Shapeshifting Lover/Playing With
- Basic Trope: A human has a lover or spouse who can shapeshift
- Straight: Princess Maria is betrothed to a white wolf who is really a handsome prince in disguise
- Exaggerated: Princess Maria fiancé is a Eldritch Abomination who is really a handsome prince in disguise
- Princess Maria fiancé is a wolf-eagle-alligator-shark-spider Hybrid who is really a handsome prince in disguise.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Princess Luna is a Wolf who is engaged to a human who is really a handsome wolf in disguise!
- Subverted: At first Princess Maria thinks she is betrothed to an animal, but it turns out her suitor is just a hairy man
- Double Subverted: Who is hairy because his father was a werewolf!
- Parodied: Turns out Maria really enjoys living the wolfish life! Running around naked in the woods, howling to the moon, beats being stuck in a castle all day! She is disappointed when her husband turns back into a man.
- Deconstructed:???
- Reconstructed:???
- Lampshaded: Oh great! I guess I'm stuck in one of those fairy tales where I have to marry a hedgehog or something!"
- Zigzagged:???
- Averted: The hero/heroine does not shapeshift, no marriage to an animal takes place.
- Discussed:???
- Conversed: ???