Shapeshifting Squick: Difference between revisions

== Film ==

* While on a Klingon prison planet in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'', Kirk ends up kissing a gorgeous alien played by supermodel Iman. Later in the film he is notably [[Squick|Squicked]] when he learns that she is a shapeshifter, and that one of her forms is a huge, thuggish, and grotesquely ''male'' alien -- and this is on top of their fight scene, where she imitates ''Kirk''. As pointed out in the dialogue:

'''Not Kirk''': ''Must've been your lifelong ambition.'' }}

** Sillier if you switch them around.

'''Kirk''': ''Must've been your lifelong ambition.'' }}

** And in the Original Series, the salt monster who seduced its victims by appearing as their ideal mate, and spends years alone with a man who thinks of it as his "wife"; Kirk even explicitly [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade Hangs]] this trope at one point:

* The movie ''Legend'' has the fairy turning into the heroine to tempt the hero, but he refuses. It almost causes a problem (because the fairy is insulted and almost doesn't help them), and the hero's allies reprimand him for not playing along and kissing her.

* And we can't forget the scene in ''[[Mallrats]]'' where Brody asks Stan Lee about [[Power Perversion Potential|the implications]] of [[Fantastic Four|Reed and Sue Richard's]] relationship...

== Live-Action TV ==

* First type happened to Tucker and Reed in the ''Enterprise'' episode "Two Days and Two Nights". It didn't end well.

'''Trip:''' Not at first! }}

* Honourable mention must be made of the original [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] from the first ''[[Star Trek]]'' pilot, "The Cage". She was, in reality, a human, but she was able to use the aliens' telepathic abilities to change the way she appeared to Captain Pike. It essentially played out as the first type.

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' has a stable romantic relationship between Nale and [[Horny Devils|Sabine]], which includes a, shall we say, [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0365.html interesting subversion].

'''Nale:''' ''"Not! Helping!"'' }}

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' toys with this one early on, as Alice Quinn transforms into 'fellow prisoner' Daisy Archanis ([[Red Eyes, Take Warning|minus the eyes, of course]]) in order to convince Jason to pick her as his lieutenant. The squick is more implied than anything else, and thanks to Jason's ambiguous morality, ''Daisy's'' more disturbed by the idea than anyone else.

*** He gets better [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|later. ...Much later.]]

* [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=594 This strip] in [[Casey and Andy]]:

'''[[Hot as Hell|Satan]]:''' "Oh, honey... I feel feisty. Before bed tonight, I want you to pick your favorite farm animal. You'll find out why later."<br />

'''Andy (to Casey):''' "That's probably not good." }}

* [[Batman Beyond]]'s Inque. A woman with a sexy voice who's been turned into a living but shapely blob. Creeee-pyyy...

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' had an example with this trope's headliner image character, [[Metamorpho]]. Since he can transform into liquids and gasses he can get inside people... don't tell me that's not perverted.

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two" has Leela meeting [[Actor Allusion|Alkazar]], whom she believes to be the other [[Last of His Kind|last of her kind]]. Turns out he was really a shapeshifting cricket who tried to seduce five women to keep his five castles clean.

* ''[[Ben 10]]'' contains are rare inversion in an episode where Ben meets a trio of crime-fightin' aliens. The female Tetramand, a species of massive red-skinned four-armed aliens, is impressed with [[Shotacon|Ben's Tetramand form and begins flirting with him]]... until he turns human. [[Humans Are Ugly|Cue disgust]].