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5	A character is unshackled from a ForcedTransformation -- changed back from a frog, cured of their [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]], or just had a GenderBender undone -- but after sighing with relief, they slowly realize that they aren't 100% the same as they used to be. And it's not just because they've [[LiteralTransformativeExperience walked in another creature's shoes and improved as a person]].
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7	Maybe their tongue is a bit longer than they remember, and they have this inexplicable hunger for flies. Or they've still got a wolf tail (and all their friends burst into laughter whenever they turn around.) Or, [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody psychologically]], they've retained an uncontrollable fear of cats. Maybe they're StumblingInTheNewForm, except the "new form" is actually their original form since they've gotten used to moving around in a transformed body. At any rate, they've got leftovers.
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9	Usually played for laughs (and often an EndingTrope) but it may be a plot point in a greater arc. BrainwashResidue has considerable overlap. See CloseEnoughTimeline for the TimeTravel equivalent. Some overlap with TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody, where a shapeshifter's mind is altered depending on the form they're in.
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17	* ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': [[GenderBlenderName Koyomi Araragi]] has, as of the time the story starts, been cured from being a vampire. Although he's supposedly fully human again, he seems to have retained greatly improved eyesight and [[HealingFactor instant recovery from wounds]]. [[spoiler:A later story reveals he's still got some vampirism in himself, and that's mostly because he refuses to abandon his connection to Shinobu, the one who turned him. In fact, using his remaining vampiric powers is slowly turning him back into a vampire again, though he can avoid this by simply refusing to use those abilities.]]
18	* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'':
19	** [[spoiler:After Falin is turned into a dragon chimera by the Lunatic Magician, the party decide they have to eat the dragon portion of her to get Falin back to a regular human. They succeed in consuming nearly all of the dragon parts with the assistance of everyone they've helped along the way, but they had to leave some dragon flesh behind because the magic involved needs it as fuel and biomass to remake her into a normal human. As a result, when Falin is finally restored, she has a fragment of the dragon's soul, small fangs, slit pupils, and [[FeatheredDragons feathers]] covering most of her body. She thinks it's cool though, so it all works out.]]
20	** [[spoiler:The Winged Lion manipulates Laios into wishing to become a monster, but this transformation goes away once the Winged Lion is defeated [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by said monster transformation]]. Laios eats the portion of the demon that desired to eat desires, so now it no longer wants to consume all of humanity and dissipates. However, the other party members discover that consuming a demon's desire had a side-effect: he gained the demon's [[BigEater insatiable appetite]]. Because Laios has a normal human body and not an infinite demon body, this means he's going to get fat unless he portions his meals in the future.]]
21	** [[spoiler:The party is able to talk Marcille down from being a dungeon lord, and once Laios takes her place, she's turned back to normal (her EvilCostumeSwitch disappearing with it). However, one aspect of her does not return; in order to set Marcille's determination in fighting the Canaries, the Winged Lion ate one of her lesser desires. This desire turns out to be her desire to keep her hair tied-up, an important task when self-maintenance is linked to magic effectiveness. The other party members are appropriately disturbed that someone like her no longer cares about arranging her hair.]]
22	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': The Elric brothers' main goal throughout the series is to find a way to restore Edward's lost arm and leg, and Alphonse's body. [[spoiler:Alphonse manages to restore Edward's arm by reversing the transmutation that bound his soul to a suit of armor, and Ed in turn manages to restore Al, body and soul together, by sacrificing his ability to perform alchemy. This still leaves Edward without the leg he lost in the initial failed human transmutation, but Ed decides to live with it as a reminder of the lessons he learned from his experiences.]]
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26	* In ''ComicBook/ClanDestine'', Walter's powers involve HulkingOut into a large blue form. When he changes back, sometimes a few body parts remain blue and over sized for awhile.
27	* In ''Literature/TheMagicians: [[ComicBookAdaptation Alice's Story]]'', as with the original novel, the fourth-year students at Brakebills South are taught how to transform into arctic foxes; however, since this story is being told from Alice's perspective, she eventually reveals that she still has a few of her wild instincts: when the time comes for the UltimateFinalExam, she ends up throwing the offered magical ingredients for the job back in [[SadistTeacher Mayakovsky]]'s face - something she never would have ''dared'' try beforehand - and [[CunningLikeAFox tackles the exam under her own steam]].
