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** The Saiyans have their iconic Super Saiyan form and, before that, the whole Oozaru thing. In the Saiyan sag,a Vegeta has a move that allows him to go Oozaru by creating a ball of energy that looks like the full moon -- he uses this move and turns Oozaru. Amazingly, he's still able to speak while being in this form, which was explained as him being trained to have some control over the form (as opposed to the only other Oozaru appearing being entirely untrained kids - Goku and Gohan).

** Frieza's initial form is small and rather weedy looking, but has proved to be extremely powerful in previous confrontations. He transforms into a much taller version of himself, then an even larger, monstrous beast with an elongated head and spikes on its back. However, his much-hyped final form turns out to be just slightly taller than his first form, but more sleek and aerodynamic, effectively crossing the BishonenLine. At first he is mocked for this, but soon proves that the extra speed and strength far outweighs what he lacks in height. And ''then'' these are followed by a more muscular form of the same, and after losing much of his body after his defeat on Namek and coming to Earth for revenge, a cyborg form. When he returns for ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', he dumps the cyborg form in favor of a Golden SuperMode. [[spoiler:And in the ''Super'' manga, through training for 10 days in an Hyperbolic Time Chamber), he manages to attain the even stronger SuperMode Black Frieza.]]

* Many monsters from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' have versions of this, including Vaccine Man, Carnage Kabuto, the Deep Sea King, Boros, and Garou. ([[spoiler:Particularly in the manga, Garou gets an extra form thanks to God, which mixes this with BishonenLine as it's his humanoid monster form, but featureless and filled by stars, galaxies and nebulas]]). Not that any of them ([[spoiler:except Garou's God-granted form, for a while]]) ever helped against Saitama.

** [[TheMole Dennis]] in ''Anime/YugiohArcV'' goes through a metaphorical case via his deck and ace monster. He starts out with the Entermages, of which most resemble a hybrid of {{Magical Clown}}s and {{Stage Magician}}s, as his deck's archetype with his ace being the flashy and silly Entermage Trapeze Magician. During his second duel against Kurosaki who reveals Dennis' true colors as a spy from Academia as he destroys Trapeze Magician, Dennis stops using Entermages entirely, and switches over to the Antique Gears used by the majority of Academia's forces. [[IAmNotLeftHanded He also shows his true ace card]]: the gargantuan and abominable MechanicalMonster Antique Gear Chaos Giant.

** The Saiyans have their iconic Super Saiyan form and, before that, the whole Oozaru thing. In an episode of the Saiyan saga Vegeta has a move that allows him to go Oozaru by creating a ball of energy that looks like the full moon -- he uses this move and turns Oozaru. Amazingly he's still able to speak while being in this form, which was explained as him being trained to have some control over the form (as opposed to the only other Oozaru appearing being entirely untrained kids - Goku and Gohan).

** More recently, the Vandenreich have shown themselves able to use [[spoiler: a more advanced form of Ishida's One-Winged Angel Form, with two wings and without the drawbacks.]]

* Many monsters from ''Anime/OnePunchMan'' have versions of this, including Vaccine Man, Carnage Kabuto, the Deep Sea King, Boros, and Garou. ([[spoiler:Particularly in the manga, Garou gets an extra form thanks to God, which mixes this with BishonenLine as it's his humanoid monster form, but featureless and filled by stars, galaxies and nebulas]]). Not that any of them ([[spoiler:except Garou's God-granted form, for a while]]) ever helped against Saitama.

* In the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda Akira Himekawa manga]], Agahnim forcibly transforms Ghanti into the three-headed, fire-and-ice-breathing turtle/dragon Trinexx, which Link doesn't find out until after he's mortally wounded her.

* A subversion takes place in the final episodes of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]]. In the middle of his battle with Edward, Envy finally reveals his true form. [[spoiler:He actually looks a great deal like Alphonse... [[IAmYourFather his younger brother...]] and uses the shock to kill Edward. Don't worry, Ed gets better.]] A few minutes later, [[spoiler:he plays the trope straight and turns into a giant snake (well, a serpentine dragon-thing at least) as he crosses the gate to get at Hohenheim. He gets stuck in this form when he reaches our world, where alchemy doesn't work.]]
** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Gluttony is seen [[spoiler:roving about the sewers as a giant, monstrous version of his typically oafish body.]]

