- Frozen Hearts (Red Witch): The aftermath of Damon's possession by the Ice Crown gives us a wonderful description of what happened to his severely crippled body in the process.
- Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles: In "The Fable", while everyone else's transformations from humans to their respective species is seen as painless, Rob is left screaming in pain as his eyes are forcibly fused together and his limbs are stretched out. The agony eventually causes him to pass out.
- In Animorphs Redux, David has acquired a more advanced form of morphing through a deal he made with Crayak, which allows David to control which parts of his body are morphed, such as giving himself a crab claw large enough to cut off Marco’s gorilla arm. In a more twisted manner, not only can David acquire non-organic life-forms such as the Chee, but he 'acquires' by literally absorbing his target into himself, including Cassie and his own past self.
- Eleutherophobia:
- According to Tom in The Thing from Another World, humans who cut themselves on atmosphere-vacuum coating get a severe case of heavy metal poisoning that causes their affected limb to swell up and blacken, and they die within days.
- When Tom demorphs from his cobra form in the sewers in Escape from L.A., his human organs burst through his chest.
- In An Interdimensional Meet
, Jeremiah Danvers is not only 'programmed' to perceive all aliens as a threat, but is forcibly mutated into the equivalent of Doomsday, managing to hold his own against Supergirl, the Flash and the Martian Manhunter all at once, his body mutating even more as he 'evolves' to better fight them.
- Played for Laughs in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, where Calvin uses the Transmogrifier Gun to fuse The Riddler's hands and feet together.
- In Experiment, Haibara implants a strange metal into Conan to get him permanently back to his old self. However, after Shinichi realises he has wires on his back...
- A Is A: The story Maidens Loss goes into detail on what Tiberium poisoning looks like up close, ranging from crystals growing out of amputated legs and sprouting from eyeballs to x-rays showing it nearly filling a patient's lungs. Things get worse when Usagi tries to heal these unfortunate victims, only to wind up somehow accelerating the growth of Tiberium instead.
- A Triangle in the Stars has the Cluster Demons from the school arc. They're reminiscent of the Gem Mutants from the primary home series, punished amalgamations of different demons who refused to break their loyalty ties from Bill to join Gabriel.
- Child of the Storm
- Gravemoss is a one... man vehicle of this.
- The veidrdraugar a.k.a. the Hunting Dead, super-fast and strong zombies created by ripping out the heart of the nearest person and filling it with black magic, creating a pallid, dead monster with Black Eyes of Evil.
- Mulls over numerous experiments to perform on HYDRA personnel - one example given is trapping someone inside their own stomach and leaving them to be digested.
- Slaughtering what is possibly every Hebridean Black Dragon on the planet with a spell which was purposefully reminiscent of Dark V's Familicide and reanimating them as an undead army. Some of them had visibly broken bodies, from where they landed badly on dying. They flew anyway.
- Gravemoss himself has this inflicted on him repeatedly in chapter 76. First, Chthon briefly possesses him and makes him smile so widely that his skin rips open to give him a Glasgow Grin, Second, Harry snaps and telekinetically opens his chest cavity like a book and rips out his heart - something his companions describe as disgusting, before he and Carol as the new Green Lantern blast him halfway across London and third, when he winds up in front Wanda and Harry Dresden, the former of whom reopens a number of former wounds, before the latter accidentally conjures a Soulfire lightsabre which he uses to eviscerate the necromancer, then chop his arm off. He absolutely deserved it.
- Wanda inflicts this on Sinister in the sequel, following through on a promise to reduce him to 'traumatised, screaming atoms'.
- Harry's partial transformation by the techno-organic virus (the thing that infected Cable) in Ghosts of the Past is described as resembling "The Thing meets The Terminator."
- Nimue enjoys doing this to people in Unfinished Business. Examples include transmogrifying Mooks into giant, monstrous symbiote covered Elite Mooks, transforming her chief minion into a Man-Thing, and the cordyceps zombies. Actually, most things in Project Pegasus qualify.