28	* In his 3rd solo series, ComicBook/{{Morbius}} turns into a [[BatOutOfHell monstrous]] [[BatPeople bat form]] after a cure goes wrong. Eventually he manages to turn himself back into a "normal" [[OurVampiresAreDifferent living vampire]] but retains the bat wings he grew.
29	* ''ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem'', in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' story "The Runaround Zoo", the Mushroom King is turned into a chameleon, which leads him to eating flies. At the end of the story, the King is returned to normal ("Only technically, sire."), and when a fly buzzes by, he instinctively sticks his tongue at it.
30	-->'''Wooster:''' More lizard crunchies, sire?
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34	* In [[https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm049.html "The Six Swans,"]] a girl's six brothers are all turned into swans and the only way she can restore them to normal is by knitting shirts from asters for them and never speaking or laughing for six full years. She manages to finish all of the shirts in time...except for one, which is missing a sleeve. This causes one of the brothers to still have a swan wing.
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38	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry get a white lock in his fringe while being possessed by [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]], and it stays afterwards, occasionally being remarked upon as rather odd and distinctive. In the sequel, he gets [[spoiler: captured, tortured, and his EmptyShell body is reprogrammed by the Red Room as a superpowered assassin in the vein of the Winter Soldier]]. After that particular TraumaCongaLine, he's left with increased combat skills, fluency in Russian, and [[ShellShockedVeteran a truly horrifying case of PTSD]], which months later, he has yet to totally recover from.
39	* In ''RolePlay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'':
40	** After returning to their human forms after defeating Missingno, the trainers discovered they still had the ability to understand Pokémon speech.
41	** Some of them do it intentionally by using the armbands just because of said ability.
42	** Lyuri still has the ability to use Aura after being turned into a Lucario hybrid, despite being turned back to normal, and before her, Kim and Lily after being turned into a Riolu and Mienfoo respectively.
43	* In the second chapter of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6306976 Umbrellas and Bracelets]]'', Marinette learns Chat Noir's identity after a hit on the head causes him to keep his feline eyes as Adrien.
44	* This happens at the end of ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'' with Jade and Viper. Despite losing their tribes thanks to Tarakudo stripping those abilities from them during the FinalBattle, and subsequently freeing their minds of [[TheCorruption corruption]], they're still physically Shadowkhan even after the Generals are sealed, apparently permanently.
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48	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'': A temporary case is seen where Susan is drained of Quantonium and shrunk down to her original size. Her hair, which became white when she first became a giantess, did not return to its original brown.
49	* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Puss and Donkey got their minds switched accidentally. At the end, Merlin switched them back... except he also switched their tails.
50	* In ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', Sophie's curse is eventually undone but she still retains the silver hair color from her old woman transformation. This is VERY different from the book, where she was restored completely.
51	* In ''Animation/LastYearsSnowWasFalling'', the Dude foolishly toys with a magic wand and goes through insane sequence of shapeshifting into forms among which a tiger in Dude's hat is probably the least bizarre, before randomly changing back to normal. As he turns and walks away, we see that he still has a tiger tail.
52	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' the villain, Yzma, [[{{Animorphism}} is transformed into a kitten]] in the end. By the time of the sequel, she is human again, but still possesses a tail and some catlike behavior (which is an ActorAllusion; Eartha Kitt is best remembered for playing [[Series/Batman1966 Catwoman]]).
53	* In ''WesternAnimation/HildaAndTheMountainKing'', [[spoiler:after Hilda returns to human form, she can still understand troll language, and can hear and decipher Amma's words to her children. In addition, she appears to have retained at least some of the strength she had as a troll.]]
