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Transformation Is a Free Action

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Transformation Is a Free Action	comment	Why are you just standing there? She's totally going to kick your ass when she's done transforming. Oooooh! You're doing that thing where you're being uncharacteristically chivalrous even though you just murdered her entire defenseless family for some cheap laughs. Well, it's your funeral, buddy. This is where a character will obligingly wait for another character to finish his transformation before proceeding to bloody murder. This is separate from a Transformation Sequence in that while the sequence can be ignored, in this case it IS ignored. Characters may have several reasons for doing this. They have thus far been able to curbstomp their opponent previously and are looking for a decent challenge. They think their opponent is hopelessly outmatched even transformed. They may be wary of trying to attack someone surrounded by a glowing aura. They are trying to turn them with a "Not So Different" Remark. They are trying to expose their Superpowered Evil Side. They have enough honor to not strike the opponent who is especially getting ready for the fight. The character in question has a Hero Secret Service or Some Kind of Force Field for these situations. The character is a sadistic bastard and wants to drag the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Curb-Stomp Battle out as long as possible. The character is Distracted by the Sexy if the transformation involves some degree of Fanservice, especially if the process in doing so apparently briefly nudifies the transformer in the process. The character who's currently transforming has already beaten their opponent sufficiently so that they won't be able to mount any meaningful attack against them until they're done changing form. There is a massive power spike. The character will meet his end if he uses a melee attack during the brief flash or watch as his attacks burn away harmlessly.note This, by the way, was what was proposed by a Japanese physicist named Yanagita Rikao, who analyzed the depicted effects of a magical girl transformation, determined how much energy these would take to accomplish, and argued that the amount is so vastâ€”21 times the total energy output of Japanâ€”that the real reason they're never attacked is because any attacker would be instantly annihilated! Most often though, the transformation really is a Free Action in that it effectively takes near zero time in-universe. Some content even explains it takes fractions of a second, and the extended transformation sequence showcased is simply an exaggeration to fill up time and/or Pandering to the Base. Whatever the case may be, it ultimately comes down to the character being Genre Blind, and it rarely works out in their favor. Overall, whether you're okay with this trope or not reflects your stance on Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Even if the villains attempt to attack the hero mid-transformation, usually a magical barrier of some sort knocks weapons, attacks, and even bodies away. This most commonly happens with the Henshin Hero, though there are a few other examples outside of this. Works that don't normally feature a Henshin Hero as a protagonist sometimes parody this by having a nameless extra being shot and killed in the middle of transforming. When a straight example of a Henshin Hero subverts this trope however, it tends to take the form of making the initial triggering of the transformation the part that can be interrupted instead of the sequence proper, so whilst the transformation itself is a free action, pulling out the Transformation Trinket and activating it isn't. Sub-trope of Transformation Sequence. Compare Distracting Disambiguation, Talking Is a Free Action. Somewhat related to Mook Chivalry.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_10b219a9	comment	Goku wonders why he lets villains do this in Revenge of Cooler Abridged.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1331990c	comment	Transformations in Puella Magi Madoka Magica are relatively short, and we can see on Episode 10 that they are instantaneous. Apparently, the eye candy scenes are for the viewer only.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_14eb91c0	comment	Used without much in the way of explanation in the Shadow Hearts series. Harmonixers, such as Yuri, can transform without using up their turn... you can even revert to human from a demonic form, transform into a DIFFERENT demon, peruse its attacks and decide that none of them are any good, revert again, pick a third demon-form, and THEN unleash one of its attacks — all while the monsters are patiently waiting for you to just get it over with already...
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1682583	comment	Justified with the Asshimar in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, which uses magnetic coating allowing it to transform in less than a second.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_16bd0208	comment	Netflix preschool show Super Monsters has sequences of this kind where the kids turn into monsters and then turn back into humans. To make matters worse, these two sequences take up a major chunk of each episode.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_187d570a	comment	In Devil May Cry 4, even when Trish completely changes her appearance from that of Gloria, it is all done in the blink of an eye. Regardless, the other person near her at that time is Dante, who doesn't bother to attack her because they're allies.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_18aecd47	comment	The same thing happened in UFO Warrior Dai Apolon when the Monster of the Week brings miniature flying robotic bugs on the combine ports of the individual units. When they try to combine, the bugs explode, interrupting the combination sequence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_19281dcc	comment	Magical Girl Hunters occasionally averts it. Yoi and Itami don't shoot the girls prior to transformation and are loath to do so during because it's bad business, making them look like they're gunning down innocent (and briefly nude) young girls. However, this has been how they've gotten the drop on a number of their targets and many of the rest they plug in the moment right after transformation when they're still catching their balance.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Though usually played absolutely straight in Digimon, in the movie "Our War Game", Infermon is smart enough to attack Greymon and Kabuterimon before they can finish digivolving. Later in the movie, when he's already fighting WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, he Digivolves to Diaboromon and immobilizes Patamon before he can Digivolve and give him someone else to have to fight. Lampshaded in Abridgimon: The aforementioned subversion took place in the internet, where Infermon was particularly adapted. Normally, the sequence is instant to outside observers. Digimon Adventure: (2020) has Digivolutions mostly take place in real time instead of using stock footage (with the exception of Agumon from episode 4 on). In the very first episode, Agumon stops his enemy's attack mid-Digivolution and completes the transformation to Greymon while restraining the enemy at the same time.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1ad9726b	comment	The fan-made Hunter: The Vigil supplement Dark and Light, which develops how Hunters interact with Princesses, includes a sidebar mentioning some hunters did try to avert this trope in the earlier days- only to find out that, as mentioned above, the Hopeful transform way faster than in anime.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach transformations are almost never interrupted and there's no real good explanation as to why. Except for Byakuya Kuchiki getting his Senbonzakura halted by Yoruichi in the middle of transformation, and being forced to block one of Renji's attacks before he could release his shikai. Grimmjow Jeagerjaques was also a very unlucky guy. He tried transforming twice before his final battle with Ichigo, but he is first interrupted by Tousen, and later by Ulquiorra. In both cases, Grimmjow was stopped before he could finish his activation phrase, rather than having the transformation itself interrupted. When Nelliel started transforming, Nnoitra went "Oh, Crap!" and tried to attack her, but her Battle Aura knocked him back. While Tesra is beating the crap out of Ichigo, Ichigo sees Nnoitra threatening Orihime. He gets angry, starts to get a Heroic Second Wind, and starts powering up. Tesra suddenly breaks his arm, crippling him with pain and cutting his power up off. While technically it wasn't stopping the transformation, Soifon managed to land two lethal strikes on Ggio Vega while he was busy activating his final form. Aizen's "transformation" after fusing with the Hogyoku averts this to the extreme, taking a very long time to completely during which everyone feels free to attack him (not that most of the attacks do anything).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1eb6c857	comment	Transformers: Fall of Cybertron justifies it with Metroplex. He's so big that Decepticon mooks fall right off while he's transforming for at least 30 seconds. A Warp Cannon might have stopped it though.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1f630f72	comment	More like "Resurrection is a Free Action" in Dark Souls III with the Twin Princes boss. After taking down Lorian, his younger brother Lothric teleports to his side and gives a lengthy speech before casting a spell to bring Lorian back. The Ashen One does nothing while this happens. Averted with further revives which take place during the boss fight itself, allowing the player to wail on Lothric as he casts the spell.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_1ff419c5	comment	Played straight in Kingdom Hearts II, where transformations (or Drive Forms as they're called in-game) on Sora's part are not only instantaneous, they hurl enemies back and deal damage. Downplayed in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Each playable character's command styles (equivalent to KH2's forms) only takes about a second to activate, and during the switch, you're invincible. However, enemies can and will attack you just after the transformation (while you're still mostly helpless), which can really screw you up if you were damaged to begin with and just about to heal (unlike in KH2, command styles don't heal you for free when they activate). Played straight if your load times are slowed down for whatever reason . After the transformation starts, enemies just kind of lounge around you for the 15 or so seconds it takes to finish.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_24a053d1	comment	Ressha Sentai ToQger does it in the most hilarious way yet: when the ToQgers start their Transformation Sequence, their ToQ Changers announce: "Commencing transformation! Please wait behind the white line!" ...and they actually summon a white line. Which the monsters keep themselves from crossing. There have been a few cases where someone has not gotten behind the white line fast enough. Civilians are nudged gently across it, but monsters are violently flung across, so it's partially justified. There is a reason for the white line: the flying trains that are part of the transformation for the helmet will smack anyone dumb enough to cross the white line HARD. As the Lion Inves from the crossover special found out the hard way. Since the series is aimed (more so than most) at small children, the Aesop being, even bad guys wait behind the white line when a train is coming.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_25d10644	comment	The Guyver's transformation pretty much can't be stopped because it creates a massive Sphere of Destruction. It also takes place rather quickly. Yoshiki Takaya is a major Kamen Rider fan, so this may be an intentional Lampshade Hanging.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_280423b4	comment	Friendship Is Magical Girls, being a homage to the Magical Girl genre, naturally has this, though it's played with. Each girl's transformation sequence is only described the first time they use it, though it's implied to happen each time, and for the same amount of time. And even then, it's subverted a couple of times: In Magic 7, Trixie sweeps in and steals the girls' Transformation Trinkets when they're in the middle of using them, stopping the process. In Loyalty 6, at the start of Pinkie's fight with Bellosto, he charges her, and she shouts out her transformation cry really fast, giving the implication that she's speeding through it to avoid getting hit.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_28508de	comment	The girls of Winx Club are never interrupted during their transformations. One episode of season 4 even parodies this when the wizards stand around and Ogron comments, "This silly dance again?", though it does show that transformation takes a few seconds at most.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_28dbacc7	comment	Patternist: Zig-zagged with Anyanwu the Biomancer. She can transform instantaneously in an emergency, but it's agonizing for her and leaves her almost insane with hunger, so she prefers to take her time when she's shifting to a different human or animal form.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne is probably the best about averting this. Most transformations happen during the fight and the player can get a few hits in before an area effect attack knocks you back. But there are exceptions, such as Ludwig's speech while changing into his Holy Blade persona.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug averts the trope by making the actual Transformation Sequence take a matter of seconds both onscreen and in-universe, and by making a point of having the eponymous Ladybug and her partner put some effort into making sure nobody sees them. Not that this stops Adrien striking a dramatic pose when he transforms into Cat Noir, but that's probably for his own amusement. Not surprisingly given his fondness for hamming it up, Hawk Moth has one that's even more spectacular. On occasion, the transformation sequence can be cut to instantaneous when required, such as when Marinette is falling from a great height in "Weredad".
