Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Slow Transformation

 Slow Transformation
type
FeatureClass
 Slow Transformation
label
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation
page
SlowTransformation
 Slow Transformation
comment
Something's starting to happen to one of our characters - Maybe he's been infected with some virus... maybe some witch had gave him a curse... maybe he's going crazy... or maybe he's just gaining weight. Whatever it is, it's usually not directly explained, and we don't see him changing on-screen...
It's just that one day, he looks a little bit... off.
And each time we see him after that, the change is a little more noticeable, usually until it reaches either hilarious or horrific levels.
As mentioned above, this is nearly always either Played for Laughs, or Played for Drama as Transformation Horror.
A Super-Trope to Virus-Victim Symptoms and a Sister Trope of Transformation at the Speed of Plot. May happen with Evil Makeover and Madness Makeover. What Monster Delay is to a Big Bad, this is to a protagonist/major character — either way, the audience doesn't see the creature in all their "glory" until the endgame. Contrast Oblivious Transformation, where a character isn't even aware of the charges to their body.
May also overlap with Metamorphosis, which is often a gradual process.
And Then John Was a Zombie is sometimes the end result.
See Fisher Kingdom (more specifically the second variant) for when simply being in a certain place can have this effect.
 Slow Transformation
fetched
2023-11-21T17:30:39Z
 Slow Transformation
parsed
2023-11-21T17:30:39Z
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to EvilutionaryBiologist: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to JackassGenie: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to LordOfTheRings: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to MagicalNanny: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Slow Transformation
processingComment
Dropped link to PrestigeClass: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Slow Transformation
processingUnknown
LordOfTheRings
 Slow Transformation
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Slow Transformation / int_100d4e39
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_100d4e39
comment
Downplayed in the Aladdin: The Series episode "Eye of the Beholder", which unfolds over a few days at most. Jasmine is tricked by the disguised Mirage — who is trying to prove to Blind Seer Fasir that Aladdin would not love Jasmine if she were not beautiful — into using a lotion that, overnight, begins turning her into a naga — when she wakes, her lower body has become that of a snake. As Aladdin and his friends escort Jasmine to the faraway Tree of Renewal, the fruit of which is the only cure for her condition, she progressively becomes more serpent-like and even legitimately, though unintentionally, dangerous once she sprouts poisoned barbs (Aladdin is accidentally pricked by them and has a Nightmare Sequence while unconscious). When Mirage withers the tree as a last resort, Jasmine tries to send Aladdin away with I Am a Monster, but when he uses the lotion on himself so he can stay with her forever Fasir sees this as definitive proof that Mirage is wrong and magically restores the tree so the lovers can be happy as humans again.
 Slow Transformation / int_100d4e39
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_100d4e39
featureConfidence
1.0
 Aladdin: The Series
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_100d4e39
 Slow Transformation / int_11b7db91
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_11b7db91
comment
In Adventure Time, the Ice King used to be a human named Simon Petrikov who found a magical crown that gave him immortality and great ice powers but slowly turned his skin blue, his hair white, and caused him to go mad and lose all memories of his human life. The truly tragic part is that Simon was aware of what was happening to him in the early stages of his transformation but couldn't stop wearing the crown without dying.
 Slow Transformation / int_11b7db91
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_11b7db91
featureConfidence
1.0
 Adventure Time
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_11b7db91
 Slow Transformation / int_15f03e82
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_15f03e82
comment
Honeymoon: Bea's strange behavior and physical degradation over the course of her honeymoon is the result of being taken over by an alien puppeteer parasite. It gains more and more control over her mind and slowly transforms her into a host body. She's aware of the process the whole time and is unable to do anything about it.
 Slow Transformation / int_15f03e82
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_15f03e82
featureConfidence
1.0
 Honeymoon
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_15f03e82
 Slow Transformation / int_177ba579
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_177ba579
comment
In the Custom Nights endings in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, this can be witnessed happening to "Eggs Benedict," the Player Character, who at the end of the main game got "scooped" and his flesh possessed by Ennard, the animated robot endoskeleton. Ennard-Eggs is shown walking out of his house and down the street, waving to his neighbors, but over successive cutscenes, his body gradually rots and shambles instead of walks, and his neighbors stop waving and eventually hide in their houses, until Eggs' body vomits up Ennard, and collapses in a pile. Then his body stands back up, as 'Eggs' reclaims it.
