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Butterfly of Transformation
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Sometimes butterflies are portents of total rebirth. Sometimes they are just pretty. And sometimes their history of metamorphosis is used to show transformations less drastic than total rebirth. (Because butterflies are also ethereal and can fly, if this is a moral transformation, it is more likely to be a Heel–Face Turn than the other way around.) Caterpillars can also work, and bonus points for the entire transformation in story. Moths can also be used, but then you don't get Pretty Butterflies, and besides, moths are nocturnal (fictionally, at least), and you know what that means. Super-Trope of Butterfly of Death and Rebirth. For seemingly minor events that cause great situational changes, see Butterfly of Doom. Compare Macabre Moth Motif. |
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Kamen Rider Fourze pulls this in The Movie with Inazuman, another Shotaro Ishinomori creation. At first, Saburo Kazeta is a bitter young man who hates "normal humans" for shunning him due to his psychic powers, which include transforming into the larval Sanagiman. Fourze gives him a heart-to-heart (which outright includes the butterfly metaphor) which leads to Saburo pulling a Heel–Face Turn, at which point Sanagiman "molts" into Inazuman, complete with radiant wings. | |
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Vic Sage's last words in 52 invoke this symbolism of butterflies. They are addressed to Renee and foreshadow her transformation into the new Question. | |
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X-Men: Psylocke's telepathy is symbolized by butterflies, and her character has undergone tremendous change, having switched bodies, become Captain Britain (twice), gained new psychic powers (twice), and joined the X-Men. Her successor Kwannon inherited the butterfly motif via a Retcon; she views her changes post-revival as a metaphorical rebirth, fitting the sub-trope of Butterfly of Death and Rebirth. | |
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Rose's butterfly comb and kimono with wing-like sleeves in Titanic (1997) serve as symbols of her change into a confident woman in control of her own destiny. The butterfly motif is explicitly stated in a piece of dialogue that was later cut from the film. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: The primary ability of the Butterfly Miraculous is Super-Empowering. Using an actual butterfly as a medium, it can transform ordinary people into superheroes... or, in the hands of Hawk Moth, innocent victims into supervillains. | |
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David Byrne: In "Now I'm Your Mom", the narrator, a post-op transgender woman, compares her transition to the process of a caterpillar metamorphosing into a butterfly. | |
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At the end of Bambi II, Bambi has lost his spots, his antlers are starting to grow and most importantly, he has an improved relationship with his father. A butterfly lands on the entwined sprouts growing nearby. | |
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Harry Potter: An Animagus is a wizard or witch who can voluntarily transform into an animal and back, but the process of becoming one is long and complex. It involves a special potion, which, according to supplementary materials, requires (among other things) the chrysalis of a death's-head hawkmoth. | |
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My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: In "Cutie Blossom Bash", Misty discovers what her butterfly Cutie Mark means — her resolve to change herself for the better after her Heel–Face Turn. | |
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In Making Money, Cosmo Lavish uses a caterpillar becoming a butterfly as a symbol of his own planned transformation. His sister Pucci tells him that what actually happens is a caterpillar dies and a butterfly grows out of the remains. | |
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The Breach: The... whatever it is the jumpship found on its trip is a huge creature with butterfly wings, who slowly transforms the crew into insectile mutants. Some of the enemies encountered are giant butterflies with human heads (and annoying to kill because they move at an angle). | |
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In Cinderella (2015), Cinderella's gown from the Fairy Godmother has butterfly decorations around the neckline, as well as on her shoes, as a motif of her transformation. | |
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Butterflies are one of the motifs of Yes! Pretty Cure 5. A butterfly has to land on the chosen human's wrist to become the Cure's Transformation Trinket, and the phrase used to turn into one for that team is "Precure, Metamorphose!". | |
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In Mutts, witnessing a catepillar go through it inspires thoughts of change, such as Mooch's observing that someday, Earl might become a cat. | |
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Angel's Friends: Done literally with Dolce's butterfly familiar, Butterfly, which she uses to transform into a human and back. | |