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_2d2d17de	comment	Lampshaded in Power Rangers Turbo episode "Shadow Rangers", by Chromite. Chromite fired at them while they morphed, causing the powers to leave them and form the evil Shadow Rangers.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: A mage's combat transformation is pretty elaborate (especially for female mages), taking up almost a minute of screen time. However, as shown as early as the second episode, the in-universe transformation time is a couple of seconds and the transformation creates a barrier. The second Monster of the Week actually attacked Nanoha while she was transforming. He went 'tink!' On two separate occasions in A's, Vita attacks Nanoha before she can transform. The first time, she resumes immediately after Nanoha finishes transforming, before she can even get her bearings back. The second time, Nanoha strolls Out of the Inferno fully-transformed, to Vita's utter shock. In the first episode of StrikerS, Hayate transforms on-screen in mid-stride without missing a beat, with glowing particles breaking away from her barrier jacket as she runs towards the action.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann completely averts it with the last major transformation of the series, which takes about one episode while all hell is breaking loose around.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Averted in Naruto where most transformations are almost instantaneous, and the few that aren't (Gaara's partial Shukaku transformation) happen gradually and clearly in real time. Also, even though Naruto using his Superpowered Evil Side is pretty quick, Sasuke was able to put him under a genjutsu that forced him out of it right as he was using it.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3167d0b9	comment	Averted in one episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) where Prince Adam is actually attacked and interrupted when he's in the middle of calling forth The Power of Greyskull, (Theme Music Powerup and all).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3209fad1	comment	Played straight in Mabinogi in that any of the many character transformations give you invincibility during the transformation sequence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: During their first encounter in the sewers, Bradley cuts off Greed's arm and manage to capture him before Greed could attempt to transform his entire body into protective armor. Notably, the transformation only takes a second or two and doesn't immobilize Greed at all, so interruption shouldn't be an issue; Bradley is just that fast. Ed tricks Zampano into transforming from his chimera form into his human form by claiming that he can't trust that they're on the same side due to not having seen him before. When Zampano takes the bait and transforms, Ed bashes him on the head and mocks him for falling for it; Ed's goal all along was to stop Zampano and his partner from capturing or killing Scar before Ed could get to him. Played straight with Envy, since their transformations are usually fast and thus don't really give their opponent an advantage. However, subverted when Hawkeye sees through Envy's Mustang guise, and shoots them as they revert back.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_33028c13	comment	Max in Max Steel (2013) emits a forcefield when transforming, preventing interruption.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_353699d6	comment	In DmC: Devil May Cry, Dante's Devil Trigger slows down time and sends any Mook or Elite Mook floating in the air while it's active, making it impossible for them to interrupt him in the first place.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_359b115d	comment	Kamen Rider Zero-One lampshades the trope when it cuts away during one particularly lengthy transformation to show the villain really is just standing there waiting for it to finish. It takes so long, in fact, that he starts impatiently tapping his fingers. The movie actually averts this, as the villain actively attacks Aruto and sends him flying several blocks the instant he tries to start his transformation, to the point where the bits of the suit appear where Aruto initially was and then desperately chase after him trying to form Zero One before he ends up splattered all over the pavement several streets over. It's only partially sucessful at that, as enough of the suit forms to keep him from getting too badly injured after he smashes into a car but he's still knocked unconsious before the transformation is complete. The next time he confronts the villain, he waits until the villains own transformation is dropped, and they both transform at the same time having no choice but to allow their opponent to also do so.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_362d7cc3	comment	Spoofed and subverted in an episode of Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero that spoofed a lot of anime tropes. Sashi took on the role of the magical girl, complete with a transformation sequence...that lasts so long that she ends up boring the audience and getting disqualified from the fighting tournament the team is participating in.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_396f7764	comment	Averted in Vow of the King when Uryu first shoots at Tesra as the latter tries to transform, then severs his zanpakuto so he can't transform at all.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3a35fcc8	comment	In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, Super Kirby Clash and Kirby Fighters 2, this is applied to bosses. As each boss enters their second phase, they are completely invincible, shrugging off any attack until they complete their transformation. Their health bars in Kirby's Return to Dream Land and the bosses themselves in all the other games additionally glow to signify their invincibility. Most other Kirby games downplay this by allowing you to inflict Scratch Damage while the bosses transition to their second phases, with this defense buff wearing off once they complete their transformation.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3a64aba3	comment	The Shantae series: Shantae (2002) averts this. If the player gets attacked while attempting a transformation dance, she needs to start over. However, the sequel, Shantae: Risky's Revenge, plays this straight. While performing a dance, everything in the background (including the enemies) will pause.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Animagus transformations are heavily implied (and confirmed in the movies) to be almost instantaneous so they never get interrupted. When Lupin transforms into his wolf form everyone is too paralyzed with horror to do anything. Justified with Voldemort's resurrection, there were four people in the graveyard that night: one was killed before the ritual began, the second was tied to a grave, the third was... indisposed due to his... contribution to the ritual and the fourth and last was Voldemort himself so of course it goes unimpeded.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3b9dab71	comment	Usually played straight in Cutey Honey, but not always, as in the original manga and a few other versions Honey can and will attack the enemy during her own transformation sequence. Justified by Honey's nature: straddling the line between Artificial Human and android and having inside herself a device that destroys and recreates things, including her clothes, literally from thin air, Honey acquires the power to fight at the start of the sequence while she's getting stripped naked, the rest is the clothes and items of the form being created, and she's pragmatic enough to punch them in the split second they're distracted from her suddenly getting naked.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3ccddc64	comment	Subverted in Virtuosity: while the Nanomachine-powered Big Bad is attempting to go One-Winged Angel, the hero yanks out his CPU.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3d675ac1	comment	Played straight and averted in Claymade's The Dark Lords Ascendant, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune transform right in front of Ryouga and Ukyou when it becomes clear they already know their identities. They don't attack partially because they intend to fight them as Senshi...and because Ryouga turned his back when the sequence left them naked briefly. Later when a group of mercenaries come for Hotaru, Haruka begins her activation phrase, but one of the mercs shoots her before she can finish it.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in this Penny Arcade strip.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Zig-zagged in Attack on Titan. When Eren attempts to transform in the presence of enemies, they take immediate or preventative measures to prevent him from doing so, and usually are successful. When enemy Shifters transform, all the protagonists attack with lethal force to stop them, and usually fail. Averted with Lara Tybur's first transformation into the War Hammer Titan. While her Titan body is still in the process of forming, Eren attacks her, punching her in her fleshy face, knocking her to the ground, and continuing to relentlessly pummel her afterwards. Also, in general, when a Titan Shifter begins to transform, most people cannot attack during so due to the large release of hot steam and a burst of energy, which is almost akin to lightning. So, unless you're a Titan, any human close to the Shifter would either be blown away or cooked by the steam and energy. Colt Grice ends up being killed when his brother Falco, who's standing next to him, is involuntarily turned into a Titan, while Eren handcuffs Pieck to a hostage in order to discourage her from transforming.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_3f905e64	comment	During the Final OVA, Palpareppa allows Guy to perform Final Fusion into GaoFaiGar before him uninterrupted, as he wanted to allow Guy a chance to fight him on an even footing before crushing him. In a later episode, he appears to allow Guy in the restored GaiGar complete Final Fusion into Genesic GaoGaiGar even though he expresses shock at the Genesic Gao Machines revealing themselves.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_411acd6e	comment	The Wonderful 101 justifies this, in a sequence parodying Space Sheriff Gavan (see Live-Action TV): transformation is not a free action — it takes three billionths of a second. Yes, really.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_41951ee2	comment	Considering how much Godannar enjoys playing with anime-tropes, it comes as no great surprise that Dannar and Okusaer can perform their minute-long combination into Godannar, literally while the enemies are in mid-jump.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_42c17ca1	comment	As a general rule, in Power Rangers, even if we admit the transformation itself is instantaneous, initiating it is sometimes easy interruptible. Think about Power Rangers in Space, in which the Rangers had to press 3 or 4 keys on their morphers. Additionally, Rangers often have post transformation callouts where they'll do some sort of move and call out their color and/or theme. Power Rangers Wild Force was big on this. While the post transformation sequence wasn't always used, it tended to get used for the most dangerous fights.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_44127c7c	comment	It actually varies in the Japanese series. Sometimes there are long dramatic transformation sequences, and others the transforming happens instantly. As with Power Rangers, it apparently actually looks like the in-scene morphs to the other characters. It comes into play more, though, during Transformers: Cybertron, as dialogue is inserted into Stock Footage sequences to make them more interesting. It largely works, but sometimes there are oddities like Optimus going to Super Mode, combining with Leobreaker, and explaining their role in Vector Prime's larger plan, all while Teleport Spam user Sideways is in mid-teleport and hasn't reappeared yet.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_44a5d8c0	comment	Easily defeating the Doppelganger boss in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse relies on this trope. Changing your active character will cause the Doppelganger to transform into that character. For you, transforming (well, technically changing lead characters) is a free action. For the Doppelganger, it is not.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_44b3af49	comment	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie: Amusingly subverted in the first morph sequence, where the mooks the rangers were fighting used the length of the Transformation Sequence to run away and set up an ambush. The best part of the scene is how, after the transformation sequence and pose-striking, the Rangers act completely mystified as to where the mooks went. Later in the movie, the Rangers suit up in their new "Ninjetti" outfits and announce their animal spirits. They just make it to the end of the role call before one of the mooks lobs a spear at Aisha's head. "The Bear — WHOA!"
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_467c89f7	comment	Super Dimension Fortress Macross plays it pretty straight — of course, this is because Variable Fighters transform lightning-fast, leaving very little if any opportunity to attack mid-transformation (and indeed, successful VF tactics involve transforming into whatever form is most suited to the present moment on the fly). The beauty-shot transformation sequences of Roy Focker's VF-0 in Macross Zero and others are explicitly done in Bullet Time. Justified when the SDF-1 Macross goes from her usual spaceship form to a kilometers-long robot to use the main gun for the first time in that not only the Zentraedi were trying to capture the ship and thus were holding back, they had no idea what was happening or even why, and even later they wondered why they had done it because, for all they knew, the only difference was that the Macross' cruising speed was now lower.note The ship's fold drive had disappeared due a botched fold, and since the energy conduit from the reactors to the main gun passed through the fold drive they had to rearrange the ship to fire
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_46a8acf7	comment	An aversion occurs in chapter 19 of Digimon Trinity; Mephistomon attacks Veemon while he's in the midst of digivolving to prevent him and Stingmon from DNA digivolving.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_46aac2a3	comment	In Elden Ring, the fight with Godrick the Grafted pauses once you get his health down to 50%, so he can spend a solid minute cutting off an arm and replacing it with a dragon's head while the Tarnished just watches.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_483044b3	comment	Played with for all its worth in Gundam Build Fighters Try. The Winning/Star Winning Gundam is an SD with multiple forms and many opponents will try to take potshots at it. However, the Gundam Trion 3 does its amazing Super Robot transformation... and stuns everyone stupid because of it. In the latter case, it turns out the maker had a barrier set up to ensure no one can attack the Tryon 3 during the transformation sequence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_49ad83ee	comment	The nature of World of Warcraft transformation ranges all over, from the transformation happening instantly, everyone being unable to attack for no adequately explained reason, the boss making itself temporarily invulnerable, the boss incapacitating everyone before transforming, the transformation period being an excellent time to beat them up without resistance, to being able to stop them transforming at all by killing them or disrupting the spell. High Priest Thekal in Zul'Gurub, after being defeated in the first phase, yells "Shrivallah, fill me with your rage!" before transforming and replenishing his life bar, and the players cannot attack him while he transforms. The Reliquary of Souls (a large three-faced orb) in The Black Temple retreats inside a cage-like shell made out of bone for a few seconds while switching to its next face. The Devourer of Souls, a boss with the same model, shifts faces instantly and without warning, though. M'uru cannot be attacked during his transformation to Entropius, but this gives the raid valuable time to kill any remaining adds before the start of Phase 2. Averted with Moorabi in Gundrak; the transformation is a spell that can be interrupted, and the players get an achievement if they defeat him without him transforming. Justified with Professor Putricide in Icecrown Citadel, who uses Tear Gas to immobilize the raid while he runs over and drinks a potion.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4ab17360	comment	Likewise averted in Inuyasha, whose transformations to and from his human mode were involuntary, and only took a heartbeat, although the dramatic representation in the anime usually took about three times as long as the transformation itself took. Notable is that InuYasha rarely cut himself any slack just because he was in human form, once he started accumulating True Companions.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4b2c1779	comment	Played with in Power Rangers Megaforce. On the occasion where the villains try to attack the Rangers while they're transforming or preparing the Super Mega Cannon, the Rangers will use their Ranger Power to endure the hit or the resulting explosion from the attack will just make their transformation more dramatic.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4b790c7a	type	Transformation Is a Free Action
Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4b790c7a	comment	Justified in Iron Man 2. During the race track fight scene, Ivan Vanko waits for Tony Stark to get into his portable Iron Man costume. Justified because Vanko's aim is not to kill Stark but to discredit the Iron Man weapon and show off the power of his own suit.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4b790c7b	comment	Subverted in Iron Man 3. As Stark calls in his Mark 42 armor to help him fight Extremis-powered Killian, his opponent just stands by cockily, having already ripped through a dozen Iron Man armors and fearing no threat from this one. But instead, Stark wasn't suiting up at all, but calling 42 to trap Killian inside then self-destruct.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4be3aedd	type	Transformation Is a Free Action
Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4be3aedd	comment	Subverted by the Rangers themselves in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. While the transformation itself couldn't be stopped, the monsters once managed to attack Tommy while he was reaching for his morpher, and he needed to be rescued by all the others to recover it. Lampshaded in Power Rangers Turbo episode "Shadow Rangers", by Chromite. Chromite fired at them while they morphed, causing the powers to leave them and form the evil Shadow Rangers. Played with in Power Rangers Megaforce. On the occasion where the villains try to attack the Rangers while they're transforming or preparing the Super Mega Cannon, the Rangers will use their Ranger Power to endure the hit or the resulting explosion from the attack will just make their transformation more dramatic.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4d659d00	comment	Any purge transformation in Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel. Quite often justified as the enemies are busy attacking their bodyguards... or perhap both them and The Hero are just being Distracted by the Sexy?
