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** Though the Elfman in the beginning could only do this , due to fear of lost control.

* Greed from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' ''might'' count, it's more armor forming that actual shapeshifting, but he tends to only shift up to his elbows because he thinks he looks ugly when he covers himself entirely.

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Marvel Universe]]''. Rahne Sinclair could change into a wolf or a transitional state between human and wolf.

== Fan Works ==

* The "flyer" and "mermaid" forms Kasumi designs for the shapeshifting spell used by the "Sisterhood of Doom" in ''[[Desperately Seeking Ranma]]''.

== Film ==

** Combine this with the mechanic that "every part is a whole new animal" and you get situations where you cut one's head off, they both keep fighting, and the head grows spider legs to crawl away.

* [[Humanoid Abomination|Harvesters]] in ''[[The Deaths of Ian Stone]]'' apparently have precise control over how far their transformations go. Their use of this varies—the [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|most heroic of the lot]] stays slightly human as a rejection of his heritage, whereas the [[Dark Action Girl]] seems to use it as a means of taunting him.

== Literature ==

* Daine from ''[[Tortall Universe|The Immortals]]'' can partially or fully change into any animal as part of her powers. Notably, when she's pregnant, she's forced to constantly shift the shape of her lower body, so that the fetus, which has inherited the powers, doesn't rip though it somehow.

* In one episode of ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' Banner stopped halfway through his transformation. He had some of Banner's personality but much less knowledge, like it was hard for him to think, and he was stronger than Banner but not as strong as Hulk. He had his green eyes, but not green skin. It wasn't voluntary though.

* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Fear Itself", everyone celebrating Halloween inside a [[Haunted House]] is forced to live out [["What Do They Fear?" Episode|their worst fear]]. Oz, a werewolf, inexplicably starts to change and [[Mode Lock|gets stuck]] halfway between man and wolf. He ends up huddled in a bathtub, scared out of his mind and muttering a hopeless [[Survival Mantra]] that he's not going to change.

* In the first episode of ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' series 4 George manages to trick his body into thinking it's full moon in order to {{spoiler|rescue his daughter from vampires.}} He changes to somewhere between human and wolf, which greatly enhances his strength, but also allows him to remain somewhat in control. There is one drawback, though: while a complete transformation heals what it damages, a partial transformation does not. {{spoiler|It's fatal. George dies of heart, kidney and liver failure just minutes later.}}

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** 1st-2nd Edition

*** The beastweres: wolfwere (a wolf that could take human shape) and greater wolfwere could half-change, thus gaining human arms and legs but keeping their wolf head.

*** In the original Oriental Adventures supplement (1985), hengeyokai shapeshifters could change into a transitional bipedal form with arms and hands and the rest of the body in animal form. While in this form the hengeyokai could speak normally and use weapons, armor and equipment and had infravision.

* ''[[GURPS]]'' 3E sourcebook ''Bestiary'' Second Edition. Were-Creatures could have a "Beast-Man" form, an anthropomorphic blend of human and animal.

* Michael Stackpole's ''[[Shadowrun]]'' ''Wolf and Raven'' short story "If As Beast You Don't Succeed" in Ka•Ge magazine Volume 1 Issue 12. Wolfgang Kies can turn into a half-man half-wolf form.

== Video Games ==

* Cornell the werewolf from ''[[Castlevania]]'' is depicted with inhumanely long fingernails in most of his human form's original artwork, besides being used in combat without fully changing, they allow him to shoot laser beams from his hands... for some reason.

* It's been established that Timmain from ''[[Elf Quest]]'' can do the wolf-man... er, wolf-elfwoman thing, both with tail and without. Mostly seen in flashbacks to her early days though. In later comics she's usually either one or the other.

* Grace from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' can transform to any stage between full squirrel and full human, can selectively morph away her furry antennae, as well as routinely pull off various [[Shapeshifter Mashup|ShapeShifterMashups]] with any or all of her continually growing number of forms though all of them are humanoid.

* Sphinxes in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' have shown the ability to take forms between full human and full sphinx. This includes revealing fangs and talons in human form, combining the size of the sphinx form with a human shape, and a few other combinations.

== Western Animation ==