Taunting the Transformed

"BENNY! Sometimes I blind you and permit you to wander like an eyeless insect in a world of death. But other times, I wither your arms so you can't scratch your chewed stump of a nose. [laughs] And, and I've changed your handsome, strong, masculine good looks into the hideous warped countenance of... an ape thing! Haven't I, Benny? Do you know why? Can you guess, Benny?"

— AM, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

The sight of a physical transformation can result in many different responses from the onlooker: shock, terror, revulsion, concern, anger, and even awe... but unfortunately, one of the most common responses seems to be mockery.

In cases where the transformation is debilitating, pathetic, gross, or just plain embarrassing, the victims of the process all too often seem to have an audience ready to make fun of them, regardless of whether it's during the transition, immediately afterwards, or long after the fact. Depending on how nasty the author is prepared to get, this mockery could involve insults, withering condescension, a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, physical humiliation, assault, or even attempted murder if said audience consists of villains.

Needless to say, this is a tactic most commonly employed by villains, anti-heroes, and flat-out Jerkasses, especially if they're directly responsible for the transformation in the first place — doubly so if it was intended as a form of torture or even murder.

Given that the transformed character is usually left weakened in some way, it's quite rare for the victims of the transformation to be able to retaliate against the insults, even if they've become something that can literally bite back...though there are a few exceptions involving generous amounts of Laser-Guided Karma and Bullying a Dragon, especially if the new form turns out to be stronger than it looks. However, even if no immediate retribution is on offer, if it's a hero or innocent that's fallen victim to this trope, there's a good chance they'll get to turn the tables and transform their mocking audience later in the story.

Also, please note that while this is most commonly applied to involuntary transformations, it can also be applied to voluntary transformations gone horribly wrong.

Frequently paired with the Forced Transformation, the Baby Morph Episode, the Incredible Shrinking Man, the Karmic Transformation, Humanity Ensues, Involuntary Shapeshifting, and many more. May form part of a Humiliation Conga and/or Break the Haughty. Depending on the transformation, may overlap with Let's Mock the Monsters.

Contrast Admiring the Abomination.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Dragon Ball Z: Vegeta indirectly says this about Frieza upon the latter transforming into his Final Form, since it's much smaller than his previous two forms, and Vegeta (or so he thinks) has become the legendary Super Saiyan. It results in Frieza dealing Vegeta a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in which he emotionally breaks Vegeta before killing him. Vegeta later does it again with Cell once he transforms into his Perfect form, resulting in Cell giving Vegeta a similar Curb-Stomp Battle while thanking Vegeta for allowing him to become Perfect in the first place.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • In a fit of rage, Envy transforms into his monstrous self with the bodies of those he's consumed making up his greater mass. Rather than react with fear, Roy Mustang just mocks Envy for being dumb enough to give him a bigger target and then demonstrates why this is a bad idea.
  • After Marcoh successfully purges the souls from Envy, the Homunculus is stripped of their shapeshifting powers and reduced to a pitiful and disgusting worm creature. Yoki then decides to mock Envy for their defeat and makes fun of their appearance, even flicking them to rub it in further — which unfortunately puts him within biting range and allows Envy to briefly hijack his body.
• In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), Link is temporarily turned into a wolf-like monster by the Dark World's magic when he gives into his hatred for Agahnim. Agahnim laughs at the helpless hero for his new form and the fact that he can no longer hold the Master Sword.
• One Piece: After Kaku transforms into a giraffe man thanks to the Devil Fruit, Usopp, Zoro, and even Jabra immediately laugh and mock him. However, despite his ridiculous-looking form, it turns out that he's an extremely powerful combatant because of it, leaving all three of them eating their words soon after when Kaku kicks the Tower of Justice in half.

