History Main / ButterflyOfTransformation

* In ''Videogame/BioShock2'', [[UnderwaterCity Rapture's]] change as "better" society fueled by Dr. Lamb's [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill extreme altruistic view]] are simbolized by a blue butterfly that is worn by most of the members of the Rapture family and it appears in most of the city. A lot of the graffitis with this motif also have written: "We will be reborn in the cold womb of the ocean. She is our savior".[[spoiler: Turns out more literal than you would think, as Lamb's plan is using her own daughter as a [[TheAssimilator "database" of the population of Rapture]] to create a human completely driven to benefit a group in its entirety.]]

* In ''Videogame/BioShock2'', [[UnderwaterCity Rapture's]] change as "better" society fueled by Dr. Lamb's [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill extreme altruistic view]] are simbolized by a blue butterfly that is worn by most of the members of the Rapture family and it appear in most of the city. A lot of the graffitis with this motif also have written: "We will be reborn in the cold womb of the ocean. She is our savior".[[spoiler: Turns out more literal than you would think, as Lamb's plan is using her own daughter as a [[TheAssimilator "database" of the population of Rapture]] to create a human completely driven to benefit a group in its entirety.]]

-->--'''Anonymous'''

* In ''Videogame/BioShock2'', [[UnderwaterCity Rapture´s]] change as "better" society fueled by Dr. Lamb´s [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill extreme altruistic view]] are simbolized by a blue butterfly that is worn by most of the members of the Rapture family and it appear in most of the city. A lot of the graffitis with this motif also have written: "We will be reborn in the cold womb of the ocean. She is our savior".[[spoiler: Turns out more literal than you would think, as Lamb´s plan is using her own daughter as a [[TheAssimilator "database" of the population of Rapture]] to create a human completely driven to benefit a group in its entirety.]]

* Evoked in a MarvelComics story of ''TheInhumans'', with one Inhuman petitioning to be exposed (re-exposed) to the mutagenic Terrigen Mists mainly because she's ugly and hoping for a better genetic draw. She emerges as a butterfly woman.

* HilaryDuff used this metaphor in the final page of her ''Metamorphosis'' album.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PaleBlue Pale Blue]]'', the organization Cocoon uses butterflies as symbolism of their goal to transform humanity from its ugly "larvae" state into beautiful butterflies through their actions.

* In ''VideoGame/{{PaleBlue}}'', the organization Cocoon uses butterflies as symbolism of their goal to transform humanity from its ugly "larvae" state into beautiful butterflies through their actions.

* In ''VideoGame/[[PaleBlue]]'', the organization Cocoon uses butterflies as symbolism of their goal to transform humanity from its ugly "larvae" state into beautiful butterflies through their actions.

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-31 Fuschia is inspired by a butterfly as it means people can change]]. (Which she will have to do to win her love.) [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-04-03 Her aspirations]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-08 are shown by]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-02-07 her fascination with them.]]

* {{xkcd}} parodies Transformers [[http://xkcd.com/1336/ by having them pupate.]]

* HilaryDuff used this metaphor in the final page of her Metamorphosis album.

* HilaryDuff used this mataphor in the final page of her Metamorphosis album.

* In the book/movie ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' Jame Gumb keeps butterflies or moths, and they seem to symbolize his desire to transform [[spoiler: into a woman]].
* The hero of ''KungFuHustle'' gets entirely wrapped in bandages like a cocoon, which he discards as a shell, his Chi finally unblocked and his destiny awaiting. During this transformation, we are briefly treated to the imagry of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon to drive the point home.
* TheButterflyEffect: The main character keeps trying to change the present by fixing the past.

* The IAmLegend remake feature the motif of a butterfly quite often. In the released film, it doesn't amount to anything; however, in the original ending, it represented that [[spoiler: that the Dayseekers weren't mindless, evil zombies, but sentient beings that had transformed into a ''better'' forms than the old-fashioned humans.]] Keep in mind that [[spoiler:the [[WeaksauceWeakness "better"]] form is eye of the beholder]].

* [[Music/MarilynManson Marilyn Manson's]] Antichrist Superstar album is a narrative about a child's transformation into the antichrist (/a controversial rock star). The song cycle is broken into three parts according to the life cycle of an insect, and the album art depicts him in stylised versions of all three stages, including one with a set of wings.

'''Doctor''': ''Life depends on change and renewal … I've been renewed. It's part of the TARDIS. Without it, I couldn't survive.''\\

* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3129 Fuschia is inspired by a butterfly as it means people can change]]. (Which she will have to do to win her love.) [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3862 Her aspirations]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3106 are shown by]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3077 her fascination with them.]]
** And when the Buddha [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4208 enlightens some Illuminati drones, they acquire butterfly wings.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1121 Crimney reflects on the possibilities of change, and a butterfly alights on him.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2464 Pooch watches a caterpillar start the process -- until it asks him to turn his back. Modest, you know.]]
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4424 The green succubus, en route to her first day of work, has butterflies]] -- she tells the drones with butterfly wings.

* In ''SailorMoon'' a butterfly motif is heavily featured in the titular heroine's "Crisis Make Up!" TransformationSequence which sees her [[FrillyUpgrade power up]] from Sailor Moon into Super Sailor Moon in the third season ''Sailor Moon S''. This is not only touches on this trope but also draws on the way the ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth trope is used elsewhere in the season, a particularly evocative version shows up [[spoiler:using the power of the Sailor Soldiers themselves rather than via the usual Holy Grail TransformationTrinket that was in hands of the enemies]] in the penultimate episode of the season which is given it's own animation.

* In ''SailorMoon'' a butterfly motif is heavily featured in the titular heroines "Crisis Make Up!" TransformationSequence which sees her [[FrillyUpgrade power up]] from Sailor Moon into Super Sailor Moon in the third season ''Sailor Moon S''. This is not only touches on this trope but also draws on the way the ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth trope is used elsewhere in the season, a particularly evocative version shows up [[spoiler:using the power of the Sailor Soldiers themselves rather than via the usual Holy Grail TransformationTrinket that was in hands of the enemies]] in the penultimate episode of the season which is given it's own animation.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Delenn uses a butterfly-like cocoon to [[spoiler:transform into a half-human half-minbari]]

* The Literature/Animorphs book "The Departure" heavily feature the theme of a caterpillar, and later a butterfly. It is not a coincidence that this is where Cassie meets a surprisingly sympathetic [[PuppeterParasite yeerk]], one willing to give up her host body. This, along with Cassie's continued realisation that the world isn't as [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]] as she thought, signifies change.

* Using a [[TropesAreFlexible dragonfly]] rather than a butterfly, the Music/EgoLikeness album ''Dragonfly'' has a theme of personal rebirth and the [[http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1686192-02A-BIG.jpg cover art]] depicts the eponymous insect.