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** Though the ending of ''that'' is ''clearly'' supposed to be the brainwashed version, with comedic-horror elements that [[Nightmare Fuel|some people got that bit of a chill down their spine from though it's supposed to be funny]], there are actually several stories where being turned into [[Petting Zoo People]] comes with a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] effect. Highly common are [[Transformation Sequence]]s where the person is panicking and screaming at the beginning, but each stage of the human-to-nonhuman conversation also shows the character in a different stage of a "WTF is happening to me?!"-to-"Being a [[Catgirl]] rocks!" conversion. (Yes, even - or especially - if you [[Gender Bender|started out male]].) Is it that you forever lose your mind along with your form, or the fact that you don't ''really'' know you won't like being a winged centaur until you try it? ...yes, it's definitely ''one'' of those, isn't it?
** There's a similar tendency in hypnofetish stuff - art, fiction, whatever - in which [[Happiness in Slavery]] is ''incredibly'' common. Sometimes they're a submissive soul and it's a dream come true, which is only ''moderately'' creepy; it's when they're ''not'' submissive until they're brainwashed into it that things get really unnerving.
*** They're fetish stories aimed at people thatwho have that fetish. [[Completely Missing the Point|Of course they're going to seem odd or twisted if you don't have that fetish.]]
* The ending of ''[[Starship]]'' features Bug {{spoiler|accepting his bug form and getting his true love February, Tootsie and Mega-Girl getting married and everyone saving the bug world from the G.L.E.E. Happy right? Well, what happens when the G.L.E.E. comes back and investigates? Where do the Rangers go from here, are they stuck on the planet? Mega-Girl is still a robot. So what happens when Tootsie ages and dies while she stays the same? And Bug is still a bug so he and February have, at most, probably a week together.}}
* In the Webnovel and its Webtoon adaptation ''Who Made Me A Princess'' and its Webtoon adaptation, the in-universe book ''"The Lovely Princess"'' ends with Athanasia, the neglected legitimate daughter of the emperor, being killed by her very own father after being falsely accused toof attempting murder against Jeanette, the "illegitimate" but favored daughter,; but because Jeanette was the book's heroine and the story ends with her soothing the heartless emperor's illness, the general impression was that the book ended in good spirits. The protagonist, who had read the book several times, already thought that this "happy ending" was pure rubbish even before transmigrating into the book as Athanasia. {{Spoiler|Turns out that said ending was not intended to be happy at all: even before Transmigrator!Athanasia discovered several things not in the original novel that put the original plot in perspective, what ''was'' already written was intended to hit the reader with the [[Fridge Horror]] that everything will go to shit after the point where the story ended.}}
 
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