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Baleful Polymorph
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Characters get hit with a spell, Curse, or Transformation Ray, causing an instantaneous and involuntary transformation into a form that is harmless or otherwise seriously impairs their ability to pursue their goals, until they can revert to their usual form by some means. This is commonly some sort of animal creature (whether real or fantastic), though it can also be a plant or a lifeless object. They may or may not lose their voice, or even their mental faculties (in which case someone else will have to seek the cure for them). Frogs, newts, and toads are so common that they have their own subtrope, Bewitched Amphibians. Other common choices include mice, chickens, pigs, and sheep. In role-playing or video games, this is frequently a Status Effect that will disable or greatly weaken most attacks and magic, but will rarely affect the victim's Hit Points or armor. People may get turned into toads, but — hot damn — those toads will be Made of Iron! A notable exception is when insects are involved, in which case the victim is not long for this world. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This is common in fiction, as it's a way for a spellcaster to defeat foes with magic without simply killing them, or as a form of punishment (e.g. underlings who failed their boss one time too many). It's also generally less permanent and more palatable than actual death. Often requires a hero to find the magic "cure" to turn his friend back into a person. This can be also be used to show a specific aspect of the character's personality, such as gluttons turned into pigs, or cowards into chickens. Occasionally, this may function as a Transferred Transformation; in such cases, one character stuck in an undesirable form can only break the curse by shunting it onto someone else. Occasionally in fiction a character may manage to save the day while still under this effect, sometimes through use of the animal form's abilities. This will lead to the Aesop that it's brains, not strength, that's important. Or that courage is more important than size. Or that you can lay an egg and still feel like a man. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })If the transformation is presented to disturb and frighten the viewer, it becomes Transformation Horror. It will then probably be a Painful Transformation. Whether or not a Baleful Polymorph is effective against a Voluntary Shapeshifter varies, depending on whether or not it also imposes a Shapeshifter Mode Lock — otherwise the shapeshifter can just transform themselves back to normal, or at least something else. Thus, it is a subtrope of curses. Depending on the method, clothing may be transformed as well, or it may not, resulting in Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing if the characters or audience are aware of this fact, or Empty Piles of Clothing if they are not. (In either case, naturally, when they get turned back they're going to need those clothes back...) Polymorphing into a nonliving form is much less likely to be played for laughs and much more likely to be permanent. Can be used as a Karmic Transformation. Characters transformed this way may also exhibit Morphic Resonance. See also Emergency Transformation, Shape Shifter Mashup and Beauty to Beast. Compare Taken for Granite (turning into a statue), Unwilling Roboticisation (turning from flesh into something mechanical). Contrast with Hybrid Overkill Avoidance, where the subject is immune to further polymorphing because they're already supernatural. Compare Involuntary Shapeshifter. |
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SnarfQuest, Prince Raffendorf had been transformed into a rat man by Suthaze's magic, and only Suthaze possessed the ability to reverse the curse. | |
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At the end of The Baker's Daughter, the daughter is permanently transformed into an owl as punishment for her greed and dishonesty. | |
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The Wacky Adventures of Pedro often has Pedro the Mailburro forced to take on a new form, such as an amoeba or a grotesque alien. | |
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In the Castle of the Night has this Played for Drama. All of Von Krolock's victims have their souls implanted in Pricolici wolves, which are ravenous beasts that kill innocents who try to leave his castle's premises. | |
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In one episode of Puffin Forest, Asiago defeats a kraken by turning it into a cat (Ben is very surprised to discover that Krakens don't any of the typical kinds of Contractual Boss Immunity to this), and then they form an alliance with it. | |
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Reversal of the Heart: The Mother Dragon turns The Princess into a dragon, as retribution for The Prince killing her baby and giving the gem in its chest to her as a gift. Possibly the fate of The Prince, depending on how you interpret the ending. |
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The hero of East of the Sun and West of the Moon was made a bear, albeit a Talking Animal, by his Wicked Stepmother (for refusing to marry her daughter and let her become his mother-in-law) and can only take on his human form at night. Similarly with The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Enchanted Pig, the dog in The Daughter of the Skies, and The White Wolf. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: When Calvin and Hobbes use the Transmogrifier, like most of their cardboard box technology, it never turns out well. Calvin is once turned into an owl by the Transmogrifier Gun, but accepts it when he realizes that he won't have to go to school. He is actually disappointed when the transmogrification wears off. Calvin once uses it to turn himself into a tiger; he ends up looking like a shorter Hobbes. |
