History Main / HumanityEnsues

** In ''Mario's Mask of Madness'', Melony, a simple watermelon outfitted with Meggy's headgear, also becomes humanoid when a Fierce Deity Mask lands on it. The result is a cute, sleepy, hoodie-wearing girl with the voice of [[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Korone Inugami]] (and later Creator/{{Wolfychu}} providing original voice clips) who likes to sleep on bushes. Unlike Meggy, however, later videos show that Melony can switch between her humanoid form and watermelon form at will, but usually prefers to be in her humanoid form most of the time.

*** ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'': Demons who'd escaped from the Abyss had to take empty bodies (the brain-dead, the severely insane, and the recently dead) to remain on Earth. This actually grounded a lot of them and made them less demonic, seeing as they were experiencing human emotion and sensation for the first time after millennia in a featureless abyss.

* The end of Website/GaiaOnline's poorly-named "Demonbusters" event has the central demigod characters stripped of their powers and reduced to mortality. Subsequent events feature them trying to return to being deities, to no avail.
* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1575 SCP-1575]] of ''Website/SCPFoundation'' is a magical fountain which turns any animal that drinks from it into a human. Unlike most examples of the trope, BodyHorror is involved.
* ''Website/NobodyHere'': "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/bat.here Bat]]" has Jogchem wondering how the titular animal would feel about transforming into him, which would give him an unwieldy body, eyes that can't adjust to the light and ears that are unable to detect things via echolocation.

* In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', [[spoiler: this ends up happening to [[RoboticPsychopath Mechakara]]. After being killed in TheMovie, he's subsequently brought back to life during "The Clone Saga" by the healing properties of [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee the Plot Hole]], albeit as a full human. Turns out to be quite the KarmicTransformation, as his entire goal in the first place was to KillAllHumans.]]

** Melony, a simple watermelon outfitted with Meggy's headgear, also becomes human [[spoiler: when a Fierce Deity Mask lands on it. The result is a cute, sleepy, hoodie-wearing girl with the voice of [[WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Korone Inugami]] who likes to sleep on bushes.]]

** It's also revealed that [[spoiler:Harold, Fiona's father, got turned into a human from a toad by the Fairy Godmother]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTransformania'', Van Helsing's Monsterfication Ray is able to transform monsters into humans, with Dracula and his friends subjected to this. [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Except for Blobby, who gets turned into a small plate of green gelatin instead]].

* In the ''[[ComicBook/AngelIDW After the Fall]]'' comics continuation to ''Series/{{Angel}}'', the Senior Partners turned Angel into a human to deprive him of his powers, but the ResetButton was eventually pressed again.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/Champions2016'': In the Champions/Avengers crossover event, the High Evolutionary turns Viv, a sapient robot, into a flesh-and-blood human, ostensibly as an improvement over her artificial form. She finds this state horrifying -- for a being used to being able to fly, phase through matter, and turn harder than diamond, a human body is horribly heavy, weak, and fragile, and the loss of the mechanical sensors and digital communications that she used constantly leaves her in effectively a state of sensory deprivation. When she gets a chance to go back to being a robot, she grabs it with both hands.
** ''ComicBook/HeroesForHire'': White Tiger is an actual tiger, transformed into a human being. She eventually chooses to be changed back into a tiger, as being a human is too confusing for her.

** An issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' has an issue where Sonic is a human. As the issue goes, Sonic wakes up one day in a strange bedroom as a human. As he wanders around the house he meets a woman who says she's his mother and makes him believe that Mobius and Sonic the Hedgehog were AllJustADream. As it turns out, though, it's just a trap by Robotnik. The comic also features Tails as a human.
* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck accidentally became human once, and boy, did he hate it.
* ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'': A villainous variation: the vampire council finds out to their horror that they are slowly becoming like mortals, and they can die normally or contract diseases.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'', [[spoiler:Zoidberg (who's an alien) turns into a human after landing into a vat of toxic waste. He goes back to normal when he leaves the ''Simpsons'' comic.]]
* The crux of ''ComicBook/ThirstyMermaids'' is that Eez uses a spell to turn Pearl, Tooth and herself into humans so that they could go drinking. The rest of the plot is them trying to find a way to turn back, all the while trying to adapt to human society along the way.

* One story in Phil Foglio's ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' involved a witch who had accidentally cast a lust spell on herself. She summoned her patron god, Cernunnos, to, ah, scratch her itch, but even the randy deity can't satisfy her. It turns out her ([[TalkingAnimal sentient]]) cat familiar accidentally dumped a spoonful of a love potion she was making for someone else into something she was drinking. The spell could only be broken by playing with whoever had given her the potion. So Cernunnos turns the cat into a human and had him join in, after which the witch's familiar became the witch's fiancé. The cat enjoys being a man -- but also thinks opposable thumbs are overrated and, after the witch declares her love for him, asks "Will you still feed me?"

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* The end of Website/GaiaOnline's poorly-named "Demonbusters" event has the central demigod characters stripped of their powers and reduced to mortality. Subsequent events feature them trying to return to being deities, to no avail.
* SCP-1575 of ''Website/SCPFoundation'' is a magical fountain which turns any animal that drinks from it into a human. Unlike most examples of the trope, BodyHorror is involved.
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** ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':

** [[WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIDreamsComeTrue The second movie]] had a sequence in which the mouse Jacques was turned into a human so he could be more helpful to Cindy.

If the change is {{voluntary|Shapeshifting}}, the character only occasionally puts up with it for the sake of convenience. Very often, they are simply '''so''' [[UncannyValley bad at]] [[HughMann acting human]] that it's better for everyone that they aren't.

