy the benefits that come with the new body, it does force him to see and appreciate what Pandora has to offer beyond his short-sighted perspective. |
| 117 | * ''Film/CleoLeo'': Leo takes advantage of women, treating them as disposable sex toys. He is reincarnated as a woman himself. (twice) |
| 118 | * In ''Film/Constantine2005'', [[spoiler:Gabriel, a KnightTemplar angel who disliked humans and wanted to help the demon Mammon wage war against them, is forced to live as a human for her sins.]] |
| 119 | * The main plot of ''Film/District9'' involves [[spoiler:our asshole protagonist [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Wikus]] being slowly transformed into a "prawn" -- but as he becomes less physically human, he becomes a [[CharacterDevelopment far better man]].]] |
| 120 | * At the end of the second ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' movie, the BigBad reveals that it happened to him years ago: He was turned into a human. Of course, he didn't learn the lesson, since he's still the villain... |
| 121 | * In ''Film/EpicMovie2007'', a parody of [[Film/XMen1 Mystique]] seems to be a rather popular woman in school and makes fun of people like Peter, who is considered a loser. Later, when she decides to seduce and have sex with Peter, due to him turning out to be a king, she lets him request what she should shapeshift before they have sex. Despite starting out with rather normal requests like [[BreastExpansion bigger breasts]] and a larger ass, he ends up demanding [[FanDisservice a monobrow and for her to transform into an obese woman with flabby "grandma arms"]] before he pulls her down to have sex with him, essentially turning her into a rather unattractive ([[ChubbyChaser though not to Peter]]) loser herself. |
| 122 | * In ''Film/TheFlyII'', [[spoiler:Bartok, who was experimenting on a mutated dog that Martin befriended, is forced to absorb Martin's fly DNA and becomes a... thing. Then we see it being kept in the same pit the dog was kept in.]] |
| 123 | * ''Film/{{Freaked}}'': [[spoiler:The entire board of the EES (Everything Except Shoes) Corporation are sprayed with the mutation-causing fertilizer they wanted to use on every person in the world, and gets turned into a single giant mutant fleshy shoe. Yes, it's [[QuirkyWork that kind]] of movie.]] |
| 124 | * In ''Film/{{Freaks}}'', [[spoiler:Cleopatra, the beautiful trapeze artist, attempts to seduce one of the titular freaks for his money and murder him. His fellow sideshow performers mutilate her into a "Chicken Woman" as punishment, making her one of the "disgusting, slimy freaks" she had sneered at]]. |
| 125 | * [[spoiler:Destro]] from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''. [[spoiler: After being badly burned, he was forced to have a face of metal, just like his ancestor. Though this is nanotech metal and not actual metal.]] |
| 126 | * The film ''Film/GoodbyeCharlie'' has a womanizing male chauvinist die and come back as a woman. |
| 127 | * The film ''Film/TheHotChick'' has the AlphaBitch main character make fun of a shabby-looking guy (who turns out to be a criminal), only to find herself [[FreakyFridayFlip body-swapped]] with him. |
| 128 | %%* The entire course of ''Film/TheHumanCondition'' is spent dehumanizing Kaji into [[YouAreWhatYouHate what he loathes.]] |
| 129 | * The teenagers in ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' but particularly Bethany. Bethany is a self-centered popular girl who primarily only cares about her looks. When she's sucked into the game she's transformed into an overweight, middle-aged man (in the form of Creator/JackBlack). |
| 130 | * The Creator/PedroAlmodovar thriller ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' is about this trope; [[spoiler: a surgeon kidnaps his daughter's rapist (the daughter was DrivenToSuicide by that) and surgically turns him into '' a physical double of his dead wife''.]] |
| 131 | * In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', The Chairman wants the Blue Monkey diamond, a diamond that can turn people into monkeys, to change the entire world into monkeys to have them work as [=ACME=] slaves. Guess what he is turned into in the end. |
| 132 | * In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', Debbie Stevens is a tough girl with a fear of insects. [[spoiler:Freddy kills her by trapping her in a roach motel, turning her into a cockroach, and crushing her]]. |
| 133 | * From ''Film/NineLives2016'': Tom, the main character, hates cats. Guess what he turns into? |
| 134 | -->'''Perkins:''' It's the not the end of the world, Tom. You're a cat.\ |
| 135 | '''Tom:''' But I hate cats.\ |
| 136 | '''Perkins:''' [[LampshadeHanging That's what makes this so perfect.]] |
| 137 | * In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Davy Jones abandoned his duty to guide lost souls as captain of the Flying Dutchman. As a result, his body gradually transformed from a normal man to a blend of crab and octopus, as did [[FisherKing his ship and crew]]. |
| 138 | * ''Film/{{Sam}}'': After being rude and disrespectful about women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, HeManWomanHater Sam wakes up the next morning and discovers that he has become a woman. |
| 139 | * ''Film/TheSexTrip'': Eddie literally wrote the book on how to manipulate and take advantage of women, then is transformed into a woman himself. |
| 140 | * ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'''s notorious plot twist is a DoubleSubversion. [[spoiler:Like an inverted ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}'', workers of the evil corporation [[EvilInc WorryFree]] are little more than overworked slaves, eventually transforming into literal workhorses called equisapiens. The CorruptCorporateExecutive tries to convince the protagonist Cassius "Cash" Green to represent them as a sort of equisapien Martin Luther King Jr. after he abandoned his friends and fellow workers to climb up the corporate ladder. However, he refuses to go with this plan and instead frees the equisapiens, thus avoiding the transformation...until the very end of the movie where the transformation suddenly begins when everything seemed calm and he was having sex with his girlfriend. Aside from the main story dealing Cash karma in this way, there's also a secondary aspect where, upon meeting the equisapiens, he talks to them in a condescending, slow tone, implying he subconsciously sees them as less than human. This causes the equisapiens to tell him to knock it off because they can still speak and hear normally. Becoming an equisapien himself makes Cash more sympathetic to their condition and TheStinger has him lead a raid on their boss's home.]] |
| 141 | * ''Superbabies: Film/BabyGeniuses 2'' has a machine that transforms a person into their true form. Bill Biscane uses it [[spoiler: and turns into a baby, the thing he hated the most.]] |
| 142 | %%* This is how the formula from ''Film/SwampThing'' is said to work. |
| 143 | * ''Film/Switch1991'': Steve disliked women in general and took avantage of them, only to be transformed into one himself. |
| 144 | * ''Film/TradingPlaces'': Louis Winthorpe, a snobby blue blood investment banker, gets turned into a poor man through a bet by his employers, the Duke Brothers. [[spoiler:When he finds out about it from Billy Ray Valentine, who was also being manipulated]], Winthorpe initially plans for a shooting spree [[spoiler: until Billy Ray tells him "the best way you hurt rich people is [[RichesToRags by turning them into poor people]]." So instead, they trick the Duke Brothers into making bad investments [[HoistByHisOwnPetard through their own plan]], which drives the Dukes into bankruptcy]]. |
| 145 | * In the first segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', William Connor, after making hateful racial remarks in a bar towards Jews, African-Americans, and Asians is transformed into a Jew, African-American, and Vietnamese person. (He doesn't actually transform and the same actor appears throughout, but he appears as minorities to his different tormentors.) He then learns what it is like to be persecuted. |
| 146 | * This is the central premise of ''Film/WatermelonMan'', which is unusual in that the actor playing the white bigot was Godfrey Cambridge, a black actor, made up to look white. |
| 147 | * Since the titular genie of ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' takes the [[JerkassGenie jerkass]] title and cranks it until the dial falls off, this is his favorite form of ForcedTransformation, because it makes it suck that much more. One wish that he granted was an extremely vain sales clerk who wanted to be young and beautiful forever and ended up a mannequin. [[AndIMustScream Who was still completely sentient.]] |
