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* Without their encounter suits, the Vorlons of ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' look like holy creatures from the observer's mythologies. But when angered, they look...different...

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': "[[Make My Monster Grow]]!". Every ''[[Super Sentai]]''/''Power Rangers'' season except for ''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' and ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]]'' has had this, with each [[Big Bad]] using a different growth method. Also, growing comes with different other advantages for the monster: sometimes any damage taken or weapons lost while small will return (including whatever you broke to shut down its main means of terrorizing the populace. Uh-oh!), and sometimes it will gain a new form much like a [[Big Bad]] can. ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'' has the latter happpen often. Sometimes, entirely new powers are gained.

*** Probably the uber-example would be Season 1's Scorpina. Whenever she grew she went from a pretty Asian woman to a hideous scorpion creature.

** For quantity, several [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] tie with ''four'' advanced forms. Most recently, [[Power Rangers Jungle Fury|Dai Shi]] has human form, [[Digimon Frontier|Lowemon]]-ish lion armor form (with similar transformation!), Phantom Beast King form, ''and'' eight-headed dragon form (his true self, as seen in a carving at the beginning of the series.) He's not alone, though: [[Power Rangers in Space|Ecliptor]], [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|Trakeena]], and [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Olympius]] can boast the same number of forms.

** Dai Shi's sidekick Camille has ''three'' forms: human, armored, Phantom Beast General.

** In the aforementioned Lightspeed Rescue, in a few cases, the monsters have to grow ''twice'' to fight the Supertrain Megazord, which is a good two or three heads taller than the average giant monsters.

*** Also, some of the more powerful wizards can take on monster-like [[People in Rubber Suits]] forms of their own. Two in particular have rubber suit ''and'' Ranger suit forms.

** A similar thing happens in ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]''. The Zords are actually manifestations of primal spirits unlocked through martial arts.

** Kiva himself was able to do this by transforming into his dragon-like Flight Style form, which did give him a huge boost in power.

** A few main human villains eventually do this in order to reach their goals. {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Tennoji]] in ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'' fuses himself with the artifical Category Ace Kerberos in order to try and win the Battle Fight himself. In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', Dr. Maki absorbs five Purple Core Medals to mutate himself into a Greeed, completing his transformation in episode 42.}}

* In ''Spearhead from Space'', the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial that first introduced the Autons, the creatures themselves look like mannequins unless tweaked to look (mostly) human; however, their leader gestates into the Ultimate Form with which to Take Over The Earth. It is...''[[Naughty Tentacles|a giant, tentacled squid]]''.

** Ah, no. The tentacled squid is called the Nestene Consciousness, a creature with an affinity for polymers and plastics (or, if the Ninth Doctor is to be believed, the byproducts of making said plastics). The abomination described is its true form. It's established that it arrived in a meteorite shower--the phrase "some assembly required" seems apt--and each meteorite, containing a part of the Consciousness, animated the mannequins/dummies created by Auto Plastics (hence, "Auton") and gave them the mission of collecting the rest of the meteorites. In other words, it possesses plastic products. The monster itself was in some kind of an incubation or life-support chamber, waiting for the rest of its "bits" to arrive. Of course, by the time of "Rose," the Consciousness had lost its squiddishness, and resembled a big face in a vat of molten plastic, apparently having lost its physical form in the Time War.