 Slow Transformation / int_177ba579
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_177ba579
featureConfidence
1.0
 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_177ba579
 Slow Transformation / int_1e533773
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_1e533773
comment
In Beauty and the Beast (2017), the Enchanted Objects were quickly transformed from their human selves into Animate Inanimate Objects when the Enchantress cursed them, but what little remains of those original selves slowly begins to be subsumed as the Death's Hourglass of the enchanted rose withers. Plumette (a maid turned feather duster) notes that she's growing more feathers in her tail, for instance. Should the curse go unbroken, they will become inanimate objects altogether. In the denouement, this happens as the Beast dies, and they lose all of their humanoid features — but it's just a mass Disney Death and they are instantly restored to human forms after the Beast is himself restored. See also Theatre below for how the prior stage adaptation used this trope (and was likely an inspiration for its use here).
 Slow Transformation / int_1e533773
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_1e533773
featureConfidence
1.0
 Beauty and the Beast (2017)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_1e533773
 Slow Transformation / int_1e53d816
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_1e53d816
comment
In Seraphina, dragons' muscles are soft, and their wings incapable of flight, for the first few minutes after transformation.
 Slow Transformation / int_1e53d816
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_1e53d816
featureConfidence
1.0
 Seraphina
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_1e53d816
 Slow Transformation / int_2a04866b
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_2a04866b
comment
In Guild Wars Nightfall, Varesh transforms into a Margonite-like appearance (and eventually a full margonite form) over the course of several missions. This involves getting 2 extra pairs of eyes (first appearing as bumps, then fully appearing) and become a lot paler.
 Slow Transformation / int_2a04866b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_2a04866b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Guild Wars (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_2a04866b
 Slow Transformation / int_3038d75c
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_3038d75c
comment
Over several cutscenes in Diablo II, the Wanderer gradually looks more and more evil, until morphing fully into a Diablo form in a final cutscene.
 Slow Transformation / int_3038d75c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_3038d75c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Diablo II (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_3038d75c
 Slow Transformation / int_30a5ebfd
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_30a5ebfd
comment
In Naruto, the process of turning humans trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi into White Zetsu takes several years.
 Slow Transformation / int_30a5ebfd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_30a5ebfd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Naruto (Manga)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_30a5ebfd
 Slow Transformation / int_31a48eed
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_31a48eed
comment
The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Birthright", a U.S. Senator escapes from his security detail after his own men try to kill him, and gradually gets weird warts and such. It turns out that a race of reptiloid aliens had sent spies to study humans and the spies are turning back after the disguise wears off. The horror factor is the spies themselves didn't know they were aliens.
 Slow Transformation / int_31a48eed
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_31a48eed
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Outer Limits (1995)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_31a48eed
 Slow Transformation / int_32703af8
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_32703af8
comment
My Hairiest Adventure: The main character, after trying out a strange lotion, starts growing dark fur on his hands that keeps coming back and spreading to the rest of his body no matter how often he shaves it off. While this is happening, he also spots several alarming signs that his friends are being transformed into dogs. It turns out that the lotion had nothing to do with his transformation; the real cause of it is that he and his friends were dogs who were transformed into humans for childless families to adopt and that transformation is slowly wearing off now.
 Slow Transformation / int_32703af8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_32703af8
featureConfidence
1.0
 My Hairiest Adventure
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_32703af8
 Slow Transformation / int_3583b777
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_3583b777
comment
In Eternal Darkness, one of the characters you play as is inflicted with a curse in their chapter, meaning he gradually rots and turns into an undead creature (this happens at set points in the level) while he tries to warn Charlemagne before he meets the same fate. He fails and ends up trapped in a room in the church as an undead monster until another character finally puts him out of his misery in a boss battle a few hundred years later.
