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13	[[quoteright:346:[[Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shapeshiftingseducer.png]]]]
14	[[caption-width-right:346:Yiska with Vic, Yiska with Hex, Yiska with Daray]]
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16	->'''Kirk:''' Shapeshifters. I thought you were mythical.\
17	'''Martia:''' Give a girl a chance, Captain. ''[takes the form of Creator/{{Iman}}]'' It takes a lot of effort.\
18	'''[=McCoy=]:''' ...but how do we have any way of knowing if this is the real you?\
19	'''Martia:''' I thought I would assume a more ''pleasing'' shape.
20	-->-- ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''
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22	When the MasterOfIllusion or character with VoluntaryShapeshifting wants to seduce someone, they have one very powerful tool in their arsenal: they can be anyone's "type". If they get their amorous advances rejected they will simply change their appearance until they hit paydirt. Common users of this tactic are those with VoluntaryShapeshifting as their main power, [[HotWitch Witches]] (''especially'' if her real form is that of a WickedWitch), [[OurSirensAreDifferent sirens]], {{Literal Maneater}}s, and SuccubiAndIncubi.
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24	A little research goes a long way in this regard, and a ''lot'' of subtlety is needed to keep the target from figuring out the seducer is a shapeshifter. ...Which is actually fairly rare for this trope, since the shapeshifter will typically be showing off their new forms in a superpower equivalent to a striptease while the seducee is looking. If the fact that they're being seduced by a shapeshifter doesn't give them ShapeshiftingSquick, they may actually [[PowerPerversionPotential find it really kinky]] and start making suggestions.
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26	One of the quickest ways for this tactic to fail is for the shapeshifter to not do ''any'' research on the seducee or badly botch said research. This can happen if they take the form of a lost lover, an ex, or their anti-type, the form likeliest to turn them off and make them run screaming.
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28	If the shapeshifter is impersonating someone whom the target is in love with, it crosses with BedTrick. The trope is also likely to be involved in TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction.
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30	Subtrope of PowerPerversionPotential. Compare YouSexyBeast, {{Glamour}}. Not to be confused with ShapeshiftingLover, where they only have one alternate form (and it's animal to human). Might be related to ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange, however. See also AFormYouAreComfortableWith, where the shapeshifter's concern isn't so much about making you horny but about not breaking your mind by showing you their true form.
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37	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
38	* Inverted by the [[LiteralManeater Female Apostle]] in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' whom Guts killed at the beginning of the story, she used her ''[[WasOnceAMan original human form]]'' to allure men, the shapeshifting part only comes when she transforms into a creature to consume her food. [[spoiler:We can see her in action during Eclipse arc when Corkus fell into it.]]
39	* You can guess how many {{Hentai}} works are based on this concept. ''Cosplay Sex Machine'' is based around this.
40	* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' has a particularly {{squick}}y example of this: Koki Inaba ended up having sex with a [[HoYay male alien]] disguised as IdolSinger Reika Shimohira.
41	* Tomoe, a [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss,'' does this for fun and profit.
42	* In one of the ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' manhua by Andy Seto, Vice uses her MasterOfIllusion powers to try seducing Kyo under the form of his girlfriend Yuki. [[spoiler: She copies Yuki's appearance but ''not'' her {{tsundere}} personality, [[OutOfCharacterAlert so Kyo soon realizes the trick and unmasks her]].]]
43	* Doppel, a member of the "shapeshifter" race from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', offers Kimihito to do whatever he wants to her in the form of whatever woman he desires (while transforming herself into Miia and an idol, naked) as thanks for helping her with her pranks and saving her from the orc.
44	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Naruto Uzumaki uses his Sexy Jutsu to persuade Jiraiya to tutor him.
45	* ''Manga/ToLoveRu Darkness'':
46	** Nemesis can alter her appearance and reshape her body to look more adult-like (to give Rito a taste of MarshmallowHell) and even change her appearance to look exactly like other people. In a chapter, she transforms her body into Yui, Mikan and Lala in order to tease Rito.
47	** Another chapter has Mea take Haruna's form to seduce Rito.
