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* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': Mild-mannered doctor transforms into monstrous creature whenever he gets angry.

* GenderBender - Male to female is most common (FirstLawOfGenderbending at work), but female to male or either to hermaphrodite are not unknown. This does not include characters who are UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} or {{Crossdresser}}s, though they may also appear.
* [[{{Animorphism}} Animal Transformation]] - Human to either anthropomorphic ([[FurryComic furry]] or [[LittleBitBeastly kemonomimi]]) or "normal" animal, or vice versa.
* Species Transformation - Human to alien or magical being, and vice versa.
* Age Change - Both OvernightAgeUp and FountainOfYouth.

* Mental Change - The character becomes NotHimself.
* Mind Swap - Can be any of these, but applied to two characters at once, sticking them with each other's bodies in a FreakyFridayFlip plot.

* Cultural/Ethnicity Change - BlackLikeMe, WhiteLikeMe and so forth. Relatively rare, possibly because RaceTropes are likely to trigger some readers' BerserkButton, and thus it can be easier to deal with them through FantasticRacism if the author is interested in approaching those subjects.

* ''Anime/NanakaSixSeventeen'': The latter is her physical age, the former the one her mind changes to.

* ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'', the ComicBookAdaptation of the novel series, manages to show the BodyHorror aspect of the morphing process very well.

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* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is probably the most successful example by far. Many characters fell into the magical springs at Jusenkyo, which change them into whatever was drowned in their particular spring when doused with cold water; hot water reverses the change.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' went through several transformations during the Silver Age, frequently under the influence of Red Kryptonite. Here's only a ''small selection'' of his many transformations: [[LiteralSplitPersonality split into two people]], given the head of an ant, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever turned into a non-superpowered giant]], [[FountainOfYouth turned into an infant with an adult mind]].

* ''Webcomic/Endtown'': Planet is reduced to a dustbowl and 99% of the human race dies. The survivors are made up of transformees into ravening monsters, transformees into {{FunnyAnimal}} anthros, or intact humans who are genocidally hunting down the first two groups, and a few hidden enclaves with human/anthro populations.

* ''Webcomic/Endtown'': Planet is reduced to a dustbowl and 99% of the human race dies. The survivors are made up of transformees into ravening monsters, transformees into ([[FunnyAnimal]]) anthros, or intact humans who are genocidally hunting down the first two groups, and a few hidden enclaves with human/anthro populations.

* ''Webcomic/Endtown'': Planet is reduced to a dustbowl and 99% of the human race dies. The survivors are made up of transformees into ravening monsters, transformees into [[FunnyAnimal]] anthros, or intact humans who are genocidally hunting down the first two groups, and a few hidden enclaves with human/anthro populations.

* ''Webcomic/Endtown'': Planet is reduced to a dustbowl and 99% of the human race dies. The survivors are made up of transformees into ravening monsters, transformees into Funny Animals, or intact humans who are genocidally hunting down the first two groups, and a few hidden enclaves with human/anthro populations.

* ''Webcomic/Endtown'': Planet is reduced to a dustbowl and 99% of the human race dies. The survivors are made up of transformees into ravening monsters, transformees into Funny Animals, or intact humans who are genocidally hunting down the first two groups.

* ''Webcomic/WelcomeToChastity'' : A college freshman moves into a town where all the women have huge breasts. Not long after she starts growing a huge pair herself.

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfSuperstar'': An average everywoman is turn into a super buxom heroine and decides to new powers for good.

* ''Webcomic/TraderLydia'': a comic about the dark Gnome Lydia who sets her shop up in a Lousiana Bayou, Hilarity ensues. Two transformations occur early on in the comic but the the majority of the humor comes from the absurdity of the situation

* GenderBender - Male to female is most common (FirstLawOfGenderbending at work), but female to male or either to hermaphrodite are not unknown. This does not include characters who are {{Transgender}} or {{Crossdresser}}s, though they may also appear.

* ''Webcomic/TheGoodWitch'' begins with the former holder of the title passing it on to a [[{{Transgender}} transgirl]] named Angel, fulfilling her wish to be a cisgender girl (and retconning everyone's memory that this had always been the case.) As the Good Witch, Angel has amazing transformation powers...that she's severely abusing.