 Slow Transformation / int_3583b777
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_3583b777
featureConfidence
1.0
 Eternal Darkness (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_3583b777
 Slow Transformation / int_36d59a47
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_36d59a47
comment
After Saladin Chamcha miraculously survives a plane crash in The Satanic Verses, he starts turning into a goat man, growing horns and cloven hoofs. In the course of several weeks, he becomes increasingly devil-like, eventually turning into an eight-foot tall devil with glowing eyes and smoke coming from his nostrils, before turning back to normal. During a stay in the hospital, he also encounters patients who are slowly turning into animals and inanimate objects.
 Slow Transformation / int_36d59a47
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_36d59a47
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Satanic Verses
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_36d59a47
 Slow Transformation / int_4522fd1
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_4522fd1
comment
Whateley Universe: Some transformations from the Exemplar power have been said to take at least a year to fully complete.
 Slow Transformation / int_4522fd1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_4522fd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Whateley Universe
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_4522fd1
 Slow Transformation / int_48a07ba5
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_48a07ba5
comment
Eustace in "The Chicken from Outer Space" after he eats one of the chicken's eggs, he begins to turn into a giant chicken, first his eyes turn red, then his arms turn into wings, his face becomes a beak, he grows feathers, and his feet become chicken feet.
 Slow Transformation / int_48a07ba5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_48a07ba5
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Chicken from Outer Space
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_48a07ba5
 Slow Transformation / int_4f82fde6
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_4f82fde6
comment
The monsters and face blocks from Eversion undergo this as you gradually evert from World X-1 to World X-8.
 Slow Transformation / int_4f82fde6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_4f82fde6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Eversion (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_4f82fde6
 Slow Transformation / int_543bfacd
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_543bfacd
comment
Dracula: Due to Dracula nightly visits to feed on Lucy, she becomes weaker over time and observes that her senses have suddenly become keener but she continues to have nightmares of dark beings. By the third visit, she's lost so much of her blood that her bite wounds eventually close up on their own, she gains fangs and her demeanor is uncharacteristically more seductive, signifying to Helsing it's too late to save her from becoming a vampire. Mina's transformation is slightly different due to Dracula feeding her his blood, cursing her to turn regardless if she stays alive or dies as long as he's alive. Indeed, she starts showing signs due to losing appetite for food, her canines slowly turning into fangs, sharing a psychic connection to Dracula and being unable to stay awake during the day but being much more lively at night.
 Slow Transformation / int_543bfacd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_543bfacd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dracula
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_543bfacd
 Slow Transformation / int_544333c5
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_544333c5
comment
In The Shadow Over Innsmouth, the inhabitants of Innsmouth are born as humans, but slowly turn into fishmen over the course of their lives.
 Slow Transformation / int_544333c5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_544333c5
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Shadow Over Innsmouth
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_544333c5
 Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
comment
Xanth: Threnody can take hours to do a full-body transformation with her innate shapeshifting, due to her human half slowing down her demonic half. However in Crewel Lye, when Jordan and Threnody swap bodies, he figures out that it's much faster if she shapeshifts only parts of her body at a time instead of everything at once.
 Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Xanth
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_5999b1ec
 Slow Transformation / int_6ac55ec7
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_6ac55ec7
comment
Dungeons & Dragons:
The "artifact transformations" — some artifacts gradually transform their users into "the proper owner" image — physically, mentally or both.
In WG5's Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, the Kaftan of Ogrishness slowly turns its wearer into an ogre over a period of three days.
In D3's Vault of the Drow, anyone possessing the idol of Lolth will, over 66 days, slowly turn into a giant spider.
Some 3.5th Edition Prestige Classes can transform gradually their adepts into another creature type, usually over 10 levels (which can take years of adventuring). Of course, in this case the transformation is entirely voluntary, and aim at providing more power.
Dragon Disciples are slowly turning into a half-dragon with every level. The epic variant of the class can further the process into a full dragon!
Green Star Adepts gradually become living constructs made of a green starmetal. The advantages are numerous, and although the final form carry some drawbacks, most importantly it allows the characters to become fully immortal.