Audio Plays

• Big Finish Doctor Who: In "Axis of Insanity", the Overseer of the Axis has been stripped of his eternal youth and powers as a result of the Jester's coup, leaving him as a helpless old man. When the Jester finally catches up with him in the introduction, he's very clearly amused by the ex-immortal's plight, treating him with mocking faux concern as he abandons him to slowly die in his throne room.
  The Jester: Back in your chair, old man, you need to take it easy. Kick back, relax. I'll see no-one disturbs you... FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! [Evil Laugh]

Comic Books

• Captain Britain: A Crooked World: Shortly after revealing his true nature as a Reality Warper, Mad Jim Jaspers unleashes his powers on the Vixen after she attempts to betray him, transforming her into a fox. He can be seen gleefully cuddling her and singing "A Four-Legged Friend" immediately afterwards.
• Generation Hope: British mutant Zeeshan's power liquefies his face and flesh when it first manifests. One of his friends immediately uploads a video of "Sheffield Liquid-Face Boy!", joking that his photo will end up in the "Portraits of Freaks: 500 Mutants You Must See Before They Die" book, which Zee had seen before realising he was a mutant himself. Zee is Driven to Suicide, believing his life is ruined. It's suggested that his liquefied state might have been a temporary situation until he learned to control his new powers.
• Zenith: In Phase IV, the victorious Lloigor spare Dr. Michael Peyne from the apocalypse, instead condemning him to a slow Death by De-aging so he has time to witness all the horror they've unleashed. Once Peyne has regressed to infancy, Ruby arrives to mockingly bid him farewell, cradling him in her arms and cooing over all the memories that he can no longer make sense of, before taking him out onto the balcony to show him the world he helped create. She then throws him into the air, where he shrinks into a fetus, then an embryo, and then vanishes.

Fan Works

Examples by source material:

• In this fan art of The Real Ghostbusters, Egon turns into a werewolf, and Peter teases him about having become a dog by throwing him a tennis ball. Similarly, in this one, Peter is seen cheekily remarking that he's always wanted a dog.

Examples by title:

• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • In "Vegeta VS Shadow", Vegeta goes Super Saiyan to prove how much more powerful he is than Shadow. In response, Shadow becomes Super Shadow. Vegeta can only respond by calling Shadow a rip-off, not intimidated or impressed in the slightest.
  • In a Call-Back to the former, the "Trunks VS Silver" episode has Trunks calling Silver a rip-off when Silver becomes Super Silver. Unlike his father, though, this mockery eventually gets Trunks killed as Silver overpowers him.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Before Zarbon transforms during his first fight against Vegeta, he tells him that he is very different in his more monstrous form. Once he's finished Hulking Out (and shouting "I'MA RAPE YA, BITCH!"), Vegeta snidely remarks that he isn't all that different, which gets him beaten to within an inch of his life. In their second encounter, Vegeta takes the form more seriously.
  • While most of the forms Freeza takes over the course of the battle are treated as genuinely intimidating, his third form is immediately teased for how similar it is to a certain other alien, with Piccolo outright remarking that "Ridley Scott's gonna sue someone." Everybody agrees that they've tired of it when Freeza asks, right before he assumes his fourth and final form. In Kai Abridged, the third form is further mocked by being skipped entirely.
• In chapter 10 part 3 of SlifofinaDragon's Sengoku Basara modern day fanfic Has Peace Finally Returned at Long Last?, Date Masamune drinks a potion that transforms him into a horse (as it's a Chinese zodiac one) that his and Sanada Yukimura's son, Masa, whips up in hex ed. Honba Hikaru, one of Masa's friends, jokes that Masamune would one day make a horse's ass out of himself, earning a swat from Masamune's tail (as depicted in an illustration by misakiyu).
• The Mountain and the Wolf: After Gregor, Ramsay, Littlefinger, and Euron are brought back to life as Champions of Chaos, the Wolf shows he still has just as little respect for them even in their new, powerful state, referring to them as Molehill, Snotling, Feathers and Urine, respectively.
• A Tale of Two Rulers: Inverted with Vaati, who always uses Humanshifting to hide that he's a mouse-like Minish. As a punishment, Ganondorf publicly destroys the spell and mocks the sight of his true form while Vaati silently begs people not to look.

Films — Animated

• FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Shortly after realizing that he's been accidentally shrunk down to fairy size, Zak immediately demands that Crysta restore him to normal height. To her credit, she tries but only manages to expand different parts of Zak's body so that he ends up looking like an increasingly comical array of animals until she finally runs out of energy, and throughout this scene, the slightly crazed Batty Coda (who hates humans) is treating the whole thing like a game of charades. And when Crysta offers to try again, Batty gleefully encourages her, much to Zak's horror.
• The House (2022): Close to the end of "And heard within, a lie is spun", the influence of Van Schoonbeek causes Raymond and Penny to slowly transform into furniture — the former an armchair, the latter a set of drapes. Just before this transformation comes to a close, Van Schoonbeek can be seen gloating over them, laughing triumphantly as his two victims succumb.
• Moana: Maui is known for his ability to transform using his hook, which gets stolen from him by Tamatoa. Upon getting it back, he attempts to transform into something powerful against the giant crab, only to end up turning into various other animals before changing back to normal. Tamatoa, witnessing this, laughs at how out of practice Maui must be.

