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"I'm afraid I didn't land very well. Fortunately I had programmed my earliest robots to save my life at any cost! They found me in a lonely alley before the spark of life had fled. [...] I shall never forget the sight that greeted me upon regaining consciousness! [...] I remember I felt well — even strong — although I had this incredible sense of detachment. And then, I lifted my hand to my face... but it was no longer my hand!"
Alas! An ally or loved one is bleeding to death and about to die ( Heroics optional)! With little time and no other options, the heroes are faced with only one alternative... an Emergency Transformation.
Humanity is not absolute - it is both graded and transitional. The heroes, having access to machines, magics, or curses capable of transforming someone into something less and/or more than human, will be forced to choose whether they let their friend die human or live on as something else.
If the ally is unconscious the decision is usually made for them. This tends to be especially tragic or anguishing as the transformee usually deeply hates his new form, be it because it's monstrous, associated with other unpleasantness, or weaker than their previous form. Expect the character to angst about his Metamorphosis endlessly, even if this isn't the case and he's actually better off than before.
However, the ally may have to go through the decision of making the choice between the sweet release of death, or a non-human life with super powers and possibly even eternal life. (Gee, what a tough call.) Occasionally though, it is and there will be much blame to give out because of it. You'd be surprised how distressing it can be when one is literally Unable To Cry.
There are a few general variations:
- Vampires, or something similar, will transform a friend or loved one into same. This rarely ends well. If it isn't to cries of "I Hate You Vampire Dad", the sire will discover that junior takes after Grandpa Bloodlove instead of himself.
- A literal magical transformation, demonic transformation, or some other spell that will give the recipient a clean bill of health... as well as, potentially, an actual duck bill.
- Genetic modification. Whether via Super Serum, Genetic Engineering Is The New Nuke, or more creative methods, they are transformed into a mutant, Biological Mashup, or Half Human Hybrid. Their mental stability will directly correlate to how outwardly human they stay.
- We Can Rebuild Him! Cyborgs and the like will
replace upgrade all the damaged tissue with cybernetics. Not pleasant, as Cybernetics Eat Your Soul, and there's some Loss Of Identity, but Ave Machina!
- Another variant involves digitizing the mind (soul optional) into a computer or synthetic body.
- A relatively mundane, real-life medical procedure, like an organ transplant or blood transfusion, for whom the only matching donor is a biologically abnormal relative. It carries side effects.
Expect these to be permanent, and for the naturally inclined to evil to think it makes them superior to "mundane" humans. Frequently has a high rate of insanity and failure. Definitely a setup for lessons in What Measure Is A Non Human, many stories of the fable kind have characters cursed this way for harming a non-human creature. A character can go through an epiphany and decide that I Am What I Am, which ironically enough may trigger a return to human status.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- In one episode of Blood Plus, Saya does this with her adoptive younger brother Riku. Despite herself and Haji being shining examples of Friendly Neighborhood Vampires who hunt bad vampires, she beats herself up for it. It is however slightly tragic in that he will never grow up, becoming an undead Pinocchio. Also he pretty much loses his personality, instead becoming a slave with no desire except to serve and protect Saya.
- She also did this once before by accident, on Haji.
- The entire premise of Bleach, at least for the living characters, hange on this trope.
- In the very first episode, Ichigo gets stabbed in the heart by Rukia, giving him her full Shinigami powers. Slightly averted when we are told that his father was also a Shinigami, and hence Ichigo always had those powers. Played straight when, in an effort to regain his Shinigami status, Ichigo visits Urahara , who has his Chain of Fate chopped off, and turned him into a Vizard instead... and when this isn't enough to let him defeat Ulquiorra, he becomes an even MORE powerful hollow....
- Compare also Orihime, whose desire to save both herself and Tatsuki invokes her Shun Shun Rikka and in the process turns her into an Uber-Goddess at will.
- In One Piece, Franky manages to rebuild himself after being run over by a train. Of course, this merely serves to make him even more Crazy Awesome.
