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** One woman explodes into a fine white dust during a public poetry reading and then floats down and settles on the heads of the crowd. [[CharacterNarrator Cecil]] at least finds this beautiful and moving rather than repulsive.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-S862p69B0 "Transfiguration"]] artistic performances, by French painter and performer Olivier de Sagazan, is focused on an artist altering himself his face, several times. The results are something reminescent to [[Creator/HPLovecraft lovecraftian creatures]], overlapping with NightmareFace and including copious amount of NightmareFuel.
* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': One story has the Sixth Doctor go through a FreakyFridayFlip with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains that Davros' body is in constant, agonizing pain like he, a man who has gone through some horrific stuff in his several hundred years, has never felt, and if he could kill himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of a problem. He finds it ''motivating''.
* A member of the East Germany Womens' Gymnastics team goes to the doctor.
-->"Doctor, about those pills you've been giving us..."\\
"Yes? Have you noticed any side effects?"\\
"Two of them, actually. The first is that I've been growing hair in strange places."\\
"Hm. Not entirely unexpected, but where exactly?"\\
"On my balls, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany which is the other side effect I wanted to talk about.]]"

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-S862p69B0 "Transfiguration"]] artistic performances, by French painter and performer Olivier de Sagazan, is focused on an artist altering himself his face, several times. The results are something reminescent to [[Creator/HPLovecraft lovecraftian creatures]], overlapping In Podcast/DarkDice, party's first encounter with NightmareFace and including copious amount of NightmareFuel.
* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': One story has
[[TheHeavy The Silent One]] involves the Sixth Doctor go creature reaching out through a FreakyFridayFlip woman's mouth, pulling it open as far as possible, then climbing out of the woman, leaving her body laying aside like a discarded sock.
* When the party in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' investigates the wizard’s tower in Palanthis, [[spoiler: they find the remains of previous adventurers being stitched together in terrifying mashups in the basement of the Tower in Palanthis]].
* ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'' has Riley's {{Shapeshifting}}, which is accompanied by horrifically fleshy noises. In Episode 9, they even transform into [[HumanoidAbomination twenty people]] at once, after [[YouAreWhoYouEat eating 20-people chilli]]. It does not sound pleasant.
* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' is fond of this trope. Just to name a few examples:
** In "Skintight", [[spoiler:Sarah]] peels the skin off her injured arm, then staples it back on. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that this isn't Sarah at all, but a MonsterClown masquerading as her [[FlayingAlive using her skin]].]]
** "The Man Upstairs" features an apartment room covered wall-to-ceiling in fresh and rotting meat. And the misshapen pile of flesh that used to be the former occupant, [[NotQuiteDead which reveals itself to still be alive when it blinks at the narrator]].
** In "Rotten Core", [[spoiler: [[WalkingWasteland John Amherst]] infects an entire town
with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains an illness that Davros' causes the skin and muscles to slough off their bodies, leaving the skeleton and organs exposed, then [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses forms a throne]] from their rotting, [[FateWorseThanDeath still-living]], bodies.]]
** Most of [[spoiler:the Avatars]], particularly those of the [[spoiler:[[PuppeteerParasite Corruption]], [[EvilIsVisceral Flesh]], and Spiral]]. Fitting, considering they're living manifestations of humanity's [[PrimalFear primal fears]].
*** Jane Prentiss. A once-normal human who became TheWormThatWalks, she has so many holes in her face that her eyes are no longer distinguishable in the mess.
*** Jared Hopworth, who can reshape his bones to grotesque proportions and [[spoiler: pulls the protagonist's rib straight out of his chest]].
*** "[[AmbiguouslyHuman Michael]]", who is described as looking like all of its bones are in its hands. [[spoiler: Its successor, Helen, is implied to meet the same fate.]]
** And the others are no slouch either-- Annabelle Cane's head is half smashed in with spiderwebs filling the gaps, Jude Perry is a literal wax person who can remold her
body and [[PlayingWithFire supernaturally set things on fire]], and [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jonah Magnus]] is implied to hop between bodies by [[EyeScream replacing their eyes with his own]].]]
* ''Podcast/OnTheTropes'' has an episode
in constant, agonizing pain which Themmo has pustules grow and spread all over his body, before exploding.
* Gemini from ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' looks
like he, two people made of silly putty slammed together, and when she splits into Pollux and Castor she literally grabs the sides of her head and tears herself apart.
* Happens
