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The Henshin Hero is a variation or subtrope of the Superhero in which super-powered characters only have their special powers some of the time. A Henshin Hero has distinct normal and powered "forms," and needs to actively switch between the two. In essence, the character's powers are all turned off while they are in their Secret Identity. Henshin Heroes often have a special item which they use to change into their heroic form. These items are usually activated by a command phrase, triggering a Transformation Sequence. The transformation is frequently accompanied by a costume change. This gives the trope some overlap with Clothes Make the Superman: many male Henshin Heroes wear power-armor of some kind, and their transformation allows them to don their armor almost instantly. Bonus points if the change of clothing is the only outward difference, but nobody notices. The name comes from the Japanese term for the trope, henshin (literally meaning "change body" but more practically translated as "transformation" or "metamorphosis" ... and not to be confused with the Shapeshifting or Metamorphosis tropes — henshin always refers to superheroes). Superpowered Alter Ego is when this trope meets Split Personality. Magical Girls and Magical Girl Warriors are a subset of the Henshin Hero that are (usually) targeted toward the Shoujo demographic. |
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Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills was DiC Entertainment's response to Saban's Power Rangers. Rather than adapt a Japanese show they created the series from scratch. It is about a group of four teenagers recruited by a good alien named Nimbar to fight an evil alien Emperor Gorganus who wants to take over the Earth. Each teenager is given a usually invisible tattoo that glows when trouble is a foot, they use these tattoos to transform into the Galactic Sentinels, spandex clad giant martial artists each named after a constellation (which they yell the names of to transform). They can then combine forms by linking their arms to merge and become Knightron an even more power form. | |
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The Golden Age Fury of the All-Star Squadron sequel series The Young All-Stars transforms into her superpowered form (complete with bulletproof armor) just by thought alone (or sometimes when she gets angry). | |
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Big Eyes, Small Mouth has a specific version of Form Change that grants the user a super-powered form. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Thor and Dr. Donald Blake are a variation on this - the difference being that Thor is the original and Blake was a mortal form Odin forced upon his son as a test. Most other wielders of Mjölnir or passable replicas thereof also fit under this trope more-or-less. Including but not limited to Storm when she got repowered by Loki, Beta Ray Bill (albeit he is also a super soldier; he was already strong but gets a lot stronger when transformed), Thunderstrike (both of them), and the new Thor Jane Foster. | |
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Butt-Ugly Martians: The titular Martians perform a henshin to summon their Butt-Kicking Mode suits. All three of them have to be present to initiate BKM, but this is only ever brought up once. | |
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X-Men: Colossus is large and buff-looking in his human form, but only superhumanly strong and tough in his metallic form. He's still strong in his human form, but only "normal human who pumps iron" levels of strong. | |
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The Spectre: Depending on who's writing him, he may or may not have some form of this. The older stories treated him as a guy who had returned from death and could when he wanted, take on a ghostly form with mystical powers. Most later writers treat the Spectre and the human host it's associated with as separate characters, with how much control the host has when in Spectre form being highly variable. In the Ostrander run the two were separate to the extent that Corrigan didn't have a "Spectre form"; the Spectre essentially lived inside him (but could temporarily leave and act independently). | |
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The Flash: Jay Garrick and Green Lantern Alan Scott of Earth 2 gained their powers and costumes via mystical sources. As such, their costumes only appear when they use their powers. Downplayed, but for a while Wally West had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability. Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse, also downplay it but in a different way. Normally they're just normal people, but when they recite the formula "3x2(9yz)4a", they gain super speed for a short while, and can keep it going by reciting the formula again, however they don't transform physically and their costumes are exactly that. Shortly before Johnny died, they discovered they weren't really Henshin Heroes, and in fact they actually had access to their super speed at any time they wanted as they were Speed Force conduits like the Flash; however because Johnny had believed the formula to be the trigger, he merely trained himself and his daughter to only have access when they recite that equation. Afterwards, Jesse continues to use the formula this way but its more akin to a mantra for focusing herself so she can use her powers, and has been teased over her tendency to recite it over and over as if that would make her faster. |
