Basic Trope: A character undergoes a physical transformation as part of Character Development.
- Straight: Harry kills a lion during a hunting trip, and gets turned into a lion as a result. The rest of the movie follows Harry as he eventually has a change of heart after being forced to spend time as a lion, and gets turned back into a human at the end.
- Exaggerated:
- Harry ends up learning so much from his experience as a lion that he ends up choosing to stay as one permanently at the end.
- Everyone in the story gets turned into different things. The story follows how these changes affect their character.
- Downplayed: Harry is forced to live similarly to a lion would as punishment for killing one unfairly, but doesn't actually get turned into one.
- Justified: Harry being forced to live as a lion altered his perspective on how they are, and showed that he shouldn't take things for granted.
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- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: At the end of the movie, the only thing Harry has learned is "Don't hunt animals or you'll get turned into one by an evil witch."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody is transformed into something else for the sake of character development.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror:
- Harry is turned into a lion in the most disturbing, painful way possible - in this case, it seems that the point is to give Harry his comeuppance right off the bat.
- Harry is turned into a lion, but in this state he undergoes Sanity Slippage and becomes an even more Ax-Crazy villain instead of reforming like he should've.
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