Heroic Willpower/Playing With
Basic Trope: A character may be transformed into a monster, but still retains his/her willpower in that form.
- Straight: Kate is transformed into a werewolf, but has willpower to retain her mind while being a werewolf.
- Exaggerated: Kate is transformed into a murderous savage werewolf-vampire-gremlin-thingy with irresistible, compelling urges to attack literally anything that moves, but is completely coherent in that form.
- Downplayed: Kate is transformed into a werewolf, losing control of all her senses, becoming the wolf, eating cattle, terrorizing the townsfolk, but stops short of eating her friends due to willpower.
- Justified: Kate has a strong will which can overpower anything if properly motivated.
- Inverted: Kate has an unfortunate condition where even transformations as mild as changing her hair color cause her to go berserk.
- Subverted: After the transformation, Kate just gives in to it and goes savage.
- Double subverted: But stops short of hurting someone she cares for as the Heroic Willpower kicks in.
- Parodied: ???
- Deconstructed: Kate's will power holds but she dies from having to hold back the transformation.
- Reconstructed: Turns out she wasn't dead, just passed out for a few hours.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: The willpower isn't there for her.
- Kate doesn't transform.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "Must...protect...friends..."
- Kate's friend Alice: "Kate, I know you're in there. I can see it in your eyes. You have to save Bob!"
- Conversed: "It's almost the end of the movie - ten bucks says the main character doesn't lose her mind like the others."
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