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* Particularly aggravating when mutants (in the [[Marvel]] universe) lose their powers and (in general) turn human. That is, you might have [[wikipedia:File:Newxmen125.jpg|looked like this]] as a mutant, but once you're cured, you get an instant human body. Almost as if you had never been a mutant in the first place.
** As briefly touched upon above though, it's only a general rule. Chamber, a mutant whose explosion/fire/whatever powers blew off his lower face and chest, had to be put on a life support when his powers disappeared. It seems it doesn't count if it was an indirect effect of their powers, or [[Rule of Drama|if it will cause something even shitier to happen to the character.]]
** Similarly, Wolverine had... ''issues''... when he lost his healing factor while still possessed of his adamantium skeleton and claws. Not only is adamantium apparently ''poisonous'' and thus his own skeleton was slowly killing him, the skin between his knuckles no longer healed up when he unsheathed his claws.
* ''[[X-Factor]]'', in fact, did an arc based partially around that premise. SOME mutants became completely human looking when they became non-mutants, but other mutants retained vestiges of their mutations even after Decimation -- horns, colourful feathers instead of hair, etc. -- and some of them resent ex-mutants who can pass as completely humans who retain their attachment to their previous mutant state, because they can go back and forth, whenever they want.
* In what is probably the worst offender this editor has ever seen, ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' character "The Lizard" was created by a man, Dr. Curt Connors, trying to grow his right arm back. When he becomes the Lizard, his right arm does, indeed, grow back. When he's cured and reverts to normal, however, he loses his arm again. Connors' RIGHT ARM has No Ontological Inertia. Ditto for Kommodo, who uses an improved version of Dr. Connors' formula, that allows her to transform at will. In human form, she ''has no legs''. Where on earth do [[Shapeshifter Baggage|they come from]]?
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* Briefly mentioned and sort of averted in the JLA special Foreign Bodies, in which the [[Justice League]] undergoes one big [[Body Swap]]. [[Green Lantern]], stuck in [[Martian Manhunter]]'s body, points out to Aquaman (in [[Wonder Woman]]'s body) that at least he got his hand back--all of the characters' unique physical features stay with their bodies, not their minds, as it should be if you only switch minds. He calls it "proof of some kind of thermodynamic 'conservation of anatomy' principle."
* This is how Green Lantern's powers work. The constructs and effects he creates only exist as long as he is thinking about them. However, any impact his constructs have on normal physical matter remains (if he digs a pit with a glowy shovel, the pit remains after the glowy shovel disappears.)
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