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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}:'' In the show, all [[OurGargoylesRock Gargoyles]] automatically turn to stone from sunrise to sundown. In the episode, "The Price" Xanatos kidnaps Hudson while he's hibernating in stone and replaces him with a statue in his likeness, allowing him to use Hudson for the purpose of creating a magic potion while the other Gargoyles and Elisa are distracted on trying to turn what they think is Hudson back to normal.

* WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo: In "The Hansel & Gretel Project", Johnny, Carl and Susie search for The Witch from Literature/HanselAndGretel; after Carl scouts ahead and the other two come across her gingerbread cottage, Johnny finds a life-size Gingerbread cookie in Carl's likeness and sadly mourns over his lost friend, while ripping off and eating his arms and head. The real Carl approaches him a few seconds later.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "[[Recap/KimPossibleS2E21TheFullMonkey The Full Monkey]]", Kim gets zapped by an amulet that slowly turns her into a monkey. After she is captured by Monkey Fist, one of his monkeys named Chippy puts on an outfit of hers and is found by Ron who thinks Kim had completely turned.

* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles Mini-sodes'': Hanabi pulls a prank by claiming to Hiashi that Hinata and Naruto had a baby together (when in reality they were simply babysitting Kurenai's baby). Later on, she comes across her father and thinks it's actually Naruto pulling a prank on her (who transformed into Hiashi to pull a prank on her in a previous Mini-sode) as a revenge for her own prank. [[Right in Front of Me She then starts insulting Hiashi right in front of him]], only to [[OhCrap realize her mistake when the real Naruto appears nearby]].

* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles Mini-sodes'': Hanabi pulls a prank by claiming to Hiashi that Hinata and Naruto had a baby together (when in reality they were simply babysitting Kurenai's baby). Later on, she comes across her father and thinks it's actually Naruto pulling a prank on her (who transformed into Hiashi to pull a prank on her in a previous Mini-sode) as a revenge for her own prank. She then starts insulting Hiashi in front of him, [[OhCrap only to realize her mistake when the real Naruto appears nearby]].

* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: In "Don's Fountain of Youth", Donald pranks his nephews by wading in a spring that was mistaken for the "fountain of youth" and wearing on a baby bonnet, making them think he'd aged down into a baby. He then goes one step further by taking a crocodile's egg and putting the bonnet on it to make it look like he's become unhatched.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/HareRemover", Elmer Fudd creates a potion to transform a friendly little animal into a "DEVIWISH FIEND!" After capturing Bugs, he and Elmer are visited by a bear, who happens to run into Bugs after he's learned about the potion and Elmer has left him alone briefly... whereupon Bugs mistakes the bear for a transformed Elmer, and tries to "cure" him by feeding him an ineffective antidote. When it doesn't work, Bugs legs it - and then Elmer finds the bear, and assumes it's a transformed ''Bugs''. He tries to cure it as well, but this time [[UnstoppableRage the bear is not in the mood]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou:'' "Scooby Doo and a Mummy, Too" features a {{Mummy}} that can supposedly turn you into stone by casting its shadow on you, of course it's a ScoobyDooHoax done with some quick drying mold cement. Shaggy comes across a Scooby statue thinking it's Scooby and hugs it sadly, [[NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou then the real Scooby approaches and joins him in his mourning]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' episode "The Ozark Witch Switch", Scooby and his friends think that the ghost of Witch [=McCoy=] changed the Hatfield family into frogs. Later, Scooby thinks that Shaggy and Velma were turned into frogs. Fortunately, all were still human.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': In "Every Dog Has His Day", a green alien dog-shaped creature is mistaken for a shapeshifted Beast Boy.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': In "The Vampire Strikes Back", Shaggy and Scooby meet a friendly bat and think that it's Fred, who was captured by the titular vampire earlier. It isn't until they see Fred later that they realise it's just a normal bat.

--->'''Pooh:''' Oh no! If that's Piglet, then ''who is this?!''
--->'''Tigger:''' Kinda resembles Eeyore, around the eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou:'' "Scooby Doo and a Mummy, Too" features a {{Mummy}} that can supposedly turn you into stone by casting its shadow on you, of course it's a ScoobyDooHoax done with some quick drying mold cement. Shaggy comes across a Scooby statue thinking it's Scooby and hugs it sadly, then the real Scooby approaches and joins him in his mourning.

