Basic Trope: The MacGuffin is transformed into an individual.
- Straight: Evulz is looking to steal Draziw's Tome of Eldritch Lore so he can Take Over the World using the highly dangerous spells contained within. To increase Evulz's difficulty in finding it, Draziw transforms the Tome into a human girl, names her Alice, and sends her to live an unsuspecting life as a farmer in the middle of nowhere.
- Exaggerated: Draziw bisects the Tome vertically and turns the two halves into biologically unrelated humans who are sent to live in entirely different parts of the world.
- Downplayed: Draziw transforms the Tome into a dragon.
- Justified: Draziw's forces happen to need more people to use physical and mental power to contribute to La Résistance.
- Inverted: Princess Eve has a bounty on her head. Draziw transforms her into an inanimate object without sapping her consciousness, guaranteeing that she will be unkillable until she's put back into a biological form.
- Subverted: The Tome does not have a soul and cannot be given sapience. All Draziw can do is disguise it as a corpse.
- Double Subverted: Draziw is or becomes a Necromancer and uses this skill to make the Tome a living woman.
- Parodied:
- Draziw is asked why he insists on transforming all of his discovered artifacts into humans, and furthermore why those humans are always attracctive young women. He replies that there are very important selfless reasons to this which they can discuss later, and anyway he's got to go clip his toenails.
- Draziw feeds the Tome into a shredder and humanizes every scrap. Cue Overpopulation Crisis.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Draziw transforms the Tome into a human, several rocks, a plant, then another human, then just returns it to its original form.
- Draziw tries to transform the Tome into a human but fails, then tries again and succeeds. Then he tries to return it to its original form but fails. Then he tries again and succeeds.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The human Tome is loyal to Draziw, and he teaches it to be a patron of its own dark arts so it can kill Evulz for him.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- The Tome-turned-woman is given as much freedom and individuality as any real human. It has sex and, due to the nature of its true form, becomes pregnant with an Eldritch Abomination.
- The Tome-turned-woman is Chaotic Evil, and kills Draziw as soon as he implies changing it back. It then becomes the ultimate Evil Sorceress because it doesn't merely know Dark Magic — it represents the very knowledge of Dark Magic.
- In this universe, artificially created humans and objects turned into humans are given the same rights as naturally made humans and transforming a human into a non-sentient object without permission is considered worse than murder. Draziw (along with all other magicians) is barred from turning the Tome back to its true form, and the human Tome either does not retain or does not wish to share its knowledge, meaning the contents within it are forever lost.
- With Evulz at bay, the human Tome pulls off a Prince and Pauper swap right before Draziw comes to reclaim it, and he ends up transforming an Identical Stranger into a nonsensical spellbook that he later realizes is not the Tome.
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