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In one novel of The Shadow it was declared that The Shadow had most of his powers (i.e. his ordinary powers) in any of his forms, including Lamont Cranston. However, only when fully garbed as The Shadow in his cloak and hat, could he "cloud men's minds". | |
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Super Duper Sumos: The sumos go through a Transformation Sequence to become "Sumo-Sized" and become even bigger and more powerful. | |
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Winx Club: Fairies are a downplayed example. Although they behave and look mostly like humans when un-transformed, they retain a modicum of magic—making objects levitate, repairing minor messes, launching minor magic attacks, summoning clothes, and opening portals. To be fair, teleporting is a rather inconsistent power since, in some seasons, they need Stella's scepter or a special transformation to do so. This is all enough for mundane affairs and low-danger situations. However, when it's time for ass-kicking, they transform into full fairy form, where having fully functional wings is the least of their abilities. Depending on the transformation they can lift curses, heal, tap on magic while in magicless lands, draw power from people's faith in them, go underwater, and access special dimensions. The show is a Magical Girl Warrior series heavily influenced by Maho Shojo anime, and the main girls have their own set of Stock Footage Sailor Moon-esque transformation sequences. | |
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There was a Japanese Spider-Man series that turned him into a Henshin Hero, rather than the usual change of costume. He even got a Humongous Mecha to battle the Monster of the Week whenever it turned giant-sized! | |
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Ladybug and Cat Noir from Miraculous Ladybug, as well as Hawk Moth and any other Miraculous holders that appear, complete with Transformation Sequences. | |
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Blue Beetle, especially the first (Dan Garrett used a mystical scarab to transform into a superhero) and the third (Jaime Rayes, who uses the same scarab, now revealed as an alien artifact, to turn into a power-armored superhero). The second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, was never able to get the scarab to work for him, so he is not an example. | |
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Black Hammer features two such heroes amongst its Cast of Expies. Golden Gail is a gender-flipped and inverted version of Shazam, being a grown woman who can transform into a superpowered child by saying the magic word "Zafram". Meanwhile, Joseph Weber takes clear inspiration from the Donald Blake version of Thor, being a mortal man who transforms into the godlike Black Hammer when he strikes his eponymous weapon on the ground. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara turns out to be one of these. He transforms with a classic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers morpher into his jacketed-hatted form, albeit usually just before the show begins. And thanks to the Power Rangers Zeo Zeonizer he can transform into his upgraded White Zeo Ranger Form Better still, he also has a gold Power Morpher with a Dragon coin in. Which lets him become the Green Ranger. In an anniversary episode, he uses cards and the Power Rangers Megaforce Morpher switch between different outfits. |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) as well as its Distaff Counterpart, She-Ra: Princess of Power. Likewise in He-Man's 2002 reboot, in which there's a much greater visual difference between his normal and super-powered forms, and in 2018's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, where She-Ra is notably taller than Adora ("Like, eight feet tall"). Masters of the Universe: Revelation establishes that this was the case for past Champions of Eternia as well. He-Man is unique because in the Warrior Heaven of Preternia, he chooses to be Prince Adam. That's just how much of a Humble Hero he is. |
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Inazuman had two henshins Goro needed to perform before assuming the titular form, first by shouting "Goriki Shourai" (Summon Mighty Power) to become the larvae-like Sanagiman. After building up enough energy, Goro could then shout "Chouriki Shourai" (Summon Super Power) to become Inazuman. | |
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Mummies Alive!: The mummies, complete with transformation sequences and By the Power of Grayskull! phrase. | |
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Many American tokusatsu adaptations (most of which came around the same time). Asides from Power Rangers (which started the craze), we have VR Troopers, Masked Rider, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, and Big Bad Beetleborgs. There was also Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, which came sometime after the trend had faded out and left only Power Rangers standing. | |
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In an anniversary episode, he uses cards and the Power Rangers Megaforce Morpher switch between different outfits. | |