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* The titular Nuku-Nuku of ''Anime/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku'' was originally a cat, but her brain was implanted in a [[RobotGirl robot body]] to save her, also giving her human-level intelligence (so technically an UpliftedAnimal). She's [[{{Cyborg}} not technically human]], but that's not apparent unless her robotic cat ears are up.
* Played with in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', where Yoruichi first appears as a snarky, deep-voiced cat, but is later revealed to be a hot, dark-skinned ''woman''.
* ''LightNovel/CubeXCursedXCurious'' provides an unusual variant, in that the ones gaining human forms are inanimate objects. Still, the idea is the same.
* Also the entire premise of ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'', where the Devil, his loyal underling, and his sworn enemy are transported to modern Japan, lose their powers, and become broke young adults working as minimum-wage employees.
** "Are these... human hands?"
** In a subversion of the trope normally having them return to their original forms at the end of the arc, they all end up deciding that they are actually much ''happier'' living ordinary lives as humans. [[spoiler:Since their enemies aren't content to leave them alone, they're forced to use their demonic forms anyway...but only as a SuperMode when they have to fight; humanity remains their default form.]]
* Inverted in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''; one of the main themes is of the human children coming to terms with their new identities as digimon. For example, this theme becomes apparent in one episode in which Duskmon inflicts a [[spoiler:LotusEaterMachine]] on Takuya, sending him back to the [[spoiler:human world, on the day he left for the digital world, in the form of a childlike digimon. Due to this, Takuya starts to realise that he's no longer completely human.]]
* This trope is the premise behind ''DNA wa Oshiete Kurenai'' - animals all over the world have suddenly transformed into cute young girls with animal attributes, and they attend a research and training facility where they learn about humans.
* Mink's goal throughout ''Manga/DragonHalf'' is getting her hands on the magical People Potion and becoming pure human as opposed to a HalfHumanHybrid. In the end, [[spoiler:this trope happens to elf-girl Lufa, when Mink gives her the potion in order to restore her after she's turned into a toad]].
* Chao/Katy (renamed "Chloe" in ''Manga/UnicoAwakening'') the cat in ''[[Anime/TheFantasticAdventuresOfUnico The Fantastic Adventures of]] Manga/{{Unico}}'' wants to be a witch, so the kind-hearted little unicorn transforms her into a human girl (complete with cute outfit!). Katy doesn't believe Unico transformed her, so he returns her to her original form and refuses to make her human again because she's selfish (well, she ''is'' a cat). After Katy saves the life of the old woman she thought was a witch, Unico changes her back into a human.
** Similarly, Kukuru the BigBad of ''Unico and the Magic Island'' is [[spoiler:a simple puppet who willed himself to life through ''sheer anger and hatred'' (and sunlight) to avenge his abandonment by humans]].
* ''Manga/TheFoxAndLittleTanuki'': The various {{youkai}} characters are capable of taking on human forms to better get around human society. Inexperienced characters like Manpachi have a little trouble getting it right, as their tails show.
* ''LightNovel/TheFruitOfEvolution'': Two of the members of Seiichi's harem started out as animals before evolving into humans. Saria was a pink gorilla who turned into a gorgeous redhead upon being fatally impaled while protecting Seiichi, and is able to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting switch between both forms at will from then on]]. Meanwhile, Rurune was a talking donkey and became human when she ate some Evolution Fruit seeds. Unlike Saria, she cannot revert to her donkey form.
* Ponta of ''Manga/GuruGuruPonChan'' becomes human by eating a magic bone.
* The plot of ''Manga/{{Inumimi}}'' - the protagonist's father turns their three pet dogs into human girls.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', Makoto is an updated version of the Japanese ''kitsune'' fox-woman, a fox who takes female human form to seduce a man.
* One significant difference between ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny]]'' and ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' is that [[spoiler:the Materials were changed to being Yuri's pet cats-turned-familiars in the latter. Levi even complains that human bodies are less convenient after regaining her memories.]]
* In ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', [[spoiler:all of the nonhuman races of Alma Torran, save the Dragons and the Red Lions,]] were turned into humans when they crossed over into the new world. [[spoiler:Most of the present day humans are their descendants.]]
* ''Anime/MahouNoMakoChan'' revolves around a mermaid who becomes a human girl in order to find the boy she loves (it IS a loose adaptation of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', after all).
* In the NotSafeForWork manga ''Manatsu no Yoru no Yume'', the hero's pet rabbit is transformed into a human girl after he wishes for a girlfriend on Tanabata night.
* Hippo in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is a penguin that, when he has been living on the surface long enough, attains an alternate form of a cute little boy. Oddly enough, he finds his human form ugly and his penguin form attractive. Additionally, the Dark Lovers are actually sea animals turned into humans. Same with the Black Beauty Sisters, who become [[LittleBitBeastly kemonomimi]] instead.
* At the end of ''Anime/MiniMoniTheMovieOkashiNaDaiboken'', the four fairies become human children after the spells wear off.
* In ''Manga/{{Moriking}}'', the king candidates and their soldados suddenly evolve into human form as part of their mutations to take part in the battle to become King of the Forest. For the most part, all of them take it surprisingly well and adapt to human life pretty easily, with Moriking and Oki happily being their owner's pets while Oka blends in as an ordinary teenage girl.
* In ''Niku Kyu'', the hero's cat turns into a {{Catgirl}}. He's not very happy about it (mainly because his parents are forcing him to marry her in the belief that she is a god who will bless them).
* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'':
** Kuromi in episode 23, her goal being to seduce Keiichi. He actually seems to be very attracted to "Kurumi Nui" (as she calls herself), but she is forced to flee in the middle of the dance in order return to the spell-casting circle before all the magical candles blow out, otherwise she'd be turned into a tapir.
** In another episode, Mana's pet frog Kojiro got turned into a human boy. He retained amphibian strengths and weaknesses like leaping ability and sensitivity to cold. He declared his love for Mana and kissed her before getting changed back.
* Tony Tony Chopper of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a textbook example of the mascot variant. He got this way from eating the Human Human fruit, and unlike most examples of this trope, prefers to stay in his ''[[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid form]]''.
** Notably, while his "human" form is humanoid, it is roughly 10 ft tall and covered in fur, making him resemble a sasquatch more than anything else.
* The title character of ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' is a duck who is granted the power to transform into a human, and then again into a MagicalGirl. Her name in Japanese is, in fact, Duck (Ahiru), and she regains her duck form whenever she accidentally lets slip a quack.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Subversion: most animals don't care much about being turned into humans (or even other animals, for that matter). The creatures conquered and captured by the Musk Dynasty, however, are justified in their hostility by virtue of being naturally aggressive, powerful beasts that take issue with being domesticated in the first place; the rage they express after being [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting dunked in the Spring of Drowned Girl]] and locked in the form of women comes less from the shock of being human than from simply wanting to rip their captors a new one.
** Played for laughs in the backstory of the Japanese Nanniichuan arc, where a traveling monk created a Nanniichuan outlet in Japan and threw all the naughty foxes that were plaguing a specific precinct into its water... only for them to come out as equally naughty men, so the people were if anything worse off than before.
** In the second NonSerialMovie, ''Nihao, My Concubine'', the TravelingLandmass of Togenkyō has a unique magical spring on it that transforms any living creature it touches into a human man, regardless of species or [[GenderBender gender]]. Animals turned into human men by its touch remain a LittleBitBeastly in appearance, and vary in intelligence; {{the Dragon}}s of the film consist of a monkey-man named Sarutoru, a rooster-man named Toristan, and a dog-man named Wonton, and whilst Sarutoru and Toristan are highly intelligent and fully civilized, Wonton is the group's DumbMuscle. The BigBad also demonstrates the spring's power by pouring it on a coconut crab, which in classic ''Ranma ½'' fashion doesn't even seem to realize it's become human.
* In the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' franchise:
** Luna the cat is capable of attaining a human form in every permutation of the franchise. In TheNineties [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]], she turns into an adult human briefly in the ''S'' Movie, which was based on an arc in the manga where she also attained human form. In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], she does so more than once, as do her fellow cats Artemis (her lover) and Diana (their child). In ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', however, her human form is that of a young child.
** In the manga only, Rei's crows, Phobos and Deimos, briefly become humans in order to grant Rei the Mars Crystal during the Dead Moon Circus arc. They're later revealed to be denizens of the planet Coronis, where Sailor Lead Crow also hails from. [[spoiler:Just in time for them to both get killed by her.]]
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'':
** In one episode, Kururu invents a device that turns animals into humans, and the Keronians take a trip to the zoo to find recruits for their forces. Despite their best efforts, they don't find any animals who are either able or willing to act as soldiers.
** Giroro's cat sometimes turns into a human. Apparently she's jealous of Natsumi, and/or [[ShipperOnDeck peeved that Natsumi doesn't notice Giroro's crush on her]].
** [[spoiler:Giroro himself becomes human in episode 196. ]]
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Blair is introduced as an apparent witch (it's ambiguous how different from humans the MageSpecies is in this universe), but later reveals herself to be a cat who can transform into a {{Catgirl}}.[[note]]And if her cat ears are hidden under her hat, you wouldn't know she's not human except for her [[FurryReminder catlike behavior]].[[/note]]
* In ''Manga/SpiritCircle'', this was to be Rune's reward once Fortuna accomplished his goals. [[spoiler:She eventually gets her wish when she is reincarnated as Fuuta's future child.]]
