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== Film ==
* Both sequels to ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' feature a plotline that turns fat, old, jolly Saint Nick back into Tim Allen.
* While the back-and-forth transformations between Ben Grimm and The Thing are a staple of early ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' comics, [[Fantastic Four (film)|the movies]] spend a lot of time with a non-deformed Dr. Doom. The second one goes to especially contrived lengths to get Julian McMahon out of his metal mask.
* Mystique from [[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] is played by world famous supermodel Rebecca Romijn, and has the power to take any form. Do the math. Commendably, though, she spends surprisingly ''little'' time as herself. (But that [[Fan Service|leg-shot]] in ''X2'' is enough...)
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* Not transformed back, but after Jack Nicholson becomes the Joker in the 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' film, there are stretches where he puts on enough makeup to pass for human.
** Also minorly subverted, as the fact that he still has his permanent [[Slasher Smile]] is enough to drop him in the [[Uncanny Valley]].
** Used with Batman himself, too. In ''Batman Returns'', he takes his mask off when trying to talk Catwoman down from killing Schreck.
* While he is not particularly abnormal looking outside the costume, the sequel to ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' has a plot element where Peter loses his powers, allowing a good chunk of the movie to have Peter just be Peter.
** Also happens in the end of each movie. Excuses are constantly made to show his face. Usually thanks to rips and tears that are magically repaired by the credits.
** In the third movie, we get a token few minutes of Venom's wonderfully creepy tooth-filled maw before he starts peeling back his "mask" every time he speaks - probably to give Topher Grace some more face time.
* In the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' movie trilogy, Andy Serkis felt depressed about his groundbreaking work as Gollum being relatively anonymous. So the filmmakers shot a flashback scene as Smeagol for him.
** This is however the only time we see Serkis as normal.
* Strangely, the sequel to ''[[Shrek]]'' has Fiona turning back to normal for a while—maybe just to get mileage out of the model. Maybe the animators hoped to use it in promotional material that [[Late Arrival Spoiler|wouldn't spoil viewers who hadn't seen the first one yet]].
* Sylvester Stallone only spends about ten minutes with his helmet on in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', despite the fact that in the comics we have ''never'' seen Dredd with his helmet off.
* Likewise, Billy Zane gets a lot of face time in ''[[The Phantom (film)|The Phantom]]'', considering he's playing a character whose face is never shown clearly in the comics.
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