** Ichigo's bankai would also count as a heroic example of this along with [[spoiler: the Final Getsuga Tenshō that he used to defeat Aizen.]]

** Ulquiorra Cifer [[spoiler: actually grows gigantic wings during his two releases. In fact, his final fight with Ichigo even ends with one of his wings missing, although he's really more of a devil than an angel.]]
** [[spoiler: Yammy Llargo, who grows gigantic, and reveals that his number is not 10, but 0.]]
** [[spoiler: Kaname Tousen, who becomes a huge bug creature, giving him sight (never had sight), then gets owned then appears to die in the span of 5 chapters.]]

** Frieza's initial form is small and rather weedy looking, but has proved to be extremely powerful in previous confrontations. He transforms into a much taller version of himself, then an even larger, monstrous beast with an elongated head and spikes on its back. However his much-hyped final form turns out to be just slightly taller than his first form, but more sleek and aerodynamic, effectively crossing the BishonenLine. At first he is mocked for this, but soon proves that the extra speed and strength far outweighs what he lacks in height. And ''then'' these are followed by a more muscular form of the same, and after losing much of his body after his defeat on Namek and coming to Earth for revenge, a cyborg form. When he returns for ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', he dumps the cyborg form in favor of a Golden SuperMode.
** His older brother Cooler, the villain of the movie ''Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge'', starts the battle in the equivalent of Freeza's final form (but taller and more muscular), but eventually, to Goku's shock, reveals that he discovered a ''fifth'' form beyond it, which he transforms into, becoming larger, stronger, and far more horrific.

** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' [[spoiler:[[BigBadDuumvirate Goku Black and Future Zamasu]] (who are alternate timeline versions of the same fallen Kai) ultimately decide to take the heroes seriously after Zamasu nearly gets [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] by the Evil Containment Wave. They proceed to perform [[FusionDance Potara Fusion]] into Merged Zamasu, who largely resembles a taller, more imposing, white haired Super Saiyan version of Zamasu with some of Goku's facial features and is ''far'' stronger than either of his components]].
* In ''Manga/DGrayMan'' we get a good example of this when Tyki Mikk loses control of his Noah. [[spoiler:He turns into an armored fiend with a good dozen tentacles coming from his back and a taste for blood.]]

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has this a fair bit. A couple of the purer "villain" forms of the transformation involved Gaara's grotesque mutation into his demonic Shukaku form, and Orochimaru's curse seal's second stage, which turns the bearer into a monstrous version of their former selves: various members of the Sound Five grow horns, spikes, deformed facial features, an extra eye, and a tail from using it(of course, some fans found Tayuya's 2nd form to be hot), and FaceHeelTurn Sasuke actually grows hand-like wings.

** All the Akatsuki have a OneWingedAngel form in one way or another. Kakuzu's [[CombatTentacles tentacle mass thing]], Hidan's Grim Reaper form, Kisame's Samehada-Fusion form, Itachi and Sasuke's [[PowerArmor Susano'o]], Sasori's real body, Konan and her paper angel form, Pain already consists of ''six remotely controlled zombies''; his final revealed form was a creepy wasted body impaled by many chakra antennae. Deidara did the thing mentioned in the trope description of becoming a living bomb... [[BigBad Tobi]] is the only member who does not have this (Well, that is, before he became the Jinchuuriki of the Ten-Tails).

** As mentioned above Sasuke manifested his Susanoo after evolving his Sharingan into the Mangekyou Sharingan, however during his final fight with Naruto, he was able to draw and absorb chakra from the Tailed Beast and transforms his Perfect Susanoo into his incredibly powerful Indra Susanoo. This unique form of Sasuke’s Susanoo was powerful enough to battle of Naruto’s Kurama Avatar shadow clones and slightly overpower them, it was only matched by Naruto’s Asura Kurama Mode.

