This Was His True Form: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|What!? It was obvious. He's the red spy. Watch he'll turn red any second now...~~<br />~~

{{quote|What!? It was obvious. He's the red spy. Watch he'll turn red any second now...

''Any'' second now. See, red! [[Mistaken for An Imposter|No wait, that's blood.]]|Soldier|[[Team Fortress 2|Meet the Spy]]}}

[[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]].

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* At the end of the ''[[Mistborn]]'' trilogy, [[Big Bad|Ruin]], the god of destruction, is killed, and he leaves behind- a human corpse, leaking the black smoke that had been previously identified as Ruin's divine power. {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] is that Ruin was actually a combination of a human intelligence named Ati and the cosmic force of entropy- his death knocked the two apart, leaving the human body of Ati behind.}}

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Devil in Iron]]", Khosatral, an [[Eldritch Abomination]].

{{quote| ''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again the thing that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''}}

{{quote|''Conan, who had not shrunk from Khosatral living, recoiled blenching for Khosatral dead, for he had witnessed an awful transmutation; in his dying throes Khosatral Khel had become again the thing that had crawled up from the Abyss millennia gone. ''}}

** In "[[Queen of the Black Coast]]", the hyenas transform back into men before [[No Body Left Behind|crumbling]].

* Inverted in ''"Who Goes There?"'', the short story that inspired ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'', the alien starts off as a blue humanoid with three [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|malevolent red eyes]], [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|blue skin]], and [[Prehensile Hair|tentacles on its scalp]]. Then it eats someone and [[They Look Like Us Now|mimics him]].