Basic Trope: A shapeshifter changes into a chimera with excessive parts from many forms/animals.
- Straight: Bob the Changer turns into a whale/skunk/vulture chimera, with the body of the whale and a complete set of heads, tails, and limbs of all three animals merged into one being.
- Exaggerated: Bob turns into a chimeric monster with many limbs, arms, tails, and so on from many different animals.
- Downplayed:
- Bob turns into a whale/skunk hybrid that has the head, body, and tail of the whale, and also the head, body, limbs, and tail of a skunk.
- Hybrid Monster: Instead of turning into a form with excess parts, Bob turns into a skunk/vulture hybrid with the body, legs, and scent glands of a skunk, and the wings, head, and tail of a vulture.
- Justified:
- Bob can't properly focus his shapeshifting.
- Bob is copying a mythological or fictional being that is believed to be that kind of chimera.
- Inverted: Bob is an eldritch chimera that turns into a regular human as his power.
- Subverted: Bob's transformation is claimed initially to be a patchwork monstrosity. Turns out it was actually a clean Hybrid Monster that he turned into.
- Double Subverted: But then Bob loses control of his shapeshifting powers and body parts from all the animals he turned into start appearing on his form.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: It turns out he has a wavering amount of control over his shapeshifting powers, so he keeps on growing back the excessive unwanted parts that prevent him from being his intended Hybrid Monster form. He suppresses an unwanted vulture head, but then a skunk one pops up. He suppresses that, but suddenly he grows vulture talons on his four feet.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: The hybrid shapeshifting was considered too powerful for normal gameplay, thus Bob has a chance of accidentally turning to a harmful patchwork chimera instead to provide a risk.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob never tries hybrid shapeshifting in fear of turning into a useless patchwork chimera.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Drama: Bob's transformation into a patchwork chimera broke his shapeshifting abilities. Now he must somehow infiltrate Evulz' base without being seen, despite being a non-streamlined chimeric beast.