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_4f091b42	comment	During the final battle in Tiger & Bunny 2, Barnaby's transforms into his version of Wild Tiger in mere seconds before the berserk L.L. Audurn could finish him, and is therefore instantaneous in-universe as opposed to 32 seconds (if together uncut) of the elaborate transformation sequence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_51d8e360	comment	Also averted in Blue Dragon, a robot is going to transform into a big robot, much to Kluke's excitement, but Zora blows it up before it can finish.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: The series uses the Heisei-standard "transformation sequence protects the user", but at one point Sento stops Evolt from using his Super Mode by grabbing his wrist before he can insert the Transformation Trinket and delivers a finishing move then and there. Notably, Evolt starts showing up already transformed into his Super Mode from then on.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid brutally subverts this in Revival Of The Beast Squad special, when Emu was attacked by Asakura and beaten to unconsciousness. This is a Call-Back to Kamen Rider Ryuki where Asakura attacked Kido mid-transformation, injuring his sword hand.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_53a73ca0	comment	In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this is averted with droidekas. While they generally transition from their ball mode to combat mode quickly, Ahsoka and Anakin manage to kill one while it is in wheel mode and lightsaber range in the movie.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_54e7b84f	comment	Averted in No Chance for Fate. Luna warns that even though the transformation only takes five seconds, the girls are vulnerable during it. Therefore, transforming has to be done in safe places and whenever possible before making contact.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_55de9501	comment	In the Powerpuff Girls Z anime, the girls (separately or together), usually get shown in a fairly length transformation sequence, although it's often ambiguous as to just how much time this transformation takes from the perspective of other characters (it seems very little time probably actually passes). However in one particular example, the girls' transformations were prevented by the episodes villain (a demonically-charged kabuki-actor) magically causing them to begin crying non-stop. It then became a plot-point that they had to try to get Peach the digital dog to remotely auto-activate their transformation sequence for them (he was asleep back at the lab at the time).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5755b96a	comment	The D&D example above is played out in The Order of the Stick.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_57978c41	comment	Space Sheriff Gavan justifies this: Gavan's actual transformation only takes 0.05 seconds, as we're told by the narrator each time it happens. We see it in an instant flash of blue, but then they go back and show the whole sequence in slow-motion so we can see the details, like the Gavan suit being beamed down from its spaceship. However, we also see the full posing routine, which apparently also took place in the .05 seconds, because when the flash happens, Gavan is usually at a full run chasing an enemy, or else quickly saving himself from impending doom, and we clearly never see him do his rather elaborate pose. Amusingly, in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie, the big battle starts off with a recreation of this (with Gokaiger narrator Tomokazu Seki in place of Issei Masamune), and then does the same with the Gokaiger, doing the fast version of their transformation and then going back and showing the full detailed version. (Turns out the Gokaigers' change is much faster than Gavan's .05 seconds.)
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil is very, very guilty. Countless are the times when the hero will just stand there, gun trained at the villain, who's laughing maniacally and striking dramatic poses while they are slowly mutating or being absorbed into their One-Winged Angel form.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5874fe63	comment	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon brings the Sailor Moon example above to its logical extreme: during her first ever transformation, Sailor Mercury manages to chant the invocation phrase and go through the entire flashy sequence in midair, while falling from roughly five stories high. Again, it's hinted that the transformation is actually instant and the flashy sequences are just a symbolic representation. This is shown to be the case several times during the series such as when Rei transforms while rushing in to fight the yoma without the transformation sequence showing - flames cover her then disappear to show her in her Sailor Mars costume.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_58e5057c	comment	Head Trip parodied this trope in the strip that provided a former page quote. "Seriously, she's been doing that for like five minutes, and you didn't think to get up and do anything?" "Look, lady, our contract says to attack girls in mini-skirts... She's naked. Don't look at me."
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Once again averted by the werewolf transformation. It takes several seconds following activation to transform. Not helping matters is that the werewolf form itself is a Glass Cannon, which can dish out significant damage (including some One-Hit KO attacks) but is severely lacking in defenses. If you plan to use the werewolf form, it is highly advised that you activate it before initiating combat with your target. Played With in the Companions questline, when Farkas first transforms. The Silver Hand members standing around him easily could have cut him to pieces in the middle of his transformation, but they just sort of stand there... The Vampire Lord transformation added by the Dawnguard DLC likewise takes several seconds to complete, during which the transformee is vulnerable. In fact, the Player Character is vulnerable for even longer than it looks because, even once the physical form has changed, it can take some time for the magic spells to get ready for use.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5921531b	comment	The Anime Adaptation of the Persona 4 often outright averts the trope by showing that the characters can quite easily be interrupted in summoning their Personas if something gets in their way or they hilarious slip on a slimy surface while leaping to do their trademark summoning poses.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5a05b300	comment	In Wilde Life, animal-people are able to switch forms instantly—one panel Cliff is a snarky teenager, the next he's a wolf. Word of God has described them as having two different bodies that they can switch between, and that the process is basically as easy as turning themselves in another direction. ("Northword, southward, wolfward.")
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5b42bbed	comment	In Disgaea 3 there is the magichange ability. In a nutshell, an allied monster standing next to any ally can turn into a special weapon, complete with a spiffy transformation sequence. The enemies can do it too, of course, but they don't have the same limits the player has. If you want to get technical, transformation could actually be a free half action, what with getting into a correct position and all. And then you have the re-release of Disgaea 2, where a modified monster can add itself into the already magichanged monster, resulting in two transformations, possibly one right after the other.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5b8afa32	comment	A Zonder has tried to attack GaoGaiGar mid-Final Fusion at least twice. The first one couldn't even get past the swirling energy barrier, and the second got through, only to be knocked right back out by GaiGar himself, who interrupted the combination on his own to force him back out. EI-15 (GGG Spare Parts Robo) got through too, and at a time when the Final Fusion program was disabled, forcing GGG members to pilot the GaoMachines. Big Volfogg grappled the Zonder to get it off. During the Final OVA, Palpareppa allows Guy to perform Final Fusion into GaoFaiGar before him uninterrupted, as he wanted to allow Guy a chance to fight him on an even footing before crushing him. In a later episode, he appears to allow Guy in the restored GaiGar complete Final Fusion into Genesic GaoGaiGar even though he expresses shock at the Genesic Gao Machines revealing themselves. An amusing spin on this trope also happens in the first episode of Final: The reason Gimlet wasn't able to lay a finger on GaoFighGar during its transformation sequence is because the Gao Machines smashed into him a few times during it. The earlier Brave show The Brave Express Might Gaine actually did feature at least one incident involving a villain interrupting the gattai sequence. To explain: said villain managed to succeed in preventing the combination of the individual Braves using the robots Raijin and Jinrai, by firing an anti-combine magnet from the base and having Raijin and Jinrai surround it to disrupt the combination. Luckily, Might Gunner ended it by firing at the ship's antenna which provided the anti-combination mechanism, and the villain gets it. By having said villain's ship getting rammed with the good guys' combined ultimate Finishing Move: Joint Dragon Fire. Brave Police J-Decker also features a funny moment in which a giant panda grabs Deckerd mid-transformation and starts playing with him like one of the action figures he exists to market.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Averted in the Soul Eater anime. During the climactic fight with the Big Bad, Death the Kid is stabbed through the head by his opponent during his Transformation Sequence and dies (of course, being the son of the Grim Reaper, killing him turns out to trigger an 11th-Hour Superpower, but the villain had no way to know that). Played straight elsewhere in the series, particularly with Kid activating his BFG.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Transformation is initially not a free action for a Lunar Exalted —anyone can attack a Lunar when s/he is shapeshifting— but there is a set of Knacks to remedy that. The most powerful of those Knacks allow the Lunar to shapeshift once in every other character's turn. Which means that it's even faster than a Free Action, because after changing form a Lunar can still use any other Charms that can be used in other character's turn.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6234eae7	comment	Averted in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Usso's forced to run around without the Leg Flyer of the V Gundam after its shot down until they can get a new one set up for him. It's later recreated in the Game Boy game, Super Robot Wars 2 G.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6274f3e4	comment	Mercilessly lampshaded in MAD during a skit that combined Dragon Ball Z with Money Ball. Vegeta takes so long to power up, that by the time he's done, people in the bleachers and dugouts are taking naps, playing chess, and watching through the entirety of Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005). And the payoff: He uses his built up power to bunt the ball.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_629cd094	comment	Averted in Dragon Age: Origins. Shapeshifting is a channeling spell, and as such can be interrupted by an attack.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_63230cb	comment	Piccolo suggests that they should stop Android 13's transformation sequence in Dragon Ball Z Abridged's Super Android 13, but Goku goes against it, claiming that he wants a good fight.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6673d40b	comment	Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Averted more often than not. If someone transforms, it's usually because they managed to distract their opponent long enough to pull it off, they use that time to transform too, it's too fast to stop in the first place, their enemy let them do it because they want a challenge or don't really care, or the sheer amount of reiatsu they release in the process is enough to stop their enemy from harming them until it's over. Otherwise, characters will go out their way to stop their opponents from powering up by any means necessary. Sunset doesn't interrupt Sixth Division Captain Platinum activating her Bankai during their climatic showdown because her plan involves needing to draw out her opponent unleashing her trump cards first before countering them with her own, newly-minted Bankai included, because Platinum can win the battle of attrition and Sunset showing her hand too fast would lead to Platinum figuring out the trick. Platinum doesn't interrupt Sunset's Bankai out of a combination of pride and denial that a "child" could truly grow this strong so fast. During the Quincy assault on Las Noches, Gilda attempts to invoke her Resurreccion, but Twilight Sparkle casts a silence spell on her to prevent her speaking the invocation since she didn't need Gilda getting any more of an advantage after she had decimated the Quincy cadets. During the fight between Third Espada Catrina and Sternritter "I" Spitfire, the former doesn't use her Resurreccion despite the latter using Vollstandig partially because she dislikes her transformed appearance, but mostly because the few seconds it would take her to properly release it would give Spitfire the necessary time to hit her with a powerful and possibly fatal attack with all the fire she's shooting everywhere. During the fight between Fifth Espada Torch and Sternritter "B" Shining Armor, the former is able to use his Resurreccion successfully for two reasons: The first is that his Hierro is the strongest of the Espada and he can endure the pain of being hit by one of Shining Armor's strongest attacks while activating it. The second is that his release creates a mushroom cloud that Shining Armor explicitly compares to a spiritual nuke that destroys the attack that was hurting him in the process. The Sixth Espada Guto makes some banter with Sternritter "T" Fleur de Lis about how impressive her Vollstandig is before activating his own Resurreccion, and the sudden release of power protects him from her attempted counterattack. During the fight between Second Division Captain Luna and recently-promoted Sixth Espada Adagio Dazzle, the latter is able to unleash her Resurreccion because the process is quite dramatic (as in, she's surrounded by an explosion of water while all the water in the lake below her shoots into the sky with her in the process) and she forced her opponent far enough away with her last attack to keep her from closing the distance to stop the invocation, while the former is able to release Bankai because the Espada both wants to get a full workout for her new transformation and she's buying time for her accomplices to perform their own duties. Luna is even surprised she's not being stopped and suspects a trick, but goes through with it anyways. When Gilda manages to release her Resurreccion during the Camp Everfree arc, Sour Sweet's bolt is only able to get about half through the wall of released reiatsu before it dissolves. Gilda latter attempts to kill Fluttershy before the latter can finish transforming into her True Fullbring for the first time with her strongest attack, but Fluttershy doesn't even completely finish the transformation before she's able to block it. Ninth Espada Grogar intentionally lets 13th Division Captain Celestia release her Shikai because his plan to fight her hinges on separating her from her Zanpakuto with a dimensional trap or otherwise she would wipe the floor with him at full power. Once that happens, he still needs to distract her from trying to tear him apart with her bare hands by dropping a powerful freezing explosive to get the few seconds of freedom he needs to unleash his Resurreccion, at which point his power rises so he's able to block her attempt to attack him with a Kido spell even while he's finishing the transformation.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_68237790	comment	For most in Pathfinder, see the Dungeons & Dragons entry farther up, but the Vigilante has the potential for an unusually literal case... at high levels. The Magical Child archetype (class modification) and a social talent changes their technically-mundane disguise into their alternate self to a magical Transformation Sequence (by that exact name) that takes five rounds (quite significant, but roughly half the time it takes a mundane vigilanteCostThe main disadvantage of transformation sequence is that while mundane identity switching is putting on a disguise and getting yourself into the right mental state, the transformation sequence is an attention-drawing spectacle of light and sound). However, there are other social talents that speed up how long it takes to switch disguises, and the top tier of those makes the transformation sequence into a swift action (swift actions being actions that take up just enough of a fraction more of time than a free action that they can only be done once a round while still leaving all your other actions untouched and usable).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_68c8e9ad	comment	...it's kind of funny, though, considering that the rule is fully in effect in all the other Super Robot Wars games — anyone who can combine, divide, transform or whatever, can do so whenever they like, without wasting a turn. In fact, you can even combine with units that have already moved this turn as long as the one who's activating the combination hasn't, which you can take advantage of by separating a combined mecha, having all but the main pilot for the combined form attack, and then have the last one combine to launch a final attack that is much stronger than any attack the individual would make (and keep the individual units from being killed during the enemies turn).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_690590d3	comment	Played straight in Princess Mononoke, where onlookers gasp in awe during the Forest Spirit's transformations... except for Lady Eboshi, who subverts this trope in the climactic scene.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_69071a1b	comment	Mutants & Masterminds literally has transforming as a Free action. This includes Alternate Forms and all the various shapeshifting powers. Making them slower is a deliberate drawback you can apply to make the power cheaper, however even then they cannot be cancelled by an interruption as you can still act defensively as normal.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6a8b86ee	comment	Played straight in the Tenkaichi sequels. Averted, however, if you're just charging your Ki up, your opponent is completely free to run up and kick your dormant ass. So it's best advised to fly away and hide before you charge up your attacks or transformations.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons: This is usually averted with transformative spells and special abilities, meaning that a Polymorphing wizard can easily be interrupted with a solid whack on the head. Exceptions include the Quickened Spell feat, which makes the change too fast for combatants to react to; and Shapechange, the pinnacle of transmutation magic, which lets the caster do this every turn. Grimalkin from the Monster Manual 2 have the ability "Alter Self", which allows them to take on the form of most animals as big or smaller than them — as a free action. In 4e, transformation (using the Druid power Wild Shape) is a minor action. There are a number of utility powers and feats which can upgrade it to a free action or even immediate interrupt (meaning that you can be standing next to someone in human form, and bite their arm off in beast form as an Attack of Opportunity, before they even have the chance to shoot). There are a lot of other transformation powers too, but the Druid's is probably the quintessential one. Most spells, including transformations, in 5e takes an action to complete, which in-game takes roughly 3-4 seconds. The game is played with each character taking turns, but in-universe, every turn in a round takes place concurrently, explaining why a wizard character has time to move his arms and say the required words. Any other combatants are already in the middle of doing whatever they're doing. Druids of the Circle of the Moon have the special ability to change form as a bonus action, allowing them to switch into an animal or elemental form in an instant and still have their action available. Transformation spells can be interrupted with the spell Counterspell. If it is successful, the Transformation spell is wasted. Additionally, most transformation spells/effects require a spell caster's concentration and the spellcaster cannot take much, if any, other action on the turn they cast it. Going up to the spellcaster and smacking them in the face can break the caster's concentration, reverting the transformation before it could have an effect.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6b89fc69	comment	Amusingly, in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie, the big battle starts off with a recreation of this (with Gokaiger narrator Tomokazu Seki in place of Issei Masamune), and then does the same with the Gokaiger, doing the fast version of their transformation and then going back and showing the full detailed version. (Turns out the Gokaigers' change is much faster than Gavan's .05 seconds.)