** A few non-Zoans also manage to pull this off. [[PsychoElectro Eneru]] and Gecko Moria both go OneWingedAngel shortly before being defeated, with the former turning into a giant thunder god and the latter absorbing a thousand shadows to become a massive, bulky version of himself. Magellan uses Hell's Judgement to sit himself in a giant demonic skeleton made of poison that threatened to destroy the entire building he was in (this one was actually unbeatable, effectively being an AdvancingWallOfDoom). After the timeskip, Luffy joins in as well with his Gear Fourth form that grants him massive increase in power alongside weirdly distorting his body proportions.

* An ongoing theme in ''Manga/SoulEater'', where there are living beings that can transform into weapons, retaining human form to interact with others and maneuver of their own will. They can also temporarily transform into an amplified weapon form by merging their souls with their Meisters. Moreover, one of the major villains of the series, ([[spoiler:the Kishin himself]]), assumes a large, grotesque form during the last battle of the anime.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': The Gourmet Hunters have their Appetite Demons which they can use in battle against Beasts and other Gourmet Hunters, sometimes they can materialize out of their host and some can transform in their Appetite Demons such as Acacia who ate his own Appetite Demon Neo and became a HumanoidAbomination.

** [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Etherious]] normally move about in "sealed" forms that look human enough, but possess "Etherious Forms" that revert them to their true appearances that always makes them look far more monstrous. This is most noticeable with Tempester post-[[ResurrectiveImmortality first death]] (as he was reformatted into a DarkSkinnedBlonde in his base that transforms into a hulking lion BeastMan), Jackal (who looks like a handsome LittleBitBeastly dog-man that transforms into a slavering werewolf), and Mard Geer (who's a LongHairedPrettyBoy with no demonic traits whatsoever that transforms into a winged black-armored demon).

** Virtually anyone with a Zoan fruit will have this to some degree, though only Rob Lucci and Kaku try fighting without their fruit powers. Notable example is Tony Tony Chopper as he ''didn't'' get one of those by default with his fruit, as all it did was allow him to go from a normal deer to a deer-human hybrid. However he used his medical knowledge to create a pill that gave him extra forms, including a building-sized Monster Point. Initially it was slightly crippled by being uncontrollable, but after the timeskip he figured out how to control it and overall use it much easier. Another very impressive Zoan case is Sengoku the Buddha, who can become giant golden Buddha statue with ability to fire energy blasts from his palms.
** A few non-Zoans also manage to pull this off. [[PsychoElectro Eneru]] and Gecko Moria both go OneWingedAngel shortly before being defeated, with the former turning into a giant thunder god and the latter absorbing a thousand shadows to become a giant four-legged shadow [[BuffySpeak demon...lizard...thing]]. Magellan when he uses Hell's Judgement to sit himself in a giant demonic skeleton of corruption that threatened to destroy the entire building he was in (this one was actually unbeatable, effectively being an AdvancingWallOfDoom). After the timeskip, Luffy joins in as well with Gear Fourth form that grants him massive increase in power alongside weirdly distorting his body proportions.

* Many monsters from ''Anime/OnePunchMan'' have versions of this, including Vaccine Man, Carnage Kabuto, the Deep Sea King, Boros, and Garou. Not that any of them ever helped against Saitama.

* An ongoing theme in ''Manga/SoulEater'', where there are living beings that can transform into weapons, retaining human form to interact with others and maneuver of their own will. They can also temporarily transform into an amplified weapon form by merging their souls with their Technician. Moreover, one of the major villains of the series ([[spoiler:The Demon God himself]]) assumes a large, grotesque form during the last battle of the anime.
** Practically a recurring joke with Arachne's ancient second-in-command, Mosquito. Every time the techs are about to beat him, he invariably reverts to stronger and stronger (younger) versions of himself, proclaiming each to be when he was at his "physical peak". ([[spoiler:He pulls a BishonenLine when he fights Kid. It's later subverted when he fights Noah. He goes into what he says is his most powerful form ever, and gets killed in about 3 seconds.]])

* Happens during the final fight against Jegal in ''Anime/TheGodOfHighSchool'' when he absorbs the power of [[{{Macguffin}} the Key]] and obtains the power of the gods, taking on a form vaguely resembling Sephiroth's (except with two wings this time).

* Melascula of the Ten Commandments in ''{{Anime/The Seven Deadly Sins}}'' can turn into a massive snake.