* In ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'', Seiren had the ability to shapeshift into anything she wanted to, usually as a human to better deal with Hibiki and Kanade. However, when a combination of being brainwashed and Hummy's devotion to her caused her to be conflicted with her emotions and attempt to save Hummy, the collar that allowed her to shapeshift was destroyed and she became human... and Cure Beat. She's quick to accept she can't change back, but it takes her longer to accept people accepting her.
* Ryo-ohki gets one of these in the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' OVA series. This leaves her with four forms: cute cuddly critter, little kid, sexy teen/adult, and CoolShip. She's usually shown in either critter or little kid forms (since she has no experience walking on two legs, she's learning how as a toddler like a normal human would). For the record, she started with just the battleship, and was given the cute critter form on her rebirth.
* ''Anime/UmiMonogatari'' has villainous examples. Any sea creature Sedna corrupts takes on a human form.
* One chapter of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has a bat working for a loser vampire, and recruits Ataru to find a fair maiden for the vampire to bite (or alternatively just a decent amount of blood from a maiden). Payment for services is a kiss from a pretty girl, but since the bat doesn't ''know'' any girls (he hired Ataru for this), it secretly turns itself into a hot babe... and is thoroughly creeped out by her reflection. She struggles to give Ataru a very brief peck, then flees in abject nausea, and is later seen (in bat form) furiously gargling and brushing his teeth.
%%* Rayflo's cat in ''Manga/{{Vassalord}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/oh+the+humanity+au?sort=top Oh The Humanity]],'' [[VideoGame/AHatInTime Snatcher]] is turned back into [[spoiler: The Prince]] due to accidentally shattering a Time Piece.
* Ladies and gentlemen, we present [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Sonic_series/4973539/ Sonic and Shadow being turned human by poison-gas-that-wasn't]].
* In ''Fanfic/LostTalesOfFantasia'', [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]] is turned human to help the Disney villains siding with the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazis]]. He offers the same to [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Shere Khan]].
* In episode 44 of ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'', [[spoiler:Pittan gains the ability to become human from Queen Aida, and is absolutely displeased with this, even refusing to go to school with the other girls. [[GilliganCut He does go anyways]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles: Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'' gives us a variant on this concept, with a little help from GeneticMemory. While it helps explain why the cloned Supers can access memories of their past lives, it also applies to non-human creatures as well. Thus, if a non-human creature, such as a ''Pteranodon'' in [[AuthorAvatar Adam's]] case, is cloned such that the copy has a predominantly human form, the copy would thus feel as though he were actually transformed into a human being.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''Fanfic/ConstantTemptation'' Ryuk (a {{shinigami}}) is caught and punished for interfering in human affairs and being turned into a human is his punishment. Ryuk decides it's totally worth it when Watari shows him how to make apple pie.
* This is a commonly used trope in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan works, and was widely used even before the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' series used a version of this in canon.
** In ''Fanfic/{{Anthropology}}'', Lyra Heartstrings is convinced that humans are more than just a fairy tale, and desperately wishes to know more about them, how they lived, etc. She goes so far as to [[spoiler:change her hooves into hands]], and it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:she was HumanAllAlong, her obsession stemming from her previous life as a human. She's turned back into a human, and is sent to Earth.]]
** ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'': Twilight is turned into a human by a botched spell on Trixie's part. Once the spell is reversed, a few others occasionally make use of the human form.
** ''Fanfic/TheDresdenFillies'': The third story, ''Great Power'', has Twilight turn the Mane Six and Spike into humans in order to travel to Chicago. Things go [[HilarityEnsues wrong]] almost immediately -- among other things, they kept their original hair colors (explained away as hair dye) and Spike's slitted dragon eyes (explained as contact lenses).
** ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': Ponies who travel to Earth through the portal become human witches and wizards, [[DownplayedTrope but are able to return to their original form]] thanks to the portal turning them into [[VoluntaryShapeshifting animagi]]. The same thing also happens to any changelings who traverse the portal; while they retain their shapeshifting powers and need to feed on love their ShapeshifterDefaultForm becomes human.
** ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': Trixie accidentally manages to turn Lyra into a human in ''Helping... Hands?''. Trixie thought the spell was supposed to turn Lyra into a zebra, but unbeknownst to her the spellbook had been very badly mislabeled. Unlike in most fanon portrayals, Lyra does ''not'' enjoy it (and notably doesn't know what it is she's been turned into, settling on "naked bear"). In addition, the fact that the spellbook was badly mislabeled makes it very hard to turn her back, as while they know that there is a counterspell, they don't know which spell it is.
** ''Fanfic/ATwilightLanding'' sees Twilight Sparkle being turned into a human after being zapped to Earth. It takes getting used to walking, and she has to be reminded several times [[InnocentFanserviceGirl not to walk around naked]]. She's also curious about humans, but not to the point of obsession like Lyra above.
** ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler:The fourth arc of the story has the new Mane Six - an ahuizotl, a batpony/nox pony, a unicorn/changeling hybrid, a griffon, a minotaur and a diamond dog - traveling through the Crystal Mirror and visiting the world of Canterlot High. They are ''most'' astounded to have this happen to them.]]
* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', various Servants have been incarnated as humans in the [=DanMachi=] world for unknown reasons. One of the story's mysteries is finding out why. There's also the implication that Oryou is happy to be human, as she can now produce the "next Sakamoto", much to Ryoma's embarrassment.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' fandom has an affinity for turning SelfDemonstrating/{{Wheatley}} human, usually so some sort of physical contact can take place between him and any given story's love interest. In the more lemony explorations of this, Wheatley tends to find himself having new feelings or even "discovering the joys of the human body", so to speak. There's usually a reference to the Itch during these sequences, as that plot point has been repeatedly (mis?)interpreted as a sexual innuendo.
** ''Fanfic/BlueSky'' provides the most famous example of the Wheatley Turns Human narrative, and also showcases the popular trope of Wheatley's human form being [[InkSuitActor based off of his voice actor]], Creator/StephenMerchant.
** ''Fanfic/{{Portalborn}}'': In a variation, Daryn's use of the Wabbajack on Wheatley turns him into a high elf. He freaks out at first and thinks there's something on his head when it's actually his hair. This also happens to the Oracle Turret and [=GLaDOS=] herself.
** ''Fanfic/ThePunishment'': In something of a retroactive example, Wheatley was a human to begin with but had his memory wiped when he was turned into a core, and thus finds the process of being returned to his original form as disconcerting as he typically does in these stories.
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', [[spoiler:this is what happens when the Going Merry consumes the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child.]]
** Something similar is done in ''Fanfic/CobysChoice'', where [[spoiler: Iceberg allows Merry's avatar to permanently manifest by dismantling the ship and creating a heart totem she's bound to]].
* In ''Fanfic/WhatTheWaterGaveMe'', after Astrid officially declares her love, Hiccup (a merman in the story) ends up going through a chrysalis stage, emerging from it as fully human. It doesn't last. At the end [[spoiler:the trope is inverted when Astrid becomes a mermaid]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2354468/1/Phoenix-Fire Phoenix Fire]]'', after suffering an accident so severe that she can't be repaired, Jenny has her mind transferred into [[spoiler:the body of Dr. Wakeman's brain-dead daughter]], thus becoming a human girl.
* In ''Fanfic/AGoddessComesToCall'', Mara breaks the cardinal rule of Hell by granting a wish without getting anything in exchange, and is turned into a human woman for the span of a human lifetime as punishment. Since this means she gets to be with Sylia, it also qualifies as an {{Unishment}}.
* In ''Fanfic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'', [[spoiler:Beneda the youma is turned into a human girl with water from the Spring of Drowned Girl]].
* At the end of ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Fire]]'', [[{{Seers}} Kathryn]] tries to save the fire drake [[Film/TheHobbit Smaug]] from death with her magic. She manages to do that while unwittingly turning him into a human. In the sequel ''Heart of Ashes'', Smaug has to get by in the body of a human, a species he has looked down upon all his life. He eventually learns to magically [[{{Weredragon}} change between his true dragon form and the human form]].
* Happens to [[VideoGame/Persona5 Morgana]] in the ''VideoGame/Persona5[=/=]Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' fic ''Fanfic/VanishingAct''. Which leads to a ShipTease with Ann.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ResurrectedMemories'', Ember Mclain gains a human form, effectively becoming a halfa.
* A somewhat-popular plot in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' fandom is turning Flame Princess into a human. The means vary, but it's always done with the express purpose of allowing her and Finn to have a relationship without the threat of Finn being burned alive or Flame Princess' elemental matrix destroying the world.
* In the ''RWBY'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Pawprints}}'', people who have both a human and animal form are called "Panthers". Some Panthers are born in animal form. These Panthers are considered dangerous beasts by the government and it's required that they be killed upon birth. Animal-born Panthers hide from humans to avoid being killed.
* ''Fanfic/AnAnthemForShelteredBays'': In the mermaid and harpy communities there's a potion that triggers a transformation into a human. Ymir's feathers peeled off and he's implied to have gain bone density, while Eren, Mikasa and Armin have to cut off their tails in order for their legs to grow.
* ''Fanfic/CardcaptorRad'': Because of a FreakyFridayFlip, Hot Shot the Franchise/{{Transformer|s}} and Rachel the human switch minds. Hot Shot thinks it's a chance to know humanity more acutely, but continually finds himself disenchanted; he hates how he has to breathe constantly, that you have to pay for things and that he can't take care of himself or even can't handle high levels of emotions in a human body. By the end, he's more than glad to be back in his own body.