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51	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': Done in all sorts of confusing ways in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheMaltesePenguin The Maltese Penguin]]'', in which the FilmNoir parody FemmeFatale seems to find Frobisher's penguin form very sexy ([[ShoutOut "You know how to quack, don't you? You just stiffen your beak, and vibrate."]]). She's also attracted to his Doctor form, even though Frobisher notes in his PrivateEyeMonologue that he has trouble kissing people with it because he's more used to having a beak and that he struggles with humanoid forms because they have 'all those bits hanging off them, which don't even seem to have a use'. [[spoiler: And he's also attracted to ''her'' penguin form. And her default form. And even when she tells him that she had become the pool of blood he'd inspected in an earlier scene, she says it really tickled when he touched it and he seems to find it rather sensual.]] Probably in their case attraction is really just all about the people rather than the bodies.
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55	* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubi]] are able to take on any form, [[ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange female or male]], to lure in victims. Hellaynnea does a very extended demonstration when she offers to serve Wismerhill, going through 30 or so forms, including his previous lover who had been killed off.
56	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Vanessa Carlyle, Copycat, once transformed into four different types of attractive women who kept bumping into ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, in order to secure that one of them should be his type. Being Deadpool he ended up having sex with all of them before revealing that he knew it was her all along. After that, she kept transforming into different superheroines in bed. Years previously, she transformed into a wide assortment of attractive women to seduce a tycoon, so she could blackmail him to not let his wife know.
57	* [[EldritchAbomination Mary Shelley Lovecraft]] tried this in a ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' story, morphing into a number of Cassie's past {{Love Interest}}s while saying WeCanRuleTogether.
58	* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} of Marvel Comics has been known to use her shapeshifting for this purpose on occasion, while also using {{Bed Trick}}s often enough to make her a SerialRapist.
59	** The "Bizarre Love Triangle" arc involves her efforts to seduce Gambit by such a method - first by inventing the false identity of "Foxx" and, when that fails, taking Rogue's form instead - specifically in order to get him to cheat on Rogue and thus prove to Rogue that he isn't good enough for her.
60	** She transformed into different attractive women for Wolverine years earlier. The first time when she needed protection against Spiral and the second when she needed protection against Sabretooth. In a recent story arc, it was revealed that she had, in fact, started using this tactic against Wolverine nearly a century ago.
61	* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': Xavin is in love with [[LipstickLesbian Karolina]], but [[YoureNotMyType he's not her type]]. Fortunately, Xavin is a Skrull, with the ability to change his shape - even into a ''female'' shape.
62	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
63	** There was a comic where The Chameleon tried to seduce Mary Jane by turning into different handsome men. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown It didn't go over well.]]
64	** Another comic had Electro visiting a [[PowerPerversionPotential shape-shifting prostitute]], who offered to turn into [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Namorita]], [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Sue Storm]], or the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, among others. Spidey interrupted before we found out who Electro "fancied a crack at" this time...
65	* In the nineties, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, the Matrix version, who was a shapeshifter, was romantically involved with Lex Luthor. On at least one occasion, when he was obsessing over some plot or scheme, she started shifting into the shapes of various different women (including one who was clearly Princess Leia) to entice him into bed. This is a somewhat unusual example, in that the two were already involved; she was only using her shapeshifting to entice him into bed on that particular occasion, and it was a heroine doing it to (unbeknownst to her) a villain.
66	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': MasterOfIllusion Mirage combines this with BedTrick, transforming herself into Starfire so she can sleep with Nightwing.
67	* The Suffuss from ''ComicBook/{{Valerian}}'' are a race of shapeshifting amoeboids that mostly work as prostitutes.
68	* A shapeshifting alien in ''ComicBook/PugDavis'' [[spoiler:hears that the title character was HumanAllAlong]], and attempts to get revenge by disguising themselves as a female of the same species. It immediately fails because Pug can tell they're a fake. Attempting to do the same to Pug's sidekick Blouse initially fails because he's ObliviousToLove ''and'' gay, but the alien quickly adjusted by running off to immediately come back in a male form. Blouse doesn't find this at all suspicious, and falls for them immediately.
69	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Circe shifts into the form of a sexed up Wonder Woman to get Tom Tresser to let down his guard, which works.
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73	* ''Fanfic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan'' and ''Fanfic/TheArchmagesLastBow'': Zig-zagged and weaponized. Envy can shapeshift due to being cursed to be a LivingShadow, and she does flirt with Nova a lot. However, the only time she shapeshifted to flirt with him was when she disguised herself as Rarity to play on Twilight Sparkle's [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous tendencies]]. At any other point, whenever she flirts with him, it's never genuine and almost always an attempt to unsettle him.
