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* At the end of ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'', after Bowser is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard forcibly devolved]] by the Mario Bros., he briefly turns back into a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', the animal he originally evolved from, before finally melting into a puddle of ooze.
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* Demons in ''Series/JourneyToTheWest1996'' usually assumes a human disguise, but will revert to their original forms when killed (the White Bone Demoness turns into a woman's skeleton when killed, etc.). This even applies to Sun Wukong himself when he's defeated by Hong Hai-er's flames, turning back to his juvenile monkey form ([[BackFromTheDead he got better]]) and is used as a plot point in the Chechi Country saga - the Emperor of Chechi was fooled by his three advisors, until they're slain and exposed as the Tiger, Deer and Goat Demons, turning into their animal forms in short order.
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* The main character, Horza, in the creator/IanMBanks novel ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* The main character, Horza, in the creator/IanMBanks Creator/IainMBanks novel ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* This kicked off the build-up to ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'':
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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he turns back into his giant bat form as he dies.
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* ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures'': When the [[WasOnceAMan Beast]] is killed, it reverts to its true form, that of Senwyr, Davyn's father.
* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' follows the same rules as ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' below, applied to all those creatures who can take human form but aren't humans: the first examples in the novel are the Third Dragon Prince Ao Bing (who, upon being slain by Nezha, turns back into a Dragon) and Lady Shiji (who's burnt to death by Taiyi Zhenren and all that's left of her is a misshapen rough rock).
* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' follows the same rules as ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' below, applied to all those creatures who can take human form but aren't humans: the first examples in the novel are the Third Dragon Prince Ao Bing (who, upon being slain by Nezha, turns back into a Dragon) and Lady Shiji (who's burnt to death by Taiyi Zhenren and all that's left of her is a misshapen rough rock).
* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': many monsters and spirits used to be animals who attained intelligence and magic skills through exposure to taoist or buddhist scripts and mantras or have been exposed to the essence of Yin and Yang for a long period of time. As a result, they'll usually assume their true animal form when slain.
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* In ''Literature/TheLastDove'', anyone who can Change tends to sleep in the form that fits their true self more. Considering the fact that no major characters die in the book, it's impossible to know if they would do the same when they die.
* In Creator/AndreiBelyanin's ''The Plot of the Black Mass'', a villain uses a spell to turn temporarily turn himeself into a fly in order to kill a suspect in jail. However, the guy left in charge is a simple-minded farmboy with enormous physical strength. He proceeds to swat the "fly" and smashes it against the wall. Cue the horrifying scream from the farmboy when the villain turns back into his human (albeit squished) form.
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* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
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* Shapeshifters in In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' disguises of people using the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form One Power disappear when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment the diguised die, as shown when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms Thom kills a Darkfriend disguised as Cadsuane when she tries to sneak into the Pit of Doom.
* Averted in ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'', the short story that inspired ''Film/TheThing1982'', the alien starts off as alynx. He dies soon after.]]blue humanoid with three [[RedEyesTakeWarning malevolent red eyes]], [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue skin]], and [[PrehensileHair tentacles on its scalp]]. Then it eats someone and [[TheyLookLikeUsNow mimics him]]. It's strongly implied that the initial humanoid shape is no more its "true form" than the human and dog shapes it takes later, because Things don't really ''have'' a true form ... they're more like colonies of microorganisms that take on whatever shape seems useful.
* Averted in ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'', the short story that inspired ''Film/TheThing1982'', the alien starts off as a
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* Averted in ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'', the short story that inspired ''Film/TheThing1982'', the alien starts off as a blue humanoid with three [[RedEyesTakeWarning malevolent red eyes]], [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe blue skin]], and [[PrehensileHair tentacles on its scalp]]. Then it eats someone and [[TheyLookLikeUsNow mimics him]]. It's strongly implied that the initial humanoid shape is no more its "true form" than the human and dog shapes it takes later, because Things don't really ''have'' a true form ... they're more like colonies of microorganisms that take on whatever shape seems useful.
* In ''Literature/TheLastDove'', anyone who can Change tends to sleep in the form that fits their true self more. Considering the fact that no major characters die in the book, it's impossible to know if they would do the same when they die.
* In Creator/AndreiBelyanin's ''The Plot of the Black Mass'', a villain uses a spell to turn temporarily turn himeself into a fly in order to kill a suspect in jail. However, the guy left in charge is a simple-minded farmboy with enormous physical strength. He proceeds to swat the "fly" and smashes it against the wall. Cue the horrifying scream from the farmboy when the villain turns back into his human (albeit squished) form.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' disguises of people using the One Power disappear when the diguised die, as shown when Thom kills a Darkfriend disguised as Cadsuane when she tries to sneak into the Pit of Doom.
* ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures'': When the [[WasOnceAMan Beast]] is killed, it reverts to its true form, that of Senwyr, Davyn's father.
* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': many monsters and spirits used to be animals who attained intelligence and magic skills through exposure to taoist or buddhist scripts and mantras or have been exposed to the essence of Yin and Yang for a long period of time. As a result, they'll usually assume their true animal form when slain.
* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' follows the same rules as ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' above, applied to all those creatures who can take human form but aren't humans: the first examples in the novel are the Third Dragon Prince Ao Bing (who, upon being slain by Nezha, turns back into a Dragon) and Lady Shiji (who's burnt to death by Taiyi Zhenren and all that's left of her is a misshapen rough rock).
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* TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. The problem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift into normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, they revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. Or when they die. There's a Rite that that can be used on them when they are dying or freshly dead to force the body to assume a less Masquerade-breaking form. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turn back into humans when slain, which helps them keep the {{Masquerade}} up. This also applies to any lost blood or body parts - as the book puts it, "a werewolf can spill a gallon of blood while in [[UnstoppableRage the war form]] and it will all register as human".
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. The problem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift into normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, they revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. Or when they die. There's a Rite that that can be used on them when they are dying or freshly dead to force the body to assume a less Masquerade-breaking form. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turn back into humans when slain, which helps them keep the {{Masquerade}} up. This also applies to any lost blood or body parts - as the book puts it, "a werewolf can spill a gallon of blood while in [[UnstoppableRage the war form]] and it will all register as human".
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* TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness
''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
**In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into the Garou normally revert Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their kill the [=PCs=]. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's body parts if mutilated. will return to normal, but he will be dead.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". If the werewolf Eloise Vane is killed while in monster form, she makes a final transformation to "ground state" (human form).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. Theproblem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift Black Enchantress changes a number of people into normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, slavering monsters. If the [=PCs=] heroes kill them, they revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. Or when they die. There's a Rite that that can be used on them when they are dying or freshly dead to force the body to assume a less Masquerade-breaking form. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turnchange back into humans when slain, which helps them keep the {{Masquerade}} up. This also applies to any lost blood or body parts - as the book puts it, "a werewolf can spill a gallon of blood while in [[UnstoppableRage the war form]] and it will all register as human".their human forms -- still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
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** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". If the werewolf Eloise Vane is killed while in monster form, she makes a final transformation to "ground state" (human form).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turn
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The Black Enchantress changes a number of people into slavering monsters. If the [=PCs=] heroes kill them, they change back into their human forms -- still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries to kill the [=PCs=]. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's body will return to normal, but he will be dead.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". If the werewolf Eloise Vane is killed while in monster form, she makes a final transformation to "ground state" (human form).
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries to kill the [=PCs=]. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's body will return to normal, but he will be dead.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". If the werewolf Eloise Vane is killed while in monster form, she makes a final transformation to "ground state" (human form).
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. TheBlack Enchantress changes a number of people problem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift into slavering monsters. If the [=PCs=] heroes kill them, normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, they change revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. Or when they die. There's a Rite that that can be used on them when they are dying or freshly dead to force the body to assume a less Masquerade-breaking form. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turn back intotheir human forms -- still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes intohumans when slain, which helps them keep the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries {{Masquerade}} up. This also applies to kill the [=PCs=]. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's any lost blood or body will return to normal, but he will be dead.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". Ifparts - as the book puts it, "a werewolf Eloise Vane is killed can spill a gallon of blood while in monster form, she makes a final transformation to "ground state" (human form).[[UnstoppableRage the war form]] and it will all register as human".
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. The
** Werewolves in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' turn back into
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''
** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' chapter 2 "London", adventure "The Derbyshire Monster". If
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* Double subverted with a murder victim in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''. While Bigby appears to find the head of Snow White on his front steps, it's not her; it's someone else's head, under the effects of a glamour. While the victim is killed without changing back, the double subversion comes in when the glamour's magic eventually wears off, where the victim reverts to her true form of a cave troll.
* Also in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', if Vincent is KO'ed during his LimitBreak (where he shapeshifts into various monster forms), he'll shift back to his human form shortly after collapsing.
* Also in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', if Vincent is KO'ed during his LimitBreak (where he shapeshifts into various monster forms), he'll shift back to his human form shortly after collapsing.
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* Double subverted with a murder victim Averted in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''. While Bigby appears to find the head of Snow White on his front steps, it's not her; it's someone else's head, under the effects of a glamour. While the victim is killed without changing back, the double subversion comes in when the glamour's magic eventually wears off, where the victim reverts to her true form of a cave troll.
''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''. There's no return from beasthood or kinhood.
*Also in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', if Vincent is KO'ed during his LimitBreak (where he shapeshifts into various monster forms), he'll shift In ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', werewolf enemies typically revert back to his their human form shortly after collapsing.forms as they die.