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': After she wakes up as a red panda, Meilin Lee has a struggle to turn herself back into a human girl. Eventually she manages to do it and make it stick. For a moment she thinks everything's back to normal. Then she sees herself in her bedroom mirror, and realizes her hair is still bright red instead of its original black. [[note]]The DVD commentary says explicitly that this was done to make sure there was still something visibly 'magical' about Mei's appearance, even when she was human.[[/note]]
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58	* In ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', Wayne tests the shrink ray on his neighbor Russell. After being brought back to normal, Russell finds that his baseball cap is a little big for him. His hat was where he was hiding his cigarette pack from his wife, and she found them when he handed her his hat before being shrunk. Since she didn't give the pack back, there's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane another possibility]] for why his hat doesn't fit.
59	* The ending of ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' -- after the procedure that stabilizes the "monster," the creature has inherited the intelligence and mild manners of his creator. Frankenstein himself has inherited some... [[GagPenis interesting side effects]] if his assistant's reaction is any indication.
60	* ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': At the end, James Henry changes back to a live action boy after remaining stop-motion throughout a majority of the film. This is because he coughs up the magic crocodile tongue that transformed him after he accidentally swallowed it. The insects that live inside the eponymous giant peach, however, stay huge and stop-motion animated, because the magic tongues ''they'' swallowed stay inside them.
61	* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'': The evil sorceress Zenobia doesn't have enough shapechanging potion to turn completely from seagull to human, so spends the rest of the film with one giant webbed bird's foot.
62	* At the end of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', it turns out the antidote hasn't completely countered all traces of the lizard serum present in Connors.
63	* In the first ''Film/XMen1'' movie, Rogue's hair starts to turn white as Magneto's mutation device drains her energy. After getting healed by Wolverine's healing factor, she's back to normal, except for now having her comic counterpart's signature skunk stripe.
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67	* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'':
68	** Violet is left permanently blue after her transformation into a blueberry is undone.
69	** Mike ends up 10 feet tall and thin as a wire after they stretch him back out after he shrank himself.
70	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
71	** In the book ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', Lord Vetinari is changed into a lizard for much of the novel. When he gets changed back, he notices a new habit of sticking out his tongue.
72	** It also occurs as a side effect of "Borrowing" (inhabiting the mind of another creature). Borrowers tend to return to their body with some animalistic behaviors and urges that gradually wear off. When Grannie Weatherwax does bees, she "bzzzts" for a while after returning to her body.
73	* At the end of ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'' the kids have managed to get turned into recognizably human shapes, but they're still [[LEGOGenetics transgenic]], retaining various features and with the potential to change back to their mostly-animal selves. Semi's ears look weird, she has sealed-over nearly invisible gill slits, her [[BlindWithoutEm eyesight is better]], and she doesn't have any hair, though she thinks it's growing back. Miranda is still [[FragileFlyer quite light]] with clawlike fingernails and very short, oily hair that grows far down the nape of her neck.
74	* In John Morressy's ''Kedrigern'' book, ''A Voice For Princess'', although Kedrigern restores Princess to her former self from frog shape, the spell which made her a frog was more complicated than he realized. She becomes a beautiful princess who croaks like a frog.
75	* In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', princess Adda has spent her entire youth as a monster. She looks perfectly normal but still PrefersRawMeat.
76	* In Creator/JulesVerne's fantasy novel, ''Adventures of the Rat Family'', the family undergoes multiple transformations, and the comic-relief character always ends up with the tail of whatever the last thing was (for example: they get transformed from rats into fish, he's a fish with a rat's tail). At the end, when they're all human, he's still got a donkey's tail, and is apparently stuck with it for life.
77	* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Tobias gets {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed as a hawk in the first book, and gradually [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody his body's predatory instincts begin to affect his personality]]. Much later, he gains the ability to temporarily turn into his former human form - but he still has the tendency to stare intensely at people like a hawk, and has to put significant effort into forming facial expressions.
78	%%* Hermione in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''.
79	* In ''Literature/{{Seraphina}}'', though she can no longer experience the emotion, Linn still remembers her love for Claude once returning to dragon form, and wants it back.
80	%% In ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', Tessa worries that this would happen eventually.
