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# Mental Warping: This place changes you. It may be anything from a [[Sugar Bowl]] to a [[Crapsack World]], but it has the power to re-mold your brain into that of a typical denizen. Any visitors from [[Real Life]] or a neighboring (but different) country will slowly have their personality changed into one of a "normal" person for that world, be they sugary sweet and nice or hard-boiled and jaded. There's a limited [[Truth in Television]] to this part, as living in one place for an extended period does have ''some'' effect in you, but in fiction this goes well beyond the usual spoken accents and behavioral customs.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Cephiro in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' is Type 3, which is revealed midway through the first season & becomes a major plot point in the second season.

* ''[[The Cat Returns]]'': The longer Haru stays in the Cat Kingdom, the more feline her appearance becomes. This is actually a mix of types 1 and 2, since she changes more if she starts to "lose herself" in the world.

* The plot to ''[[Uzumaki]]''. The town Kurôzu-cho is "cursed by the spiral" causing inhabitants to initially go mad, and obsessed with spiral shapes. Towards the end {{spoiler|people start transforming into human-sized snails}}.

 

* [[Those Annoying Post Brothers]] have the ability to reality-jump, and either change into a local form, or not, depending on their whim. They can, for example, change into a giant by going to a world of giants and becoming one, then returning to the world they started from but retaining their giant form. They can always return to normal by simply going home.

 

== Fan Works ==

* When the Dark Kingdom Renegades of ''[[Sailor Moon Expanded]]'' begin exploring other universes, they discover that there is an "adaptation effect" which forces extraplanar visitors to take on the characteristics of an existing native of that universe, usually one who is already similar to the visitor in some way.

 

* ''Disney's [[Pinocchio]]'' has Pleasure Island, called Land of Toys in the original novel, where you never have to work. The longer you stay there, the more you start to turn into a donkey. Though you could say it's a more literal version of making an ass of yourself.

* In the ''[[Tron]]'' universe, you will go from a normal human (User) to a program if you are digitized into a computer. You get to keep your mind, memories, face, and general body shape, but your clothes are substituted with a neat glowing bodysuit and you are subject to most of the "physical laws" of the computer world.

* ''[[An Elegy for the Still-living]]'': The entire story takes place in one of these, though it is most obvious in the second chapter. Francis creates a world from his own beliefs, and it in turn changes what he believes.

 

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Survival'' has the planet of the Cheetah people, which gradually turns you into a [[Were Cat|werecat]] the longer you stay.

** Simply traveling through time affects how you experience events, [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory|allowing, in some cases, a person to continue to remember people, objects, and events which have been erased in time]].

* The ''[[Space Cases]]'' episode "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Court" where the ship ends up in a parallel universe and everyone starts turning into Spung, the villainous lizard people of the series.

 

== Mythology and Religion ==

* This concept is central in Feng Shui (and geomancy in general). And you can alter your environment to make life better for you.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Abyss (extreme [[Chaotic Evil]] plane) has places where [[Brown Note|sheer mind-blasting horrors and evil]] may not only kill a mortal visitor, but also instantly change into a [[Our Zombies Are Different|bodak]]; those who die in more survivable parts of Abyss may or may not raise as bodaks one day later too. A bodak is neither alive nor has all common undead traits, attacks anything that moves [[Death Seeker|in hope of being destroyed]] and its gaze in turn kills others; occasionally retains its mind almost completely, but majority keep just enough of traces to make them more unsettling.

** With Dark Lords it works [[Fisher King|both]] ways, but are "chained" to the land and their curses. From "Expedition to Castle Ravenloft", Strahd has a connection to Barovia... literally. He gains supernatural powers on top of being a super-vampire from three fanes that makes him virtually impossible to kill.

* This is how [[Arcadia]] works in ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]''. Abducted humans find themselves forced into a role by [[The Fair Folk|the True Fae]]; similarly, the laws of physics in Arcadia have been thrown aside in favor of contract law, so they need to sign onto their masters' Contracts in order to survive. Both combine to physically twist the human into a new role—be it a loyal hound, a perfect lover, or a tree.

* [[Silent Hill]] and its inhabitants change to reflect the inner turmoil of the protagonist. Which would make it the Life Link kind, with hints of Physical Warping: the protagonists get randomly teleported into different dimensions or locations and may have their clothes changed. {{spoiler|The protagonist Murphy Pendleton}} of [[Silent Hill: Downpour]] gets turned into a [[Humanoid Abomination]] monster, and back again, during the course of the story.

* ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' had the PC's dog change form to fit whatever land he was in.

** This is stated to be the effect of her drinking the polluted water the plant-people are forced to drink; the game gets heavily into its [[Green Aesop]] near the end. Whether that implies that the plant people were all or even partially originally human is never adequately explored.

* The Dark World/Golden Land in ''Zelda'' mythos turns people's appearances into what more accurately reflects their soul: Ganon gets turned into a pigman and Link into a bunny and in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', [[Cerebus Retcon|a wolf]].

* In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, especially [[Kingdom Hearts II]], Sora, Donald, and Goofy may magically transform into bodies more "appropriate" to the world they are visiting. This is relative, however. If humanity, cartoony or realistic, is the norm, there won't be any change. If speaking humanoid animals are the norm, there won't be any change. If non-humanoid speaking animals are the norm, they will change because apparently it is more "weird" for an upright-walking talking duck to exist in Simba's world than it is in the Pirates of the Caribbean world. Justified in the TRON world, however, because it's well known from the original film that digitizing people makes them neat and glowy.

* [[Girls Love]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Aoi Shiro]]'' has the eponymous Blue Castle, a place of chaos (similar to the aforementioned [[Warhammer 40,000|Eye of Terror]], <s>except with lesbian [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]]</s>) that will warp your [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|mind]] and [[Body Horror|body]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* The Sanrio universe is this to Lovecraft's Elder Gods in ''[[Hello Cthulhu]]''.

* The worlds of ''[[City of Reality]]'' do this. Poor Hawk turns into a human while in Magic World.

 

== Web Original ==

* This very wiki has this trope invoked in the [[Self-Demonstrating Article]] for [[Sugar Bowl]].

** [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]].

* If you walk into the valley of ''[[Metamor Keep]]'', if you stay for about a week or so, you'll start [[Baleful Polymorph|changing into an animal]], [[Fountain of Youth|get younger]], or [[Gender Bender|gender-swap]].

* [[Cyanide & Happiness]] Show, Season 1 episode 3, a scientist is thrown back in time and his clothing changes.

* A weird variant in [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]: everything underwater is rendered in cartoon form, while (most) everything on the surface is done with live action. On one occasion, SpongeBob and co. venture ashore, only to turn into puppets (a sponge on a Popsicle stick, anyone?) while on land.

* The [[Mind Screw]] film ''The Elm-Chanted Forest'' has the main character fall down a hole and get captured by humanoid mushrooms. They tie him up so that eventually he will turn into a mushroom as well, because "Everybody becomes a mushroom down here". Except for a talking snail, apparently because the mushrooms have never noticed him. And then they sing a psychedelic musical number, starring a fungal [[Expy]] of [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Prince]]. And some of them appear to be wearing blackface. Did I mention this movie is a [[Mind Screw]]?

 

== Real Life ==

* Places with high radioactive contamination exists in the world, with unpleasant mental and physical effect.

 

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