History Main / NotQuiteBackToNormal

* At the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Alphonse manages to restore Edward's arm by reversing the transmutation that bound his soul to a suit of armor, and Ed in turn manages to restore Al, body and soul together, by sacrificing his ability to perform alchemy. This still leaves Edward without the leg he lost in the initial failed human transmutation, but Ed decides to live with it as a reminder of the lessons he learned from his experiences.]]

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', [[Comicbook/{{Firestorm}} Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond]] were stuck in a FusionDance for over a year. They are able to get it undone, but Martin now retains Ronnie's love of pizza (previously, he'd hated it).

* In ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroII'', [[spoiler:Eve purifies herself of the mutant infection by the end of the game, but her right eye turned from blue to green, and she keeps the blue streaks on her hair, plus [[FanservicePack new assets]].]] Then ''[[VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroIII Zero III]]'' reveals the result had even bigger rammifications: [[spoiler:she also turned from a RidiculouslyHumanRobot to an ''[[HumanityEnsues organic being]]'']].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{Amphibia}}'' had Anne and Sprig get cursed, but is later lifted. However, in the End, Anne is seen eating Ants off the Floor.

* In ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroII'', [[spoiler:Eve purifies herself of the mutant infection by the end of the game, but she keeps the blue streaks on her hair and her right eye turned from blue to green, plus she gets to keep her [[FanservicePack new assets]].]] Then ''[[VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroIII Zero III]]'' reveals the result had even bigger rammifications: [[spoiler:the process also turned her from a RidiculouslyHumanRobot to an ''[[HumanityEnsues organic being]]'']].

** White Pearl [[spoiler:retains the crack on her face and eye after being restored to her Pink Pearl self when freed from White Diamond's control because the crack was caused by ''Pink'' Diamond, not White.]]

* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': When Fred gets amnesia and believes he's a three-year old, Barney takes him to a doctor in order to get him to recover. Said doctor is a mad scientist who swaps Fred's mind with his lab animal. Although he tries to turn him back to normal, things get ridiculously more out of hand when he winds up also swapping the brains of Barney, the wives, the pets, and ''even his assistant''. By the very end he's able to get them all back to normal... and they all really are too. He, however, isn't, as he winds up taking some of Fred's personality and voice and now also believes himself to be the real Fred Flintstone.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' when Starfire returns to normal after going through alien puberty, she finds that [[PubertySuperpower she now has]] EyeBeams.
-->'''Starfire:''' (looking at her reflection in a crystal) I am... normal! ''[discharges two bolts into the crystal that rebound off it into a nearby wall]'' Mostly.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', Lord Vetinari is changed into a lizard for much of the novel. When he gets changed back, he notices a new habit of sticking out his tongue. It also occurs as a side effect of "Borrowing" (inhabiting the mind of another creature). Borrowers tend to return to their body with some animalistic behaviors and urges that gradually wear off.

* In ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', Wayne tests the shrink ray on his neighbor Russell. After being brought back to normal, Russell finds that his baseball cap is a little big for him.

* In Creator/JulesVerne's fantasy novel, ''Adventures of the Rat Family'', the family undergoes multiple transformations, and the comic-relief character always ends up with the tail of whatever the last thing was (for example: they get transformed from rats into fish, he's a fish with a rat's tail). At the end, when they're all human, he's still got an animal tail, and is apparently stuck with it for life.

* In the episode "The Cutening" from ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs(2020)'', the Warners slowly go insane about how much Dot has made the world cuter with her new powers, but they find a way to revert it: [[spoiler: by licking a disease-ridden pigeon. And the world is back to its gross self... except the Warners now have pigeon bodies.]]

* In "[[https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm049.html The Six Swans]]", a girl's six brothers are all turned into swans and the only way she can restore them to normal is by knitting shirts from asters for them and never speaking or laughing for six full years. She manages to finish all of the shirts in time...except for one, which is missing a sleeve. This causes one of the brothers to still have a swan wing.

* The 1961 WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} cartoon "I Yam Wot I Yamnesia" delved into the bizarre, as bumps on the head suffered by Popeye, Swee' Pea, Wimpy and Olive has their personalities and voices switched with each other (Popeye is Swee'Pea and Swee' Pea is Popeye; Olive and Wimpy are switched similarly). After a second bump return everyone to normal (and a sock from Swee' Pea/Popeye on Brutus), only Brutus and Popeye are still reliving their infancies.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}, when you release the Old Man, from his curse, he's happy to go back to a humble life as a mundane Clothier in your town. However, if enemies invade the town, [[BadPowersGoodPeople he can still sling powerful dark magic to defend it]].

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' the villain, Yzma, is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into a kitten]] in the end. By the time of the sequel, she is human again, but still possesses a tail and some catlike behavior (which is an ActorAllusion; Eartha Kitt is best remembered for playing [[Series/Batman1966 Catwoman]]).

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', Lord Vetinari is changed into a lizard for much of the novel. When he gets changed back, he notices a new habit of sticking out his tongue. It also occurs as a side effect of "Borrowing" (inhabiting the mind of another creature). Borrowers tend to return to their body with some animalistic behaviors and urges that gradually wear off.

* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': When Fred gets amnesia and believes he's a three-year old, Barney takes him to a doctor in order to get him to recover. Said doctor is a mad scientist who swaps Fred's mind with his lab animal. Although he tries to turn him back to normal, things get ridiculously more out of hand when he winds up also swapping the brains of Barney, the wives, the pets, and ''even his assistant''. By the very end he's able to get them all back to normal... and they all really are too. He however isn't, as he winds up taking some of Fred's personality and voice and now also believes himself to be the real Fred Flintstone.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' has Jasmine and Iago respectively turned into a rat and lizard by a curse. Genie is ultimately able to turn them back to their true forms by the end of the episode, but they still have some leftover traits of the previous forms: Jasmine still has a rat's tail while Iago is stuck with his umbrella-like neck.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': When [[spoiler:the Corrupted Gems are cured, they’re not ''completely'' restored to normal; they still have [[LittleBitBeastly animalistic deformities held over from their Corrupted forms]], such as Jasper still having the horns and coloration of her Corrupted self.]]

** One episode had Homer Simpson get turned into a bizarre chimera with a chicken's body. When Homer turns back to normal at the end of the episode, it turns out that he still has the body of a chicken... ...and lays an egg.
** In another episode he went back in time and kept changing the past. In the finale one everything was back to normal...except everyone ate with long retractable reptile tongues. Homer just shrugs and says "[[CloseEnoughTimeline Eh, close enough]]".

* The ending of ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' -- after the procedure that stabilizes the "monster," the creature has inherited the intelligence and mild manners of his creator. Frankenstein himself has inherited some...[[BiggusDickus interesting side effects]] if his assistant's reaction is any indication.

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' the villain, Yzma, is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into a kitten]] in the end. By the time of the sequel, she is human again, but still possesses a tail and some catlike behavior (which is an ActorAllusion; Eartha Kitt is best remembered for playing [[Series/Batman1966 Catwoman]])

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' the villain, Yzma, is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into a kitten]] in the end. By the time of the sequel, she is human again, but still possesses a tail and some catlike behavior (which is an ActorAllusion; Eartha Kitt is best remembered for playing [[Series/{{Batman}} Catwoman]])