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6ef30ca4	comment	The earlier Brave show The Brave Express Might Gaine actually did feature at least one incident involving a villain interrupting the gattai sequence. To explain: said villain managed to succeed in preventing the combination of the individual Braves using the robots Raijin and Jinrai, by firing an anti-combine magnet from the base and having Raijin and Jinrai surround it to disrupt the combination. Luckily, Might Gunner ended it by firing at the ship's antenna which provided the anti-combination mechanism, and the villain gets it. By having said villain's ship getting rammed with the good guys' combined ultimate Finishing Move: Joint Dragon Fire.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_6f8194d0	comment	Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends: This is averted when Mebius tries to transform while fighting an Alien Shaplay so he can focus on saving Rei from the alien's kaiju minions, Shaplay simply shoots a blast from his mouth at the Mebius Brace on his wrist, damaging it and knocking him into the ground.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_701f0ece	comment	Played straight in Berserk for most of the time: When Apostles go One-Winged Angel, people tend to become so scared that they are unable to do anything else but stare in horror. Averted later when Guts gets to wear the Berserker Armor for the first time. Guts hacks the Apostles down so fast that one of them complains about it:
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7291518e	comment	Brave Police J-Decker also features a funny moment in which a giant panda grabs Deckerd mid-transformation and starts playing with him like one of the action figures he exists to market.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_735a44a9	comment	The actual transformation in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger is actually pretty fast, but the dance required to activate it takes place in real time. A few episodes have had drawn out transformations where the Kyoryugers have had to fight and dance around their opponents to transform. And then they utterly skewer this trope in episode 25, where the team drinks some "Wake-Up Juice" in order to battle a nightmare monster; said drink peps them up enough that they perform the entire transformation sequence AND roll call in under 10 seconds (with the pre-transformation dance being run at double speed). Even funnier, when they start it up the enemy commander prepares to sit through the full roll call, and is utterly floored when they finish that fast (by everyone saying it at once).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_73a7cc8	comment	Lampshaded in Angel Moxie:
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7668653a	comment	Averted in Mass Effect 2 — when fighting the Collectors, Big Bad Harbinger will sometimes assume direct control of one of the mooks, which gives it powerful armor, barriers, and attacks, as well as essentially setting it on fire from the inside out. However, doing so involves a several-second-long ingame sequence of the mook floating in the air and glowing orange, during which time you can take off a significant portion of its health bar without it fighting back. If you've got a powerful enough weapon, such as the Widow, you might even be able to kill it.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7849f0c1	comment	In Getter Robo Armageddon, they actually subvert it when Shin Getter Robo catches Invader Dragon Machine before it can combine with Liger and Poseidon to become Invader Getter Dragon, due to the Original Getter Team being far more skilled with their craft and finishing their combination first. Ryouma even taunts the pilot, Professor Saotome, before destroying the plane. This was adapted from a similar scene in the Shin Getter Robo manga. An earlier scene has Ryoma and Musashi attempting to recombine their Getter Machines into Getter Robo One, with an autopilot-controlled Getter One ship unable to keep up and getting destroyed by the Invaders.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_79dfce5	comment	So of course, when Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters meets Geki Jumonji, a.k.a. Gavan Type-G, the rookie Space Sheriff from the new Gavan movie, we go through it again. Turns out the Go-Busters require a full half-second to change.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7a8e5c7e	comment	The Transformers: The Movie: Subverted when the Constructicons try to combine into Devastator; Rumble and Frenzy create a tremor to knock them apart mid-transformation. A Double Subversion involving Unicron: when he takes robot form, Galvatron decides to blast him in his moment of weakness. He's unable to so much as scratch Unicron.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7ac43256	comment	Subverted in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, when Kyosuke nails the R-Gun Rivale with his signature Revolver Stake attack, while it's in the middle of transforming... inflicting serious damage due to various parts being left exposed during the transformation, and effectively jamming the gears. Ingram is not amused. And subverted as well when Ingram shoots down the R-3 Powered in the middle of transforming into the SRX. Granted, he had the help of Aya suffering psychic backlash. Another subversion occurs in one mission of Alpha Gaiden, where the dinosaur empire has created a special squad of mechabeasts whose sole purpose is to stay between the getter machines and prevent them from combining. However, they were ultimately unable to stop a much higher speed, and therefore more dangerous, version of the combination mechanism. Subverted in an early mission in Alpha 1 where the Getter Team was forced to defend their base from an attack too fast for them to combine. That part of the stage actually counted transforming as a Losing condition. ...it's kind of funny, though, considering that the rule is fully in effect in all the other Super Robot Wars games — anyone who can combine, divide, transform or whatever, can do so whenever they like, without wasting a turn. In fact, you can even combine with units that have already moved this turn as long as the one who's activating the combination hasn't, which you can take advantage of by separating a combined mecha, having all but the main pilot for the combined form attack, and then have the last one combine to launch a final attack that is much stronger than any attack the individual would make (and keep the individual units from being killed during the enemies turn).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7e31a540	comment	Played straight in the original Dragon Ball Z: Budokai trilogy, where transforming is not only instantaneous but has a stun/guard break effect when used near an opponent. Played straight in the Tenkaichi sequels. Averted, however, if you're just charging your Ki up, your opponent is completely free to run up and kick your dormant ass. So it's best advised to fly away and hide before you charge up your attacks or transformations. Averted again in The Legacy of Goku II, where Super Saiyan/Super Namek caused your character to do the transformation animation in real time and would be interrupted if you got hit, making them a pain in the ass to pull off during boss fights (luckily, most boss arenas had places you could hide behind to transform without getting punched). In Xenoverse and Xenoverse 2, most transformations by the player are instantaneous and knock enemies back when completed. The ones that aren't instantaneous provide invincibility frames during the sequence, but you're still vulnerable to Guard Breaks at the start and end of the animation. Played straight with AI characters, whose transformations are always in cutscene format.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7fbd159a	comment	In the ThunderCats (1985) episode "Monkian's Bargain", Mumm-Ra attempts his transformation, only for Wilykit and Wilykat to lasso and yank him down. He wisely decides to retreat after that. Notably subverted in the 2011 series, in service of The Unreveal. In "Omens Part Two", Big Bad Mumm-Ra attempts his incantation to trigger a One-Winged Angel ("Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form...") only to be interrupted by the rising sun burning his skin.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_7fd6fe6d	comment	Averted and parodied on Ditto's entry in PokÃ©dex.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_806b1344	comment	Justified in Nurse Witch Komugi-chan R, which makes a point of establishing in the first episode that the "Chan-G" takes only a few milliseconds in real-time.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_806cc4c9	comment	Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged: In Episode 10, when Archer starts setting up Unlimited Blade Works, Shirou asks Saber to attack him while he is chanting, but she stands there because she wanted to see what he was doing.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: The Showa-era shows play this one straight, while the Heisei-era shows tend to avert it by doing transformations with standard special effects rather than Stock Footage. While most of the time it's played straight and the Rider transforms without interruption, many times they need to fend off and dodge the enemies until they can find a brief moment in a safe spot to start the transformation. The "holding off Monster of the Week with one hand while triggering a transformation with the other" is often used to herald the start of a curb stomp. For the most part, when a Rider activates their transformation, the energy involved shields them from incoming attacks. On very rare occasions, a powerful enough attack can disrupt the transformation midway through. Likewise, some Riders have a transitory "base" form not intended for combat, which gains armor in the transformation process; sometimes the armor shields them, while others (most prominently Kamen Rider Gaim episode 26) it doesn't. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight plays this straight and subverts this. Partially justified as transformation sequence projects energy sphere that knocks everything back, protecting the Rider. Activating the transformation sequence is where the fun comes in. Kamen Rider Diend sometimes plays with this; because his Transformation Trinket is a gun, he occasionally fires the "transformation energy" at an enemy, staggering them before it comes back to him and completes the change. A few series (Kabuto , Drive, and Kamen Rider Ghost) have intelligent, autonomous Transformation Trinkets that can fly out and smack away an incoming enemy or attack in order to protect the Rider before they start/complete the transformation. Kabuto has another level to this, as the secondary Cast Off transformation causes their heavier armor to burst off in all directions, enough to knock back anyone foolish enough to attack. Played straight with Kamen Rider Double, especially with Accel. However, it gets subverted in one episode where an enemy interrupts Double's transformation by shooting a "sticky bullet" at his belt, plugging up one of the ports needed to transform and preventing him from changing. Kamen Rider Gaim puts a little spin on this; transformation is not a free action, but attacking the Riders during their transformation has done nothing. The Riders are also capable of moving around during their transformation. The one time it does work was a sneak attack. Played Straight with Gaim's Kiwami Arms Super Mode, which summons every other type of armor and fuses it with him. This summoned armor can be used to barrage the opponent and knock them away if they decide to try and interrupt. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid brutally subverts this in Revival Of The Beast Squad special, when Emu was attacked by Asakura and beaten to unconsciousness. This is a Call-Back to Kamen Rider Ryuki where Asakura attacked Kido mid-transformation, injuring his sword hand. Kamen Rider Build: The series uses the Heisei-standard "transformation sequence protects the user", but at one point Sento stops Evolt from using his Super Mode by grabbing his wrist before he can insert the Transformation Trinket and delivers a finishing move then and there. Notably, Evolt starts showing up already transformed into his Super Mode from then on. Kamen Rider Zi-O has Another Fourze attempt to attack the titular Rider as he prepares to change form, only for Zi-O's Herald Woz to teleport in, block the monster's attack, berate it for trying to interrupt Zi-O and blast it away before inviting Zi-O to continue. Another Faiz tries this to Geiz the next episode, and fails at it as well, due to Geiz keeping space. Geiz Revive, Geiz's Super Mode and Deadly Upgrade enforces this by having it as a mechanic built into the form, where Geiz Revive can switch from Gouretsu to Shippu and back again nigh instantly. Kamen Rider Zero-One lampshades the trope when it cuts away during one particularly lengthy transformation to show the villain really is just standing there waiting for it to finish. It takes so long, in fact, that he starts impatiently tapping his fingers. The movie actually averts this, as the villain actively attacks Aruto and sends him flying several blocks the instant he tries to start his transformation, to the point where the bits of the suit appear where Aruto initially was and then desperately chase after him trying to form Zero One before he ends up splattered all over the pavement several streets over. It's only partially sucessful at that, as enough of the suit forms to keep him from getting too badly injured after he smashes into a car but he's still knocked unconsious before the transformation is complete. The next time he confronts the villain, he waits until the villains own transformation is dropped, and they both transform at the same time having no choice but to allow their opponent to also do so.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: All of Mario's transformations are instant. However, there's no Mercy Invincibility, so it's possible to pick up an item and immediately lose it due to hitting an enemy.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_84d455d4	comment	Parodied in The Big O. Recurring Harmless Villain Beck has executed yet another plan to defeat the protagonist, this time employing a Combining Mecha. The mecha executes a lengthy assembly complete with heroic cries, sparklies, and 70's music. During said transformation, the protagonist is unconcernedly fixing his tie and donning a new watch. The two mechas face off and Beck's begins the lengthy preparation for an attack. In the midst of the ensuing attack prep, Big O opens up a Gatling gun and demolishes Beck in two seconds. And it was awesome.