 Slow Transformation / int_6ac55ec7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_6ac55ec7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_6ac55ec7
 Slow Transformation / int_6ae1d164
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_6ae1d164
comment
When Tash is infected in Galaxy of Fear, she starts off with a rash that, through that story, swells and spreads, sends off Tainted Veins, and she sweats and is unusually irritable. Then the rash starts oozing... then the ooze proves to be tendrils of the Blob Monster that she's turning into and moving about as the transformation speeds up. This is in a day or so.
 Slow Transformation / int_6ae1d164
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_6ae1d164
featureConfidence
1.0
 Galaxy of Fear
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_6ae1d164
 Slow Transformation / int_702a974
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_702a974
comment
The protagonist of Shadow of the Colossus gradually becomes battle-worn as he kills the Colossi. There is, eventually, an explanation for this.
 Slow Transformation / int_702a974
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_702a974
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shadow of the Colossus (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_702a974
 Slow Transformation / int_70da6e51
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_70da6e51
comment
This is the plot of some Goosebumps books:
Chicken Chicken: The main character and her brother are cursed by a witch to gradually transform into chickens after they're rude to her. It starts with the main character's lips becoming hard like a beak and her brother beginning to grow feathers; by the time they figure out how to get the witch to remove the curse, they've become fully transformed and need to peck at a typewriter to communicate with her.
My Hairiest Adventure: The main character, after trying out a strange lotion, starts growing dark fur on his hands that keeps coming back and spreading to the rest of his body no matter how often he shaves it off. While this is happening, he also spots several alarming signs that his friends are being transformed into dogs. It turns out that the lotion had nothing to do with his transformation; the real cause of it is that he and his friends were dogs who were transformed into humans for childless families to adopt and that transformation is slowly wearing off now.
Say Cheese and Die — Again!: The camera's curse makes the protagonist morbidly obese and his friend dangerously thin, with the weight gain/loss taking place gradually over a couple of days.
 Slow Transformation / int_70da6e51
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_70da6e51
featureConfidence
1.0
 Goosebumps
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_70da6e51
 Slow Transformation / int_73b4d4c1
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_73b4d4c1
comment
Call of Cthulhu: As Deep One hybrids are growing up they appear to be human. When they reach the appropriate age, they slowly change into Deep Ones and go off to join their fellows.
 Slow Transformation / int_73b4d4c1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_73b4d4c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_73b4d4c1
 Slow Transformation / int_76c6fb6f
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_76c6fb6f
comment
In Beastars, a hybrid child of two completely different species mature in a way similar to this, often an animal that looked more like one of their parents than the other will begin developing features of the other parent's species when they reach adulthood. Given the heavy social stigma that treats hybrids like freaks, the thought of physically hybridizing further is often treated like Body Horror for these characters.
 Slow Transformation / int_76c6fb6f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_76c6fb6f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Beastars (Manga)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_76c6fb6f
 Slow Transformation / int_774aac31
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_774aac31
comment
Wikus's transformation into a Prawn in District 9, to the point that he's become one entirely by the very end.
 Slow Transformation / int_774aac31
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_774aac31
featureConfidence
1.0
 District 9
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_774aac31
 Slow Transformation / int_7b2ce128
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_7b2ce128
comment
In Centaurworld, Horse goes through one once she enters Centaurworld, beginning with the ability to speak where she'd been "just" a regular war horse on the other side, and starts gaining cute, softer features and a talking tail. As the season progresses, she tries to return home before the changes go further or become permanent out of fear that Rider won't recognize her anymore. She finishes transforming before the reunion, gaining some magical powers in the process. It's quite traumatic at first, but she learns to adjust, and this is helped by Rider recognizing her despite the big visual changes.
 Slow Transformation / int_7b2ce128
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_7b2ce128
featureConfidence
1.0
 Centaurworld
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_7b2ce128
 Slow Transformation / int_7fbee60
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_7fbee60
comment
Played for drama in Beauty and the Beast. Instead of being transformed instantly as in the Disney movie, the inhabitants of the castle slowly change into objects — until they can no longer move, speak or even see. This change was made primarily to allow full-sized actors to play them.