74	* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'': A rated-G version. Spike chooses to take on a unicorn form for one week (he pays the additional days) to try and flirt with Rarity.
75	* In ''Fanfic/IfThemsTheRules'' [[OCStandIn Arturus Black]] visits a prostitute [[Franchise/HarryPotter Polyjuiced]] to look like his LustObject, Harry.
76	* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'':
77	** A hermaphroditic Slaaneshi cultist tries to get Jaime to sleep with hir by taking Cersei's appearance. As far as Jaime knows, Cersei is dead, so he panics and pushes hir away, breaking the illusion. Later s/he takes Cersei's form to sleep with her, and she [[ScrewYourself very willingly goes along.]]
78	** Much earlier, the shapeshifter is able to alter [[spoiler:Theon's]] appearance to match Euron's so he can infiltrate King's Landing. He also sleeps with Cersei, but that's a secondary concern compared to setting up the city for its downfall.
79	* ''Fanfic/StarfallStarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': A mimic named Mimi is sent to seduce Marco using Star's form and a love potion concealed in her mouth, so that he won't challenge Star's involuntary engagement to Tom. Tom's mother Ishtar takes Mimi to see Star the next day, and Mimi goes into a ''lot'' of detail about all the things she did to Marco. [[spoiler:Actually, Marco realized she wasn't Star before anything could happen, but gave her all the intimate details she needed to fake it so that Ishtar would be fooled and [[IHaveYourWife Mimi's sister would be released from Ishtar's dungeon]]. Star was warned about this ahead of time so she knew to fake being distraught, but she's still annoyed that Marco told her all that stuff]]. A few chapters later, we find out that Mimi is a lesbian, making the whole situation even worse for everyone.
80	* ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'': Vaati offers to take Impa out on a date, attempting to seduce Impa in a male form, then {{Sex Shift\|er}}s into a busty woman when it falls flat. Impa is emphatically NotDistractedByTheSexy.
81	-->'''Impa:''' I respect the beauty of your craft... but the only reason I'm not ''hurting you right now'' is because this is the most ''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny entertaining]]'' thing that's happened to me in months.
82	* Inverted in ''[[Fanfic/TantabusMarkII How the Tantabus Parses Sleep]]''; when Meadow admits she has a crush on Moondog, the usually-female Moondog panics (having few social skills and absolutely no experience in love) and takes on a male form in the hopes of dissuading Meadow. Unfortunately for her/him, Meadow is normally into stallions; her affection for Moondog is an IfItsYouItsOkay situation.
83	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Spectra finds herself seducing people far more often than the other protagonists, due to her charisma-focused build and her warlock patron's missions often involving infiltration, impersonation, or social situations that don't call for a combat-focused approach. (Her backstory as a changeling prostitute certainly doesn't hurt either.)
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87	* In ''Film/TheCraft'', Nancy (a Wiccan) goes to get revenge on Chris after he tried to rape her friend Sarah as a result of the love spell they put on him, apparently by seducing him so she can perform a GroinAttack (which he anticipates). When she fails to get in his pants, she morphs her face into Sarah's to tempt him, which works. A double whammy, since the love spell means Chris didn't really love Sarah either.
88	* ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]'' has a scene where [[Film/XMen1 Mystique]] seduces [[Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe Peter]] [[MeaningfulName Pervertski]]... and he asks her to [[ChubbyChaser get fatter]].
89	* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''. Merlin uses his magic to change Uther Pendragon into the form of the Duke he's fighting in order to sleep with the Duke's wife.
90	* In ''Film/{{Krull}}'', The Beast attempts to seduce Lyssa by taking Colwyn's form, and comments he can take ''any'' form. She is not fooled.
91	* ''Film/{{Legend\|1985}}''. While the protagonists are trapped in Darkness' jail, the fairy Oona tries to get Jack to kiss her by creating an illusion that she's Jack's girlfriend Lili.
92	* The female space vampire in ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' doesn't change her form again onscreen after she settles on the shape of a beautiful girl, and she has a habit of walking around in the buff. She took this shape directly from the mind of Lt. Carlson, as the image of the girl is his conception of the perfect woman, and uses it to draw him to her and seduce him so she can use his lifeforce in her EvilPlan.