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The Troll's Daughter": The troll turns his servant into three different creatures (a hare, a bird, and a fish) after giving him permission to take a break for a while. The transformed boy spends a lot of time running because the troll has enchanted and caged up all the rest of the creatures. However, the third transformation backfires on him when the boy-turned-fish ends up finding and falling in love with the troll's daughter. | |
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In Brother and Sister, Brother is transformed into a deer by his Wicked Stepmother and can only turn back after her death. | |
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In "The Nix in the Mill-Pond", the wife and her husband are turned into a frog and a toad, respectively, by a malicious and vengeful nixie. | |
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In "Iron Hans", Iron Hans turns out to be have been a king, turned into a wild man. | |
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Exalted has Pattern Spider Touch, from the Charcoal March of Spiders Style. It allows a Sidereal to fundamentally alter their opponent in some interesting way. Typically, it's used to punch people in the face and turn them into ducks. | |
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In "The Gold Mountain", a princess has been turned into snake by a curse. | |
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In Moonflowers, Ned Song is turned into a white wolf by the Hunter, The Fair Folk leader of The Wild Hunt, then gets unwittingly adopted by his own daughter Alima. The curse means he can't communicate with anyone living or the Irish gods trying to help him out, and it also makes humans mistake him for a wolf-dog instead of a full-blooded wolf. Ned can't do much as Alima's pet, but by the twentieth chapter he makes a Blood Oath with a spirit to kill the Hunter. | |
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Barry Louis Polisar's "One Day My Best Friend Barbara Turned into a Frog", a character is inexplicably transformed into frog and proceeds to live as one. It's never explained how this came about, and Barbara herself doesn't seem to mind her new form. | |
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Pathfinder, being based on D&D also has baleful polymorph (though it's harder to cast, requiring a higher level) and polymorph any object. Pathfinder also has mythic baleful polymorph, which lets the caster transform almost every creature within a 1-mile radius into harmless animals. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Named after the 4th-level baleful polymorph spell, which turns involuntary targets into small, weak animals and can make them lose their minds. Turning them into something that would kill them (a non-lunged fish on land, or a non-flying animal in a situation where only a flying creature has a reasonable chance of survival) makes the spell easier to resist, as though the target instinctively knows what he's being turned into and that the situation is even worse. Though the duration is permanent, the subject gets a second save to retain their mental faculties and their special powers. In 5th Edition D&D Polymorph is significantly less powerful as it only lasts one hour and then the target reverts. Also whilst the target's mental abilities become that of what it turned into it does still keep it's personality so it's not unheard of for players to use it on themselves especially if they are low on the ability to cast for the day (spell slots) and they are in a situation where being a giant ape for an hour may be more beneficial than being a Squishy Wizard. The higher level spell True Polymorph can permanently turn someone into an animal (or object) but the caster has to concentrate on this for full hour which means they cannot fail any concentration saving throws it they get hit by an attack mid combat, so this is tricky to pull off mid-battle. The Book of Vile Darkness has a magic item that gets around this, as it allows single aspects to be changed (also applying a rule that if a creature becomes unfeasible it instantly dies); thus, a lethal change can be made through several otherwise harmless additions, such as giving a flying creature several dozen additional wings. There is also polymorph any object, which does Exactly What It Says on the Tin: you can turn pretty much anything into pretty much anything. Unlike the above it's usually temporary, though. This can affect more than player characters. After an insurrection called the Reckoning that rocked the politics of the Nine Hells of Baator, Baalzebul, Lord of the Seventh, was transformed by Asmodeus from a humanoid with a fly's compound eyes into a enormous, disgusting, slug-like form that constantly generated filth and garbage, which quickly turned the layer of Maladomini from Hell's bureaucratic heart into a reeking ruin covered in sewage. As of current background material, this transformation was the retroactive effect of a curse Asmodeus placed on Baalzebul, which will change his form into a slug for a year if he lies to any devil. The Lord of the Flies has since worked off his old "debt," and is now scrupulously honest with his fellow Baatezu for fear of reverting to his hideous slug form. Ravenloft: Yagno Petrovna, the Darklord of G'henna and High Priest of Zhakata, can turn victims into mongrelmen, which he usually does to punish his subjects for heresy or blasphemy. This was one benefit he got from becoming a Darklord; it doesn't work on anyone who does not believe in Zhakata, so Player Characters are usually immune, seeing as nobody except Yagno's own subjects believe in him. (Zhakata isn't real, having been dreamed up in Yagno's insanity.) |