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* {{Roguelike}} example: In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', the player (and monsters) can polymorph through various means. A polymorphed creature will return to their true form if their HP drops to 0, but strangely, this restores their HP to full. Dying in other ways, like from hunger or [[TakenForGranite petrification]], still kill you without changing your form back.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
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* {{Roguelike}} example: In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', The ending cutscene of the player (and monsters) Empire campaign in ''Videogame/{{Disciples}}'' ''II'' shows Uther's demon form melting away. Uther, reverted to his original human self, collapses and dies.
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed one in cold blood; Killia wanted to keep others from dying at the hands of Void Dark and the Lost, yet that's exactly what happened). The party breaks up, leaving Void Dark to conquer the Netherworlds unopposed.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. For a moment, the shape of his original body [[spoiler:as a former Arisen]] canpolymorph through be seen...before that too melts away.
%%* Wilfre in ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife''. ZCE
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series averts this with [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-creatures]]. Slain [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and other were-creatures retain whichever form they were in when they were killed. This also helps [[CreatureHunterOrganization were-creature hunters]] to avert VanHelsingHateCrimes. The in-game book ''On Lycanthropy'' mentions and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the idea of the this trope.
* Also in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', if Vincent is KO'ed during his LimitBreak (where he shapeshifts into variousmeans. A polymorphed creature will return monster forms), he'll shift back to their true his human form if their HP drops to 0, but strangely, this restores their HP to full. Dying in other ways, like from hunger or [[TakenForGranite petrification]], still kill you without changing your form back.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), andshortly after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.collapsing.
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed one in cold blood; Killia wanted to keep others from dying at the hands of Void Dark and the Lost, yet that's exactly what happened). The party breaks up, leaving Void Dark to conquer the Netherworlds unopposed.
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. For a moment, the shape of his original body [[spoiler:as a former Arisen]] can
%%* Wilfre in ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife''. ZCE
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series averts this with [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-creatures]]. Slain [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and other were-creatures retain whichever form they were in when they were killed. This also helps [[CreatureHunterOrganization were-creature hunters]] to avert VanHelsingHateCrimes. The in-game book ''On Lycanthropy'' mentions and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the idea of the this trope.
* Also in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', if Vincent is KO'ed during his LimitBreak (where he shapeshifts into various
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
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* In ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'', Spies will lose their disguise upon death.
** This behaviour is also utilised with one of his alternate watches, that causes him to appear to "die" if he is hit, but instead simply drops a replica of his corpse and turns the player invisible, allowing the player the chance to then de-cloak and continue on their way.
*** Unless he's disguised as another member of his own team, then he leaves a fake corpse of one of them.
* Druids that die in animal form instantly revert back to their default form in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. This also goes for characters killed while polymorphed.
** Averted with Worgen, however, whose corpses will stay in their human forms if they manage to die without entering combat. They even appear at the graveyard as human ghosts.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series averts this with [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-creatures]]. Slain [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and other were-creatures retain whichever form they were in when they were killed. This also helps [[CreatureHunterOrganization were-creature hunters]] to avert VanHelsingHateCrimes. The in-game book ''On Lycanthropy'' mentions and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the idea of the this trope.
** This behaviour is also utilised with one of his alternate watches, that causes him to appear to "die" if he is hit, but instead simply drops a replica of his corpse and turns the player invisible, allowing the player the chance to then de-cloak and continue on their way.
*** Unless he's disguised as another member of his own team, then he leaves a fake corpse of one of them.
* Druids that die in animal form instantly revert back to their default form in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. This also goes for characters killed while polymorphed.
** Averted with Worgen, however, whose corpses will stay in their human forms if they manage to die without entering combat. They even appear at the graveyard as human ghosts.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series averts this with [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-creatures]]. Slain [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] and other were-creatures retain whichever form they were in when they were killed. This also helps [[CreatureHunterOrganization were-creature hunters]] to avert VanHelsingHateCrimes. The in-game book ''On Lycanthropy'' mentions and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the idea of the this trope.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', where [[ChestMonster grub mimics]] revert to their disguised form upon death.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, they simply {{disappear|sIntoLight}} like any other enemy.
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'': Averted with [[spoiler:Bertrand and his "creations", the Corrupted]], who stay in their monstrous forms upon death. This means taking [[spoiler:Bertrand]]'s body off the street takes a small army of trucks and chainsaws.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, they simply {{disappear|sIntoLight}} like any other enemy.
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'': Averted with [[spoiler:Bertrand and his "creations", the Corrupted]], who stay in their monstrous forms upon death. This means taking [[spoiler:Bertrand]]'s body off the street takes a small army of trucks and chainsaws.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookiee, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it's evidently not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
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* {{Roguelike}} example: In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', the player (and monsters) can polymorph through various means. A polymorphed creature will return to their true form if their HP drops to 0, but strangely, this restores their HP to full. Dying in other ways, like from hunger or [[TakenForGranite petrification]], still kill you without changing your form back.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Ninetails is revealed to be a weak, old, one-eyed fox without their tails.
* In the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the last trial centers around the death of a children's book author. [[spoiler:It turns out that the author was Misty Fey, mother of Mia and Maya, and that to try to foil a plan to kill Maya, she channeled the spirit of and shapeshifted into her murderous niece, Dahlia Hawthorne. Dahlia still set off to kill Maya, so Godot stabbed Dahlia, resulting in Dahlia being forced back to the afterlife and the now-dead Misty changed back to her own appearance. This leaves Godot with the issue of how to dispose of Misty's body.]]
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''; the Stage 5 boss is a monster that initially appears as Jennifer, transforms into a more grotesque form for the fight, then dies resembling Jennifer. In the Japanese version, [[TragicMonster it's Jennifer herself]], so the trope is played straight. In the English version however, [[ShapeshifterGuiltTrip it's an imposter]], so the trope is inverted.
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* In the story mode of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'', when Liu Kang first meets Flash, he thinks that he is Shang Tsung in disguise (he had been magically forced to switch places with Scorpion for some reason), but he decides otherwise after defeating him, saying that "if this was Shang Tsung, he would have changed back by now."
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, they simply {{disappear|sIntoLight}} like any other enemy.
* In the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the last trial centers around the death of a children's book author. [[spoiler:It turns out that the author was Misty Fey, mother of Mia and Maya, and that to try to foil a plan to kill Maya, she channeled the spirit of and shapeshifted into her murderous niece, Dahlia Hawthorne. Dahlia still set off to kill Maya, so Godot stabbed Dahlia, resulting in Dahlia being forced back to the afterlife and the now-dead Misty changed back to her own appearance. This leaves Godot with the issue of how to dispose of Misty's body.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. For a moment, the shape of his original body [[spoiler:as a former Arisen]] can be seen...before that too melts away.
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed one in cold blood; Killia wanted to keep others from dying at the hands of Void Dark and the Lost, yet that's exactly what happened). The party breaks up, leaving Void Dark to conquer the Netherworlds unopposed.
* The ending cutscene of the Empire campaign in ''Videogame/{{Disciples}}'' ''II'' shows Uther's demon form melting away. Uther, reverted to his original human self, collapses and dies.
* Averted in ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''. There's no return from beasthood or kinhood.
* In ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', werewolf enemies typically revert back to their human forms as they die.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''; the Stage 5 boss is a monster that initially appears as Jennifer, transforms into a more grotesque form for the fight, then dies resembling Jennifer. In the Japanese version, [[TragicMonster it's Jennifer herself]], so the trope is played straight. In the English version however, [[ShapeshifterGuiltTrip it's an imposter]], so the trope is inverted.
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, they simply {{disappear|sIntoLight}} like any other enemy.
* In the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the last trial centers around the death of a children's book author. [[spoiler:It turns out that the author was Misty Fey, mother of Mia and Maya, and that to try to foil a plan to kill Maya, she channeled the spirit of and shapeshifted into her murderous niece, Dahlia Hawthorne. Dahlia still set off to kill Maya, so Godot stabbed Dahlia, resulting in Dahlia being forced back to the afterlife and the now-dead Misty changed back to her own appearance. This leaves Godot with the issue of how to dispose of Misty's body.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. For a moment, the shape of his original body [[spoiler:as a former Arisen]] can be seen...before that too melts away.
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed one in cold blood; Killia wanted to keep others from dying at the hands of Void Dark and the Lost, yet that's exactly what happened). The party breaks up, leaving Void Dark to conquer the Netherworlds unopposed.
* The ending cutscene of the Empire campaign in ''Videogame/{{Disciples}}'' ''II'' shows Uther's demon form melting away. Uther, reverted to his original human self, collapses and dies.
* Averted in ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''. There's no return from beasthood or kinhood.
* In ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', werewolf enemies typically revert back to their human forms as they die.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''; the Stage 5 boss is a monster that initially appears as Jennifer, transforms into a more grotesque form for the fight, then dies resembling Jennifer. In the Japanese version, [[TragicMonster it's Jennifer herself]], so the trope is played straight. In the English version however, [[ShapeshifterGuiltTrip it's an imposter]], so the trope is inverted.
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* In the story mode of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'', when Liu Kang first meets Flash, he thinks that he is Shang Tsung in ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'', Spies will lose their disguise (he had been magically forced to switch places upon death.
** This behaviour is also utilised withScorpion for some reason), but he decides otherwise after defeating him, saying one of his alternate watches, that "if this was Shang Tsung, causes him to appear to "die" if he would have changed back by now."
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, theyis hit, but instead simply {{disappear|sIntoLight}} like any other enemy.
* In the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the last trial centers around the deathdrops a replica of a children's book author. [[spoiler:It his corpse and turns out that the author was Misty Fey, mother of Mia player invisible, allowing the player the chance to then de-cloak and Maya, and that to try to foil a plan to kill Maya, she channeled the spirit continue on their way.