| 148 | * It is implied in TheMovie of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' that Giselle's transformation into a bird was a punishment for her misusing her powers. |
| 149 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' |
| 150 | ** In ''Film/XMen1'' Senator Kelly hates mutants, but [[spoiler:is transformed by Magneto into one. The transformation ultimately kills him. Branching off of that, Magneto's master plan for this film is to transform the human dignitaries at a summit on Ellis Island to make them identify more with mutants]]. |
| 151 | ** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', [[spoiler:this is turned around on Magneto, with the humans developing a "cure" and Magneto being robbed of his mutant powers. Though the final scene reveals that the cure is already starting to fail, as he's able to make a metal chess piece move slightly]]. |
| 152 | ** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Hank's transformation into Beast is tragic, but he brought it on himself. He makes it a little more karmic by being a complete asshole to Raven just before using it. She tells him he's perfect just the way he is and doesn't need the "cure," and he responds with: |
| 153 | --->'''Hank''': It behooves me to tell you that even if we save the world tomorrow, and mutants are accepted into society, my feet and your natural blue form will never be deemed beautiful.\ |
| 154 | ''(Raven shifts back to her human-looking morph.)''\ |
| 155 | '''Hank''': You look beautiful ''now.'' |
| 156 | ::: Bonus points for his mutation being relatively minor before it becomes much more pronounced after taking the serum. It doesn't help that [[ProfessorGuineaPig he uses it on himself as the first test subject, without even considering that it might turn out wrong]]. Although to be fair, it's not exactly like there's a big potential pool of test subjects for something like this. |
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| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TrappedInTheCircusOfFear'' features an evil ringmistress who runs a CircusOfFear (like the title says), who delights in abducting children and turning them into sideshow freaks to be added to her collection. In one of the good endings, you managed to steal her magical amulet which grants her transformation powers, and turns ''her'' into a chimpanzee. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 164 | * In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl:'' ''The Lost Colony'', Demon warlord Leon Abbot, a firm believer in MightMakesRight, has his mind transferred into the body of a guinea pig. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'': Literally, in this case. There once lived a monk who liked to insult people by calling them things like "dog-head", "horse-head", "monkey-head" and so on when they made a mistake. When he died, his life’s accumulation of karma from these insults caused him to come back as a monstrous fish with a hundred animal heads. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': |
| 167 | ** In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', Eustace is changed into a dragon. The narration justifies this by stating that it was because he was resting on a dragon's hoard, thinking dragonish thoughts. He gets better thanks to Aslan. Creator/CSLewis was drawing on Norse mythology for that one -- Fafnir the dragon, formerly a man or dwarf, and later slain by Sigurd. |
| 168 | ** Rabadash the Ridiculous, who was turned into a donkey by Aslan. He stays human as long as he's in his capital, which forces him to abandon his dreams of conquest and become a ReasonableAuthorityFigure instead. |
| 169 | * A couple of examples in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' -- Mr. Pounder, the ratcatcher in ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', gets reincarnated as a rat, for example. Not to mention the New Firm in ''Literature/TheTruth''. [[spoiler:Mr. Pin gets reincarnated on a potato after killing his partner to save himself from a fire he started, with the explanation, "I wasn't born to fry!" Said potato gets fried.]] It makes more sense when you read it. |
| 170 | * The 1891 novel ''Doctor Huguet'' by Ignatius L. Donnelly has the title character, an affluent white Southerner, wake up one morning to find he's been turned into a Negro called Sam Johnsing. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/DoubleStar'' is about a Martian-phobic guy who becomes the body double [[spoiler:and later, permanent replacement after complications of a kidnapping/poisoning]] for an Earthling diplomat. |
| 172 | * In ''Empire State'' by Colin Bateman, the Klansman villain disguises himself as a black man, but gets struck by lightning and the makeup gets fused to his skin. |
| 173 | * Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'': |
| 174 | ** In ''Dealing With Dragons'', the dragon Woraug [[spoiler:spontaneously turns into a toad after his plans to steal the throne by conspiring with wizards fall apart. Kazul explains that that's what happens when a dragon stops acting like a dragon.]] |
| 175 | ** In ''Calling on Dragons'', the rather ridiculous Arona Vamist, who had made a career out of chastising the magically-inclined for not being "traditional" enough, was turned into a seven-foot, blue, perpetually hovering donkey with wings, an accumulated ForcedTransformation picked up by a [[TooDumbToLive rather stupid]] rabbit named Killer the heroes had been traveling with. |
| 176 | * In the stage play ''Literature/GoodbyeCharlie'', Charlie had a low opinion of women, seeing them as objects, yet is transformed into a woman himself. |
| 177 | * [[AllThereInTheManual An online supplement]] to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us a RevengeByProxy example. After Lyall Lupin describes werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death," the werewolf Fenrir Greyback--an infamously savage FullyEmbracedFiend--bites Lyall's ''son'' Remus, infecting the poor boy with TheVirus. The silver lining is that raising a werewolf leads Lyall to change his views and to [[SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne care for his son as best he can]]. This supportive upbringing leads Remus to grow into the lycanthropic version of a TokenHeroicOrc. |
| 178 | * In the [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz book]] ''The Lost Princess of Oz'', Ugu the Shoemaker attempts to conquer Oz, and Dorothy punishes him by transforming him into a dove. She later offers to return him to normal, but by then he prefers his new form. |
| 179 | * In Creator/RoaldDahl's ''The Magic Finger'', a family of hunting enthusiasts grow wings, shrink to the size of small birds, and are forced to live in a nest in a tree while a family of anthropomorphic ducks move into their house. |
| 180 | * Inverted by the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biologists]] in Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/TheMoreauFactor'' (note the title) who got transformed into {{Half Human Hybrid}}s using their own technology ''before'' their collective FaceHeelTurn. Their shady employers' attempt to keep them under permanent control by making them unable to leave ended up backfiring spectacularly by giving them nothing to lose instead. |
| 181 | * ''My Lady Jane'' features this twice; the prologue briefly recounts an alternate history of England in which King Henry VIII repealed many laws persecuting Eðians--people with the [[{{Animorphism}} hereditary ability to turn into animals]]--after transforming into a lion in front of his entire court. His daughter Mary openly despises Eðians in spite of her own heritage. After maneuvering herself onto the throne, her first act is to have her cousin Jane and Jane's husband--both Eðians--arrested and sentenced to burning at the stake. When she's dethroned at the climax, however, she flies into a rage and transforms into [[StubbornMule an ass]], revealing that she had latent Eðian abilities all along. It's noted that, unlike most Eðians, she never figured out how to change back. |
| 182 | * This was the rationale behind Pleasure Island turning children into donkeys in ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''. The lesson was that children who ignore their responsibility to education, virtue, and work will grow into "jackasses" whose only options force them into manual labor for the rest of their life. |
| 183 | * Creator/OscarWilde's short story ''The Star Child'' features a very beautiful but vain child who insults and turns away a beggar woman for her ugliness, calling her an adder and a toad. The next day, he discovers that he's transformed into an ugly creature resembling an adder and a toad. |