 Slow Transformation / int_7fbee60
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_7fbee60
featureConfidence
1.0
 Beauty and the Beast (Theatre)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_7fbee60
 Slow Transformation / int_8132b616
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_8132b616
comment
The snail people in Uzumaki develop a spiral pattern on their backs, then start developing other, more horrific traits over the course of several days.
 Slow Transformation / int_8132b616
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_8132b616
featureConfidence
1.0
 Uzumaki (Manga)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_8132b616
 Slow Transformation / int_830d6c68
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_830d6c68
comment
The Haunted Ruins: The general shopkeeper slowly transforms from a seemingly innocent girl into an evil witch the deeper you venture into the dungeon. At first it looks like she just put on makeup, but then she gets Pointy Ears, her cashier uniform becomes a skimpy dress, and a tiara and pointy nose begin to gradually form on her. This transformation is mostly amusing to watch because of how she keeps on insisting that her changing appearance is all in your head and how you simply must show the fabled "Dark Orb" to her as soon as you find it.
 Slow Transformation / int_830d6c68
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_830d6c68
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Haunted Ruins (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_830d6c68
 Slow Transformation / int_8452a366
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_8452a366
comment
In The Cartoon Man, Roy's initial transformation into a human cartoon character takes several days.
 Slow Transformation / int_8452a366
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_8452a366
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Cartoon Man (Web Video)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_8452a366
 Slow Transformation / int_84beb6e1
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_84beb6e1
comment
In the Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection six-page short "The Hell of the Doll Funeral", a child contracts Early Onset Doll's Disease. She transforms first into something like a living doll, then into something that hopefully hasn't been a living anything for a long time.
 Slow Transformation / int_84beb6e1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_84beb6e1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_84beb6e1
 Slow Transformation / int_8e4d2a96
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_8e4d2a96
comment
In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, when Elders reach a certain age, their body begins to change to reflect their true nature. Abraham the Mage was turned into a golden statue, while still fully conscious.
 Slow Transformation / int_8e4d2a96
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_8e4d2a96
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_8e4d2a96
 Slow Transformation / int_90f1e8a2
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_90f1e8a2
comment
In Exiern, dragons are born looking like humans and gradually transform into their true forms after they mature. The protagonist's sidekick/like interest (she can't admit to more than that) Denver is a larval dragon, though he doesn't know it. His sister was well along in her transformation when she was last seen.
 Slow Transformation / int_90f1e8a2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_90f1e8a2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Exiern (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_90f1e8a2
 Slow Transformation / int_9320a31d
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_9320a31d
comment
The Round the Twist episode "Nails" starts with a distressed boy showing the protagonist he now has three rows of nails, and telling her he's turning into a monster. By the end of the episode, he has become a merman.
 Slow Transformation / int_9320a31d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_9320a31d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Round the Twist
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_9320a31d
 Slow Transformation / int_986e857e
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_986e857e
comment
The Omnitrix transformations are usually instantaneous, but in an episode of the original run of Ben 10, Ben is bitten by a werewolf— erm— that is, a wolf-like alien activates the scanning function of the Omnitrix, and it takes him roughly 1-2 hours to transform into Blitzwolfer.
 Slow Transformation / int_986e857e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_986e857e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ben 10
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_986e857e
 Slow Transformation / int_9c632773
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_9c632773
comment
The Golds: It is casually mentioned that nonhuman curse-victims and magical creatures in Storybrooke like Katja and Ruby started exhibiting their pre-Storybrooke traits slowly after the curse was broken.
 Slow Transformation / int_9c632773
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_9c632773
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Golds (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_9c632773
 Slow Transformation / int_9df1f45c
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_9df1f45c
comment
The Fly II, the sequel to The Fly (1986) above, is about Seth's Spin-Offspring Martin. Because Martin was born with insect-human hybrid genes and is at least 75% human on the whole, when the insect side finally begins to show it unfolds over a few days. By the time he's looking his humanoid worst he's forming a chrysalis, and once it's finished the rest of the transformation happens offscreen.