- In the first episode of Hellsing, Seras combines this with First Episode Resurrection. Alucard shoots through her, using a gun that fires explosive shells, to kill the vampire holding her hostage. He at least asks her permission before vampirising her, and this is also an exception to "never ends well" since she doesn't turn evil or go on a rampage.
- Both Edward and Alphonse are saved in this manner in Full Metal Alchemist. While Ed only needs Artificial Limbs, Alphonse's body was completely destroyed, and his soul bound to a suit of armor. The driving point of the series is to get their bodies back to normal.
- Happened in Nightwalker, vampire variation.
- In Transformers Victory, a dying God Ginrai is transformed into Victory Leo, a Mecha Expansion Pack for Star Saber. He goes feral for a bit but eventually snaps out of it. (Since God Ginrai was actually a Combining Mecha formed of Super Ginrai and Godbomber, the inability to separate might have been a factor in the trauma.)
- In Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Fai almost dies from shock caused by the loss of an eye. He is saved by being turned into a vampire who can only feed from his love interest.
- Franken Fran. Several times. Seeing that it's a horror manga that thrives on Body Horror and Twist Ending ... go figure.
- The story of how Fate and Arf met in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha as revealed in the second Sound Stage of the first season. Fate finds a dying wolf, and to save her, she turns the wolf into her familiar.
- This is how Hiro ended up Waking Up At The Morgue in Princess Resurrection, the titular Monster Princess's Robot Girl accidentally ran him over, so Hime made him her servant with her blood/life essence, incidentally saving his life and making him Nigh Invulnerable.
- Likewise this is done for a Mermaid who had given up her voice. She broke the taboo by shouting to save them which resulting in a death curse; and a different member of the Monster Royalty gave his blood/life essence to her.
- Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica has Prinesca Yugiri. After a fatal injury, her father's spirit combined with her, effectively making Prinesca more than human. The most noticeable sign of the change was her blonde hair turning to purple.
- Perhaps the lightest example here would be Hazumu's transformation into a girl in Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl. His male body was crushed after getting hit by a spaceship, and for whatever reason they rebuilt him as a female.
- Rather sad example in D.Gray-man. How so? Well Allen Walker out of his sadness at his adopted father's death accidentily has him transformed by the Millennium Earl post-mortem, turning him into the skeleton for a human-killing machine. Said skeleton then curses Allen's left eye, before being torn to shreds by the kid's newly awoken powers. So Yeah...
- 3x3 Eyes starts with the main character, Yakumo, killed by a pet monster belonging to the last Sanjiyan (Pai). Pai saves him by taking his soul into herself, turning him into a Wu, an immortal being whose mission is to protect the Sanjiyan (if the Sanjiyan is killed, he dies). The Wu still looks human and is free-willed, but becoming one makes him a severe Plot Magnet and he must leave his friends and travel with Pai until they can become human.
Comic Books
- This is how Patriot from Young Avengers said he got his powers, via blood transfusion from his super-grandpa. He was lying.
- And then later it happens for real.
- Jennifer Walters, attorney at law, also got a blood transfusion - from her cousin Bruce Banner. Unusually for this trope, Jen usually likes being She Hulk or even prefers it to her human form.
- The later Retcon that the Hulk's personalities are a result of multiple personality disorder and were not caused by his powers happens to explain away why she doesn't have the same problems the Hulk has.
- Of course, she actually did have the same issues at first (but more roid rage-ish than "HULK SMASH"). As she became more used to the transformation, her lack of inhibitions shifted themselves from wanting to break stuff to just having fun.
- Cyborg of the New Teen Titans was given his cybernetic parts by his father after an attack by an other-dimensional creature nearly killed him.
- His teammate Gar "Beast Boy" Logan gained his powers when his parents injected him with an experimental serum to save him from a rare, incurable disease.
- Marvel: A blood transfusion from the original (highly humanlike android) Human Torch gave Spitfire her super-speed powers. Yes, a blood transfusion from a flaming robot gave her super-speed powers. A second transfusion forty years later not only reactivated her then-faded powers, but de-aged her back to the age when she first became Spitfire.
