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The Transformistress, also known as Mira Alcott, is a trans woman professional digital artist, writer, and comic creator. Her work is primarily themed around transformation (as her alias indicates), with a focus on transgender euphoria. Her work is intended for mature audiences, but censored, non-explicit versions of her work are available.

In early 2022, after being commissioned by Cinnamon Switch to make a promotional comic for Mice Tea, further business negotiations led to Mira Alcott officially being hired by Cinnamon Switch as a CG artist and story collaborator.

Notable Independent Work:

  • Hero Rehab, a series of commissioned comics, each of which focuses on a "hero" that has arrived to deal with the Demon King and ends up transformed into a Cute Monster Girl.
  • He was a Skater Girl, a 27-page paid-for comic, available through itch.io, Gumroad, and Mira's personal Patreon account. Its story focuses on a trio of skateboarders attempting to grind down a legendary cursed stairway to be blessed by the Skating Gods.
  • Brick and Mortar, a gag comic series starring a pair of superheroes in love.

Her work contains examples of:

  • Abusive Parents: "Princess Brimstone", a story focusing on a "Bowsette" expy, has Brimsone's father King Ignatious, a tyrant who took over the peaceful Dragon Kingdom and waged war with humanity purely for his own self-interest. He repeatedly made it clear to Brimstone that they existed solely to be an heir and were easily replaceable, "taught" Brimstone how to fly and hunt by throwing him off mountains and leaving him starving in the woods, and permanently disfigured Brimstone by cutting off a horn for showing insubordination. When Ignatious is finally killed by "Sir Leo", a mustachioed carpenter-turned-knight, Brimstone feels relief and gratitude instead of mourning the loss.
  • Adorable Abomination: Uwusagi from "Magical Girl-ed" is an expy of Kyuubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, taking the form of an adorable plush bunny doll and granting random people the power to become Magical Girl Warriors because it's actually an extradimensional Emotion Eater that feasts on the despair from the girls realizing that most real-life problems have socioeconomic roots that cannot be solved by simply beating up criminals with their new power boost, with magical girls that reach critical levels of hopelessness turning into monsters that other magical girls fight to delay their own inevitable realizations.
  • Alien Abduction: "Aliens abducted me and turned me into a cute alien girl!?", as the title indicates, is about a man getting abducted by aliens and then transformed into a female of their race in order to understand them and help their race repopulate.
  • Anal Probing: Used for a gag in "Aliens abducted me and turned me into a cute alien girl!?"; one alien holding a vibrator states they'll need to perform "invasive procedures" on the transformed abductee because their machinery only affects humans and they lack the knowledge on how to Gender Bender themselves, but then the abductee reveals herself to be a Southern-Fried Genius with a doctorate in genetic engineering that helps them all become girls without any probing at all.
  • Animorphism: While some of Mira's works involve anthropomorphic animal people (ex. "Two Smol Mice", "Voodoo-ed", "Mascot Mask Off", "The Queen Bee", "L L Toe Beans"), "Gym Rat" (a Sequel Episode to "Hit the Showers") has a jealous witch curse a popular woman (who used to be a guy that she had already cursed once after he accidentally wandered into the women's changing room while distracted) into the form of a mouse; this comic used to have both a "furry" and "feral" version of the transformation publicly available, but the latter has since been delisted.
  • Artifact Collection Agency:
    • The majority of Mira's stories are presented as logs examining the paranormal phenomena that occurs in Sala City and their effects, and "Home (Office) For the Holidays" shows that she's keeping quite a few of the investigated items in her personal care.
    • A more antagonistic example is S.L.A.Y., MOM Inc.'s task force for procuring and securing arcane beings such as a Leprechaun and an opal statue housing an Asian Fox Spirit, both of which escape after an earthquake hits the containment facility.
  • Artistic License – Geography: "Slushie the Snow Woman" ends with "Slushie" remarking that it's a good thing they live in Alaska and don't have to worry about her melting any time soon. This ignores the fact that even Alaska's northern-most (and thus coldest) city of UtqiaÄ¡vik regularly reaches above-freezing (and thus snow-melting) temperatures from June to August. Although it might be Justified considering all of the magic that occurs In-Universe.
  • Asian Fox Spirit:
    • "Foxy Mama" has a lawyer try to evict one named Inari who refuses to leave a bookstore that was built over her shrine. He then tries to get rough and drag her out by her tails, but this accidentally curses him to transform into a fox spirit as well, and they end up in a relationship and hanging out at the bookstore together.
    • "Foxy Wife" is a Sequel Episode to "Foxy Mama", starring a guy who just found out that his girlfriend cheated on him with his own brother deciding to work off his depression by cleaning up a shrine that turns out to be dedicated to Inari and her new girlfriend Tsu. To reward him for his hard work and kind heart, they transform him into their fox girl shrine maiden, and some time later they all marry each other.
    • "Tokugawa Time Twister" has the friend of the time traveler from "Christmas Belles" try to go and rescue him from being stranded in Victorian London, only to accidentally end up in Japan in 1669. He then bumps into a samurai and his own time-watch then breaks, fixing his anomalous presence by transforming him into a fox spirit that's engaged to that samurai.
    • "Kitsune Catastrophe" is about a fox spirit contained by MOM Inc. breaking out and magically transforming her male captors into fox girls as well, with the focal character being immune to the spirit's mental manipulations due to already being a trans girl.
  • Author Appeal: To quote Mira's official Patreon account, "I make transformation and gender transformation art, as well as other 18+ content. I love what I do, and this page is for anyone who wants to help support me doing it." More specifically, she has a preference for male-to-female transformations, at least in part due to her own status as a trans woman.
  • Author Avatar: Mira regularly appears in her own comics as a woman in a black fedora and trench coat and a scarf with the Transgender Pride flag colors, with a Running Gag that people keep mistaking her for Carmen Sandiego.
  • Autism in Media: Cassandra "Cass" Iski from "The Trans Skill Tree" is directly stated in the attached story to be autistic. She also finds it easier to talk with NPCs in a game than real people because of a lack of messy misinterpretations, worries about being overstimulated during her initial transformations, and stims with excitement when her outward AMAB appearance becomes the Cat Girl body she's always wanted to have.
  • Barbarian Hero: The focal Hero of the second Hero Rehab comic is Hagarr Oxsbane "the Bonesnapper", Barbarian of the Wild Isles, who wears a loincloth without a shirt and initially threatens to crush the Demon King's skull and drink his blood like wine. He ends up being transformed into a cute Minotaur maid and chef named Helena Heiferkin "the Breadbaker", who is no longer full of barbarian rage but is concerned that the Demon King's forces aren't getting enough meat in their diet.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For:
    • "Sadako's Love", inspired by The Ring, has a horror enthusiast willingly watch a cursed videotape because he wants a ghost girlfriend. However, the ghost transforms him into a near-exact copy of herself and traps the victim in the video tape with her, horrifying the victim in the original version or brainwashing the victim to think and act just like her in the version uploaded by the person that commissioned the comic.
    • "April Has AUNTS!" and its attached story focus on Carlos Vázquez, who complained to his "used to be cool" big sister that she was no longer fun after having children and turning into a stay-at-home mom. The sister responds by using MOM Incorporated magic wine to cause a Retconjuration, forcibly transforming him into a woman and aging him twenty years, so that she can leave her kids in their "aunt's" care and go have fun at a club. The new Carmalita "Karma" Vázquez spends the rest of the evening utterly outraged at having years of her life stolen from her just because she missed having fun with her now-little sister, but in the end decides that she may have actually gained years; her memories as Carlos still exist alongside new memories as "Karma", who already has a full college education, gainful employment, and her own bachelorette pad that Carlos had still been working towards. The story ends with "Karma" plotting to make the sister careful what she wished for by settling down and having her own kids that said sister would then have to babysit whenever "Karma" needed her to.
  • Becoming the Costume:
    • "Costume Change" and its Sequel Episode "Halloween 2021" has a wave of magical energy hit Sala City on Halloween and transform people into female versions of their costumes. In the former, a trio of Egypt-themed partygoers become a Sphinx Cat Girl, a Jackal Girl, and a Seductive Mummy, while in the latter, a trio of adult trick-or-treaters become a scarecrow girl, a female vampire, and a Kaiju-inspired but human-sized radioactive lizard woman.
    • "Monster Coven!" has a trio of guys try and fail to break into the Sala City University Witch Coven's Halloween Party, and Jamie Moreno from "The PTA Vs. The Coven" decides to cast a spell that causes this, turning them into a female werewolf, demon, and alien. She then lets them join the party without further consequence, and the trio end up winning the costume contest.
  • Becoming the Mask: In "It's Just a Prank, Bro!", a man named Owen Mitchelle spikes his friend Clide Donahue's drink with a MOM Incorporated gender-bending Pink Pill for an April Fool's Day prank. "Chloe" Donahue then spends an entire month refusing to transform back into a guy and acting overly girly in order to mess with Owen in revenge, but when the bluff escalates to the two going on a date and having the best sex they'd ever had, Chloe admits that she was genuinely enjoying being a girl as the bluff continued and plans to remain that way.
  • Big Beautiful Woman:
    • "Office Transfer", the third part of the Body Swap storyline, ends with the "new" Mrs. Fumiko Sasaki, the soul of Haruto Masuda in the heavyset body of a 39-year-old mother of three, getting a job at a hostess club upon Mira Alcott's recommendation; in addition to getting paid more and working better hours than at the old Fumiko's MOM Inc. Japanese branch job, she "enjoys the attention her Rubenesque body attracts".