 Slow Transformation / int_9df1f45c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_9df1f45c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Fly II
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_9df1f45c
 Slow Transformation / int_ac6b386d
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_ac6b386d
comment
Skullgirls:
This happens to Filia during her ending: Upon finding the Skull Heart, she wishes for Painwheel to return to normal, a seemingly pure wish that should be granted without problem by the Skull Heart.note If the Skull Heart decides your wish is impure, you become the next Skullgirl. However, the Skull Heart finds that her motivations are not entirely selfless: Filia's wish is partially motivated by her desire to atone for her actions during her life as a member of Medici family. As a result, poor Filia is next in line for the title of Skullgirl, but since the wish was not entirely selfish, the transformation is not instant, allowing her to at least enjoy life with her childhood friend for a while.
A similar thing happens in Parasoul's ending. In order to save her sister, Umbrella, from becoming the next Skullgirl, she wishes that Umbrella will never become the Skullgirl. The Skull Heart grants the wish by Making Parasoul take her place. The transformation is slow enough for her to train Umbrella to defeat her when she finally turns.
 Slow Transformation / int_ac6b386d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_ac6b386d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Skullgirls (Video Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_ac6b386d
 Slow Transformation / int_b0fc9724
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_b0fc9724
comment
Three nights after a fly spent a good two minutes on Vice President Mike Pence's head during the 2020 Vice Presidential debate, Saturday Night Live addressed the incident in The Teaser of the October 10, 2020 episode by way of a parody of The Fly (1986): Midway through the debate, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden (Jim Carrey), watching from home, decides to disrupt the show by teleporting to it in a not-yet-perfected telepod. Aided by doctored clips from the movie, he ends up not only merged with a fly but also undergoing a cutaway-aided transformation into... Jeff Goldblum. As he mocks the Republican party, his hair turns black and stringy, he paraphrases Jurassic Park (1993), hypes Apartments.com, and even gains a pair of Nerd Glasses! (This was effectively the show's acknowledgement of online outcry for the real Goldblum to parody one of his most famous roles, an unfulfillable request because he was in England shooting Jurassic World Dominion.)
 Slow Transformation / int_b0fc9724
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_b0fc9724
featureConfidence
1.0
 Saturday Night Live
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_b0fc9724
 Slow Transformation / int_b4709254
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_b4709254
comment
TV Tropes: Our own page description for SelfDemonstrating.Sugar Bowl.
 Slow Transformation / int_b4709254
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_b4709254
featureConfidence
1.0
 TV Tropes (Website)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_b4709254
 Slow Transformation / int_b8d10cf1
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_b8d10cf1
comment
Dracula: Ruler of the Night: As in the novel, Lucy goes through gaining fangs and having sharper senses. But here Helsing notices her ears are likewise becoming more misshapen to add to the symptoms. By the time she turns, they're completely pointed. When Mina is bitten, she likewise gains this as an added symptom as well as her normally short hair starting to grow out down her shoulders as a surprisingly increasing rate.
 Slow Transformation / int_b8d10cf1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_b8d10cf1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dracula: Ruler of the Night (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_b8d10cf1
 Slow Transformation / int_bc320089
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_bc320089
comment
Atmosfear: The third and fourth Nightmare games are hosted by female historical figures who start out as beautiful young women and slowly morph into hideous monsters the longer the game goes on; a warty witch in the third game's case, and a bat-human hybrid in the fourth game's case.
 Slow Transformation / int_bc320089
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_bc320089
featureConfidence
1.0
 Atmosfear (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_bc320089
 Slow Transformation / int_bef4b763
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_bef4b763
comment
In Lost in Space, Dr. Smith receives a spider bite — two decades later, he's transformed into a huge spider creature.
 Slow Transformation / int_bef4b763
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_bef4b763
featureConfidence
1.0
 Lost in Space
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_bef4b763
 Slow Transformation / int_c0649f52
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c0649f52
comment
In The Cat Returns, the protagonist becomes more catlike the longer she remains Trapped in Another World.