Films — Live-Action

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: When a suit malfunction causes Scott to shrink to the size of a 4-year-old child, Hank and Hope playfully tease him about his predicament, much to his annoyance.
  Dr. Hank Pym: Hiya, champ! How was school today?
  Scott Lang: Aw, ha ha ha! Alright, get your jokes out now, can you fix the suit?
  Hope van Dyne: So cranky.
  Dr. Hank Pym: You want a juice box and some string cheese?
  Scott Lang: ...Do you really have those?
• The City of Lost Children: In the finale, Miette talks Krank into using her in his Dream Stealer experiments in place of Denrée; however, this just gives her the opportunity to turn the dream against him, resulting in the two of them swapping ages. Krank is left horror-stricken as he regresses to childhood, and a middle-aged Miette immediately celebrates by mockingly dancing him around the room, clearly enjoying the fact that she's now bigger than him. Eventually, Krank shrinks down into a screaming toddler, while Miette assumes his place as the elderly genius, allowing her to subject her opponent to all the torturous experiments he subjected the other children to - on a loop - until Krank finally suffers a stroke in the real world.
• Dude, Where's My Car? combines this with an odd example of Admiring the Abomination. When the five alien women merge together and transform into a Giant Woman in a purple bra and miniskirt, Jerk Jock Tommy laughs while he ogles her, clearly not taking her seriously, and then asks rather crassly if she "spit(s) or swallow(s)". The giant woman responds to this disrespect by grabbing Tommy and eating him alive.
• The School for Good and Evil (2022): When the Evers switch places with Nevers, Tedros has scars on his face, and Sophie says that he looks like he's been auditing Uglification.
• Super Mario Bros. (1993): After ending up on Earth with the Mario Brothers, President Koopa attempts to use the devo gun on Mario, only to miss and hit Anthony Scapelli, transforming him into a chimpanzee. Though disappointed at missing the intended target, Koopa is amused by the sight of Scapelli hopping around in his now-gigantic clothes, even pointing and laughingly proclaiming "monkey!"
• In W.E.I.R.D. World (1995), Dr. Abby O'Reardon takes revenge on Dr. Bryan Mayhew for his frequent betrayals by using him as a test subject for her prototype youth serum. After making the mistake of leaving the area in the belief that the serum didn't work, he eventually returns to the lab as a child, getting steadily younger by the minute, and clearly terrified as there's no antidote that can save him. Abby is nothing short of triumphant, mockingly babying him for a while before getting down to business.
  "Awwww, I know, I know, nasty mommy. But it's gonna be okay, Bri-Bri: you see, there is an antidote that stops the process. I kinda lied about that. You know what? Under the circumstances, I think it's gonna work out just fine. You see, now I'm not gonna have to stop my research. The first thing we are going to change is this behavior: when I get done with you, young man, you are going to be kind and respectful. We are going to be the perfect little family! Mommy is going to be a very important Nobel Prize-winning scientist and you are going to be her happy little boy!"
• The Witches (1990):
  • Bruno Jenkins is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of Formula 86 on stage in front of a huge audience of witches, all of whom are laughing uproariously at his misfortune as he transforms into a mouse. For good measure, halfway through the transformation, the Grand High Witch can be seen mimicking Bruno's increasingly mouselike facial expression.
  • Not long afterwards, Luke is given an overdose of the potion and also transforms before the gathered witches. Not only do they laugh at him throughout, but the scene is shot from Luke's perspective, resulting in grotesque POV shots of the increasingly gigantic witches reaching out to push him down, concluding with the Grand High Witch herself mockingly waving goodbye as he shrinks backward into his enormous clothes.