| 184 | * In ''Literature/SwanSong'', after a nuclear war many survivors wind up with a condition called Job's Mask, where growths overtake their face where they were injured in the bombings. Once these growths fall off, they leave the person more attractive than they were before -- if they're good people. The Job's Mask is said to bring forward the "true face", meaning the bad guys who get them wind up hideous (and in some cases monstrous) when they fall off. |
| 185 | * Features in Mercedes Lackey's ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'', including one instance where a jackass Prince becomes... well, guess. |
| 186 | * In ''Literature/TheTowerAndTheFox'' Calatians, the setting's magically-created BeastMen, are frequent targets of FantasticRacism by humans. In the second book, [[spoiler: Farley]], one of the more violent bigots, loses control of a demon that transforms him into a Calatian, specifically a marmot. |
| 187 | * In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' |
| 188 | ** [[spoiler: Forsaken Balthamel was quite the womanizer. When he has to resurrected later, he is brought back with the new name of Aran'gar. Oh, and he's also now a beautiful woman]] |
| 189 | ** Also for [[spoiler: Graendal. She's one of the beautiful women in the world and prides herself on it. After being killed for her repeated failures and betrayals, she is brought back as a hideous old woman.]] |
| 190 | * In ''Literature/TheWonderfulAdventuresOfNils'', a ''tomte'' (a small magical creature in Swedish folklore resembling a gnome or an elf) turns Nils into a small ''tomte'' who understands animal talk, so that he can learn a lesson to be more selfless and respectful toward others, especially animals. |
| 191 | * Creator/TheodoreRCogswell's "Literature/YouKnowWillie": Willie is a local Klan leader who's just been acquitted of murdering a black man, and a black witch has cursed him, saying that the victim will come back at the first full moon. He stays up with his friends on that night, and they convince him to go to sleep cause they're on watch. He does, and come the moon, the victim does come back... in the form of Willie physically turning into him...while he's in bed with his white wife, and his armed Klan buddies are just downstairs. [[KarmicDeath They kill the invading black man]]. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 195 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' |
| 196 | ** After [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Raina]]]] finally induces her [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening terrigenesis]], she's horrified to discover that her power, rather than a beautiful and useful ability, involves her transformation into a spike-covered monster. When she confronts Cal/Mr. Hyde for answers, he lampshades this trope and rather bluntly tells Raina that she got exactly what she deserved. |
| 197 | ** Likewise, in Season 4, Shockley, a key member of a group who despises Inhumans, believes a senator might be one because her brother was. He thus breaks a Terrigen crystal in front of them...only for ''Shockley'' to be the one to transform into an Inhuman. The senator actually laughs about it...[[spoiler: until it turns out Shockley's power is to transform himself into a living bomb who blows the senator to pieces.]] |
| 198 | * In the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode "The Tale of the Hunted", an EgomaniacHunter gets turned into a wolf and hunted down by her own father (who was unaware of the transformation and thought the "wolf" had killed her). She manages to survive and get changed back, with a newfound respect for life and nature. |
| 199 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 200 | ** Cordelia, after her boyfriend Xander made out with Willow ([[NowOrNeverKiss they were in a near-death situation]]), makes an impulsive wish which summons Anya, a demon who represents all scorned women and grants wishes. Anya hates men, everything about men, and appears to Cordelia in the form of a teenage girl. The wish, much to Cordelia's horror, changes history and basically causes everything to go hell (which delights Anya). After the wish is undone, Anya loses her powers and is permanently trapped in the form of a teenager, with all that comes with it. Including liking boys, no matter how hard she tries to resist. |
| 201 | ** During a WhatDoTheyFearEpisode in Season 1, Buffy is buried alive by the Master and transformed into a vampire. It only lasts for the episode. The fear of becoming a vampire was actually ''Giles''' worry of what may become of his Slayer, but it still counts, since she spends her nights slaughtering them. |
| 202 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 203 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]], [[spoiler:an anti-evolutionist Victorian clergyman is turned into a missing link-style apeman (complete with a banana). Similarly, Smith gets devolved by Control at the end.]] |
| 204 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]], the supremacist [[spoiler:Daleks have resorted to using the DNA of hated humans in order to keep their species surviving.]] |
| 205 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]], [[spoiler:Mr. Halpen, the head of the company which enslaves and lobotomizes the Ood, is himself turned into one.]] |
| 206 | ** The [[ArchEnemy Master's]] Yana and Harold Saxon incarnations were blatantly sexist and disparaging towards women; the latter eventually [[TheNthDoctor regenerates]] [[GenderBender into a woman]], dubbed as "Missy". The trope is subverted, however, as Missy has no issues with being a woman, and happily identifies as one. |
| 207 | * A humorous example in an episode of ''Series/FullHouse'' was when Uncle Jesse refused to have any part in Michelle's circus-themed birthday party because he hates clowns. Then he accidentally gets himself and Michelle locked in a service station so that she misses her party, and is forced to cheer her up by putting a funnel on his head to resemble a pointy hat and applying black grease to his nose and cheeks to make himself look like a (dirty) clown. Ultimately a subversion, since the experience doesn't encourage Jesse to take a more positive view toward clowns. |
| 208 | -->'''Michelle:''' Uncle Jesse was a clown!\ |
| 209 | '''Danny:''' Uncle Jesse was a clown? Jess, you hate clowns!\ |
| 210 | '''Jesse:''' More than ever. |
| 211 | * ''Series/GoodbyeCharlie'': Charlie had a low opinion of women, seeing them as objects, yet is transformed into a woman himself. |
| 212 | * ''Series/Goosebumps1995'': |
| 213 | ** "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E1BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Be Careful What You Wish For]]" has a teen dealing with a LiteralGenie situation. She has three wishes, but at the end, she gives up and wishes someone else had found the wish-granting Gypsy. Which in turn is the local AlphaBitch who wishes to be beautiful and adored forever. In which she turns into a statue in the middle of the park, with people commenting on her beauty. |
| 214 | ** In "[[Recap/Goosebumps1995S3E19E20E21Chillogy Chillogy]]", Jessica uses her lemonade stand in Karlsville to try to scam the townsfolk by holding back her supply to drive up the demand. When this is revealed and she's called a "greedy little pig", she turns into a [[PigMan Pig Girl]]. |
| 215 | * A racist in one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has his skin stained darker and is fed watermelon by the doctors, who say it's because his blood transfusion came from a black man. |
| 216 | * While the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' team attempts to free an anti-apartheid resistance leader in the episode "Kitara", they use drugs to temporarily turn a white supremacist African governor's skin black, and more drugs to give him false memories of a black grandfather. Said governor is immediately suspected to actually be the resistance leader, and the team springs the real one during this diversion. |
| 217 | * ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': Mork was inflicting this punishment on a group of racists who had been terrorising Mindy because she's Polish. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR6PcwZtB0 view here]] |
| 218 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': |
| 219 | ** The episode "Tribunal" has one of the best examples. An old Nazi war criminal who escaped justice is taken as an old man back through time and put in the camp he ran, now in the outfit of a prisoner. Combining this with KarmicDeath he is then shortly executed by his past self as just another worthless Jew. |