93	* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', Freddy Krueger uses his dream powers to turn himself into a beautiful nurse working at Westin Hills whom Joey was in love with to lure him away from the group. Things get ugly fast, and he ties Joey to the bed over a fiery chasm before turning back to his burned, dream stalking self.
94	* Martia, the Chameloid from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', gets in a snog with Captain Kirk when she takes the form of a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. She's rather less seductive, however, when she shape-shifts into a giant monster, a young girl, or Kirk himself.
95	--> '''[=McCoy=]:''' What kind of creature is this? Last night you two were--\
96	'''Kirk:''' Don't remind me.
97	* Music/{{Rihanna}} plays Bubble, a shapeshifting Glamopod prostitute in ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets''. She's based on the Suffuss from [[ComicBook/{{Valerian}} the comics]].
98	* The movie ''Film/VirtualGirl'' features a [[KissMeImVirtual virtual reality sex program]] that [[AIIsACrapshoot gone insane]] that can change into any shape that the user desires. When the protagonist has sex with her, she actually changes form several times in mid-coitus.
99	* Mystique uses this several times in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''.
100	** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': She seduces a guard by taking the form of a hot blonde [[spoiler:[[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction so she can use him in Magneto's escape from prison.]]]] She later utilizes it on Logan by trying to seduce him in the form of Jean Grey. Logan catches her, and she goes through several other forms, including Storm, Rogue and even Stryker (to taunt him, not to seduce him), but he tells her to leave.
101	** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': She shows up [[ReadyForLovemaking in Erik's bed]] with clear interest. When he rebuffs her, she upgrades her appearance by about 15 years to remove the age gap between them, which doesn't really work for her until he tells Raven that he prefers her ''[[YouSexyBeast without]]'' the shapeshifted appearance.
102	** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Mystique does a sultry variation of her Raven form and pretends to be a disco-loving interpreter to gain access to a Vietnamese general's hotel room in order to steal his invitation to the Paris Peace Accords.
103	** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Her electric purple ensemble is quite revealing, and it's meant to be a distraction to the big, burly guards at the fight club venue; one underestimates her by calling her "little mouse."
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107	* ''Literature/DaughterOfTheSun'': Aelia tried to seduce Orsina in the form of Orsina's LoveInterest Perlita, kissing her, but it didn't work.
108	* In Book III of ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', Proteus attempts to bed Florimell by taking on dozens of glorious forms like different faerie knight and kings. When she still refuses, he takes on more intimidating forms like a giant and a storm to try and threaten her into accepting his advances.
109	* The reluctant, eponymous succubus in Richelle Mead's ''Literature/GeorginaKincaid'' series relies on this power to seduce (mainly) men in order to get the life energy her kind needs. Much is made of the fact that the seduction of morally upstanding individuals is made easier by simple groundwork, plus a lot of skill in "seductive techniques". Brand-new succubi apparently often lack this carefully-cultivated skill, instead, relying on their physical attributes. When Georgina is assigned an apprentice to supervise, she is horrified that the newbie considers 6ft blonde bombshells with [[BuxomBeautyStandard breasts that defy physics to be every man's ideal]]. Said apprentice later reveals that she has much success with college boys, but can't understand why she can't snare moral men. Also, none of the several people Georgina - which isn't her actual name - has romantic entanglements with are attracted through any deliberate act of hers; they fall for her because of who she is. Whenever it is mentioned, none of them ''seem'' interested in the uses the shape-shifting ability might have in the bedroom. This is made more complicated by the fact that Georgina's 'default' form is not her original one either, and hasn't been for about 1500 years.
110	* Surprisingly averted in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. Ron points out that Tonks is nowhere as pretty as Fleur. Tonks is a shapeshifter, she can be the girl of anyone's dream, but possibly justified as Fleur is part [[TheFairFolk veela]], and has supernatural glamour (which Tonks presumably can't imitate) as well as physical beauty.
111	** Tonks also isn't interested in using her shapeshifting to seduce anyone (''particularly'' Ron, so using his opinion as a judge of her seduction "abilities" is especially pointless). The closest she gets is when she subconsciously mimics the appearance of the man she loves [[spoiler:Lupin]], but that's out of a desire to be close to him, not an attempt to become more attractive.