* ''Manga/CuteyHoney}}'': The main character is a shape-shifting female android with dozens of alternate forms, each with its own special abilities and powers.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is the current reigning Animorphism champion. A family's members are cursed to turn into the animals of the zodiac when hugged.

* There have literally been ''dozens'' (if not hundreds) of manga titles (mostly hentai) using gender swaps as the central dramatic (and pornographic) device. So many of them have been based on a FreakyFridayFlip caused by two characters either banging heads or falling down the stairs together that these two plot devices have become recognizable (and lampshaded) manga tropes in their own right. Most of these titles were never translated or exported to the west, but a more or less representative selection can be found [[http://tgmanga.free.fr/index2.htm here]].

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* ''[[http://utc.catomix.com/ Urgent Transformation Crisis]]'' is surprisingly serious about its subject matter. The transformations are usually one-way, less fan-servicey than normal, and the implications are taken far more seriously than in other strips of this nature. Hard-to-reverse transformation with life-changing effects ''would'' be a crisis, after all.
* ''Webcomic/TheWotch''. The title character and most other magic users in the strip tend to rely heavily on transformation spells. Interestingly, due to the nature of her powers, Anne is unable to be a GenderBender herself. But she and her friends have undergone many transformations, some voluntarily. A number of supporting characters are permanently genderbent, with a special mention going to Mingmei, who has a trifecta of GenderBender, FountainOfYouth and AsianLikeMe. She used to have NotHimself as well, but her personality seems to have reintegrated. There are also a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], a werecat , a couple who swap bodies every so often as a RunningGag (and, amusingly enough, ''she'' enjoys it and wants to keep it up), and a formerly-human centaur, just in case the gender games weren't enough.

* ''{{Manga/Maomarimo}}'' Boy takes his twin sister's place as the sacrificial virgin at their village festival and gets turned into a girl for his trouble.

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* Similar to Captain Marvel above, ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld ages up to an adult woman from a 12-year-old girl when she visits her home dimension, due to [[YearInsideHourOutside time moving at different rates]] in the two universes.
* ''The Fly's'' original incarnation was basically a silver age version of Captain Marvel, a preadolescent boy who can transform at will into an adult superhero; however, the very first story played with the concept by means of [[spoiler:a {{Cliffhanger}} ending where he didn't know how to change back; the very next story (which was part of the same issue) resolved this, however.]]
* ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'': Mild-mannered doctor transforms into monstrous creature whenever he gets angry.

* ComicBook/JimmyOlsen during the Silver Age couldn't go more than an issue or two without undergoing some bizarre transformation or mutation. He experienced just about every category of transformation on the list ''except'' for GenderBender... and [[WholesomeCrossdresser he kinda-sorta made up for that omission on his own]].
* ComicBook/{{Superboy}} actually ''was'' on the receiving end of a Silver Age GenderBender once (among other transformations). As Comicbook/{{Superman}}, he went through quite even more transformations during the Silver Age, frequently under the influence of Red Kryptonite. Here's only a ''small selection'' of his many transformations: [[LiteralSplitPersonality split into two people]], given the head of an ant, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever turned into a non-superpowered giant]], [[FountainOfYouth turned into an infant with an adult mind]].
* Originally, Marvel's ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' was mild-mannered disabled Dr. Donald Blake, who found the hammer Mjollnir and used it to turn himself into the Norse God of Thunder. (Said hammer appeared as an innocuous walking stick whenever Dr. Blake turned back.) Later, this was {{Retcon}}ned into Blake ''always having been'' Thor, but with his memory erased while he walked the Earth.

* ''Webcomic/CrimsonFlag'', starting at [[http://crimsonflagcomic.com/comic.php?comicID=158 comic #158]] many of the PettingZooPeople major characters (the queen, two of the protagonists, and the main villain up to that point...) get transformed into more realistic foxes, can't even speak without magic and a hundred comics later they're still stuck like that. And [[http://crimsonflagcomic.com/comic.php?comicID=63 earlier]] was a character who could voluntarily transform into a dragon or a three-eyed feral fox.