*** Unless he's disguised as another member ofand shapeshifted into her murderous niece, Dahlia Hawthorne. Dahlia still set off to kill Maya, so Godot stabbed Dahlia, resulting in Dahlia being forced back to the afterlife and the now-dead Misty changed back to her his own appearance. This team, then he leaves Godot a fake corpse of one of them.
* Double subverted withthe issue of how to dispose of Misty's body.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. Fora moment, the shape of his original body [[spoiler:as a former Arisen]] can be seen...before that too melts away.
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed onemurder victim in cold blood; Killia wanted to keep others from dying at the hands of Void Dark and the Lost, yet that's exactly what happened). The party breaks up, leaving Void Dark to conquer the Netherworlds unopposed.
* The ending cutscene of the Empire campaign in ''Videogame/{{Disciples}}'' ''II'' shows Uther's demon form melting away. Uther, reverted to his original human self, collapses and dies.
* Averted in ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''. There's no return from beasthood or kinhood.
* In ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', werewolf enemies typically revert back to their human forms as they die.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''; the Stage 5 boss is a monster that initially''VideoGame/TheWolfAmongUs''. While Bigby appears as Jennifer, transforms into a more grotesque form for to find the fight, then dies resembling Jennifer. In the Japanese version, [[TragicMonster head of Snow White on his front steps, it's Jennifer herself]], so the trope is played straight. In the English version however, [[ShapeshifterGuiltTrip not her; it's an imposter]], so someone else's head, under the trope effects of a glamour. While the victim is inverted.killed without changing back, the double subversion comes in when the glamour's magic eventually wears off, where the victim reverts to her true form of a cave troll.
** This behaviour is also utilised with
* ''VideoGame/ImmortalSouls'' plays this straight with its werewolves changing back into (naked) humans when killed. Though oddly it only happens to members of a werewolf gang and not werewolves found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia'' does this in a strange way - if any of the [=CPUs=] on your team (Neptune, Black Heart, White Heart, or Green Heart) lose all their HP in battle, they revert to their normal form just before collapsing. When fought as bosses, however, they
* In the third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the last trial centers around the death
*** Unless he's disguised as another member of
* Double subverted with
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' ''Dark Arisen'': When Daimon is defeated, his body begins to melt into the ground. For
* In the Chapter 4 bad ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 5}}'', Red Magnus and Seraphina are arguing about the beast that they just took out... only for it to transform back into a child (Usalia) and drop dead. Red Magnus and Killia are horrified at what they see, but for different reasons (Red Magnus hates fighting kids, Majorita notwithstanding, and he just killed one
* The ending cutscene of the Empire campaign in ''Videogame/{{Disciples}}'' ''II'' shows Uther's demon form melting away. Uther, reverted to his original human self, collapses and dies.
* Averted in ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}''. There's no return from beasthood or kinhood.
* In ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'', werewolf enemies typically revert back to their human forms as they die.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', the Love revert to their true forms as worm-like creatures upon being killed. When Marco defeats Astaroth at the end of the game, his hulking body crumbles away to reveal a tiny snake.
* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}''; the Stage 5 boss is a monster that initially
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Ninetails is revealed to be a weak, old, one-eyed fox without their tails.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', where [[ChestMonster grub mimics]] revert to their disguised form upon death.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'': Averted with [[spoiler:Bertrand and his "creations", the Corrupted]], who stay in their monstrous forms upon death. This means taking [[spoiler:Bertrand]]'s body off the street takes a small army of trucks and chainsaws.
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', where [[ChestMonster grub mimics]] revert to their disguised form upon death.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'': Averted with [[spoiler:Bertrand and his "creations", the Corrupted]], who stay in their monstrous forms upon death. This means taking [[spoiler:Bertrand]]'s body off the street takes a small army of trucks and chainsaws.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Ninetails is revealed to be a weak, old, one-eyed fox without their tails.
* InvertedDruids that die in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', where [[ChestMonster grub mimics]] animal form instantly revert back to their disguised default form upon death.
* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'':in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. This also goes for characters killed while polymorphed.
** Averted with[[spoiler:Bertrand and his "creations", the Corrupted]], who Worgen, however, whose corpses will stay in their monstrous human forms upon death. This means taking [[spoiler:Bertrand]]'s body off if they manage to die without entering combat. They even appear at the street takes a small army of trucks and chainsaws.graveyard as human ghosts.
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* Changelings from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can copy the form of any pony, but knocking one out will make it turn back to its normal bug-like appearance.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', as Savage Opress is dying, he reverts back to his original appearance, looking as he did before the Nightsisters transformed him.
* Non-death example: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", Leela meets another cyclops, whom she almost marries. At their wedding though, it's revealed that he's a shapeshifter with four more weddings to attend that day with four other nearly extinct aliens (he points out how much it costs to rent a shape-shifting tuxedo even for a day). Leela and the other four brides beat the crap out of him, demanding to see his true form, until eventually he submits, revealing himself to be a short grasshopper-like creature.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', as Savage Opress is dying, he reverts back to his original appearance, looking as he did before the Nightsisters transformed him.
* Non-death example: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", Leela meets another cyclops, whom she almost marries. At their wedding though, it's revealed that he's a shapeshifter with four more weddings to attend that day with four other nearly extinct aliens (he points out how much it costs to rent a shape-shifting tuxedo even for a day). Leela and the other four brides beat the crap out of him, demanding to see his true form, until eventually he submits, revealing himself to be a short grasshopper-like creature.
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* Non-death example: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", Leela meets another cyclops, whom she almost marries. At their wedding though, it's revealed that he's a shapeshifter with four more weddings to attend that day with four other nearly extinct aliens (he points out how much it costs to rent a shape-shifting tuxedo even for a day). Leela and the other four brides beat the crap out of him, demanding to see his true form, until eventually he submits, revealing himself to be a short grasshopper-like creature.
* Changelings from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can copy the form of any pony, but knocking one out will make it turn back to its normal bug-like appearance.
* Changelings from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' can copy the form of any pony, but knocking one out will make it turn back to its normal bug-like appearance.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', as Savage Opress is dying, he reverts back to his original appearance, looking as he did before the Nightsisters transformed him.
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* In the Italian comic book ''ComicBook/{{Legs}}'', one issue has the heroines discovering a race of shapeshifting aliens based on the gods of Egyptian mythology and capable to change from their basic human form to a beastman form akin to myth, with the exceptions of their leader Osiris, who was always human-like, and the evil Set, who was driven to villainy because he lacked a human form and was cursed with a TouchOfDeath. [[spoiler: When Set dies at the end of the issue, he reverts into a human form, much to the shock of everyone as they realizes that he really had no excuse for his villainy.]]
* After the werewolf in the fifth issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster The Monster of Frankenstein]]'' is killed, it reverts back to human to reveal that it was in fact the woman whom the Monster had protected throughout the story.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim knocks out Micro with an electrical attack the shrunken man grows back to his regular human size while laying unconscious.
* After the werewolf in the fifth issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster The Monster of Frankenstein]]'' is killed, it reverts back to human to reveal that it was in fact the woman whom the Monster had protected throughout the story.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim knocks out Micro with an electrical attack the shrunken man grows back to his regular human size while laying unconscious.
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* After the werewolf in the fifth issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster The Monster of Frankenstein]]'' is killed, it reverts back to human to reveal that it was in fact the woman whom the Monster had protected throughout the story.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim knocks out Micro with an electrical attack the shrunken man grows back to his regular human size while laying unconscious.
* In the Italian comic book ''Legs'', one issue has the heroines discovering a race of shapeshifting aliens based on the gods of Egyptian mythology and capable to change from their basic human form to a beastman form akin to myth, with the exceptions of their leader Osiris, who was always human-like, and the evil Set, who was driven to villainy because he lacked a human form and was cursed with a TouchOfDeath. [[spoiler: When Set dies at the end of the issue, he reverts into a human form, much to the shock of everyone as they realizes that he really had no excuse for his villainy.]]
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim knocks out Micro with an electrical attack the shrunken man grows back to his regular human size while laying unconscious.
* In the Italian comic book ''Legs'', one issue has the heroines discovering a race of shapeshifting aliens based on the gods of Egyptian mythology and capable to change from their basic human form to a beastman form akin to myth, with the exceptions of their leader Osiris, who was always human-like, and the evil Set, who was driven to villainy because he lacked a human form and was cursed with a TouchOfDeath. [[spoiler: When Set dies at the end of the issue, he reverts into a human form, much to the shock of everyone as they realizes that he really had no excuse for his villainy.]]
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* The werewolves in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' immediately revert to human form upon dying. The werewolf that attacked David and Jack turned out to be an old man.
* In the supernatural-horror film ''Film/Bewitched1981'', the main villain, a Thai voodoo-priest, was eventually overwhelmed after his curse is broken, causing his body to rapidly dry up and shrivel, where it turns out his body is merely a puppet - his true form is a bat, who then crawls out of the corpse's mouth and flies away only to be captured immediately.
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* In the supernatural-horror film ''Film/Bewitched1981'', the main villain, a Thai voodoo-priest, was eventually overwhelmed after his curse is broken, causing his body to rapidly dry up and shrivel, where it turns out his body is merely a puppet - his true form is a bat, who then crawls out of the corpse's mouth and flies away only to be captured immediately.
* Applies in ''Film/Underworld2003''. Lycans normally revert to their humanoid form when they die, but Vampires eventually discovered a serum that would keep them in their wolf form after death so they could be studied.
* The werewolves in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' immediately revert to human form upon dying. The werewolf that attacked David and Jack turned out to be an old man.