- Gravemoss is a one... man vehicle of this.
- Children of an Elder God:
- Amaliel was a dark, green blob with crab-like claws, tentacles and something vaguely resembling a head."... an almost globular torso, with six long sinuous limbs terminating in crab-like claws. From the upper end a subsidiary globe bulged forward bubble-like; its triangle of three staring, fishy eyes, its foot-long and evidently flexible proboscis, and a distended lateral system analogous to gills, suggested that it was a head."
- Violator -another of the Lovecraftians abominations fought by the main characters- had mouths on its palms. And mouths, tongues and tentacles everywhere.
- Amaliel was a dark, green blob with crab-like claws, tentacles and something vaguely resembling a head.
- The fact that the Five Nights at Freddy's cast have this inflicted on them in Dante's Night at Freddy's is meant to be part of the appeal.
- "Different Shades of Death" invokes this when Dean and Sam Winchester (Supernatural) follow up on an old tale about "the living dead in Beverly Hills" (Death Becomes Her) as a possible solution to Dean's Deal with the Devil. However, the Winchesters take time to question Lisle about the process and confirm that the immortality offered would freeze Dean at his current age, but he would be trapped in a living corpse if he suffered fatal injuries at any point after taking the serum. Since Dean's lifestyle means that he would always be at risk of suffering potentially fatal injuries that would leave him trapped as a living corpse, he and Sam conclude that this method isn't worth the risks.
- Happens on a disturbingly regular basis in Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons. Limbs melt and fall off, leg bones melt into jelly (forcing the victim to walk with a set of metal braces), an eye gets crushed in its socket by a rapidly-growing tumor, another character mutates into a writhing mass of tentacles, eyes, and mouths, Blackjack is forced to relive the experience of a pony being forcibly merged with a cockatrice, and a character is hit in the face with a burst of Deadly Gas, melting his eyes and sealing his nose and mouth shut forcing The Medic to cut his trachea open to allow him to breathe.
- Its source material Fallout: Equestria had its good share too with the Goddess, and the Pink cloud. The latter in particular was noted for its horrifying ability to fuse living creatures to inanimate material, everyone exposed to it wearing clothes or armor will never take those things off again.
- In A Madman's Circus is a Death Note Fusion Fic with Vocoloid's Dark Woods Circus the "attractions" at Beyond Birthday's Circus of Fear are a boy with his face half-blown off forced to dress as a girl, a girl with her eyes gouged out, and a woman nailed to a pole, burned alive and fitted with some sort of torture device in her neck so she screams on command. All of them were at one point just children and visitors stolen by the circus.
- The Night Unfurls: The mutated and deformed Mooks and people in Rad and Scathlocke thanks to Shamuhaza's experiments. Implied to be aware yet helpless. This trope is one of the few reasons why they are considered Elite Mooks — anyone who is not the Good Hunter has no experience in facing grotesque enemies like this, so typical Red Shirts would be so sickened that they get overpowered easily, causing morale to drop.
- What happens to anyone taken by the invading aliens in Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover. We get some descriptions of what, exactly, happens when turian, salarian, vorcha, batarian, or elcor meet the Flood. It's not pleasant.
- Thousand Shinji: When Rei transforms into "Reigle", her body looks like a putrid, living corpse and a plague-spewing sin against biology due to Nurgle's "gifts" and mutations.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, a Kryptonian vampire called Zol-Am runs into two vampires who were vaguely humanoid and "had misshapen heads and hands that simply weren’t right".
- Various examples of this occur in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Alien crossover Lethal Species, considering how the Xenomorphs hatch, but a particularly brutal example occurs when Spike is ‘impregnated’ by a facehugger; while his vampire state allows him to survive the ‘birth’, he is described as walking around with a gaping hole in his chest for the next day or so until he can acquire enough blood to heal himself.