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Linkara turns out to be one of these. He transforms with a classic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers morpher into his jacketed-hatted form, albeit usually just before the show begins. | |
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Freakazoid!: Dexter Douglas transforms into the eponymous hero by exclaiming, "Freak Out!", then has to say "Freak In!" in order to change back. | |
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In the "Supertoon" setting for Toon, the Multiple Forms schtick gives you this. Although if you want a really weird character you can give both forms superpowers. | |
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Jade Armor: While a skilled martial artist as both Lan Jun and Jade Armor, Lan Jun only has access to the Elemental Powers of the Beasticons as Jade Armor. | |
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Miracleman (originally and still sometimes Marvelman - see MM's own page for the convoluted legal history) was a direct homage to Captain Marvel, created while the latter was in the middle of his twenty-year publishing hiatus, and transformed by speaking the word "Kimota" ("atomic" backward, more or less). He likewise had two teenage sidekicks, Young Marvelman/Miracleman and Kid Marvelman/Miracleman, who transformed by speaking their mentor's name. | |
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Atomic Puppet: Neither Joey nor AP have powers until they perform their Fusion Dance and become the eponymous superhero, as Joey is the only one who can unlock Captain Atomic's lost powers from his Forced Transformation. | |
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Zigzagged in Turning Red. Mei's Not Quite Flight ability is a consequence of being able to precisely and accurately control the generation of the poof of smoke associated with her transformation between her human and giant red panda forms and vice versa. It could therefore be said that she has the ability in both forms but it alternates from one to the other. | |
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The protagonist of Dial H for Hero had an alien artifact that would transform him (or her) temporarily into a superhero-ish sort of thing. The form and powers were random, though with some thought they were always applicable somehow to the current problem. | |
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Superman: For a brief period in The '90s, he had both an Electric Superman and Clark Kent form. Prior to that, he went through a period in The '70s when he only had his powers while visualizing a lynx. Otherwise, they were in the possession of a young boy who was psychically connected to the lynx. No, really. |
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The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg was a wholly American produced henshin hero program, which used no Japanese footage.note Albeit borrowing a few Beetleborgs costumes, which were, in turn, borrowed Juukou B Fighter and B Fighter Kabuto costumes. It was a Heroic Fantasy take on the genre set in a quasi-medieval set of kingdoms roughly based on Ireland, with a smattering of characters from other lands mixed in. The mystic knights would transform from civilian clothes into magic armor each calling on an element.note The transformation phrases were: "Fire Within Me!", "Air Above Me!", "Water Around Me!", "Earth Beneath Me!", and "Forest Before Me!" | |
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Pathfinder Vigilantes in even the Badass Normal builds, have distinct abilities in their social and vigilante identities. The Magical Child even gets a Transformation Sequence. The Aegis from Dreamscarred Press can be played as transforming heroes. Little Red Goblin Games' Gonzo 2 has a Pathfinder class explicitly called the Henshin Hero, along with a Magical Girl class, the aptly-named Magical Girl or Magical Boy. (Mechanically, they're very similar, but the Henshin Hero specializes in physical attacks while the Magical Girl/Boy specializes in magic) |
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In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, instead of a suitcase-suit, teen Tony has it as a backpack. It only requires that the central button be pushed and it forms around him on its own without him having to do anything else, making for the most Toku-like version yet. Now all we need is voice activation. | |
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The "normal identity" drawback in Mutants & Masterminds means that the character has a non-powered civilian form. Both Freedom City and Halt Evil Doer! have Shazam Expy characters (Megastar and Ultimatum respecively) which use this. | |
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Iron Man, to an extent. Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while it's partially formed. Iron Man fully qualifies with the "Bleeding Edge" armor, which is stored within Tony Stark's body and called out mentally at need. | |
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Future Card Buddyfight has the Transform keyword. It's unique to the Toku-style Superheroes (or their counterparts the Dark Heroes), and is flavored this way. Monsters with this keyword may be equipped as though they were items, effectively turning you into a Henshin Hero. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: For a time Diana no longer had her powers when not "transformed" into Wonder Woman. (This was also how it worked in her TV series) | |