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8525bf6a	comment	In Doki Doki! PreCure, normal security cameras somehow managed to capture Mana's first transformation on video.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Subverted in Transformers: Prime. When Starscream sees an angry Megatron eager to punish him, he changes into a jet to escape. However, Megatron grabs him just before he can finish and hurls him into the hull of the Nemesis.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_86814e7d	comment	Fans of Final Fantasy X-2 will be in for a rude awakening when they play Final Fantasy XIII. Switching paradigms prompts a small transformation sequence but does not stop the battle. So while your characters flip their weapons and strike Sailor Moon poses, your enemies will not hesitate to shoot you in the face with a bazooka. This only happens the first time every battle, however. Every other time after, the Paradigm Shift is much quicker.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_87cf8985	comment	In Champions, this is called "Instant Change", and is a power you can purchase if the GM agrees.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8818f28f	comment	Averted in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. You are explicitly told that Nemeroth is at his weakest during his ascension to Daemon prince and he knows it too. Distracting you by summoning a horde of Bloodletters that you have to get through before reaching him.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8aad83bb	comment	This is normally played straight in Ronin Warriors, except for Episode 3, where Anubis repeatedly attacked Ryo while he was trying to transform.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8ac4e993	comment	The Gundam franchise, being a set of Real Robot shows, is generally known to avert this trope. Probably with the exception of Mobile Fighter G Gundam (which has most of the robot fights take place in the context of a sporting competition rather than a war, and as such not starting the fight until everyone has powered up their suits is the equivalent of a game not starting until both teams have left the locker room), one example being that G-Armor has to hide behind a hill to separate into G-Fighter and Gundam. Averted in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Usso's forced to run around without the Leg Flyer of the V Gundam after its shot down until they can get a new one set up for him. It's later recreated in the Game Boy game, Super Robot Wars 2 G. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn justifies this whenever the RX-0 goes into Destroy-mode: the Unicorn deploys an I-field around itself while it transforms, so firing on it while it does so would be a waste of time and energy. In the side-story U.C. 0096: Last Sun, the Unit 2 and 3 Unicorns "Banshee" and "Phenix", come under attack by a Rebawoo, a ZZ-era Neo Zeon suit modified with Psychoframe technology. The Phenix freaks out and transforms into its NT-D mode. Before the Banshee follows suit to stop its rampage, the Phenix averts this by grabbing the Banshee's horn to prevent it from transforming then chops its head off. Played straight with Shinn's Impulse Gundam in SEED Destiny: no matter how opportune the moment is for an enemy to simply destroy the Core Splendor or the Flyers while they combine (especially considering the Core Splendor jettisons its missile packs, the only means by which the Impulse can defend its flyers pre-combination), they never do. Especially egregious when the Impulse's sudden appearance and subsequent transformation can stun an Alliance mobile armor and its three pilots into panicked staring for about forty seconds, and, later, Kira Yamato. Kira at least has the excuse that he lowered his weapons upon seemingly delivering crippling damage (Kira being strict to his principles of not wanting to kill Shinn, something Shinn exploits in their fight repeatedly) and Shinn ejected the damaged upper body at him and blew it up with his machine guns in response, which knocked Kira into the ground to the point where by the time he got Freedom Gundam back in the air Impulse had already swapped it's parts. The Alliance pilots have no justification, they just stand there and watch. Played with for all its worth in Gundam Build Fighters Try. The Winning/Star Winning Gundam is an SD with multiple forms and many opponents will try to take potshots at it. However, the Gundam Trion 3 does its amazing Super Robot transformation... and stuns everyone stupid because of it. In the latter case, it turns out the maker had a barrier set up to ensure no one can attack the Tryon 3 during the transformation sequence. Justified with the Asshimar in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, which uses magnetic coating allowing it to transform in less than a second.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8c5f856b	comment	Subverted in the final episode of Being Human, where Herrick, a vampire bent on world conquest, would have happily snapped George's neck while the latter was oh-so-slowly and painfully transforming into a werewolf in order to kill him... if George hadn't had a Star of David to keep Herrick at bay, and locked them in a bunker under a hospital.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8cb4a772	comment	Ultraman Mebius: It's averted while Mirai is transforming he is hit with a fireball and is thrown to the ground as he begins his henshin sequence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8d64fc9b	comment	In The Red and the Rest, Hammerstein gets taken out in seconds while bragging about how his transformation will make him invincible.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8d8389db	comment	In the series, all outside actions stop when the battles start, even when someone is in the middle of executing an evil plot that the protagonists have just meddled in. In the TV special The Legend of Thunder, though, Marina (literally) tosses her Misdreavus into a two-on-one battle, and everyone stops what they're doing — even the villains in the process of capturing the elusive and powerful Raikou — to either watch or order PokÃ©mon around... but then Attila gets an idea.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8eab5c5	comment	A few series (Kabuto , Drive, and Kamen Rider Ghost) have intelligent, autonomous Transformation Trinkets that can fly out and smack away an incoming enemy or attack in order to protect the Rider before they start/complete the transformation. Kabuto has another level to this, as the secondary Cast Off transformation causes their heavier armor to burst off in all directions, enough to knock back anyone foolish enough to attack.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8eda89ef	comment	In the second season of Darker than Black, Suoh has a very traditional Magical Girl transformation sequence which so far has been played straight, to the extent no one comments on her being defenseless during the transformation period (she hasn't been in combat yet though). On the other hand, there is something of an aversion of the trope in the times where Hei, the Anti-Hero has killed Contractors before they could complete their Remumeration and "recharge" their powers.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_8ee238c9	comment	In the Persona games, the protagonist can switch Personae without using up his turn and without being interrupted. However, he can only switch once per turn. Justified since he doesn't physically transform, but just lets another aspect of his mind become more prominent. The Anime Adaptation of the Persona 4 often outright averts the trope by showing that the characters can quite easily be interrupted in summoning their Personas if something gets in their way or they hilarious slip on a slimy surface while leaping to do their trademark summoning poses.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: The characters usually transform ahead of time, but occasionally are forced to transform during battle, sometimes multiple times. However aware that they are completely vulnerable while transforming and that they have to turn back into humans before morphing again (they can't let the Yeerks know they're human), they make a point to do so out of sight. Justified in the later books because they get a lot faster at transforming with practice. Averted in 21 where Jake comments that, while David has the same ability, he doesn't have the experience. He then attacks while David is morphing.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_90e2f673	comment	For BattleTech Land-Air-Mechs LAMS avert this by being most vulnerable when transforming and getting hit could jam the transformation or even cause it to crash if converting from fighter mode.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9322493f	comment	Kamen Rider Zi-O has Another Fourze attempt to attack the titular Rider as he prepares to change form, only for Zi-O's Herald Woz to teleport in, block the monster's attack, berate it for trying to interrupt Zi-O and blast it away before inviting Zi-O to continue. Another Faiz tries this to Geiz the next episode, and fails at it as well, due to Geiz keeping space. Geiz Revive, Geiz's Super Mode and Deadly Upgrade enforces this by having it as a mechanic built into the form, where Geiz Revive can switch from Gouretsu to Shippu and back again nigh instantly.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9472b00d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn justifies this whenever the RX-0 goes into Destroy-mode: the Unicorn deploys an I-field around itself while it transforms, so firing on it while it does so would be a waste of time and energy. In the side-story U.C. 0096: Last Sun, the Unit 2 and 3 Unicorns "Banshee" and "Phenix", come under attack by a Rebawoo, a ZZ-era Neo Zeon suit modified with Psychoframe technology. The Phenix freaks out and transforms into its NT-D mode. Before the Banshee follows suit to stop its rampage, the Phenix averts this by grabbing the Banshee's horn to prevent it from transforming then chops its head off.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_94c0f487	comment	Voltron Force: Subverted in grand style in one episode. A hypersonic Robeast specifically designed to attack Voltron while forming is sent to Arus by Prince Lotor. Daniel's Voltcom powers are crucial in defeating it, as his speed-based powers allow Voltron to compress its combination sequence from 36 seconds to just four. Or as it was put in the comments section on a video recording of the Flash Form on YouTube: In "Brains", the trope was explicitly invoked by the writers, as Prince Lotor challenged Voltron to one-on-one combat, and the combination sequence that followed used the classic, rather than modernized, Voltron music. Prince Lotor did nothing to interrupt Voltron's combination sequence, because he wanted a direct one-on-one fight with his nemesis.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_95b62321	comment	Kamen Rider Dragon Knight plays this straight and subverts this. Partially justified as transformation sequence projects energy sphere that knocks everything back, protecting the Rider. Activating the transformation sequence is where the fun comes in.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9842b0d3	comment	Gloriously averted in Dog Soldiers when Megan starts transforming into a werewolf they just shoot them in the head. Played straight with Ryan as they don't outright kill them while they're transforming but they do get their weapons ready. Understandable because they were under a table and nobody really wanted to get that close to a werewolf.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super: While powering up to Super Saiyan Blue against Freeza, Goku closes his eyes. Freeza considers blasting him, but Goku - without looking - reminds Freeza that he can sense him and tells him to knock it off. Champa orders Hit to attack Goku while he is powering up, but he refuses because he considers Goku a Worthy Opponent and wants to fight him at his best. In the manga, when Goku Black and Future Zamasu are about to do a Potara Fusion, Goku quickly realizes what they're doing and immediately tries to stop them. Unfortunately, he is not able to blast them in time for them to fuse together into Fused Zamasu. When the Kamikaze Fireballs begin lengthy Transformation Sequences (being parodies of Magical Girls), Android 17 just blasts them in the middle of it. Toppo gets angry at him, saying it's unjust to attack someone in the middle of a transformation (he's a sentai parody, so it's understandable he'd think that way). Goku and Vegeta let it happen mostly because they enjoy fighting people at their strongest, and wanted to see what kind of power the trio had. 17 is ultimately convinced to stand down and let them finish. This one is odd, however, as in their initial appearance, it was shown the Fireballs' transformation was of the "instant magical girl transformation" variety.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10 averts this trope in that while Ben's transformations appear quite lengthy to the viewer, when it is shown from other characters' perspectives, there's simply a flash of green light that lasts less than a second.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_98748baa	comment	Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid has a particularly egregious and ludicrous example. Since the Extar girls can only transform into superweapons when sexually aroused by their Liberators (who are also girls), fights usually begin with a great deal of foreplay. In one case, dozens of girls (on opposing sides!) were standing around making out with each other in order to get ready for combat.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_98dc652b	comment	In Dragon Ball GT, this is subverted during the final battle with Super Yixinglong. SS4 Gogeta completely had him outmatched in every way, but when the Fusion wore off sooner than they expected (likely the SS4 form was straining the Fusion), Super Yixinglong would not and did not allow them to fuse again, interrupting them whenever they tried.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9910cc85	comment	You missed! How could you miss! He was three feet in front of you!