a man couple of times in ''Podcast/SpiritBoxRadio''. Notable examples include Sam throwing up a chess piece, and a woman who has gone through some horrific stuff in gets what is heavily implied to be the One Who Walks Here and There’s black baccara tattooed onto her, and ends up having roses ''growing through'' her skin and around her.
* A few times throughout the WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay podcast, ''Super Best Friendcast'', as well as their show, they discussed how Woolie onetime had to go to the hospital after a violent allergic reaction, presumably caused by ant poison... the symptoms described are not pretty to say the least.
** During their playthrough of ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', Pat tells a story about
his several hundred years, has never felt, father who, as a child, was attacked by a dog. It clawed [[EyeScream one of his eyes out of the socket]] and if it fell onto his cheek. With the nerves intact, he could kill still see with it.
* Very common with saints, or victims of such, in ''Podcast/TheSiltVerses''. Highlights: A man melted into a chair, the various crustacean saints of the Trawler Man, and a man halfway transformed into a skeletal deer.
* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'':
** It's not unheard of for Night Vale residents to grow new eyes (at least one person has eight), or win "prizes" like surgically-applied, working gills.
** The mayor is seen to be melting at one press conference, and is mentioned another time to have more than two arms.
** One woman explodes into a fine white dust during a public poetry reading and then floats down and settles on the heads of the crowd. [[CharacterNarrator Cecil]] at least finds this beautiful and moving rather than repulsive.
** At least two "Community Health Tips" instruct the listener in graphic detail how to 1.) skin yourself alive and 2.) remove, cook, and eat your own heart.
** It's been mentioned at least twice that the hearts of Night Vale citizens are full of straw and insects.
** Once the broadcast announced that following the news is the sound of someone chewing up glass shards.
** The Whispering Forest lures hypnotized people into wanting to stay there and then slowly turns their bodies into a wood-like substance so they become part of the forest.
** There is an outbreak of people's skin becoming covered with 15-inch-long spiraling horns.
** A senior football player grows a second head and his mother has the original head removed because she likes the new one better.
** A woman gives birth to a disembodied grown man's hand. The hand is alive and sentient and the loving parents decide that it's a daughter and name her Megan.
** People influenced by the Well of Night have skin grow over their eyes, and all their hair ''retracts'' under their skin. Cecil comes under the effects of this, and describes it as enriching.
* When [[spoiler: [[BigBad Kepler]]]] from ''Podcast/Wolf359'' pisses off [[spoiler: the Dear Listeners]], they burn his hand off, audibly, all the while he screams in pure agony. When [[TheStoic Minkowski]] speaks again, she sounds like she's about to throw up, and later dialogue reveals that [[CowardlyLion Eiffel]] had immediately hidden
himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of underneath a problem. He finds it ''motivating''.
* A member of the East Germany Womens' Gymnastics team goes to the doctor.
-->"Doctor, about those pills you've been giving us..."\\
"Yes? Have you noticed any side effects?"\\
"Two of them, actually. The first is that I've been growing hair in strange places."\\
"Hm. Not entirely unexpected, but where exactly?"\\
"On my balls, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany which is the other side effect I wanted to talk about.]]"
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-S862p69B0 "Transfiguration"]] artistic performances, by French painter and performer Olivier de Sagazan, is focused on an artist altering himself his face, several times. The results are something reminescent to [[Creator/HPLovecraft lovecraftian creatures]], overlapping with NightmareFace and including copious amount of NightmareFuel.
* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': One story has the Sixth Doctor go through a FreakyFridayFlip with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains that Davros' body is in constant, agonizing pain like he, a man who has gone through some horrific stuff in his several hundred years, has never felt, and if he could kill himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of a problem. He finds it ''motivating''.
* A member of the East Germany Womens' Gymnastics team goes to the doctor.
-->"Doctor, about those pills you've been giving us..."\\
"Yes? Have you noticed any side effects?"\\
"Two of them, actually. The first is that I've been growing hair in strange places."\\
"Hm. Not entirely unexpected, but where exactly?"\\
"On my balls, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany which is the other side effect I wanted to talk about.]]"
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* At the end of the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Animal X", Lamput traps the docs, a gorilla, and a banana in the docs' creature-merging machine and bait-and-switches them into thinking he's going to press the button to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls on the button, creating a two-headed doc gorilla wearing a banana peel skirt. The docs and the gorilla are not pleased.