81	* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': At the end of ''Literature/LoomingShadow'', Eric mana mutates into a grendel and tries to kill Basilard in mindless hunger. Then Kallen takes him for treatment and makes him not only human again but also sapient again. He has a pleasant talk with his teammates and it seems like he has come away from this experience no worse for the wear. Then his eyes shift into something feral and he asks with a monstrous voice if he can eat a human. The change reverts back just as quickly but it's clear that Eric is ''not'' the same as he used to be.
82	* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' ''Literature/WhyImAfraidOfBees'' has an example. The main character is a kid named Gary Lutz. To call him a LoserProtagonist would be putting things extremely lightly. He doesn't have any friends and is so coordinately challenged that the kids who play baseball with him invented a rule in which he is allowed four strikes instead of the usual three. At home, things aren't much better. Gary's frustration comes to a head when his little sister steals the known bully's favorite hat and hides it in Gary's bag, an action that results in his being beaten very badly. He tries to swap bodies but ends up getting his DNA scrambled with that of a bee. After several misadventures, he eventually gets his body back and things start to improve, but the last line of the book features him sucking pollen out of flowers with his mouth. This is a common form of the obligatory ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' TwistEnding. If a book has the main characters transforming into something and the story is about them trying to turn back into kids, odds are quite high that the last sentence will have that happen.
83	* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', there are certain rules all Wargs must obey unless they want this trope to come in effect. You don't eat human flesh while you are in your beast's body, or you'll become a cannibal back in your own body. You don't have sex while in your beast's body, or you'll find yourself to enjoy bestiality as a human. You'd better avoid warging into herbivores (to avoid becoming a coward) and birds (apparently, flying is addictive, and not being able to as a human can drive you insane).
84	* In ''The Submissive Alice'', Alice returns from her adventures in Underland and wonders if the whole experience might have been a dream. This lasts until she takes a shower and discovers that her pubic hair has been replaced by a fine layer of white feathers.
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88	* An episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' had Rimmer make his holographic body look like Christine Kochanski in an attempt to manipulate Lister. He still had a boob after he changes back, [[AllMenArePerverts but was in no rush to get rid of it.]]
89	* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': Tesla is deeply depressed upon [[spoiler:being devamped]] and complains that he's "ordinary." He then realizes he has magnetic powers.
90	* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', [[Comicbook/FirestormDCComics Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond]] were stuck in a FusionDance for over a year. They are able to get it undone, but Martin now retains Ronnie's love of pizza (previously, he'd hated it).
91	* An exploitation is PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Bashir, O'Brien and Dax and their runabout are [[ShrinkRay shrunk]] and restored to normal at the end. Odo suggests that the men seem a couple of centimeters shorter than normal.
92	-->'''Dr. Bashir:''' "Infirmary!" (He and O'Brien rush offscreen.)\
93	'''Quark:''' (to Odo) And they say you don't have a sense of humor.
94	** Then Quark and Odo step ''down'' from the half-ledge they were on while standing next to O'Brien and Bashir.
95	* In the last classic-era ''Series/DoctorWho'' story, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], Ace is turned partway into a cheetah person as part of the transformative properties of an unstable planet. At the end, it's suggested, somewhat surprisingly for viewers at the time, that Ace's partial transformation was not completely undone by the planet's destruction--an aptly suggestive turning point for her character just as the show shifted into a new era of unseen adventures.
96	-->'''Ace:''' I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet and just run forever.\
97	'''Doctor:''' The planet's gone, but lives on inside you. It always will.\
98	'''Ace:''' Good.
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102	* John Adams's opera ''A Flowering Tree'' is based on south Indian folklore. A girl (named Kumudha in the opera) has the power to transform herself into a flowering tree. She arouses the jealousy of the prince's spiteful sister, who tricks her into transformation and then ravages her, picking all the flowers and breaking the branches. Kumudha is unable to resume human form, and she crawls about the land as a misshapen half-human, half-tree thing.
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106	* During the TimeSkip in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'', Jade is brainwashed by one of the villains and given a PlayboyBunny half-demon form. She retains it as a SuperMode even after she's freed from said villain's brainwashing; in fact, the first thing she does while back in control is ''kill him with it''.
