Line #16 PlayingWith/ShapeshifterGuiltTrip


1	'''Basic Trope''': A {{Shape Shift\|ing}}er transforms into TheHero's loved one, giving him hesitation.
2	* '''Straight''': Eva transforms into [[TheHero Bob]]'s dead little sister Alice, forcing Bob into a HeroicBSOD.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Eva transforms into Bob's dead family, [[DrivenToSuicide driving Bob to suicide]].
4	* '''Downplayed''': Eva transforms into Bob's pet dog, which makes Bob confused.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Eva knows about Bob's past to hit where it hurts.
7	** Eva feeds off misery to live, and her time is nearly up so she takes Alice's form to feed off Bob's emotions.
8	** Eva isn't well adapted[=/=]trained for direct confrontations, with her shapeshifting abilities being better suited for stealth and infiltration missions. So, when she ends up engaged in a duel with Bob, she decides to take Alice's form to confuse him and try to make a shift escape.
9	* '''Inverted''':
10	** Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.
11	** Eva is on Bob's side, and transforms into Bob's mentor to give him more confidence.
12	* '''Subverted''':
13	** Eva transforms into Alice, but Bob gives no response...
14	** Alternatively, all the transformation manages to do is piss Bob off. "You don't deserve to wear that face!"
15	* '''Double Subverted''': Until Eva, as Alice, calls him out for letting her die. Cue BSOD.
16	* '''Parodied''': Eva turns into [[DisappearedDad Bob's neglectful father]], hoping to start a HeroicBSOD. [[CurbStompBattle Cue the parental abandonment issues.]]
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** This strategy never comes across Eva's mind
20	** Eva transforms into someone Bob has never met.
21	* '''Enforced''': "We're contractually obligated to have Alice's actress appear in another episode, but the character's dead. How about we have Eva shapeshift into her to emotionally freak out Bob?"
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh yeah, transform into my dead little sister, ''very'' original."
23	* '''Invoked''': Eva starts studying all the information regarding Bob's lost sister, just [[CrazyPrepared in case she ends up in trouble and she has to use that transformation against him]].
24	* '''Exploited''': Charlie is aware of Bob's crippling weakness in regard to Eva and so he implants the idea into her so that she can use this as a means of breaking him.
25	* '''Defied''':
26	** Eva doesn't go for old wounds, seeing them as a cheap way to achieve a win.
27	** Bob's instant response to seeing Alice again is to open fire. As he figures it, Alice is dead so either she's a hallucination or ghost (won't be harmed, he'll blame shooting at thin air on being spooked by something if necessary), a zombie or clone (better safe than sorry, he's making her rest again) or a shapeshifter (such as Eva).
28	* '''Discussed''': ???
29	* '''Conversed''': ???
30	* '''Deconstructed''': Eva transforms into Alice, but instead of pressing a BSOD button, it pressed a BerserkButton. Eva [[CurbStompBattle soon finds herself in fifteen separate pieces, with enough of her body to still be torn apart]].
31	* '''Reconstructed''': Eva decides to stay as Alice, [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred so that while Bob is killing her, it would look like he's killing Alice]], thus [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone BSOD moment]].
32	* '''Implied''': Bob inexplicably sees Alice after her death, and there was previously a throwaway line about shapeshifters being discovered.
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39	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
40	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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