| 220 | ** The episode "The Grell" has a guy who was racist against aliens turned into one. He learns his lesson and treats them with compassion in the end. |
| 221 | * In an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Sabrina turns [[AlphaBitch Libby]] into a geek. At first, it seems to work, as Libby's old GirlPosse turns on her and she has nowhere to go but the other geeks. Then it backfires spectacularly, as Libby leads ''them'' [[FullCircleRevolution to rule the school with an iron fist]] and mercilessly mock other students for not being geeky enough. |
| 222 | * It happens to the Omnipotent Q in a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode when he is punished by being turned into a human. Admittedly, it was his own choice. (Although he had only "a split second" to decide, that ''could'' be forever to a Q.) Nor does Q ''hate'' humans. He certainly, however, did need to understand them a little better. Conveniently, Q being turned human results in him appearing exactly as he did before. |
| 223 | * In ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' Janeway and Seven of Nine are abducted by an alien whose race was destroyed by the Borg. In revenge against the crew for their EnemyMine situation with the Borg a while back, he plans to direct them into Borg space so they'll all be assimilated. Janeway and Seven escape, but the alien does not. |
| 224 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 225 | ** Inverted. At the end of the show, when the tide of the war finally turned against the Dominion, the disease affecting the Changelings finally destroys the female shapeshifter's ability to shapeshift, locking her into a single form. Not only does she have to witness the defeat of everything her people stood for, but she has to do it in the form of the creature her people most loath: a solid. |
| 226 | ** Inverted earlier in the show: other Changelings lock Odo in a human form because he cared ''too much'' about humans. |
| 227 | * In a Season 3 episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam and Dean are being chased by Gordon Walker, a WellIntentionedExtremist hunter who specializes in vampires, but also hunts demons. Gordon wants to kill Sam to stop him from leading a demon army. Sam and Dean happen to be hunting vampires in that episode, and [[spoiler:Gordon gets kidnapped and turned into a vampire, with Sam decapitating him at the end of the episode. Interestingly, after he transformed, Gordon planned to allow himself to be killed after killing Sam]]. |
| 228 | * In ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', vegetarian Chelsea feels guilty after accidentally eating a hamburger and starts wearing a button with a cow's face on it, Raven (whose burger it was that Chelsea ate), tells Chelsea she's overreacting. However, they end up becoming what they eat, as the button disrupts a magic spell and starts turning them into cows. |
| 229 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' |
| 230 | ** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E15AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]" has a GloryHound soldier in the Pacific Front during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who repulses his battle-weary mates by acting like a BloodKnight PsychoForHire. The other soldiers tell him that [[NotSoDifferentRemark by this point the enemy isn't so different]] (and probably much worse off), to no avail. Later, Glory Hound discovers that he's transformed into a Japanese soldier, and is sickened when his own bloodthirsty words are spat back at him by his "commander". Naturally, it was AllJustADream. |
| 231 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E25TheMasks The Masks]]", a dying millionaire makes his greedy, ungrateful relatives wear grotesque masks that embody their worst traits as [[OnOneCondition a condition of his will]], and makes them keep the masks on until midnight. WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve the relatives have earned their fortune, but also find that their faces have been permanently warped into the semblance of the masks their were wearing. |
| 232 | * At the end of ''Series/WandaVision'', this is how Wanda defeats the BigBad: by [[spoiler:forcing her to become Agnes the NosyNeighbor, the cover identity she took on within Westview as she attempted to steal Wanda's power, for real]]. Given [[AndIMustScream how everybody else in Westview reacted]] to Wanda once they were freed from her spell, this is portrayed as a FateWorseThanDeath, and the villain knows it. |
| 233 | * In one ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', we had a look into the dreams of Colin Mochrie. After Creator/GregProops did a skit involving him massaging his hair, Colin looked upset since this is the umpteenth time he's been the subject of a bald joke. Ryan has the next one be of himself, Wayne and Greg, bald and screaming. |
| 234 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': In "Beware Wolf", Justin starts dating a werewolf girl he met on Wiz-Face and repeatedly ignores his family's warnings about the dangers of trusting people he meets online. It wasn't until he kissed her and became a werewolf himself that he realized his family was right all along. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 238 | * Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/{{Metamorphoses}}'' is an entire book of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology mythological]] Greco-Roman fables devoted to transformation stories, many of them karmic in nature--making this trope OlderThanFeudalism. |
| 239 | ** Lycaon was a tyrannical and cannibalistic king of Arcadia who tested the divinity of a disguised Zeus by serving him human flesh. Zeus turned him into a wolf, but Lycaon retained some of his human features. His name is the origin of the word [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthrope]]. |
| 240 | ** Actaeon was a hunter who had the extreme misfortune of [[NakedFirstImpression coming across Artemis bathing and ogled her]]. She [[ForcedTransformation turned him into a stag]] [[DisproportionateRetribution so his own hounds would tear him apart]]. |
| 241 | ** There's also the story of the prophet Tiresias, whom the gods [[GenderBender transformed into a woman]] for killing a copulating female snake (supposedly because he found the act of mating repulsive). An additional element, not mentioned by Ovid, makes the punishment especially karmic: during the seven years he spent as a woman (before he found a way of reversing the process), Tiresias became a well-renowned prostitute. |
| 242 | * The title ''Metamorphoses'' was also used a few centuries later by Antoninus Liberalis for a collection of story summaries. It doesn't just have the same theme of transformation as Ovid's same-named work, many are effectively {{Compressed Adaptation}}s of the same stories with different character names, though often remixed in ways not depicted in any other known source. For instance, Actaeon's [[{{expy}} equivalent]] is a Cretan boy named Siproites, who saw Artemis' naked body and was subsequently [[GenderBender gender bent]] into a girl, instead of being killed. |
| 243 | * A spectacular case of Karmic Transformation happens in Myth/CelticMythology to Gilfaethwy and his brother Gwydion after they rape their Uncle Math Mathonwy's handmaiden, [[TooDumbToLive somehow forgetting their uncle is a powerful wizard]]. After Math marries his handmaiden to preserve her honor, he punishes his nephews thusly: They're transformed into a [[GenderBender breeding]] [[BrotherSisterIncest couple]] of three different animals (deer, boar, and wolves) for a year each. The resulting child of each species are adopted and turned into humans by Math and his wife. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 247 | * Balrasht the forest giant gets hit by this in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods''. In order to punish him for trying to break into the house of someone smaller than him, Chandrathar the wizard curses Balrasht to be incredibly small. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 251 | * In the musical ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' a racist white senator is turned black. Thanks to laws penned by himself, he finds he has "no rights in this state -- not even the right to stay black. Interestingly, the transformation doesn't do much to improve his racist views. A leprechaun notices this and uses magic to make him more open-minded. While this does make him much more tolerant, the fact that he's black means he doesn't have the power to defend the people of Rainbow Valley anymore. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 255 | * Absolutely endemic to ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}''. |
