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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' uses this trope all the time. People get their skin ripped off, cosmetic surgery goes horribly, horribly wrong, a guy gets a body made out of eye-balls, the list goes on and on.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman]]''
** "On Leather Wings". Kirk Langstrom [[One-Winged Angel|turning into Man-Bat]] in
** Clayface I's couple of minutes of screen time in ''The Clay Face of Tragedy'' combine this with [[Tear Jerker]].
** What happened in Clayface II's introductory episode. Near the end, confronted with images of his acting roles, he starts morphing involuntarily in a [[Superpower Meltdown]] scene which can only be described as a cross between [[Akira|Tetsuo's final mutation]] and [[The Terminator|T-1000-in-the-smelter]].
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** Inque, a shapeshifting mutant who provides plenty of ''canon'' [[Fetish Fuel]] for the technician who releases her from a cryogenics facility. She dupes him in the nastiest way imaginable. She also likes to engage in [[Orifice Invasion]] and at one point tries to suffocate the protagonist by forcing herself down his throat.
** In one episode, an android contorts his limbs horribly in order to chase Batman down an elevator shaft. The commentary mentions that this was an homage to ''[[Urotsukidouji|Legend of the Overfiend]]''.
** "Splicers" is about this new fad of people (mostly teenagers) getting some animal genetics mixed with their body so they look like human/animal hybrids, including a bull, a snake, and a big cat ([[Furry Fandom|sounds really familiar for some reason]]) . Even Terry McGinnis involuntarily becomes an actual batman until he got better. However, the ''really'' bad part is when, after splicing becomes illegal since it makes people more aggressive, Batman goes to confront the guy who invented the process, who then turns himself into some weird [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Hawk-tiger-snake thing]] and after knocking away Terry's gun filled with mutagen cure all, Terry starts sticking the villian with multiple syringes. The villian then transforms into a [[Nightmare Fuel|disgusting creature that is even today one of the most disturbing things ever]] [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|put into a kid's show.]] Unless you want to possbily be scared witless and lose some sleep, [[Take Our Word for It]]. [
** Jackson Chappell, who is rendered an obscenely muscled but brain-dead vegetable after an overdose of steroid patches.
** The dog fighting club whose owner is using steroids on the dogs. The first test subject is... a bit overdone.
** "Earth Mover" featured a rotting, ''living'' corpse, who was buried alive with a radioactive chemical that fused his body into the surrounding dirt. After years of being trapped underground, he looks like [http://scrimbrown.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/earthmover.jpg this]{{Dead link}}. And keep in mind that ''[[And I Must Scream|he's still alive]]''.
* In ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYVS01MI2ZE Brainiac morphs Lex Luthor's body] into some bizarre hybrid of biology and technology.
** There's also an earlier scene in the same episode where Supergirl kills Galatea by... smashing a giant freaking power cable from the Watchtower's main reactor into her stomach. As Supergirl and an injured Steel limp away; you see Galatea twitching, her skin grey and a massive scar on her stomach.
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* One episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has the main character trying to duplicate himself, only to ''horribly, horribly'' mutate himself into an unholy concoction of body [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Little heads on ''individual fingers, mouths for eyes, eyeballs sticking out'' and so forth. On the other hand, it was [[Played for Laughs]].
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' has a direct ''American Werewolf'' parody called "The Laughing" (a reference to the werewolf movie ''The Howling'') where Dexter becomes a "were-clown" after being bitten by a pair of dentures belonging to a clown performing at Deedee's birthday.
* ''[[Futurama]]'':
** Parodied in
** Although it's partly [[Played for Laughs]], the hip 80's CEO dying from boneitis in "Futurestock", complete with delightful bone-snapping sounds as his body constantly distorts into unnatural shapes. It doesn't help that when he dies, both of his hands pull his eyelids and lips back, freezing his face that way.
** All of the underground dwelling mutants have some sort of deformity that makes them unpleasant to look at. {{spoiler|The reason Leela was abandoned (well, sort of) by her parents was because her deformity wasn't as horrific, and they felt humans would find her more acceptable.}}
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'', "Metamorphosis". Elisa's younger brother gets transformed into a gargoyle-ish monster, and the only scientist who understood the process is [[Staged Shooting|killed]]. The episode ends with our cool veteran cop, [[Heartbroken Badass|Elisa, crying uncontrollably]] at the fate of her brother.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** Then there's the episode with the zipper, and he uses the zipper to remove his left arm and replace it with the cat's head, and in "Prank Call of Cthulu" when Billy's nose changes into a squid-like appendage which can flip up and spawn hundreds of insect-like creatures with Billy's head, sharp teeth and tiny tentacles. Screaming wildly, they all fly to Grim and attack him.
** One episode had Mandy slowly transform into a [[Giant Spider]], much to Billy's arachnophobic horror. For Billy's "son" Jeff, though, it's love at first sight.
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* An episode of ''Extreme Ghostbusters'' had one of the lead characters becoming an evil clown-like creature. Then there's the episode "Crawlers" where people were turned into mutant bug creatures and another episode featured a group of monsters who used surgery to turn people into more monsters.
** The Deadliners...argh, the Deadliners. Basically, they're [[Expies]] of Clive Barker's [[Hellraiser|Cenobites]] who perform on unwilling victims "unnecessary surgery" that would make Ivo Shandor put away his tools in disgust. The worst part? The Ghostbusters are ''unable to put a dent into them'' until Garrett writes that they're vulnerable to the Proton Packs.
* In ''[[
** What's worse is that it's implied (and in Season 4, ''shown)'' that Nulls are still somewhat aware, and apparently some residents use them to make balloon animals - complete with painful Null noises.
** There's also what happens to people that get trapped in the Web without proper protection. Bob was only in there for a short time and his uniform was warped, his silver hair ''melted'' and turned black, his hands were charred black, and he had various scars on his neck and face. And he had ''partial'' protection from the Web too. Without that Bob would have ended up like Web Riders, which were in even worse shape.
* The ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' episode "Ghost in the Machine" features a villain that creates a DNA reactor that merges living tissue. He places Zak, Fiskerton and Komodo into the machine, and... it isn't pretty.
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** The power of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Dark Ones]] can also have this effect. Too much exposure to it transformed the kindly Alchemist into {{spoiler|the biomechanical [[Big Bad]]}}, and then there's [[The Dragon|Mandarin]] who was [[Swallowed Whole]] by one of said abominations. He eventually got better, but the combination of said energies and pure stomach acids were not kind.
* Parodied in ''[[The Mask]]''. Stanley is in [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Pretorius']] base, having found out that the madman has kidnapped the mayor. On a workbench, we see a red lump of ''something'' with a glass dome over it. Stanley immediately exclaims, "Mayor Tilton!", and an exasperated Pretorius says, "No, that's hamburger meat!" Crisis averted...until Pretorius turns the uncooked hamburger meat into a living, snarling monster.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Played for laughs in "Homer's Double Bypass":
{{quote|'''Krusty:''' Well I got news for you, buddy: This ain't make up!}}
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