Can we do better?: Involuntary Shapeshifter

Can we find some kind of picture that communicates this trope properly? Not just a "character's transformation occurs", but a "character's transformation occurs involuntarily".

The original picture didn't do a particularly good job of explaining that part:

Unfortunately, neither does Eddie's current picture of a wolf transformation — werewolves are their own trope, which may be distracting from what this trope is.

Can we find something better?

edited 28th Jul '11 3:51:58 PM by Stratadrake

I'm okay with a werewolf. That said, there's a disturbing amount of pornography on GIS when I do a search, so be warned.

The first thing that came to mind was the change sequence in the third Harry Potter movie, when Lupin sees the moon and begins wolfing out.

EDIT: FUCK

{You can't pothole an embedded video. Pick one or the other. —Madrugada}

[[youtube:v=agTClDfpcQ]]

edited 28th Jul '11 5:15:12 PM by Madrugada

Here's the dark version; here's a brighter one

And stills:

edited 28th Jul '11 5:22:33 PM by Madrugada

From capping sites: [1], [2]

I'm not sure if any of them are any good, though.

But personally, I'm rather partial to this one, from An American Werewolf In London

Wait, where did you get that? I swear I've seen that before on a page, I want to say Transformation Trauma.

GIS for "An American Werewolf In London Transformation scene". But it's a pretty iconic image for "painful transformation scene" because AAWIL was one of the first movies to make the transformation graphic, relatively prolonged and obviously painful rather than simply cutting from completely-human to partly-transformed to fully-transformed.

Transformation Trauma redirects to Body Horror, so if we want to use the AA Wi L pic, that'd work just fine.

Involuntary Shapeshifter doesn't require either Painful Transformation or Body Horror — that depends on how it's played by the work.

IMHO, I would like to see something that isn't obviously covered by the other tropes already ... something that plays it lightly ... and maybe something that's easily communicated at a width of no more than 300px (because a bigger page image is not always better). The werewolf image is less distracting at 250px wide (though it could even go as small as 150 or 100)....

edited 28th Jul '11 8:03:19 PM by Stratadrake

Oh, it was Painful Transformation I was thinking of. It seemed really familiar, even though I've never seen the movie.

Strata, we're up to 350 pixels on both the main wiki and the forums now.

Yes, but bigger is not always better; at a 1024 resolution, 350px is about half the article's width. Which wouldn't be an issue if the article didn't start itself off with a bulleted list (as the bullets take up more visual space).

But y'know? I'm probably just griping too strongly about widths (I try to avoid going over 300px in principle) — just thinking FE's image is a little too distracting for its own good and we can find something better.

edited 29th Jul '11 6:28:43 PM by Stratadrake

Bump.

Re-bump...I'm still good with Madrugada's pic from AA Wi L.

Hmm... to me, Madrugada's image is better than Eddie's, but doesn't depict the trope properly enough for me.

Bumping. I'm currently searching through a few of the webcomic entries for something easy enough to picture....

Like Kieri sneezing in Slightly Damned.

Good choice.

Well, SD has a nice text transcript search, and apparently Kieri's prone to a few sneezing fits. [1] [2] [3] There aren't too many cases otherwise where it's clear his transformations are a recurring aspect. [4]

I like the triangly one.

Yeah, the triangly one seems to work the best for our purposes...my only concern is the visibility of the arrows.

I rather like the "that must have been really disorienting" commentary. So a few alternates for comparison:

• Original page◊
• Montage from both pages◊

edited 17th Oct '11 3:33:52 PM by Stratadrake

Either of those are good.

I like the montage one.

Ah, a bump. Reminds me that I set up an IP crowner some time ago:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/ImagePickin/InvoluntaryShapeshifter

And now it's hooked.