112	* In Creator/LarryNiven's short story "The Meddler", the main antagonist, Sinclair, is a crime boss who has a tremendous reputation as a ladies' man, which the hero, private detective Bruce Cheeseborough, confirms after interviewing his exes. It turns out that Sinclair an alien shapeshifter who uses his size-altering abilities in bed. Cheeseborough comments that he "really had gone native" if he found that worth the trouble.
113	* In ''Literature/ANightInTheLonesomeOctober'', the Thing In The Circle tries this on the protagonist-narrator in an attempt to get free of the Circle that imprisons it. It never quite succeeds in making him forget what it really is, and all it gets for its trouble is a series of deadpan snarker demurrals.
114	* Incubi and Succubi from ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': when summoned, they always take the shape the summoner finds most attractive: thus, they are ofen summoned by mages who want to learn about their specific preferences (and/or, of course, want to have sex with their ideal partner).
115	* A variant on this trope gets {{Discussed}} in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. Shallan Davar is a [[GuileHero Lightweaver Radiant]], and among her other abilities can create what amount to magically enhanced alternate personalities, with their own values, mannerisms, and skillsets. After she becomes engaged to [[PrinceCharming Prince Adolin]], she considers creating a "perfect girlfriend" persona to become while with him. Fortunately, Adolin is much more interested in the ''real'' Shallan.
116	* Gale from ''Literature/SuperPowereds''. Her power lets her see what form someone would find most attractive and shapeshift into it.
117	* Taking the word "seduce" in a non-sexual sense (convincing people to support a cause rather than convincing them to have sex), ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'''s Sauron would qualify. Well, until he loses his shapeshifting ability after the destruction of Númenor. As a Maia, he has no true physical form but he can use the form of any animal or humanoid. The only times that Sauron gets in a physical fight, he loses badly: but when he manipulates people behind the scenes he can take down empires. After the destruction of Númenor, Sauron loses his ability to make new bodies: he uses several substitutes such as a massive suit of armor, Dol Guldur, and Barad-dûr.
118	** It is never stated, but many have assumed, that Melian was trying to seduce Thingol specifically. If that is the case, she would be a rare ''heroic'' example of this trope. Just like Sauron, she has no true physical form and so would be capable of taking the form most desirable to Thingol particularly. Her seduction technique works a little too well. Thingol and Melian spend two ''hundred'' years...ahem...[[UnusualEuphemism "caught in an enchantment of their own making"]]. This causes Cirdan to not leave Middle-Earth with Olwë hence why he is still around for the War of the Ring (the ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' books).
119	* Iris in the first ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novel does this. She never hid her capacity for [[SuperpowerLottery Magician-level]] illusions (although the more deceptive particulars are another matter), and, this being a ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novel, where every able-bodied male is horny as hell, it very nearly works.
120	* What Saiman attempts with Literature/KateDaniels, but never succeeds. His never-changing eyes make it creepy for her.
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124	* Attempted in ''Series/Charmed1998'' by a demoness with shapeshifting powers who wanted in with [[BadPowersGoodPeople Cole]], who was himself set on a path to becoming the next [[BigBad Source]]. However, Cole [[SingleTargetSexuality is interested solely in Phoebe]]; he didn't give (much of) a damn about the demoness even if she took on Phoebe's form.
125	* At the start of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', the illusionist Candice tries to seduce Sylar with, among other forms, [[TwinThreesomeFantasy hot twins]], and ''[[ScrewYourself himself]]''. In season 3, Sylar and Danko track down a shapeshifter who uses the ability primarily to turn into powerful or charismatic men so he can pick up women in bars.
126	* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': Panis Rahl, who took the form of a young shepherd to seduce the mother of Richard and Jennsen.
127	* Lyekka of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' has a natural form of a carnivorous plant monster. However, she can take on an attractive human/humanoid appearance in order to lure victims closer so she can feed on them. She ''does'' have a "default" form, however, it's the one she specifically used with Stan and continues to appear in that guise after she falls in love with him.
128	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': But of course it's Sauron. Unlike the books, the show version of him blurs the line between non-sexual and sexual when he tries to seduce Galadriel to join his cause to rule, ahem, heal Middle-Earth, as his Queen Consort. In the climax of season 1, he traps her in a MindRape illusion where he takes the shape of her late brother [[IncestSubtext looking at her in a suggestive way.]] When this doesn't work, he changes the scenery to the day they met on the raft, where he exposes all of Galadriel's vulnerabilities and suggests to her how much they complete each other as each other's source of light and darkness. Sauron even shows her a possible future where he is in his TinTyrant form and her in her wraith form with her HandOnWomb. He almost succeeds, if only he would have gave Galadriel the right answer.
