Body Horror/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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]]''

** 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]].

* 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.

** 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.

* ''[[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.

** 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.

* 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.

** 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.

** 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.