Metamorphosis: Difference between revisions

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== Advertising ==

* A series of commercials for the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series showed weapons from the games being used in real life in a ''[[Jackass]]'' inspired way. Many of these included involuntary one-way transformations, where one guy gets turned into a chicken despite protesting, a few friends turn one of their mum's into a sheep by accident and two guys transform one of their friend's girlfriend into a cow just to mock him.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Although the use of "Metamorphose" is unrelated, ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' did this with most of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in their final appearances, turning them (usually against their wills) into giant superpowered versions of themselves at the cost of apparently all their higher brain functions. The [[Big Bad]] and [[The Dragon]] were similar, but dodged that last part.

* Hideshi Hino's ''The Bug Boy'' is the story of a kid who is reborn as a giant bug. He suffers pretty much the same fate as Kafka's (below) protagonist.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Comet the Super-Horse, from pre-Crisis DC, was originally a centaur called Biron who wanted to be fully human. Unfortunately Circe made a mistake and made him fully horse instead. Because the spell couldn't be reversed, Circe gave him superpowers to try and make up for it.

* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' are all up in this trope. Aside from the turtles and Splinter themselves, there's Leatherhead, Bebop and Rocksteady, Baxter Stockman (in the first cartoon), the Mighty Mutanimals in the Archie comics, etc.

== Fan Works ==

* John is permanently changed into a [[Winged Humanoid]] (with [[Blessed with Suck|various attendant perks and problems]]) in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''. It's done to save his life by the Fans.

 

== Film ==

* The entire premise of [[The Fly]].

* In Disney's version of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Jafar is transformed into a genie.

* The premise for [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "The Land That Time Forgot" is that all the creatures on the island are evolving from one species to another as they move inland and northward.

 

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', a witch's rat-transformation spell turns out to be permanent when she uses it on herself - or at least, she can't undo it while transformed.

** She got better.

* In ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', Odo was turned into a solid (i.e. a non-shapeshifter) as a punishment for opposing his species' plan to take over the galaxy.

 

* Numerous Greek myths involved permanent transformations. [[Ovid]]'s ''[[The Metamorphoses|Metamorphoses]]'' (the [[Trope Namer]]) featured a number of such stories.

** The nymph Scylla was desired by the merman Glaucus (although she brushed off his advances). The sorceress Circe also loved Glaucus, and in jealousy poisoned Scylla, transforming her into a [[Eldritch Abomination|twelve-footed, six-headed monstrosity]]. Scylla adjusted well to the change: she moved to a rock on the strait opposite Charybdis (also a transformed nymph) and took to devouring sailors from every ship that passed beneath her.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* [[New Horizon|Medeans]] voluntarily undergo a transformation to become Medeans.

* The Elans of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' are humans who have undergone a secret, voluntary transformation that leaves them looking exactly the same, but they are effectively immortal, being able to live purely on psychic energy. There is just something off-putting about them that makes the normals uncomfortable, though: by game rules, they have become Aberrations like a rust monster or a mind flayer.

 

== Toys ==

* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', {{spoiler|some Av-Matoran undergo metamorphasis into [[Bee People|Bohrok]] as a natural part of their life cycle.}}

 

== Video Games ==

* In the modern usages of both words, "metamorphosis" would be a much more accurate term than "[[Evolutionary Levels|evolution]]" for when this happens in ''[[Pokémon]]''. The reason it was called evolution probably has something to do with "metamorphosing" being huge and unwieldy (and the shorter "morphing" being permanently associated with ''[[Power Rangers]]'').

* The latter character from platforming series ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak & Daxter]]'' for coming into contact with dark eco.

* In the [[Rance]] Series, the Whale God turned the Dragon King into an anthromorphic cat for breaking the [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]. Note that the Dragons were on the side of good and won. That's how much of a [[Jerkass God]] Ludo-Rathowm is.

 

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', metamorphosis accompanies immigration and emigration to and from Gillitie Wood. Regional Fairies and other forest-folk become humans in order to leave Gillitie and enroll at the Court, and a family of humans transform into birds before moving into the Wood.

* In ''[[Exiern]]'' dragons are born looking human and don't metamorphose into their true form until they reach adulthood. Adult dragons destroy human settlements and plant their young amongst the suvivors to be raised by humans like cuckoos. The heroine's pretty sure her romantic interest is a dragon (she barely survived an encounter with his half-transformed sister) but hasn't figured out how to tell him.

 

== Truth In Television ==

* Metamorphosis is a natural process for various species of animals, where their juvenile forms look little (or nothing) like the adult. The transformation of tadpoles into frogs and caterpillars into butterflies are two of the best-known examples, with butterfly metamorphosis transcending to the point of metaphor.

 

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