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A Place in My Dreams: One of Kirito's Authorities, [Avatar of Dreams], allows him to manifest a strong mental image of himself (a dream) into reality like armor. He first uses it to transform into his Sword Art Online Avatar, but it is capable of bringing any form he can sufficiently imagine into reality too. Such as avatars from other games. | |
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Kamen Rider was the Trope Namer and the Trope Codifier. Most Kamen Riders have "Henshin!" as the changing command. | |
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BIMA Satria Garuda has Ray, who with the red Power Stone and the changing command "Berubah!" (change) transforms into the eponymous hero. | |
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Near the end of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, the Humane Six gain pony-eared and pegasus-winged Magical Girl forms via Twilight's Element of Magic. In the Rainbow Rocks animated shorts, the characters' musical instruments act as Transformation Trinkets. | |
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Warrior of Love Rainbowman has no henshin device; instead he repeatedly chants "Anokutara Sanmyakusanbodai" (Supreme Correct Wisdom) to transform. | |
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Tony Stark in Iron Man, just like the comics. As he continues to advance the technology, donning it becomes easier every time, going from needing a lot of machinery to assemble and disassemble it around him in the first to having the suitcase suit in the second to each piece flying into place on its own with so long as he wears certain arm devices to summon it in The Avengers to basically doing a henshin pose that it responds to (not quite perfected) in the third. Particularly noticeable in the third film, where the climax involves him alternating between suits in quick succession, each opening, letting him in, and resealing around him as needed even in midair. Avengers: Infinity War takes it even farther - nanites stored in a chest-worn device pour around him to form the suit with a touch. That’s as close to a Toku hero as you’re getting without having him shout “It’s morphin’ time!� | |
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The Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series. Diana Prince had to spin (along with an act of will, so she couldn't change accidentally) to transform into Wonder Woman in order to access her powers. | |
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Fred and Barney Meet the Thing turned the Fantastic Four's Ben Grimm into a weedy teenager who can change into the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing by joining two rings and shouting "Thing Ring, do your thing!" | |
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Zak Storm: When Zak holds his Talking Weapon Calabrass aloft and speaks the words "Give me the Eye of *Element*!", he goes through a Transformation Sequence, wherein Calabrass becomes imbued with the respective element and Zak is engulfed with a full-armor on his left arm. His headband piece becomes a matching eye-patch to boot. | |
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The eponymous American Dragon: Jake Long, who transforms into a dragon to battle monsters and supernatural creatures. As per this trope, Jake must be a dragon to use dragon abilities, though he can still use martial arts and is fairly capable when fighting in human form. Unusually, he's able to transform specific parts of himself and not the rest if he so chooses, giving himself individual dragon traits such as claws or improved vision when the situation calls for it. | |
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Centurions: A downplayed example. The Centurions fuse with their Assault Weapon Systems by shouting "Power extreme!" and performing an X-pose, but have to call in the weapons to be beamed to them first. It's portrayed as Instant Armor in-universe, though it's usually (but not always) accompanied by a Transformation Sequence. | |
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Dragon Booster: Artha Penn has a magical amulet and armband which allows him transform into the titular Dragon Booster. In season 2, Moordryd Paynn finds an amulet and armband of his own that allow him to transform into the Shadow Booster. However, there were hints at him pulling a Heel–Face Turn and becoming a hero himself. The show also hinted at Kitt and Parm becoming Henshin Heroes in their own right. In one episode, Kitt finds a portrait of a woman called the Fire Booster and another episode had Parm earning a gauntlet that would allow him to become the fabled Power Booster once his found the amulet that matched it. |
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Ema in the Japanese drama Sh15uya had a henshin ability, but it was never really explained. | |
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In Sym-Bionic Titan, the two organic heroes summon their Powered Armor with a wrist-mounted transformation device. | |
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Choujin Bibyun was about a trio of humans each imbued with a demon, giving them the power to assume superhuman forms to fight against evil Youkai. | |