* ''Fanfic/{{Phylactery}}'': The homunculi are bright back as true humans after being resurrected. Envy and Lust are very much not pleased when they discover this, while Pride adopts his new identity thoroughly enough to refuse to go by his old name anymore.
* ''Fanfic/StoriesOfTheVanishedMan'': In ''Reconstructing the Last Treasure of the Man'', Doctor Doofenshmirtz's latest -inator, the Anthropomorphinator, turns his dogs and Perry the Platypus into humans.
* Inverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12225180/1/Perfectly-Alien-rewritten Perfectly Alien]]'' - the human wizard Franchise/HarryPotter is turned into a [[Film/{{Transformers}} Cybertronian sparkling]] by the Allspark.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': A combination of being exposed to Tiamat's Black Mud and Angra Mainyu trying to repair their bodies with his Reality Marble causes Gudako's Servants to become human. They still have their superhuman abilities, but they are not has powerful as they would normally be, they can't go into spiritual form, they actually have to eat and sleep, and they lost their immunity to non-magical attacks.
* In ''Fanfic/StormCloudsAndGreySkies'', the mermaid Leia suddenly turns human due to [[spoiler:a botched spell by the Witch Princess.]]
* This happens to an [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Alpha Beowolf]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12783735/1/RWBY-A-Grimm-fate RWBY: A Grimm fate]]'' due to a combination of liquid Dust and petals from Ruby Rose's [[SuperSpeed Semblance]], and [[PainfulTransformation it is]] [[BodyHorror not pleasant]]. It is PlayedWith, however, since he is turned into a wolf [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]], but Blake questions this, since while real Faunus have only '''one''' animal feature, he retains his ears, fangs, tongue, claws, and tail in Faunus form. Given that [[AnimalisticAbomination Grimm]] hunt down humans, he does not take his new form well. When found by [[BigGood Ozpin]], he is given the name Fenrir Lupus, and they later find out that if his new Aura is depleted, he will be able to turn back into his [[SavageWolf original body]].
* ''Fanfic/MyHostageNotYours'': In the third story, [[spoiler: the Tallest [[YouHaveFailedMe punish Tak for her failures]] by surgically transforming her into a human and dumping her on Earth.]]
* Downplayed but simultaneously [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and PlayedForDrama in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''[=/=]''{{WesternAnimation/Castlevania}}'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12849210/1/Lord-of-the-Castle Lord of the Castle]]''. The character in question, Alucard, is already [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] due to being a {{Dhampyr}} with his father being [[Characters/CastlevaniaDracula Dracula]], but an encounter with [[GreatGazoo Mr. Mxyzptlk]] ends up turning him completely human. In doing so, Alucard loses his regenerative powers (which served as his immune system) and ability to sustain on blood (essentially leaving him starved), which leads to his organs failing and needing urgent medical attention; thankfully, he is saved when Superman is able to trick Mr. Mzyxptlk into banishing himself, undoing all the damage done to the world and turning Alucard back into a dhampyr. Simultaneously, though, [[spoiler: him being human left [[EldritchLocation Castlevania]] without a lord, leading to [[TheBaroness Carmilla]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Cornell]], [[SuccubiAndIncubi Magnus]], and [[SinisterMinister Shaft]] escaping from Hell, and with the aid of [[TheDragon Death]] (who takes after his game portrayal of Dracula's [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]] servant instead of the animation's portrayal of him as the GreaterScopeVillain), intend to kill Alucard and bring Dracula back to life]].
* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', [[spoiler:Aftran (a [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerk]] [[ShapeshifterModeLock turned]] humpback whale) is briefly sent to the splinter universe in a human form so she can talk to Cassie.]]
* ''WebComic/TheStoryOfAGardevoirThatBecameATrainer''': It's part of the premise. And she's not the only Pokémon turned human, either, though it's not widely known to most people.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* [[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop's]] ''The Cat-Maiden'' has a cat transfigured into a woman to settle a bet between Jupiter and Venus. Jupiter thinks that instinct and nature can be transcended and Venus says that "nature will out". They turn the cat into a woman and give her to a man to wed. Jupiter thinks the bet is won until Venus releases a mouse into the wedding hall and the maiden pounces on it, revealing her true nature.
** In his collection of Aesop retellings, ''Aesopus Emendatus'', Creator/AmbroseBierce subverts this by having her react like a woman-- in such an over-the-top EekAMouse way that her potential suitor is irritated.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': There are two examples of animals gaining morphing power from touching the morphing cube. One, an otherwise incredibly dangerous Cape Buffalo, nearly achieves sapience [[spoiler:but then gets killed off]]. The other is an ant that partially morphs into Cassie.
** The ant transforming is treated similarly to the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' wolf below; Cassie remembers the Animorphs' [[ContinuityNod past experience of turning into ants]] and wonders what it would be like going from a mindless part of the colony to a human's sentience and independence, concluding that it would be [[HumansAreCthulhu just as horrible for the ant to become human as it was for the Animorphs to become ants]].
** Ax counts too. He morphs human and then is really bad at it--he plays with his 'mouth sounds' and goes berserk around food, and he hates morphing human most of the time, always saying humans are unstable on two legs.
** [[spoiler:Elfangor]] turned into a human [[ModeLock permanently]] so he could spend the rest of his life on Earth with Loren. Alas, the universe still needed him to be an Andalite warrior. The Ellimist took him away from Earth, and the only evidence that he was ever there at all [[spoiler:was his and Loren's son Tobias.]]
* This happens at the end of several ''Literature/{{Dinoverse}}'' books. The first time, three Pachycephalosaurs briefly possess three human boys and jump around before being sent back home. The second time, in ''Please Don't Eat The Teacher'' the fifty-foot Acrocanthosaurus called Green Knight is killed and ends up SharingABody with [[spoiler:Will Reilly]], which appears to be permanent. He's content, though, since he can be with Patience [[InterspeciesRomance like this]]. The third time, in ''Dinosaurs Ate My Homework'', the intelligent saurian AlternateUniverse version of JD takes his body permanently and alone.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** This happens to Nanny Ogg's horrible cat, Greebo. Normally, he's ugly and foul-smelling, but when transformed into a human (in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'' and ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}''), it is claimed that "His left eye glittered with the sins of angels, and his smile was the downfall of saints (female ones, anyway)." He has been described as looking evil in an interesting sort of way, like a pirate who really understands the term of "Jolly Roger", or a romantic poet who gave up the opium and tried red meat. In fact, the best brief descriptions are that:
--->He could swagger while asleep. Greebo could, in fact, commit sexual harassment while sitting very quietly in the next room.\\
'''Nanny:''' He looks aristocratic.\\
'''Granny:''' He looks like a beautiful, brainless bully.\\
'''Nanny:''' [[AristocratsAreEvil Same thing.]]
** This also falls in line with the Disc's general opinion of cats: elegant, beautiful, brainless [[CatsAreMean bastards.]]
** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', Granny's evil sister Lily also did this to a wolf, partially anthropomorphizing it to fulfill the Big Bad Wolf role in a living fairytale. This is treated as a monstrous act, because predator minds having to [[CarnivoreConfusion think like a human drives them insane]] and makes it impossible to live as either a wolf or a human. In the end a woodcutter gets called in for a MercyKill. (This doesn't apply with Greebo because cats have enough poise to pull anything off.)
** In the same book, [[spoiler:the Sisters who guard Emberella are actually snakes, and the PrinceCharmless she's supposed to marry is a frog]]. Granny darkly comments that Lily was always good at ''making'' friends.
** Inverted and later defied by the Librarian, who was a human to begin with before being turned into an orangutan, and has carefully destroyed all evidence of who he was so no-one will get the bright idea of trying to change him back.
** Brother Lupine in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' is a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent reverse werewolf]], who takes the form of a hairy bestial humanoid on the full moon, and the rest of the time is just a rather intelligent wolf.
* The dragons in ''Literature/DragonsInOurMidst''. Though technically voluntary, there was pretty much no other option they could take, and most if not all of them certainly would have rather stayed dragons.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** One of Harry Dresden's allies in ''Literature/FoolMoon'', [[spoiler:Tera West]], is revealed to be a wolfwere, a wolf who can take the form of a human. [[spoiler:After the death of her lover,]] she goes back to the mountains to live with her pack.
** In ''Literature/SkinGame'', [[spoiler:the archangel Uriel]] temporarily turns himself into a human [[spoiler: to heal and empower Michael to enter Hades, knowing that if Michael dies, Uriel will lose his powers and remain mortal]]. While he's sitting around being a useless human, the Carpenter family makes him useful by [[MundaneUtility having him do chores around the house]].
* In ''Literature/TheFallenMoon'', this is Skade's punishment for killing humans.
%%* ''Literature/ForgottenRealms'':
* In one of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books, a bee's mind is accidentally swapped into the body of a human boy. The bee does not seem very comfortable in a human body--it continually makes buzzing noises and attempts (unsuccessfully) to eat nectar from flowers.
* Bulgakov likes to play with it, usually for ironical purposes, like in ''Literature/HeartOfADog'': after a lab experiment on rejuvenation, a friendly dog gets turned into a downright rotten human (thanks to the character of the organs’ dead donor). He gets changed back and forgets his human experience completely.
* ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'': In ''Literature/OnAPaleHorse'', to grant a client's last request for a good story, TheGrimReaper tells a story about a whale who gets transformed into a woman. She falls in love with a man, but gets disgusted when she finds out he's a whaler. Her lover tries to explain that whale meat is the village's main source of food, but she dumps him and returns to the sea. [[spoiler:However, she eventually meets a whale who is really a transformed ''squid''. He is trying to investigate why whales hunt his kind. She tries to explain that squid are the whale's main source of food, then realizes [[NotSoDifferentRemark that humans and whales aren't so different]]. She returns to human form, reconciles with her lover, and they get married, presumably HappilyEverAfter.]]