| 256 | ** One of the sample paths of corruption for misbehaving player characters was to transform from a thuggish human into a towering ogre, at which point your character has fallen so far into corruption the DM takes him away from you. |
| 257 | ** Then you have ''Twisting'' in The Carnival, where unprotected members eventually get physically warped to reflect their inner nature (for example a very shy girl becomes transparent, and an agent for a long-extending secret police has her arms replaced with tentacles). Can be CursedWithAwesome or BlessedWithSuck depending on the specific twisting. |
| 258 | ** Alfred Timothy, the natural-born werewolf darklord of Verbrek, is described in the Arthaus 3E products as having been cursed to revert to his human form if he ever lets himself get carried away by his ferocious lupine passions. A frail, wimpy-looking human form, of exactly the sort his lycanthropic followers would consider an easy kill. |
| 259 | * ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' has a term for this: Cleopatras (see Film entry above). Cleopatras are former models, movie stars, or just insufferably vain people who are targeted and embraced into the [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu clan]] for [[ForTheEvulz no good reason than because they]] ''really'' like to BreakTheHaughty. This goes all the way back to the Clan's founder. According to Kindred legend, Absimiliard was a hunter who was chosen by his sire both for his incredible prowess and unearthly beauty. Depending on the version of the story, he killed her either because the Embrace left him with a minor scar that would never heal, or because becoming a vampire alienated him from nature. Caine's response to this was to turn him into an unearthly wretch. |
| 260 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' the [[EldritchAbomination qlippoth]] hate demons, who have taken control of the Abyss from them, and mortal life, because their sins spawn demons, and seek to destroy both. Several have been transformed into demons themselves; Dagon was a mindless beast who devoured so much mortal and demon life it infected his essence, and while immensely evil has given up his vendetta and enjoys his new intelligence, while Cyth-V'sug set himself up as a god to increase his power but found the desires of his mortal worshippers changing him, and now hates [[BoomerangBigot mortals, demons, and himself]]. Jubilex was also mindless but didn't gain a mind as a result of his transformation, and may not have noticed it happened. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 264 | * ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': |
| 265 | ** Pridak is a quintessential example. As an arrogant would-be-conqueror who is essentially the epitome of {{Pride}}, he couldn't understand how "lesser beings" could live with hideous appearances... and, of course, gets transformed into a monstrous shark-like creature after being defeated in his conquest attempt and banished to the Pit when the prison is destroyed and the mutagenic water transforms him and his fellow prisoners. He repeatedly mentions he would have preferred to die on that day, but he makes the most of it by commanding armies of sharks and being a "king of the sea". |
| 266 | ** The character Nidhiki was a guy who betrayed his fellow heroes and suffered from insectophobia. He defected to a band of mercenaries who were less than merry and was mutated into an insectoid monster shortly thereafter to make sure he would never be able to leave and become a hero elsewhere. The transformation still left him a very large, physically strong beast with all his previous intelligence and a grudge against his old comrades; however, it was why they kept him as a member and didn't just kill him there. |
| 267 | ** Metus counts, too. After betraying his own people to the enemy, he got transformed into what he really was (according to Mata Nui): a snake. Why they still let him roam freely a mystery, though, as he still proved to be a threat this way. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 271 | * In the ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'' Saladin campaign, the narrator remarks that the Crusaders invaded the Holy Land with stories that the Saracens were a bloodthirsty and ferocious people. At the beginning of the campaign the Saracen leaders, particularly Saladin are shown as being wise, cultured, and benevolent. By the end of the campaign, they have become as violent and bloodthirsty as the crusaders they defended against. May also be ''TruthInTelevision'' depending on your view of the crusades. |
| 272 | * Most of the bosses fought in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' were members of the Healing Church who succumbed to [[MysticalPlague the Scourge of Beasts]] after imbibing Old Blood and transformed into horrifying monsters as a result. [[spoiler: Considering that the scourge was spread in their attempts to communicate with, and ascend to the level of, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s they definitely deserve it.]] |
| 273 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': |
| 274 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'': Deathpal/Hackrobat. After transforming all of the humans in Orph/L'Arca to animals (and vice versa), he himself becomes human due to being drained of his power. He's reduced to using his scary voice to intimidate other monsters, because if they saw him they would attack him. He decides to make it up to Ruff for cursing him earlier by changing him back into a wolf, but only succeeds in letting him talk just like a human...but as it turned out, he prefers his new human form. |
| 275 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestBuilders'' tells what would have happened should the Hero from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' have [[WeCanRuleTogether joined the Dragonlord in exchange for half the world]]: After inevitably being betrayed, the Hero holed himself up in his consolation prize of a pitiable small fortress labeled "[[ExactWords Half the World]]", whereupon he progressively [[GoMadFromTheIsolation became further and further mad]] until the time the Builder arrived, at which point he was a gibbering lunatic who believed he really did rule the world. The transformation part comes in with how he'd lived that long: over time, he became a literal monster; specifically a Hoodie in a regal mantle. |
| 276 | * In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series's backstory, Jyggalag, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[ControlFreak Order]], grew powerful in [[TimeOfMyths a time]] before recorded history. The other Daedric Princes, fearful and jealous of his growing power, came together and cursed him into [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis becoming his own antithesis]]: Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of [[MadGod Madness]]. At the end of every Era, Jyggalag is able to [[EternalRecurrence return to his true form in an event known as the Greymarch]]. During this time, he retakes and destroys the Shivering Isles (his old [[EldritchLocation realm]], now Sheogorath's), only to return to the form of Sheogorath at the end. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s ''Shivering Isles'' expansion, Jyggalag [[spoiler:devises a plan to finally break this ViciousCycle while passing the [[AGodIsYou mantle of Sheogorath]] onto the [[PlayerCharacter Champion of Cyrodiil]]]]. |
| 277 | * The animatronics in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' are implied via {{Easter Egg}}s to be [[spoiler:haunted by children whom a man murdered in the establishment]]. Come [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 the third game]], and it's shown that [[spoiler:said murderer later received a KarmicDeath via an animatronic/costume hybrid, and as Springtrap he haunts it exactly like his victims had done]]. |
| 278 | * In ''Heroes Of Incredible Tales'', we have the story of Spider Queen Yulla. When she was a human, she would be unfaithful with the husbands she was with, even when one of them begged her not to leave him. Since this angered her husbands, she decided to murder them so she could continue looking for more husbands. Unfortunately, she encounters a seraphim who curses her into a spider hybrid for betraying him, deciding if she was going to act like a black widow she was going to live like one as well. |
