Emergency Transformation/Playing With
Basic Trope: A character saved another character's life by turning him/her into something more or less human.
- Straight: Bob saved Alice by turning her into a demon.
- Exaggerated: Bob turned Alice into an Eldritch Abomination to treat her badly stubbed toe.
- Downplayed: Alice stays human, but she looks like a different person now.
- Inverted:
- Bob gets transformed into a demon by Alice to save her life.
- Bob has Voluntary Shapeshifting powers, but finds out that he will die unless he gives up his powers.
- Alice transformed due to natural causes (rather than the transformation being invoked), and the process is so painful that it almost kills her, rather than saving her life.
- Justified:
- Transformation is akin to the healing arts, but before he set out on his quest Bob was only taught one thing that could save Alice before her injury killed her.
- The transformation completely replaces the victim's body, including any injured parts.
- Subverted:
- Bob changes Alice into a demon after she is lethally wounded, but she dies of the wound anyway.
- Alternately, she dies before the transformation is finished. [1]
- Double Subverted: After that she comes back as a full demon
- Parodied: Alice gets a vase dropped on her head, Bob turns her into a dog to prevent possible brain damage.
- Deconstructed: Alice, after seeing she is a demon, becomes horror struck and soon after she loses all the qualities Bob saved her for in depression and self-pity.
- Reconstructed: Right before Alice goes to the point of no return emotionally, Bob realizes what's going on and has a long talk with her, giving Alice only a stronger resolve to help Bob in his quest.
- Averted: No one has any injury that warrants such a treatment.
- Lampshaded: "Great, I get a sword through my heart and now I can't go anywhere without cats hissing at me."
- Invoked: "We need some way to mix things up between Alice and Bob, but romantic would be just too easy."
- Defied: Alice refuses to be turned into a demon, even if it would save her life.
- Conversed: ???
Their heart is almost hit! Wait for me at Emergency Transformation and we can use the hell crystal to try and save them!
- ↑ Also averts Transformation Is a Free Action.