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** The manga also featured a mirror spirit who, upon taking Ranma's female form, immediately barges out of the house in a tiny cocktail dress, ready to get it on with the next attractive guy she can find.
** In a bizarre instance of self-awareness, when female Ranma (posing as "Ranko") is forced to go bra-shopping with Nodoka and Akane, she gives up and tries on a few bras, posing to herself in the mirror and nodding appreciatively. [[Weirdness Magnet|Naturally]], this is when the sales attendant at the store chooses to trip and send hot tea flying into Ranma's booth.
* {{spoiler|Dante}} in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' attempts to seduce her ex, {{spoiler|Hohenheim}}, in this manner, {{spoiler|after taking over the body of Lyra, her beautiful maid and student}}.
** And {{spoiler|his son Edward}}. Or rather, she tried to {{spoiler|preemptively seduce him by making him fall in love with Rose, the girl whose body she was planning on stealing next.}}
* When {{spoiler|Grace O'Connor}} [[No Transhumanism Allowed|downloaded herself]] into the new body of a combat cyborg in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', fondling her boobs (which were considerably bigger than her previous ones) was first thing she did.
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* An issue of ''[[Spider-Girl (Comic Book)|Spider-Girl]]'', complete with mirror.
{{quote| '''Araña''': What do you think of my sexy new body, Miguel?}}
* Sistah Spooky from ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' did this after getting the perfect body from a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]].
 
== [[Film]] -- Live Action ==
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* In ''[[The Hot Chick]]'', when Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams' characters switch bodies, one freaks out and panics, the other gets a job as a stripper. Guess which is which.
* There's the not-at-all-gratuitous "alien learns to put on a bra" sequence in ''[[Species]]''.
* There's a non-bodyswapping example in ''[[Stardust (Filmfilm)|Stardust]]'', where the witch Lamia is very happy with her youthified self, and strips off in front of a mirror to get a better look. Her sisters are there too, looking on in envious admiration.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "New Earth", Cassandra does it to both Rose (exposing some cleavage with the use of a Wonderbra) and, in a rare example with a male body (but no undoing of anything), the Doctor. Which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCWcNPid-wY leads to] the following memorable line.
{{quote| '''Cassandra''': Goodness me, I'm a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used.}}
** Later on, in "Let's Kill Hitler", Melody regenerates into the body of [[Alex Kingston]], and promptly checks out [[Buxom Is Better|her breasts]], her butt, and [[Eighties Hair|her hair]].
** A non-sexual version occurs in "The Doctor's Wife" as a [[Funny Background Event]] with Idris touching and squeezing her face, then trying out expressions in the mirror until the Doctor gets annoyed and stops her.
* Quite an entertaining scene in a ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode in which all the main characters switch bodies, and John in Aeryn's body starts examining it rather closely. Of course, Aeryn in someone else's body walks in. He tries to excuse himself by saying "I'm a guy!", and Aeryn threatens to break his legs (never mind that they're hers) if he checks out anything else. The really funny part comes at the end of the episode where, when John apologizes, Aeryn implies she, too, experimented. [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|In a rather hands-on manner]].
* In the ''[[Bottom]]'' episode "Hole", when faced with imminent death, Eddie has a spontaneous conversion to Buddhism so he can reincarnate:
{{quote| '''Richie''': Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. You have taken the ancient wisdom of Buddhism and perverted it into a dastardly scheme whereby you take over the brain of a supermodel just so as you can get a quick ogle at her norks?<br />
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* This tends to happen to Sam a lot in ''[[Supernatural]]''. Meg's reaction to being in his body is to dramatically flex her muscles; she then spends the entire episode enjoying her handsome new body, "fine packaging" and all. It then happens to Sam ''two more times'' in season five, once with a teenager who wanted Sam's life, and once with {{spoiler|Lucifer}}
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' has a few more male versions. The "Evil Leaper" does this at one point; also, Sam looks appreciatively in a mirror when he is handsome hitman Frankie.
* Occurred in ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'', episode 3x09 'Coyote Piper', where Piper is possessed by an ancient evil spirit (one of several over the shows' run). After modelling in front of the mirror in what's almost a dominatrix outfit, the spirit knocks Piper's husband Leo unconsciousness, then goes to Piper's High School Reunion she was holding at her club, and proceeds to do a sexy table-dance for the all men (and a few of the women) present on top of the bar. Barefoot. For about 5 minutes.
* A non-villainous example occurs in ''[[Dollhouse]]'' when Margaret (a middle-aged woman) is uploaded into Echo's younger body.
 
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== Western Animation ==
* In one episode of ''[[Totally Spies]]'', the [[Villain of the Week]]'s contraption was something that allowed people to change their physical attributes by switching their own with someone else's. A really hideous lady tried it out with Alex, and then the lady walked away, checking out her new reflection in a mirror.
* Blackarachnia's debut in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' mostly fits this. Though she isn't taking anyone's appearance in particular, she has just upgraded from a simple protoform. After her introduction, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2JWs9o7hc she can be observed doing random kicks and poses in the background while Megatron talks].
* Not a full body, but Rarity's new wings in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]
 
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