 Slow Transformation / int_c0649f52
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c0649f52
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Cat Returns
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c0649f52
 Slow Transformation / int_c095f21d
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c095f21d
comment
In Simoun, everyone is born female and upon turning seventeen go to a mystical spring where they choose to either remain female or become male. For those who choose to become male the process is a Slow Transformation. For example, head mechanic Wapōrif went to the spring and became male two years before the series but still has the biggest bust in the series.
 Slow Transformation / int_c095f21d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c095f21d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Simoun
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c095f21d
 Slow Transformation / int_c1001707
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c1001707
comment
The werewolves of the Ginger Snaps films transform slowly into wolflike creatures, over the course of days or weeks.
 Slow Transformation / int_c1001707
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c1001707
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ginger Snaps
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c1001707
 Slow Transformation / int_c593876f
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c593876f
comment
The Halloween episode of That's So Raven has Raven and Chelsea slowly turning into cows over the course of the episode. While their physique is human, they get cow ears, tails, snouts, hooves, tongues, and also start eating and mooing like them. At the end of the episode they are completely transformed, but it is revealed that it was actually one of Raven's visions that she manages to prevent from happening.
 Slow Transformation / int_c593876f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c593876f
featureConfidence
1.0
 That's So Raven
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c593876f
 Slow Transformation / int_c7f59f7d
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c7f59f7d
comment
In Teen Titans, when Raven was being influenced by her father's power, it affected her appearance slowly, giving her more gaunt angular features and a taller forehead until she fell under his sway and turned on the team (the first time it happened).
 Slow Transformation / int_c7f59f7d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c7f59f7d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teen Titans (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c7f59f7d
 Slow Transformation / int_c99a095b
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_c99a095b
comment
Black Sheep (2007): The transformation into a were-sheep starts out as this, as the initial changes are gradual once a host is infected by The Virus, but then the changes suddenly speed up toward the end.
 Slow Transformation / int_c99a095b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_c99a095b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Black Sheep (2007)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_c99a095b
 Slow Transformation / int_d279b142
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_d279b142
comment
Say Cheese and Die — Again!: The camera's curse makes the protagonist morbidly obese and his friend dangerously thin, with the weight gain/loss taking place gradually over a couple of days.
 Slow Transformation / int_d279b142
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_d279b142
featureConfidence
1.0
 Say Cheese and Die — Again!
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_d279b142
 Slow Transformation / int_e0730aee
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e0730aee
comment
In Dr. Franklin's Island, some of Semi and Miranda's bone marrow is removed and the DNA doctored with various kinds of animal DNA, then implanted in them. It takes about ten days for either of them to start to feel odd and almost an entire month for any changes to become visible, starting with Miranda losing a tooth. After that it speeds up and in another ten days a horribly twisted Miranda is taken away into a lab, and it's not stated how long it actually takes for her to become a bird.
 Slow Transformation / int_e0730aee
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e0730aee
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dr. Franklin's Island
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e0730aee
 Slow Transformation / int_e07a6d8d
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e07a6d8d
comment
Chicken Chicken: The main character and her brother are cursed by a witch to gradually transform into chickens after they're rude to her. It starts with the main character's lips becoming hard like a beak and her brother beginning to grow feathers; by the time they figure out how to get the witch to remove the curse, they've become fully transformed and need to peck at a typewriter to communicate with her.
 Slow Transformation / int_e07a6d8d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e07a6d8d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Chicken Chicken
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e07a6d8d
 Slow Transformation / int_e40d0ab2
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e40d0ab2
comment
The Alchemist's transformation into Skeleton King from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! falls under this category. Fortunately, it gave him just enough time to turn his pet monkeys into the Hyperforce. What wasn't shown until "Golden Age" though, was that he was slowly aging. These were his last chilling words as he became Skeleton King:
 Slow Transformation / int_e40d0ab2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e40d0ab2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e40d0ab2
 Slow Transformation / int_e5c5bc22
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e5c5bc22
comment
GURPS:
In the Space Adventures adventure "Rebirth", a genetic virus called Proteus can slowly change a human being into an alien.