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xkcd strip #1336, "Transformers", features Transformers who transform in the same way as butterflies. | |
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In the endgame of Spirit Hunter: NG, when the child-like Kakuya forces herself to become 'grown-up', the resultant body is littered with butterfly wings to symbolize her transformation. | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 2013 West End musical), Willy Wonka has an I Am What I Am song, "Simply Second Nature", in which he explains his inborn need to create beautiful (if strange to some) things. At one point, a sudden wave of his cane reveals a butterfly perched upon it, which continues this adaptation's running motif of humble things that contain/conceal great beauty and possibility (tying in to the Central Theme of the transformative power of imagination). | |
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1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons: The Polymorph Other spell from the Player's Handbook changes a creature into another type of creature. Its material component is a caterpillar cocoon. The Force Shapechange spell from the Oriental Adventures supplement causes shapechangers to shift to their alternate form. The spell's material component is a butterfly cocoon. |
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In The Adventures of Caterpillar Jones, C.J.'s journey is both a literal and symbolic form of this trope, as he literally transforms from caterpillar to butterfly and, in doing so, symbolically lets go of what's holding him back and embraces his new life. | |
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The hero of Kung Fu Hustle gets entirely wrapped in bandages like a cocoon, which he discards as a shell, his Chi finally unblocked and his destiny awaiting. During this transformation, we are briefly treated to the imagry of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon to drive the point home. | |
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In Cultist Simulator, the symbol of the Change Ambition is a butterfly cocoon, and advancing the Ambition card gradually hatch it to reveal a pretty butterfly emerging from it. However, the descriptions of what actually happens are anything but pretty. | |
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In The Silence of the Lambs, Jame Gumb keeps butterflies or moths, and they seem to symbolize his desire to transform into a woman. | |
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In BioShock 2, Rapture's change as "better" society fueled by Dr. Lamb's extreme altruistic view are symbolized by a blue butterfly that is worn by most of the members of the Rapture family and it appears in most of the city. A lot of the graffiti with this motif also reads: "We will be reborn in the cold womb of the ocean. She is our savior". Turns out more literal than you would think, as Lamb's plan is using her own daughter as a "database" of the population of Rapture to create a human completely driven to benefit a group in its entirety. | |
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In Fallout, the experiments to turn humans into Super Mutants was conducted at the Mariposa Military Base. Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly. | |
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A moth emerging from its cocoon was used in an early episode of Lost as a metaphor for Charlie weaning himself off drugs. Made very explicit by Locke. | |
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In the Persona series, the golden butterfly is symbolic of Philemon, the deity that allows the heroes to tap into their Personas. According to Word of God, in the later games in the series he actually appears as a blue butterfly with an implied similar, if lesser, function, although neither the characters nor any narrator identifies him. | |
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The Animorphs book The Departure heavily features the theme of a caterpillar, and later a butterfly. It is not a coincidence that this is when Cassie meets a surprisingly sympathetic yeerk, one willing to give up her host body if Cassie is willing to experience the rest of her life as a Yeerk... or the closest thing at hand: a caterpillar. This, along with Cassie's continued realisation that the world isn't as black and white as she thought, signifies change. It also brings up the fact that natural metamorphosis can somehow undo the Shapeshifter Mode Lock of remaining more than two Earth hours in morph, something Cassie willingly did to make the Yeerk free her host. | |
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Tales of the City (2019): Tommy spots Anna in a shop, coveting a scarf decorated with butterflies, and buys it for her. Later, when he learns that she is trans, he offers to save up and pay for her gender confirmation surgery. | |
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In The Girl Who Chased The Moon, when Emily's wallpaper changed for the first time, it changes to butterflies. They seemed trapped and wanting to escape. She had just learned things about the town that make it hard for her to stay. Though neither the butterflies nor she manage to get away. | |