* This seems to happen to most supernatural foes the eponymous hero in ''Film/VanHelsing'' faces, including Mr. Hyde and at least one wolfman. Van Helsing even remarks on this twice, telling his boss, "I'm the one who's left standing there when they die and become the men they once were!" He also says to the female lead, whose brother was a wolfman that Van Helsing killed, "Now you know why they call me murderer." He's even a wanted criminal since the authorities always catch him near corpses.
* In ''Film/SpeciesII'', the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns back from her latex-monster form to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise, in ''Film/{{Species}} III'', the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leaving a SWAT sharpshooter with a headache, who looks around in confusion.
* Applies in ''Film/Underworld2003''. Lycans normally revert to their humanoid form when they die, but Vampires eventually discovered a serum that would keep them in their wolf form after death so they could be studied.
* The werewolves in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' immediately revert to human form upon dying. The werewolf that attacked David and Jack turned out to be an old man.
* This seems to happen to most supernatural foes the eponymous hero in ''Film/VanHelsing'' faces, including Mr. Hyde and at least one wolfman. Van Helsing even remarks on this twice, telling his boss, "I'm the one who's left standing there when they die and become the men they once were!" He also says to the female lead, whose brother was a wolfman that Van Helsing killed, "Now you know why they call me murderer." He's even a wanted criminal since the authorities always catch him near corpses.
* In ''Film/SpeciesII'', the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns back from her latex-monster form to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise, in ''Film/{{Species}} III'', the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leaving a SWAT sharpshooter with a headache, who looks around in confusion.
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* In When the supernatural-horror film ''Film/Bewitched1981'', the main villain, a Thai voodoo-priest, was eventually overwhelmed after his curse is broken, causing his body to rapidly dry up and shrivel, where it turns out his body is merely a puppet - his true form is a bat, who then crawls out heroine of the corpse's mouth and flies away only to be captured immediately.
* Applies in ''Film/Underworld2003''. Lycans normally revert to their humanoid form when they die, but Vampires eventually discovered a serum that would keep them in their wolf form after death so they could be studied.
* The werewolves in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' immediately revert to human form upon dying. The werewolf that attacked David and Jack turned out to be an old man.
* This seems to happen to most supernatural foes the eponymous hero in ''Film/VanHelsing'' faces, including Mr. Hyde and at least one wolfman. Van Helsing even remarks on this twice, telling his boss, "I'm the one who's left standing there when they die and become the men they once were!" He also says to the female lead, whose brother was a wolfman that Van Helsing killed, "Now you know why they call me murderer." He's even a wanted criminal since the authorities always catch him near corpses.
* In ''Film/SpeciesII'', the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns''Film/CatPeople'' dies, she shapeshifts back from her latex-monster form to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise, in ''Film/{{Species}} III'', the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leavinginto a SWAT sharpshooter with a headache, who looks around in confusion.panther.
* Applies in ''Film/Underworld2003''. Lycans normally revert to their humanoid form when they die, but Vampires eventually discovered a serum that would keep them in their wolf form after death so they could be studied.
* The werewolves in ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'' immediately revert to human form upon dying. The werewolf that attacked David and Jack turned out to be an old man.
* This seems to happen to most supernatural foes the eponymous hero in ''Film/VanHelsing'' faces, including Mr. Hyde and at least one wolfman. Van Helsing even remarks on this twice, telling his boss, "I'm the one who's left standing there when they die and become the men they once were!" He also says to the female lead, whose brother was a wolfman that Van Helsing killed, "Now you know why they call me murderer." He's even a wanted criminal since the authorities always catch him near corpses.
* In ''Film/SpeciesII'', the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leaving
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* Played straight in both ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and [[Film/TheWolfman2010 its 2010 remake]]. In fact, in the original, this causes some problems for Larry -- he beat a wolf to death with a cane, and is very confused as to why everyone keeps asking him why he killed a ''human''.
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* In ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'', the title character becomes visible when he dies.
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* In the ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest'' series of films, based on of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the demons usually takes on the forms of beautiful young women who uses their charms to seduce the main characters, but upon being defeated or slain they will revert themselves to their original forms. The spider demon sisters turns back into a cluster of spiders, the White Bone Twins reverts back to skeletons, the snake sorceress turns into a dead snake, and so on.
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''The Human Vapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''The Human Vapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.
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* In the ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest'' series of films, based on of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the demons usually takes on the forms of beautiful young women who uses ''Film/FullEclipse'': When a werewolf dies, their charms body turns human again. Seen happening to seduce the main characters, but upon being defeated or slain they will revert themselves Detective Davies after Garou kills him with a SilverBullet.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', when Storm Shadow kills Zartan, his returns totheir his original forms. The spider demon sisters turns back into a cluster of spiders, the White Bone Twins reverts back to skeletons, the snake sorceress turns into a dead snake, and so on.
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''The Human Vapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.appearance.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', when Storm Shadow kills Zartan, his returns to
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''The Human Vapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.
* In ''Film/TheHappyGhost5'', a dog makes a deal with the Happy Ghost to become a human for 44 days because he wants to do more for his owner before dying. At the end, he takes a bullet for his mistress and is loaded onto an ambulance. Seconds later, the paramedic remarks that he can't do anything for a dog. The woman then sees her dead dog on the gurney.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'' when Channard turns on them.
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''Film/TheHumanVapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.
* In ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'', the title character becomes visible when he dies.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he turns back into his giant bat form as he dies.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leaving a SWAT sharpshooter with a headache, who looks around in confusion.
* In the ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest'' series of films, based on of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the demons usually takes on the forms of beautiful young women who uses their charms to seduce the main characters, but upon being defeated or slain they will revert themselves to their original forms. The spider demon sisters turns back into a cluster of spiders, the White Bone Twins reverts back to skeletons, the snake sorceress turns into a dead snake, and so on.
* This happens to the Wolf Man in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' after Rudy shoots him a SilverBullet. The werewolf reverts back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before dying.
-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'' when Channard turns on them.
* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character]] in ''Film/TheHumanVapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up.
* In ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'', the title character becomes visible when he dies.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he turns back into his giant bat form as he dies.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Agents are capable of taking over bystanders' bodies. If they should be killed, the program leaves and the innocent most recent host is unmistakably dead. There are no other bodies, but all their other hosts are presumably very dead as well, or they just find themselves someplace strange with no memory of how they got there. Actually addressed in one of the video games. Ghost is looking at an Agent through his scope when the Agent jumps out of the body, leaving a SWAT sharpshooter with a headache, who looks around in confusion.
* In the ''Film/TheMonkeyGoesWest'' series of films, based on of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the demons usually takes on the forms of beautiful young women who uses their charms to seduce the main characters, but upon being defeated or slain they will revert themselves to their original forms. The spider demon sisters turns back into a cluster of spiders, the White Bone Twins reverts back to skeletons, the snake sorceress turns into a dead snake, and so on.
* This happens to the Wolf Man in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' after Rudy shoots him a SilverBullet. The werewolf reverts back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before dying.
-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
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* In ''The Happy Ghost 5'', a dog makes a deal with the Happy Ghost to become a human for 44 days because he wants to do more for his owner before dying. At the end, he takes a bullet for his mistress and is loaded onto an ambulance. Seconds later, the paramedic remarks that he can't do anything for a dog. The woman then sees her dead dog on the gurney.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', when Storm Shadow kills Zartan, his returns to his original appearance.
* The werewolf in ''The Undying Monster'' immediately turns back to human when its shot at the climax in the cliffside, and it falls to the crashing waves below.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', when Storm Shadow kills Zartan, his returns to his original appearance.
* The werewolf in ''The Undying Monster'' immediately turns back to human when its shot at the climax in the cliffside, and it falls to the crashing waves below.
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* Established as a shapeshifter in ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', Zam Wesell, the BountyHunter who is chased by Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning of ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/AttackOfTheClones'', turns into a green-skinned alien after Jango Fett hits her with a poison dart.
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* Established as a shapeshifter Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', Zam Wesell, ''Film/ScaryMovie 4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped the BountyHunter who is chased by Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning of ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/AttackOfTheClones'', turns into a green-skinned alien after Jango Fett hits her with invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, this time reverting him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a poison dart.balding, middle-aged black man, before he gets vaporized altogether by a final blast.
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* When the heroine of ''Film/CatPeople'' dies, she shapeshifts back into a panther.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he turns back into his giant bat form as he dies.
* ''Film/FullEclipse'': When a werewolf dies, their body turns human again. Seen happening to Detective Davies after Garou kills him with a SilverBullet.
* This happens to the Wolf Man in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' after Rudy shoots him a silver bullet. The werewolf reverts back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before dying.
-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'' when Channard turns on them.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/ScaryMovie 4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped the by the alien invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, this time reverting him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a balding, middle-aged black man, before he gets vaporized altogether by a final blast.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he turns back into his giant bat form as he dies.
* ''Film/FullEclipse'': When a werewolf dies, their body turns human again. Seen happening to Detective Davies after Garou kills him with a SilverBullet.
* This happens to the Wolf Man in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' after Rudy shoots him a silver bullet. The werewolf reverts back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before dying.
-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'' when Channard turns on them.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/ScaryMovie 4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped the by the alien invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, this time reverting him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a balding, middle-aged black man, before he gets vaporized altogether by a final blast.
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* When In ''Film/SpeciesII'', the heroine of ''Film/CatPeople'' dies, she shapeshifts back into a panther.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, heHalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns back into his giant bat from her latex-monster form as he dies.
to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise, in ''Film/{{Species}} III'', the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
*''Film/FullEclipse'': When a werewolf dies, Applies in ''Film/Underworld2003''. Lycans normally revert to their body humanoid form when they die, but Vampires eventually discovered a serum that would keep them in their wolf form after death so they could be studied.
