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2	* The nature of the transformation. Latex creatures can fuse together to form bodies with multiple heads and being assimilated by them will result in DeathOfPersonality. Some of them can even assimilate with ''others'' to form various {{Mix And Match Critter}}s while others can do so ''without a change in mass''. This means that a single transfur could have assimilated ''several'' humans by the time you see it.
3	* The {{Objectshifting}} mimic-like creatures are a supply of ParanoiaFuel not seen since VideoGame/{{Prey\|2017}}. Any inanimate objects from safety cones, to plants, to your ''own savepoints'' could actually be a latex beast lying in wait for you to get close [[YouAreAlreadyDead and pounce]] when you least expect it.
4	* The many, ''many'', ''many'' [[TheManyDeathsOfYou ways]] Colin gets assimilated. Ranging from simply walking over something on the floor to reveal that even the ''pants'' he wears can actually turn him into one of the many barely-sentient [[BlobMonster latex creatures]].
5	** Even worse, depending on what he gets assimilated by, his final fate ranges from having his mind ''shattered into obedience'' by the local HiveMind to straight up getting his biomass consumed by the predator to enhance its current body or form a new one.
6	** Some of the animal latex beasts will not even bother infecting their host to reproduce, and just assimilate their human prey inside them. As showcased in some of the [[HaveANiceDeath game over dialogues]] or bad endings, Colin doesn't lose his sentience in these instances, but is [[CagedInsideAMonster unable to ever escape]] or exert his will over the monster he's now been incorporated into. Since the latex beast needs a host to become TheAgeless by circumventing its regeneration cycle, the poor young man has now shared the same doom of so other many humans - [[AndIMustScream he's trapped forever]] inside the creature he's become a part of.
7	*** Colin's desperate [[YouAreAlreadyDead fight to survive]] when a monster is engulfing and swallowing him up. Ranging from several squirrel-like critters happily clinging onto him as he frantically tries in vain to pull them off his changing body, to befalling to Behemoth. In the latter Colin is last seen [[FightingFromTheInside tearing at his transformed face]] in clear distress, pulling away from the [[BodyHorror wolf-like entities own head]]. He [[MultipleHeadCase cannot escape this]] fate however, as the wolf monster [[ResistanceIsFutile knows this]] before it forces Colin to rejoin before beholding its new body with smug satisfaction.
8	*** Getting assimilated by a lizard-like latex creature shows Colin trying to tear it off, but instead of pulling off the latex, he's '''ripping off his own skin''', as the beast has already transformed him from ''the inside out'' and he's shedding dead skin no differently from a snake. The only good part here is that he appears to retain his memory.
9	** The worst part? This instinct to assimilate any human that comes into contact with them was ''intentional'' on the researchers' part. They intended to set them loose on the surviving members of humanity who are ''dying to a virus that has spread globally with no conventional cure'' as being transfured grants immunity to it. The problem was that before they could finish fixing the DeathOfPersonality that comes with the assimilation, the patients inside rioted and set the latex creatures loose on everyone in the facility before that could be solved. In light of this reveal, you realise that a majority, if not all of the latex creatures with legs that you ran into [[WasOnceAMan were former humans that got assimilated]]. And they now have [[TranshumanTreachery that primary instinct]] to make you suffer the same fate.
10	** Another thing about Transfurmation is that assimilation by it ''is unavoidable''. [[YouCantFightFate All of Colin's actions throughout the game have, at best, only delayed the inevitable]]. In fact, the only ending where Colin isn't tricked to or purposfully gives up his humanity and become one of the latex creatures, is the one where he dies to the plague the latex creatures were made to cure it, resulting in the extinction of humanity as we know it either way.
11	* Some of the latex beasts give a SternChase to say the least, and often it comes [[JumpScare out of nowhere]] giving the player little-to-no time to react. The female snow leopard pursuit is one of the worse, as she's [[LightningBruiser lightning fast]], and you have obstacles in your path. Puro's not there to help in the original version. If you do make it out, [[HopeSpot you're still not safe]]. She will eventually follow you into the corridors and even when you think you're home free the monster will ''jump the gap'' to catch you.