* A rather neat example in Geoph Essex's ''Jackrabbit Messiah'': [[spoiler:Caleb O'Connor]] was involuntarily transformed into a human sometime in the past. Interesting in that: '''a)''' it happened [[BackStory long before the events of the book]] (and appears to be permanent); '''b)''' the character doesn't seem to mind much (aside from wondering who did it and why) and has [[IntriguedByHumanity adapted very well]]; and '''c)''' the book isn't primarily ''about'' [[HeroOfAnotherStory that character]], so the reader never finds out how it happened either. Before the casual reveal, there are some subtle and not-so-subtle hints, including the character's MeaningfulName (both first and last!), and what Indra calls the character when they meet.
* In the first ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'' book, it is mentioned that being made mortal is one of the punishments for disobedient Denizens.
* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Kingdoms of Light'' the familiars of a fallen wizard are transformed into humans and forced to cross a weird dimension that represents the land of light (in the form of a huge rainbow) in order to bring back the power of light to a now darkly colored world. Needless to say with a snake, two cats, a dog, and a bird all turned human with a sudden realization of human feelings and emotions things get a little... odd.
* And in ''Kockroach'', a cockroach inexplicably turns into a human being (reversing Kafka's "Metamorphosis"). Rather than trying to find a way back, he makes good on his predicament, taking advantage of everything that comes his way and thriving, because despite his new body he's still a cockroach.
* In the book ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'' by Creator/PeterSBeagle, the ageless unicorn is turned into a young woman to protect her from being captured and imprisoned with all the other unicorns. She is horrified at first, mostly because the transformation makes her ''mortal'', something she's never experienced before. But the longer she remains transformed the [[LossOfIdentity more she forgets her unicorn nature and her quest]]: at the pivotal moment she begs to be allowed to stay human and marry the human prince she has come to love. The book ends with her a unicorn once more, triumphant and immortal but forever tied to human emotions like love and regret.
* Happens to the titular character in ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''. It's an extremely painful experience though - every step she takes feels like she's walking on knives - and she's unable to talk in human form, as the price for the transformation was her tongue.
* Animals in ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' are occasionally chosen to become Magical Girls, whereupon they gain a human form and intelligence. Their normal forms remain the same however. Examples include Tepeskemei (an Egyptian Tortoise) in the ''Limited'' arc and [[spoiler:Cherna Mouse (a hamster) in the ''Restart'' arc, though her true form is only revealed in a side story]].
* The titular character of the Dutch children's novel ''Minoes'' by Annie M. G. Schmidt. She was a cat, and one day she woke up as a lady. It was later adapted into a movie starring Creator/CariceVanHouten.
* This trope is the entire point of the novel ''Shoebag'', in which a cockroach finds himself transformed into a human and wants to transform back. Another character is eventually revealed to be another transformed cockroach, who acclimated to human life and didn't want to return even when they found a way.
* In the Creator/TomHolt book ''Snow White and the Seven Samurai'', the big bad wolf is turned into a handsome prince (by way of a frog), and isn't very happy about it.
* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'', turtle wizard Clothahump coerces Mudge the otter into assisting Jon-tom by threatening to transform Mudge into a human if he refuses. In ''Paths of the Perambulator'', in the same series, Jon-tom's animal companions are all unwillingly transformed into humans by a surge of wild magic, and [[spoiler:he has to play Rick Springfield's ''Human Touch'' backwards to change them back]]. Also played for ironic laughs as Clothahump announces this as the "Worst transformation yet" (With everyone besides Jon-Tom agreeing) despite they had already been turned into giant Crabs, Giant Caterpillers, [[GenderBender Switching Genders]] and turning into literal viruses only to temporarily catch said diseases afterwards.
* ''Literature/TalesOfKolmar'': The king of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Kantri]], Akhor, become human at the end of ''Song in the Silence''. As the one Kantri most fascinated by humans - he actually used to try to walk on two legs like them, but it hurt too much - he's initially very happy about it, enjoying the stronger sense of touch and the much more dexterous hands. There's a point in ''The Lesser Kindred'' where he realizes he can't fly, and later when it ''really'' sinks in that who he was is gone, which are both marked with grief and sorrow. It's very mixed. But it does mean he can be with his beloved. In ''Redeeming the Lost'', [[spoiler:he becomes a Kantri again and mourns his human shape]].
* Happens twice in the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'':
** In ''Literature/TheImmortals'' quartet, Numair tells Daine that because he turned an enemy mage into a tree, a tree somewhere has been turned into a human. Due to a large amount of fan mail asking about the tree, [[Creator/TamoraPierce the author]] eventually wrote a short story about him, "Elder Brother".
** In the ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'', it's established that crows can turn into humans if they want, but only one character becomes human permanently. And on the flipside, the raka, the humans of the Copper Isles who are cousins of the crows, have stories about rare members of their people who chose to become a crow.
* ''Treasure in the Heart of the Tanglewood'' has one of the few true subversions of this trope. Year after year, one KnightInShiningArmor after another rides into the Tanglewood to fight the monster within, and year after year, they never come out again. [[spoiler:The beast within turns each knight into an animal, then kills them, and tells the protagonist that these were the [[ThisWasHisTrueForm true forms]] of the knights, which they had been shifted out of for use as CannonFodder. The subversion is that [[VillainsNeverLie he lied]], and shapeshifted beings in this setting ''don't'' [[DyingAsYourself die as themselves]]. The knights were human all along.]]
* At the end of ''Literature/ATwistedTale: A Whole New World'', [[spoiler:Jafar wishing all magic in the world away has the side effect of turning Genie into a human, with the only hint to his former nature being a slight blue tint to his skin. Since magic is as natural to Djinns as something like walking upright or reading books is to humans, he's ''not'' happy about this turn of events. And he's none too fond of the whole walking thing either.]]
* In ''Literature/WorldsOfPower'', Dr. Light accidentally turns Franchise/MegaMan into a human while running him through a duplicating machine.
* ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'': Princess Nastoya is a sapient Elephant who has been put under a spell that turns her into a human. Elephants are hunted by many, but the Scrow tribe reveres them so they don't harm her.
* Tragically, in Greer Gilman's ''Moonwise''. When Sylvie disappears before Ariane's eyes, Ariane has to find her, hampered by the fact that she has no "mind's eye" -- she is incapable of mental imagery [[note]]true for the author: "Sadly, I can't see pictures in my head. Which is strange, because I'm fiercely visual -- I minored in art history, I design things and I draw (too seldom) -- but the theatre of the mind is dark. And that changes everything: not only how I read and write, but memory, my sense of time. "[[/note]]. Going by intuition, she accidentally calls to her and embodies a "lightborn" child. The lightborn are spirits who watch over a particular place, in this case the forests of Cloud, one of the worlds Ariane and Sylvie think they [[WorldBuilding made up]] (and [[RealAfterAll didn't]]). The lightborn is devastated at finding herself trapped in human flesh, a grim, stark and painful fate. She rages for hours, and refuses to sleep fearing she'll forget. But she is able to find her way back to Cloud, taking Ariane with her. [[spoiler: The story is how they find Sylvie, and the lightborn along with many others (who were ''turned to stone!'') is ultimately returned to her true shape.]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Samantha of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' turned a horse into a woman just to understand what the horse wanted to say. The changeling was not happy with this: "I've got nothing to swat flies with!"
** She did this in another episode as well, turning a cat into a woman to model for her husband's boss. In this case, though, the cat-turned-woman actually ''likes'' being human.
* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
** ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
*** According to the Shanshu Prophecy, a vampire with a soul will earn the right to become human again after playing a pivotal role in the Apocalypse. So far, Angel and Spike are candidates.
*** Illyria started out life as a routine SealedEvilInACan, escaping from her tomb in a sarcophagus and possessing the body of Winifred "Fred" Burkle, a series regular. Illyria, having shrank down from the 50-foot Cthulhu into a skinny (albeit indestructible) corpse, is forced to throw in her lot with Angel's crew, being stuck with a form which would serve as catnip to her demonic cohorts. Adding to her problems, remnants of Fred's brain patterns start affecting the creature's personality, causing it to unconsciously reconstruct her host's old life -- including bonding with Fred's grieving lover, Wesley. By the series finale, it's almost impossible to tell where Fred ends and Illyria begins.
*** In the "I Will Remember You" episode of ''Series/{{Angel}},'' the titular vampire is made human by accidentally mixing his blood with the blood of a Mohra demon with regenerative powers. After becoming a SenseFreak, noting that he doesn't like yoghurt, having mucho bed-time with Buffy (in a ContrivedCoincidence {{Crossover}}) and generally enjoying the sun he employs an in-universe ResetButton when he learns that [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome his humanity will prevent him from fighting in the upcoming apocalypse]] and thus cause the deaths of many people, including the Slayer. His reward and punishment (two for one!) was being the only person to remember the lost day.
** Anya from ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' is another example. Anya was originally a thousand-year-old vengeance demon who took human form to curse unfaithful men. Then in "The Wish" she loses her powers, and becomes human. She eventually resigns herself to being human. Her unfamiliarity with human social conventions (particularly not talking about sex in public) is a running gag/theme.
*** Or so it seems, at first; it actually turns out she ''originally'' was a human, born in Sweden during Viking times. And she was [[CloudCuckooLander just as weird]] back then, while other vengeance demons like Halfryk don't seem to have any such foibles.
** Also from Buffyverse, Darla, the first vampire seen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is resurrected as a human [[spoiler:complete with incurable disease that nearly killed her originally]] but with the full memory of having been a vampire intact. Later, [[spoiler:she is turned into a vampire again, but suffers from bouts of human emotions when she becomes pregnant with Connor.]]
* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', a snake, a rabbit, and a pig were turned into humans by a group of girls who wanted a date for a dance. The spell was temporary but the transformed men wanted to remain human permanently.