| 279 | * [[spoiler:Bertrand]] in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' activated the Ray Sphere in his backstory, killing hundreds of people in the process, in the hopes of awakening his Conduit powers. He got the power to uncontrollably turn into maggots. |
| 280 | * ''VideoGame/Jak3'' |
| 281 | ** Count Veger spends half his screen time getting annoyed at Daxter, an Ottsel. [[spoiler:He eventually succeeds in his goal of becoming a Precursor... and almost immediately learns that Precursors are Ottsels.]] |
| 282 | ** At the end of the game, Daxter's girlfriend Tess makes an idle wish, and the Precursors decide to grant it in a way that turns ''her'' into an Ottsel as well. As this removes the species barrier between the two, it's seen as ''positive'' karma, and everyone's happy with it. |
| 283 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', most residents of the Dark world take on monstrous forms. Most of them went there to search for the Triforce. The magic of the Dark World changes one's outer appearance to match what is in their hearts. So, their monstrous forms reflect their selfish greed. |
| 284 | * [[spoiler:Gengar]] was a human who transformed into a Pokémon after abandoning their Gardevoir in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon''. |
| 285 | * In the first ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' game if you harm the spitting plants or the stag, the dryad will turn you into one. |
| 286 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'', the events of the Zogre Flesh Eaters quest involve an ogre burial ground being overrun by zombie ogres. Why? Because a wizard who is a member of Humans Against Monsters (H.A.M.) caused it to happen. Once you get evidence that Sithik did it, the secretary of the Wizard's Guild gives you a potion to lace Sithik's drink with in order to get him to tell you how to undo the necromancy. [[FantasticRacism Sithik hates ogres]]. Guess what the potion does. |
| 287 | * Wander spends the entirety of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' hunting down and [[MookHorrorShow murdering]] the titular [[{{Kaiju}} Colossi]], despite them being simple animals not bothering anyone, in order to fulfill his end of a DealWithTheDevil to revive his lover. [[spoiler:At the end, he gets [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the devil in question as part of the bargain and is [[PerspectiveFlip transformed into a giant monster fighting for its life against small but relentless foes]].]] |
| 288 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Tradewinds}} Caravans'', one of the possible characters you can unlock to play as is a dragon known for terrorizing caravans. His story starts when the gods of karma turn him into a camel -- a common caravan animal -- to teach him some humility, and only when he acquires enough good karma can he be changed back. |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}}'' [[spoiler:The {{jerkass}} scientists [[WhoWantsToLiveForever get to live forever, just like they wanted]] and [[BlobMonster have the indestructible bodies they wanted]]. It's implied that they got to keep their sentience, but all they can really do is manage a bizarre screaming sound. So, they ''do'' get to scream. Yay! Well, it turns out that inflicting horrible mental trauma on godlike beings you don't understand is a bad idea. Who knew?]] |
| 290 | * Featured in ''Wonder Boy In Monster World: The Dragon's Trap'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem (rebranded ''Dragon's Curse'' when it was ported to the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16). After [[WarmUpBoss slaying a dragon]] in the game's [[NoobCave opening level]], the main character is cursed by being transformed into a fire-breathing reptile himself. The player spends the ''entire game'' searching for an artifact to reverse the transformation, with the hero transformed into a different creature after each successive boss is defeated. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 292 | ** Most of the [[KnightTemplar Scarlet Crusade]] in the ''Cataclysm'' expansion. After the events of the Cataclysm, it is revealed that [[spoiler: in the ruined city of Stratholme, the dreadlord demon Balnazzar, [[NotQuiteDead thought to have been defeated by adventurers]], killed all the Scarlet Crusaders in the city, and turned all of them undead. A similar fate has befallen the Scarlets in nearby Tyr's Hand.]] |
| 293 | ** There is also a daily quest for the Knights of The Ebon Blade, in which you are supposed to kill some Scarlet Crusade members and then turn them into ghouls. |
| 294 | ** A lot of Gilneans were turned into worgen when trying to fend them off. |
| 295 | ** Sylvanas is also raising her enemies as undead; some of them, like Lord Godfrey, are not too happy about this. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 299 | * Happens to the EgomaniacHunter in the short animated film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMlKeT0J27Y Blackface]]'', with a hint of StableTimeLoop at the end. |
| 300 | * The animated short film ''[[https://vimeo.com/106393407 The Werepig]]'' has two American tourists visiting Spain getting kicked out of the tour bus for their unhygienic and crass behavior. They seek refuge from an old couple running a meat farm, only for one to realize too late that the couple [[spoiler: delves in dark magic and their pigs' bites turn people into pigs themselves by nightfall ([[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent as the title suggests]]), and the couple eventually kills and eats both.]] |
| 301 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has a variation on this. After being promoted to Captain and being given leadership of his own squad, Grif suffers a mental breakdown and begins acting like his SitcomArchnemesis Sarge. When he realizes this, he understandably freaks out. |
| 302 | --> '''Grif:''' Tucker, tell me I'm cool and don't play by the rules!\ |
| 303 | '''Tucker:''' [[FlatWhat What?]]\ |
| 304 | '''Grif:''' ''(wailing)'' I DON'T ''WANT'' A SOUTHERN ACCENT! |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 308 | * ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': |
| 309 | ** The misogynist Stunt eats a vegetable with a random transformation power and turns female. Before being turned back to normal, he comically comments on his fear of his reduced mental capacity. |
| 310 | ** Not a punishment, but karmic nonetheless. Later, in the arc "The War in hell", Lady Loxo eats a soul (don't ask) and turns into a snakelike demonic creature. Apparently, she was manipulative untrustworthy-a "snake"-before she died. She tricks Bulgak into doing so, and he turns into a lumpy orc-like shape. |
| 311 | * In an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' filler strip, Dan tries to inflict this on Justin by [[GenderBender turning him into a girl]] for messing with the narration when he was tasked with it. This backfires because, since Justin is gay and desperate to be with a guy, he views it as an opportunity to [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-01-26 "ask out every cute guy [he] sees"]]. |
| 312 | * Linda in ''Webcomic/{{Endtown}}'' was a Topsider devoted to the cause of destroying all mutants before Wally knocked her out and exposed her to the mutagens in the air. |
| 313 | * ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' had an {{Animal Wrongs|Group}} Activist transformed into a dog by a gryphon [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/12/02/an-undigested-bit-of-beef/ here]]. [[spoiler: Though it turned out the gryphon was planning to use him as a piece in his CosmicChessGame and once the game ended he decided to stay as a dog.]] |
| 314 | * Subverted in ''Anti-heroes'', a webcomic inspired by ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Lana defeats a vampire hunter and instead of killing him, attempts to turn him and then flee. Next time we see him, it turns out he hasn't become a vampire, because he can't ever become one again, having been one before, and found the cure for it. |
| 315 | * Various comics by Creator/TheTransformistress have one be the impetus for a closeted transgender person realizing they're happier as the opposite gender, including but not limited to: |
| 316 | ** A misogynist gamer ticking off multiple witches and cursed to be a girl that becomes more empathetic and feminine the more popular she gets online. |
| 317 | ** A male rogue that stole from the temples of skilled clerics dying to a ChestMonster and then resurrected as a woman-chest monster hybrid due to a low-level cleric's resurrection spell gone awry. |