** As mentioned above Sasuke manifested his Susanoo after evolving his Sharingan into the Mangekyou Sharingan, however during his final fight with Naruto, he was able to draw power from the Tailed Beast and transforms his Perfect Susanoo into his incredibly powerful Indra Susanoo. This unique form of Sasuke’s Susanoo was powerful enough to battle of Naruto’s Kurama Avatar shadow clones and slightly overpower them, it was only matched by Naruto’s Asura Kurama mode.

** All the Akatsuki have a OneWingedAngel form in one way or another. Kakuzu's [[CombatTentacles tentacle mass thing]], Hidan's Grim Reaper form, Kisame's Samehada-Fusion form, Itachi and Sasuke's [[PowerArmor Susano'o]], Sasori's real body, Konan and her paper angel form, Pain already consists of ''six remotely controlled zombies''; his final revealed form was a creepy wasted body impaled by many chakra antennae. Deidara did the thing mentioned in the trope description of becoming a living bomb... [[BigBad Tobi]] is the only who does not have this (Well, that is, before he became the Jinchuuriki of the Ten-Tails).

** Even a human has gotten in on it. Kurata, the BigBad of ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' ultimately fuses with the Demon Lord Digimon Belphemon, taking direct control of it, his face appearing on its chest. Belphemon itself also counts, as this triggers its mode change from its cute Sleep Mode to its {{Kaiju}}-like Rage Mode.

* A few examples in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Virtually anyone with a Zoan fruit will have this to some degree, though only Rob Lucci and Kaku try fighting without their fruit powers. Most notable among these thus far is Tony Tony Chopper of the Straw Hats; whenever he transforms into his Monster Point form, it means trouble for whoever he's fighting. Especially now that, [[spoiler:after the TimeSkip, he can control its power]].
** Also, [[PsychoElectro Eneru]] and Gecko Moria both go OneWingedAngel shortly before being defeated, with the former turning into a giant thunder god and the latter absorbing a thousand shadows to become a giant four-legged shadow [[BuffySpeak demon...lizard...thing.]] Magellan when he uses Hell's Judgement to sit himself in a giant demonic skeleton of corruption that threatened to destroy the entire building he was in (this one was actually unbeatable, effectively being an AdvancingWallOfDoom), and Sengoku the Buddha, who proves his moniker by becoming a ''giant golden Buddha statue with energy blasts from his palms''.

** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Gluttony is seen [[spoiler: roving about the sewers as a giant, monstrous version of his typically oafish body.]]

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', during the final battle of ''Stone Ocean'', [[BigBad Pucci]]' s Stand [[FusionDance fuses with the Green Baby]] and transforms into [[GravityMaster C-Moon]], and later evolves again into its final form: [[PhysicalGod Made In Heaven]].

* A few examples in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Virtually anyone with a Zoan fruit will have this to some degree, though only Rob Lucci and Kaku try fighting without their fruit powers. Most notable among these thus far is Tony Tony Chopper of the Straw Hats; whenever he transforms into his Monster Point form, it means trouble for whoever he's fighting. Especially now that[[spoiler:, after the TimeSkip, he can control its power]].

* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Yusuke fights numerous demons, many of them start out fighting in human form, and then when they are losing they shift to demon form in order to increase their fighting power. Oddly enough, considering how violent demons are, many demons seem to prefer wandering around in human form even when there's no need to hide what they are. %%(Hiei is a good example of this, since even when fighting the Saint Beasts in an all-demon town he says in his mostly-human form).
%%** That ''is'' his true form. That's his body, it's what he looks like. He added the third eye through surgery. Since his behavior during his introduction was so out of line with [[EnsembleDarkhorse the rest of his characterization]], people have mostly concluded that stupid zombie-making sword was messing with his head, and that he normally knows better than to use the Jagan to cover himself with eyeballs, which may come with a power boost but means having weak spots ''absolutely everywhere''. He's primarily a swordsman, after all.
** In an amusing and well-deserved subversion/ClippedWingAngel, Dr. Ichigaki [[spoiler:gives himself an injection, transforming into a gigantic monster with extendy-claws. A pissed-off Yusuke annihilates Ichigaki in no time flat.]]