    • "Let Them Eat Cake" has a chubby AMAB named Beck break his New Year's Resolution by secretly eating cake, only to get caught by his girlfriend Margo's magic camera and transformed into a girl named Becky that's an additional one hundred pounds heavier than her previous self. When Becky apologizes for breaking the resolution and then admits she's comfier when there's more of her to love, she's worried that Margo will be disappointed in her, having made the resolution in the first place to look more attractive. Margo is actually ecstatic, as she loves Becky's still-healthy chubbiness, which is why she used the camera in the first place.
    • "Kaijune" and "Kaijune: Monster Girl Summer" both involve people that were turned into voluptuous humanoid lady Kaiju with thick thighs and gams ending up in a relationship with the female pilots of the Humongous Mecha sent to pacify them, with Rahra in the latter feeling ashamed of having monstrous proportions and rough growls that need to be translated instead of the sweet voice of her partner until the pilot admits she felt Love at First Sight.
  • Blind Without 'Em: In the second Hero Rehab comic, one of the key steps in Hagarr's transformation and reformation into Helena is realizing that the reason she wasn't book-smart isn't because of the stereotypes of a Barbarian Hero, but because she was desperately in need of glasses and couldn't read without them, not even identifying how many fingers the Demon King is holding up from a short distance away when asked.
  • Body Surf: There's one four-part story arc in Mira's Shared Universe about Peggy the Body Thief, who steals people's bodies and leaves their original souls stranded in the body she was previously using. In the final part, she's finally stopped when The Transformistress's Author Avatar sets up a trap and seals her in the body of a dog.
  • Born Unlucky: Connor Bradford from "Fine Irish Lass" considers himself such, due to repeatedly losing his wallet, getting splashed whenever he's near a puddle, various embarrassing situations like getting locked out of his house while naked, various dangerous situations like getting stuck in an elevator for hours and nearly having a piano fall on him, getting cheated on by every date that hadn't outright rejected him or stood him up from the start, and not even being born the gender he wanted to be. And then the story's instigating incident is having stained his only green shirt the day before St. Patrick's Day and attracting a leprechaun prankster for not following traditions, who decides to "bless" him with Irish luck that turns him into a thick-accented and embarrassingly voluptuous Irish girl named Connie. Her luck does start turning around as a result, at least, with a cute guy saving her from getting splashed by the next puddle she passes and then asking her out on a date.
  • Breast Expansion: "Brick and Mortar 2: Double D Bubble" shows Mortar using her bubblegum powers to inflate her breasts before going to bed with her partner.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: "Brick and Mortar 1: Unprofessional!" has the titular superhero duo talking about dinner plans and then what to do for "dessert" while being shot at by a fire-themed supervillain that derides them for unprofessionalism.
  • Cat Girl:
    • "Cats are Maid in Heaven" has the boss of a Maid Cafe gift a clumsy employee a MOM Inc. cat-ear headband, transforming them into a cat girl maid that's perfect at her job...until the boss comments on her improved performance.
    • In "Mew Year, Mew You!", a guy accidentally breaks a statuette of a tiger goddess on a Chinese New Year and is cursed to transform into a woman with tiger ears, a tiger tail, and tiger stripes in her hair, to the delight of both herself and her bisexual girlfriend.
    • "Final Girls" has a pair of guys hunted down in the woods by the masked manhood killers The Man-Eater Sisters, who transform them into girls and force them to dress up for a photo shoot, with one forced to dress as a cat girl maid and the other as a Playboy Bunny.
    • "Mascot Mask Off" has Steven Kim, an AMAB student of Sala City University, finding fulfillment in wearing the Goofy Suit of the school's mascot Sabie the Saber-tooth Tiger, leading them to magically transform into an anthropomorphic female Saber-tooth tiger and changing her first name to Sabie.
    • "The Trans Skill Tree" has a shut-in gamer, Cassandra (formerly Carl) Iski, given the ability to "Level Up" in real life after lightning causes a power surge while gaming. When given a choice between buttons that would transform her into either a Catgirl Maid or a Big Tiddy Goth, "Cass hit the former button so hard if it were real it would have shattered."
  • Centipede's Dilemma: "Cats are Maid in Heaven" has a klutzy male waiter at a maid café given a cat-ear headband by his boss, transforming him into a Cat Girl maid that's able to balance an entire order in one hand. When her boss then points out how much better she's doing in this form, she becomes aware of her transformation and immediately trips.
  • Coming-Out Story: Many of the characters in Mira's stories are either closeted or simply unaware that they were trans until they experience a Gender Bender and feel euphoric in their new bodies, such as trans woman Victoria Moreno in "Wicked Witches", who wasn't aware that it was unusual for a "cis" boy to frequently think about what it would be like to be a girl until her now-magic camera gives her a fitting body and Mira helps clarify a few things for her.
  • Continuity Cavalcade:
    • The office of Mira's Author Avatar, as seen in "Home (Office) for the Holidays", is filled with transformation-causing trinkets from most of her previous comics, including the lamp from "Genie(s) in a Bottle" and the Cat Girl-cursing tiger statue from "Mew Year, Mew You!" (which, like in said comic, ends up accidentally bumped into and shattered). The tea that Mira drinks and her mouse-patterned teacup even have a label indicating they're from the café from Mice Tea.
    • "A Trip to the Pride Parade" features more returning characters from Mira's other works than any other comic; some of the cameos include Sylvia and Felicia from Mice Tea, Robynne and Blu Jay from He was a Skater Girl, Pidge from "Magic Trick: The TG TCG", Dr. Bender and Dartfrog from "Dr. Bender", the fashion designer from "The Designer", Amy and Sally of the Sala City University Cheerleader Coven, Lady Petra Grimald and Julia from "Lady Knight in Shining Armor", Mira Alcott's Author Avatar and a partly-shaved TransforMister, and a statue dedicated to the town's founder Captain Valentine Everett from "A Pirate's Life For Me!", as well as an Early-Bird Cameo of Mortar and Liberty from Brick and Mortar two weeks before the first comic page was posted publicly.
    • "Captain Valentines Day" takes place on the day Captain Valentine founded Sala City rather than specifically February 14th, but still features plenty of couples in love: Misty Leducky and a partially-disguised Marina from the swim club, Emily and Takeshi from "Kitsune Catastrophe", Toni the tiger girl and her girlfriend Leah from "Mew Year, Mew You!", Dr. Bender and Dartfrog, Brick and Mortar, Victoria Moreno and Bella from "Wicked Witches", Max and Alex from "Meeting the Family", Amy and Sally, Mira Alcott and the TransforMister (plus Morgan instigating the comic's events by stealing a bouquet of flowers from an egg unlucky in love), and ending with the focal character running into and confessing attraction to Casey and her stuffed Stogie Bear from "Build-A-Babe Workshop".
  • Create Your Own Hero:
    • In "Rehab of a Hero: The Spear of Truth", a farm boy returns home to see his village destroyed and family killed, and picks up a cursed spear and transforms into a female demonic warrior to get revenge on the Demon King's army. However, during their crusade, they learn that the Demon King is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, and their village was actually destroyed by humans who didn't want the village to become part of the Demon King's territory. This leads to the demon warrior receiving forgiveness from the Demon King and becoming their top general, causing far more trouble for the human army than a mere loss of territory would have.
    • In "Magical Girl-ed", Uwusagi's motivation is to transform people into magical girls and then feed off of their despair when they realize how most problems can't be solved with a flashy fight. However, its latest victim, Toshiro Arata aka "Ribbon Sailor Rose", is a city clerk that's already fully aware of how systemic most problems are and is using both her preexisting government connections and newly-gained power to track down Uwusagi and shut down its entire operation.
  • Cute Monster Girl:
    • Numerous entries in the Hero Rehab series have the starring hero transformed into one, such as a male Vampire Hunter named Karmirk of Reloch becoming a female vampire named Karmilla von Ryloka.
    • Many of The Transformistress's one-off comics also have the result become a cute non-human, such as "She Came from the Pink Lagoon!" showing an AMAB student become an attractive anglerfish monster girl after some frat house bullies forced her to take a swim in a swamp tainted by toxic waste.
  • Cyberpunk:
  • Dating Catwoman: "Home (Office) for the Holidays" is the first physical appearance of Mira the witch's husband, who's credited as "Witchhunter TransforMister", indicating that they used to be on opposing sides.
  • Deal with the Devil:
    • The comic "The Record Deal" depicts Mr. Phisto of Fall & Angel Records transforming a fame-seeking musician into a female pop star in exchange for only half of their immortal soul and 20% of profits.
    • "Big D Demon BF" has the male remnants of the Sala University Occultism Club summon a demon named Azazel to get revenge on reoccurring goth witch Jamie Moreno for "corrupting" the other members. However, Azazel is a public relations intern and Jamie is a second-rank witch that outranks cultists in Gehenna's bureaucracy, so she convinces the demon to gender bend and demonify the occultism club for her and then asks him to be her "big dick demon boyfriend" while the club enjoys their new feminine bodies as "big tiddy demon girlfriends".