* The ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode "Little Boy Boo" has Robbie telling Baby a scary story about a "wereman", starring himself as the victim of the curse.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]] has a halfway example: while stranded in the 1930s, Dalek Sec absorbs a human ally and becomes the first Human-Dalek. Admittedly, he doesn't really ''look'' like a human except for having arms and legs — he still has Dalek tentacles and the single eye on his new head — but his worldly perspective becomes more and more human during the rest of the arc, to the point that he begins to consider the Daleks' creator Davros to have been wrong and wants to help and be helped by the Daleks' sworn enemy, the Doctor himself. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this ends up getting him killed by the other Daleks as a heretic, possibly sacrificing himself to save the Doctor from the others.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] reveals that Time Lords can use a device called a Chameleon Arch to turn themselves human (or any other HumanAlien species) and put their memories and Time Lord nature in a fob watch. Opening the watch turns them back. The difference from most examples of this trope is that Time Lords, while transformed, have no real memory of their former selves. The Doctor, as a human, has strange dreams of his Time Lord life, but doesn't doubt his humanity and seems perfectly content.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]] reveals another Chameleon Arch user: [[spoiler:TheMaster, a.k.a. "Professor Yana". As Yana, the Master hears the sound of drums that he started hearing when he looked into the Time Vortex as a child, but just like the Doctor earlier, doesn't suspect the truth.]]
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]": [[spoiler:The TARDIS']] soul is ripped out and stuffed into a human body.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon "Fugitive of the Judoon"]]: [[spoiler:Ruth Clayton turns out to be a Time Lord hidden via a Chameleon Arch — and not just ''any'' Time Lord: she's a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor whose positioning in their overall timeline is a mystery, since she and Thirteen don't have any memories of ever being each other. Her husband Lee is also implied to be a Time Lord or other Gallifreyan turned human as well, but with his memories intact.]]
* In ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'', one man uses an artifact to turn his dog into a wife (his real wife is [[{{Animorphism}} turned into a dog]]).
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'':
** After Adalind attacks Nick, his family, and his friends several times, Nick tricks her into biting him, which forces some of his Grimm blood into her system, stripping her of her hexenbiest powers. She spends the rest of the season working to recover her powers, feeling that she is nothing without her magical powers.
** In retaliation, Adalind takes a potion that transforms her to look like Nick's fiancee, Juliette. Nick and Adalind-as-Juliette then have sex, which strips Nick of his Grimm powers. Nick, who at one point hated being a Grimm, is desperate to recover his powers, realizing how much he's come to rely on them to protect the people around him.
* In ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' a pig named Katharine fell in love with Hercules from a previous adventure where he got turned into a pig. Aphrodite granted her wish to be human, and as a bonus, gave her a body identical to hers (they were played by the same actress). However, while Hercules treated her well, she ultimately could not adjust to living like a human and asked to be changed back. The final straw for her was that her barnyard friends didn't recognize her and they couldn't understand each other.
* In ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', Jeannie turned a chimpanzee named Sam into a man. Sam winds up liking being human.
* ''Series/TheJourneyOfFlower'': Tang Bao, a spirit worm, turns into a human in episode thirteen.
* ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'' has a trio of mermaids banished from their pod when they accidentally allow a human boy to enter their sacred moon pool and become a merman. To get back, the trio use magic to take human appearance and have a hard time at first from walking to figuring out what to eat and human customs.
** The trio soon discover the school principal is a mermaid herself who made herself appear human years before after falling in love with a human boy and she helps them get used to their new forms.
** Rita's cat Poseidon winds up as a copy of Evie after spilling some potions and seeing Evie in the hallway. Though apparently instantly able to speak, Poseidon gives no acknowledgment whatsoever that a change even took place. However, s/he still behaves like a cat, knows that the mermaids are mermaids (which, at this point, the real Evie doesn't), and doesn't know things Evie knows, causing no end of confusion for the main cast. (Especially for Evie, who is told multiple times that she was just seen somewhere she knows she wasn't.)
** [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Zack was born as a merman; his mother transformed him into a human using a powerful spell that couldn't be broken by contact with water until he fell into the Moon Pool.]]
* Fairy tale characters such as Gus (the mouse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'') and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel the mermaid]] appear in ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where they transform into humans from their respective species.
** In ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', [[spoiler:Cyrus begins the series as a genie (once a human) but later becomes a human. Additionally, Will briefly becomes a genie but is restored to a human again.]]
* In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', this is [[spoiler: Mack's]] fate when Sentinel Knight uses the Corona Aurora to [[spoiler: resurrect him after his HeroicSacrifice.]]
* The ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' episode "Cassie's Best Friend" has Cassie's dog Jetson become a human being.
* Black cat Luna of the live-action ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' has the ability to turn into a human girl. Unlike prior incarnations in [[Franchise/SailorMoon the franchise]] she turns into a small child, and even a Sailor Senshi. However, she still acts like a cat sometimes, and sneezing changes her back.
* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "DNA" had Kryten turn human, much to his surprise and pleasure -- until he found out his spare parts (most notably his spare heads) hated him for it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ofl_UP3apM Just take a look]] at the scene. And the photos were an example of EnforcedMethodActing. And his eyes no longer have a zoom mode. And his nipples no longer pull in radio signals. And the whole last-chicken-in-the-shop look for certain body parts.
* The Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} TV movie ''Rufus'' is about a dog who becomes a teenage boy by wearing a magical necklace. Like the above, it's filled with MyInstinctsAreShowing moments. The sequel has Rufus falling in love with a girl who owns a similar necklace -- and she's really a cat!
* Being [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in his]] [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm human-like form]] was a punishment for Odo on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Interestingly, the condition lasted several episodes before it was finally reversed.
* It was also a punishment for Q in one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Having less than a microsecond to decide, he chose to be human in the hopes that Picard and crew would protect him. Then spent most of the episode lamenting that he should have asked to be turned into anything else other than human.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** [[MsFanservice Seven of Nine]] started out as human, became a [[TheVirus Borg]] as a kid, and was forcibly [[BroughtDownToNormal brought back down to human]] (more or less) by the crew of ''Voyager''. While initially not happy about it (to say the least), Captain Janeway guided her through the process of rediscovering her humanity through time, patience, care, LesYay...
** Also, it was impossible to communicate with Species 8472 before they started taking on human form, and afterwards we never saw them in their tripedal, purple-skinned, cross-pupilled SupernaturalGoldEyes form again.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Castiel in the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E21TwoMinutesToMidnight Two Minutes to Midnight]]". After his previous altercation with other angels in "Point of No Return", Castiel turns up in a hospital and finds that he has become pretty much human. [[spoiler:He shows that there's just enough angel left inside him to resist Pestilence's powers.]]
** As of the end of Season 8, [[spoiler:not only has Castiel been subjected to this again, but so has ''every angel in Heaven'', barring the one vengeful angel who forced them all to fall]].
** Additionally, late in Season 8 it was revealed that it was possible [[spoiler:to cure a demon's soul back into that of a human. The two times its been done on-screen have involved [[HeelRealization a lot of crying as the demons realize]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone just how terrible their actions as a demon were]].]]
%%* [[spoiler:Katherine]] in the Season 5 finale of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''.
** In the final season, [[spoiler: Jack]] turns [[spoiler: Chuck, the character who serves as the in-universe equivalent of God]] into a human so that the latter can understand the difficulties of being a human, particularly trying to survive in a universe where the omnipotent deity treats your life like a cringey reality TV show. [[spoiler: Chuck]] is appalled realizing that he is no longer in control and that he will eventually die, just like all the other mortals.
* The 1997 TV movie ''Whiskers'' is about a boy who spends too much time with his cat. His cat was turned into a human with the help of an Egyptian goddess wishing he has a human friend. Filled with MyInstinctsAreShowing moments.
* Used in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' when Alex gets Justin to turn a couple of guinea pigs into humans for some information.
* The is the twist at the end of ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster". [[spoiler: The MonsterOfTheWeek is not, as Mulder suspects, a man who turns into a reptile-monster, but a reptile-monster who turns into a human, as the result of being bitten by one]]. Even Mulder doesn't know what to make of that one.