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* At the end of the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Animal X", Lamput traps the docs, a gorilla, and a banana in the docs' creature-merging machine and bait-and-switches them into thinking he's going to press the button to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls Anti-drug commercials often do this.
* Modern ''Advertising/{{Skittles}}'' commercials just won't give up
on the button, creating body horror.
** In "Harvest the Rainbow",
a two-headed doc gorilla wearing boy has a banana peel skirt. skittles tree growing out of his abdomen.
** In "Chocolate the Rainbow", a guy who looks like and may be a humanoid piñata has been assaulted by a colleague who wanted the skittles he presumed were inside him.
** In "French the Rainbow", a boy has skittles as teeth. A girl open-mouth kisses him just to eat his skittle-teeth.
** In "Warp the Rainbow", a guy ages rapidly over the course of a few seconds because his roommate takes skittles from his skittle-filled hourglass.
** In "Touch the Rainbow, an office worker turns everything he touches into skittles, including people.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uQFshnBq_s This Sprite commercial.]] Apparently Sprite is used to fuel RidiculouslyHumanRobots.
* Some Fruit-by-the-Foot ads have involved switching things with it, such as skis. In at least once this included someone's DNA, you can guess how that went.
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The docs Capri Sun "Disrespectoids" ads. These basically consist of a kid either stepping on a Capri Sun pouch, trading a Capri Sun for something, or even simply throwing away a Capri Sun pouch... and being transformed into something.
** Fortunately,
the gorilla are not pleased.tie-in flash games and cartoons show the kids getting along pretty well. They even see their transformations as [[CursedWithAwesome "freaky powers"]].
** They even had a GrandFinale game where the kids were turned back to normal. All’s well that ends well, eh?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ti7plFgS9A This ad]] for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLq5o228Nlk This UK advert]] for X-Cite breathmints that help you "avoid dog breath". For those wondering, a man sleeping on a couch realizes his breath smells and proceeds to ''gag and vomit up a snarling, filthy dog''. No wonder it was banned!
* Fruit Gushers ads from the 90s typically involved folks eating the snack and their heads turned into a random fruits or other objects. Their use of this trope was inevitable. Take [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_lIW1AktE&feature=related 0:18 of this tropical flavors commercial]] for instance.
* [[http://i.imgur.com/WDGUOBz.jpg This]] horrifying picture advising tourists visiting Suriname to use protection. The picture is a woman with multiple holes in her back. 6 of those holes have an infant inside of it. Not for people with trypophobia. It seems to be intentionally based on the Surinam Toad, which carries its eggs on its back in a thin layer of skin used for that purpose.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3A4Hh8IoPQ This Afrin Nasal Spray commercial]] features a man whose head is transformed into a giant nose. As the commercial puts it, his "nose took over."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIrwW6cLCg The Natural Born Smoker]], a British PSA from The80s, features an eerie ''Film/BladeRunner''-esque {{Cyberpunk}} world where a future evolution of humanity exists, one that has several adaptations for smoking. These include a bigger nose to filter out impurities, self-cleaning lungs, extra eyelids to protect against irritation, a natural resistance to cancer and heart disease, and [[{{Anvilicious}} smaller ears because they don't listen.]]
* [[https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/35887/foot/honda This disturbing Honda commercial]] has a podiatrist's patient reveal that after he bought his Honda, his right foot stiffened into a solid [[VisualPun lead foot]]. In addition to the unsettling sight of his leg transitioning from flesh to metal at his ankle, he requires both of his hands to lift up his heavy foot, and it emits a loud ping when the doctor taps it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0uxAhM5boo This Brazilian MTV promo]] has a man growing an eyeball out of his mouth while his arms stretch and deform.


