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* Done in one of the [[Van Beuren Studios]] Tom and Jerry shorts (no, not THAT [[
* [[The Ren and Stimpy Show]], in spades. Standout examples include Ren plucking exposed nerve endings out his mouth with tweezers, Ren and Stimpy being surgically joined together and so on. Particularly notable because, as a [[Gross
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* ''[[Batman:
** "On Leather Wings". Kirk Langstrom [[One
** 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
*** And before that, he'd been suffocating Batman with an attack that was lifted frame-for-frame from ''Akira''. [[Tokyo Movie Shinsha]] worked both on ''Akira'' and this episode.
** Poison Ivy, who made a habit of creating plant creatures that could pass for human. These often revealed themselves to be horrifying monsters. The best example of a horrific transformation is where Ivy rips the skin off of the upper torso of one of these creatures like it was a shirt, revealing the green flesh underneath. This is enough to cause onlooker Robin to start to heave (he's saved from actual puking by Batgirl).
*** "House and Garden", where Poison Ivy has appeared to reform and married a college professor and his two sons... only, it turns out the professor and his children are clones made from plant matter. And they only stay "human" for three days before turning into something that looks like [[Swamp Thing]] after a lawnmower accident.
*** At the end of "Bane," the titular muscleman gets a little ''too'' much Venom. His appearance in ''[[Batman and Robin]]'' absolutely ''pales'' in comparison.
* ''[[
** 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
** "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
** 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 (
** 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.
*** The scene is made worse by the friggin Wilheim Scream she makes after the impact...
* Some of ''[[
** The mutations inflicted by Corrodium in the ''[[
** Kevin's transformation from emo preteen to giant [[Biological Mashup]], complete with lots of screaming.
** Perhaps this is why the ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** The final part of Ben's intial transformation into Benwolf, in "BenWolf". Sure, it only lasted for a few seconds, but...
* ''[[
** The Parking Garage Rat People in Game Slave 2 and when Zim's eyes BUBBLE and BURN in Walk Of Doom.
* ''Catscratch'' has dealt with this in a few episodes- one being Major Pepperidge where Mr, Blik grows a second head (one that looks like him, but talks like a Jazz musician) and "Lovesick", where Gordon has an allergic reaction to broccoli where he puffs up really bad, gets a huge blood shot eye, a rash all over his body, razor sharp teeth and a drooling tongue in his mouth and a huge arm with razor sharp claws on his paws... This happens again at the end after Kimberly gives him chocolates which he also is allergic to.
* ''[[
* One episode of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[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.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
* A few episodes of ''Mr Meaty'' have dealt with this. Often it's due to the poor quality of the fast-food restaurant's entrees. In one episode, Parker mooches off most of the other characters and then gets infected with ''a tapeworm'', "the ultimate moocher", ''{{spoiler|which is later eaten by a scientist who collects internal parasites.}}''
** In the episode "Parkerina", Parker eats too much Ms Meaty burgers and undergoes an ''American Werewolf In London'' style transformation into a girl.
* An episode of ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had Egon turn into a werechicken, while another episode had the whole team undergoing a number of bizarre and sudden transformations after becoming "allergic to ghosts".
* 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.
* ''Sev Trek: Puss in Boots'' spoofs the use of this trope on ''[[Star Trek:
* Spoofed in several [[Halloween Episode|Treehouse of Horror]] episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', such as the one where Homer gets a hair transplant from Snake resulting in Snake's hair taking over Homer's body.
** And also in the episode where everyone becomes what they're dressed as for Halloween. Homer becomes a headless horseman type character.
** Don't worry. That was just a dream. Everything is perfectly fine. Well, except for that fog that turns people inside out.
** Recently in "The Bob Next Door", which has got to be the [[Nightmare Fuel|most disturbing scene ever]] shown in an animated television show. In one of his escape attempts, Bob surgically removes the face of one of his cell mates and then switches it with his own, while still being fully conscious and screaming. The worst part is when Sideshow Bob stops at a rest stop and a waitress who's takes an interest in him, manages to pull off a loose thread used to keep his face on, causing his entire face to flap down, exposing all of his muscles and tissue. And then moments later, it happens again with his cell mate he switched faces with.
*** I'm guessing you haven't seen the [[Face Off|movie]] this episode was a parody of...
* The "Trapper Keeper" episode of ''[[
* Poor [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] underwent quite an unpleasant transformation into ManSpider in the "Neogenic Nightmare" arc of ''[[Spider
** To say nothing of the fact his original transformation, to avoid the "violence" of sinking his fangs into peoples' necks, gave him five sucking lamprey-like mouths in the palm of each hand. His typical feeding habit was to slap his hands over someone's face and... well, we'll let your imagination do the rest.
** ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* In an episode of ''[[Static Shock]]'', the attention-seeking son of wealthy Edwin Alva uses gas from the Big Bang to grant himself various super powers so that he will gain attention from his dad as a supervillain. At the end of the episode, all of the containers for the gas pop at once, which causes him to transform unpredictably- the final form he takes is some sort of horrible, one-eyed, tentacley ''thing'', but shortly afterwards reverts to normal and turns to stone.
** Which only makes Alva's earlier remark about wanting a statue creepier.
* In an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
** When Red Star transforms involuntarily. Every molecule of his body going from solid to liquid to gas to plasma in a nanosecond.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' episode "That Mustache Feeling". As quoted above.
* In the original ''[[Transformers]]'', this happens when Scourge tries to use the Matrix. His body develops grotesque bulges and warts and he falls to his knees screaming in pain as tears stream from his optical sensors.
** [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Price_of_Life! Just...this.]
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*** She was trying to figure out exactly how she got changed so she could then work out how to change herself ''back''. That, or she'd gone quite mad and decided to make her own army/family of technorganic beings.
