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* There's something of a sort like this in ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'', as the deities seem to have a form that shows one of their believers whose [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|faith]] was strong enough to make them real. Thus, Mr. Nancy/Anasi has this form of an African boy with a distented stomach and infected leg and {{spoiler|Hinzelmann}} shows a child pierced by swords, which actually reflects his being created through human sacrifice. Interestingly, [[The Other Wiki]] novel for the character indicates that this was actually that character's true form in the original stories.
* In the ''[[The Dark Hunters|Dark-Hunter]]'' series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, the leader of the Dark-Hunters, Acheron, is in actuality an Atlantean god. This means that if he's pissed beyond all hope of redemption, he turns blue, gets black horns, nails, and lips, and rips the ever-loving everything out of most everyone. Bonus points for the ability to end the world should he go visit his mother in Atlantean Hell.
* During the climax of ''[[The Pilo Family Circus (Literature)|The Pilo Family Circus]],'' Kurt Pilo [[Villainous Breakdown|slowly starts to lose his cool]]: the angrier he gets, the more inhuman and reptillian he becomes, growing to an enormous height in the process. It's implied that this form is actually a "benefit" of being the highest-ranking servant of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Things Beneath the Showgrounds]]... and that shortly after inheriting control over the circus, Kurt decided to [[Self
* [[Animorphs (Literature)|Visser Three]] used ''dozens'' of these over the course of the series, rarely using the same one twice. [[Fridge Horror]] ensues when you realise there are ''species'' of these for him to acquire DNA from.
** Also, you realize just how awesomely [[Badass]] V3 is: you can only acquire DNA while in your native form, and while Andalites such as the one the Visser [[The Puppet Masters|possesses]] have the slashing tail of doom, that'd barely inconvenience some of the nastier beasties the Visser has turned into - some of whom have projectile attacks like fire and venom and ''spears.'' A centaur with a pointy tail managed to get close enough to these things to ''actually touch.'' (Yeah, acquiring puts 'em into a trance... but you gotta touch 'em first.) One of them was actually a ''natural predator of his race,'' evolved to ''remove Yeerks from their hosts to eat.''
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