Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Claymore]]'' the more a Claymore uses her Youki power, the more her body transforms into a Youma—the very thing they hunt (since they are part Human part Youma). If they use up 80% of their Youki power, they fully turn into a Youma and cannot transform back into human form and hunter will become the hunted (apart from some rare exceptions).

* Keel's goal of undoing his human transformation in ''[[Buster Keel]]''. He does manage to gain a few items that let him temporarily transform his arms to their original forms for fighting.

* Happens twice in ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'' - once involving a shape-change spell, once involving a lycanthrope. In both cases, having a spell segment imprinted on one's body creates a Mode Lock as long as the segment is in place.

* An example from ''[[Otogi Juushi Akazukin]]'': {{spoiler|[[Big Badass Wolf|Val]] ''used'' to be a werewolf. However, thanks to injuries he sustained while protecting Akazukin's home village from other werewolves several years before the series began, he's now trapped in wolf form.}}

** A TFT walkthrough states that in one mission, hitting Ilidan with a bunch of damaging spells will have a high chance of distrupting his AI, preventing him from transforming into his demonic form when heavily injured.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the black dragon boss Nefarian has calls out to specific classes with specific effects on those classes. The class call to Druids ("Druids and their silly shapeshifting. Let's see it in action!") will force all Druids to shapeshift into cat form and block them in it for a while. Feral specialised DPS druids may not be affected if they're fighting in this form anyway, but druid [[Mighty Glacier|bear tanks]], healers and spellcasters will be annoyed. Of course, at the time Nefarian was at the top of the food chain DPS-specced feral druids, and for that matter any non-healer druids, were so exceedingly rare in end-game raiding that Nefarian was probably fine discounting their existence entirely.

* Two examples from ''[[Nethack]]'':

** The amulet of unchanging will mode lock the player. This is usually a good thing, since most transformations are [[Baleful Polymorph|unwanted]].