129	* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E2HPLovecraftsDreamsInTheWitchHouse H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House]]", the witch appears to Walter as his comely neighbor Frances to seduce them. The subterfuge is aided by the fact that he's keeping watch in her apartment at the moment. She eventually turns back into her regular decrepit form and laughs at him as he screams.
130	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
131	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E7FirstAnniversary First Anniversary]]", the protagonist's wife is actually a foul shapeshifting alien, whose power makes her appear as every man's perfect woman. Unfortunately, the power starts to fade when used too much on someone, such as her husband.
132	** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E19Stranded Stranded]]", Tyr'Nar reads Brad's mind and assumes the form of Cindy Parker, an attractive older girl on whom he has a crush so that he can gain his trust and eat him.
133	* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
134	** Camille in [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVCamille the episode of the same name]] is a GELF (genetically engineered lifeform) who automatically shapes herself to the desires of others. She appears to the mechanoid Kryten as a female mechanoid, to the hologram Rimmer as a shy and awkward hologram, to Lister as a low-dressed vagrant, and to the Cat as... [[{{Narcissist}} himself]]. Her real form is a green blob with stick eyes, which Kryten has no problem with, and goes on a date with her like that.
135	** The gang also runs into Psirens in [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens the first episode of season 6]], who lure space crews to them so they could [[BrainFood snack on their brains]]. When Lister comes face to face with one, it turns itself into a woman Dave lusted after when he was young. He tries to resist but eventually falls for her charms. Unfortunately, these Psirens are of the MasterOfIllusion rather than the body shapeshifting type, so we're soon treated to a shot of Lister making out with an 8-foot alien bug. They can also assume different forms if seduction isn't working, such as when one impersonates Lister and forces the other Dwarfers to play SpotTheImposter, and another Psiren poses as Kryten's creator and orders him to step into the trash compactor.
136	* ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'': In the third episode one of Jen Walters' old colleagues comes to her law firm for help. He needs to sue a Light Elf from Alfheim who used her shapeshifting abilities to trick him into thinking he was dating Music/MeganTheeStallion and spending thousands of dollars on her. He eventually wins the case, but notes that the ruling is a slap on the wrist as there's really nothing stopping her pulling the same con on someone else.
137	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' uses shapeshifting seducers repeatedly.
138	** In a variation on the shapeshifting seducer theme, "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" has Christopher Pike taken captive by a race of aliens who want to breed him with their other human specimen, Vina. To seduce him, they show Vina in a series of illusory settings, including one in which she is transformed into ''[[TropeNamers the]]'' GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe.
139	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", the MonsterOfTheWeek uses its mind-reading skills to take the form of an ideal lover, often from the victim's past, so it can approach its victims close enough to kill them. However, the creature also has emotional needs as well; when first encountered, the creature has been living as the wife of a scientist, having [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] his real wife years ago, [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest a fact that he's aware of]].
140	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]", the alien calling herself Sylvia tries to seduce Kirk by showing him several women she can become, saying "Look at me. I am a woman. I am all women!"
141	* A Siren shows up in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E14SexAndViolence Sex and Violence]]". It projects visions of the ideal woman to its victims, while its real shape looks more like a rotting corpse. Strangely, it tries the same thing on Dean [[spoiler:but as a ''man'', as Dean isn't looking for a bedwarmer but rather for a friend/brother who looks up to him]].
142	* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'', the witch Lilith takes on the form of Laszlo's wife Nadja to seduce him. Sort of. In fact, she turns into a completely different woman who vaguely resembles Nadja, but Laszlo can't tell the difference even when they're standing right next to each other.
143	--> '''Nadja:''' How many more women have you slept with that just have long dark hair?
144	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E20SmallPotatoes Small Potatoes]]", Eddie Van Blundht uses his shapeshifting abilities to seduce women, generally by posing as their husbands. In one case, he takes advantage of a woman crazed about ''Franchise/StarWars'' by appearing to her as Luke Skywalker. [[spoiler:This ends up exposing him -- he knew about her obsession from years ago, and her social circle was pretty small.]]