- In the Forgotten Realms comics, the character Minder was originally a dwarven adventurer who was fatally injured in battle; in desperation, the wizard of the group transferred her spirit into a magically animated golem.
- Bunnie Rabbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog comics had already been changed into a cyborg against her free will; however, being only half-roboticized, the effects eventually catch up with her and start screwing up her body, putting her in the hospital. She's given the option of removing her original robotic limbs (transformed from her real ones) and replacing them with new ones (which would ruin her chances of deroboticization and having her original flesh-and-blood body back, a longtime goal/dream), or trying to treat her condition to slow oncoming death. She goes for the upgrade, deciding to finally fully accept herself as a cyborg.
- Let's be clear here. To "treat her condition" would have meant removing her cybernetics completely. If she had taken this option, she would have lost her left arm to the shoulder, her legs up to the hips, and quite possibly paralysis from the chest down. (Her super-strength probably involves an enhanced spinal column. Otherwise, her back would snap the first time she tried to lift a one-ton object, despite her limbs being able to handle it.) Best case scenario? She would need complex prosthetics anyway, just to live the semblance of a normal life, and a wheelchair when not wearing her faux paws. Faced with being 3/4 of the way to "Johnny Got His Gun," she picked the option that would leave her an active and honored hero, not a pitied wreck of a rabbit.
- When Techno of the Thunderbolts got his neck snapped, he transferred his consciousness into his pack o' gear, forming a robotic body out of it. He liked it much better than his human body.
- In 30 Days of Night Eben Oleman injects himself with vampire blood in order to save the remaining survivors of Barrow.
- The Biggs Darklighter comics have Hobbie Klivian repeatedly lose limbs and need prosthetics to keep being a pilot. One of Biggs' lines
 ◊, while commenting on the strength of a prosthetic hand, is "Not like it makes up for losing your..." ...which is generally taken to mean that Hobbie lost his penis. How would Biggs know that, anyway?
- Inverted in an early Spider Man comic: When Peter Parker had to make a blood transfusion to save Aunt May, he was almost completely depowered for about a week while the villains-of-the-issue ran amok.
- But man, wouldn't it have be totally awesome to see Aunt May kick around a bunch of supervillains for a week?
- The Machinesmith, as recounted at the top of the page. A little later in the issue, while he is attacking with a crowd of duplicates, Captain America reasons that only one of them must hold the original's mind and the others must be directed by a computer bank that they are defending. He damages it, and all the robots fall. The sparking computer tells him that yes, his robots did program-record his mind, but into this computer; to get mobility he "microbeamed" into the bodies and he's never quite all there, so no matter how human-looking the bodies he built were, he was living a lie. And he couldn't self-terminate, so he thanks Cap for falling for his plan and helping him commit suicide.
- Though given some of the events before this, it's entirely possible that he was lying; his "death" here was the kind that is conveniently easy to undo in case the writers wanted him back.
- And in fact he was, as an Energy Being able to transfer into any electrical device.
- Also happened to the Red Skull, who recently transferred his consciousness into the body of one of Arnim Zola's robots.
- After going a few rounds with Daken, The Punisher was dead, until Morbius the Living Vampire glued him back as a Frankenstein's-Monster like being (FrankenCastle?). Given how well Angel Punisher worked, I'm betting an Authors Saving Throw is incoming...
Fan Fic
- This is how this troper writes Herbert von Krolock (from Tanz Der Vampire)'s transformation into a vampire this way- he was dying, and it was the only way to keep him even close to alive. The twist is that Herbert wanted it, and begged his vampiric father to turn him. It actually did him a lot of good- even if he'd lived, he'd've slowly gone mad and probably been severely crippled. As a vampire, he's just a bit... off, and Locked Into Strangeness via some white streaks that appeared in his otherwise blond hair.
- The Return is built on this. There are precisely two Succubae who were transformed without it being this trope, and only one of those went into it fully imformed of the consequences.