| 318 | ** A male vampire hunter whose life is saved by monsters becoming a female vampire after an emergency blood transfusion. |
| 319 | ** A tall male basketball player mocking a short witch's height and cursed to become the shortest girl in their university. |
| 320 | ** A transphobic squad of abnormality containment personnel turning into fox girls compelled to expand their sisterhood with trans girls due to an escaped abnormality. |
| 321 | * ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', |
| 322 | ** The "D.O.L.L.Y." arc has Anne (who tends to throw around GenderBender spells for fun) getting scouted by a group of [[StrawFeminist militant feminists]]. When she eventually squares off against them, she finds that the most effective way to scare them off is to... turn them into men! It also had the more practical effect of neutralizing Feminine Pride's effect on them, since men don't have ''feminine'' pride. |
| 323 | ** [[LiteralSplitPersonality Anne's personified feminine pride]] turned a bunch of male chauvinists into girls too, but in that case [[FakeMemories they don't remember]] [[LossOfIdentity being male]] [[spoiler:or at least most of them don't, and they are apparently the only ones with the fake memories, everyone else just assumes the guys went away, or are oddly accepting in their families case]] and they got their own spin-off: ''[[Webcomic/{{Cheer}} The Wotch: Cheer!]]''. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 327 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' example: Trevor James Goodkind is a ShelteredAristocrat, one of the heirs of the Goodkind fortune. The Goodkinds ''hate'' mutants and privately support a lot of the anti-mutant organizations worldwide. Also, he supports his father who rails against transsexuals [[spoiler: because older brother Greg was one and ran off]]. No points for guessing what Trevor turns into: an intersexed mutant who can't even pass as a guy anymore. Incidentally, this isn't consistent with how the metahuman gene normally manifests in this 'verse, and this is happening to Trevor -- who really didn't do anything to deserve it besides taking everything his dad said as gospel instead of thinking for himself -- because some Random Omnipotent Being felt like screwing with him. |
| 328 | * ''WebVideo/TheKnightShift'': Ellpagg, the [[WarriorPrince Prince]] of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Arkn]], is a haughty, prideful boy with a burning hatred for [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Dekn]] and one of the highest Dekn kill counts in the kingdom. Then he agrees to negotiate a reconciliation with [[FallenAngel The Carver]], and accidentally kills him -- causing The Carver's power to transfer into his body. This strips him of his Arkn traits, and transforms him into a strange being that is more Dekn than Arkn (but qualifies as neither). To add insult to injury, [[spoiler:the Arkn royal council secretly arranged the whole thing, anticipating that Ellpagg's famous temper would cause negotiations to fail and lead to his corruption -- which they intend to exploit to prolong the Arkn-Dekn conflict.]] Ellpagg's newly acquired quasi-omniscience makes him fully aware of this. His [[SkywardScream initial reaction]] is exactly what you'd expect; his [[EyeScream secondary reaction]], somewhat less so; his tertiary reaction, [[spoiler: creating a neutral third party that will slaughter ''both'' sides if they don't agree to end the conflict]], is something ''no one'' anticipated -- and it begins with a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that destroys those who reveled in his suffering. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Including the royal council]]. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 332 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The [[BigBad main antagonist]], [[OurLichesAreDifferent the Lich]], has spent his entire existence attempting to [[OmnicidalManiac extinguish all life.]] He is finally (for now) defeated in "Escape From the Citadel" [[spoiler:when [[TheHero Finn]] throws Guardian Blood on him, [[ReviveKillsZombie regenerating him]] into a harmless, ''living'' infant--the very thing he's spent all of his unlife trying to eradicate.]] |
| 333 | * ''Franchise/Ben10'': |
| 334 | ** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': Albedo, Azmuth's former assistant, creates an Omnitrix of his own ignoring Azmuth's warnings. However, since Ben's [=DNA=] is linked, Albedo accidentally becomes transformed into a [[EvilTwin clone of Ben]] much to his disgust. Azmuth punishes Albedo by keeping him trapped in that form. |
| 335 | ** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': Will Harangue, the reporter who made Ben Tennyson a HeroWithBadPublicity and turned his life into a living hell, motivated by his xenophobic hatred for anything alien, gets turned himself into a particularly disgusting (by human standards) alien, by none other than Ben as payback. |
| 336 | * ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' featured Harvey Dent, an opportunistic District Attorney who ran a mayoral campaign that denounced and spread zealous hatred of costumed criminals, particularly Batman. Over the course of the season, Dent became more corrupt in his quest to bring down Batman, and after being constantly humiliated and disfigured, was on his path to becoming the deranged, colorful criminal he once denounced.[[note]]If the series hadn't been cancelled after one season, that is.[[/note]] |
| 337 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In "[[Recap/CentaurworldS1E4WhatYouNeed What You Need]]", the Tree Shamans grant wishes, but instead of giving people what they want they give them what they think they need. After hearing Ched [[FantasticRacism bad-mouth horses]], they decide to teach him a lesson by turning him into a horse. |
| 338 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': |
| 339 | ** The human-hating Demona ends up becoming human during the daytime thanks to [[KarmicTrickster Puck]]. As much as she hates it, Demona does [[CursedWithAwesome take advantage of the practical benefits]]. |
| 340 | ** In a more spiritual manner, Jon Canmore becomes the Hunter, even when he tries to get the others out of it at first, he finally succumbs to anger and rage and "transforms" to John Castaway. |
| 341 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': A variation occurs in "Down and Out in Duckburg". The episode begins with Scrooge [=McDuck=] telling a shopkeeper he's raising his rent while commenting on how inefficiently he's running his business. The shopkeeper protests that he could run the place better if he could afford to hire some help, but can't because most of what little profit he ears he spends on rent. He then goes to the docks to tell a seaman he's impounding his boat because he hasn't made a payment in a few months, only for the seaman to respond that what money he had he used to fix the boat. Scrooge is indifferent. As he walks home, a woman collecting money for charity asks Scrooge for a donation but says she can't break a $1,000 bill. Then, the descendant of a creditor shows up at Scrooge's door saying that because Scrooge's ancestor failed to keep his part of a business deal, everything in the [=McDuck=] estate belongs to him now, and evicts Scrooge, with the boys, Duckworth, Mrs. Beakly and Webby following suit. As Scrooge lost his fortune, he asks the shopkeeper for a job but tells him that because of the high rent, he can't afford to hire him. When he bumps into the woman collecting donations, she too refuses to help. When the boys tell Scrooge to ask the seaman for help, Scrooge refuses, thinking that he'll turn them away after the way he treated them. The seaman agrees to help, citing {{the golden rule}}. After he gets his fortune back, Scrooge lowers the rent on the buildings he owns, willingly donates a $1,000 bill, and gives the seaman his personal yacht. |
| 342 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'': |
| 343 | ** Kuzco mentions that he hates red-eyed tree frogs (though this was in an episode he had to dissect, which he didn't want to). Three guesses as to what he gets turned into. |
| 344 | --->"You may have noticed that Ms. Rip Van Winkle here plans to turn me into a frog, [[LampshadeHanging the exact creature I was bad-mouthing earlier.]] [[GenreSavvy Coincidence or cleverly orchestrated device to teach me a lesson?]] You be the judge." |
| 345 | ::: Hilariously enough, he does like them and rescue them from being dissected before assuming a superhero-like persona as Red-Eyed Tree Frog Man. |
