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** The Ditto in ''[[Pokémon Snap]]'' also have a problem with their faces not changing. In fact, it's the only way to tell them from normal Bulbasaur (which they will register as) until you hit them with a Pester Ball to make them change back.
** At least in early generations, any Ditto who used Transform would become a perfect copy of the enemy sprite, but would retain its purple palette.
** Another ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' example: in the Johto-arc episode ''Hocus Pokémon!'', Ash was transformed into a Pikachu [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|for a few minutes.]] As a Pikachu, he [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ashachu still had the same eyes and hairstyle.]
* When {{spoiler|Griffith}} incarnates as Femto in ''[[Berserk]]'', one of his primary features is the demonic hood he wears, which is very similar to the helm that he wore as {{spoiler|the leader of the Band of the Hawks}}.
* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', Ahiru's duck form has a sometimes disturbingly human face and retains her trademark hair-style. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that her human form retains the trademark feather-style of her duck form.
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* In a meta example, the manga ''[[Gundam Sousei]]'' (a [[Dramatization]] of the creation of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'') depicts the show's voice actors as looking like their characters. This varies between people: [[Shuichi Ikeda]] looks like an older, black-haired Char, while [[Tohru Furuya]] looks '''exactly''' like Amuro.
* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]: Solid State Society'', the characters who turn out to be {{spoiler|android puppets controlled by Motoko Kusanagi}} all have {{spoiler|purple hair}}.
* As witch-apparentices, the main characters of ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' could turn into pretty much any animal they wanted. However, no matter what form they assumed, their fur would always be of the girl's [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|Signature Color]] and Doremi would ''always'' end up with [[Odango]] somehow, even if the animal in question ''didn't even have hair.'' Likewise, Hazuki somehow never lost her glasses upon transforming.
* There are several instances of this in ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'', especially when it comes to shapeshifters:
** An accident with a magical artifact temporarily shoves Miss Minako's soul into Miss Ritsuko's body, resulting in a mishmash that calls herself "Miss Rinako". Her appearance is a combination of both women right down to the outfit and hairstyle.
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== Comic Books ==
* In One Disney's Aladdin Comic, the genie switches Aladdin and Jasmine's bodies to teach them a lesson, and their clothes change colors to reflect their normal colors. (Aladdin as Jasmine's top and pants are purple and white, and Jasmine as Aladdin's vest and pants are blue)
* [[Plastic Man]] could become almost anything, but kept his colors.
** Whether or not he has to keep his goggles and other facial features depends on the writer and/or medium.
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* In ''[[Marvel 2099|X-Nation 2099]]'', the mutant Willow always has a particular marking around her left eye, even though her shapeshifting powers are otherwise so precise that she can duplicate another person's form right down to their DNA.
* In ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers: The Initiative]]'', secret Skrull spy Crusader has a flashback to a combat training exercise on his homeworld where his oppenent K'rtem gave him a scar. Crusader vowed to keep the scar no matter what form he took in tribute to K'rtem's might.
* [[New Mutants|Warlock]] at one time was only able to shapeshift into black things with yellow circuitry. But he got better at shapeshifting and that quality went away.
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* In Holly Black's ''[[Modern Faerie Tales]]'', faeries keep a trait when they transform. The troll Ravus, for example, turns into a human with golden eyes.
* [[Journey to the West|Sun Wukong, the Stone Monkey]], can use Taoist arts to perfectly change into many different animals -- but if he tries to become a human, he can only change his ''head'' and must conceal everything else.
* In the German novel ''Krabat'' the Master, the Evil Sorcerer can turn into different Animals, but they will always have only a left (I think) eye. The same counts for his students, whose Animal forms always mirror their appearances as humans.
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** The hengeyokai race in the 1st Edition supplement ''Oriental Adventures''. When they shapechange into human form, they always have a distinctive feature from their animal form, such as a sparrow hengeyokai with a long nose like a bird's beak.
** Dungeon Magazine #21, adventure "The Chest of the Aloeids". The goddess Athena is noted as always having grey eyes, no matter what form she assumes.
* Lunars in ''[[Exalted]]'' each have a unique body feature called a Tell, which is retained regardless of what they transform into. Their magic makes their Tell difficult for normal people to notice, but once you do, you'll always be able to identify that Lunar at a glance, regardless of form.
