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{{trope}}
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For purposes of this page, examples will exclude comics where transformations occur, but are not central to the storyline or themes.
Types of transformation seen in a
* [[Gender Bender]] - Male to female is most common ([[First Law of Gender Bending]] at work), but female to male or either to hermaphrodite are not unknown. This does not include characters who are realistic [[
* [[Animorphism|Animal Transformation]] - Human to either anthropomorphic ([[Furry Comic|furry]] or [[Little Bit Beastly|kemonomimi]]) or "normal" animal, or vice versa.
* Species Transformation - Human to alien or magical being, and vice versa.
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If one of the main characters has [[Functional Magic]] or [[Mad Science]] skills, even more exotic transformations may show up from time to time.
Note that the vast majority of these comics focus on [[Involuntary Transformation|involuntary transformations]]
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== Anime & Manga ==
* There have literally been ''dozens'' (if not hundreds) of manga titles (mostly hentai) using gender swaps as the central dramatic (and pornographic) device. So many of them have been based on a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] caused by two characters either banging heads or falling down the stairs together that these two plot devices have become recognizable (and lampshaded) manga tropes in their own right. Most of these titles were never translated or exported to the west, but a more or less representative selection can be found [http://tgmanga.free.fr/index2.htm here].
* ''[[Ranma
* ''[[Futaba-Kun Change!|Futaba Kun Change]]'' has the main character change gender whenever aroused.
* ''[[Kämpfer]]'' features [[Gender Bender]], Mental Change, and inflated body proportions.
* ''[[Ichinensei
* ''[[Boku No Shotaiken]]'': Mad Scientist transplants the brain of a suicidal High School student into the body of his recently deceased young wife. Probably the first mainstream [[Gender Bender]] manga ever published.
* ''[[Nanaka 6/17]]'': The latter is her physical age, the former the one her mind changes to.
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* ''[[Safe Havens]]'': Samantha Argus is a grad student at Havens University who has unlocked the genetic code that allows her to transform anyone [[Lego Genetics|or anything]], including herself.
* [[Jimmy Olsen]] during the Silver Age couldn't go more than an issue or two without undergoing some bizarre transformation or mutation. Just about every kind on the list you can think of aside from [[Gender Bender]] (unnecessary because of his status as a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]?)
* [[Superboy]] actually ''was'' on the receiving end of a Silver Age [[Gender Bender]] once, and (also as [[Superman]]), went through quite a few transformations of his own during the Silver Age. Frequently caused by exposure to Red Kryptonite, here's a very partial list of transformations: [[Literal Split Personality|split into two people]], given the head of an ant, [[Attack of the 50
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* ''[[Misfile]]''. Ash is a [[Gender Bender]] and Emily has been hit with a [[Fountain of Youth]]. The former is used to [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruct]] most gender bender tropes and the latter is a very subtle use of the trope as she's only "lost" two years. They just happen to have been two very important years from her perspective.
* ''[[Abstract Gender]]''. Brian and Ryan are both on a [[Gender Bender]]; Brian (who likes it) can go back to his original form, while Ryan (who doesn't) can't, a cause of considerable irritation on the latter's part.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': From [[Gender Bender
* ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]''. Yuuki, of course, is a [[Gender Bender]] for the long haul. Hermod and Loki are both currently in [[Animorphism|Animal Transformation]], with Loki additionally being a plushie.
* ''[[Zebra Girl]]''. The title character is permanently stuck with the body of a demon. Probably the least [[Fan Service]]-y example of the
** They did have a quick scene where fanservice was alluded to, but offscreened, early on. Later, some more explicit fanart of the incident was drawn, but nothing too revealing.
* ''[http://urgentcrisis.comicgenesis.com/ Urgent Transformation Crisis]'' is surprisingly serious about its subject matter. The transformations are usually one-way, less fan-servicey than normal, and the implications are taken far more seriously than in other strips of this nature. Hard-to-reverse transformation with life-changing effects ''would'' be a crisis, after all.
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* ''[[Accidental Centaurs]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - two scientists become centaurs after an exploding teleporter sends them to a world where centaurs are real and humans are mythical. Other transformations ensue, usually at the behest of a tame genie, and a crossover with ''[[The Wotch]]'' ended with one of the main characters getting some of her powers...[[Gender Bender|and the same basic move]].
* ''[http://www.tfsnewworld.com/ New World]'' has a large number of magical transformations, most of which involve both genderbending and either age regression or furry transformation (or in the case of Mina, all three at once). It has since been rebooted as a straight [[Gender Bender]] comic, ''[[Spiderwebs]]''...and then re-re-booted as ''New World'' again.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101050214/http://www.crossworlds.ws/ Crossworlds]'' began as a side story to ''[[Accidental Centaurs]]'' and is tied to ''[[The Wotch]]'' through it. While its plot isn't ''entirely'' tied into transformation, the artist uses it often enough that it seems to qualify. (That, and the artist draws [[Rule 34|transformation art]] on his other website seems to help.)