* Established as a shapeshifter in ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', Zam Wesell, the BountyHunter who is chased by Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning of ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/AttackOfTheClones'', turnshuman again. Seen happening to Detective Davies into a green-skinned alien after Garou kills him Jango Fett hits her with a SilverBullet.
poison dart.
* Thishappens seems to happen to most supernatural foes the eponymous hero in ''Film/VanHelsing'' faces, including Mr. Hyde and at least one wolfman. Van Helsing even remarks on this twice, telling his boss, "I'm the one who's left standing there when they die and become the men they once were!" He also says to the Wolf Man in ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'' after Rudy shoots female lead, whose brother was a wolfman that Van Helsing killed, "Now you know why they call me murderer." He's even a wanted criminal since the authorities always catch him a silver bullet. near corpses.
* The werewolfreverts in ''Film/TheUndyingMonster'' immediately turns back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before dying.
-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII''when Channard turns on them.
its shot at the climax in the cliffside, and it falls to the crashing waves below.
* Playedfor laughs straight in ''Film/ScaryMovie 4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped both ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and [[Film/TheWolfman2010 its 2010 remake]]. In fact, in the by the alien invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, original, this time reverting causes some problems for Larry -- he beat a wolf to death with a cane, and is very confused as to why everyone keeps asking him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a balding, middle-aged black man, before why he gets vaporized altogether by killed a final blast.''human''.
* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'': When one of the male space vampires receives a metal stake through his chest courtesy of Colonel Caine, he
*
* Established as a shapeshifter in ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', Zam Wesell, the BountyHunter who is chased by Anakin and Obi-Wan in the beginning of ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/AttackOfTheClones'', turns
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-->'''Rudy:''' Well, told ya. There's only one way to kill a werewolf.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'': The Cenobites, [[DemonOfHumanOrigin demons who were once human]] summoned by the Lament Configuration, turn back into their human form if they're killed. This is first shown happening to Pinhead and his entourage in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII''
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* Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' became visible again when he died. This is because his method of becoming invisible only worked on living tissue, so once his body became unliving, it ceased being invisible.
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing over the corpse of a woman with natural camoflage, Mulder laughs out loud when he realizes that he's been waiting for her to turn back to normal.
* In R. L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde dies and retains his shape, but in most movie adaptations (including the [[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 1931 version]]), he reverts to Jekyll on death, suggesting perhaps that his evil self is gone and now he is at peace.
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', the shape shifting Oonai change back into their true pig-like forms when they die. Moonglum observes, "It's not hard to see why an ugly creature like this would wish to change its form."
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing over the corpse of a woman with natural camoflage, Mulder laughs out loud when he realizes that he's been waiting for her to turn back to normal.
* In R. L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde dies and retains his shape, but in most movie adaptations (including the [[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 1931 version]]), he reverts to Jekyll on death, suggesting perhaps that his evil self is gone and now he is at peace.
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', the shape shifting Oonai change back into their true pig-like forms when they die. Moonglum observes, "It's not hard to see why an ugly creature like this would wish to change its form."
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* Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' became visible again when he died. This is because his method of becoming invisible only worked on living tissue, so once his body became unliving, it ceased being invisible.
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing overIn Eddings' ''Literature/TheBelgariad[=/=]The Mallorean'', the corpse Hounds of a woman with natural camoflage, Mulder laughs out loud when he realizes that he's been waiting for her to turn Torak do this. They are Grolim priests--minor sorcerers--transformed into enormous dogs, but they go back to normal.
being human if you kill them.
* Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian:
** InR. L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde dies and retains the story "Literature/TheDevilInIron", Khosatral Khel, an EvilSorcerer, turns out to be an EldritchAbomination via this trope when Conan puts him down:
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in hisshape, but in most movie adaptations (including dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again the [[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 1931 version]]), he thing that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transform back into men before [[NoBodyLeftBehind crumbling]].
* The main character, Horza, in the creator/IanMBanks novel ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' reverts toJekyll on death, suggesting perhaps his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that his evil self is gone and now he is at peace.
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', thewould be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting Oonai change back into their true pig-like forms when they die. Moonglum observes, "It's spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not hard to see why an ugly creature like clear if this would wish dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to change its form."whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing over
* Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian:
** In
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transform back into men before [[NoBodyLeftBehind crumbling]].
* The main character, Horza, in the creator/IanMBanks novel ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' reverts to
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', the
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* In Eddings' The Belgariad/The Mallorean the Hounds of Torak do this. They are Grolim priests--minor sorcerers--transformed into enormous dogs, but they go back to being human if you kill them.
* In ''Literature/TheLandoCalrissianAdventures'', the BigBad is basically indestructible throughout the story. Turns out his species is actually quite small and non-humanoid, and is using illusion powers to simulate the form we know him as throughout the stories. When Lando scores a lucky shot at one foot, he strikes the ''real'' Gepta for the first time, and with the illusion gone, he's able to finish him with one squeeze. It's a bit more justified than most, in that Gepta makes it clear his illusion powers are ACTIVE illusion.
* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': When Dorian Gray stabs his portrait, he ages to his "supposed" age and dies, while the portrait reverts to depicting his young form.
* In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels: Vampire Voles'', the "wereweasel" shot by Monty changes back from a monstrously mutated six-inch-tall human into a normal weasel upon dying.
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* In Creator/RobertRMcCammon's ''The Wolf's Hour'', the body of a werewolf spasms at death, becoming a mishmash of wolf and human parts.
* In ''Literature/TheLandoCalrissianAdventures'', the BigBad is basically indestructible throughout the story. Turns out his species is actually quite small and non-humanoid, and is using illusion powers to simulate the form we know him as throughout the stories. When Lando scores a lucky shot at one foot, he strikes the ''real'' Gepta for the first time, and with the illusion gone, he's able to finish him with one squeeze. It's a bit more justified than most, in that Gepta makes it clear his illusion powers are ACTIVE illusion.
* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': When Dorian Gray stabs his portrait, he ages to his "supposed" age and dies, while the portrait reverts to depicting his young form.
* In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels: Vampire Voles'', the "wereweasel" shot by Monty changes back from a monstrously mutated six-inch-tall human into a normal weasel upon dying.
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* In Creator/RobertRMcCammon's ''The Wolf's Hour'', the body of a werewolf spasms at death, becoming a mishmash of wolf and human parts.
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* Averted in Kelley Armstrong's ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' books, a werewolf remains in whatever shape it was in when killed.
* ''Treasure in the Heart of the Tanglewood'' outright subverts this trope towards the end. [[VillainsNeverLie The villain initially claims]] that each KnightInShiningArmor was an animal [[HumanityEnsues turned into a human]], making it a simple matter for him to turn them back into animals and kill them. He lied--while each had been a victim of a since-cured case of ForcedTransformation, reapplied in the moments before their deaths, their initial forms were human. They still stayed animals when dead.
* ''Treasure in the Heart of the Tanglewood'' outright subverts this trope towards the end. [[VillainsNeverLie The villain initially claims]] that each KnightInShiningArmor was an animal [[HumanityEnsues turned into a human]], making it a simple matter for him to turn them back into animals and kill them. He lied--while each had been a victim of a since-cured case of ForcedTransformation, reapplied in the moments before their deaths, their initial forms were human. They still stayed animals when dead.
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* The goblins in ''Literature/TwilightEyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* The goblins in ''Literature/TwilightEyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but notCreator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'' became visible again when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering he died. This is because his borderline ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form method of becoming invisible only worked on living tissue, so once his body became unliving, it ceased being invisible.
* In ''Literature/TheLandoCalrissianAdventures'', the BigBad is basically indestructible throughout the story. Turns out his species is actually quite small and non-humanoid, and is using illusion powers to simulate theface of form we know him as throughout the real Horza (assuming such stories. When Lando scores a person even existed) or if lucky shot at one foot, he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all strikes the infiltration training ''real'' Gepta for the first time, and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent with the closest thing he has illusion gone, he's able to finish him with one squeeze. It's a friend]] looks down on bit more justified than most, in that Gepta makes it clear his body and wonders who he really was in the end...illusion powers are ACTIVE illusion.
* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not
* In ''Literature/TheLandoCalrissianAdventures'', the BigBad is basically indestructible throughout the story. Turns out his species is actually quite small and non-humanoid, and is using illusion powers to simulate the
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* Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian:
** In the story "Literature/TheDevilInIron", Khosatral Khel, an EvilSorcerer, turns out to be an EldritchAbomination via this trope when Conan puts him down:
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again the thing that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transform back into men before [[NoBodyLeftBehind crumbling]].
** In the story "Literature/TheDevilInIron", Khosatral Khel, an EvilSorcerer, turns out to be an EldritchAbomination via this trope when Conan puts him down:
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again the thing that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transform back into men before [[NoBodyLeftBehind crumbling]].
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* Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian:
** In''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': When Dorian Gray stabs his portrait, he ages to his "supposed" age and dies, while the story "Literature/TheDevilInIron", Khosatral Khel, an EvilSorcerer, turns out portrait reverts to be an EldritchAbomination via depicting his young form.
* In R. L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde dies and retains his shape, but in most movie adaptations (including the [[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 1931 version]]), he reverts to Jekyll on death, suggesting perhaps that his evil self is gone and now he is at peace.