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148	* ''Myth/BrazilianFolklore'': The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_river_dolphin pink Amazonian river dolphin]], called Boto cor-de-rosa in Portuguese, is believed to turn into a handsome young man at night to seduce and impregnate women at festivals near his river. He cannot take away his blowhole, however, so he must hide it with a hat.
149	* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Zeus is depicted doing this several times when he wants to have an affair with a mortal woman, and often with little apparent regard for what a woman would find attractive. He carried off Europa in the form of a bull and met Danae disguised as a "[[HaveAGayOldTime shower of gold]]." He was in swan form when he chased ''and'' raped Leda (or Nemesis, DependingOnTheWriter). He used the trope's more usual form with Alcmene, though, by taking the shape of her husband so well she was totally fooled. The story that he (initially) hid his true form from Semele presumably includes him taking an attractive mortal human form with her, as well, although unlike Alcmene she wasn't married.
150	* In one of the Myth/{{Norse myth\|ology}}s, Loki talked the gods into letting a Giant rebuild the ruined Wall of Asgard -- and promising him the Sun, the Moon, and Freyja if he finished before the deadline. The idea was to cheat him, except he looked ready to finish on time with the help of his super-strong stallion Svadilfari. The gods demanded that Loki get rid of that horse, so he transformed into a mare and... distracted... Svadilfari. Some months later, Loki gave birth to Sleipnir.
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154	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
155	** The succubi can take any humanoid form to advance their role as TheCorrupter, so this trope is a common occurrence.
156	** This is also a common occurrence with {{Doppelganger}}s. In fact, since they are sexless in their true form, they are rumored to strictly reproduce when transformed in another race.
157	** Changelings are descendant of Doppelgangers. Though they have more varied personalities and methods than their ancestors, high-class changeling courtesans/prostitutes are very valued for this reason.
158	* Changelings of ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' are noted to be very popular in prostitution, despite some stigma from fears of an UnsettlingGenderReveal.
159	* In the games ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and its SciFi cousin ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Chaos God(dess) Slaanesh is canonically an androgynous being, which will appear in the form most suited to one's desires. This being Chaos, anything goes from the wholesome to the utterly depraved. Naturally, this fuels a lot of RuleThirtyFour. Slaaneshi cultists have been known to use illusions to make themselves appear to be someone their enemies care about to make them let their guard down as well.
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163	* Part of the plot twist of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' is that the titular character [[spoiler: is a succubus who swoops into the lives of men who refuse to commit to the women they're dating and takes the form of their ideal woman in order to force them into the death puzzles that Vincent's been enduring night after night.]]
164	* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'': Happens in Nano-Nano's route in the first game. While at the beach, Nano-Nano notices Kazuya staring at a couple of busty women and, [[ACupAngst feeling insecure about herself]], decides to transforms into a buxom blonde woman to seduce Kazuya. He doesn't recognize her and tells the woman to go away, he's waiting for Nano-Nano. After a long conversation with the "busty woman," he finds out that the big-breasted woman ''is'' Nano-Nano (and that he unintentionally scored major brownie points with Nano-Nano by telling the "busty woman" how much he likes Nano-Nano).
165	* At one point in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', Maya [[WillingChanneler channels the spirit]] of her older and more attractive dead sister Mia in order to get a DirtyOldMan to talk. Mia is...less than impressed.
166	* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', Ditto can shapeshift to match any opponent in combat. Once it became possible to breed pokémon, Ditto was revealed to be a viable mate for any fertile partner.
167	* In ''VideoGame/TheShapeshiftingDetective'', it's possible for the eponymous main character to take on certain attractive forms in order to get more information out of suspects, to the point that you can lure Oscar into a romantic encounter while impersonating Bronwyn and get a marriage proposition out of Poe while impersonating Ellis. You can even participate in Zak's nude photoshoot... but unfortunately, this results in Zak giving you a spiked drink, causing you to [[ShapeshiftingFailure unintentionally revert to your true form]].
168	* There are hints dropped in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' that the slightly telepathic [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Asari]] are considered universally attractive to every other species (including humans) because their appearance changes to fit. The strongest evidence is a scene in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' where three very different-looking species (Turian, Salarian, and Human) all claim that an Asari dancer resembles their own women and wonder if they are really being brainwashed. This hasn't [[https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lphdglawmb1qlbl8ko1_500.jpg gone unnoticed]] [[https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/covers/images/050/954/693/large/eugenio-volpato-eugenio-volpato-a.jpg?1656085132 by the fandom]].