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* Occurs in ''Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot'', where an influx of human DNA turns a HumongousMecha into a giantess.
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* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'':
** Audilith the Gigalith was turned human as a result of the Glitch Area in Twist Mountain. She was not very fond of it, deciding she'd rather not be human again.
** This is also a common occurrence on April Fools Days, where several odd things happen, though things are returned to relative normalcy by the day's end.
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%%* ''VideoGame/AtelierIrisEternalMana'': Norn was an experiment on a housecat.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkCloud'' Xiao, Toan's pet cat, is turned into a catgirl once you give her a potion, and declares that she wants to help "Master" reassemble the Atlamilla, donning a slingshot and becoming your second party member.
* In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', an angel [[spoiler:Tyrael]] becomes human after tearing off his own wings.
* This is precisely what happens to [[spoiler:Imnity and Rico]] at the end of the final route in ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny''. Taiga just sorta strips them of their status as spirits and absorbs their power before [[spoiler:going off to beat up God.]]
* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' and ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'' have re-releases for both games, with an "Almost Human" mode where the playable characters, mooks and bosses went from andromorphic animals to humans.
* Halfway through ''VideoGame/FrogFractions'', the frog is turned into a human being. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out to be AllJustADream.]]
* Some of the {{beast|Man}}men in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' originated as animals and became more human-like after Alchemy was released, and will happily chat with the heroes about how weird it is to be walking on one's hind feet, wearing clothes, and eating cooked meat instead of raw.
* Your character in ''VideoGame/HakaiouKingOfCrusher'' WasOnceAMan, before an alien virus turns you into a monster. The final cutscene have you regressing to a human, ''after'' you turned New York city into a wasteland, leading to you having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.
* A wolf in ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'' is cursed with humanity by a gang of mischievous Sprites in a sidequest. He is ''pissed'' about the change -- he can't hunt well without his fangs and claws, his own pack drove him off thinking he was just another human, humans think he's just a lunatic and forced him to wear ''pants''. The Fateless One can help the unfortunate wolf by killing the sprites and undoing the curse.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' there is a hidden Easter egg. If you go into the northwestmost house in Kakariko village, there's a vase which has a Cucco ([[CallARabbitASmeerp basically an in-universe chicken]]) hiding under it. Part way through the game you get the "Magic powder" item. If you sprinkle it on this Cucco then it turns into a woman and complains about the shift. The effect is reset when you leave the house. The Cucco-turned-woman also gives a hint about the town's statue being not quite what it seems.
* EDI in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series. She starts out as a body-less AI residing in the Normandy [=SR2=], and eventually she is referred to as the Normandy herself. In the third game, she gains a body, and with it, a new perspective on humanity that eventually causes her to refer to ''herself'' as alive.
* In the GameMod ''Lunna Astray in Stardew Valley'', the eponymous young woman, Lunna, is revealed to be a [[LivingShadow shadow person]] who was transformed into a human and sent to VideoGame/StardewValley. Later in the story her younger sister, Diana, also becomes human.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/MonumentValley'' [[spoiler:it is revealed that Ida is actually a bird princess who was cursed to become human because she stole the sacred geometry. She and the crows regain their true forms after all the geometry has been returned.]]
* Happens to [[spoiler:Aigis, the team robot]] in ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and [[spoiler:Teddie, the TeamPet]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4''.
* ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'''s true ending. [[spoiler:Rose turns from a cat familiar to a CatGirl with random magic powder that has a power to grant any wish.]]
* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'': [[spoiler:Kerrigan is de-infested at the end of the ''Wings of Liberty'' campaign.]]
* It's implied that Nastasia from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' used to be a bat who became humanoid to repay Count Bleck for freeing her from a trap.
* An interesting example from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': most fairies in Gensokyo are perfect {{mook}}s, lacking in personality but able to endlessly respawn if killed. [[AnIcePerson Ice fairy]] Cirno, on the other hand, has [[SmallNameBigEgo quite]] [[TheDitz a]] personality, and is several magnitudes more powerful than the average fairy. When she encounters Eiki Shiki, the yama conjectures that because Cirno's [[strike:[[MemeticMutation the strongest!]]]] so powerful and able to move around and cause trouble, she's coming closer to becoming a {{youkai}} and therefore mortal. The conversation goes completely over Cirno's head, of course...
** Plus, of course, there are all the {{youkai}} that take the form of cute girls, but which originally came from animals and inanimate objects lasting a hundred years, per Japanese mythology.
* Talazia from ''VideoGame/{{Weaponlord}}'' [[spoiler:is revealed to have actually been a raven who was cursed into becoming a human seven years ago. She also gets LaserGuidedAmnesia, making her only remember her time as a human.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Healie, a flying slime whom you find in the first chapter, wishes to become human. When you see him again later in the game, his wish is seen to have been granted.
** A town in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'' is under a curse, turning all animals into humans and humans into animals. A boy is found chained up in this town; he's actually a legendary white wolf. When the heroes defeat the monster responsible, he curses the wolf/boy to remain human despite the curse otherwise being lifted. The wolf/boy decides to join the heroes as "Ruff". After some time travel, the party encounters the monster again, mostly depowered, but also reformed. He apologizes to Ruff and attempts to turn him back into a wolf; instead, he accidentally gives Ruff the ability to speak. Ruff then tells him to stop trying to cast magic, as he's perfectly happy in his human form.
* In ''Videogame/DishonoredDeathOfTheOutsider'', [[spoiler:it is possible to do this to [[PhysicalGod The Outsider]] by convincing Daud to use [[IKnowYourTrueName his true name]] to the Outsider's "body" in the void, which will cause him to become a human once again]].
* In ''Amenity's Life'', the protagonist wakes up to find that his smartphone, robot vacuum, headphones and even the kitchen oven have turned into human girls.
* ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU Deluxe'' introduces an item called the Super Crown that allows the character Toadette to turn into a facsimile of Princess Peach called Peachette. Fans latched onto this and came up with "JustForFun/{{Bowsette}}" -- Bowser transformed into a lookalike of Peach with horns and a tail. Naturally, this trope occurs (although it might be more accurate to say "[[AmbiguouslyHuman Ambiguous]] Humanity Ensues").
* In ''{{VideoGame/Solatorobo}}'', the normally Caninu Red Savarin inexplicably gains the ability to transform into a human upon encountering the DiscOneFinalBoss. [[spoiler:The second half of the game reveals that Red can transform because [[HybridAllAlong he's an artificially-made hybrid]] originally created for the sole purpose of bringing about the end of the world alongside his BigBad father and siblings, but his mother interfered with that by casting him out to an orphanage without his knowledge. Gameplay wise, Red can transform if his Trance gauge is filled up, giving him extra combat versatility.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** Dragons can voluntarily turn themselves into humanoid forms like humans, orcs and elves, which they usually do in areas that are otherwise too big to hold them or to spy on the other races as part of their charge in stewarting the world.
** Many races in Azeroth today were originally creatures of stone or metal known as the Titan-Forged, living tools made to serve the Titans in their grand design to guide Azeroth's development. The Old God, Yogg-Saron, spread an infection known as "the Curse of Flesh" that slowly turned the Titan-Forge into creatures of flesh and blood, all to make them more suseptible to madness and corruption.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One of the stories Sukubi tells people about why he wears a dog collar is that he's actually a Great Dane that got turned into a human by a magical collar. What he says should be taken with a grain of salt, given his penchant for MultipleChoicePast, but...well, it should be noted that [[{{Expy}} his name]] ''is'' [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Sukubi Dubidu]]...
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' this happens to [[spoiler:the Lich, as Finn splashes him with healing water that turned into a [[RaiseHimRightThisTime giant human baby]] (albeit still with the horn).]] Although [[spoiler:the Lich was originally a human transformed by the Mushroom Bomb,]] so...
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingFeatsOfYoungHercules'', this happens to [[spoiler:Falina the sable]] at the end of the movie. However, [[spoiler:she was already a human princess before she was cursed into a sable]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** The episode "The Nuisance" sees the Wattersons grotesquely turned into a stereotypical nuclear family of humans after they become model citizens (except Darwin, who becomes a dog).
** In the episode "The Lady", Richard has a [[DisguisedInDrag female alter-ego]] named Samantha, achieved via FullBodyDisguise, which also makes him look entirely human.
** The series finale "The Inquisition" has the superintendent of Elmore Junior High trying to turn all the students into humans (first cartoon humans, then [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action ones]] like him). [[spoiler:It turns out to have been a plan by Rob to let them escape to "the other place" before Elmore is sucked into the Void.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "I'm Not An Animal, I'm Scientist #1" ends with Norb, Daggett and the other forest animals being turned into human beings.
* The ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' animated series had Tara Boumdeay, a female tomato who could be turned into a teenage female human by sneezing. Sneezing also turned her back into a tomato. It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
* Gorilla Grodd's first appearance in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' ends with him being turned into a human after his DevolutionDevice is put in reverse, [[SnapBack though he's a gorilla again in later episodes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has Albedo, a Galvan (species of super-smart small aliens), being a victim of this: after he attempted to create his own Omnitrix and set it to match human protagonist Ben's one. The problem is, an Omnitrix has its owner's DNA as the default form, meaning he ends up turned into a clone of Ben. [[BeingHumanSucks He was displeased to say the least.]] Amusingly, from some perspective, this a rare case where being turned into a human [[CursedWithAwesome shouldn't be that bad]] technically talking: after all, humans are taller and physically stronger than Galvans, and it has been shown several times that Albedo retained his Galvan intelligence. The problem is, Albedo has a ''huge'' ego and believes HumansAreFlawed, so he considers it as unbearable.
-->'''Albedo:''' I am stuck in a stinky, sweaty, noisy, hungry, hairy, smelly teenage human body, constantly craving chili fries and scratching myself in places I suspect are inappropriate!
* Happens to the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' in the episode "Handsome Beast" after he eats a can of fancy body spray.
* Happens to a wolf named Harry in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing". He's the victim of Professor Nimnul's latest plan which involves swapping species so he can turn into a WolfMan. (After said experiment [[SuperpowerMeltdown goes awry]], the episode also includes some spectacularly insane MixAndMatchCritters.)
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'' episode "Bones of Damballa" [[spoiler:Skulkar, an undead skeleton warrior servant of Wrath-Amon]] is transformed back into his original human form, and tricks Conan and Zula into helping him get his "other" form back.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'' episode "Pool Party Panic" involves Milo waking up to find that he and everyone else is human; [[spoiler:however, it turns out to be AllJustADream]].
* In one of the "What-If" episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender is turned into a human and discovers the joys of food and dancing. He [[SenseFreak proceeds to spend a whole week eating, drinking, and partying]]. By the time the other characters find him, he's an [[BodyHorror outrageously fat slob in terrible shape]]. He proceeds to teach scientists how to live it up, [[spoiler:and ultimately dies due to his lifestyle]].
-->'''Leela:''' Bender, you drank and smoked when you were a robot.\\
'''Bender:''' Yeah, but now it's bad for me!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** In "The Mirror," as a result of Puck [[JackassGenie "misinterpreting"]] [[ExactWords Demona's demands]], Goliath and his clan are all transformed into humans (Bronx becomes a dog), while every human in the city is transformed into a gargoyle. As an added twist, the transformed don't ''notice'' the change, being convinced that they were ''always'' in their current form and that it's the un-transformed party who suddenly changed species. Aside from that they retain all their memories, which allows the gargoyles to realize something's wrong when they note that their memories of gliding are contradicted by their current lack of wings.
** Demona gains the ability to turn human by day after the above run-in with Puck. Despite initially being [[KarmicTransformation repulsed by this development]], due to her genocidal hatred of humans, she successfully uses her new form to become a CorruptCorporateExecutive, which [[CursedWithAwesome leaves her far better equipped to implement her murderous schemes]] (and even got married to the guy who wants her ''dead'' because he didn't recognize her human form).
** Puck himself counts, in a way; he created his human identity ([[spoiler:Owen Burnett]]) and voluntarily lived in it for years (very well, too), but when he helps Xanatos and the gargoyles fight Oberon, his punishment is being trapped in that form ''[[DisproportionateRetribution permanently]]'', except when he needs to train or protect Alexander. Since he's ''Puck'', he proves entirely capable of engineering loopholes for himself on occasion.
* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', Aya constructs herself a humanoid body, if only so that she can be a "real" Green Lantern, at the end of "Into the Abyss".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Night of the Living Grim", Grim contracts a magical disease called "Encroaching Doom Syndrome" that ends up turning him into a mortal human. HilarityEnsues until the end of the episode where a slime monster that appeared earlier eats him, but he comes out of the monster back in his skeleton form.
* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'', it's revealed that monster children spend Halloween magically disguised as humans. One kid, however, makes a deal to make the spell a bit more permanent for everyone affected, requiring June to go through a ChainOfDeals to reverse it before midnight.
* Happens to Ohno of the ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' in the episode "Wish World". She's forced to return to being a robot when it turns out [[spoiler:the Orbots cannot combine without her]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' episode "The Soothsayer's Convention", Oscar the piano is turned into a human, although given the various... ''quirks'' of his human form (for starters, [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation he's still blue head to toe]]) it would be fairer to say [[AmbiguouslyHuman Ambiguous Humanity]] Ensues.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'': In "Enemy with My Face", the Melog is a creature of mud and rock that can [[PowerCopying take on the traits of whoever it touches]]. She touched She-Ra, gaining her strength, but also her personality, eventually leading to a HeelFaceTurn. She-Ra was able to use the magic of her sword to turn the Melog into a human girl.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SuperLittleFantaHeroes'' retelling of Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, Djali is turned into a human girl so that Pierre Gringoire can marry her. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really]].
* TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' revolves around this trope - Spot, who has always wanted to be human, becomes a human man thanks to a MadScientist. [[spoiler:In the end, he decides he's happy being a dog, and is returned to normal]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "The Gang's All Here" had Michaelangelo become a human after eating some mutagenic cookies.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'':
*** The episode "Only Human" involves Springer, Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, and Arcee having their minds put into synthoid human forms by the villainous Victor Drath (with the help of the suspiciously familiar [[Franchise/GIJoe Old Snake]]). While they were "created" with white t-shirts and boxers, by strong coincidence they managed to find clothing that corresponded to their paint scheme hanging on four hooks inside an empty warehouse.
*** An awkward section of this episode featured Rodimus being invited into Michelle's house followed by a fade to black. The next Rodimus-based scene is set the next morning, when Michelle betrays him to her boyfriend Drath. It's not completely clear [[DidTheyOrDidntThey what went on that night]], but [[ShapeshiftingSquick Rodimus seemed very uncomfortable with it]].
*** The earlier episode "Sea Change" involves Seaspray falling in love with a {{Human Alien|s}} woman, resulting in his entering a magical pool in order to become a "human" man (however, he keeps his metal feet and his 'bubbly' voice"). The alien woman later uses the pool to become a robot.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' appears to pay tribute to "Only Human" with the two-parter "Human Error", which starts with the Autobots partying it up on Christmas Eve and going to sleep/"stasis", and then Optimus Prime waking up and finding himself--and all the other Autobots--in human form. This turns out to be a [[LotusEaterMachine Decepticon plot]] to demoralize them into changing sides. It doesn't work. They get to indulge their [[SenseFreak curiousity]] about food, Optimus appreciates humanity better after trying to manually drive the fire truck, and Prowl figures out the VR world and uses it to gain [[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]-like power to help them return to their robot forms.
** A temporary and non-supernatural variant occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' - Graham designs a human form for Blades using a portable hologram emitter so that the latter can get promoted in Lab Pioneers.
* Blinky from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' experiences this for a short while after [[spoiler:being exposed to a number of unknown chemicals in Gatto's stomach.]]
* The second HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' includes a segment where Charlie the Bigfoot turns himself into a human via a magic arcade machine in order to be able to go into the city with the bears without worrying about being seen by humans. However, the bears no longer recognize their pal Charlie this way, so Charlie goes back to the machine to turn back to normal, only for havoc to ensue when the magic arcade machine doesn't work the way that he wants it to and creates increasingly strange realities where Charlie is still a human and the world around him is messed up in odd ways. [[spoiler: He does end up turning back to normal in the end, except that he and the bears now have pouches containing younger versions of themselves on their bodies. [[CloseEnoughTimeline Charlie shrugs and carries on]].]]
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** One of Harry Dresden's allies in ''Literature/FoolMoon'', [[spoiler:[[AmazonianBeauty Tera West]]]], is revealed to be a wolfwere, a wolf who can take the form of a human. [[spoiler:After the death of her lover,]] she goes back to the mountains to live with her pack.