- In Amazing Fantasy, Izuku's Intangibility power does this to any organic thing he tries to phase with him or pass through while intangible. The first and only time he did this to a bundle of ground meat, pork chops, and bits of Peter's hair, the pieces of meat were fused into a gelatinous lump while the hair began growing out of the bone. He leaves the results of passing through a pork chop hanging on the wall to the reader's imagination.
- Harbinger (Finmonster) (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): Danny transforming into his "Phantom" form is more disturbing than it was in the show. The ghost of his ancestor needs to climb inside him through the mouth, causing his body and jaw to contort into disproportionate angles straight out of The Exorcist. This, naturally, terrifies anyone who sees it and isn't pleasant to look at.
- The Mountain and the Wolf:
- Some of the Wolf's trophy skulls are described as not being quite human, whether through size, excessive teeth, or horns growing out of the eye sockets.
- The Crow Brothers are very, very wrong, from being able to fight on with horrifying damage to their godawful smell to having bugs for blood.
- The firewyrm is said to have once been a man until the weight of one mutation too many caused his transformation. Now it's a permanently-mutating collection of disparate parts, always in flux.
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing includes a charming description of Mercury Black's legs rotting away when his father shatters them with a pipe and refuses to get him proper medical treatment.
- Of Gemstones and Watches has quite a few...
- A few of Kevin's transformations are described in grisly detail, and some of the alien forms themselves are rather disturbing looking.
- Kevin's Anti Trix is growing out of his skin, vibrant red veins connecting it to his arm. Notably, after he gets some therapy and manages to regain his human form, his mashed-up form from Animo and Psyphon being an example in itself, it's noted to be much more organic looking with how it attaches to his arm.
- Manny and Helen's transformations are incredibly disturbing, with Blake stunned by them, noting the cracking of their bones reshaping and their screams of agony.
- Animo creates Goop clones, but the anti-gravity UFOs are replaced with human organs, the first one Kevin fights has an entire muscular system inside of it.
- Most of the group isn't doing too bad after Animo splices them with different aliens with his mutant ray, Ruby in particular loves her Petrosapien arm, but Max's left arm is just a green stump.
- Khufu has his brain half-exposed, with grey half-rotted flesh.
- Servantis' head splits open unevenly, similar to the Harmony Shoal aliens from Doctor Who.
- The Slash Fic Not An Angel has a slightly more realistic (or rather Squicky) take on WingFic that goes into detail about the organic processes involved of growing new appendages out of one's back.
- Disfigures, in which Edd, Tom, Matt and Tord are forcibly fused together into a single entity by a Mad Scientist. The end result is referred to as a "monster" and for good reason. Fortunately, they're freed from this hell by Paul and Pat. Unfortunately, the process that freed them also resulted in Paul and Pat being fused together. Oh, and this fic also comes in picture and video form (Warning: Neither the picture nor the video are for the squeamish).
- In Robo Bando Hdoug is constantly burned and tortured by Robo Bando to the point his body is a unrecognizable decaying, dying lump of flesh.
- This paranormal-themed series involving shapeshifters has a somewhat mild form. If a person survives the bite that turns them into a cat shifter, their skin becomes transparent near the end, then bursts open to reveal their new feline form. The aftermath is a lot of gooey, icky stuff on the fur that has to be cleaned off as soon as possible.
- Springtrap and Deliah: The flashbacks to when Deliah first met Springtrap show him with all the damage he had before being patched up, along with the corpse of his true self inside.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Monster X's first form is in a chronic state of agony, has ingrown extra fangs along the jaws; and a horrifically extreme case of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva which is exacerbated by its Healing Factor's defect, making it very difficult for the Two Beings, One Body creature to move certain joints on their body without risking breaking its bones.
- The Many are particularly gruesome, the author having looked at bone cancer among her inspirations for their appearance. Especially when they perform Fusion Dance.