Literature

• A Bad Case of Stripes: When Camilla begins to change colors rapidly, her classmates mock her for her strange appearance and give her degrading nicknames like "Camilla Crayon". They then laugh at her and start calling out the names of random patterns, which makes her become even more colorful.
• Daisy-Head Mayzie: When Mayzie grows a daisy out of her head, her classmates start teasing her by chanting, "Daisy-Head! Daisy-Head! Daisy-Head Mayzie!".
• Give Yourself Goosebumps: In one of the plotlines of The Knight in Screaming Armor, you play around with a time-controlling clock that ends up regressing you and your cousins to babies, but it takes a few minutes for anyone to realize the danger. Until then, your cousins poke fun at each other as they get younger, with Abbey teasing Kip about how chubby he is all of a sudden, while Kip retaliates by pointing out how short Abbey's gotten and laughs at how huge her clothes are.
• Harry Potter:
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The attempt to use Polyjuice Potion for infiltration goes slightly wrong when Hermione unknowingly uses a cat hair instead of Millicent Bulstrode's while making her share of the potion, leaving her with cat features that don't wear off in the allotted time. Moaning Myrtle is absolutely delighted to see this, gleefully remarking at what people will think when they notice that Hermione now has a tail.
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: When Malfoy attacks Harry while his back is turned, Professor Moody catches him in the act and transforms Malfoy into a ferret — and then humiliates him by repeatedly bouncing up and down.
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Edmund encounters a stone lion among the other petrified victims in the courtyard of the White Witch's castle and immediately assumes that it's Aslan. Given that he's at his brattiest, he immediately graffitis the lion's face and says, "Ha, silly old Aslan! How do you like being a stone?!" Notably, doing so doesn't make him feel any better about the situation.
• In The Star Child by Oscar Wilde, the title character who is very beautiful and vain insults a beggar woman who claims to be his mother. Soon after this, as Laser-Guided Karma, he is inexplicably transformed into an ugly child, and many people who see him insult him and throw stones at him because he is so ugly.
• The Witches: While exploring the Grand High Witch's hotel room, the protagonist finds a trio of frogs hiding under the bed, and he remarks that they are almost certainly more transformed children. When the Grand High Witch returns to her room and finds them, narrowly overlooking the protagonist in the process, she cooingly addresses them as "my little froggies", taunting them with the knowledge that she's going to throw them out the window to their deaths and let the seagulls have them for breakfast.