| 346 | ** In another episode, Kuzco is cursed to take on the physical features he mocks in others. |
| 347 | * A twofer in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Boy Who Would Be Queen": when Timmy makes condescending talk about girls, he says "Like I wish I was a girl!", which Wanda takes as a request to [[GenderBender turn him into a girl]] even though he didn't mean "wish" like that. When Cosmo and Wanda then mock "Timantha" over her current state of being, she's rightfully incensed and wishes that Cosmo was a woman and Wanda was a man, and they're forced to comply. |
| 348 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "No Meals on Wheels", when the Griffins run a restaurant, Peter welcomes the idea of Joe and his buddies coming in to hang out because Peter assumed that Joe would bring the rest of the police station's personnel to eat at there. When Joe brings the members of his wheelchair support group instead, Peter puts up with the restaurant being full of wheelchairs because it's good for business. Eventually, Peter decides to ban physically challenged people on [[InsaneTrollLogic the grounds that they are trying to ram their lifestyles down his throat,]] which causes a confrontation that leaves Peter in a wheelchair. Peter thinks he can easily endure the time in the wheelchair, but ends up breaking down in tears after a couple of kids throw stuff at him for being in a wheelchair, and because he couldn't slap Meg in the face after she accidentally spilled his drink during dinner. This results in Peter apologizing to Joe for giving him such a hard time. |
| 349 | * ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In the episode ''The Fairy Dogmother'' the titular character turns an enthusiastic dogcatcher [[ForcedTransformation into a cat.]] He is then promptly [[ExitPursuedByABear chased away]] by the very dogs he had been [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted attempting to capture.]] The Fairy Dogmother remarks that the spell will wear off soon and that he's "learned his lesson". |
| 350 | * The short-lived animated sitcom ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'' was about an AmoralAttorney whose dirty tactics inexplicably got him turned into an anthropomorphic rat. |
| 351 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' has the titular character [[GenderBender get turned into a woman]] by a fortune teller to be shown how the ladies he continuously harasses feel like. |
| 352 | * ''WesternAnimation/MovilleMysteries'': |
| 353 | ** "The Novelty Kid" centers around Norman, a greedy jerk who thinks he can swindle the Ace Novelty company just as easily like his schoolmates, only for said company to [[spoiler: turn him into one of their products after he refuses their final notice]]. |
| 354 | ** "Pet Shop of No Return" ends with Emil, a boy who abused and neglected all of his animals, [[spoiler:being turned into a rat by the reincarnations of his dead pets]]. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Ironically, [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] obsession to destroy witches and magic led to a chain of events that mutated him into a magical abomination that can barely be considered human, something he more or less invoked on himself by his own decisions over an extended period of time, and yet it's clear that [[NeverMyFault he cannot recognise his own faults]] in creating his current condition. When Luz brands him with a coven sigil, the Draining Spell is actually killing him faster than the other magical inhabitants because unlike them, ''he'' is completely made out of magic. |
| 356 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Rigby eggs a wizard's house, who replies by turning Rigby into a house, egging him, and then murdering him. |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'': |
| 358 | ** In "To Sheep, Perchance to Dream", one of the depicted scenarios [[AllJustADream explained away as just being a dream]] (much to the narrator's annoyance) has General Specific, who's spent the entire series trying to capture Sheep and use him in a sheep-powered ray gun, suddenly transform into a sheep. |
| 359 | ** "Beauty and the Bleats" ends with Sheep being attacked by Lady Richington, who continually antagonizes him because she hates sheep. Having tricked a genie into giving him three more wishes and used the first one to wish he was a sheep again, Sheep [[WastefulWishing wastes his second wish on a fancy hat]] and uses his third wish to turn Lady Richington into a sheep. Lady Richington wasn't pleased by the transformation one bit. |
| 360 | * When Baron Dark and Prince Lightstar broke the Lightstar Crystal it kick-started the plot of ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'' transforming the Baron into the first of the eponymous Skeleton Warriors and granting him the power to use the darkness in peoples souls to transform them into more of his kind. Prince Lightstar and his sister were granted the powers of energy channeling and flight, respectively. Their brother, Prince Joshua however, had sided with the Baron but when he learned of his plan he pulled a ''HeelFaceTurn'' at the last moment and is caught between the two when the crystal shatters, transforming him into a half-skeletonised human with glowing eyes and a gravelled voice. This also results in his being able to walk through shadows and teleport between them but gives him a psychic link with Baron Dark. |
| 361 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Skywhales}}'' [[spoiler: the protagonist kills one of the titular creatures for its meat and later is transformed into one himself.]] |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' |
| 363 | ** In the episode "Ginger Kids," after Cartman starts a crusade against gingers, the other boys try to stop him by dying his hair red and using makeup to turn his skin pale and freckly. But then Cartman just changes his tune, starts a "ginger power" movement, and tries to wipe out all non-gingers. He stops and begins preaching tolerance after Kyle explains to him that he's not really a ginger. |
| 364 | ** Funny enough, a later episode reveals that [[spoiler: Cartman's real dad was Scott Tenorman's dad, whom Cartman had killed and fed to Scott. This makes Cartman half-ginger all along, despite his bigotry towards ginger. Bonus evil points for him being horrified at this revelation- not that he killed his own father, but rather that he is half-ginger.]] |
| 365 | * On the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode, "I Was A Teenage Gary", Spongebob asks Squidward to watch his pet snail Gary while Spongebob goes to a jellyfishing convention. Squidward says he will and promptly blows it off, causing Gary to nearly starve to death. Spongebob was supposed to inject him with snail plasma, but was terrified because he gets very squeamish around needles, he asked Squidward to do it for him. Squidward insisted Spongebob do it, causing him to prick himself, turning himself into a snail. In turn Snail Spongebob starts stalking Squidward scaring the crap out of him until he accidentally got pricked with the same needle and also turns into a snail. |
| 366 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': |
| 367 | ** In the animated movie, ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', Hun from the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]] comes into contact [[spoiler:with both the mutagen from the 1987 series and the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987 Donatello]] and 2003 Raphael. This turns him into a monstrous mutant turtle]]. He ends up using [[spoiler:his mutation]] to his advantage, now being able to defeat eight turtles without a sweat. |
| 368 | ** [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 The 2003 series]] has another example in the form of Mephos, a villainous avian supremacist who believes the [[WingedHumanoid avians]] are [[FantasticRacism inherently superior to surface dwellers.]] When he led a failed coup against the avian rulers, his punishment was to have the wings torn from his back and being exiled to the surface to live among the people he despises. |
| 369 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YooHooAndFriends'', a group of money crazy {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s pollutes the world with every manner of pollution imaginable, most of which are destroying animal habitats. Until Father Time appears and transforms them into adorable, cuddly animals and forces them to undo all the damage they did to the world if they ever hope of turning back. |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
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