* ''Treasure in the Heart of the Tanglewood'' outright subverts this tropewhen Conan puts him down:
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become againtowards the thing end. [[VillainsNeverLie The villain initially claims]] that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transformeach KnightInShiningArmor was an animal [[HumanityEnsues turned into a human]], making it a simple matter for him to turn them back into men animals and kill them. He lied--while each had been a victim of a since-cured case of ForcedTransformation, reapplied in the moments before [[NoBodyLeftBehind crumbling]].their deaths, their initial forms were human. They still stayed animals when dead.
* The goblins in ''Literature/TwilightEyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', the shape shifting Oonai change back into their true pig-like forms when they die. Moonglum observes, "It's not hard to see why an ugly creature like this would wish to change its form."
* In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels: Vampire Voles'', the "wereweasel" shot by Monty changes back from a monstrously mutated six-inch-tall human into a normal weasel upon dying.
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* In Creator/RobertRMcCammon's ''Literature/TheWolfsHour'', the body of a werewolf spasms at death, becoming a mishmash of wolf and human parts.
* Averted in Kelley Armstrong's ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' books, a werewolf remains in whatever shape it was in when killed.
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing over the corpse of a woman with natural camouflage, Mulder laughs out loud when he realizes that he's been waiting for her to turn back to normal.
** In
* In R. L. Stevenson's ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde dies and retains his shape, but in most movie adaptations (including the [[Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1931 1931 version]]), he reverts to Jekyll on death, suggesting perhaps that his evil self is gone and now he is at peace.
* ''Treasure in the Heart of the Tanglewood'' outright subverts this trope
--->''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again
** In "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", the hyenas transform
* The goblins in ''Literature/TwilightEyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
* In the Creator/MichaelMoorcock novel ''The Vanishing Tower'', the shape shifting Oonai change back into their true pig-like forms when they die. Moonglum observes, "It's not hard to see why an ugly creature like this would wish to change its form."
* In ''Literature/WelkinWeasels: Vampire Voles'', the "wereweasel" shot by Monty changes back from a monstrously mutated six-inch-tall human into a normal weasel upon dying.
* Shapeshifters in the ''Literature/KateDaniels'' universe assume their birth form when dead or dying. Results in an "oh, crap!" moment when [[spoiler:Corwin's in the hospital and suddenly transforms into a lynx. He dies soon after.]]
* In Creator/RobertRMcCammon's ''Literature/TheWolfsHour'', the body of a werewolf spasms at death, becoming a mishmash of wolf and human parts.
* Averted in Kelley Armstrong's ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' books, a werewolf remains in whatever shape it was in when killed.
* Referenced and subverted in a ''Series/TheXFiles'' tie-in novel. Standing over the corpse of a woman with natural camouflage, Mulder laughs out loud when he realizes that he's been waiting for her to turn back to normal.
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* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': Yokai Sennin are only temporarily humans: if they suffer lethal damage in combat they revert to their original form, as seen early on with Chinto (turns into a mantis) and Okijin (turns back into a stone biwa).
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* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': Yokai Sennin are only temporarly humans: if they suffer lethal damage in combat they revert to their original form, as seen early on with Chinto (turns into a mantis) and Dakki's sister Ohkijin (turns back into a stone biwa).
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** World 1: [[TheGoomba Goomba]] - fire
** World 2: Koopa Troopa - fire
** World 3: Buzzy Beetle - fire
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** World 5: [[MookMaker Lakitu]] - fire
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** World 5: [[MookMaker Lakitu]] - fire
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*** World A: Goomba in FDS, [[PaletteSwap Red Koopa Troopa]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
*** World B: Koopa Troopa in FDS, [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Cheep Cheep]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
*** World C: Buzzy Beetle in FDS, [[AirborneMook Bullet Bill]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
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*** World 9: [[DeathThrows Fake Bowser]] - fire in FDS, hammers in SNES
*** World A: Goomba in FDS, [[PaletteSwap Red Koopa Troopa]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
*** World B: Koopa Troopa in FDS, [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Cheep Cheep]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
*** World C: Buzzy Beetle in FDS, [[AirborneMook Bullet Bill]] in SNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
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Bowser]]
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SNES.
*** World B: Koopa Troopa in FDS, [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Cheep Cheep]] inSNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
SNES.
*** World C: Buzzy Beetle in FDS, [[AirborneMook Bullet Bill]] inSNES - fire in FDS, fire and hammers in SNES
SNES.
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*** World B: Koopa Troopa in FDS, [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Cheep Cheep]] in
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*** World D: Spiny in FDS, [[DeathThrows Fake Bowser/Bowser]] in
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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/SevTrekPusInBoots Sev Trek: Pus in Boots]]'' (an Australian CGI spoof of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''), the crew find themselves confronted with two Captain [[PunnyName Pinchhards]], one of them a shapeshifting alien. The crew wonder how they can SpotTheImposter. Lieutenant Barf responds, "Simple, [[KillUsBoth we kill them both]]. The alien will revert to its natural form once dead." Needless to say the captains tell him to think up another plan.
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* ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'' (an Australian CGI spoof of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''). The crew find themselves confronted with two Captain [[PunnyName Pinchhards]], one of them a shapeshifting alien. The crew wonder how they can SpotTheImposter. Lieutenant Barf responds, "Simple, [[KillUsBoth we kill them both]]. The alien will revert to its natural form once dead." Needless to say the captains tell him to think up another plan.
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* The goblins in ''Twilight Eyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
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* The goblins in ''Twilight Eyes'' ''Literature/TwilightEyes'' by Creator/DeanKoontz were genetically engineered to switch between human and monster form at will, and to revert to human form after death.
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* In the music video for the Music/FosterThePeople song "Music/BestFriend", after The Supermodel barfs up and chokes to death on her last victim's dress and dies, she reverts from her spindly BodyHorror form and back to her original appearance.
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* In the music video for the Music/FosterThePeople song "Music/BestFriend", "Music/{{Best Friend|2014}}", after The Supermodel barfs up and chokes to death on her last victim's dress and dies, she reverts from her spindly BodyHorror form and back to her original appearance.
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* PlayedForHorror in ''Anime/MyLittleGoat'': [[AbusiveParents Natsuki's father]] reverts from wolf to human after being tasered, symbolizing how [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters he was just as predatory towards his son as a wolf is to goats]].
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This is both potentially useful and frustrating for {{heroes}}, since it removes evidence of the paranormal (which might be something that they want to [[{{Masquerade}} cover up]] or [[ParanormalInvestigation prove]]) while adding the eentsy little complication of making them liable to face murder charges. No [[SelfDisposingVillain Self-Disposing Villains]] here.
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This is both potentially useful and frustrating for {{heroes}}, heroes, since it removes evidence of the paranormal (which might be something that they want to [[{{Masquerade}} cover up]] or [[ParanormalInvestigation prove]]) while adding the eentsy little complication of making them liable to face murder charges. No [[SelfDisposingVillain Self-Disposing Villains]] here.
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* In ''Film/SpeciesII'' the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns back from her latex-monster form to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise in the ''Film/SpeciesIII'' the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
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* In ''Film/SpeciesII'' ''Film/SpeciesII'', the HalfHumanHybrid woman Eve turns back from her latex-monster form to human form after being knocked unconscious. Likewise Likewise, in the ''Film/SpeciesIII'' ''Film/{{Species}} III'', the hybrids always turn back to human form when they die.
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* Averted to a degree in the Film/HammerHorror ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf'' (1961). When Leon the werewolf is shot by his father, the father covers his body with a cloak and the audience does not see if it reverts or not.
* Played straight in both the original ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and [[Film/TheWolfman2010 its remake]]. In fact, in the original, this causes some problems for Larry - he beat a wolf to death with a cane, and is very confused as to why everyone keeps asking him why he killed a ''human''.
* Played straight in both the original ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and [[Film/TheWolfman2010 its remake]]. In fact, in the original, this causes some problems for Larry - he beat a wolf to death with a cane, and is very confused as to why everyone keeps asking him why he killed a ''human''.
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* Averted to a degree in the Film/HammerHorror ''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf'' (1961).''Film/TheCurseOfTheWerewolf''. When Leon the werewolf is shot by his father, the father covers his body with a cloak and the audience does not see if it reverts or not.
* Played straight in boththe original ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and [[Film/TheWolfman2010 its 2010 remake]]. In fact, in the original, this causes some problems for Larry - -- he beat a wolf to death with a cane, and is very confused as to why everyone keeps asking him why he killed a ''human''.
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* In the 1933 film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel ''[[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]]'', the title character becomes visible when he dies.
* ''Film/FrightNight1985''. After Evil Ed is killed while in wolf form, he returns to human form.
* ''Film/FrightNight1985''. After Evil Ed is killed while in wolf form, he returns to human form.
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* In the 1933 film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel ''[[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]]'', ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'', the title character becomes visible when he dies.
*''Film/FrightNight1985''. ''Film/FrightNight1985'': After Evil Ed is killed while in wolf form, he returns to human form.
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* Mizuno, the eponymous character, reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up in ''The Human Vapor''.
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* Mizuno, the [[SuperSmoke eponymous character, character]] in ''The Human Vapor'', reverts to his solid form after the theater is blown up in ''The Human Vapor''.up.
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* In the Creator/ShawBrothers fantasy film, ''Film/TheSnakePrince'', the titular prince finally reveals himself to be a giant, serpentine monster in his OneWingedAngel form after being exposed to sulphur smoke. And when he succumbs to his injuries, he promptly turns back into his human form, which is in the form of its actor Ti Lung.
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* In the Creator/ShawBrothers fantasy film, ''Film/TheSnakePrince'', the titular prince finally reveals himself to be a giant, serpentine monster in his OneWingedAngel form after being exposed to sulphur smoke. And when he succumbs to his injuries, he promptly turns back into his human form, which is in the form of its actor Ti Lung.