Live-Action TV

• Angel: The episode "Smile Time" features Angel being magically transformed into a Muppet in all but name, prompting hysterical laughter and shrieks of "you're a wee little puppet man!" from Spike when he finds out. Unfortunately for Spike, Angel's strength has not decreased to match his body, resulting in the wee little puppet man beating the living shit out of him.
• Animorphs: In the second episode, Marco panics during his first morph and stops less than a quarter of the way through, leaving him with the upper half of a rat's head. Tobias is quick to tease Marco over this, calling him "rat man".
• Bewitched: When Darrin is turned into a chimp in one episode, Endora mockingly talks to him in a baby voice and calls him "Precious".
• Black Mirror: In "USS Callister", when Nanette attempts to resist her imprisonment in the simulation, Robert Daly makes his power over the virtual world apparent by removing Nanette's face and vocally delighting in her voiceless terror over the course of the next few seconds.
  "Oh, dear. You can't see. You can't breathe. Unpleasant, isn't it? Do you submit? You won't die, you know. No one dies in here unless I want them to. I can keep you like this forever if I feel like it. Forever gasping for breath with a mouth that isn't there..."
• Doctor Who:
  • During "Ghost Light", Josiah Smith gets back at Reverend Matthews for annoying him all evening by using Light's godlike technology to turn the anti-evolutionist preacher into an ape. Josiah is roaring with laughter throughout the process, particularly since Matthews doesn't realize what's happening until he notices his increasingly hairy hands and the ensuing devolution is treated as a grotesque spectator sport... up until Josiah gets bored, whereupon Reverend Matthews is fatally chloroformed, then stuffed and exhibited as Homo Victorianus Ineptus.
  • In the finale of "The Sound of Drums", the Master uses tech borrowed from Professor Lazarus to painfully age the Doctor into an old man, taking great delight in leaving him too old and weak to stop the next stage of his masterplan. In "Last of the Time Lords", the Master continues the torment by making him sleep in a makeshift kennel and gleefully pushing him around in a wheelchair.
  • Also in "Last of the Time Lords", the Master retaliates against a failed rebellion by aging the Doctor even further, gloating all the while until he's been reduced to a withered, shrunken gnome-like creature. To add insult to injury, he keeps the Doctor in a birdcage from then on.
• Farscape:
  • In "DNA Mad Scientist", Aeryn attempts to find a safe Sebacean colony with Namtar's help, only for the geneticist to secretly dose her with a serum that slowly begins transforming her into a Pilot. When Aeryn returns to demand answers, Namtar takes great delight in her fear, purring over her advancing mutations while teasingly remarking that he doesn't want to spoil the surprise. After being captured and imprisoned in the lab, Aeryn's growing sensory powers allow her to figure out that Namtar intends to harvest her for Pilot abilities, imbue himself with them, then kill her; Namtar just smirks and remarks "I look forward to experiencing the insights you obviously already possess."
  • Early in "Revenging Angel", Crichton loses patience with Harvey's attempts to interrupt his Adventures in Comaland and uses the power of his imagination to turn the neural clone into a cartoon. Not only is Crichton smirking at Harvey's impotent rage throughout this scene, but when Harvey demands that he take the possibility of revenge seriously, Crichton just takes advantage of the cartoon format to drop a 1000-ton weight on his head.
• The Genie from Down Under:
  • In "Baby Talk", Penelope demands more than two hundred extremely petty wishes from Bruce and Baz in the space of a single hour, leaving them both exhausted and enraged. As such, when Penelope makes a poorly worded comment about wishing that she could hold her childhood doll "like I used to", Bruce takes immediate revenge by granting her "wish" and regressing her to infancy. While her inner monologue reacts in horror, Bruce scoops baby Penelope into his arms and asks "any more wishes, master?" in a condescendingly "cute" voice, clearly enjoying the fact that she's too young to speak and therefore can't wish herself back to normal.
  • The same episode ends with a restored Penelope taking revenge for her humiliation by wishing for Bruce to regress for a while, and naturally, she spends the outro gloating about it and mocking him in Baby Talk. Unlike Penelope, baby Bruce doesn't seem to mind.
• Red Dwarf:
  • Early in "DNA", Lister is accidentally transformed into a chicken when Cat starts futzing with the DNA machine controls. Upon seeing the results, Rimmer not only asks if they really want to turn him back but clucks for his attention and jokes that he still has a beer gut even as a chicken. Shortly afterwards, Kryten is accidentally transformed into a human by yet more random button-pressing from Cat, who responds by deadpanning, "you lost your looks."
  • Upon finding the Time Wand in "Pete Pt. 1", Kryten tests it on Kochanski and the Cat, regressing them to about five years old; when they demand to be turned back, he condescendingly reassures them that they're "cute as buttons," before successfully restoring them. His second and third tests leave their hair and clothes stuck at an earlier period in their lives: bum-length hair for Kochanski, an afro for Cat, and 70s-era outfits for both. Holly immediately remarks that they look like the Turkish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "Apocalypse Rising" features Captain Sisko and a small team being surgically modified to look like Klingons so they can sneak into Ty'Gokor and expose the Changeling that's replaced Chancellor Gowron. To get there, however, they have to hitch a lift from Gul Dukat, who finds the sight of the altered Sisko and co absurdly hilarious, to the point that he insists on taking photos of the four "Klingons" as payment for the use of his ship.
• Star Trek: Voyager: In "The Thaw", an attempt to rescue a group of civilians from a VR simulator gets Harry Kim captured by the Monster Clown created by their combined fears. While Janeway struggles to rescue him, the Clown uses his power over the simulation to make Harry's own fears come true: first, he ages him into an old man, teasing him over how he can't stand the idea of being dependent while allowing his circus to force-feed Harry medicine; then, noticing that Harry fears helplessness and being seen as the baby of the crew, he regresses him to infancy, teasing him with Baby Talk as the infant Harry screams in distress.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019): Uncomfortable with the gorilla body he acquired after his Emergency Transformation, Luther has been careful to wear a trench coat even among his adopted family, but after having it torn open by a falling chandelier and getting exposed before the entire Academy, it's not long before Diego starts needling him over it. As such, once the two of them start arguing again in "Man on the Moon", Diego jabs at Luther's self-esteem by first mocking him for remaining loyal to Sir Reginald even after he turned him into a "monster", then snidely asking if nature documentaries turn him on now.