* ''[[Exiern]]'' is the story of a barbarian adventurer turned into a woman by a sorcerer's spell gone awry. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity]] and [[Fan Service]] ensue in equal measure, as well as other characters transforming in various ways. The sub-comic ''Dark Reflections'' takes the same plot and spins it around as a [[What If]] the hero didn't save the princess in time. In this version the gender-changed hero/heroine ends up mind-controlled by the [[Big Bad]] and becomes his bimbo [[The Dragon|Dragon]].
* The fancomic ''[[Char Cole]]'' details a ''Pokémon'' journey from the perspective of a human-turned-Charmander.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090403205814/http://www.drunkduck.com/Synthea/index.php?p=16928 Syn][http://kingmonster.deviantart.com/gallery/#Synthea-Comic thea] is a trope-filled comic about a [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|amnesiac woman]] ending up in a Stasis pod right before death being woken up in the distant future by a good [[Mad Scientist]] using experimental [[After the End|ancient]] biotech that gave her a body with the consistency of lime
* The two sets of webcomics based on ''Erika's New Perfume'' are minor forms of this, as they play on the transformations of Marie and Sarah but do not so far include any more from there.
* ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' - Four magical doctors, a shaman/therapist, a surgeon, a magical scientist, and a wizard all get their respective genders reversed in the first chapter while trying to cure a cursed valley that causes everything within it to be female. They wind up stuck that way, and deal with that as they continue to diagnose and cure unusual diseases, curses and other
* ''[[Demon Eater]]'' has demons that change form every time they eat another demon. [[I'm a Humanitarian|It's a dog eat dog world for reals.]] Saturno the main character has so far been in 30 different forms and counting.
* ''[[The Key to Her Heart]]'' follows a part-time [[Gender Bender]]'s relationship with a closeted lesbian, and occasionally features further one-off transformations, especially in dreams. Since it's marketed as an adult comic and has a graphic sex scene at least [[Once an Episode|per chapter]], any [[Fetish Fuel]] is purely intentional.
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* ''[http://www.comicgate.de/webcomics/she-s-me-oh-no-im-a-girl.html She !s me (Oh no! I'm a girl!)]'' The story of a guy who one day wakes up as a gal. Don't think of this as a funny bodyswitch comedy, but as a serious evaluation about the question "What would you really do if ...?"
* ''[[Paradigm Shift]]'' is a [[Buddy Cop Show|Buddy Cop Comic]] centered around werecreatures being real.
* ''[[The Good Witch]]'' begins with the former holder of the title passing it on to a [[
* ''[[Spinnerette]]'': A [[Freak Lab Accident]] leaves a mild-mannered grad student [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]; any resemblence to [[The Spectacular Spider-Man|another costumed webslinger]] is purely intentional - and hilarious.
* ''[[Jet Dream (webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'' concerns the adventures of a [[Blackhawk]] style [[Multinational Team]] of aviators, the Thunderbird Squadron, after being transformed [[Gender Bender|from T-Birds to T-Girls]].
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* ''[[Type Trainer]]'', a [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] fancomic about Ash getting turned into a Pikachu.
* ''[[Jill Trent Science Sleuth (webcomic)|Jill Trent Science Sleuth]]'', the [[Remix Comic]] version, features a male hero [[Gender Bender|transformed]] by the wonder element [[Applied Phlebotinum|Femavium]] into a woman with the proportional brain cells of 58 girls.
* 1-600 is a comic about a boy who finds a mysterious number that allows you to turn into an animal once called. Read it here https://web.archive.org/web/20130725221634/http://www.1-600.net/
* ''[[Witchprickers]]'': Ilemauzer, a timid familiar bat, asks the cheery [[Satan|Old Scratch]] to turn her into a human, only to turn into a [[Humanoid Animals|Humanoid Animal]] instead.
* ''[[High School Changed Me]]'': the predecessor to MSF High. While not the premise of the web comic, transformations into other species or genderbending were quite common.
* ''[[Skin Deep]]'' reverses the usual take on this subject since the main characters are all mythological creatures transformed into humans. In this case human is the transformation.
* The website [http://www.tgcomics.com TGComics.com] (mostly NSFW) is devoted to gender transformation comics, many of which are less pornographic than you'd think. While TGComics.com focuses on original art (including a large number of works created with Poser and similar programs), sister site [http://tgcaps.com/caps/ TGCaps.com] is devoted to TG [[Remix Comic
* ''[[Wereworld (webcomic)|Wereworld]]'': revolves around Steve, a cyborg who comes to the eponymous planet looking to make his body stop rejecting the implants. The planet, Sidra, is inhabited by several species of human-animal transforming hybrids.
* ''[[Ruby's World|Rubys World]]'' has the main character turned into a nine foot tall giantess, though this soon becomes the least of her problems.
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