12	* You may find [[PhotoMontage some photos]] lying around the complex of a young scientist, who went [[HighSchoolRocks through education]], graduated from [[ElaborateUniversityHigh university]] with various honors, to finally getting [[PursueTheDreamJob employed with the bioengineers]]. All show how happy and promising he is. But the last photo shows there was an accident, and he ended up as a confused light-latex wolf creature. It really hammers home the [[DeathOfPersonality existential crisis]] these latex blob monsters can easily create.
13	* [[ThePlague The Pale Virus]]. In [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the future]] people began [[DugTooDeep commercial operations and mining]] in Antarctica. Sometime later researchers there eventually found an ancient virus preserved under the ice. A deadly pathogen to hominids, it exploits fundamental flaws in the Human genome. They named it the 'Pale Virus' as its symptoms included fatigue, decreased blood supply to the skin [[VirusVictimSymptoms resulting in a deadly-pale complexion]]. Eventually the infected person would lapse in and out of comas, before death. They couldn't celebrate their discovery - because this disease had already ''[[OhCrap infected 60% of the human race]]''. There's no vaccine or treatment for this pathogen at all. Thunder Science Company lacking the necessary resources had to acquire the building where the game is set from a robotics company via emergency expropriation during the pandemic. They had to resort to [[TestedOnHumans abducting people]] in order to measure the success of their trials - [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup all failures]]. With still no cure, the situation deteriorated outside the tower complex when the 99% infected dying masses realized the ultra-rich and government leaders [[TheElitesJumpShip had just absconded to a secret bunker]] to weather this plague out, abandoning them. They riot, and in the chaos, the latex beasts [[EscapedFromTheLab escape lab containment]] and consume ''everyone'' they come across.
14	** The fate of the surviving scientists, who after the mass riots were overrun by [[EscapedFromTheLab the escaping latex monsters]], then tried unsuccessfully to hide and seal themselves away in rooms with supplies in some futile hope help would come. Knowing full well they were humanity's last stand, their creations [[HorrorHunger would never stop]], and are [[AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade breaking down the doors]] to come claim them.
15	** By the time Colin wakes up, the virus has successfully ended human society. All the latex goo monsters you see? Those were bioengineering scientists desperate last effort to change the very DNA makeup of humans in order to grant them some form of immunity. The virus is so bad that being ''assimilated'' into a HiveMind leading to a DeathOfPersonality, or [[SadisticChoice even suicide]], is considered a better outcome. Doctor K.'s worst fears are realized as the player uncovers Colin is ''infected'' with it, and will die if he doesn't undergo a 'transfurmation'.
16	* In the ''Special Edition'' the White latex jungle area has seen a significant redesign to where it's now an EldritchLocation, filled with many sleeping Behemoths. So much of the light-latex has congregated here, they're a [[GreyGoo sprawling malformation]] all overlapping each other. As Colin tries to explore without disturbing them, they are feeling around for you, no differently than a sleeper trying to remove an annoying bug crawling around on their body.
17	** When the GreyGoo giants do wake up, thanks to a pursing Feng Yu [[RoarBeforeBeating roaring loudly]], they are enraged. Seeing bus-sized heads now glaring at you, as they send waves of white-latex beasts to catch you is unnerving.
18	* When Colin's captured by the Special Edition's Pawn/Queen Gargoyles, they force him to become assimilated in their clutches. This happens without any DeathOfPersonality, but the cruel twist is without any autonomy to move of his own free-will, ever again. The young man's body becomes more and more rigid, until he's an [[TakenForGranite ossified latex gargoyle]]. Colin has a permanent horrified expression, that can only [[AndIMustScream watch-on helplessly]], as the clingy monsters cover him up in their wings, before overlooking the ruins... forever.
19	* One of the bad endings has Dr. K kill Puro, forcibly 'transfurring' Colin before injecting him with drugs until they break his mind into blind obedience.

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