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_991d235f	comment	Zig-Zagged with The Incredible Hulk, where Banner's transformation is not very consistent in how long it takes. In one instance, someone was able to shoot him with a tranquilizer dart just as he started transforming and knock him out, but in another instance, he was able to fully transform in the split-second after a nuclear bomb went off right next to him, and before the explosion hit him.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9948df42	comment	In Battle of Gods, the heroes figuring out how Goku can become a Super Saiyan God is inter-cut with Beerus relaxing with a soda. This particular example is actually justified, because Beerus is only there in the first place so he can find this mythical being and have a good fight, so he has nothing to gain by interrupting them.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9989595b	comment	Like most magical girl series, the main heroines of W.I.T.C.H. are never interrupted in their transformation sequences. One incident, where the girls' teacher catches the tail end of their transformation, is shocked by the light show, giving them the chance to manhandle him (they thought he was working for the enemy). He comes into school the next day, dismissing it as a dream.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9a450452	comment	Averted, in Injustice: Year 3 #3. Jason Blood tries to turn into Etrigan the Demon as a powerful spectre is breaking through the room's magical defenses. He makes it most of the way through his transforming chant when the doors are knocked open and his flesh is instantly ripped from his bones.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9cc9639	comment	Famously subverted in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, where Etna shoots two Sentai characters in the middle of a transformation sequence. Which turns out to be a terrible, terrible idea.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Averted in Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion with the werewolf transformation. It takes several seconds for the change to take effect. Skyrim: Once again averted by the werewolf transformation. It takes several seconds following activation to transform. Not helping matters is that the werewolf form itself is a Glass Cannon, which can dish out significant damage (including some One-Hit KO attacks) but is severely lacking in defenses. If you plan to use the werewolf form, it is highly advised that you activate it before initiating combat with your target. Played With in the Companions questline, when Farkas first transforms. The Silver Hand members standing around him easily could have cut him to pieces in the middle of his transformation, but they just sort of stand there... The Vampire Lord transformation added by the Dawnguard DLC likewise takes several seconds to complete, during which the transformee is vulnerable. In fact, the Player Character is vulnerable for even longer than it looks because, even once the physical form has changed, it can take some time for the magic spells to get ready for use.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9db1766a	comment	Justified several times in Devil May Cry: Throughout the series, activating a Devil Trigger transformation is nigh instantaneous, transforming the character from their human form to their demonic form at blinding speeds. Gameplay-wise, a Devil Trigger transformation also acts as a Combo Breaker that grants you invincibility frames, thus preventing enemies from harming you during the transformation process. On the rare occasion that the transformation does take a moment to activate, it's accompanied by other effects. For example, in Devil May Cry 5, when Dante transforms into his Sin Devil Trigger which takes about 6 seconds to complete before control is given back to the player, time around Dante slows down, and when the initial transformation is complete, the energy discharged is strong enough to damage surrounding enemies, sending them flying into the air. Dante is also Immune to Flinching during the entire duration of the transformation. In Devil May Cry 4, even when Trish completely changes her appearance from that of Gloria, it is all done in the blink of an eye. Regardless, the other person near her at that time is Dante, who doesn't bother to attack her because they're allies. In DmC: Devil May Cry, Dante's Devil Trigger slows down time and sends any Mook or Elite Mook floating in the air while it's active, making it impossible for them to interrupt him in the first place.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9df2ed68	comment	Played painfully straight in the original Giant Robo/Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot toku. Before he performs any attack, Giant Robo has to first go through a variety of stances, yet remains unmolested by the Monster of the Week. This is most evident during Robo's missile attack, which features Stock Footage of him swinging his forearms side-to-side and up-and-down, then holding out his hands while missiles sprout from his fingertips — all while the monster waits for the routine to finish.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: A justified example occurs during the Thriller Bark arc, when Franky initiates the "Pirate Docking 6" Giant Robot Warrior with the crew (read: just stacking on top of one another) to try and defeat the giant zombie Oars. When Robin refuses to dock as the left arm because it's too embarrassing, we see Oars himself was watching excitedly in anticipation, and is very disappointed when they don't finish. The Whole Cake Island arc subverts it thrice: During Pedro's fight with Tamago, the latter is going through a second transformation, but Pedro doesn't feel fighting a stronger form and wants to finish him off while in the middle of the transformation. The Mooks try to protect Tamago from Pedro who then in turns blows himself up to kill everyone...except he is saved from his explosives by Chopper and Carrot. At one point during Luffy's fight with Katakuri, the former tries to use his Gear 4th on him, but his enemy can see through the obvious power-up and stops him from doing so. At the climax of the arc, when Pekoms attempts to transform into his Sulong form, Big Mom's crew attack him in the middle of his transformation since they are all fully aware of his transformed form and how it works. They even try to gauge out Pekoms's eyes to prevent him from looking at the full moon and to take away his ability to transform forever.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Subverted with Ditto, whose only move is to transform into the opponent exactly except for HP. However, this takes a turn, and it normally gets knocked out or severely damaged before it can actually do anything due to its subpar stats. Although, in Generation V, it got an ability which transforms it immediately upon entering the battle. Subverted again with evolution. PokÃ©mon wait to transform until after the battle if they're ready to evolve mid-fight. Played straight with Mega Evolutions in Generation VI, temporary form changes accessible to certain PokÃ©mon in battle. You can transform into a Mega form and use a move in the same turn.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_9faa5198	comment	Averted in But I'm a Cat Person. They're frequently drawn out during quiet moments, but will happen fast when they need to.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_a7bb2a13	comment	The player characters of the Mega Man ZX series go through this; the first transformations into the Model X and Model A Mega Men don't take as long as they seem to, as the camera merely focuses on different parts of the body in separate shots — one could argue it's all happening at the same time. The first transformation into the Model ZX Mega Man does take a while, though presumably because of the bodily strain and the energy being released, which vapourises all of the enemies about to shoot Vent/Aile. However, during gameplay, Mega-merging still takes less than a second. Used also by Serpent, who transforms in identical fashion to the hero's in-game transformation, and also by the four enemy Mega Men of Advent, who do take a few seconds, but release powerful phenomena when they do so, which protect and obscure them (respectively: surrounded by whirlwinds, engulfed in flames, encased in ice, wrapped in shadows) and are ready to go immediately afterwords. Played very straight, however, by Vent/Aile in Advent (when they're met as enemies initially), whose transformations are ludicrously over-the-top and expository, especially Aile's. Also done by Albert, who initially blows away the walls and ceiling, but otherwise floats in the air while his transformation completes itself. Both instances take a very long time to complete, and in both cases, Grey/Ashe just stand and watch. In some Mega Man X games, X teleports in and then warps an armor onto himself instantly. Of course, he usually teleports in to an enemy-free area.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy just loves these, take any One-Winged Angel and it's practically guaranteed to qualify. Not a transformation, per se, but summoning usually involves an elaborate sequence and is a free action. Transformations are also a free action in Final Fantasy X-2, where you'll be able to change costumes and still act on a single turn. Fans of Final Fantasy X-2 will be in for a rude awakening when they play Final Fantasy XIII. Switching paradigms prompts a small transformation sequence but does not stop the battle. So while your characters flip their weapons and strike Sailor Moon poses, your enemies will not hesitate to shoot you in the face with a bazooka. This only happens the first time every battle, however. Every other time after, the Paradigm Shift is much quicker.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, the morph ability certainly qualifies. A creature with morph can come come into play as a face-down generic 2/2 creature, then its controller can pay the morph cost to turn it face-up, turning it into its "real body". Morphing is a completely free action to do in terms of timing, can't be responded to and is even one of the only moves one can do during a "split second stack" where players normally can't do any action. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, morphing is technically not itself an action, it is choosing to end an earlier effect. For another, the ability would be nearly useless if your opponent could freely cast removal spells on the feeble unmorphed creatures.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ab65bf55	comment	Averted multiple times with the Impulse Gundam's combination/docking with its Silhouette Packs in the fanfiction Gundam Seed Destiny Altered. On the couple of occasions that one of the antagonists attempts to open fire on the inbound pack, one of the protagonists consistently intervenes to engage said opponent, preventing them from completing their attack. On at least one occasion, Shinn explicitly requests cover fire before beginning the docking process.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ac9f2d59	comment	Parodied in Dorothy of Oz, as Mara's Transformation Sequence involves her clothes tearing themselves apart and reforming in real time. The reason why nobody attacks her is so that they can enjoy the stripperific Fanservice.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: Averted; much like for Werewolves, a Princess' transformation takes three seconds during which it should technically be possible to attack them, but they can spend 1 Wisp to transform instantly, and don't even have to spend Wisp if they get 5 successes or more on their transformation roll. Most Princesses won't try transforming in front of their opponents if they can help it anyway, as this would cause them to lose the cover offered by their Secret Identity. The fan-made Hunter: The Vigil supplement Dark and Light, which develops how Hunters interact with Princesses, includes a sidebar mentioning some hunters did try to avert this trope in the earlier days- only to find out that, as mentioned above, the Hopeful transform way faster than in anime.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ae050a9f	comment	Brawl has loading issues due to the fact that it is on a double-layered DVD. As such, Princess Zelda's transformation into Sheik now encases her in a sphere of light for four seconds rather than being instantaneous like in the previous game, Melee. You can't hurt her while she's in the sphere, though it's not uncommon for opponents to keep hitting it in hopes of hurting her the exact second she's done. Pokemon Trainer suffered from similar problems when switching 'mons, and Samus is a downplayed example (the transformation is part of her Final Smash and is intended to be punishable if she misses).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ae8d22f6	comment	Werewolf: The Forsaken averts this, as it usually takes an instant action (about three seconds) for a werewolf to change forms, leaving them open to attack in combat. However, they can spend one Essence to make the change instantaneous, and don't even have to spend the Essence if the moon's in the phase they first changed under.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In the Climax of Part 5 Giorno uses the Stand Arrow out of desperation to transform his own stand to defeat Diavolo. During this however it seems to leave his stand, Gold Experience, immobile during the process. Diavolo sees a chance to kill Giorno while this is happening. Thankfully the transformation finishes right before he strikes.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b0ec0986	comment	Downplayed in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Each playable character's command styles (equivalent to KH2's forms) only takes about a second to activate, and during the switch, you're invincible. However, enemies can and will attack you just after the transformation (while you're still mostly helpless), which can really screw you up if you were damaged to begin with and just about to heal (unlike in KH2, command styles don't heal you for free when they activate). Played straight if your load times are slowed down for whatever reason . After the transformation starts, enemies just kind of lounge around you for the 15 or so seconds it takes to finish.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b1d8c295	comment	Averted in Plants vs. Zombies, in which the Imitater can be eaten by a zombie during its transformation sequence. Played straight in the second game, in which it transforms faster.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b2431955	comment	Parodied in Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 2wei!, where Rin and Luvia faceplant into a bog and Illya and Miu transform to fish them out. During the entire sequence you can hear Rin and Luvia struggling for their lives in the background while the girls undergo the lengthy transformation and when it's done Rin and Luvia appear to be lifeless and motionless in the muck. When pulled out Rin asks why they took so long to rescue them.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series: As the Ultra heroes usually employ short transformation sequences, with the most time taken being the one where they retrieve their Transformation Trinket, this trope doesn't come into play often, but gets subverted a few times. Ultraman Mebius: It's averted while Mirai is transforming he is hit with a fireball and is thrown to the ground as he begins his henshin sequence. Starting with Ultraman Orb, your typical Transformation Sequence started getting fairly long. This eventually was given a Hand Wave in Ultraman Z, where Z explained that when they activate their Transformation Trinket, the people who transform into the Ultramen are pulled into a realm where time moves much faster, making it possible for this trope to happen and it was shown in previous series that it was indeed the case, as when not reusing stock footage of transformations a simple flash would happen and the Ultra would instantly transform or change orm.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b31b332f	comment	Played both ways in the Transformers Film Series; sometimes the transformations would take a second or two, but sometimes they'd be upwards of 30 seconds, either because of particularly dramatic/unusual circumstances like transforming while rolling down a highway at full speed, or simply to show off the quadrillion moving parts necessary. That said, no one is ever shown outright ignoring the bots while transforming, they either just have ineffective weaponry (mostly the humans), are distracted by their own transformation, or are still stunned by/locked up in combat.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b42263b4	comment	Natural Selection generally plays this straight, but it gets subverted in Satsuki and Ryuko's fight. Satsuki takes advantage of Ryuko's state of ecstasy during her Life Fiber Synchronization with Junketsu to wound the latter, removing his left eye and putting the pair on the backfoot. Later in the same fight, this is played straight, as Ryuko is so shocked at the idea of a rogue Kamui existing that she allows Satsuki to complete her Life Fiber Override without a similar penalty.