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Author: NorthernDruid

Dec 12th 2012 at 6:09:56 AM

Definatively a trope i've seen more than once.. if only i could remember where.

In the FullmetalAlchemist manga, Father after absorbing all the souls of the country and then taking essentially god into himself, has his absorption countered by Hohenheim, turning his transformation slightly back to a ClippedWingAngel.

The decription needs to hold for examples such as this, as well as more gradual steps backwards when the transformation isn't a single formshift, but more of a sliding scale. And it needs to not be ambigous about it.

I'm certain i've seen this trope (or something very much like it) in lots of video games, where there's a multi stage final boss, often with multiple OneWingedAngel transformations, and the final form is the original untransformed state that's been reverted to, for either the final bossfight or for the afterfight cutscenes. This general thing happens in so many JRPGs and similar i can't even list them all ([[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] himself being a good example(ish maybe) of how it usually looks) It definatively happens a lot that you'll fight something graphically huge and freakish monster, and then for the death cutscene they'll be back in their human form, or at least one more human like.