Suggestion: Metamorphosis

Gradual complete transformations. This one should be simple to illustrate.

I'll start with this picture◊. It shows the metamorphosis of Splatoon's Inklings from a baby squid to a humanoid teenager.

edited 10th May '15 1:07:23 PM by Elbruno

Opened...the suggestion is alright but I'd like to see other options before giving a definite .

The problem is that Inklings can transform back and forth, so I'm not sure if that's totally accurate to the trope.

They are born as squid babies before slowly transforming into shapshifting humanoids. That falls under this trope.

edited 10th May '15 9:21:56 PM by Elbruno

The suggestion is a good start.

Pokemon's evolution?

I like the OP.

Pokemon evolving could work if you get the right image.

Peter Pettigrew's transformation?◊

That's more of a Shapeshifting though.

While a Pokémon could work, I'd prefer a gradual metamorphosis over a Stage 1 to Stage 2 deal. Pokémon could work well on Metamorphosis Monster, but that's for another thread.

edited 11th May '15 11:15:16 AM by Elbruno

Just be sure you know the difference between Metamorphosis and Transformation Sequence.

The problem is that they can freely transform back into squids, whereas the very first sentence of the description of Metamorphosis says that the change has to be irreversible.

edited 11th May '15 8:03:52 PM by MrL1193

Not sure how good an example it is, but here's Emil Blonsky becoming The Abomination from The Incredible Hulk. If it doesn't work here, it would be a better fit for Psycho Serum than that page's current pic.

edited 11th May '15 8:35:11 PM by Willbyr

I think that would be a better fit over at Psycho Serum, yes.

Don't want to derail this too much, but the shapeshifting ability they slowly gain does not change the fact that they do go through metamorphosis and they can't go back to being just squids. It's an odd case, no doubt there, but it fits the trope unless metamorphosis of shapeshifters becomes its own thing.

edited 11th May '15 9:03:31 PM by Elbruno

They can. That's the whole problem here; rather than irreversibly changing, they essentially just gain shapeshifting abilities.

I would support the OP suggestion if it were an example, but I seriously doubt that it is.

edited 11th May '15 10:42:29 PM by MrL1193

14 looks a bit like Psycho Serum to me - it looks like a change into a monster.

Boring but practical suggestion - using an image of caterpillars turning into butterflies: [1]◊[2]

Can't look at the suggestions right now but if we can't find a good fictional example I'm all for that.

EDIT: I've started a thread for Psycho Serum using the Abomination suggestion.

edited 12th May '15 6:44:55 AM by Willbyr

Mayyyyybe not an example but swan lake◊...

Odysseus' men and Circe 1◊

I think the OP demonstrates the idea just fine.

Clock is set.

It does say "development". I think I don't care if they can transform back.

edited 15th Jun '15 2:05:45 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Well, I'd originally meant to go ahead and close this one, but I decided to reclock it. Looking at the example on the page, the OP suggestion is alright but not exactly what I'd call a straight example. I think a Pokemon's evolutions would be a much clearer depiction.

I considered those when creating the thread, but we already have Evolution Power-Up's image.

As I said, the gradual transformation is one of the reasons I proposed that image.