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog, when he transforms into Super Sonic in the original games (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and onwards), you are only suspended in the air for a second or two while you transform. In the 3-D games, anytime Sonic transforms into Super Sonic, it takes a good ten seconds to summon the Chaos Emeralds, close eyes, absorb the emeralds, then "explode" into Super Sonic in a cutscene, and only once, in Sonic Unleashed, does someone attempt to stop it. It doesn't work. This transformation goes quicker when transforming during normal gameplay in Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Sonic's Final Smash is similar to the cutscenes, only, you get a quick 3-second transformation at the beginning and end of the attack.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b5a087d7	comment	Parodied in Robot Chicken twice: It takes Vehicle Voltron so long to transform (partially because they screwed it up and had to go back several steps to try again) that nearly everyone they were supposed to rescue is dead by the time they actually got there (and the only one left kills himself after realizing it's "not even the real Voltron, just that stupid vehicle one!"). Another has a monster stand by and watch Sailor Moon transform beginning to end because he was enjoying it so much he pitched a tent in his very tight pants. They're both so thoroughly embarrassed and repulsed they just call the fight off and go home.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b5a2b326	comment	Averted in Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion with the werewolf transformation. It takes several seconds for the change to take effect.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b7c37594	comment	Averted in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Ilulu starts to shift into her true form during her fight against Tohru, only to get blasted into unconscousness before she can finish. All other transformations in the series either happen with both combatants at once or outside of combat altogether.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Keeping things fair for the bad guys, in Super Sentai shows where the method to Make My Monster Grow involves a separate villain showing up at ground level to grow the monster (such as Gash from Choujuu Sentai Liveman or Nalia from Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger), or when it's otherwise theoretically possible to stop the monster from growing, the heroes pretty much never try to do so, instead just waiting for the monster to grow so they can take to their Humongous Mecha. There have been the occasional subversions of this (such as a time when the Dairangers fenced in a monster with their staff weapons to prevent it from throwing the enlargement bomb) however.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b95bf47	comment	Suite Pretty Cure ♪ has an opening before the credits where the badguys are just sitting around watching the Pretty Cures' Transformation Sequence on TV in their lair for no reason but to lampshade this trope.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_b962c879	comment	Generally played straight a few times in Fairy Tail, mostly with Erza's transformations into her magical suits of armor. Episode 8 of the anime involves her transforming right in front of the face of the enemy, and he doesn't do a thing. In fact it's stated outright that part of Erza's strength is the speed at which she can switch weapons and armor. She effectively has this as an explicit ability. Anime's Adaptation Expansion of the Pandemonium battle showcases that in detail as she swaps gear on the fly to deal with different abilities of the demons she's facing, such as swapping to a fire-resistant armor in the split second between a fireball being launched and actually reaching her.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_bb5cd713	comment	Played straight in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch. Like many magical girl shows, this one has extremely long transformation scenes that never get interrupted.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_bddc4ebe	comment	However, the Transformation version was subverted at least once when Conner was attacked during a morph and blasted out of it. Further, during Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Kat's morph is shorted out when she falls into some water before it gets completed.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_be80da82	comment	s-CRY-ed averts this, as Kazuma ends up getting attacked in the middle of forming his Alter a couple times over the course of the first half of the series, even when it skips the usual lengthy transformation sequence. By the second half this drops off, however, with Kazuma's second stage for his Alter seeming to be powerful enough that even anyone who would want to interrupt the transformation is simply unable to get close until it's been formed.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_beac6ffb	comment	Transforming in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask causes the rest of the game to come to a standstill (which is a good thing considering some of the transformations you need to do in the middle of boss fights). After the first transformation, you can skip the transformation sequence though (also good since it looks painful).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_bff01809	comment	From Warhammer and its sci-fi sibling franchise, mortal factions aligned with Chaos are capable of fielding Chaos Spawn and Greater Daemons. Sorcerors are capable of turning people into spawn, and certain champions of Chaos are capable of turning allowing a Greater Daemon to possess their body. All of this is essentially instantaneous. This is justified by two factors: Chaos spawn mutations are generally very rapid and Greater Daemons are essentially immaterial and probably don't count as an actual transformation since the body they use is essentially a summoning portal for an entity that doesn't need transformations. The second factor is that the game turns aren't representative of actual time passage.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c0bdc16a	comment	Ojamajo Doremi: Rise of the Shadows: This happens twice. First, the Ojamajos transform right in front of the ShadowOjamajos even though canon establishes that their transformations take a lot of time to complete. The second time was when the Queen assumed her Super Witch Form for the first time; the narrative describes in detail the Transformation Sequence. Both times, the villains do absolutely nothing to stop them.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c11df2bf	comment	Bakugan: The show subverted this, mostly in the second arc of Mechtanium Surge. At the very beginning, as Gunz was preparing to throw Reptak out, he was struck by Mechtavius Destroyer. In many of the battles, Wiseman would order an attack before the Bakugan got to combine. Most notably in the episode "Evil vs. Evil" when Mechtavius Destroyer won't let Betadron, Kodokor, and Mutabrid combine and actually kills Mutabrid in the process. Surprisingly, he didn't try this in his battle against the Brawlers three episodes from then. In the episode "Enemy Allies", he actually attacked Dan upon his attempt to call Dragonoid Destroyer. This was also played with in "Enemy Infiltration" when Mandibor tried to stop Radizen and Roxtor from combining; however, he missed due to the animation of their combination (they leap into the air and hold each other; Mandior aimed at the ground they were standing on).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c137e301	comment	Additionally, Rangers often have post transformation callouts where they'll do some sort of move and call out their color and/or theme. Power Rangers Wild Force was big on this. While the post transformation sequence wasn't always used, it tended to get used for the most dangerous fights.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c378095d	comment	Dimensional Gate Screwover: When Revenant goes to fuse with two of the holy-devouring beasts, Nelius makes two consecutive attempts to disrupt the fusion: first by shooting him, and then by launching a magic attack. Both attacks fail due to the sheer aura being output by Revenant.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c3d129cd	comment	High School DÃ—D: Raynare impaled Issei while he was powering up. Issei's vulnerability as he warmed up is a glaring weakness early on and one of the first hurdles his Training from Hell has to tackle. Issei wonders why Maou Ranger Red actually Sirzechs in disguise but Issei knew right away didn't attack him while he was transforming into his Balance Breaker. His response: The anime adaption only shows Balance Breaker transformations once each. Issei's happens so out of left field that his opponent gawking for a moment is entirely reasonable, and Vali was plainly just showing off and was under no threat from the "enemies" he was about to defect to anyway. Later transformations happen almost instantly, and usually before entering combat. Handwaved with Juggernaut Drive. While there is a lengthy invocation, the user's power is skyrocketing during the process. If they're that far gone, you're dead already.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: If a Time Lord is killed while trying to regenerate, then they will truly die. Most regenerations happen after the episode's conflict is over, but this happened to an alternate Doctor in "Turn Left" and was part of the Eleventh Doctor's faked death at the beginning of "The Impossible Astronaut". "Aliens of London"/"World War Three": Whenever one of the Slitheen removes their Human Disguise, the universal reaction of military officers, government officials, civil servants and random civilians alike is to watch in stunned passive silence.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: played straight when Edgar goes One-Winged Angel in the climax, ripping off his human skin and taking a full twenty seconds to unfold into his MUCH larger and deadlier Bug form. Kay and Jay not only stand there watching him, they don't even aim their guns until it's too late.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c4b82575	comment	Underworld (2003) had a Death Dealer (vampire assassin) allow a Lycan to shapeshift completely before doing anything. Clearly someone has not attended the Indiana Jones School of Combat.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c67a1218	comment	Dragoon transformations in The Legend of Dragoon appear to take several seconds but no one ever attacks someone mid-transformation. However, given that the transformations can be done in a flash of light in combat, and Dart managing to transform after a wingly had already fired a spell at him, it's likely that the Transformation Sequence is only for the audience. The transformations that do take longer, such as Dart's first transformation don't provoke any attacks, likely because Dragoons are at best a barely remembered legend so most enemies have no idea what's happening.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c720f71e	comment	Subverted in grand style in one episode. A hypersonic Robeast specifically designed to attack Voltron while forming is sent to Arus by Prince Lotor. Daniel's Voltcom powers are crucial in defeating it, as his speed-based powers allow Voltron to compress its combination sequence from 36 seconds to just four. Or as it was put in the comments section on a video recording of the Flash Form on YouTube:
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c832776	comment	Played straight with Shinn's Impulse Gundam in SEED Destiny: no matter how opportune the moment is for an enemy to simply destroy the Core Splendor or the Flyers while they combine (especially considering the Core Splendor jettisons its missile packs, the only means by which the Impulse can defend its flyers pre-combination), they never do. Especially egregious when the Impulse's sudden appearance and subsequent transformation can stun an Alliance mobile armor and its three pilots into panicked staring for about forty seconds, and, later, Kira Yamato. Kira at least has the excuse that he lowered his weapons upon seemingly delivering crippling damage (Kira being strict to his principles of not wanting to kill Shinn, something Shinn exploits in their fight repeatedly) and Shinn ejected the damaged upper body at him and blew it up with his machine guns in response, which knocked Kira into the ground to the point where by the time he got Freedom Gundam back in the air Impulse had already swapped it's parts. The Alliance pilots have no justification, they just stand there and watch.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c8be1c93	comment	Digimon Adventure: (2020) has Digivolutions mostly take place in real time instead of using stock footage (with the exception of Agumon from episode 4 on). In the very first episode, Agumon stops his enemy's attack mid-Digivolution and completes the transformation to Greymon while restraining the enemy at the same time.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ca786c92	comment	Mega Man Reawakened lampshades this when Robert wonders why Bass is watching Roll transform instead of doing something, though it's implied he did nothing because Roll looked good while transforming.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_cabb7dd6	comment	In Yokoka's Quest, transformations appear to be instantaneous, with characters often transforming in a single panel.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Averted in the original Japanese version. The first time Yami Yugi appears he has a long transformation sequence, but in subsequent transformations, the Millennium Puzzle simply flashes, and his alter egos trade places instantaneously; especially useful for battling the mind-reading Pegasus. However, the dub tends to recycle the first sequence over and over. Even with the drawn-out Transformation Sequence, it's still justified as Yugi typically does it before playing a card game and not in the middle of melee violence. Played straight instances where Yami Marik uses a Trap Card to reduce the ATK of Yami Bakura's monsters that are in the middle of being sacrificed, resulting in Ra having 0 ATK upon summoning. As usual, this kind of play is only possible in the original Duel Monsters anime, as it would otherwise be impossible to respond to the act of tributing monsters in the actual game and in later series (this move doesn't even occur in the original manga).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ce50887e	comment	In the original Dragon Ball, Goku ran up and punched King Piccolo in the gut while he was powering up, and chided him for leaving himself open.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_cf20724a	comment	Starting with Ultraman Orb, your typical Transformation Sequence started getting fairly long. This eventually was given a Hand Wave in Ultraman Z, where Z explained that when they activate their Transformation Trinket, the people who transform into the Ultramen are pulled into a realm where time moves much faster, making it possible for this trope to happen and it was shown in previous series that it was indeed the case, as when not reusing stock footage of transformations a simple flash would happen and the Ultra would instantly transform or change orm.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_cf69b21e	comment	In Beast Wars they actually played with the fast transforming times, letting the characters utilize the various advantages of both forms (or three. Four in the case of Primal). Typically the reason they don't shoot during transformations is because they were caught off-guard or are busy transforming or readying for battle themselves. Notably in the episode "Double Jeopardy", Rattrap shoots Tarantulas in the middle of his transformation because Spider-Boy spent a few seconds gloating about catching Rattrap in the act of espionage, who had plenty of time to pull his gun and fire because he was already in his battle form.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim puts a little spin on this; transformation is not a free action, but attacking the Riders during their transformation has done nothing. The Riders are also capable of moving around during their transformation. The one time it does work was a sneak attack. Played Straight with Gaim's Kiwami Arms Super Mode, which summons every other type of armor and fuses it with him. This summoned armor can be used to barrage the opponent and knock them away if they decide to try and interrupt.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d14bb14a	comment	This is a Call-Back to Kamen Rider Ryuki where Asakura attacked Kido mid-transformation, injuring his sword hand.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d1838992	comment	In Common Sense, both Team Rocket and their opponents will try to attack a PokÃ©mon if they see it transforming mid-battle, not that it ever works.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill succinctly demonstrates why nobody attacks Ryuko during the transformation sequence simply by showing what it looks like to the outside observer◊. Tsumugu is at least smart enough to attack her before she can initiate her transformation. It's also noteworthy that that picture is from an early point in the series when she's experiencing technical difficulties with her Kamui. Later on, her transformation is shown to be instantaneous and involve little more than some star-shaped sparkles and a flash of light.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	In Trials of Mana, if you choose Kevin as one of your characters, his nighttime werewolf transformations cannot be interrupted by enemies. "Hey monsters, just gonna go werewolf here, don't mind me."