  • Death Seeker: "She Came from the Pink Lagoon!" focuses on Martin Melville, who was ridiculed and abused throughout his life for wanting to be a woman instead of a man, to the point that when the fraternity that takes advantage of him forces him to take a swim in a lagoon tainted with MOM Inc. toxic waste, he does so partly because in a worst-case scenario he'd die and it "wouldn't be [his] problem anymore". However, it instead ends up transforming him into a cute anglerfish girl, and "Marina" ends up finally happy (give or take trying to dunk her bullies into the waste as revenge, getting apprehended by Mira before any actual damage could be done, and then getting impromptu therapy from Mira while in containment to make sure she won't harm anyone else).
  • Demonic Possession: The third comic in the Hero Rehab series focuses on a supposedly self-taught male Sorcerer with a Living Shadow that encourages him to avenge his village by burning the Demon King and toppling his tower to ruins. The Demon King immediately recognizes this trope is in play and, through some "exorcisms", not only helps the sorcerer realize that the shadow was the true reason the village was destroyed, but also transforms her into a female demon witch that can fully take control of the shadow and the magic it granted her.
  • Didn't Think This Through:
    • "No Nuts November" has a guy willingly undergo Retconjuration to become a girl not because of gender dysphoria (though Mira does use magic to confirm that he's a closeted transgender "egg" before transforming him), but to succeed at the month-long sexual abstinence challenge of "No Nut November". When Mira specifically makes his "girl" transformation match his description of his dream girl and warns him that the spell will be irreversible if he fails the challenge, he states his flawed logic: you can't fail No Nut November if you have no nuts. It takes less than a week for her to learn that not only do girls still have a libido, but also that it's actually even harder to keep herself in check than before due to now finding both her own reflection and her male best friend very attractive. She ends up intentionally losing the challenge on the final day in order to start a relationship with her male friend and lose her virginity, and only then remembers that the (alleged) point of No Nut November was to improve the virility of men that engaged in regular sex, so she didn't even need to participate in the first place.
    • "Magic Trick: The TG TCG" shows two characters playing the titular trading card game, with the overly serious player who intentionally styled his hair like Yugi Muto losing to a more casual player and getting transformed into the girl depicted in the last card he played, Courier Pidge the Harpy Girl. When "Pidge" panics, the casual player states that it can be reversed by beating him in another game; however, Pidge's new Feather Fingers are too thick to hold the cards, causing the casual player to fully realize what he's done and offer to make it up to her in other ways, starting by treating her to dinner.
  • Dramatic Irony: Some of the focal characters of the Hero Rehab series, such as Cassius/Cassie in "The Broodmare" and Karmirk/Karmilla in "The Nurse", are incredulous that some monsters working for the Demon King don't seem to know how to be what they are, oblivious to the fact that they're currently transforming into a Cute Monster Girl themselves and were likely talking to someone that had undergone a similar transformation and wasn't always their current form.
  • Dumb Is Good:
    • "Rehabilitation of a Hero: The Muscle" has its focal character, an insufferable archmagi halfling turned into a simple-minded female orc warrior named Juggz, come to the realization during her transformation that thinking made the old her sad and she's genuinely much happier now that she's dumb.
    • "Glory to the Hole!" is about a Harvard University law student named Bradley Wembleton, whose life was meticulously pre-planned by his overbearing parents and who never had a friend that his parents hadn't hired to spend time with him, declaring that he'd be happier as a cheap prostitute because at least he'd be in charge of his own life. He's then directed to a glory hole in a bar bathroom but enters the wrong stall by mistake, and he's suddenly subjected to Retconjuration, transforming him into a cheap female prostitute named Brandi Porter, who was kicked out of school for failing every class but art. True to her earlier word, she's indeed happier with this new life, helped by the fact that Brandi has actual friends that are fellow prostitutes, one of which is also an example of this trope due to being a law school graduate that realized that it was more fun and lucrative to work as a camgirl.
  • Easily Forgiven: At the end of "Princess Brimstone", the titular newly-transformed princess wishes to apologize to both Sir Leo and Princess Pom for hiding her love for Leo and repeatedly kidnapping Pom under the misguided assumption that she would reward Leo with a Standard Hero Reward. Leo claims there's no harm done; Leo realized early on that it was all an act and sees Brimstone as both a lover and a friend who helped set up adventures that let them travel across the whole world, while Pom is into being a Damsel in Distress and her only complaint is that her kingdom kept sending Leo to save her when she's actually attracted to ladies.
  • Exact Words: In "Magical Girl-ed", Uwusagi tries to convince people to sign a contract for "power, fame, fortune, a body that any girl would KILL for, and that [they would] always be surrounded by beautiful women", neglecting to mention that it's how they become, as the one-shot's title indicates, magical girls that end up killing each other when despair transforms them into monsters.
  • Eye Scream:
    • "A Pirate's Life For Me!" has Captain Vaughn Everett take a dagger to the eye as part of a magical contract to unleash their inner potential and become Captain Valentine.
    • "Spellbound" is about a fledgling witch named Beatrix "Bell" Belladonna, formerly known as a conscripted soldier against the Demon King named Benjamin Bell, whose right eye was slashed out by her former commander as punishment for deciding not to kill some innocent demon children and committing treason. Because the blow was struck with a silver sword, and silver resists magic, it couldn't be healed back when witches came to rescue her and help her transition to her true gender.
  • Familiar: Mira's Author Avatar, who is a witch, is frequently depicted with a black cat. It's revealed to not just be a Familiar (instead of a mere pet) in the "Origin" comics, but also the previous holder of the "Mistress of Transformations" title, who was cursed by a witch hunter and now needs to guide her successor.
  • First Period Panic: The "No Nuts November" story is presented as a series of journal entries from a guy that turned himself into a girl to try and win a month-long sexual abstinence challenge, falsely thinking that girls don't have strong libidos. One entry from near the end of the month is just her swearing as she experiences her first period, followed by an entry wishing to comfort every single woman she's ever met in her life for having to go through that much pain on a regular basis.
  • Flying Broomstick: "Wicked Witches" is about Mira Alcott teaching the witches, wizards, and warlocks of Sala City how to ride one, including brand-new initiate Victor/Victoria Moreno, the younger brother-turned-sister of goth coven member Jamie Moreno from "The PTA Vs. The Coven" and "Monster Coven!". According to Mira, devices made of natural components like an old broom's wooden handle are easier to use as a conduit for the natural magic emanating from the planet and thus why flying on one is a common trick. One girl nervously shows that all she had was a plastic Swiffer, but Mira mentions it can still be possible to ride it with a bit more "specialized" spellcasting.
  • Forced Transformation: Even if most of the focal characters accept their Gender Bender in the end (including any side effects that remove their humanity), the initial transformation is usually forced upon them. One of the few transformations that is both forced and undesired is from the "Origin" comic, wherein the previous Mistress of Transformations is hit by a witch hunter's curse and unwillingly transforms from a human witch into a black cat Familiar.
  • Formula-Breaking Episode:
    • The regular format of the Hero Rehab series has a human character, often but not always a "heroic" archetype such as a Barbarian Hero, Lovable Rogue, or Vampire Hunter, encountering the Demon King and being transformed into a Cute Monster Girl that decides to live with them in "the Night Tower". "Rehabilitation of a... VILLAIN?!" instead starts with a villainous monster, an undead Archlich necromancer, and has them regain their humanity before ascending to be a cute Seraph girl residing in "the Dawn Tower".
    • "Rehab of a Hero: The Spear of Truth", "Hero Rehab: Egg Knight vs. Trans Witch", and "Hero Rehab: Snake Charmer", titled as part of the main Hero Rehab series unlike spin-offs such as "The Demon Lord's Dungeoneer", are presented as more traditional comics instead of a sequence depicting a character's transformation while captured by the Demon King from said Demon King's perspective. In the first, the story is primarily told through the farm boy-turned-demon general's narration instead of through dialogue. In the second, the "hero" deals with one of the Monster Girls instead of the Demon King directly, and remains a human (though now a woman, as they had intended to become when going to challenge the Demon King). In the third, instead of being caught by the Demon King, the bard is transformed into a female Snake Person through magical instruments while auditioning for them.
  • Fun with Acronyms:
    • "Kitsune Catastrophe" focuses on members of MOM Incorporated's personal Artifact Collection Agency "S.L.A.Y", the latter standing for "Securement and Location of Arcane Yields".
    • The "Kaijune" series of pin-ups has "M.A.T.E.", the government's "Monster, Abnormality, and Tectonic Experiments" division that primarily deals with Kaiju going rogue during mating season.
  • Gag Censor: Although it is still treated as Mature Content and requires an account to access, artwork featured on Mira's DeviantArt account is less explicit compared to other hosting sites; in addition to featuring characters wearing clothing that does not expose themselves, it also indulges in this, such as by replacing a phallic-looking weapon with a grey blob labeled "Just A Regular Sword (TM)" or male genitalia with ice cream cones.
  • Gender Bender: Most of Mira's work depicts characters undergoing changes to their physical sex, but with few exceptions, the transformed was already an open or closeted Transgender person (and said exceptions accept the transformation for other reasons).
  • Generation Xerox: In "Spellbound", while Bell the witch doesn't take after either of her abusive parents that sold her into the army to cover gambling and drinking debts, it turns out she's quite identical to an "estranged Uncle" now known as her Aunt Camille Cascade, who saves Bell's life after they defect from the human army and helps them transition into a female witch. After Bell has a horrible time in Potions Class and accidentally transforms herself into a Half-Human Hybrid overcome with estrus that's part-cat, part-rabbit, and part-bird, Camille helps comfort her by admitting that in her own first potions class she accidentally became part-horse, part-lion, and part-bear, and was so intoxicated by her own estrus that she started exploring her new body in broad daylight.