107	* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', "Witch Hunt" sidequest involves a witch turning human girls into tentacled monsters. After the witch is defeated, [[TheHero Luka]] apparently "seals" the girls' transformations... except not really, and they still can [[PartialTransformation sprout]] [[LovecraftianSuperpower tentacles]] at will.
108	* The story mode of ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur V'' has a serious variant at the end with [[spoiler:Pyrrha Alexandra breaking free of [[ArtifactOfDoom Soul Edge]]'s [[BrainwashedAndCrazy influence]]. [[BlackEyesOfCrazy Eyes]] normal? Check. [[PowerEchoes Voice]] normal? Check. No longer obsessed with gathering souls for the evil sword? Check. [[RedRightHand Monstrous right arm]] reverted to something presentable in polite company? Sorry, you are out of luck there.]]
109	* Sarah Kerrigan from ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' got infested by the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Zerg]] in the original opus, who used ViralTransformation to turn her from a human with psychic powers to a powerful Terran/Zerg hybrid as well as a BrainwashedAndCrazy MagnificentBitch. In ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty'', she is cured from her transformation and brought back to her human form and personality. However, she turns out to still have some zerg mutagene inside her, resulting in her keeping the hair from her zerg form as well as some of her abilities. This becomes a plotpoint in VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm, where she uses what remains of her zerg abilities to take over the Zerg again, and eventually [[spoiler:turns her back in her Zerg form, with her ''regular'' personality in control this time.]]
110	* At the very end of the Freedom ending in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', [[spoiler:the now-human-again Demi-Fiend wakes up in his room and goes to meet his friends to visit their teacher, as they intended to do before the cataclysmic events of the Conception. All seems normal again... and then an e-mail by Lucifer implies the guy has retained all of his demonic power and one day will be forced to fight for his world again...]]
111	* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', when you release the Old Man from his cursed servitude to Skeletron, he's happy to go back to a humble life as a mundane Clothier in your town. However, if enemies invade the town, [[BadPowersGoodPeople he can still sling magically conjured skulls to defend it]].
112	* In ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroII'', [[spoiler:Eve purifies herself of the mutant infection by the end of the game, but her right eye turned from blue to green, and she keeps the blue streaks on her hair, plus her [[FanservicePack new assets]].]] ''[[VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroIII Zero III]]'' then reveals it did more than just that: [[spoiler:she didn't actually ''remove'' the mutant cells in her body, she's actually assimilated them, which turned her from a RidiculouslyHumanRobot to a [[HumanityEnsues fully organic lifeform]]]].
113	* In ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'', the angel Inarius spent centuries with his body and face mutilated by Mephisto's torture. After escaping the Burning Hells, his body returns to its normal form of a cloaked, armored humanoid. However, unlike normal angels whose armor is featureless, Inarius's armor is molded into the shape of screaming faces as a permanent reminder.
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117	* ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'': "A Tail of Recovery" ends with Aquarius having cured Capricorn's cold, but in the process having caused him to grow a reptilian tail that he fails to notice. The fortune message shows Capricorn having mutated further into a giant lizard.
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121	* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', Dave manages to get his (and Helen's) GenderBender transformation cured, but still finds himself attracted to Mick Foley.
122	* Be glad you can't see Torg's "aftereffects" in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=970919 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip.
123	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' had a joke along these lines at the end of [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-04-03 the second April Fool's Week storyline]]. And then again in [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/?date=2004-03-06 a side comic storyline]].
124	* Be grateful you are not in ''Webcomic/StationV3'' because they have suffered from this more than 10 times already... all with varying results always saying that they are back to 'normal'.
125	* In ''Webcomic/OnceStung'', after Samantha is turned back from giant snake to human she manifests several snake characteristics - such as reptile eyes, fangs and a forked tongue - the next morning.
126	* Shapeshifters in ''Webcomic/TheSanityCircus'' who use it to transform into animals (like Fletch and Donovan Sparc) gradually acquire physical traits of the animal in question the more and more they use it. Eventually you end up as a FunnyAnimal, and are stuck that way. Donovan is already at that step (as a rhinoceros), and Fletch is approaching it.
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130	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands'': As seen in "Obsidian", Simon Petrokov is no longer the Ice King, but he still has a habit of dressing up like him and standing in front of an open freezer.
