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== Webcomics ==
* This is a problem for [[Half-Human Hybrid|chimera]] in ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]''; it figures prominently in the character of [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-07 Vlad], who could not change form with risking his life. Part of what makes Grace (Shade Tail) unique is that transforming doesn't hurt her as much as it does others (by design, she naturally releases painkillers when transforming). Interestingly, the transformation gun doesn't have this effect, even on normal humans (though it is implied that it did before Tedd perfected it; when Elliot uses the transformation belt, which is based on an earlier version of the TFG, he is incapacitated for several minutes - and his later cat-hybrid transformations reflect this as well). "Ok, I need an aspirin, a ball of yarn, and thirty-seven pounds of catnip, stat!"
** Later [[exposition]] revealed that depending on the parents, [[Bizarre_Alien_Biology|"eggs"]] produce Lesser Chimera (Terran-Terran) with fixed parent and "hybrid" forms, for whom a transformation is much like a physical exercise, so they suffer if not in a good shape; Uryuom (Uryuom-Uryuom), mildly metamorphic at will and capable of "remembering" new forms imposed on them; Greater Chimera (Terran-Uryuom) who have easier time transforming between innate forms and can acquire new ones, and a Greater Chimera with ''another'' shapeshifting alien thrown in may also combine forms freely. The "TF gun" is Uryuom cosmetic device with overhauled software and emulates Uryuom process, so minor changes don't involve overt sensations, but the belt was an experimental device that emulated Lesser Chimera process, so using it is much like being forced through a hard exercise by mechanism without feedback.
* ''[[Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]'', [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_691.php here].
{{quote| ''"Wait, painful? This is going to hurt?"''<br />
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