  • Gilligan Cut:
    • The fifth entry of the Hero Rehab series, "Rehabilitation of a Hero: The Broodmare", has the first panel be of a captured male knight held in the Demon King's stables bragging that he'll be out of there in no time due to his "guards" being nothing but a bunch of fat old mare centaurs. The second panel shows that the insulted centaur ladies have broken both of his legs, with the knight demanding that the Demon King not say one word about it. Shortly after, he's completely indignant at being asked to groom the same centaurs that snapped his legs (which by this point are now horse legs as he slowly transforms into a centaur woman) but him stating that he'll never do it is interrupted by the next panel cutting to him doing it and stating it's the most satisfying thing he's ever done in his life.
    • The story attached to "Spellbound" has the fledgling and recently transitioned witch Bell accidentally fail at various other types of magic but still excited to try out a Potions Class in order to discover her true talent, declaring "Today is going to be AMAZING." It then cuts straight to after potions class, with her narration remarking "The day was not amazing" after accidentally mixing up some similar-sounding ingredients and turning her healing potion into an explosive that knocks her into some other chemicals, which transform her into a Half-Human Hybrid right at the start of an estrus cycle.
  • Go-Go Enslavement: In "Trans Warp", while the comic is mostly one huge Star Trek reference with outfit and spaceship designs, the montage of Private Branham's life after a spaceship's Trans-Warp Drive turns them into a woman includes a Star Wars-inspired moment where Branham's on a desert planet in a revealing concubine outfit, using the metal chain on her collar to choke an alien while shouting "I do not get paid enough for this!!!"
  • Go to the Euphemism: In the story attached to "Enchanted Sugar Skulls", the recently-transformed trans woman Isabella "Izzy" Garcia messages her friends Owen and Chloe (from "It's Just a Prank, Bro!") about how she visited relatives for Día de los Muertos, bit into a sugar skull her abuela made for her great-grandmother's ofrenda because it looked tasty, and was then transformed into a girl by her great-grandmother's spirit. When she gets to the part about immediately feeling weird after biting into the skull, Owen asks if she needed to poop, and an indignant Izzy replies "Ladies don't poop, we're just powdering our noses".
  • Headless Horseman: "Hero Rehab: Eepy Hollow" is a twist on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in which Ichabod Crane is transformed by ghosts into a Dullahan Centauress renamed Ichitha, and "Bromm" is her lover rather than a romantic rival.
  • Holodeck Malfunction: In "Trans Warp", the montage of Private Branham's life after a spaceship's Trans-Warp Drive turns them into a woman includes a moment in a holodeck where she's wrapped up by a tentacle monster and yelling "End simulation!", which the computer misinterprets as "Initiating stimulation!"
  • Homosexual Reproduction:
    • "Rehabilitation of a Hero 4: Greener Pastures" has a trespassing knight and his male squire captured by the Demon King's forces and transformed into cute goblin girls, but the squire's transformation is slightly slower, leading to them having sex with different genitals. By the time the former squire has become fully female, the former knight has become pregnant and demands that her partner take responsibility as a co-parent.
    • "How Your Mothers Met" has a man named Dean decide to give his roommate Albert a good Valentine's Day by using M.O.M. chocolates to transform into a girl named Dina for a blind date with him. When she arrives, she learns that Albert also used chocolates to become a girl named Alberta, who kept her male genitalia. After they end up having sex, it cuts to twenty years later, and reveals that they both stayed as women and became the biological parents of a member of the Sala City University Cheerleader Coven and her brothers-turned-sisters.
  • Hourglass Plot: In Part 1 of the "Beach Babe'ed" three-parter, a man is trying to show his shy friend how to be confident and pick up a date on the beach. In Part 3, the two men and the woman that was being flirted with have all changed genders, but now the formerly shy man is a bombshell that's exuding confidence and the formerly confident man is still adjusting to the change and acting shy. As a bonus, both Parts use nearly identical dialogue when the confident one is showing off how to flirt.
    The Confident One: "You ready to pick up some beach babes, [man / girl]?"
    The Shy One: "I dunno. You're so much better than me at it."
    The Confident One: "It's all about confidence! Watch and learn... Hey [girl / big guy]! Want some company?"
    The Beach Babe: "[Oooh, sure! / Huh? Oh, sure, babe!]"
  • Human Snowman "Slushie the Snow Woman" starts with a woman named Carol Norwood intentionally doing this with her boyfriend Noel Winters, before padding her chest and adding Mira's scarf and hat, which unintentionally and magically transforms Noel into an actual snow-woman.
  • Humongous Mecha: "Unit 63" and the successive "Kaijune" pin-ups feature the government organization M.A.T.E., which pilot these in order to deal with giant monsters. The mecha tend to be referred to as "Shells", mainly because the majority are modeled like female humans (as the majority of threats are male monsters with destructive mating habits) and AMAB pilots are encouraged (though not enforced) to undergo medical procedures to have matching bodies for synaptic feedback, making the pilots Shelled Eggs ("egg" being slang for a closeted transgender person).
  • An Ice Person:
    • "Slushie the Snow Woman" has a person transformed into a living snow-woman by her girlfriend.
    • Jacqueline (formerly Jack) Verglas in "Ice Queen" was a formerly meek meteorologist who Mother Nature herself turns into a literally cold-hearted ice elemental in order to actively fight against corporations that are ruining the environment and causing global warming.
  • Indy Escape: "The Demon Lord's Dungeoneer", part of the Hero Rehab series, has a male artificer that works as a professional dungeon architect give the Demon King a tour of the new nonlethal traps he installed in their dungeon by intentionally activating them, willingly turning into a small female minotaur in the process. It ends with her accidentally activating a lethal boulder trap she had also added for flair, and the Demon King having to run for his life with the "mini-taur" tucked under an arm.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: "Princess Brimstone" has the titular character, prior to actually becoming a princess, kidnap Princess Pomegranate from the Amanita Kingdom under the guise of coveting her but actually so the heroic Sir Leo could earn the Standard Hero Reward, secretly envying Pom's femininity and in love with Leo but raised by their tyrant father to view themself as nothing more than a monster. When Brimstone's Treacherous Advisor transforms them into a Draconic Humanoid woman, she learns soon after that Leo never had a chance with Pom due to Incompatible Orientation, and the story ends with Brimstone and Leo together and planning how to hook Pom up with a lady knight.
  • Jumping the Gender Barrier: Multiple comics and stories by Mira involve a pair of characters that start as friends, if not already in a relationship, whose bond only deepens after one (or both) undergo a Gender Bender. The trope page's current quote is from Mira's story "Fight Like A Girl", in which Ryuko (formerly Ryuji) McCormick protects her sensitive male friend AJ from bullies, is transformed into a girl by them under the (false) assumption that it would make her weaker, and then flirts with AJ.
    Ryu: I like you.
    Ryu: Like, like you, like you.
    Ryu: It kinda clicked for me after I turned into a girl and stuff.
    Ryu: And isn't like, "boyfriend" the next level of "best friend" if you think about it?
    Ryu: No deeper bond than a guy friend turning into his other guy friend's girlfriend.
  • Karmic Transformation: A reoccurring plot is that, if a character isn't literally asking for a transformation, they tend to cause one as a result of their own actions.
    • "E-Girl'd" has a misogynistic, sexist, toxic video game streamer and internet bully named Jack Reynolds tick off so many game-playing witches at once (including one implied to be Mira herself) that they send multiple curses his way, turning him into a girl named Jacqueline that becomes more gentle and feminine the more donations and subscriptions she receives. The curse from "TFMistress" at least includes a clause where Jacqueline can choose to return to her old form after learning her lesson, but given that her "rebranding" has led to a sponsorship with MOM Inc., 69,000 viewers, and thousands of dollars of donations, going back is implied to be very unlikely.
    • "Hero Rehab: The Nurse" has a male Vampire Hunter taken to the Demon King's infirmary after getting injured and captured, receive an emergency blood transfusion from a vampire when his wounds reopen during an escape attempt, and turn into a female vampire. She's initially in denial (about the vampirism, not her gender) and asks for more "healing potion" in exchange for using her knowledge on monster anatomy to become the head physician, and considers herself a monster after a moment of uncontrolled bloodlust, but accepts her new identity in the end after her talents are needed to deliver the goblin couple's clutch.
    • The story connected to "The Bigger They Are..." has a 7'5" university athlete named Miles Leducky mock the height of the shortest girl in school, who knows magic and transforms them into a 4'7" girl named Misty (smaller than the spellcaster herself). She accepts her new identity primarily because her family and friends had set expectations for her in her previous life, such as being pressured to play basketball instead of joining the swim club, that she's now free from.
    • In "Unwrapped", Santa Claus transforms a guy named Chris who failed to get his roommate a gift into a girl because the roommate wanted a girlfriend for Christmas, and while "Christine" ultimately ends up having a good time (primarily because she was genuinely attracted to the roommate even before the transformation), she's still initially outraged at Santa transforming her without asking first and leaving her with a stacked body that'll cause a hassle when she goes back to work. In its Sequel Episode "Kramped", Santa visits Mira Alcott's house and accidentally triggers her protection wards, turning into a stacked goatwoman renamed Krampus Claus that struggles to fit down chimneys for the rest of the night as she completes her own work.