- MaNi/Elder Brother's rudimentary body made from multiple creatures is no exception from this rule among the Many, causing San to recoil when the latter first sees it clearly.
- Once the Monster Delay on Keizer Ghidorah ends, the sight of its unwhole body, which it's incorporated the Many into, is so horrible to behold that the entire G-Team go pale-faced despite themselves.
- Kaiju Revolution:
- The Vagnosaurus may resemble eyeless Skullcrawlers but they are actually a form of highly derived basal primate who's "tail" is really their elongated spinal cord and the claw at the end is a highly modified pelvis and leg bones. Not to mention the fact they have exposed intestines on the underside of their spines.
- Frankenstein has a constantly changing body that frequently leaves him with malformed features and uneven proportions although he can sometimes use that to his advantage by making his movements more unpredictable in battle.
- The Vagnosaurus
- As per most Comics Nix fanfics, The Wolf Blood Lineage is a parade of hilariously over the top gorn and cringe worthy bodily modifications. Bonus points go to the descriptions of Voldemort's lair, Hermione's sex change, and Draco Malfoy having his hand skinned off, and replacing the skin with cheese.
- Global Inflation has all the nations at a meeting start massively gaining weight as a result of economic inflation.
- The Kin in Hivefledverse are the ghosts of young trolls who died in the Grand Highblood's torture chamber. Of the two most prominently featured, Laneen had the flesh stripped off her arms and an extra pair of horns surgically installed to make her look more like the Condesce's Helmsman, then had her throat cut when she clawed out her own tongue to render herself boring. Her partner Sennir has half the flesh stripped off his head and neck and a gaping gutwound. Gamzee escaped alive, but now has a broken horn and a Glasgow Grin. Various other ghosts have appeared, including a twelve-year-old with a broken neck, a boy with crushed legs, a girl with a severed arm which floats beside her shoulder stump and another girl whose arm is missing completely, and a boy who died from drinking dirty water in a manner the authors tried to be subtle about (most of his guts exited his body in an insalubrious manner).
- Heinoustuck takes place in a world where everyone as a kid, goes through a process called “transmutation”. A process that leaves the body HORRIFICALLY disfigured, makes the person immortal, is implied to be extremely painful and, in some cases, warps or changes their personality. For reference, here’s a picture of the Kids (and some trolls) post-transmutation◊. Is it any wonder Dave doesn’t want to go through with it?
- In the post-Sburb fanfic Warbound Widow we get shown some close-up interactions with helmsmen. Jane and Roxy express severe disgust when they encounter the Observer (who's basically a spyware version of a helmsman) due to her limbs and the majority of her body being eaten away by the organic machinery, leaving a half-dead corpse trapped inside. Jane also finds out during her scan of the Observer that she's missing her hands and feet and Word of God confirms helmsmen get those limbs removed and the tentacles fed into their systems through the stumps. Later we're also introduced to Husks, who are portable psionics who've had their arms and legs surgically removed. They're essentially mobile power units which are crippled yellowbloods, who are still self aware.
- In The Parts We Play, Katniss remembers a history lesson about how in an early Hunger Games (she thinks it was the Third), the Tributes refused to fight until the Capitol started dropping the severed body-parts of their families into the field until they went along with the Games (and the Capitol naturally talks about how ‘generous’ they were in the face of such ‘treason’ that they didn’t actually kill any of the Tributes’ families).
- Queen of All Oni: Among other things, Jade after turning back into the Queen of the Shadowkhan has apparently gained contortionist abilities; the description of her initial use is rather disturbing. Which is nothing compared to when she compresses her entire body into a snake shape in order to escape Section 13.
- Webwork really puts Jade through the ringer during her years-long Painful Transformation into a Jorogumo — first, her organs slowly relocate themselves into an abdomen that grows out of the base of her spine. Then she starts growing extra limbs. Then her teeth fall out to be replaced by fangs. And finally, all her skin peels off and her bones disintegrate so that her exoskeleton can grow in, a part of the process so awful that the Old Queen has to cocoon her in order to keep her alive through it.