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* Played for laughs in ''Film/ScaryMovie4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped the by the alien invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, this time reverting him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a balding, middle-aged black man, before he gets vaporized altogether by a final blast.
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* Played for laughs in ''Film/ScaryMovie4'', ''Film/ScaryMovie 4'', where Music/MichaelJackson is zapped the by the alien invaders, and reverted to his ''Music/{{Bad}}'' appearance. Then he gets zapped again, this time reverting him to his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' incarnation. A third zap finally reveals his true form, namely a balding, middle-aged black man, before he gets vaporized altogether by a final blast.
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* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries:'':
** In "Catspaw", the two dying villains are revealed to be spindly blue aliens.
** "The Man Trap" has a shape-shifting alien that avoids capture by mimicking different members of the ship's crew. It finally returns to its true (hideous) form after [=McCoy=] is forced to put it down to save Kirk.
** In "Catspaw", the two dying villains are revealed to be spindly blue aliens.
** "The Man Trap" has a shape-shifting alien that avoids capture by mimicking different members of the ship's crew. It finally returns to its true (hideous) form after [=McCoy=] is forced to put it down to save Kirk.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries:'':
''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
**In "Catspaw", the two dying villains are revealed to be spindly blue aliens.
** "The"[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap" Trap]]" has a shape-shifting alien that avoids capture by mimicking different members of the ship's crew. It finally returns to its true (hideous) form after [=McCoy=] is forced to put it down to save Kirk.Kirk.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]", the two dying villains are revealed to be spindly blue aliens.
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** "The
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]", the two dying villains are revealed to be spindly blue aliens.
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* Non-death example: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Leela meets another cyclops, whom she almost marries. At their wedding though, it's revealed that he's a shape-shifter with four more weddings to attend that day with four other nearly extinct aliens (he points out how much it costs to rent a shape-shifting tuxedo even for a day). Leela and the other four brides beat the crap out of him, demanding to see his true form, until eventually he submits, revealing himself to be a short grasshopper-like creature.
* Inverted in an interesting way in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': in his two-part introduction episode, Clayface at one point disguises himself as Bruce Wayne to commit a few crimes. At the end of the story, when he goes through a ShapeshifterSwanSong in front of Batman and two police officers, he briefly turns into Bruce Wayne again—thus conveniently providing evidence that he'd framed Wayne.
-->'''Officer''': Mother o' mercy! He looks just like Bruce Wayne!
* Inverted in an interesting way in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': in his two-part introduction episode, Clayface at one point disguises himself as Bruce Wayne to commit a few crimes. At the end of the story, when he goes through a ShapeshifterSwanSong in front of Batman and two police officers, he briefly turns into Bruce Wayne again—thus conveniently providing evidence that he'd framed Wayne.
-->'''Officer''': Mother o' mercy! He looks just like Bruce Wayne!
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* Non-death example: In an the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", Leela meets another cyclops, whom she almost marries. At their wedding though, it's revealed that he's a shape-shifter shapeshifter with four more weddings to attend that day with four other nearly extinct aliens (he points out how much it costs to rent a shape-shifting tuxedo even for a day). Leela and the other four brides beat the crap out of him, demanding to see his true form, until eventually he submits, revealing himself to be a short grasshopper-like creature.
* Inverted in an interesting way in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': in his two-part introductionepisode, episode Feat of Clay", Clayface at one point disguises himself as Bruce Wayne to commit a few crimes. At the end In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE21FeatOfClayPart2 Feat of the story, Clay: Part 2]]", when he goes through a ShapeshifterSwanSong in front of Batman and two police officers, he briefly turns into Bruce Wayne again—thus conveniently providing evidence that he'd framed Wayne.
-->'''Officer''': -->'''Officer:''' Mother o' mercy! He looks just like Bruce Wayne!
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* Two examples occur in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "Watching and Dreaming":
** Following his defeat, Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his ''[[DoubleSubverted actual]]'' true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
** Following his defeat, Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his ''[[DoubleSubverted actual]]'' true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
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* Two examples occur in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', "Watching "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS3E3WatchingAndDreaming Watching and Dreaming":
Dreaming]]":
** Following his defeat, Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his''[[DoubleSubverted ''[[DoubleSubversion actual]]'' true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
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* In the ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' series, demons used to be humans, and will revert to their former human selves after they die. This causes problems for Guts from time to time, but especially during the Rosine arc, where the BigBad's pseudo-Elf minions were Apostle-spawns created from human children, leading the populace of the village she menaced to believe that Guts is a child murderer.
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* In ''Manga/SazanEyes'', a side-effect of Genma Hoshin (a technique used to imprison a demon in earth using earth's own energies to keep him trapped) is that it forces the victim to assume his/her real form as they become a SealedEvilInACan. For example, [[CameBackWrong Galga]], a revenant, was revealed to be a rotting head and spine with fleshy remains stuck in a breastplate, while [[TheDragon Benares]] is forced to abandon his human form and become a colossal, out-of-control dragon monster made of energy.
* In the''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' series, demons used to be humans, and will revert to their former human selves after they die. This causes problems for Guts from time to time, but especially during the Rosine arc, where the BigBad's pseudo-Elf minions were Apostle-spawns created from human children, leading the populace of the village she menaced to believe that Guts is a child murderer.
* In the
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 291. When Kaname Tousen is stabbed and mortally wounded while in Hollow form, he returns to his true form just before he dies.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 291. When Kaname Tousen is stabbed and mortally wounded while in Hollow form, he returns to his true form just before he dies.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Younger Toguro is eventually defeated by Yusuke in the final round of the Dark Tournament. As Toguro falls, his menacing 100% demon form ''shatters'', revealing his human self. When Toguro's spirit is being judged for the afterlife in the arc's epilogue, he looks human.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Younger Toguro is eventually defeated by Yusuke in the final round of the Dark Tournament. As Toguro falls, his menacing 100% demon form ''shatters'', revealing his human self. When Toguro's spirit is being judged for the afterlife in the arc's epilogue, he looks human.
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* In ''Manga/SazanEyes'', a side-effect of Genma Hoshin (a technique used to imprison a demon in earth using earth's own energies to keep him trapped) is that it forces the victim to assume his/her real form as they become a SealedEvilInACan. For example, [[CameBackWrong Galga]], a revenant, was revealed to be a rotting head and spine with fleshy remains stuck in a breastplate, while [[TheDragon Benares]] is forced to abandon his human form and become a colossal, out-of-control dragon monster made of energy.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Younger Toguro is eventually defeated by Yusuke in the final round of the Dark Tournament. As Toguro falls, his menacing 100% demon form ''shatters'', revealing his human self. When Toguro's spirit is being judged for the afterlife in the arc's epilogue, he looks human.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], the last episode of the classic series, Karra, a werecat cheetah woman, reverts to human form as she's dying.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] does it with a twist: 76-year-old Richard Lazarus is restored to the appearance of a 30-year-old, by an experimental technique that, due to botched DNA manipulation, causes him to mutate into a hideous walking creature. When the Doctor and Martha initially use the anti-aging machine to defeat Lazarus, Lazarus reverts to his human form, but he's merely unconscious, as he wakes up and kills the paramedics not too long after they cart him off. The Doctor, Martha, and Tish track Lazarus down to Southwark Cathedral (where he sheltered during the Blitz), and after a lengthy chase, Lazarus dies for real by falling from the alcoves while mutated. When he hits the ground and dies, he first reverts back to his youthful appearance, then reassumes his original elderly look.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]] does it with a twist: 76-year-old Richard Lazarus is restored to the appearance of a 30-year-old, by an experimental technique that, due to botched DNA manipulation, causes him to mutate into a hideous walking creature. When the Doctor and Martha initially use the anti-aging machine to defeat Lazarus, Lazarus reverts to his human form, but he's merely unconscious, as he wakes up and kills the paramedics not too long after they cart him off. The Doctor, Martha, and Tish track Lazarus down to Southwark Cathedral (where he sheltered during the Blitz), and after a lengthy chase, Lazarus dies for real by falling from the alcoves while mutated. When he hits the ground and dies, he first reverts back to his youthful appearance, then reassumes his original elderly look.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]", the last episode of the classic series, Karra, a werecat cheetah woman, reverts to human form as she's dying.
**[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment"]] Experiment]]" does it with a twist: 76-year-old Richard Lazarus is restored to the appearance of a 30-year-old, by an experimental technique that, due to botched DNA manipulation, causes him to mutate into a hideous walking creature. When the Doctor and Martha initially use the anti-aging machine to defeat Lazarus, Lazarus reverts to his human form, but he's merely unconscious, as he wakes up and kills the paramedics not too long after they cart him off. The Doctor, Martha, and Tish track Lazarus down to Southwark Cathedral (where he sheltered during the Blitz), and after a lengthy chase, Lazarus dies for real by falling from the alcoves while mutated. When he hits the ground and dies, he first reverts back to his youthful appearance, then reassumes his original elderly look.
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** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' module [=RM3=] ''Web of Illusion''. If {{PC}}s kill a weretiger they encounter, it will change back into its human form.
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** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' module [=RM3=] ''Web of Illusion''. If {{PC}}s [=PCs=] kill a weretiger they encounter, it will change back into its human form.