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The Ars Goetia has a particularly scary practitioner in Ose. A conjurer can have Ose transform someone into most anything else. The scariest part: the victim begins thinking that they've always been what they've just been turned into. | |
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Bad Days: At the end of Thanos's episode, Deadpool steals the Infinity Gauntlet and uses it to turn the Mad Titan into a chicken. | |
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In "The Blue Bird", Prince Charming is cursed to live seven years as a bird by Princess Truitonne's Fairy Godmother. At the end of the story, Truitonne herself becomes a pig. | |
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In the 2014 campaign of D 20 Live, Tomb of Horrors, Roo's wizard character ends what should've been a terrible encounter prematurely by turning the 10th-level, four-armed Gargoyle into a kitten. Said kitten is then tamed by the party, christened Fussy Britches. | |
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In the child ballad Tam Lin (Child #39), Tam Lin is transformed in Fair Janet's arms by The Fair Folk, who want her to let go of him. | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table: Exploited by Brian a few times. | |
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Mixels has "murps", a mix gone horribly wrong in some way. Murps still have abilities of the two Mixels that are part of it, but with the catch that the Murp has his own personality with neither of them controlling it and no control of his own powers. Most of the time, they just giggle and let their powers affect them. Some are worthless (like the Flain/Slumbo Murp, which is just a log that does nothing), while others can be very dangerous and only make things worse (like the Scorpi/Glurt one, which encases everything in slime and can cut down trees with its tail). | |
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The "Transformation" trick in Kitsune: Of Foxes and Fools, appears to show the Scumbag Lawyer turned into a toad. | |
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Ponyfinder: In addition to the base spell, chaos hunters can permanently transform chaotic creatures into ponies of a random tribe if they can pin them down with a grapple, causing them to lose all memories of their previous lives in the process. | |
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"Jorinde and Joringel": The witch turns male intruders into statues, and females into birds. Jorinde becomes a nightingale when she goes too near the castle. | |
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Thanks to DovSherman at DeviantArt, Sue transformations now works like this too. | |
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A series of commercials for the Ratchet & Clank series showed weapons from the games being used in real life in a Jackass inspired way. Many of these included involuntary one-way transformations, where one guy gets turned into a chicken despite protesting, a few friends turn one of their mums into a sheep by accident and two guys transform their friend's girlfriend into a cow just to mock him. And yes, they're all as full of Fridge Horror as they sound. | |
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Super Dungeon Explore has an expansion set Von Drakk Manor including happy looking witches with the ability to turn heroes engaged in combat into Miserable Toads. Far from Miserable, they acquire several defensive abilities and a knack for stealing potions and healing from their foes. They are even reverted with a kiss from a friendly model. | |
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In "The Laidly Worm Of Spindleston Heugh", the titular monster used to be Princess Margaret. She is saved by her brother, who then turns the tables on the Wicked Witch and changes her into a toad. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has a lot of these: Ovinomancer later got a reprint and shout-outs in the Time Spiral block in the form of Ovinize (Transforms target into a sheep) and Pongify (Transforms target into a giant ape). Shadowmoor has Snakeform (Transforms target into a snake). Unglued has Fowl Play(Transforms target into a chicken). Mechanically similar "restraining" cards can instead represent a new state of mind or magical bindings. There are a few cards that turn the target into something nonliving. Some polymorphs can be undone (enchantments that can be destroyed), others are permanent (because they remove the original creature from the game and replace it with something else). Then there's Mass Polymorph which (at least in terms of flavor) transforms all your creatures into other creatures basically at random. |
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Swan Lake (Also adapted as The Swan Princess) is about a princess who becomes a swan during the day due to the spell of a sorcerer. | |
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A rare non-animal or object instance of this occurred in the The Fairly OddParents sequence in Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, when Cosmo briefly turns Ooblar into a Yolkian Elvis, complete with his personality and mannerisms. | |
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Ravenloft: Yagno Petrovna, the Darklord of G'henna and High Priest of Zhakata, can turn victims into mongrelmen, which he usually does to punish his subjects for heresy or blasphemy. This was one benefit he got from becoming a Darklord; it doesn't work on anyone who does not believe in Zhakata, so Player Characters are usually immune, seeing as nobody except Yagno's own subjects believe in him. (Zhakata isn't real, having been dreamed up in Yagno's insanity.) | |
