Basic Trope: A character shapeshifts, and has difficulty moving around in the new form.
- Straight: Charlie is turned into a giraffe, and finds it difficult to move around.
- Exaggerated: Charlie changes forms and is completely unable to move without immediately falling down.
- Downplayed: Charlie is mostly able to move around as a giraffe just fine, but occasionally bumps his head or runs into something unexpectedly.
- Justified:
- Giraffes are much taller than humans, and are also quadrupedal — it's no surprise that Charlie would find it difficult to adjust to this sudden change.
- The shapeshifted form is otherwise very different from Charlie's usual form. For instance, he turns into a snake or other animal without legs.
- Charlie just got his shapeshifting powers and doesn't quite understand how they work yet.
- Charlie was turned into a giraffe through a Forced Transformation or Involuntary Shapeshifting.
- Charlie doesn't even realize he's been turned into a giraffe and is trying to go about his life as normal.
- The transformation was painful or otherwise disorienting and Charlie hasn't quite recovered from it yet.
- Inverted: Charlie struggles to move around in his Shapeshifter Default Form, but moves around just fine when in a shapeshifted form.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Charlie is able to move around just fine after turning into a giraffe.
- Enforced: "We should show how Charlie isn't used to being a giraffe yet. Let's show him having difficulty moving around in the new form."
- Lampshaded: "No one ever told me that turning into something else means having to learn to walk all over again!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "I bet one of the hardest parts about turning into something else is figuring out how to move around in the new form." "Depends on what you turn into, I guess."
- Conversed: ???
Back to- (crashes) Man, it's hard to get back to the main page when you've turned into an elephant.