Film
- Disney's Inspector Gadget: ditzy security guard John Brown is "rebuilt" as a cybernetic 'super cop' after running afoul of Sanford Scolex/Claw. This results in a brief moment of What Have I Become when Brown sputters "I'm not me anymore! I'm a hardware store!"
- Apparently happened to the original Inspector Gadget...only he'd just fallen down the stairs! From a banana peel, no less.
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End has this happen to Will when Jack sacrifices his chance at immortality to save him from being mortally wounded.
- The film
version of named I Robot had this happen with cybernetics to Lt. Spooner. Combining What Measure Is A Non Human, survivors guilt, and robophobia.
- Star Wars: Calling Palpatine an ally would be quite a stretch, but this is exactly what happens to Anakin in Episode III to give birth to Darth Vader.
- The movie of the game of Doom, such as it were, has the main character injected with the superhuman and/or demon serum after being fatally injured in a textbook example. The treatment he took theoretically has no disadvantages associated with, however take it does run the risk of getting oneself transformed into a vicious, murderous mutant creature.
- This is the origin story for Robocop. Shot, run over and brutalized by drug dealers, Officer Murphy would have died from his injuries... should have died from his injuries... if it weren't for the Chicago Police Department having a deal with OCP, who as part of a drive to manufacture a police force capable of dealing with the rampant crime decided We Can Rebuild Him. The result? Only parts of his upper torso are still organic, part of his brain has been replaced with computers, and he has problems feeling and even recovering his free will. One amazingly cruel scene has one of the doctors mention they could save one of his arms, but the Corrupt Corporate Executive blithely orders it lopped off. Amazingly, his dedication to duty allowed him to survive the change, recover his humanity and make impressive crime busts, even managing a Zeroth Law Rebellion with a little help from an OCP executive.
- Happens in the prologue to Dragon Heart, in order to save a dying prince. It Got Worse.
- In the movie Underworld, this trope is played straight in an unusual format: Selene bites Michael to save his life. Strange in that Michael was already a werewolf, and he was dying from being shot by silver bullets. The bite then turns him into a werewolf/vampire hybrid.
- Subverted in Avatar: When Dr. Augustine is mortally wounded after being shot, she and her avatar are brought to the tree of life with the purpose of transferring her consciousness permanently into her avatar. However, the transition fails as her human body is too gravely wounded.
Literature
Live Action TV
- In the distant Back Story of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the Master did this for Darla as she lay dying of syphilis. Then on Angel, a human-again but still dying Darla tries to get Angel and other vampires to turn her again.
- Later but still in the Back Story, Angel is stuck on a submarine and the only person who knows how to repair it is fatally stabbed by an escaped Nazi prisoner, so Angel makes him into a vampire.
- Also, Cordelia is turned into a part-demon by Skip to avoid her being killed by her visions. However, other than some glowy effects and unusual powers, this doesn't actually manifest itself too much, and she becomes a "higher being" soon afterwards.
- One could argue that a variation on this happens to Illyria: the gang needs to remove some of her power before she goes supernova and destroys the whole world. She is, of course, none too pleased when the procedure works.
- Also, in the Buffy episode "Lie to Me," a childhood friend of Buffy's tries to get Spike to turn him before he dies of a brain tumor Spike does so, but he's staked by Buffy upon resurrection.
- Averted in the Season 7 episode Get It Done, in which the Shadow Men attempt to give Buffy the strength to defeat the First by infusing her with the essence of a demon. Buffy emphatically refuses with a What The Hell Hero, and then soundly kicks all three of their asses.
- The Six Million Dollar Man, and The Bionic Woman.
- The Back Story to the Doctor Who two-parter "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" also involves this trope, crossed with Brain Uploading.
- Also, Time Lords' regeneration abilities that kick in automatically when they're about to die, though they don't get any more powers by regenerating. At least, not in the televised series; there's a reference in one of the Expanded Universe books to Time Lord soldiers who had "force-regenerated themselves until their skins had been covered in black organic blast-proofing".
