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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Subverted in ''Code Name Sailor V''. The Dark Agency's latest plot is to get the city addicted to fattening chocolates, and then lure the victims to a spa where "weight loss pods" will make them thin again. The pods just drain their energy and the spa uses funhouse mirrors to make the patrons look like they lost weight. Minako avoids this because Artemis confiscates her chocolates and makes her lift weights for several days. Even ''her'' healing powers can't make everyone lose the extra pounds; they have to all put in the work to remove it.

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* In ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'', Nina reveals that different spells can achieve this goal. She can change herself or anyone else of the opposite gender, make them taller and prettier, and so forth. The hitch is you need the counterspell to reverse the effects. If you don't have it ready? Nina has to spend hours finding it on her computer.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''

** The Disguise Pen can sometimes accomplish this, though it helps that it can summon heels to make the girls look taller or give them a shorter cut which wears off as soon as they transform into Senshi.

** Similar to the Sailor V manga, Jadeite ran a gym for a few weeks. Unlike in the manga, he brainwashed real exercise instructors to put the guests through rigorous routines, and only then would they use the energy-draining pods after finishing their workouts. The moral ambiguity, energy-stealing aside, is when Usagi and her friends, who are minors, are put to the same routines rather than adjusting to their growing bodies. Luna makes Sailor Moon intervene when Ms. Haruna is using the pods so much that she's on the verge of dying.

** Similar to the Sailor V manga, Jadeite ran a gym for a few weeks. Unlike in the manga, he brainwashed real exercise instructors to put the guests through rigorous routines, and only then would they use the energy-draining pods after finishing their workouts. The moral ambiguity, energy-stealing aside, is when Usagi and her friends, who are minors, are put to the same routines rather than adjusting to their growing bodies. Luna makes Sailor Moon intervene when Ms. Haruna is using the pods so much that she's on the verge of dying. ]

** The anime has the Starlights changing gender when they transform into Senshi. One could interpret them as genderfluid, while in the manga it's mentioned they only dress as boys to hide their identity from whoever kidnapped their leader Kakyuu.

* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' has a horrifying example of this played in the "Diet" chapter. A model comes to Count D, having heard that he has weight loss pills. He gives them to her, rather than assign her a personal trainer as he did for the teenager that was stress-eating and venting to him. At first the model is fine, and shares the pills with another model. Then they both start transforming into creepy buglike creatures.

** Subverted, however, with the girl in question. The personal trainer puts her through the wringer while helping her work out and watch her weight, while also telling her to stand up and speak for herself rather than let others define who she is. She uses a beautiful prom dress as an incentive. Even though the girl loses the weight and gains self-confidence, complete with her smacking a guy at prom who is a douche to her and her friends, while still stress-eating on the side at times, D thought that she didn't deserve to pay any price for such magic and made her put in the real work. The girl also sincerely wants to find the trainer to thank her. D says the trainer had to move, but would be very happy if the girl adopted a sweet kitten. The girl adopts the kitten, while noting she seems very familiar...

* Lili in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'' has intrinsic magic that lets her change her form and apparent gender, but not her height or size. Her spells reference the [[Cinderella (fairy tale)|Cinderella]] story, implying she's "dressing up" and going back to normal rather than transforming (and she's never been shown to use an intrinsic attack of any monster she's changed into)... but her magic lets her look like specific people who are the same height and general build as her.

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* In ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'', Nina reveals that different spells can achieve this goal. She can change herself or anyone else of the opposite gender, make them taller and prettier, and so forth. The hitch is you need the counterspell to reverse the effects. If you don't have it ready? Nina has to spend hours finding it on her computer.

== [[Art]] ==

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== [[Puppet Shows]] ==

* The sadly banned episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'' with Margaret Hamilton played the Wicked Witch of the West has this. When David finds the broom -- rather, it lands in his hands-- he refuses to give it to Witchy on the grounds that she was very rude to him. She transforms herself into a "sweet old lady," that is Margaret Hamilton without her makeup, in the blink of an eye, to con him into giving it back to her. Even so, everyone recognizes her; David pretends not to and says he would return the broom, if she asked politely. Witchy finally does, and David returns it while wishing her a safe trip back to Oz.

== [[Radio]] ==