131	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' had Anne and Sprig get cursed, with Anne becoming a [[BirdPeople bird-person]] and [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody developing a craving for worms and bugs]] when she was previously too disgusted to eat them before (and still ''is'' disgusted by the idea of eating them, wanting the curse lifted as soon as possible so she can stop). At the end of the episode, after the two are back to normal, Sprig heads downstairs for a drink in the middle of the night and finds Anne with her arms folded up into wings and "pecking" ants off the floor. She continues to eat bugs without any complaints for the rest of the show after this, so either the curse's leftover effects persisted for that long, or the experience just helped her naturally get over her squeamishness.
132	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gave Bender a sex change. When Farnsworth turned him back to normal, he found that he had become more in touch with his "feminine" side (but denies it).
133	* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
134	** [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 1998 original series]]: The FreakyFridayFlip episode "Criss Cross Crisis" has many different body swaps going on, but eventually everyone seems to be back to normal... except that at the end, it turns out Bubbles' body was still swapped with the Narrator.
135	** [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 2016 Reboot]]: One of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirls2016S03E20WitchsCrew Witch's Crew]]" has [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] [[RichBitch Morbucks]] trying to create a potion that'll make her more beautiful and powerful than the girls, but the girls and a trick-or-treating Mojo Jojo intervene and the spell backfires, turning her into a fire-breathing ogre, Mojo [[BecomingTheCostume into a real cat]] and the Powerpuffs into {{Wicked Witch}}es. After the spell is broken, Princess brags that she's beautiful again, but doesn't notice that she now has a long, slimy tail.
136	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' animated series, Link is transformed into a frog. At the end of the episode, after he is cured, he still reflexively grabs and eats a fly.
137	* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' Daffy ends up completely erased by the sadistic animator and testily asks to be redrawn. He gets his wish in the worst way possible, but it's not until the animator draws a mirror in front of him that he notices (including the fact that he's inexplicably gone quadruped!).
138	* In ''WesternAnimation/GrimAndEvil'' episode 5 during the ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' segments ''Devolver, Part 1'' and ''Devolver, Part 2'', General Skarr keeps devolving into different species due to accidentally being exposed to Major Dr. Ghastly's devolving ray. In the end, Ghastly and Hector manage to expose Skarr (who has become an amoeba by that time) to a re-evolution ray, turning him back to his normal self... [[spoiler:except he still has a monkey tail (though only Hector and Ghastly seem to notice it)]].
139	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'', Juniper is turned into a lemur, but when she is changed back at the end of the episode, she still has a tail. [[spoiler:Psych, no it was just [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Ray-Ray]] telling her she still had a tail.]]
140	* ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'':
141	** One episode had Homer Simpson get turned into a bizarre chimera with a chicken's body. When Homer turns back to normal at the end of the episode, it turns out that he still has the body of a chicken... and lays an egg.
142	** In another episode he went back in time and kept changing the past. In the finale one everything was back to normal... except everyone ate with long retractable reptile tongues. Homer just shrugs and says "[[CloseEnoughTimeline Eh, close enough]]".
143	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': In one episode, a soul-sucking nix sucked the souls of several students during a school dance. In the end, everything went back to normal--except that Trixie and Spud were now in each other's bodies. [[SnapBack They were inexplicably back to normal in the next episode.]] (Note that this happened ''before'' they learned about Jake being a dragon.)
144	* The 1961 ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "I Yam Wot I Yamnesia" delved into the bizarre, as bumps on the head suffered by Popeye, Swee' Pea, Wimpy and Olive has their personalities and voices switched with each other (Popeye is Swee'Pea and Swee' Pea is Popeye; Olive and Wimpy are switched similarly). After a second bump return everyone to normal (and a sock from Swee' Pea/Popeye on Brutus), only Brutus and Popeye are still reliving their infancies.
145	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' has Garfield entreating the viewers to watch the story unfold and pick out all the graphic incongruities within. It ends with Garfield calling the up-to-then unseen Odie to follow him. Only it's not Odie--it's Marmaduke.
