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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.
*** The scene is made worse by the friggin Wilheim Scream she makes after the impact...
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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.
* 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.
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** 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 ''[[South Park]]'' pays homage to the ''[[Akira]]'' transformation scene (complete with soundtrack); it involves Cartman's Trapper Keeper absorbing all of his school supplies, then his computer, then Cartman himself, turning him into a hideously gigantic bio-mechanical blob monster that threatens to destroy the world via the absorption of NORAD.
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* In an episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Beast Boy is infected with a virus that turns him into a werewolf like monster. When he transforms for the first time he reacts like it's very painful.
** 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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* In ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', [[The Resenter|Ty Parsec]] is bitten by "energy vampire" [[Shout-Out|NOS-4-A2]], and the radioactive moon on the planet he's stationed on causes him to transform into a "wirewolf", which is basically a werewolf cyborg. The very first time Ty transforms, wires starts streaming out of the wound on his arm, and attach themselves to his neck. His eyes then grow to large, glowing red orbs, his jaw is stretched into a metal muzzle, and he grows a tail. It doesn't help matters that, from all his groaning and screaming, it looks and sounds exceptionally painful. As the episode progresses, his transformations get less and less creepy, but that first one always sticks out in your mind as [[Nightmare Fuel|pretty bone-chilling]].
* ''[[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: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]].'' Quite possibly one of the rarest (and most traumatic) examples in Disney film history.
* 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 ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has Sandy's teleportation device screwing up and fusing Spongebob and Squidward into a weird mess. Then they later get un-fused, then re-fused with every other main character into a blob with people's heads sticking out of it.
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** "[[wikipedia:Ichthyosis|The Ick]]". It's a virus that causes green ooze to grow all over the victim's body. It's contagious on both touch and ingestion. Somehow, Squidward doesn't realize he's scratching a Ick-y spot, and a restaurant full of diners don't notice they're eating it. The only other known symptom is itchiness, but you have to wonder why Krabs called the SWAT team. And why they called the HAZMAT squad.
** 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 ''[[Family Guy]]'', which actually held him hostage for a while.
** Also on ''[[Invader Zim]]'', though the boil didn't come alive Zim did paint a face on it, and it did hold everyone's attention long enough for Zim to attempt one of his master plans.
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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: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' gave us the two part episode "Gamma World", where you saw ghe Avengers mutate into Gamma monsters.
* 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: The Clone Wars|Star Wars the Clone 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.}}
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is usually a very tame show as far as nauseating jokes are concerned, but the episode "Canderemy" is an exception. In a nutshell, Doofenshmirtz builds an [[Trope O Matic|Inator]] that combines to objects together. Candace and Jeremy were lucky enough only be attached at the hip. Everything, and every''[[Oh Crap|one]]'' else? [http://phineasandferb.wikia.com/wiki/File:Ferbneas_and_Isabella.jpg Not so much].
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has the evil queen Chrysalis, who has holes in her legs. It looks kind of... disturbing.
* [[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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