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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.
* Age Change - Both [[Overnight Age
* Cultural/Ethnicity Change - [[Black Like Me]], [[White Like Me]] and so forth. Relatively rare, possibly because [[Race Tropes]] are likely to trigger some readers' [[Berserk Button]], and thus it can be easier to deal with them through [[Fantastic Racism]] if the author is interested in approaching those subjects.
* Mental Change - The character becomes [[Not Himself]].
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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]]
{{examples
== 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].
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* ''[[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
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' is the current reigning Animorphism champion.
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* ''[[Puchi D Kemono]]'' ([[NSFW]]) starts each chapter with an animal that turns into a kemonomimi a few pages later.
* ''[[Return]]'': [[Hollywood Nerd|Bright but nerdy]] schoolboy Kai wakes up in the body of [[Troubled but Cute]] [[Joshikousei|schoolgirl]] Mariko after dying in a motorcycle accident only to find the best friend who caused the accident seemingly indifferent. Determined on revenge, Kai uses his "diguise" as Mariko to get closer to him, [[Five Stages of Grief|only to find that Tatsuki is not nearly callous as he seems.]] More complications ensue when Mariko's spirit returns as well. It turns out she was not dead, just comatose, and she's not quite ready to surrender her life and body to a complete stranger.
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== Comics ==
* The original [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]] is a small boy who has a [[Plot
* Similar to Captain Marvel above, [[Amethyst
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* [[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
== Web Comics ==
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** 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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* ''Troop 37'' focuses on a ten-year-old boy turned into a [[Plot
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** Note that Rainer has reversed transformations for multiple reasons, and more recently, a girl has been turned into a guy. Also has an active forum roleplay.
* ''[http://www.discordiacomic.com/ Disc][http://aisaku.deviantart.com/gallery/#Discordia-EN ordia]'' is a low-key strip about a man who's been transformed into a woman. A character also has the power to transform anyone ''but'' the aforementioned, but she's an [[Children Are Innocent|innocent]], [[Tyke Bomb|albeit half-god]], little girl, and mostly uses it on command. A [[Deus Sex Machina|consequence of her innocence]], however, is that [[First Law of Gender Bending|she can't produce a male form - even if the target started that way]].
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* ''[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 ''[[
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* ''[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
* 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.
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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 ...?"
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* [[Dream Tales]] comics feature growing and shrinking as well as age regression themes.
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* ''[[Jill Trent Science Sleuth (
* 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/
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* 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
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