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** Module X2 ''TabletopGame/CastleAmber''. If the {{PC}}s kill the Beast of Averoigne it will turn back into its original form: Theophile, the Abbot of Perigon. While the people of Perigon will secretly believe that Theophile was the Beast, they will publicly deny it and ask the {{PC}} party to leave town.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The Black Enchantress changes a number of people into slavering monsters. If the {{PC}} heroes kill them, they change back into their human forms - still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The Black Enchantress changes a number of people into slavering monsters. If the {{PC}} heroes kill them, they change back into their human forms - still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
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** Module X2 ''TabletopGame/CastleAmber''. If the {{PC}}s [=PCs=] kill the Beast of Averoigne it will turn back into its original form: Theophile, the Abbot of Perigon. While the people of Perigon will secretly believe that Theophile was the Beast, they will publicly deny it and ask the {{PC}} [=PCs=] party to leave town.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The Black Enchantress changes a number of people into slavering monsters. If the{{PC}} [=PCs=] heroes kill them, they change back into their human forms - -- still dead. {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}es.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The Black Enchantress changes a number of people into slavering monsters. If the
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** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries to kill the {{PC}}s. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's body will return to normal, but he will be dead.
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** ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth'' adventure "The Warren". Philip Boucher is possessed by and changes into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Y'Golonac, then tries to kill the {{PC}}s.[=PCs=]. If they manage to do enough damage to defeat Y'Golonac, Boucher's body will return to normal, but he will be dead.
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* Two examples occur in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', ''Watching and Dreaming'':
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* Two examples occur in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', ''Watching "Watching and Dreaming'':Dreaming":
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* The Were-Rabbit in the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' [[WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit movie]]. To some extent, this is a ShoutOut to the classic turning-back scene in Universal Studios' ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' (and a similar scene in its predecessor, 1935's ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon'').
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* The Were-Rabbit in the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' [[WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit movie]].''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit''. To some extent, this is a ShoutOut to the classic turning-back scene in Universal Studios' ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' (and a similar scene in its predecessor, 1935's ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon'').
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*** A fairly accurate comparison here, but these fake Bowsers may be likened to King Boo's fake Bowser in ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion]]''.
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*** A fairly accurate comparison here, but these fake Bowsers may be likened to King Boo's fake Bowser in ''[[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion]]''.''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1''.
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* Two examples occur in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', ''Watching and Dreaming'':
** Following his defeat, Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his ''[[DoubleSubverted actual]]'' true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
** The last we see of the Titan in the In-Between Realm is not his almost-human sized "dad" form but a colossal demonic skeleton that resembles the Titan's corporeal body making up the Boiling Isles. It is hinted he was using some sort of {{Glamour}} to [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith better converse with Luz]].
** Following his defeat, Belos turns back into his Philip persona from when he was properly human, claiming he was cursed to act the way he did. Then the boiling rain comes, burning him and exposing his ''[[DoubleSubverted actual]]'' true form as he reverts to a slimy, skeletal mess.
** The last we see of the Titan in the In-Between Realm is not his almost-human sized "dad" form but a colossal demonic skeleton that resembles the Titan's corporeal body making up the Boiling Isles. It is hinted he was using some sort of {{Glamour}} to [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith better converse with Luz]].
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* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': When painted with a Halloween Paint Brush, a Lupe would turn into [[https://images.neopets.com/pets//lupe_halloween_baby.gif a hulking Werelupe]]. However, when a Halloween Lupe had their HP reduced to 0, or came down with an illness, they [[https://images.neopets.com/pets/beaten/lupe_halloween_baby.gif reverted to a bipedal orange Lupe]] until healed. This stopped being possible after the introduction of customization, however.
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** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. The problem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift into normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, they revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
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** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', the Garou normally revert to their base form when rendered unconscious, as would their body parts if mutilated. The problem is that some are ''born'' in their 9-foot-tall war form and must shapeshift into normal humans or wolves. Sure enough, they revert back to the war form whenever they fall asleep. Or when they die. There's a Rite that that can be used on them when they are dying or freshly dead to force the body to assume a less Masquerade-breaking form. An expensive Merit gives player characters exceptional control over shapeshifting, including the form they take when knocked out. Storytellers are prone to disallowing it, however.
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'''BEWARE: As this is a DeathTrope, unmarked spoilers follow, both for deaths ''and'' possible secret identities. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!'''
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* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline [[MindScrew Shapeshifter Identity Crisis]] earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as the closest thing he has to [[WorthyOpponent a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline [[MindScrew Shapeshifter Identity Crisis]] ShapeshifterIdentityCrisis earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BittersweetEnding as [[WorthyOpponent the closest thing he has to [[WorthyOpponent a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline [[MindScrew Shape Shifter Identity Crisis]] earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BitterSweetEnding as the closest thing he has to [[WorthyOpponent a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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* The main character, Horza, in the Ian M. Banks novel "Consider Phlebas" reverts to his true form after his death (but not when unconscious, that would be terrible for a member of a race of shape shifting spies and infiltrators). Considering his borderline [[MindScrew Shape Shifter Shapeshifter Identity Crisis]] earlier on, it's not clear if this dead form is actually the face of the real Horza (assuming such a person even existed) or if he had reverted to whoever he was originally underneath all the infiltration training and psychological conditioning. The whole thing is presented as a BitterSweetEnding BittersweetEnding as the closest thing he has to [[WorthyOpponent a friend]] looks down on his body and wonders who he really was in the end...
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** When NamTar is injected with the genetic reversal serum he [[spoiler:reverts back to his original primitive ratlike form]].
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** When NamTar [=NamTar=] is injected with the genetic reversal serum he [[spoiler:reverts back to his original primitive ratlike form]].
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* In ''Webcomic/BlondeSunrise'' lycans return to their original wolf form when killed.
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* In ''Webcomic/BlondeSunrise'' lycans return to their original wolf form when killed.
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* In ''Webcomic/BlondeSunrise'' lycans return to ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': When a Dicer gets heavily injured or dies, all their original wolf physical appearance enchantments get undone.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a non-fatal example: Not-Tengu [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-08-14 reverts]] to his human formwhen killed. upon being knocked out.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a non-fatal example: Not-Tengu [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-08-14 reverts]] to his human form
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a non-fatal example: Not-Tengu [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-08-14 reverts]] to his human form upon being knocked out.
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** ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' follows up on this (storyline-wise, while actually this game was released a few months before ''X8'') with the [[BigBad final boss]], [[TreacherousAdvisor Colonel]] [[SdrawkcabAlias Redips]]. It's heavily implied between the lines that Redips was the product of [[ChekhovsBoomerang the same copy chip research that created the New Generation Reploids,]] illegally resumed, enabling him to infiltrate the command team he sent to Giga City via the identity and form of [[DeathDealer Spider]]. By the end of the game, he's grabbed the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Supra-force Metal]], transformed into a giant form called [[OneWingedAngel Great Redips]] (''God'' Redips in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}), and declared himself [[AGodAmI the ruler of the universe]]. He goes back to his regular [[ColonelBadass Colonel]][=/=][[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Signas]][=/=][[StreetFighter M. Bison]] {{Expy}} form when he is FINALLY killed off in the end.
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** ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' follows up on this (storyline-wise, while actually this game was released a few months before ''X8'') with the [[BigBad final boss]], [[TreacherousAdvisor Colonel]] [[SdrawkcabAlias Redips]]. It's heavily implied between the lines that Redips was the product of [[ChekhovsBoomerang the same copy chip research that created the New Generation Reploids,]] illegally resumed, enabling him to infiltrate the command team he sent to Giga City via the identity and form of [[DeathDealer Spider]]. By the end of the game, he's grabbed the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Supra-force Metal]], transformed into a giant form called [[OneWingedAngel Great Redips]] (''God'' Redips in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}), and declared himself [[AGodAmI the ruler of the universe]]. He goes back to his regular [[ColonelBadass Colonel]][=/=][[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Signas]][=/=][[StreetFighter Signas]][=/=][[Franchise/StreetFighter M. Bison]] {{Expy}} form when he is FINALLY killed off in the end.
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This started with [[WolfMan werewolves]]; as monsters go, they tend to be... [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent "different"]]. One of their more peculiar traits is that they have NoOntologicalInertia, because upon death they inevitably revert back to their "true" human form. Though similar to the ShapeshifterSwanSong (which usually ends in This Was His True Form), this is not a case of a SuperPowerMeltdown, but an example of NoOntologicalInertia regarding their [[CursedWithAwesome "curse"]]. Whatever innate [[MagicAndPowers power]] or [[TheVirus curse]] is capable of using LegoGenetics and ShapeshifterBaggage to add and remove a few hundred kilograms of fur, muscle, and teeth to or from an InnocentBystander in a few moments, it apparently has no more lasting effect than a shot of espresso. Well, at least the espresso doesn't induce a killing frenzy -- [[CaffeineBulletTime usually]]. This is usually used to show that the (sometimes) only way to cure a Werewolf is to kill them.
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This started with [[WolfMan werewolves]]; as monsters go, they tend to be... [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent "different"]]. One of their more peculiar traits is that they have NoOntologicalInertia, because upon death they inevitably revert back to their "true" human form. Though similar to the ShapeshifterSwanSong (which usually ends in This Was His True Form), this is not a case of a SuperPowerMeltdown, but an example of NoOntologicalInertia regarding their [[CursedWithAwesome "curse"]]. Whatever innate [[MagicAndPowers power]] or [[TheVirus curse]] is capable of using LegoGenetics and ShapeshifterBaggage to add and remove a few hundred kilograms of fur, muscle, and teeth to or from an InnocentBystander in a few moments, it apparently has no more lasting effect than a shot of espresso. Well, at least the espresso doesn't induce a killing frenzy -- [[CaffeineBulletTime usually]].usually. This is usually used to show that the (sometimes) only way to cure a Werewolf is to kill them.
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* Wilfre in ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife''.
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