Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
We all need food to survive and most of us enjoy it too, but sometimes, we're too sad, scared, or angry to eat, and that's what this trope is.
If they're sad, maybe they're grieving or getting over a bad breakup, but they could also have just had a bad day. Likewise, if they're afraid, their fear could be crippling anxiety or a response to a serious threat, but it's just as likely to be a mild thing like
Failure-Induced Transformation
There are many penalties for failure in fiction, but by far the strangest is transformation. Here, the loser in a battle, duel, or contest is transmogrified into a new and usually detrimental shape — often automatically.
The reasons for the transformation are many and varied: maybe it's part of some kind of supernatural contest, with losing resulting in automatically being punished by transformation; maybe there's a magical contract that
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