* One of the sample archetypes in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' is an Indian woman with a blue costume and a bindi dot on her forehead. She transforms into blue animals with little red dots on their foreheads.
* When Chaos Lords and Sorcerers of ''Warhammer 40000'' transform into Daemon Princes, there's a good chance that they'll still be clad in the remnants of their old power armor. That being said, not much else is recognizable...
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* Pretty much any video game where you turn into something beyond just a standard power up.
** The vehicles in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Yoshi's Island]]''
** The masks in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Majora's Mask''. Link always has his green hat, though it becomes the size of his entire body in deku form for some reason.
** Whenever [[Kirby]] copies a power, he gains a hat characteristic of that power. This is carried over to ''[[Super Smash Bros.]].''
** In ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', Banjo always has his yellow shorts and blue backpack.
** Often averted in ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, but played straight in the remake of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' -- characters [[Baleful Polymorph|turned into frogs or pigs]] will bear a resemblance to their original selves. In the original, you just turn into a generic looking pig/frog/tiny person.
** Luke in Project [[Altered Beast]] keeps his Cross shaped scar in all his forms except the {{spoiler|UWH}}.
** [[Super Mario Galaxy|Boo Mario/Luigi.]]
*** And the Lumas' bunny forms.
* When Maya or Pearl channels someone in the ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' games, they change their size and faces to the channeled, but they retain their hair style, color, and their clothes.
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* Druids in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Elves keep their long eyebrows and [[Pointy Ears]] (even if this makes their bird forms rather silly-looking), and Tauren keep their horns. In ''Cataclysm'', with the addition of Troll and Worgen druids, Trolls keep their tusks and mohawks, while Worgen's forms have glowing eyes and manes.
** Also, Alexstrasza still has her horns, glowing eyes, and necklace in humanoid form as in her dragon form, along with a wing-like cape. Her sister Ysera gets similar treatment. Black dragons also always have humanoid form as humans or elves with black hair.
* Shows up in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series from time to time.
** In the first game, [[Donald Duck]] and Goofy change into sea creatures in the Atlantica level (an octopus and a sea turtle, respectively), though they still have their distinctive faces.
** In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', in addition to the Atlantica level, there's also the Pride Lands level. Donald is a bird, and Goofy is a turtle again, both with their own faces. Sora is also transformed for the Pride Lands level; he's a lion cub, with his blue eyes, crown pendant, and distinctive [[Anime Hair]].
** Furthermore, abuse of his [[Super Mode]] can randomly transform Sora into a Heartless version of himself, completely black and with glowing eyes. Which is funny because {{spoiler|he actually ''became'' a Heartless in the first game, and he looked like a small basic enemy indistinguishable from any other Heartless}}.
* In ''[[King's Quest VI]]'', the genie appears throughout the game, spying on or trying to trick Alexander. His glinting [[Eyes of Gold]] are always a dead giveaway.
* In ''[[Scaler]]'', after being turned into a [[Lizard Folk|lizard]], Scaler retains the blue-and-yellow colour scheme of his clothes, and also a sort of scaley, spikey version of his blonde hair. Likewise, when transformed into [[Mega Manning|other types of lizard-y creatures]], Scaler still keeps a blue-and-yellow colour scheme.
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** Wandissimo Magnifico turns purple, like his eyes. His godchild's parents even called him purple when in his ferret form.
** Alien Mark Chang keeps his big square teeth and his red eyes in his human disguise or while otherwise using his image fake-ifier.
** Wanda and Cosmo's unlikely colored forms are often [[Lampshade|Lampshadeed]] by anyone with enough attention to notice that dogs shouldn't have pink or green fur. This went to [[Serial Escalation]] levels when they agreed to switch roles with Timmy and transforming themselves into looking like him - except their hair, voice, and eye color remained the same as their default forms. This became a source of confusion to Timmy's dim parents whenever they encountered one of them breaking house rules.
* A [[Couch Gag]] from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' parodying human evolution actually showed various prehistoric animals resembling Homer Simpson gradually turning into, well, guess...
** There is also an octopus resembling Mr. Burns, a dragonfly resembling Lenny Leonards, a Pterodactyl resembling Agnes Skinner, a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] resembling Bart, and a Stegosaurus resembling Lisa.
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