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In Freckles, Freckles watches in wonder as a Luna moth comes from its cocoon and feels deeply frustrated at his ignorance at what it is, though he knows it's not a butterfly. This causes him to ponder his ignorance, until it dawns on him that he could find out these things. | |
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I Am Legend features the motif of a butterfly quite often. In the released film, it doesn't amount to anything; however, in the original ending, it represented that that the Dayseekers weren't mindless, evil zombies, but sentient beings that had transformed into a better form than the old-fashioned humans. Keep in mind that "better" is in the eye of the beholder. | |
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In Darths & Droids, General Grievous explains why he became a cyborg by saying "The caterpillar sees not its destiny, except by fulfilling it. Only by shedding our previous bodies can we become beautiful butterflies." | |
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This is part of Morph Moth's gimmick in Mega Man X2. He starts the fight in a cocoon suspended on a thread, and after taking enough damage he, appropriately enough, metamorphosizes into a fully grown robot moth. | |
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In CthulhuTech, the Chrysalis Corporation uses a butterfly as its symbol. It's run by an Eldritch Abomination and, most relevantly for this trope, turns people into monsters. | |
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In The Butterfly Effect, the main character keeps trying to change the present by fixing the past. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Power of the Daleks", after finding that his previous incarnation's ring no longer fits him, thus making it look easier to believe that he's an impostor (he's not), the Second Doctor compares his regeneration to a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, stating that attempting to prove he's still the Doctor by donning his old ring is like trying to shove an adult butterfly back into its pupa. | |
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At the end of Alice in Wonderland (2010), Alice has been somewhat transformed by her experiences in Wonderland, and this is symbolized by the caterpillar (called Absolem in this adaptation) appearing on her shoulders in the form of a butterfly and doing a Fly-at-the-Camera Ending. | |
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In Sailor Moon, a butterfly motif is heavily featured in the titular heroine's "Crisis Make Up!" Transformation Sequence which sees her power up from Sailor Moon into Super Sailor Moon in the third season Sailor Moon S. This is not only touches on this trope but also draws on the way the Butterfly of Death and Rebirth trope is used elsewhere in the season, a particularly evocative version shows up using the power of the Sailor Soldiers themselves rather than via the usual Holy Grail Transformation Trinket that was in hands of the enemies in the penultimate episode of the season which is given its own animation. | |
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Butterfly symbolism is used extensively by a revolutionary group in Culpa Innata. | |
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The Nemesites in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! are a race of alien butterfly creatures who routinely use shapeshifting tech to appear as humans or other species. | |
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If one goes with the interpretation that the title of Chrysalis (Beaver Fur) refers to the smooth, elongated form of the Terran's mechanical outer shell, it can then be extrapolated that the Terran's destruction, and thus emergence from their cocoon, are evocative of the rebirth of humanity in machine form. The epilogue reveals the Terran was revived from their fragments and placed back into a humanoid body, as well. | |
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The fourth entry in the Gears of War series introduces JD Fenix and Kat talking about how a cocooned butterfly changes its shape just before they go on a raid. This is foreshadowing for the reveal that the Locust Horde was not entirely entirely destroyed at the end of the third game and have returned in stronger forms and are converting humans into the Swarm through cocoons. | |
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Fatal Frame II has butterflies everywhere as the motif associated with the twins of All God's Village, referring to the death-and-rebirth interpretation, the identical-halves-of-one being interpretation, and ultimately ending on the transformation interpretation: the souls of the sacrificed twins literally become butterflies. Mayu is released from the "cocoon" of her body by the red, wing-shaped handprints Mio leaves on her throat. | |
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In Babylon 5, Delenn uses a butterfly-like cocoon to transform into a half-human half-Minbari. During the transformation, the security team exploited the trope by telling the traitor that it she became beautiful as she left the cocoon, as if she was a butterfly with wings. | |
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