Basic Trope: Someone who hates a certain race, species, group, etc is transformed into a member of that group.
- Straight: Bob the Bigot regards androids as soulless machines he feels no guilt in destroying, until he gets turned into one.
- Exaggerated: Bob hates a wide variety of groups, and gets transformed into a Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot as a result.
- Downplayed:
- Bob becomes a Cyborg.
- Bob has some disdain for androids, and is forced to live a day as one in order to change his view.
- Bob doesn't literally turn into an android, but gets treated like one.
- Justified: Bob said this around an android, which upset them to the point in which they found a way to curse Bob into becoming an android.
- Inverted:
- Bob loves androids, and is turned into one as a result.
- Bob loves androids, and so he is forbidden to participate in experiments to turn humans into androids.
- Bob hates androids, and so he is forbidden to participate in experiments to turn humans into androids.
- Bob is an android who is a Boomerang Bigot against androids, and he's turned into a human as a result.
- Subverted: Bob criticizes androids, then says, "I'm going to be turned into an android for this, right?" It doesn't happen.
- Double Subverted: ...until just before he wakes up the next morning.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bob transforms from a human into an android, then returns to being a human, several times during the story.
- Averted: Nobody is transformed into something that they hate.
- Enforced: "We need Bob to change his racist views—let's have him turn into the group he hates."
- Lampshaded: "Oh no, this is because I said I hate androids, isn't it?"
- Invoked: Bob is trying to change his negative views towards androids. He asks someone to turn him into one so that he can understand what it's actually like to be an android.
- Exploited: Lord Evulz deliberately provokes a favorable karmic transformation by persecuting an endangered race of intelligent but dangerous laser-breathing bear-tiger-dragon Cthulhus while pretending to harbor genocidal hatred towards them, with the intention of turning into one so he can carry out his plans of world domination.
- Defied: Bob is threatened with the possibility of being an android if he doesn't change his prejudiced views towards them. He decides to become The Atoner and make up for his negative views towards androids instead.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob is a background character who badmouths androids in one scene. Later, a Brick Joke reveals there's an android standing where he was last seen.
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