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' The Six Swans': Six brothers are turned into swans by their evil stepmother.' The Seven Ravens': Seven brothers are turned into crows by a curse.' Jorinde and Joringel': An evil witch turns Joringel into a nightingale.' The Frog Prince': The titular character had been transformed into a frog.' East of the Sun and West of the Moon': The protagonist gets married to a polar bear who turns out to be a cursed prince.' The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs': The Devil's grandmother turns the main character into an ant to keep him hidden.' Brother and Sister': The male lead becomes transformed into a roe fawn when he drinks from an enchanted stream.In order to count, the transformation(s) have to be the focus of the story in some way. May overlap with any trope in the Shapeshifting index.Īs an important note, having a being who transforms or shapeshifts throughout the story doesn't mean the work's of this genre. See also Werewolf Works and Werebeast Works.Ī Transformation Comic is a type of transformation fiction dealing with transformations within comics. Compare Xenofiction (stories told from the viewpoint of a non-human-like character) See Transformation Causes for a list of possible ways one would transform or shapeshift into a different form within the story. Compare Henshin Hero (which is more about switching back and forth from a superpowered form). Transformations can begin The Hero's Journey and can have the story end either in a Downer Ending or a Bittersweet Ending, although examples of them ending with a Happy Ending also exist. Played For Fear with Transformation Horror or Played for Laughs or as An Aesop in a Trickster's tale. The transformation can be Played for Drama in a Beast and Beauty, Fish out of Water, or Freakiness Shame tale.

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Almost every world mythology has tales involving Forced Transformations, Emergency Transformation, Transflormations, and Shapeshifters - the Youkai The Fair Folk Skin Walkers the Norse, Greek, and Roman gods the Djinn of the Middle East, the Coyote and Raven tales of Native American Lore and many more. Including being Squashed Flat, becoming the Accordion Man, stretching and squashing in various ways be it voluntary or involuntary. Toon Physics - the character gets deformed and turned around in unusual ways.Mind Swap - Can be any of these, but applied to two characters at once, sticking them with each other's bodies in a 'Freaky Friday' Flip plot.Mental Change - The character becomes Not Himself.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. Cultural/Ethnicity Change - Black Like Me, White Like Me and so forth.

Transformation story archive