- After Chang gains the Samurai Essence, his skin slowly starts to dry up and peel away as his new demonic scales come in.
- Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand: In Halloween Town, Ven takes the form of a decaying zombie; several of his body parts tend to fall off at random.
- Legacy of Kain: Absolution: In chapter 31, a spy working for Alicia Ottmar falls victim to the Font of Putrescence spell. Said spell involves him being infested with parasitic worms, which emerge from every orifice in his body and devour him from the inside out. Alicia is rightfully horrified at the sight.
- The experiments' fates after Dr. Hamsterveil captures them in Wrath of the Damned.
- The Nightmare House: Some of the nightmares feature creepy body-related stuff:
- Leni dreams her legs get crushed by leg warmers.
- In Lynn's nightmare, she accidentally decapitates Lincoln but his head can still talk.
- Lucy dreams about creepy dancers with pupilless blue, then red, eyes.
- Lola dreams that her facial features fall off, leaving her faceless.
- At one point in If They Haven't Learned Your Name, Barnes hallucinates Bucky, himself circa-1945, stripped naked and just after losing his arm. While he taunts Barnes, Hallucination Bucky idly picks at the bloodied stump of his arm, peeling up strips of flesh.
- Sixes and Sevens
- Abraham van Helsing has spend a year bound to the Mask of Death, which causes his blood to start boiling whenever he leaves the shadow of Mount Wundagore.
- Roger gets to witness HYDRA scientist Fritz von Meyer get eaten alive by his Killer Bees.
- The death of vampire bride Velanna is described as her "unspooling", and eventually dissolving into black tar.
- The Merged in Mass Foundations: Little Star. They were created when two alternate states of each person were mashed together, causing things such as their mouths stretching at unnatural angles, having one body wide enough for two, or even have their head split in two.
- In Juxtapose, Izuku all but dismantles Tsuchigumo's insides, 10 grams at a time.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Actually, I'm Dead: In an AU where taking off the Alicorn Amulet killed her, Trixie is brought back by said Amulet as an undead creature, but with her mind still intact in her decaying corpse. Just as things seem to be getting better she dies again, only this time her body is completely destroyed by a fall from a hot air balloon, described in detail and, just when it looks like she can rest in peace, the Amulet brings her back yet again, but this time as a monstrous mismatched creature, in a fairly unsettling scene.
- The Great Alicorn Hunt: This happens to anyone who takes "Professor" Cotton Mouth's flawed vitality elixir. Including Cotton Mouth himself, who among other things develops extra eyes and horns, and vestigial wings.
- Innocence Once Lost: In the side story "Luna Aeternal", Princess Luna survives a terrorist attack by containing an antimatter bomb explosion. In the main story we see the full extent of her injuries: she lost both wings, is blind on one eye and, unbeknownst to the general public, wears a very realistic prosthetic leg. Also, in the same universe, during the war, Rarity went blind after a flashbang grenade blew up in her face and Fluttershy also lost a leg when flying behind Rainbow Dash while she was dodging an enemy attack. Rainbow Dash forgot Fluttershy was there so she didn't warn her to dodge too and the enemy hit her by accident.
- Let Me Tell You About the Hole in My Face, in which Applejack tells you about...well, the hole in her face. The gaping, dripping, oozing, pulsating, hole that replaces her face and which she describes in absolutely nauseating detail. Made worse by the fact that she describes eating with that thing, how it feels when she accidentally touched it once and mentions how pus, bile, sweat, blood and other bodily fluids drip from it constantly. The worst part is that apparently, she was born with it, and through some means it made both of her parents fatally ill.
