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[[Shapeshifting|Shapeshifters]] in general tend to gravitate to [[Shapeshifter Default Form|their "base" or original forms]] as well when killed or sufficiently battered, as do most victims of a [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]].
This started with [[Wolf Man|werewolves]]; as monsters go, they tend be... [[Our Werewolves Are Different|"different"]]. One of their more peculiar traits is that they have [[No Ontological Inertia]], because upon death they inevitably revert back to their "true" human form. Though similar to the [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]] (which usually ends in
This is both potentially useful and frustrating for [[Heroes]], since it removes evidence of the paranormal (which might be something that they want to [[Masquerade|cover up]] or [[Paranormal Investigation|prove]]) while adding the eentsy little complication of making them liable to face murder charges. No [[Self-Disposing Villain
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* Averted in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. A side mission has you hunt down and kill a shape-shifter, and he goes between a Wookie, one of your party members, a giant monster, and a small ape (he was trying to beat a hasty retreat), and after you finally kill him he reverts to a charred and unidentifiable skeleton. We shall never know his true form...
** Technically, it is possible that that skeleton was the skeleton of the shapeshifter's true form, given that it evidently is not the skeleton of the form that was killed.
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in ''[[Fire Emblem|Fire Emblem 9 (Path of Radiance) and 10 (Radiant Dawn)]]''
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', Spies will lose their disguise upon death.
** This behaviour is also utilised with one of his alternate watches, that causes him to appear to "die" if he is hit, but instead simply drops a replica of his corpse and turns the player invisible, allowing the player the chance to then de-cloak and continue on their way.
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