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== Literature ==
* [[Oscar Wilde]] played with it in: [[The Picture of Dorian Gray|Dorian Gray's picture]] doesn't just grow old in the place of its possessor, it also bears the cosmetic consequences of his sins, growing ever uglier as Dorian descends into depravation. Notice that by the end of the story the picture is nearly monstrous but Dorian is about 40 years old at most, so most of the change must have come from evil as opposed to aging.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': While living in a cave for a few hundred years also does its work, [[Artifact of Doom|Gollum's precious]] affects his appearance greatly.
** In the backstory it's mentioned that Sauron, who used to be a master shapeshifter and used to make use of a beautiful, benevolent appearance was eventually so consumed by wrath that he could only take the form of terrible Dark Lord after his body died in the fall of Numenor.
*** Morgoth, Sauron's old boss, had the same thing happen to him after he destroyed the Trees of Valinor.
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