- The Moonstone Cup:
- Twilight uses one of the dragon Zlatan's spells against him, leaving him covered in jagged scales, with gnarled claws, stained brown teeth, and limp, skeletal wings hanging uselessly at his sides. Fortunately, the spell is reversible and Zlatan is honourable, and accepts that he is unable to continue the duel... instead of accepting Hadalsnan al-Dhib's offer of a win via disqualification because "That looks horrible. I could see clear to claim that as injury fault."
- Najstariot's battle with Nightmare Moon left her horribly scared. Her hide is a patchwork of broken scales, burn marks and scars, parts of which are haphazardly covered by gems or plates of metal fused into her skin. Her left wing is crippled, its elbow fused into an ugly mass of bone and her wings covered in scar tissue; it's immobilized, and its tip has been digging into her side for so long that it's physically grown into it, fusing with her body in a clump of malformed scales. The left side of her head is simply a shapeless mass of scars and scales, her eye simply gone.
- The Non-Bronyverse: TD's Ponification in Don't Go In the Everfree Forest, TD. The change is initiated by stepping in a puddle that acts like Conversion Potion cut with Hollywood Acid. When he gets home, he notices his leg's itchy. to quote; "I looked down at my leg. The skin was peeling. Not like 'few-day-old sunburn'. More like 'You can see your muscles.'" As it turns out, as more of his flesh sloughs off, the more ponified he becomes. Twilight has a freak out when she sees him in-between, fingers and toes fusing into hooves, one eye massively bigger than the other, rotting skin dripping off new fur. At one point, convinced he's always been a pony, he peels what's left of his human scalp off.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The Hivemind Body, first mentioned in the original story, is revealed in the sequel Picking Up the Pieces to be the fusion of several infant changelings into one biological structure.
- As Twilight Falls: Two examples. First we have Luna changing Spike into adult dragon to fight a Discord's minion called Calamity. Then, we have Calamity himself – a skeleton covered with mass of various creatures' bodies sewn together while they're still (mostly) alive.
- The Writing on the Wall: Dark Horizon's death. His mane, coat and feathers are falling out and he's got sores all over his body, blood is running from his nose and mouth, and he coughs up bloody foam before he expires. Well, to be fair, death by radiation poisoning is horrifying.
- You Do (Not) Belong has its protagonist begin growing a unicorn horn after a few days in Equestria. The scene where it begins ripping a hole through the skin of his forehead, which he is then forced to tear off, is Poltergeist-level disturbing, and it looks like it will only get worse from here.
- Always Visible: Inside Delia's womb was what an eyewitness describes as a sea urchin. It is implied that this is either a parasite or some kind of congenital disease.
- This Bites!:
- this is the aftermath of Eneru's Electric Torture practically melting Cross's skin inside his armor.
- Lily Carnation, as per canon.
- Moria undergoes this after using his Awakened Devil Fruit to engage the "Nidhogg" transformation. We're not told the full details, but the result is apparently far worse than his canonical Shadow's Asgard: Cross mentions the sickening sound of flesh and bone being reshaped, and the one brief, mostly obscured glimpse he sees of the result is enough to make him decide that he does not want a clearer look. An appalled Chopper even wonders just how Moria could survive just what he did to himself.
- The Butcher Bird provides it aplenty, but the standout examples thus far are Kaneki developing his incomplete kakuja after being stabbed through the brain, and the Necromonger Pirates and their 'officers'.
- A relatively downplayed example in Crimson Rising; after Malcolm Renaldi- the abusive ex-husband of former Pink Ranger Kat- is exposed to the Pink Zeo Crystal when he finds it in his house vault, he is left with serious burns all over his body. The reformed Zedd and original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston each muse that, based on what they've learned about Malcolm's criminal activities, he would probably have been incinerated if he was any closer to the Pink Crystal or if he had been exposed to the full Zeo Crystal.
