Basic Trope: Defeating someone in their transformed form blocks them from taking that form again.
- Straight: Alice takes a severe injury in her unicorn form. She lives, but transforms into a human and can't take it again.
- Exaggerated: Alice, the shapeshifter who can take on many forms, loses her entire ability to shapeshift after being blasted as a unicorn.
- Downplayed: Alice can't transform into a unicorn for a little while after taking a severe injury in that form.
- Justified: It's a failsafe to allow Alice to survive an otherwise fatal attack.
- Inverted:
- Alice the human loses her ability to change back into one after being nearly killed as a unicorn.
- Alice automatically turns into a unicorn and can't change back into her regular form after a near death experience.
- Subverted: Alice turns back into a human form seemly from taking a blast. Turns out she wasn't caught in it, she actually turned back to set up a sneak attack on Evulz.
- Double Subverted: She then takes a deadly blast and reverts back to her unicorn form. Turns out the unicorn is her default form, not the human.
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- Averted: Alice dies as a unicorn when hit with an explosion in her unicorn form.
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- Defied: Alice purposely avoids battles in her unicorn form. Either it's used only as a mount, for the unicorn's healing abilities, or everything except as a battle form.
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Looks like you killed the laconic version! Oh wait, it's still alive, it just turned into the un-abridged version.