    • In the epilogue for "He was a Skater Girl", Kevin Krow intentionally attempts to grind the gender-changing stairway after getting beaten by his now-female rivals, thinking it will put him on even footing. Instead, he flubs the trick and becomes a woman so plump that her weight snaps her skateboard in half.
    • The story connected to "Kitsune Catastrophe" is about a squad in MOM Incorporated's S.L.A.Y. division dealing with an Asian Fox Spirit that breaks loose. The majority of the squad is shown to be transphobic, one claiming that transgender people using MOM products aren't "real" women and most of the others agreeing, and end up transformed and brainwashed into fox girls that desire to expand their sisterhood and find mates. In comparison, focal character Emily (formerly Emile) Sylvester also transforms into a fox girl, but was already transgender and about to start transitioning on her own and, coupled with her love of the non-transphobic Takeshi Ishioka (whose safety equipment remained intact and prevents him from transforming), she is able to retain her sanity.
  • Kaiju:
    • "Kaijune" has a swimmer exposed to MOM Inc. toxic waste accidentally leaked into the ocean transform into a skyscraper-sized lizard woman, who immediately has a panic attack over losing the ability to speak and their size endangering other people. A Humongous Mecha pilot (the girl from "Unit 63") then arrives and, instead of fighting the lizard woman, manages to communicate through non-verbal interactions and then safely relocates her to a nature preserve for similarly large and sentient beings.
    • Sequel Episode "Kaijune: Monster Girl Summer" has another transgender Humongous Mecha pilot from the US military's M.A.T.E. division, named Ridley "Gunny" Dam, deal with former human man and (thanks to more MOM Inc. toxic waste) current giant monster girl Gammy Rahra during her rather destructive estrus cycle.
  • Legacy Character: The "Origin" comics reveal that the title of The Transformistress is this. Mira inherited it after getting caught in a fight between her predecessor, Morgan Le Fay, and a witch hunter, which resulted in Morgan getting hit with a curse that transformed her into a mere Familiar and bequeathing her powers to Mira while she still could.
  • Lightning Can Do Anything:
    • "G-G-G-Ghost Girl TGTF Sequence" has Mira zap a man asking if she can make him a Cute Ghost Girl for Halloween, which seems to actually kill him and then has a female ghost in Japanese attire manifest from the corpse...more specifically, out of its erection.
    • The transformation in "The Trans Skill Tree" is caused by lightning striking a satellite dish and travelling through the wiring straight into a shut-in gamer at their keyboard, giving them the ability to "Level Up" in real life and change their appearance to match their female Cat Girl avatar.
  • Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: There are numerous comics which feature anthropomorphic animal people, and at various points in the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, though any lack of consistency can be explained by many of her comics being commissioned by a wide variety of people. For example, "The Queen Bee" has a retiring human male beekeeper see his bees as regular insects until they magically shrink him to their size & transform him into their queen, at which point she sees them and herself as anthropomorphic, while "Mascot Mask Off" has an ordinary AMAB human becoming an anthropomorphic Saber-tooth tiger woman that's able to pass herself off as still human because of the setting's Perception Filter, and "Shark Bait TG" has a shark person that's openly acknowledged as one by their friend instead of disguised by "The Veil", who starts as a male anthropomorphic shark before transforming into a Little Bit Beastly woman with shark features.
  • Literal Genie:
    • The various transformations in the "Beach Babe'ed" three-parter are all caused by one that takes the form of a spirit in a conch shell, starting with a shy man looking at his confident friend flirt with a girl and stating "I wish I could get a beach babe like him" (which transforms the "him" into a beach babe the wisher is attracted to), followed by the two having sex and the girl saying "I wish you could feel this" (which transforms the other man into a girl), and ending with noticing the originally transformed girl is feeling bashful and saying "I just wish there was a cute guy here to cheer you up" (which transforms the girl from the first part into a guy).
    • Played with in "Genie(s) in a Bottle", wherein a man finds a genie in a lamp and spends his first two wishes on "a body all women would desire" and "for the most beautiful concubine in all the land to be here". The genie turns the wisher into a beautiful concubine and smugly says that he should've been more careful with his words, but is interrupted by being kissed, with the wisher saying this is actually exactly what she wanted. The wisher then asks if they can be girlfriends and, after a few "gay Arabic sounds" from the flustered genie to confirm a mutual attraction, spends her last wish to join her as a genie of the lamp.
  • Living Toys: "Build-A-Babe Workshop" has an AMAB person pleading to god to make them a girl, when their collection of stuffed animals suddenly come to life and help their "Miss Casey" choose what kind of girl she'd like to be and add "stuffing" in all of the right places.
  • Lovable Rogue:
    • "Rehabilitation of a Hero: Gold Digger" stars Guyver Gallenheart, "Gentleman Thief" and Rogue of the Road. He broke into the Demon King's treasure vault and gets kept there instead of locked up in a cell, and ends up transforming into a female kobold due to a cursed gauntlet there that someone had given the Demon King as a booby-trapped gift. After dealing with a brief panic attack upon turning into a monster and then loving how gold feels on her new scales, "Glitter Goldenscale, the Treasurer" then uses her free time to properly evaluate all of the treasure in the vault, and is so good at differentiating cubic zirconia gifted by con artists from actual diamond that the Demon King grants her freedom and allows her to keep half of everything she appraises if she continues working for them.
    • "Booby Trap" is a one-shot about Eylul Anwir, Rogue of the Westershore Adventurer's Guild, who died to a Chest Monster while trying to get the first cut of a dungeon's loot and ends up turned into a woman and fused with the beast when her party's cleric's resurrection spell goes awry (which is also a Karmic Transformation, as she's unable to get her cursed form easily fixed due to robbing from the temples of higher-level clerics in the past). And yet, this hasn't stopped her from planning to infiltrate the kingdom's Royal Vault under the guise of an ordinary treasure chest and loot it dry.
  • Louis Cypher: Mr. Phisto of Fall & Angel Records is, in fact, the demon (or rather, Fallen Angel) Mephistopheles.
  • Mad Scientist: "Dr. Bender" has the titular Dr. Bolivia Van Bender, who has the bravado of a supervillain and tries to "attack" Sala City with her Gender Ray (a laser gun that makes people undergo a Gender Bender) before admitting to the vigilante superhero she transforms into a heroine that she's using her goggles to identify gender dysphoria and wants to destroy social norms without actually hurting people. The vigilante also figures out that Bolivia is a trans woman that used the ray on herself first.
  • Mating Season Mayhem:
    • The second "Kaijune" story states that the primary reason for giant monster attacks is the hormones from mating season clouding the monster's senses, and upon learning this, the government quickly transitioned from fighting them off to merely restraining and stimulating them.
    • "Spellbound" has Bell, upon accidentally transforming into a Half-Human Hybrid with some spilled potions, immediately go into estrus and compelled to touch herself once the potions classroom is evacuated. Afterwards, while Bell is feeling horrible for causing yet another magical mishap, her aunt comforts her by revealing she had her own similar mishap at her age and the urge to touch herself was so strong that she couldn't even wait for privacy before giving into it.
    • "Aliens abducted me and turned me into a cute alien girl!?" ends with Captain Cordelia of the aliens realizing she's forgotten to inform their abductee and new chief science officer that their race has an estrus cycle, but when she goes to her room to warn her, she's already having sex with the other two crewmates and demands privacy.
  • MegaCorp: A reoccurring presence in Mira's stories is "MOM Incorporated", a magical business that creates instant gender-modifying products such as digestible pills. However, it's also indicated that the company is corrupt; they only provide products to the magically-inclined, some products are intended to be temporary in order to facilitate multiple purchases while others could be used to permanently transform people against their consent, there are at least three instances of an AMAB person being transformed due to toxic waste they've dumped into swamps and oceans, and the way they warp mana to make their products diminishes what's meant to be a renewable resource and could cause long-term consequences for all spellcasters.
  • The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: In "We'll Always Have Paris", the second part of the Body Surf story, the body surfer avoids getting caught by Mira's Author Avatar by swapping from her previous body to a French model named Brigitte and then to an American tourist named Frank Davis, resulting in Frank's mind now in Brigitte's body with a perfect French vocabulary but unable to speak a word of their original native tongue before retaking some English classes.
  • Mother Nature: She's a reoccurring minor character in the Shared Universe, who appears as a large pink spirit with a flower crown and chest coverings shaped like the planet's continents. She can magically transform people to either increase fertility (such as in "March Needs Moms 2022") or help them fight against those ruining the environment (such as in "Ice Queen"). "Wicked Witches" has Mira mention that Mother Nature is also responsible for the mana that powers all magic in the world, and hints that one of the main reasons she's the Arch-Enemy of MegaCorp MOM Inc. is because their magical products with toxic byproducts are diminishing mana instead of using it as a renewable resource.
  • Mouse World:
    • The "furry" version of "Gym Rat" has the human man-turned-human woman-turned-female mouse escape from a jealous witch by running into a mousehole at the gym, and discovers a bunch of sentient male mice that have set up their own gym with workout equipment.