Video Games

• Baldur's Gate III: If the warlock Wyll Ravengard backs out of his literal Deal with the Devil to avoid killing an innocent, his patron permanently forces him into a devilish form as punishment. The Player Character can tell him he had it coming for making such a pact in the first place, or that he's lucky it wasn't worse.
• In Banjo-Kazooie, Mumbo the Shaman can transform Bear and Bird into various animals. Sometimes he taunts them after the transformation; for instance, he comments on the crocodile transformation that the duo should wait as he needs a new leather purse.
• Command & Conquer: Renegade: In the midst of trying to rescue a group of scientists, one of them reveals she is The Mole by unveiling a "new and improved" General Raveshaw, mutated and modified into a seven-foot-tall Tiberium-infused cyborg. After some initial surprise that that's Raveshaw, Nick's first real reaction is to quip "at least he's taller".
• Day of the Tentacle: In the finale, Future Purple Tentacle arrives on the scene with his newly completed Diminuator and proceeds to shrink Bernard, Hoagie, and Lavern down to mouse-size. Though it wears off very quickly, further encounters with Future Purple will result in the trio getting shrunk all over again, usually prompting Purple to gloat and pepper them with jokes about their tiny stature, most prominently "you humans are so small minded!"
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Arkham steals the power of the Ascended Demon Sparda and uses it to transform himself into a demon, taking on a form mimicking Sparda's appearance. He asks Dante, Sparda's son, what he thinks of his father's image, to which Dante responds, "It's like staring into a backed-up toilet!". When the transformation mutates Arkham again, this time into a hideous Blob Monster, Dante quips that he thinks this shape suits Arkham better.
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream:
  • In the introduction of the game, AM reviews the horrific transformations he's forced Benny to undergo in the 109 years since the world ended, chuckling over the fact that he's left the once-handsome military commander with "the hideous warped countenance of an ape-thing," before giving Benny "The Reason You Suck" Speech on what he did to deserve all the transformation and torture.
  • In Benny's scenario, AM enacts a non-verbal version of this trope: every single aspect of the psychodrama has been designed to humiliate Benny with the weaknesses of his new form, to the point that he can't even descend a simple flight of stairs without tripping and falling all the way down it, while the food he desperately needs is either beyond the reach of his hopelessly crippled limbs or impossible for him to eat without coughing up blood.
• The Legend of Dragoon: During the exploration of the Black Castle, our heroes happen to bump into Mr Magi, a researcher who has gone slightly mad and fallen out with the rest of Emperor Doel's scientists. Convinced that he's being insulted by the intruders, Magi attempts to retaliate with a number of magic attacks that do absolutely nothing, before successfully harnessing the power of shapeshifting... to turn himself into a completely harmless domesticated dog. Most of the team are merely surprised, all except for Rose, who sarcastically remarks that "at least in the end, he amused us."
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, when Link is transformed into a Deku by the Skull Kid, he reacts with horror upon gazing at his reflection in the water. The Skull Kid just laughs at his transformation.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, after Link is turned into a wolf, Midna mocks him for the fact that he is now a "beast" and has no choice but to carry out her demands if he wants a chance to become human again.
  • In Hyrule Warriors, Midna is transformed back into her imp form by the witch Cia. When they meet again, Cia taunts Midna that she much prefers said form, prompting the Twilight Princess to punch her and knock her mask off.
• In Marvel's Avengers, after finding a video that apparently depicts Captain America in a less-than-positive light, the tensions between his fellow Avengers Bruce and Tony build to both of them starting a vicious argument with each other, until Bruce loses his temper and starts Hulking Out. Tony, being Tony, and having Seen It All in regard to superhuman weirdness, doesn't show any fear of the Hulk, and just keeps laying into his civilian identity:
  Tony: What's the matter, Bruce? I make you angry? See, that's always been your problem! Running from who you are! What you are! Maybe that's why Monica got the better of you! [the fully transformed Hulk furiously roars at Tony and grabs in a Neck Lift] I was just agreeing with you, big guy. That Banner's a coward!
• MediEvil: A one-time-only optional mission in the Enchanted Earth features a witch shrinking Sir Dan to the size of an insect so he can collect pieces of amber from the nearby ant's nest, resulting in immediate mockery from the gargoyle sitting by the nest entrance, who cheekily remarks, "Run, little man! If the Master found it now, he would crush it like a bug!"
• Quake IV: In the last third of the game, "Operation: Last Hope", Kane, fresh from escaping the Strogg facilities after being Stroggified, reaches the U.S.S. Hannibal in order to get medical attention. After the medics examine him, Sledge, freshly ascended to Sergeant after the death of Scott Voss, snidely tells him that he looks "like shit".
• In Resident Evil 4 and its remake, Leon mocks the transformations of the various villains, but the ones aimed at Krauser take on a more biting tone in both.
• Sonic Unleashed: Eggman's new weapon drained the Chaos Emeralds to split the planet apart, with the side effect of turning Sonic into the Werehog. Eggman's response is to mockingly reply that he likes Sonic's new look for being festive, before throwing him out into space.