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* Francis Bacon's ''Screaming Popes'' paintings show the distorted faces of popes apparently screaming in their own horror.
* Creator/HieronymusBosch: The central image of ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'' panel ''Hell'' shows a huge man turned into a tree, with parts of his body as a huge eggshell with people dining inside of it.
* Creator/SalvadorDali: ''Soft Construction with Boiled Beans from Premonition of the Civil War'' shows a huge giant who has no rump, just a trapezium-shaped nothingness in the middle, while his hands and feet appear in odd places.
* Théodore Géricault made some studies of chopped up heads, arms, and legs in preparation for ''Art/TheRaftOfTheMedusa''.
* Creator/FranciscoDeGoya: ''Art/SaturnDevouringHisSon'' and ''Art/TheDisastersOfWar'' show a lot of MalevolentMutilation. Other artworks also show his fascination with deformity.
* Creator/GabrielGrun: A lot of his paintings add something extra to the figures (like bat wings or superfluous genitals) as commentary on real-world issues.
* ''The Judgment of Cambyses'' by Gerard David shows a man being flayed alive.
* ''Judith Decapitates Holofernes'' by Creator/{{Caravaggio}}.
* Creator/ReneMagritte: ''Le Viol'' (''The Rape'').
* Creator/PabloPicasso: The melted faces of the people in his cubist paintings are also a memorable example.
* Creator/PeterPaulRubens: The severed head of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Medusa]] was subject of one of his {{paintings}}.
* The scrawny nudes of Egon Schiele sometimes have this audience reaction too.
* Zuccari's frescoes of ''Capital Sins and Hell ''in the duomo of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Italy have a man in the centre who is half flayed and still sits upright. At one point these paintings were covered up because they were thought to be too horrific.

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* ''Fucking Hell'' (Jake and Dinos Chapman): The {{sculpture|s}} shows hundreds of tiny puppets all in a symbolic depiction of the worst crimes mankind has ever committed.
* ''Art/NueCouchee'': It's a sculpture is a {{surrealis|m}}t take on the RecliningVenus pose, exaggerating it to highlight how artworks that play that trope straight depict women in painful positions for the sake of FanService. As a result, it's a hairless, fleshy mass with too many legs replacing its arms, head, and shoulders. Noticeable ridges shape what would be its spinal column and rear end, as well as the skinny waist, evoke the traditional beauty standard used for most Odalisques.
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* At the end of the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Animal X", Lamput traps the docs, a gorilla, and a banana in the docs' creature-merging machine and bait-and-switches them into thinking he's going to press the button to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls on the button, creating a two-headed doc gorilla wearing a banana peel skirt. The docs and the gorilla are not pleased.
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* ''Radio/BigFinishDoctorWho:'' One story has the Sixth Doctor go through a FreakyFridayFlip with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains that Davros' body is in constant, agonizing pain like he, a man who has gone through some horrific stuff in his several hundred years, has never felt, and if he could kill himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of a problem. He finds it ''motivating''.

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* ''Radio/BigFinishDoctorWho:'' ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': One story has the Sixth Doctor go through a FreakyFridayFlip with Davros, intentionally on the Doctor's part. He explains that Davros' body is in constant, agonizing pain like he, a man who has gone through some horrific stuff in his several hundred years, has never felt, and if he could kill himself at that moment, he'd seriously take the chance. Davros, meanwhile, doesn't have as much of a problem. He finds it ''motivating''.



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* TheTopicOfCancer: No funny joker here -- just cellular chaos and slow death.

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* PopGoesTheHuman: "Where's Bob?" "Over there...and there...and there."

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* PopGoesTheHuman: "Where's Bob?" "Over there... and there...there... and there."



* WhatHaveIBecome: Whatever the answer is, it ''isn't'' human...[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Or is it?]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: They don't ''look'' like us, but they certainly ''act'' like us...and that might not be a good thing.

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* WhatHaveIBecome: Whatever the answer is, it ''isn't'' human... [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Or is it?]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: They don't ''look'' like us, but they certainly ''act'' like us... and that might not be a good thing.thing.
* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: "My lips are sealed-- ''Mmph!''" "Indeed they are."
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* RapidAging: A lifetime's worth of growing pains in a few moments.
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* {{Telefrag}}: Becoming closer to your furniture than you ever thought possible, through the miracle of teleportation.
* TeleporterAccident: When it sends all your parts, but not necessarily in the right configuration.
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* CloneDegeneration: Duplicates aren't here for a long time *or* a good time.


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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Having your orifices invaded by a monster and its spawn is rarely pleasant to begin with, and typically only gets worse.


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* TaintedVeins: Very much not the color blood is supposed to be.

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