    • "The Queen Bee" has a retiring beekeeper see the bees he's taken care of as ordinary insects until they transform him into their queen, at which point they're all depicted as sentient anthropomorphs and she's given her own throne to sit upon.
  • Multiboobage:
    • Helena in the Hero Rehab series ends up with four breasts as part of her cow-like minotaur transformation.
    • "Doggy Style" has a couple decide to use a magic lotion to transform themselves and spice up their love life, with "Tammy" transforming from a regular guy to a girl with dog ears, a dog tail, and multiple breasts.
  • Never Trust a Title: "The PTA Vs. The Coven" has the Sala City University Cheerleader Coven deal with six visitors. Only two of the visitors are actually a parent or teacher, with three being younger siblings of a recent Coven recruit that want their "brother" back (but are willing to all be sisters instead), and the last visitor, Jamie Moreno, explicitly saying they're not with the rest of the group and just wants their transformed cousin's help to magically attain her ideal hot goth body.
  • Nosebleed: In "Dr. Bender", after the trans superheroine Dartfrog approaches Dr. Bolivia Van Bender to thank them for giving her a female body, her breasts bloat as she ribbits and briefly smother Bolivia. When they retract in the next panel, Bolivia's face is flushed and her nose is bleeding; by the end of the comic, they're dating each other.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: The "protagonist" of the Hero Rehab series is the Demon King, an imposing, always-helmeted figure in black armor with a skull chest plate that the other kingdoms of the world consider to be evil. However, it quickly becomes apparent that his "evil" is merely the dismantling of traditional gender roles and using "witchcraft" to transform people into their preferred sex, and the actual danger is the commanders willing to go as far as torch their own villages just to keep them from becoming a part of the Demon King's territory.
  • Not What It Looks Like: "Hero Rehab: Another One For The Harem" has a guy named Hiro Trapped in Another World after touching one of Mira's magic mirrors and be treated by the locals as a hero, who then send him to take out the Demon King. It turns out that Hiro never wanted to be a fighter and also has a huge masochistic streak, so upon learning that the Demon King is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood, he willingly transforms himself into a female concubine renamed Chihiro (with the Demon King hastily clarifying that they don't actually engage in any kind of slavery in their Demon Kingdom, though some other kingdoms in their world do). In an addendum contributed by Vyria Durav (credited by Mira as "Vyria, the Dragon Girl Wordsmith, Court Stenographer of the Night Tower"), it then cuts ahead to another trapped-in-that-world hero that knew Hiro storming the Demon King's castle and seeing Chihiro acting like a Damsel in Distress, with the Demon King hastily trying to explain that it's just consensual roleplaying and then desperately screaming out a safeword so Chihiro breaks character and tells the truth before the hero attempts to actually slay them.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: "Year of the Dragon... Maid!?" has the cheerleader coven of Sala City University set up a tea house to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but hiding the fact that they're using the Kemono Tea from Mice Tea. When it transforms a closeted trans student named Min Long into a dragon woman named Mei, Amy, the cheerleader that served her, decides to have some fun, secretly casting a spell to change Mei's outfit into work attire and then pretending to mistake her for a new employee. However, when this leads to Mei pleasuring herself in a moment of assumed privacy but then calling herself a disgusting pervert for enjoying it, Amy confesses to transforming her, and helps Mei understand she doesn't need to feel ashamed for embracing her true self.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: In the epilogue of "He was a Skater Girl", Kevin Krow becomes "Karen" after her own attempt at grinding the stairway goes awry. She loudly confronts her rivals at a restaurant soon after, and when a waitress tries to stop her from making a scene, she's insulted and demands to speak with her manager.
  • One-Steve Limit: An Averted Trope.
    • "E-Girl'd" and "Ice Queen" both feature an AMAB person named Jack (last name Reynolds in the former, Verglas in the latter) that's transformed into a woman renamed Jacqueline.
    • Both "How Your Mothers Met" and "Mother Knows Best", publicly released within a month of each other, star different AMAB people named Dean that are transformed into mothers renamed Dina (by MOM chocolates and sexual intercourse in the former and by Mother Nature in the latter).
  • Origins Episode: The three-part "Origin" comic, as its title indicates, is one of these, revealing how Mira Alcott became The Transformistress (and a woman, having been AMAB). It turns out she's a Legacy Character in-universe, as the previous "Mistress of Transformations", Morgan Le Fay, bequeathed her powers and title to Mira after a witch hunter cursed Morgan into a non-human form.
  • Or Was It a Dream?: "Nightmare on Egg Street" is a Whole-Plot Reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street, with a guy in denial that he's a closeted trans person dreaming about "Freddi Cougar" slashing their manhood away with Wolverine Claws and forcibly transforming them into an anthropomorphic female cockroach. When she awakens back in her bedroom in the morning, she's no longer a cockroach but she is still a girl, and it ends with her happily stating "if you transition in your dreams, you transition in real life".
  • Overnight Age-Up:
    • Multiple comics involving Mother Nature have her transform youthful people into mothers, such as in "March Needs Moms 2022", in which a random guy, Mira Alcott, and Mira's Familiar Morgan all become mothers with notably distended bellies in an instant.
    • "Reincarnated... As The Hero's Mom?!" has a youthful man turn into the 38-year-old mother of The Chosen One, stating during the transformation that they feel so old now.
    • "Mother Daughter Bonding" has a drunk Mira Alcott deciding to help two men having midlife crises, one regretful at missing the chance to raise a family and the other at not making the most of their youth, by casting a Retconjuration spell to age the former by ten years, de-age the latter by ten years, turn them both into women, and have the former now married to the latter's father.
    • "April has AUNTS!" focuses on a twenty-year-old man turned into a forty-year-old woman.
  • Parental Substitute: An odd case occurs in the "Office Transfer" story, the third part of the Body Surf narrative in which the surfer, among other swaps, puts a Japanese mother of three (Mrs. Fumiko Sasaki) into the body of an American man (Frank Davis, from the second part) and a Japanese delinquent (Haruto Masuda) into Fumiko's body, meaning the substitute looks and is now named just like the original. The former Fumiko immediately ditches his "snot-nosed brats" and "worthless husband" to go back to college, and his replacement initially has a minor mental breakdown because she doesn't know how to be a mom when she never knew her own, but ends up actually being a better parent than the original because she genuinely cares about the kids.
  • Perception Filter: Addressed in "Mascot Mask Off", in which an AMAB student wearing a Goofy Suit of a saber-tooth tiger as part of the cheer squad is transformed into an anthropomorphic female saber-tooth tiger, but is treated by her peers as a human woman. It's known in the Shared Universe as the effect of an ancient spell known as "The Veil", and ensures that only those that have been directly touched by magic can see its effects.
  • Playboy Bunny:
    • In "Playboy Bunny'd TG", the most loyal customer of a club that exclusively staffs women wearing these is given the opportunity to work there to reward their patronage, transforming from Clint to Claudia.
    • "Playboy Bunny'd 2", the Sequel Episode, has an AMAB person crossdressing as one while wishing to really have a female body, and then magically transforming to have one.
    • In "Casino Bunnies" (written by HopeTG), a magical "Bunny-chan" slot machine turns the gamblers playing it into a pair of women wearing these, who then get mistaken for casino staff but end up loving the attention.
    • In "Final Girls", one of the victims of The Man-Eater Sisters is forced to dress as one when the manhood killers want to have a photo shoot with their latest victims.
    • In "To Be or Not to Bunny", a lesbian blackjack dealer uses magic to identify that the nervous guy trying to ask her out is 100% a girl inside and makes the ensuing gender transformation come with a bunny suit "for funsies".
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Kevin Krow, from the He was a Skater Girl story, refers to the Transformistress' Author Avatar as a "bitch with big tits" in his Establishing Character Moment, and then calls one of his male friends a bitch as well for calling out his sexism. He quickly transitions from just a regular jackass to the story's main villain when he admits that he was fully aware of the stairway's gender transformative effect and intentionally goaded his male friends into grinding down it, because "girls can't skate" and he'd thus be unopposed in an upcoming skating tournament.
  • Porn with Plot: Although Mira's work is primarily NSFW, the erotic elements are intertwined with stories of Transgender euphoria, with exploring sexuality being just one element of characters identifying and embracing their ideal bodies.
  • Punny Name: The characters in Mira's stories occasionally have names that reference their current situation and/or notable works of media that inspired them, such as the main pair of the Frosty the Snowman-inspired "Slushie the Snow Woman" being named Carol (as in Christmas Carols) Norwood and Noel (meaning "of or born on Christmas") Winters, and the main pair of "Kaijune: Monster Girl Summer" being Humongous Mecha pilot Ridley "Gunny" Dam (named after Gundam, the famous mecha series), and Kaiju girl Gammy Rahra (named after legendary giant monster Gamera).
  • Queer Colors:
    • Mira's Author Avatar is always depicted with a scarf patterned after the Transgender Pride flag, and Mira herself is a transgender woman.
    • Sala City University, a reoccurring location in her works, has white, blue, and pink (the Trans Pride flag colors) as its school colors and is where a lot of students undergo a Gender Bender and realize they were a transgender "egg" waiting to hatch. "Mascot Mask Off" shows that the school's rivals from Lascivi City have their own school colors based on the Nonbinary Pride flag.
    • In He was a Skater Girl, Jaiden "Blu Jay" Johnson's skateboard deck is patterned after the Bisexual Pride flag and he was attracted to Red both before and after Red's gender transformation. Later, after relearning how to skate with their new female proportions, Red "Robynne" Reynolds has swapped her old white-red-and-blue deck with one patterned after the Trans Pride flag.