146	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' has Jasmine and Iago respectively turned into a rat and lizard by a curse. Genie is ultimately able to turn them back to their true forms by the end of the episode, but they still have some leftover traits of the previous forms: Jasmine still has a rat's tail while Iago is stuck with his umbrella-like neck.
147	* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': When Fred gets amnesia and believes he's a three-year-old, Barney takes him to a doctor in order to get him to recover. Said doctor is a mad scientist who swaps Fred's mind with his lab animal. Although he tries to turn him back to normal, things get ridiculously more out of hand when he winds up also swapping the brains of Barney, the wives, the pets, and ''even his assistant''. By the very end, he's able to get them all back to normal... and they all really are too. He, however, isn't, as he winds up taking some of Fred's personality and voice and now also believes himself to be the real Fred Flintstone.
148	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats]]", Fluttershy is turned into a VegetarianVampire [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pony]]. Twilight is able to change her back, but during the EverybodyLaughsEnding, the camera zooms in to show Fluttershy with CuteLittleFangs.
149	* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', Danny uses the Ghost Zone portal to remove his powers, but retains a white streak in his hair. After he ultimately gets his powers back, it's gone.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': "[[Recap/RockosModernLifeS4E2TheHighFiveOfDoomFlyBurgers Fly Burgers]]", where Rocko is sentenced to 30 days as a fly after he is sued by Flecko the Fly after he tried to swat him away while busy barbecuing. The judge soon discovers that Flecko was [[ObfuscatingDisability faking his injuries]] and reverses the spell, but forgets to remove his fly wings.
151	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Neptune's Spatula", Neptune blasts Patrick with lightning every time the latter talks back to him, eventually turning him into a black stain on the floor. When [=SpongeBob=] agrees to Neptune's fry cook duel on the condition that he restores Patrick to normal, Neptune does so, but Patrick's face is now on the front of his pants for the rest of the episode.
152	* The ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Running With Scissors" focuses on Marco chasing Hekapoo through another dimension to get back Star's dimensional scissors. This ends up taking him ''sixteen years'', by which point he'd become a muscular BadassBiker. Then he discovers [[YearInsideHourOutside only eight minutes passed on Earth]] and Marco turns back into a teenager when he returns. However, Marco kept the bald spot from Hekapoo's burning {{Dope Slap}}s, and has some (comically minor) problems adjusting after a half-lifetime of absence (like forgetting his passwords). The next season would [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun periodically mention]] that Marco is an accomplished adventurer who's [[OlderThanTheyLook mentally twice his biological age]], and he even gets his CoolBike back.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
154	** When [[spoiler:the Corrupted Gems are cured, they’re not ''completely'' restored to normal; they still have [[LittleBitBeastly animalistic deformities held over from their Corrupted forms]], such as Jasper still having the horns and coloration of her Corrupted self.]]
155	** White Pearl [[spoiler:retains the crack on her face and eye after being restored to her Pink Pearl self when freed from White Diamond's control because, as we learn in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode "Volleyball", the crack was caused by ''Pink'' Diamond, not White, and it remains there because of the trauma of accidentally being damaged by her beloved mistress.]]
156	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', when Starfire returns to normal after going through alien puberty, she finds that [[PubertySuperpower she now has]] EyeBeams.
157	-->'''Starfire:''' (looking at her reflection in a crystal) I am... normal! ''[involuntarily discharges two bolts into the crystal that rebound off it into a nearby wall]'' Mostly.
158	* When the Pistachions are defeated in ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', everyone who was turned into a plant is returned to normal. Except for Bradley, whose right hand is still a plant.
159	* In the episode "The Cutening" from ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'', the Warners slowly go insane about how much Dot has made the world cuter with her new powers, but they find a way to revert it: [[spoiler: by licking a disease-ridden pigeon. And the world is back to its gross self... except the Warners now have pigeon bodies.]]
160	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls:'' The GrandFinale says that [=McGucket=] has "regained his sanity." From what we see of him, it's probably better to say that he's upgraded from full-on MadScientist to BunnyEarsLawyer, but still isn't as "normal" as he was before [[spoiler:inventing the memory gun]].
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