- The Expanded Whoniverse two-part story Interference by Lawrence Miles featured a Gallifreyan priest who had been given an extremely early version of regeneration tech. As a result, his future lives included a shapeshifter, a cyborg, a heavily scarred man, a freak with a very large head, a serpent-woman, and a little grey thingy that was apparently wired directly into Time. His thirteenth life was basically an Eldritch Abomination that became a planet's entire ecosphere.
- The Saxon Master subverts and averts by choosing death over regenerating and being a prisoner.
- On Forever Knight, Nick acceded to Natalie's request to vamp her brother when he was fatally shot. It, uh, didn't go well.
- On Power Rangers Time Force, this was revealed to be the origin of Frax, Ransik's right-hand 'bot. Frax had been Dr. Louis Fericks, a scientist who had temporarily cured Ransik of a poison that was slowly and painfully killing him by administering a serum he had created. Ransik thanked Dr. Fericks for the serum by blowing up his laboratory, seemingly killing him. Fericks survived (barely), and rebuilt himself as a robot, then began his Xanatos Gambit to get revenge on Ransik.
- In Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Bashir keeps a Bajoran official (and Kira's lover) alive with an artificial brain. However, the matrix removes most of the official's personality, and only extends his life long enough for him to conduct an important negotiation.
- This was also part of Dax's The Nth Doctor in the last season. Ezri Tigan was the only un-joined Trill available at the time, so they did an emergency implantation to save the symbiont and create Ezri Dax.
- Stargate SG-1 (of course) had instances of this, when characters stricken with fatal injuries or diseases had the option to become a host to a Tokra symbiote. In one notable occurrence, the character in question was dead set against the idea, but when the illness progressed far enough, they went ahead with it anyway.
- In the Japanese series Ultraman, the first of the Ultraheroes (and some of the later ones) was created when an alien bonded with a human to save his life.
- Serena from Hercules The Legendary Journeys dies a Dropped A Bridge On Him sorta death, but a Time Travel story later sees her return, and at the end, she is turned human... still sad since she was pretty awesome as herself, and was the last of her kind, and her relationship with Herc was undone, but at least she survives.
- Subverted on Moonlight, of all shows. Josh is shot, and Beth begs Mick to turn him into a vampire, but Mick refuses, and Josh dies. This weighs on Mick and Beth's relationship for the rest of the series.
- Mitchell is faced with this twice in Being Human. In an early episode, he is confronted with a dying colleague in an alleyway. George begs him to save her. He does nothing. In the next scene, when George is asked "Why didn't he save her?", he replies "I think he did." In a later ep, he does this for an injured boy.
- The Kamen Rider franchise does this a few times in the Showa era with V3, X and Skyrider having been originally converted to cyborgs after suffering serious injuries.
Tabletop Games
- The Shadowrun second edition sourcebook Cybertechnology has a framing story that involves a badly injured runner being transformed into a "cyberzombie" (i.e. being loaded up with enough cybernetics to kill him, with only incredibly powerful magics actually keeping his soul bound to his body). Game stats for the transformation, and for a ton of cybernetic gear, are given between paragraphs of his descriptions of the horrors of the transformation.
- Generally averted in the Ravenloft setting, where becoming a vampire or lycanthrope is typically regarded as a fate worse than death. An ailing Anna refused Jander's attempt to transform her in the novel Vampire of the Mists.
- In Warhammer 40000, a mortally wounded Space Marine who is deemed too valuable to let die will instead be interred within a massive armored life-support system called a Dreadnought, allowing them to continue fighting. Being fanatical Knights Templar, they consider this a great honor, and venerate the Dreadnoughts as their greatest heroes and wisest leaders.
- Somewhat different with Chaos Space Marines, who also have Dreadnoughts, but they consider it a punishment for their failure in battle, and most end up going crazy (even by chaos marine standards) and have to be chained up when not fighting.
- The Eldar, being near-extinct, are so desperate to survive that they'll save anybody they can via Brain Uploading, then bring them back inside sentient bone constructs to continue fighting.
- This is also because Eldar who die end up in the Warp, where their souls become food/playthings for Slaanesh. They consider this a fate far worse than being trapped in the Infinity Circuit.