  • Reincarnate in Another World:
    • "Help, I Was Reincarnated as a Bunny Girl", as its title indicates, is a pin-up and attached story about two unconnected people, a guy and a girl, dying at roughly the same time and having their wishes to be reincarnated into another world granted, but a mix-up has the girl become the male hero and the guy become a member of the hero's ten-girl harem.
    • "Reincarnated... As The Hero's Mom?!", as its own title indicates, has a guy deliberately not look for oncoming traffic before crossing a street, and when the inevitable occurs, an angel from the Isekai Afterlife Agency assigns him a new life as the mother of The Chosen One (complete with Motherly Side Plait). Realizing she's just going to die again from Death by Origin Story, she immediately tries to go into hiding as a barmaid, but it takes a mere week for the tavern keeper to notice her kid's Birthmark of Destiny.
    • "Reborn as the DEMON QUEEN!!! But I'm just too nice?!" has a male construction worker reborn as the queen of an undead horde after dying from bowel distress. Unfortunately, she's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain; her plague of locusts ends up saving crops from kudzu overgrowth, her "man-killing poison" just helps trans women transition, and the king she beheads turns out to be a tyrant and the local villagers pledge their fealty to her as thanks. It then turns out to be a Sequel Episode to "Reincarnated... As The Hero's Mom?!" with The Chosen One now all grown-up, and he turns out to be equally ineffectual; he was tasked with beheading her, but when he notices she's depressed from all of her screw-ups, he instead takes her out for drinks at his mom's bar and ends up sleeping with the Demon Queen.
  • Retconjuration: In multiple stories, not only does a person undergo a Gender Bender, the world's magical Perception Filter rewrites history so they've always been their new gender, with the exception of the Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory of the transformed and whoever caused the transformation. For example, the time-watches breaking in "Christmas Belles" and "Tokugawa Time Twister" have the transformed time travelers' new identities immediately recognized by people in the eras they're now trapped in, and Cass choosing to go "Stealth Mode" instead of "Cracked Egg" in "The Trans Skill Tree" has old photos depict her new body and a laundry bin with boxers discarded nearby suddenly morph into a wardrobe with a bra and panties hanging off of it.
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: In multiple stories by Mira, people subjected to Retconjuration so nobody questions their new gender can still recall the events of their original life alongside their new memories, such as the focal character of "No Nuts November" finding it weird that her ability to play video games suddenly tanked until realizing she played with dollhouses and make-up in her new childhood, and "Karma" Vázquez still remembering life as Carlos in addition to her new life as a college graduate in "April Has AUNTS!".
  • Rubber Man: Mortar from the Brick and Mortar series; as explained in the description for "Brick and Mortar 2: Double D Bubble", she fell into a vat of chemical gum base and got bubblegum-themed superpowers, letting her stretch her limbs or inflate herself like a bubble.
  • Save the Princess: Played with in "Princess Brimstone", wherein the new Dragon King Brimstone, wanting to secretly repay the kindness of the heroic Sir Leo that once rescued him from hunters and later slew his abusive tyrant father, decides to kidnap the Spoiled Brat Princess Pom so Leo could rescue her and get a Standard Hero Reward. When Pom and Leo don't get married afterwards, Brimstone repeats over and over again, to the point that his own kobold Treacherous Advisor gets tired and decides to usurp control by transforming the mighty dragon into a mere Draconic Humanoid woman, assuming (incorrectly) that it would also limit Brimstone's power. Then Leo saves Brimstone and informs the new Queen that Pom is actually a lesbian, followed by them beating Brimstone's advisor together and hooking up while planning to set Pom up with a lady knight.
  • Second Law of Gender-Bending: The majority of characters transformed in Mira's works were suffering from body dysphoria before their Gender Bender, and embrace their new identity. The exceptions still tend to prefer their new form due to reasons not directly tied to their gender, like Jacqueline Verglas in "Ice Queen", who uses her new ice powers and cold-hearted personality to fight against climate change, and the city clerk Toshiro Arata (now "Ribbon Sailor Rose") from "Magical Girl-ed", who doesn't care what gender they are as long as they can do their job.
  • Shared Universe: Most of Mira's art and short stories are set in a place called Sala City, and reference the events of each other, such as a Veiled Marina Melville from "She Came from the Pink Lagoon!" being mentioned as a member of the swim team that Misty Leducky joins in "The Bigger They Are...", and the new Brigitte & her bisexual fiancé from the Body Surf story arc appearing at the end of "The Designer" to ask for a wedding dress design. "Hero Rehab: Another One For The Harem" then connects the Sala City setting to the Hero Rehab setting by making the latter accessible through a magical mirror Mira Alcott is selling at a yard sale.
  • Sobriquet Sex Switch: Characters that transition rarely adopt a new name that's radically different from their deadname. Beck becomes Becky, Dean becomes Dina, Emile becomes Emily, Jack becomes Jacqueline, Karmirk becomes Karmilla, Ryuji becomes Ryuko, Victor becomes Victoria, and so forth.
  • Southern-Fried Genius: "Aliens abducted me and turned me into a cute alien girl!?" stars a man in a trucker hat and overalls, drinking beer in a field with a telescope while marveling at the "great starry wonder" with a Southern accent. After he's abducted and transformed into a female alien (which she immediately accepts, having always wanted to be an astronaut and a girl) and told that they now need to conduct "invasive procedures" on her to gain some necessary data on gene editing and transform the rest of the crew into girls as well, it turns out she's already a doctor of genetic engineering that can immediately solve their problem.
  • Spider-Sense: "L L Toe Beans" starts with a bat-person trying to buy a gift for a female friend and musing that it would be easier if he knew what girls liked, causing wolf-Mira nearby to snap to attention while an aura in the colors and pattern of the Trans Pride Flag radiates from her, immediately identifying the bat-person as Trans.
  • Sssssnake Talk: "Hero Rehab: Snake Charmer" has a male human bard transform into a snake girl after getting performance anxiety and buying some magical instruments for their audition for the Demon King. It also gives her this kind of lisp, to the point that her new name and title are written as "Sssselina Ssssonghart, the Ssssnake Charmer" in the final panel.
  • Stable Time Loop: In "Christmas Belles", a time traveler wants to meet Leonardo Da Vinci, but ended up in Victorian London (the wrong era and country) and is informed by his friend that he's more likely to meet said friend's great-great-grandmother Mathilda Renshaw. When his time-watch breaks, he's transformed into a Victorian lady, and ends up becoming the mother of Mathilda Renshaw.
  • Super Gender-Bender: Multiple characters in Mira's stories gain innate powers, or at least the potential to become a spellcaster, after having their physical sex changed, and in all of these cases the transformed characters vastly prefer their new forms. Examples include Mira Alcott herself, who was AMAB but gained a body that matched her inner gender when inheriting the title of Transformistress; Jacqueline Verglas from "Ice Queen", whose transformation from a human man into An Ice Person also made her a woman because it was caused by Mother Nature herself; and Sabie Kim from "Mascot Mask Off", who appears to have just become a saber-tooth Cat Girl in her focal story but cameos in the story attached to "Wicked Witches" as part of the group of new witches learning how to ride a Flying Broomstick.
  • Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: While some of the depictions of transgender euphoria in Mira's works are caused by an item or spell that is not specific to the person undergoing a Gender Bender, there are also numerous cases in which some form of magic confirms that a person's trans body is their true form.
    • While some of the new traps for the Demon King's dungeon demonstrated in "The Demon Lord's Dungeoneer" are general feminizers, the "piece de resistance" is a set of magical Beholder eyes that size up invading heroes and identify which species of Cute Monster Girl would fit them the best.
    • "Home (Office) for the Holidays" has Mira Alcott use magical "Egg-o-Vision" to identify that the new janitor she hired has a female soul before "altering their resume" with magic to give them a matching physical body.
    • In "To Be or Not to Bunny", the lesbian blackjack dealer uses her own magically enhanced sight to read the soul of the guy trying to ask her out and identifies that he's 100% a girl on the inside before using magic to give them a matching body.
    • In "Wicked Witches", Mira Alcott identifies Victor Moreno's camera as their "wand", a tool of significant meaning to its user that can be used as a magic conduit. She then takes Victor's photo with it, which depicts them as a woman while magically changing their actual body to match, with her renaming herself Victoria soon after.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • The original "Rehabilitation of a Hero TG" comic has a hero being kept prisoner in the Demon King's dark tower while slowly transforming into a woman and becoming their Queen. Midway through, while still upset at being in captivity, they state "No matter how many presents you bring, or how nice your little visits are, I remain your sworn enemy! Remember that! I'll defeat you, no matter how nice you look under that helmet."
    • In the pin-up for "Glory to the Hole!", "Brandi" laments being transformed into a female prostitute and suddenly finds herself addicted to sex, "Um, j-just cuz of the curse, of course! Not like I want to or anything!"
    • In "Pastel Games", a couple of guys from the "Society of True Men" make a deal with some programmers from Pastel World Games, where the programmers have to admit the Society's superiority if they can beat Pastel World's Virtual Reality game. By the time the "guys" reach the final boss, they've become Magical Girl Warriors in frilly dresses firing prismatic rays in the Trans Pride flag colors and shouting "DON'T READ INTO THIIIIISS~~~~!!!" unprompted. Once they win, and also realize they've become girls in reality as well, they agree to change the deal with Pastel Worlds to instead be hired by them with a full benefits package.