** Played even straight in ''Anime/Pokemon4Ever'' where just right after Celebi is corrupted by the Iron-Masked Maurauder, it actually transforms into a giant monster made from twigs and leaves which for some reason resembled a Darkrai.
* Kind of a weird example in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Charlotte has what can be best described a giant worm-clown thing as a tongue, and it only shows up after she's been beaten on for a bit [[spoiler:and promptly ''[[HeroKiller beheads]]'' [[HeroKiller Mami]]]]. Oh, and [[spoiler: witches are OneWingedAngel forms of {{Magical Girl}}s]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' may seem too casual an example to list here as Pokémon evolve all the time, but when an important character's Pokémon evolves to their final form right before (or even sometimes in the middle of) a huge battle in the anime, this Trope is definitely played straight.

* Mazoku generals Drum and Guitar from ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' normally appear in relatively small and goofy-looking (although still extremely dangerous) forms, to conserve their finite amount of magical power/lifeforce. When pushed, they can transform into a city-sized, many-headed dragon and an horrific cerberus, respectively. Vocal, however hard this is to believe, after witnessing his CrazyAwesome acts of monstrosity is also sealed in a form that only utilizes 1/10th of his maximum power, however, in a subversion, his true form is a pretty boy version of him [[spoiler: and exhausts most of his remaining magic in half a minute, causing SuperpowerMeltdown]].

* [[spoiler: Hokuto]] does this near the end of the first season of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' (manga version), after he [[spoiler: tears off his holy lock that keeps him from losing his humanity]].

** All the Akatsuki have a OneWingedAngel form in one way or another. Kakuzu's [[CombatTentacles tentacle mass thing]], Hidan's Grim Reaper form, Kisame's Samehada-Fusion form, Itachi and Sasuke's [[PowerArmor Susano'o]], Sasori's real body, Konan and her paper angel form, Pain already consists of ''six remotely controlled zombies''; his final revealed form was a creepy wasted body impaled by many chakra antennae. Deidara did the thing mentioned in the trope description of becoming a living bomb... [[BigBad Tobi]] the only who do not have this (Well, that is, before he became Jinchuuriki Ten-Tails).

* In ''Manga/GreenWorldz'', everyone got freaked out when the [[NotQuiteDead supposedly dead]] female Hybrid human rapidly [[FromASingleCell regrow her body out from a small flesh]] and emerged out [[FullFrontalAssault naked with a creppy bug-like looking head]]. She then commented that this is why she didn't want to get serious and then proceeded to unleash powerful attacks that nearly took out everyone around her. Even badass Iwatobi had a hard tme fighting her in [[ForbiddenChekhovsGun his original fighting capability]].

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' has the Six Funeral Wreaths, a villain group who each have [[spoiler: their box weapons embedded in their bodies. Their ultimate ability is to activate said weapons, which turns them into powerful half-animal beings.]]
** And three of them [[spoiler: end up getting tricked into activating their transformation just so their boss can absorb their power, in order to fuel HIS one-winged angel transformation.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. Subverted later on; after Negi single-handedly wipes out a gang of bounty hunters, the leader starts muttering about revealing his true form. Negi gives him a [[DeathGlare mean look]], and he goes back to cowering on the ground.
** Used again when four of Fate's minions all [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c260/3.html revealed more powerful forms]] to fight Jack Rakan. [[spoiler: Not that it helped any.]]
** This also happens to Negi [[spoiler:when Kurt Godel revealed who was responsible for the attack on his village, and Negi's ensuing [[UnstoppableRage uncontrollable rage]] caused his [[BlackMagic Magia Erebea]] to run rampant and transform him into a monstrous black daemon whose only thought patterns are "'''[[IllKillYou KILL]]'''". He later has to go through TrainingFromHell so that he can actually ''control'' the power, rather than going into a [[UnstoppableRage blind rage]]. Its implied that "control" here means "it's turned on all the time" as a downside.]]
** [[spoiler: [[EvilTwin Poyo Rainyday]] does this in Chapter 299. In response, thehalf-demon ''Mana'' unveils her own version of OneWingedAngel.]]