Webcomics

• Housepets!: Initially after her boyfriend is turned into a squirrel, Lois is polite enough to not do this. Once she turns into a bobcat, however, it becomes much more common as Romantic Ribbing; Marion immediately pushes it by turning around her Something Only They Would Say from earlier, and from then on, the two frequently jab the other about the Gender Bender and Predator-Prey Friendship they now share.

Western Animation

• Darkwing Duck: In "Beauty and the Beet", Reginald Bushroot devises a way for ducks to gain nourishment from sunlight and even tests this theory on himself... but he soon discovers he's turned into a plant/duck hybrid. His coworkers immediately make fun of his new form, chanting "Reggie's a veggie!" repeatedly.
• Dungeons & Dragons: Played with. Eric is transformed into a Bog Beast by a magic flower's pollen. He is then welcomed by other Bog Beasts as a hero of legend coming to save them from a giant who had stopped up their water with a dam. After the kids defeat the giant, and the giant's talisman transforms Eric back into a human, the Bog Beasts lament that their hero was now cursed to be so ugly.
• Futurama: In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", the cast are de-aged by alien tar, which leaves Amy overweight again, which her dad will not stop joking about.
  Amy: Dad, if you're gonna make fat jokes 'til I get cute again, I'm just gonna stay in my room!
  Leo: Stay in room? You so fat, you gonna stay all around room!
• Martin Morning: Martin wakes up every morning either in a new costume or fully transformed into something different. His classmate and bully, Romeo, never misses an opportunity to torment him about it.
• Men in Black: The Series: In the episode "The Fmall, Fmall World Syndrome" the Fmecks, a tiny alien race, seek a growth formula to make them human size as part of their planned conquest of Earth. One of their members, Fmelvin, gets separated from his squad but manages to find the formula all by himself. First, he manages to grow human size, but when he loses a fight to Agent L, he drinks more formula to become kaiju size. When he returns to his mothership to reveal how big he has gotten, all the other Fmecks laugh at him because he is now "way too big". It turns out mocking his new size was a bad idea, as an enraged Fmelvin knocks the Fmeck mothership to its side before going off to wreck New York City just to deny the Fmecks their new home.
• The Real Ghostbusters: In "Three Men and an Egon", Egon starts aging backward... and Peter being Peter, he responds to the ongoing emergency with his usual smartass remarks. For example, when Egon is regressed into a Bratty Half-Pint of around six, Peter snarks that he isn't looking forward to Egon's terrible twos — and then when he turns into a baby, Peter just jokes that he did it on purpose to get out of kitchen duty.
• The Simpsons: In the Treehouse of Horror short "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did", the Simpsons discover that Ned Flanders is a werewolf. He promptly transforms in front of them and drools on Homer's shirt, prompting him to quip "Hey wolfy, I want the news, not the weather!"
• Xavier: Renegade Angel: A fire in Ronny's lab causes his dad to merge with his scientific experiments to become a living self-sustaining explosion. The townsfolk begin to mock the "eversplosion" for unclear reasons, especially when Xavier claims that it's alive and have a soul. This drives the eversplosion into a frenzy and causes it to start rampaging throughout town.
  Townsfolk 1: Angry? That explosion's too stupid to get angry!
  Townsfolk 2: That thing has no more soul than an explodin' monkey!

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