Heroic Willpower/Playing With

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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..."
  • 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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