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In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun episode 12, Wolffy is magically turned into a billiards board for using his hand to knock one of the billiards balls into a hole. | |
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In some of the Witch Hazel stories in Little Lulu, Hazel often transforms Lulu (or a nameless girl who is drawn as Lulu) into various things, such as a cat, a parrot, a monkey, a mermaid, a mouse (twice), and even a water pipe! | |
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In "The Frog Prince", the prince is turned into a frog before the story. | |
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In Critical Role this quickly became the Mighty Nein's M.O. for dealing with difficult or potentially lethal encounters, including turning a blue dragon into a weasel, a fire giant into a giant tortioise, a frost worm into a turtle, and turning a turtle dragon into a sea slug... and a sea turtle. | |
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The Six Swans were princes changed to that form by their Wicked Stepmother. They could turn back into humans once an evening, but would turn into swans again after a short time. | |
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In the Warhammer expansion, Storm of Magic, miscasting while standing atop an Arcane Fulcrum can result in a multitude of destructive and/or amusing effects, one of which turns all wizards on the table into frogs. There's also a Bretonian Cataclysm spell that can do the same thing. | |
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In "The Love of Three Oranges", the princess is turned into a canary by the servant who tries to take her place. | |
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Satellite Girl and Milk Cow: In the world of the movie, anyone who has their heart broken turns into an animal. The Witch Of the North theorizes Kyung-chun was turned into a cow because of his "cow"ardice to admit his feelings to the girl he had a crush on. | |
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Witch Girls Adventures allows characters to do this with the Alteration-class spells of Animalize Human or Monsterize Human. | |
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In Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, this is what actually happened to Elsa of Brabant's little brother, Duke-Child Gottfried, who was cursed by their Evil Aunt Ortrud. She and her husband Count Telramund framed poor Elsa and accused her of murdering him, which prompted the titular Lohengrin to step in her defense. It turns out that the swan that drove Lohengrin to the bank was the cursed Gottfried; Lohengrin prays to God and manages to undo the magic, then elects the newly-humanized boy as the official Duke before taking off. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Mighty Little Defenders, Wolffy is accidentally transformed into a dog, making it difficult for him to catch the goats like he would normally do. | |
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In Thalia's Musings, Hera is very fond of visiting this fate on Zeus's paramours. Io in particular was turned into a cow and then given to Thalia as a pet. | |
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In The White Dove, the dove is a kidnapped princess. The witch also tries to hide her from the prince in other shapes. | |
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In The White Duck, the queen is turned into a white duck, and her children are born as ducklings. | |
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Gypsy Tales: Near the end of "The Gypsy Woman and the Devil", the devil turns Vunida into a cherry tree so "[her] children will eat of [her] flesh and drink of [her] blood." It's described as agonizing to her. | |
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In Beauty and the Beast, a prince is turned into a beastly creature by a fairy/enchantress he angered. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, the scheming mage Shyralis accidentally activates a curse which turns her into a goat while the Great War rages on. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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"King Goldenlocks": The giant wildman turns out to be an ordinary man who had been transformed into a monster by a curse. | |
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Mage: The Awakening has several spells like this, including one that not only turns the target into an animal but forces them to claw the way out of the excess mass. Also one that targets your entire future lineage, making the polymorph hereditary. | |
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This is the backstory for animation blogger, Neil Sharpton's persona the Unshaved Mouse, who used to be human, but as a child was turned into an animated mouse by the immortal warlock, Walt Disney (just go with it) for the crime of... not thinking Disney's Beauty and the Beast was as great as everyone else. Though unlike most examples, Mouse has largely accepted this and moved on. (Being happily married to Mrs. Mouse probably helps.) | |
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The first of the Endless Quest pick-a-path books, Dungeon of Dread, is a surprisingly-grim adventure in a dungeon where all the monsters were created by an evil wizard casting this spell on enemies or innocent bystanders. There's nothing you can do to restore the victims, but the villain gets Hoist by His Own Petard, succumbing to this trope in turn, in the best ending. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 8 episode 22, Huo Haha feeds Happy S. a magic candy cracker that turns him into a candy cracker. Not only does this strip him of his superpowers, but it also makes him susceptible to melting when in the rain or near a fire, on top of making him edible. | |
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