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Shazam!: Captain Marvel, who debuted decades before He-Man or the Japanese heroes, which makes him the Ur-Example of all transforming heroes. He's normally a powerless little boy (or early teen) named Billy Batson, but when he says "Shazam" (an acronym of the names of six mythological figures), he's transformed into a powerful Flying Brick. Cap's supporting cast featured a lot of these, including Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, and the Lieutenants Marvel, as well as a lot of Henshin Villains, like Black Adam, Ibac, and Sabbac. Later it was revealed that even the wizard Shazam himself was a former Henshin Hero thousands of years ago when he was Jebediah of Canaan, who transformed into The Champion by saying the magic word "Vlarem". Most of those characters were retconned out with the New 52 reboot in 2011, but the current version of Billy Batson still says "Shazam" to transform from a normal boy into a superhero (albeit one with somewhat different powers). | |
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Ben 10, and its sequels Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and Ben 10: Omniverse. Interestingly, Ben Tennyson has multiple hero forms to choose from (10 initially, then he gets more forms as each series progresses). Oh so is the rest of the Power Trio, the Love Interest and plenty of bit characters as well. For example, Gwen, Kevin, Julie. |
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W.I.T.C.H.: Though the main heroines can only transform with their leader around, who has the Transformation Trinket. | |
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Metal Heroes, being from the same folks behind Kamen Rider and Super Sentai and running from 1982 to 1999 (with some movie revivals in the 2010s). Generally, they saw the hero donning a suit of Powered Armor to fight against the bad guys. | |
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Downplayed, but for a while Wally West had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability. | |
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In Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Randy becomes his Ninja alter-ego by putting on the Ninja mask (Even got its own transformation sequence.) | |
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Ghost Rider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form. | |
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Trollhunters works this way with the magic amulet wielded by Jim, complete with Transformation Sequence activated by reciting For the glory of Merlin, daylight is mine to command! | |
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Played Straight in the fan game, Princess: The Hopeful, due to its Magical Girl inspirations. | |
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In the Moonwalker movie and games, Michael Jackson can morph into a sportscar, a robot (aka the Jacksonator), or a space fighter plane, with the power of a Wishing Star. | |
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Downplayed in Werewolf: The Forsaken, where human-form Uratha enjoy slightly increased physical durability and supernatural perception, but most of their power is in their Hybrid forms. Just take care with your rage. | |
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Sheena, in Kid Radd. Complete with a parody of an anime Transformation Sequence: "Magical Maid Robo Sheena!" | |
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Eric Draven, from Mall Fight. He started off as a Green Ranger, moved onto becoming Kamen Rider Black, and now transforms (actually saying "HENSHIN!") into a fusion between Kamen Rider and Ghost Rider. | |
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The Ultra Series is the Ur-Example for Japanese Tokusatsu. In every series, an ordinary guy uses a Transformation Trinket to become a gigantic alien warrior of light in order to battle kaiju and sizeshifting aliens. Unlike the previous three major franchises, it's not produced by Toei, but Tsuburaya Productions. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk is theoretically this; in human form, Bruce Banner is just a regular guy (though fairly smart), while in Hulk form he's extremely strong and tough, but he's also really stupid (usually). Because the comic is called The Incredible Hulk instead of The Average Banner, he tends to spend about 90% of the time as the Hulk, with the writers before the 00s reverting him to human form to have him angst for a while. Since Planet Hulk and its follow up stories, Banner has been given more control/a partnership with Hulk's personality that allows them to transform back and forth at will, with Green Hulk taking on a more intelligent form of speech, making them more a classical version of the trope, though both still see each other as the "other guy" to some extent. | |
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This trope is also a staple of Super Sentai series, as well as their American Power Rangers adaptations. Typically a Sentai team would all activate their Transformation Trinkets to do a group transformation, before striking out in a cool pose. The only exception is the show Battle Fever J, where the heroes had to put on their suits manually. | |