  • Take a Third Option: In "Princess Brimstone", the titular Brimstone is repeatedly asked the same question by their tyrannical father Ignatious: "Are you a MAN? Or are you a MONSTER?", forcing Brimstone to eventually pick "monster" and unwillingly inherit Ignatious's legacy. Towards the end, after their Treacherous Advisor turns Brimstone into a Draconic Humanoid woman, tries to kill Brimstone and her beloved Sir Leo, and asks the same question, Brimstone musters her resolve and has a new answer: neither, because she's a Queen.
  • Talking Weapon: In "Rehab of a Hero: The Spear of Truth", the titular spear has one eye and can talk to the farm boy that finds it at the remains of his destroyed village, having been left behind by the Demon King's forces and promising to help the boy avenge his family if they work together. It then tries to tell the boy that the true culprit was actually other humans and the Demon King's forces were trying to save the village, but it's not believed until after the boy has transformed into a female warrior demon and catches some humans torching another town.
  • Theme Naming: The main trio of He was a Skater Girl are all named after birds: Kevin Krow, Jaiden "Blu Jay" Johnson, and Red "Robin" Reynolds. Fittingly, the story's cover is also based on the covers of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games.
  • Trans Tribulations: For the most part, this is averted, due to Mira's stories focusing on the euphoria that comes from attaining a physical body that matches your inner gender. One effect of "The Veil" even causes Retconjuration so people will have always perceived a transformed person as their new physical sex if the sudden change would have caused problems. However, there are exceptions, usually involving people that haven't transitioned yet:
    • The father from "The PTA Vs. The Coven" is upset about having a trans daughter because he's convinced himself his own trans desires was just a phase. Realizing that wasn't the case and he's miserable as an adult man, the coven transform the father into a woman, and she apologizes for not being more supportive of her daughter earlier.
    • Marina Melville from "She Came from the Pink Lagoon!" was bullied so much before her transformation that she became a Death Seeker.
    • Emily Sylvester from "Kitsune Catastrophe" hid her nature as a trans girl from her transphobic coworkers, with it being sheer coincidence that the day she finally decides to be open about it is the day that an escaped anomaly turns her and the coworkers into fox girls.
    • Bell from "Spellbound" gained the mocking nickname "Dead Man" back when she was a man conscripted into the war against the Demon King because her clear lack of masculinity or killing instinct made her a liability in battle. Even as a female witch on the Demon King's side, she lacks self-confidence when it comes to both her new appearance and her new powers, and the story ends with her aunt comforting and encouraging her by stating Bell is going to grow up to be one of the wisest witches because she keeps learning and adapting after every mistake she makes.
  • Trapped in the Past: Both "Christmas Belles" and its sequel "Tokugawa Time Twister" focus on a man going back in time, bumping into someone, and accidentally breaking their time-watch almost immediately, with their anachronistic presence "fixed" by transforming them into era-appropriate women complete with a new lifetime of memories existing concurrently with their original minds.
  • Treacherous Advisor: "Princess Brimstone" has Kyrekk, a kobold advisor loyal to the tyrannical dragon King Ignatious and less impressed by Ignatious' child Brimstone, who spends all their time kidnapping a princess and fighting a knight (secretly in order to help the knight get a Standard Hero Reward) instead of conquering territory. Kyrekk ends up transforming Brimstone into a mere Draconic Humanoid woman and then, when Leo arrives to rescue her, tries to kill them both, only to be turned to ash when Brimstone realizes she hasn't lost her powers.
  • Truly Single Parent: The "May-terninty" comic has three men make a thousand-dollar bet involving wearing a pregnancy simulator for the length of an actual pregnancy. The devices turn out to be magical and transform them into pregnant women; while two of them get married and raise their children together, no sex was involved in the conception of the kids.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Most of the time in Mira's comics and stories, a person being subjected to a supernatural Gender Bender is one of these. Usually that's due to the setting's Perception Filter, but there are also plenty of cases where a person immediately notices the change and just accepts it, like in "Slushie the Snow Woman" where Carol Norwood's reaction to accidentally turning her boyfriend into a living snow-woman is to comment on "Slushie's" huge chest, and in "Mew Year, Mew You!" where a girl arrives home right after her boyfriend is transformed by the Goddess haunting the statue he broke into a tiger Cat Girl and it cuts to them cuddling in bed together ten minutes later.
  • Wacky Marriage Proposal: At the end of the story attached to "Kitsune Catastrophe", Takeshi and Emily manage to escape from the rampaging Asian Fox Spirit by having sex, as the spirit is also a fertility goddess and honor-bound to not break up a couple. When Emily asks what Takeshi plans to do if she winds up pregnant, he immediately gets down on one knee and pulls out a "tactical engagement ring" from his security uniform that perfectly fits Emily's finger, stoically claiming that he's always prepared before cracking a smile and the two laughing together.
  • Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child:
    • This is part of the plot of "The PTA Vs. The Coven"; the coach upset at the coven for gender-bending his football team gets turned into a woman and encouraged to focus on the school's swim team, which she's interested in but her own father said that swimming was for girls (to which a cheerleader replies "Your dad's a doink!"), while the father of a recent coven recruit is upset over his trans daughter's transformation because he thought his own trans desires were just a phase, only to realize that he's miserable as an adult man, so the coven transforms him into a woman as well and she tearfully apologizes for not being supportive earlier.
    • In "Kitsune Catastrophe", before working for S.L.A.Y. and her transformation into a fox girl, Emily Sylvester's father "thrust manhood onto her like a mantle", forcing her into sports and the military and making her question if she wanted to be a woman just because she was "just not good enough to BE a man".
  • Weird Weather: "The Trans Tsunami Turned my Nerdy Son Into A Girl!" and Sequel Episode "April Showers Bring May Flowers" involve the titular tsunami that hits Sala City and the following magical rainfall that causes anyone that gets wet to have their life magically rewritten so they've always been the opposite gender, with the exception of non-binary people that don't have an "opposite" to change to. It's also stated that a secondary exposure to the magical rain undoes the change if the person is truly unhappy with their new gender, though it can take over a month for that specific type of rain to reoccur.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Body Surf story arc, Part 2 mentions what happened to the body of Peggy's initial victim Trent Masterson (the French model put into it decided "c'est la vie" and used Trent's high-class background to live in luxury), and Part 3 mentions what happened to Frank Davis' body after she escaped from Mira Alcott with it (the neglectful Japanese mother put into it decided to ditch her old family and go back to college), but what happened to the body of Akio Ishikawa between Parts 3 and 4 after using it to escape from Mira again is never addressed.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: Some of the comics are parodies of famous works of media, with titles that are puns based on the work.
    • "Nightmare on Egg Street" is based on A Nightmare on Elm Street, with a teenager dreaming about an encounter with the claws of "Freddi Cougar" and waking up to learn that it's affected reality.
    • "Dead Name Note" is based on Death Note, with a high schooler obtaining a magic notebook belonging to a god of (unwanted identity) death and proclaiming herself the god of a new world within five seconds.
    • "Home (not so) Alone" is based on the original Home Alone, with two burglars named Harv and Marty (based on the film's Marv and Harry) breaking into an empty house (Mira's) and getting gender bent from the improvised "booby" traps they stumble into.
  • Work Off the Debt: "They Took My Dick Cause I Didn't Pay My Taxes", as the title indicates, is about an unemployed ex-husband named Ryan Summers who gets in trouble with the Sala City Internal Revenue Service (S.I.R.S.) for not paying his taxes, and is punished by having his manhood repossessed and forced to work as their branch's new secretary until he pays off the interest-free debt. The comic ends with a Time Skip to one year later and the announcement that "Raina" Summers has successfully worked off her debt, only for the SIRS agent offering to return her manhood catching her having sex with another employee and Raina stating that she enjoys being a girl.
  • World of Funny Animals:
    • "Leg Day TF" has Mira in a fitness class with a lynx girl based on NICOLE from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) and a rabbit girl with Trans Pride-patterned wristbands, the latter of which turns into Chun-Li from Street Fighter due to a zap from the "Mintendo Swap" she was playing beforehand.
    • "L L Toe Beans" takes place in one, where the closest to a regular human is a monkey girl background character. It might be considered a Sequel Episode to "Leg Day TF" due to the Nicole character making another cameo, but Mira herself now takes the form of a wolf girl with Egg-Sense.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: During the multiple body swaps in "Office Transfer", the mind of a female businesswoman from MOM Incorporated's Japanese branch ends up in delinquent Haruto Masuda's body, and eagerly accepts it because, quote, "Now I can play out all of my favorite boy-love novels in real life!"
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Some stories have a section towards the end where the focal character is given a pep talk by a friend to help overcome their anxiety concerning Trans Tribulations or other inadequacy, such as "Spellbound" having Bell be comforted by her aunt when she feels like both a fake woman and a fake witch after failing at everything magical that she's tried so far, and "Year of the Dragon... Maid!?" having Mei feeling disgusted and dismiss herself as a pervert after pleasuring herself as a woman less than an hour after turning into a dragon woman until the Sala City U. Cheerleader that secretly transformed her decides to admit her involvement and explain gender euphoria to her.

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