In Fantasy Folk, a Fishmen artifact can slowly change its user into a Fishman.
 Slow Transformation / int_e5c5bc22
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e5c5bc22
featureConfidence
1.0
 GURPS (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e5c5bc22
 Slow Transformation / int_e7040124
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e7040124
comment
Pokéumans: The transformation into a Pokeuman takes a whole week. And is irreversible.
 Slow Transformation / int_e7040124
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e7040124
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pokéumans (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e7040124
 Slow Transformation / int_e75c6d45
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e75c6d45
comment
In Goblins, Complains is targeted by a magical effect that tries to turn him into a demon. It's quickly dispelled, but every time he's badly injured, he heals with more demonic features: black blood, a demon arm, Glowing Eyes of Doom, horns, and so on.
 Slow Transformation / int_e75c6d45
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e75c6d45
featureConfidence
1.0
 Goblins (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e75c6d45
 Slow Transformation / int_e8c99436
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e8c99436
comment
The Project Dark Jade fanfic Webwork has Jade change into a Jorōgumo over the course of 8 years.
 Slow Transformation / int_e8c99436
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e8c99436
featureConfidence
1.0
 Project Dark Jade / Fan Fic
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e8c99436
 Slow Transformation / int_e93b2f62
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_e93b2f62
comment
The page image charts the progression of Seth Brundle's horrific transformation in The Fly (1986), the result of a Teleporter Accident fusing him genetically with a housefly. In the first few days strange hairs start growing out of healing wounds on his back and his face becomes progressively blotchier, but because he is also becoming Drunk with Power over the amazing physical stamina and strength he now has (which he credits to his teleporter "purifying" him) he doesn't begin to worry until his fingernails start coming off, revealing that the fingers are oozing pus, whereupon he consults the computer record of his teleportation and learns what's actually happening to him. A month later, his skin is completely disfigured and the human body parts his final form will have no need of begin falling off, starting with his ears. The Body Horror climaxes with what remains of his decaying human skin being wrenched apart as his true mutant fly form emerges. The film may well be the Trope Codifier for media aside from literature.
 Slow Transformation / int_e93b2f62
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_e93b2f62
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Fly (1986)
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_e93b2f62
 Slow Transformation / int_ee7a57a2
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_ee7a57a2
comment
In Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, having sex causes the women of McDonaldland to start transforming into wolves. This happens anytime they have sex, and it is irreversible.
 Slow Transformation / int_ee7a57a2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_ee7a57a2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_ee7a57a2
 Slow Transformation / int_f4163996
type
Slow Transformation
 Slow Transformation / int_f4163996
comment
People turning into donkeys in The Adventures of Pinocchio. In the original story, it takes several days for the first part of the change (the ears) to occur.
 Slow Transformation / int_f4163996
featureApplicability
1.0
 Slow Transformation / int_f4163996
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Adventures of Pinocchio
hasFeature
Slow Transformation / int_f4163996

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Slow Transformation
processingCategory2
Horror Tropes
 Slow Transformation
processingCategory2
Speculative Fiction Tropes
 Hellish Bells (Fanfic) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Pokérus (Fanfic) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Pokéumans (Fanfic) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Titan's Blessing (Fanfic) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Blue My Mind / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Disenchanted (2022) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Mr. Jones (2013) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Fly (1986) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 A Tale of... / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Dr. Franklin's Island / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Dracula / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Shivers / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Buzzing Death / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Kingston Cycle / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Shadow Over Innsmouth / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Xanth / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Uzumaki (Manga) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Extinct / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 That's So Raven / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Backbone (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Corruption Expanded (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Diablo II (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Eversion (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Friday Night Funkin': Corruption (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Kentucky Route Zero (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Kittens Game (Video Game) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 Diabolik Lovers (Visual Novel) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Cartoon Man (Web Video) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 [un]Divine (Webcomic) / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Addams Family 2 / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation
 The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 / int_eb5ab60f
type
Slow Transformation