*** She definitely wanted to find her way back. She said so herself. Good thing she never learned Sari's secret...
*** Had the show gotten a fourth season, there would have been an episode where the Autobots are forced to go face-to-face with Blackarachnia again, who now has started to make other Transformers part-organic. One of the organic robots the Autobots had to face in that episode would have been an [[Beast Wars
* ''[[Turbo Teen]]''. The main character's face stretches out to become the grill of the car, his hands and feet become wheels, etc.
* One of the reasons why ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' is such a
* The focus of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* In the world of ''[[Codename
* In ''[[
* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' gives us Automutation Syndrome, which causes the sufferer to ''slowly'' melt into a puddle of goo.
* What happens to Rourke after he gets slashed by a crystal shard in ''[[Atlantis:
* In ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' this happens to Cub in one of the Halloween episodes. A curse warps the toddler into a tentacle monster.
* An episode of ''[[
** The episode with the "small ray" takes [[Body Horror]] to a new level; when trying to reverse the ray, [[SpongeBob]] puts Squidward through an increasingly painful series of agonizing morphs — catching fire, being literally cut in half by scissors, having no skin... the worst transformations happened offscreen, with hideous gurgling sound effects that left the true horror to the viewer's imagination, which only made it worse.
** "[
** In the "strike" episode, SpongeBob is stuck to a window. When Squidward tries to pull him away, he ends up tearing his entire face off and you can see his internal organs.
** There's a rather gruesome scene in "Plankton's Regular", where SpongeBob is lying in front of the Chum Bucket's door, and the regular customer opens the door over him, scraping off his face in the process. It doesn't get really disturbing until he sits up, and you can see all the (rather detailed) muscles of his face exposed. * shudders*
** There's also "I Was A Teenage Gary" where Spongebob and Squidward accidentally get injected with snail plasma and turn into snails.
** Also, the episode where jellyfish jelly becomes a popular condiment on Krabby Patties. Mr. Krabs captures a bunch of jellyfish fish so he can mass-produce the stuff. His factory jelly-extracting equipment is absolutely brutal on the poor jellyfish.
** One episode was based almost completely around Spongebob and Patrick watching a [[Show Within a Show|Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy episode]] in which they fight all of the shows villains. In it [[I Love Nuclear Power|The Atomic Flounder]] uses his Atomic Touch ability, which causes Barnacle Boy to sprout a third arm from his shoulder, which proceeds to beat him up. It gets even [[Nightmare Fuel|"better"]] once he's knocked out. The hand then deforms and sprouts a face, before proceeding to take over Barnacle Boy's body.
** The episode "The Inside Job" is full of this trope. Losing sight and hearing, a complete version of Spongebob's house made of ''brain'' including '''''Gary''''', and two scary transformation sequences.
** ''[[Conjoined Twins|"We're like brothers...]]'''''''[[Conjoined Twins|only closer."]]'''''
* On ''[[The Fairly
** This also happened with Chris' zit on ''[[
** Also on ''[[
* The EVOs from ''[[
** There's also the episode where Rex absorbs too many nanites, which leads to him losing control of them...which, in turn, leads to horrible metallic growths with a mind of their own.
*** Body Horror is pretty much a major thematic element of this show. It's not a cartoon for the squeamish.
* In the ''Legion Of Superheroes'' cartoon, Timber Wolf undergoes a forced transformation into a werewolf-man, which also gives him super powers. The others experience some form of this, such as Bouncing Boy being ''splattered against a wall''(don't worry, he lives) and them being transformed magically into monsters by evil wizard Mordru.
* One of the early episodes of ''[[
* ''[[
** "I'm in my happy place."
** "As you can see, my skin is starting to turn blue. My body temperature has been lowering at a supernatural rate, to what is now about thirty degrees Celsius. I don't know when it will end... ''I'm really scared.''"
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* 1980's ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "Creeping Unknown". Mr. Trudge is slowly turning into a plant and has green, gnarled branches for hands. He also attempts to turn other people into human-plant hybrids.
** [[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]] had some pretty good examples as well. One episode had some poor guy turn into a werewolf because of a genetic condition. It does not sound pleasant.
* ''[[The Avengers:
* Gene-slamming in ''[[Street Sharks]]'' is rather nasty, what with growing the extra limbs and the screams of pain and whatnot. Bonus points to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81kDABv-Mew&feature=related the first transformation], when the one guy's hand starts to change before the rest of him does.
* ''[[Star Wars:
** Savage Opress undergoes a ritual that causes his body to mutate into a much larger and more ferocious looking form. What makes the scene horrific, however, is that you can ''hear'' his bones extending, and see his horns grow longer out of his skull. It's a good thing he was unconscious at the time, because one gets the impression that he'd be in agonizing pain if he had to go through all that while conscious.
** {{spoiler|Darth Maul's condition in "Brothers". His missing lower body has been replaced with a crude, spider-like apparatus, his horns have tripled in length, and there are veins visible all over his body.}}
** Obi-Wan's transformation into "Rako Hardeen" involves his skin visibly warping, and his skull reshaping itself to create his new face. Judging from his reactions, the procedure was very painful.
* ''[[
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]] has this in a few places.
** One prominent episode is ''Super Fun Meat World''. Said meat contains an alien parasite which causes anyone that eats it to horrifically bloat, as well as becoming addicted to their food. Also even a tiny bit of said meat can become a [[Blob Monster]] to take care of anyone who knows too much. As if that wasn't enough, the process to reverse the main characters transformation goes a bit wrong, causing his face to temporarily melt in multiple ways. The villain is also a 30 foot tall gangsta' colon; the episode managing to be both pure [[Body Horror]] and [[Funny Moments|incredibly silly]] at the same time.
** 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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