* SCP-1575 of ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is a magical fountain which turns any animal that drinks from it into a human. Unlike most examples of the trope, BodyHorror is involved.

A non-human character in a series, often an animal, is turned into a human. The major difference between this and PinocchioSyndrome is that the transformed character doesn't ''want'' to be human. Such changes are, more often than not, involuntarily {{forced|Transformation}} upon them.

* Downplayed but simultaneously [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] and PlayedForDrama in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''[=/=]''{{WesternAnimation/Castlevania}}'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12849210/1/Lord-of-the-Castle Lord of the Castle]]''. The character in question, Alucard, is already [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] due to being a {{Dhampyr}} with his father being [[Characters/CastlevaniaDracula Dracula]], but an encounter with [[GreatGazoo Mr. Mxyzptlk]] ends up turning him completely human. In doing so, Alucard loses his regenerative powers (which served as his immune system) and ability to sustain on blood (essentially leaving him starved), which leads to his organs failing and needing urgent medical attention; thankfully, he is saved when Superman is able to trick Mr. Mzyxptlk into banishing himself, undoing all the damage done to the world and turning Alucard back into a dhampyr. Simultaneously, though, [[spoiler: him being human left [[EldritchLocation Castlevania]] without a lord, leading to [[TheBaroness Carmilla]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Cornell]], [[HornyDevils Magnus]], and [[SinisterMinister Shaft]] escaping from Hell, and with the aid of [[TheDragon Death]] (who takes after his game portrayal of Dracula's [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]] servant instead of the animation's portrayal of him as the GreaterScopeVillain), intend to kill Alucard and bring Dracula back to life]].