- The Cambions and Guardians of Goddess Reborn Chronicle can have this happen to them, as angels are most commonly Cthulhu-like monstrosities and demons are often no better. Even worse, the human inside is utterly gone when some fail their transformation, leaving only the angel or demon in charge. There is a refusal to think about if the human mind is still inside the 'husks' or 'abominations' by a Guardian.
- Purple Days: In one of the early loops, not long after he learns of his true parentage, Joffrey snaps and decides to become a Baratheon... by scalping himself and cutting out his eyes, removing the features that "make" him a Lannister. And he's still conscious enough to talk to the Hound afterwards.
- Little Hands, Big Attitude: Obsidian's - or perhaps Mephiles' - illusionary zombie puppet. It's the corpse of the game version of Sonic killed by a hole through the chest, has No Mouth to indicate that Obsidian/Mephiles is pulling the strings yet can talk anyway, Red Eyes as opposed to their previous green, has Marionette Motion (being a zombie puppet and all), and halfway through the scene it becomes Wreathed in Flames. Everyone is understandably freaked out, even if it's just the product of an illusion.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos is filled to the brim with this. The Shroud in particular live and breathe this trope, with Tails' Shroud infection taking it up a notch as it radically changes his biology. And then there's Dark Chaos Energy and its Squicky effects on the body.
- Thanks to the story's deconstruction of Unwilling Roboticization, Tsali and Venus take this trope to a whole new level. Especially Venus, being cursed to have all of her body parts slowly transform into machines.
- Actually Played for Laughs in Episode 74 - when Tails discovers he can dislodge his eyes from his sockets and move them around, one of the first things he does is use it to look up Amy's skirt.
- In the Star Wars: Paranormalities trilogy, this is a common side-effect of Forceless possession for the victims. Aside from gaining a dark appearance and developing glowing red, crystal ball-like eyes, they may also have other mutations depending on the species of the host and intent of the Forceless symbiote. Such mutations may include ExtraEyes (sometimes in places they shouldn't be), extra body parts, an extra layer of skin, or having their internal organs shifted around in a way that makes the host dependent on the Forceless for survival. Also, the host is consciously aware of the mutations, and they are usually painful.
- I, Warrior has the normal amount of this trope in regards to Yuuzhan Vong Organic Technology, but also the affliction suffered by the Master, whose body is slowly rotting away while he's still alive. This turns out to be because of Clone Degeneration.
- Eugenesis gives us a lovely description of a Cybertronian "budding" (I.E. their equivalent of giving birth). It happens quite immediately, without the subject being aware they were able to do that, hurts more than anything the subject has ever experienced or imagined, and very quickly involves various parts of their "biology" radically altering themselves simply to ensure the process is successful. Then, once it's done, it happens to them five more times. What's worse is that this is happening to the normally unflappable Soundwave.
- Rotting Camellias is based off of the song "Dark Woods Circus," and features about as much body horror as one might expect from that.
- In its alternate ending, Ron is revealed to have been melted together with his family, still alive and conscious.
- Yognapped has a tendency to dip into it. Sben's true face is a mass of scorched muscles, bloody sinew, and shattered bones, with a mouth half-melted shut in places. When Sben is resurrected, the soul of Herobrine occasionally forces him to painfully vomit more blood and foam than his body should be able to hold. And then there's Lomadia's modus operandi: using her ability to turn into smoke, she forces her way into a victim and slowly turns herself solid, expanding the unfortunate victim's body until it rips into pieces.
- With This Ring:
- People modified by Black Power Ring.
- Johnny Sorrow’s encounter with the Subtle Realms disfigured his face to such an extent that almost anyone who looked at it instantly died.
- Destroying Johnny’s mask caused the laws of nature to start going haywire in his immediate surroundings. Because of this several Amazons who were too close to him had their bodies warped and mixed with objects of close proximity (e.g. one Amazon’s hand got stuck inside and mixed with a part of a wall, another’s face got mixed with a mirror she was holding, giving her skin reflective properties).
- Tormented\praying souls that constitute Hell’s background scenery.
