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]].

** 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]. And keep in mind that ''[[And I Must Scream|he's still alive]]''.

** 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...

* 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 ''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.

** 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.

*** 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.

* 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.

* 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.]

* 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.

* 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.

** "[[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 also "I Was A Teenage Gary" where Spongebob and Squidward accidentally get injected with snail plasma and turn into snails.

** 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.}}

* ''[[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.

** 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.