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d3e3e38a	comment	Averted in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. While there is a transformation sequence when Adora turns into She-Ra, from an outsider's perspective the transformation looks instantaneous.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d56cb367	comment	Double subverted in Power Rangers S.P.D.: The A-Squad morph into SWAT mode and fire at the B-Squad rangers, who have yet to transform. They must have shot from the hip, though, because the B-Squad promptly morph anyway while explosions light up behind them. You missed! How could you miss! He was three feet in front of you!
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: In the series, all outside actions stop when the battles start, even when someone is in the middle of executing an evil plot that the protagonists have just meddled in. In the TV special The Legend of Thunder, though, Marina (literally) tosses her Misdreavus into a two-on-one battle, and everyone stops what they're doing — even the villains in the process of capturing the elusive and powerful Raikou — to either watch or order PokÃ©mon around... but then Attila gets an idea. Also, whenever a PokÃ©mon evolves, it's allowed to finish doing so, regardless of what was happening prior. In official battles, this is likely a polite thing to do, but even evil teams politely wait for them to finish. Considering they turn into energy during their transformation, it may simply be useless (or even dangerous) to attempt attacking them during evolution.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d78f90c5	comment	Dragon Ball Multiverse: Subverted with Freeza in U3, where Saiyans manage to kill him because he was midtransformation at the time. Also, U18 King Cold would've won if Trunks hadn't killed him before he could even transform into his third form.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Another has a monster stand by and watch Sailor Moon transform beginning to end because he was enjoying it so much he pitched a tent in his very tight pants. They're both so thoroughly embarrassed and repulsed they just call the fight off and go home.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair spends two paragraphs going into detail about the villain Scaling Up into a snake, then spends a third paragraph pointing out how the transformation really only took less than a second.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_df7e11cd	comment	Inverted and subverted in Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Gackt, telling Commander where an eye wash station was, only to transform into his ultimate form while Commander was occupied.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e3ed54c7	comment	Pretty Cure has justified this in two different ways. The original series had the transformation take place inside what seemed to be a barrier of light, while later casts have had scenes where the transformation is seen as nothing but a brief flash of light, implying that (like in Sailor Moon) it isn't really as time-consuming as what we're shown. This is most commonly seen in the movies because they, being longer than episodes of the show, are more likely to have the cast need to transform multiple times. In one of the episodes in the second half of the first series, the Cures completed their demand for the creature of darkness to return from whence it came, only to discover that the creature of darkness had returned from whence it came (or at least run off to carry out her evil plan elsewhere) during the transformation. Suite Pretty Cure ♪ has an opening before the credits where the badguys are just sitting around watching the Pretty Cures' Transformation Sequence on TV in their lair for no reason but to lampshade this trope. In Doki Doki! PreCure, normal security cameras somehow managed to capture Mana's first transformation on video. Explained in a live TV show in Japan. Apparently the light energy is so strong that it can power entire Japan 21 times over, so any bad guy who jumped into that will be vaporized immediately. Then a commentator thinks of a way to weaponize that...
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e4d1ce93	comment	Parodied in Shakugan no Shana, when Domino's transformation takes so long that by the time she is finished, Shana and Margery have escaped.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi averts this with Kotaro, who usually transforms into his demon form more or less instantaneously. Later played straight when Negi pulls out his Black Magic transformation against Jack Rakan, and Rakan doesn't do anything to stop him, allowing Negi to turn into lightning, literally, and beat the crap out of him. And when he transforms again into Raiten Taisou 2, this time Kotaro has to cover him for 43 seconds. And then there was that time in the Mahora Festival Tournament Arc where Kotaro decided to change into his demon form only for Ku:Nel Sanders to squash him repeatedly with gravity magic while he's in mid-transformation until he finally fell unconscious.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e6d0a1a2	comment	Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger foregoes Stock Footage transformation in favor of integrating it into the scenes. As a result, it's been shown repeatedly that the King-Ohgers can move and fight even mid-transformation.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e71c679	comment	Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: Deka Gold's only appearance, which happened in a movie, lasted for only a few seconds due to her getting blasted out of the transformation immediately. The transformation itself was instant, but she was already being attacked and the enemy didn't bother stopping for her. Attempted by the enemy against the main team themselves later in the film as well but they manage to avoid it. The Dekarangers move to begin their transformation leading the enemy to try to interrupt it like he did for Gold, but they actually stop short of hitting the button on their Transformation Trinket and dodge the blast, and THEN transform before he can try again.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e831946a	comment	Mostly played straight in Coffin Princess Chaika. When Toru and Akari undergo their Iron Blood Form transformation, they have to chant an incantation that takes a few seconds to complete. A few times, the two took measures to distract enemies so they could finish it uninterrupted. However, no one has ever actually tried to stop them from doing it, even when standing right in front of them.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e86200e3	comment	The Demon Girl Next Door brings two examples; Episode 8 of the anime adaptation shows them both without their usual fanfare to demonstrate how fast they actually take.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e89f120b	comment	While not a transformation per se, climbing into an MS in Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2 provides the MS with temporary invulnerability while it activates.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_e93b2f62	comment	Averted in The Fly (1986) with the One-Winged Angel climax of Seth's Slow Transformation into "Brundlefly" for a very good/absolutely horrible reason: He's hurrying to place Veronica in one telepod and himself in another before a two-minute countdown ends in order to genetically fuse himself with her. Just because his beloved accidentally rips his jaw off trying to escape his grip, triggering the shedding of everything that remains of his human form, he's not going to dawdle. The transformation is over and done with in less than 40 seconds, and the fact that no one stops what they're doing as it happens arguably makes it more horrifying than it would be were the trope played straight. Makeup/effects designer Chris Walas actually insisted that this trope be averted because so many horror movies of The '80s were playing it straight (his example being The Howling).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ec28245c	comment	The diverging point in the Dragon Ball Z fanfic Inheritance is Piccolo averting this and killing Freeza while he tries to go in his third form.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_ef28c988	comment	During the climactic battle of Pacific Rim: Uprising, when the three Kaiju are all being fused together into the Mega Kaiju, all the Jaeger pilots just stand there like slack-jawed idiots as the giant monsters are being cut into pieces and slowly recombined into an even bigger monster, instead of attacking them while the vital organs are showing and they can't fight back. By the time the Jaegers start attacking again, the Mega Kaiju is fully formed and stronger than all four of the mecha put together.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_efccb9da	comment	In Voltron: Legendary Defender, it is left ambiguous until "Stayin' Alive", where it is subverted and lampshaded.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_f1360d68	comment	Probably with the exception of Mobile Fighter G Gundam (which has most of the robot fights take place in the context of a sporting competition rather than a war, and as such not starting the fight until everyone has powered up their suits is the equivalent of a game not starting until both teams have left the locker room), one example being that G-Armor has to hide behind a hill to separate into G-Fighter and Gundam.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_f41d2302	comment	In Xenoverse and Xenoverse 2, most transformations by the player are instantaneous and knock enemies back when completed. The ones that aren't instantaneous provide invincibility frames during the sequence, but you're still vulnerable to Guard Breaks at the start and end of the animation. Played straight with AI characters, whose transformations are always in cutscene format.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog invokes and parodies this during Kogoro's transformation sequence. Tamama argues that it's the perfect time to attack him, but Keroro convinces him to not do so, telling him that it would be rude.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_f7e9904e	comment	Averted again in The Legacy of Goku II, where Super Saiyan/Super Namek caused your character to do the transformation animation in real time and would be interrupted if you got hit, making them a pain in the ass to pull off during boss fights (luckily, most boss arenas had places you could hide behind to transform without getting punched).
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_f858847a	comment	Played straight with Mega Evolutions in Generation VI, temporary form changes accessible to certain PokÃ©mon in battle. You can transform into a Mega form and use a move in the same turn.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Spoofed in "Crossover Nexus", where Strike announces that he's about to begin his "incredibly long, uninterruptible power-up sequence". It lasts for about a full minute, and by the time he's done the heroes have stolen his pen-laser and gotten their powers back.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fab472d2	comment	In the fight against Smough and Ornstein in Dark Souls, whichever one you don't kill absorbs the other's power while the Chosen Undead politely waits.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	It also happens in Voltes V's predecessor Combattler V, where the Big Bad fires an anti-super-electromagnetic beam to disrupt the team's combining sequence, and does so repeatedly, foiling several attempts, all while gloating evilly about her new trump card.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fb0c3aa4	comment	It takes Vehicle Voltron so long to transform (partially because they screwed it up and had to go back several steps to try again) that nearly everyone they were supposed to rescue is dead by the time they actually got there (and the only one left kills himself after realizing it's "not even the real Voltron, just that stupid vehicle one!").
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fb9c177d	comment	This is the main difference between American-produced Transformers shows and the Japanese ones. Transformers in Generation 1, Beast Wars and Transformers: Animated tend to take only a few seconds (if even that) to transform, not leaving themselves open to attack, whereas the Japanese shows follow this trope to a T. It actually varies in the Japanese series. Sometimes there are long dramatic transformation sequences, and others the transforming happens instantly. As with Power Rangers, it apparently actually looks like the in-scene morphs to the other characters. It comes into play more, though, during Transformers: Cybertron, as dialogue is inserted into Stock Footage sequences to make them more interesting. It largely works, but sometimes there are oddities like Optimus going to Super Mode, combining with Leobreaker, and explaining their role in Vector Prime's larger plan, all while Teleport Spam user Sideways is in mid-teleport and hasn't reappeared yet. Note that in the American series nobody every tries to interrupt characters combining into a bigger robot, which clearly does take time. It was done at least once. Slag knocked over a not-yet-complete Devastator. Animated, however does both. Most of the time, transformation is instantaneous, however characters occasionally do get a transformation sequence where this trope is in effect. One of the Japanese-only Transformer-style series has the baddies develop a special gun that was triggered to fire exactly in the seconds of transformation, when the robots are most vulnerable. The heroes eventually get around this by having their back-up team transform before coming on the scene, making them late to the fight but not knocked out. The villains never use this device again. In Beast Wars they actually played with the fast transforming times, letting the characters utilize the various advantages of both forms (or three. Four in the case of Primal). Typically the reason they don't shoot during transformations is because they were caught off-guard or are busy transforming or readying for battle themselves. Notably in the episode "Double Jeopardy", Rattrap shoots Tarantulas in the middle of his transformation because Spider-Boy spent a few seconds gloating about catching Rattrap in the act of espionage, who had plenty of time to pull his gun and fire because he was already in his battle form. The Transformers: The Movie: Subverted when the Constructicons try to combine into Devastator; Rumble and Frenzy create a tremor to knock them apart mid-transformation. A Double Subversion involving Unicron: when he takes robot form, Galvatron decides to blast him in his moment of weakness. He's unable to so much as scratch Unicron. Subverted in Transformers: Prime. When Starscream sees an angry Megatron eager to punish him, he changes into a jet to escape. However, Megatron grabs him just before he can finish and hurls him into the hull of the Nemesis.
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Transformation Is a Free Action / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Brawl has loading issues due to the fact that it is on a double-layered DVD. As such, Princess Zelda's transformation into Sheik now encases her in a sphere of light for four seconds rather than being instantaneous like in the previous game, Melee. You can't hurt her while she's in the sphere, though it's not uncommon for opponents to keep hitting it in hopes of hurting her the exact second she's done. Pokemon Trainer suffered from similar problems when switching 'mons, and Samus is a downplayed example (the transformation is part of her Final Smash and is intended to be punishable if she misses). 4 abandoned transforming characters altogether for similar reasons: disc access times on the Wii U, and memory limitation on the 3DS. Ultimate added transformations back in. Since the Switch deals only in solid state memory devices, load times are back to near-instant.
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