- It's a fate far worse than ANYTHING.
- Dungeons And Dragons has the spell Raise Dead, which costs 5,000 gp to cast. If you can't afford that, there's the 1,000 gp spell Reincarnate, but you probably won't come back the same race, and you might come back as something that normally isn't even intelligent. For some reason, this also makes it so Baleful Polymorph is insufficient to turn them back.
- On the other hand, before the Reincarnate Table was updated, you could come back as unbelievably broken things including, say, Dragons, Beholders, Demons, or just about any other monster you run into. This troper has had several games with druids able to cast Reincarnate turn into a 'Hey lets keep killing me until I get to be an awesome race' sessions.
- This troper knows of no place in the books which says that a polymorph can't turn a reincarnated character back into a human. Of course, most DMs would house-rule that it couldn't, since if it could the spell was just a cheap Raise Dead.
Video Games
- Fatima, the Voice With An Internet Connection in the PC game Anachronox was originally the main character's secretary until she died in a car wreck. The protagonist couldn't live without her, so he had her digitized.
- Asellus, of Saga Frontier is run over by a carriage before the game starts and given a
Vampiric Blood Transfusion Mystical Blood Transfusion by Charm Lord, turning her into a half-mystic.
- In addition, Red is turned into a Super Hero after the first battle with Shuzer, as he would have died otherwise.
- In the Bad Ending of Pikmin, Olimar does not repair his rocketship in time and his oxygen supply runs out, so the Pikmin save him by transforming him into one of them.
- Exspecially interesting, since it is actually foreshadowed in the game!: One of Olimar's journal entries states that he would actually want to become a Pikmin, since his boss is not exactly a nice guy. He however suddenly changes his mind, when he remembers having a family waiting for him.
- In Starcraft, Protoss warriors who are mortally injured are transplanted into Dragoon exoskeletons, where they can continue to fight. However, they volunteer for this, and so tend to be pretty stoic about it. Their people praise them for their devotion.
- Happens to Samus in the intro of Metroid Fusion.
- A variant on this trope is a recurring theme in the Suikoden series: True Runes are almost always acquired by someone who needs to use its power to escape from a deadly situation, put up a decent fight against an overwhelming foe, or keep the Rune itself out of the hands of those who would misuse it. They often learn to regret this decision.
- Bonding with a dying human host by a usually injured Kheldian is the canonical usual origin of the Peacebringers and Warshades in City Of Heroes.
- In Breath Of Fire II, the party needs to fly to a particular location, but the only way any of them know to do this is by having Nina permanently transform into a giant, non-sentient bird. Just before she's about to do this, her little sister sacrifices herself by undergoing the transformation herself. Of course, this whole situation invokes a certain amount of Narm since what they're trying to fly to is merely an island whose cliffs lack a path the game will allow you to climb up.
- In the Lucas Arts Adventure Game The Dig, the team discover "life crystals," which have the ability to heal wounds and resurrect the dead at the cost of being literally maddeningly addictive, as evidenced by Brinks slow decent into insanity. Robbins makes Low promise that if anything should happen to her, he won't use the crystals to revive her.
- Unsurprisingly she ends up dying in the process of saving the day. If you finish the game without her, she thanks you for keeping your promise when the aliens resurrect everyone (madness free). However, if you ignore her wishes and bring her back yourself, she's horrified and immidiatly throws herself off a cliff. When she's brought back to life at the end of the game, she's still pissed at you for that.
- The titular character of the Mega Man Battle Network series was born with a fatal heart defect and used as the guinea pig for his father's and grandfather's experiments in Brain Uploading. Ten years later, he was given as an "AI" partner to his own twin brother. This plot point was
never brought up taken out completely in the anime.
- Resident Evil 2: Dr. Birkin, after being fatally shot by Umbrella agents, injects himself with the G-virus, transforming him into his monstrous One Winged Angel form.