* In one story in ''Emil of Lönneberga'' by Creator/AstridLindgren, Emil is missing. His little sister, Ida, heard a song about a woman who turned into a bird and flew up to Heaven, so when she sees a chicken, she mistakes it for her brother and says, "Please don't fly up to Heaven!"

-->'''Homer:''' ''*bawls*'' My son's a box! A ''box''! A BOX, DAMN YOU!!!!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}:'' In the show, all [[OurGargoylesRock Gargoyles]] automatically turn to stone from sundown to sunrise. In the episode, "The Price" Xanatos kidnaps Hudson while he's hibernating in stone and replaces him with a statue in his likeness, allowing him to use Hudson for the purpose of creating a magic potion while the other Gargoyles and Elisa are distracted on trying to turn what they think is Hudson back to normal.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}:'' In the show, all [[OurGargoylesRock Gargoyles]] automatically turn to stone from sundown to sunrise. In the episode, "The Price" Xanatos kidnaps Hudson while he's hibernating in stone and replaces him with a statue in his likeness, allowing him to use Hudson for the purpose of creating a magic potion while the other Gargoyles and Elisa are distracted on trying to turn what they think is Hudson back to normal.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}:'' In the show, all [[OurGargoylesRock Gargoyles]] automatically turn to stone form sundown to sunrise. In the episode, "The Price" Xanatos kidnaps Hudson while he's hibernating in stone and replaces him with a statue in his likeness, allowing him to use Hudson for the purpose of creating a magic potion while the other Gargoyles and Elisa are distracted on trying to turn what they think is Hudson back to normal.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In "Groundpiglet Day", Piglet loses his winter hat while walking through the snow. Soon after, Rabbit comes across a little snowman wearing it and assumes that Piglet has frozen up. Fortunately, he appears and clears everything up... ''after'' everyone else thought "Piglet" had melted into a puddle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': "[[Recap/TheMaskS3E2LittleBigMask Little Big Mask]]" features the Mask testing an anti-aging cream on himself only for both him and Stanley Ipkiss to suffer [[FountainOfYouth a downward spiral of regression as a result]]. After taking the now-infant Mask to the hospital, Peggy wakes up to find that his enclosure is deserted except for empty baby clothes -- leading her to tearfully assume that Stanley has [[DeathByDeaging regressed out of existence altogether]] and the clothes are all that's left of him. Fortunately, it turns out that one of the doctors just removed Stanley from the room for a quick check-up and he's exactly the same age he was the last time she saw him (sans Mask).

* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsHeffalumpHalloweenMovie'': In the third act of the film, Lumpy gets trapped inside the Tree of Terror in the forest and when Roo was unable to find him, he ends up coming across a jack o' lantern in his crisis. Remembering Tigger's story about a creature called the Gobloon who turns anyone he catches into a jack o' lantern, Roo is led to believe Lumpy was transformed into one by the Gobloon and shows his friends, who promptly freak out.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In "Groundpiglet Day", Piglet loses his winter hat while walking through the snow. Soon after, Rabbit comes across a little snowman wearing it and assumes that Piglet has frozen up. Fortunately, he appears and clears everything up... ''after'' everyone else though "Piglet" had melted into a puddle.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In "Groundpiglet Day", Piglet loses his winter hat while walking through the snow, and Rabbit comes across a little snowman wearing it and assumes that Piglet has frozen up.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou:'' "Scooby Doo and a Mummy, Too" features a {{Mummy}} that can supposedly turn you into stone by casting it's shadow on you, of course it's a ScoobyDooHoax done with some quick drying mold cement. Shaggy comes across a Scooby statue thinking it's Scooby and hugs it sadly, then the real Scooby approaches and joins him in his mourning.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': In "A Gummi is a Gummi’s Best Friend" Gusto sculpts a statue in Zummi's likeness and when Gruffi finds it and believes one of his spells has gone wrong turning him into stone. [[LadyOfBlackMagic Lady Bane]] also finds the statue and mistakes it for Zummi, leading to Gruffi having to sneak into her home and rescue what he thinks is his petrified friend.

* ''[[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel]]'': When the Marauders Map reveals Peter Pettigrew is in the same room as them, [[spoiler: the gang assumes that he must be disguised as Ron's pet rat, Scabbers, since he is the only other creature in the room. [[note]] The audience generally assumes the same thing, since this was the twist of the [[Literature/HarryPotterAnfThePrisonerOfAzkaban original novel]]. [[/note]] The group crushes Scabbers to death, only to discover that Pettigrew was actually disguised as a Taylor Lautner poster.]]