169	* ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaPartyGames'': Orbulon disguises himself as an attractive woman to hitch a ride from Dribble and Spitz. Surprisingly, the two of them don't really care when [[GlamourFailure the disguise wears off]].
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173	* Yiska of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' changes forms to flirt with [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/827 Zerlocke]], [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/829 Victor]] and [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/910 Daray.]]
174	* In ''Webcomic/HitmenForDestiny'', Jymre attempts to seduce Anette by shapeshifting into human forms. As he figures what type she's ''not'' attracted to, he makes an excuse to leave, pretends to get killed offscreen, then shows up in a new form.
175	* In the (very NSFW) webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'':
176	** In "Reward", an [[LiteralGenie overly literal]] shapeshifter performs an all-too-obvious duck behind a tree for a not-very-clever change, having failed to realize the adventurer they're trying to impress was being sarcastic about her interests.
177	** In "Prince Rodgar", a forest nymph fond of seducing princes to steal their shape [[BecauseImJonesy finds out the hard way]] that her latest victim was lying to keep her interested.
178	** In "Homecoming", a wife greets her returning husband... only for him to admit in full honesty that he's a shapeshifter disguised as her husband in order to seduce her. Disappointed, she thanks him politely for telling her the truth. [[spoiler:And takes him to bed anyway]].
179	* Sabine in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is capable of shapeshifting as a succubus, so she doesn't have much of a problem getting people attracted to her so she can have sex with them. At one point her boyfriend's father compliments her beauty ''specifically'' to make fun of how meaningless a compliment it is to her.
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183	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree'': Referenced by the changeling Yu Suffiad, whose feminine persona Orym had previously [[IncompatibleOrientation turned down]]. In an altercation, Yu shifts into "the hottest half-elf man that you have ever seen" and mockingly repeats the invitation. Orym, who's still mourning his half-elf husband's murder, stabs them.
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187	* The bartender in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Lost in Space" can change her appearance to make herself attractive to anyone. Since she works on a space station with dozens of different alien species, she changes quite a bit. She apparently only does it because she's just really, really horny.
188	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'', [[FunnyAnimal Alfred the anthropomorphous duck]] is pursued by a WickedWitch who [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe wants to marry him]]. Alfred protests, so she transforms herself into a beautiful duck to make it easier for him. Alfred still refuses, since he's engaged to his girlfriend Winnie.
189	* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E19WeirdmageddonPart2EscapeFromReality Weirdmageddon Part 2: Escape from Reality]]", Dipper, while trying to save Mabel from within a LotusEaterMachine, encounters his PrecociousCrush Wendy. She suggests they use the magic of the world to [[AgeDownRomance bridge the age gap between them so they could be together]]. While Dipper is initially intrigued, [[SpotTheImposter when she winks at him rather than zipping her mouth, like in a previous episode]], Dipper realizes this isn't the real Wendy -- just the world trying to seduce him to stay.
190	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]" Leela thinks she meets the only other member of her mysterious cyclops species - a man called Alcazar. She almost marries him despite knowing he's a jerk because she wants to repopulate their species when Alcazar tells her they're the last of their kind. Turns out he's actually a small cricket like alien that can shapeshift and has pulled the same trick on four other women - a five eyed alien lady, a rhinoceros-centaur woman, a multiple [[EyeOnAStalk eye stalked alien]], and a [[StarfishAliens long necked, purple, crab-claw wielding, tentacle faced lady]] and was trying to wed them all on the same day.
191	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'''s changelings, who are essentially G-rated [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubi]], impersonate other sentient creatures and [[EmotionEater feed off of the love]] of those close to them. Presumably, this trope is how they go about it when they're not amassing in force to invade entire nations, as was witnessed in the case of [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Chrysalis]] impersonating Princess Cadance in order to leech off of Shining Armor]].
192	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' revealed that Miss Martian did this with Superboy (taking on the appearance of Black Canary to make out with him). The real Black Canary is completely unamused when Martian Manhunter tells her that it's a common thing on Mars, since as a race of telepathic shapeshifters, Martians can tell who their partner is regardless of what form they take. Superboy, for the record, knew it was Miss Martian the whole time.
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