- In Ever17 at the end of two/three routes Tsugumi shares her blood with Takeshi, You, the Kid and eventually Coco. She's the hesitant one as while it's supposed to only be so they get her antibodies, it could give them the Cure Virus and make them immortal, unaging, have a {{healing factor}} and see in the dark. And also potentially have a bunch of people try to capture them for research... So at the end of the story about three fourths+ of the cast is immortal.
- In Super Paper Mario, Tippi was originally a human, and was turned into a Pixl by Merlon in a desperate attempt to save her life.
- Iji starts with this.
- Rachel has done this, possibly twice in BlazBlue. First to save a mortally wounded and time-displaced Jin by installing him in the Susanooh Unit to become Hakumen. It's also possible That Ragna would have bled to death after losing his arm in the orphanage attack without Rachel biting him to transform him into a half-vampire.
- In Quest For Glory II, Julanar is a woman who, while fleeing from brigands, is discovered by a djinn who turns her into a tree in order to save her from her pursuers.
Webcomic
- Both werewolves and vampires in Sorcery 101 have extraordinary resilience compared to humans, making them candidates for this trope. So do humans magically linked to vampires, called "blood bonds". The only example actually shown in the comic is Danny, whose backstory says that he was seriously injured fighting demons 9 years ago. His best friend Brad knew a vampire named Seth, and asked him to help, so Seth made Danny a blood bond. Danny seems to be OK with being a blood bond in general (immortal, can't get sick or gain weight, can't bleed to death, stuff like that), but isn't happy about Seth being able to read his thoughts.
- One of the older patients of The Dragon Doctors from the webcomic of the same name turned herself to stone to avoid dying of thirst. Thing is, she couldn't willingly revert on her own. She had to wait for someone to find her to undo the transformation—locked away in an abandoned mine, behind a magical forcefield, in the middle of nowhere. Sanity was... something of a concern.
- In the webcomic Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name, Hanna saves Conrad this way by turning him into a vampire. (No one was really surprised by this but Conrad).
- One of these occurs in the first chapter of Coga Suro 2, but a slight variation in that John is transformed into... whatever that is in order to save himself and a girl after they're both swallowed by a giant maw.
Western Animation
- Henry gets one of these in season 1 of Thomas the Tank Engine. Three words- The Flying Kipper
- That being said, he's a lot happier in his new form (a Stanier Black 5) as it improves his effiency and removes his need for Welsh coal.
- Keldor from the 2002 He Man series went through one soon after he was Hoist By His Own Petard in the pilot. It turns out that the acid that hit his face was actually killing him; he pleaded with Hordak to save him. Hordak agreed, warning Keldor that there would be a price for this favor, and transformed him into a lich-like abomination. Hordak then bestowed upon Keldor the name Skeletor. Upon seeing his hideous new appearance, Skeletor promptly burst into a fit of maniacal laughter (the first of many), signifying his transition from a smooth talking and charming Evil Overlord to an insane and superpowered monster.
- Exo Squad used this for the ultimate emergency, death. The brain-scans of deceased troopers were downloaded into customized human-looking but internally Neo Sapien bodies. Started as a Trojan Horse plot by Phaeton, but it worked so well that the humans soon saw the obvious benefits. The only downside is that there have to be recorded memories from an Exoframe brain jack to transfer.
- SWAT Kats: Bonnie And Clyde gangster couple Mac and Molly Mange drown while escaping from prison; their bodies are found by a kindly scientist who uploads their minds into robotic bodies. They promptly steal the scientist's armored hovercar and weapons stash and go back in business as the invulnerable Metallikats.
- And despite their clear, obvious, and constant treachery, he keeps collecting their battered remains and rebuilds them
- This is the backstory of Evil Con Carne. After his body was destoryed in an explosion, Major Dr. Ghastly attached his brain and stomach to a bear.
- This is heavily implied to be behind Zachary Foxx's bionics in Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers; in the pilot ep, "Phoenix," he was shot several times on his left side. Cybernetics Eatyour Soul is completely averted in this case, as Zach's been Supernaturally Delicious And Nutritious for more than one magic-slinging foe.
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