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Danny Phantom is an ordinary kid who can transform into a ghostly superhero after a freak lab accident. Even though he has access to his powers while human, they aren't as potent until he transforms. He even has his own catchphrase when he transforms, "Going Ghost!" | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: Ultra Boy had a slight variant. He had all the powers Superboy had, but only one at a time; he could be either super-strong or invulnerable, but not both at the same time. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's magic lets him fly and gives him heightened durability and an accelerated healing factor, but only when using a particular spell that also requires him to turn into a woman. He has other superhuman abilities that can be used without transforming, though. | |
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Karin-dou 4koma features a Henshin Hero youkai—not a youkai who is a Henshin Hero, mind you, but rather the concept of "Henshin Hero" personified. He only makes two brief appearance with some friends, though, and doesn't appear as anything other than an ordinary schoolboy. | |
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Inverted with Oingo in Vaguely Recalling JoJo. His Stand, Khnum, is based off the Rider belt and he uses it for assassinations. | |
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And thanks to the Power Rangers Zeo Zeonizer he can transform into his upgraded White Zeo Ranger Form | |
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Bradley Biggle plays this trope straight to become Mint Berry Crunch in South Park episode Coon vs. Coon and friends. In fact, his transformation sequence gives nods to the Kamen Rider franchise and Sailor Moon, both of which are very prominent Henshin Hero series. | |
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In El Tigre, the titular hero transforms by spinning the buckle of his Transformation Trinket belt. | |
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SuperTed transforms into his super-powered state by speaking the phrase "I'll just say my secret magic word..." and then unzipping his fur to reveal a superhero costume underneath. | |
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When the five main characters from Super Why! are not transformed, they're normal kids and a dog without powers. Princess Pea does have her magic wand untransformed, but it doesn't seem to be capable of spelling to make things appear as it does as Princess Presto. | |
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King Arthur & the Knights of Justice, which may have been inspired by the armored warriors anime genre, is what happens when you apply this trope to Arthurian legend. | |
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Ms. Marvel (1977): Starting out, Carol Danvers was one of these, having superpowers in her "Ms. Marvel" identity and none as Carol, with the additional wrinkle she didn't know this - Carol and Ms. Marvel were separate personalities, with Carol gaining a few centimeters and a different haircut whenever she became Ms. Marvel. After a while, the two became aware of one another, and the line between them starting blurring together. | |
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The titular Behemoth of The Behemoth is Roger's alternate form, a giant figure armored with coagulated blood and adorned with horns. | |
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The PJ Masks transform Once an Episode from their civilian identities to the hero team they are in the night, and being unable to utilize their powers in the daytime. | |
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Played with in the various World of Darkness games. Averted in most games. You're, for the most part, always a monster at all times, and can do a variable job hiding it. Downplayed in Werewolf: The Forsaken, where human-form Uratha enjoy slightly increased physical durability and supernatural perception, but most of their power is in their Hybrid forms. Just take care with your rage. Played Straight in the fan game, Princess: The Hopeful, due to its Magical Girl inspirations. |
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Captain Underpants | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Omake character Reel, AKA Kamen Rider Skull II, who became one after gaining the powers of a Kamen Rider in his backstory. | |
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation establishes that this was the case for past Champions of Eternia as well. He-Man is unique because in the Warrior Heaven of Preternia, he chooses to be Prince Adam. That's just how much of a Humble Hero he is. | |
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Kikaider is a Ridiculously Human Robot who assumes a more robotic fighting form by chanting "Switch On". | |
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Wonder Woman pulls it off in an episode of Justice League Unlimited ("To Another Shore", specifically) as a homage to the aforementioned TV series starring Linda Carter. | |
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Mega Man: Fully Charged: this version of Mega Man is the alter ego of teen robot Aki Light, who transforms into Mega Man by telling the miniature robot who lives in his head "mega-tize me!" | |
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