"Are you a dog?" "I think so, but I have no idea what you are!"
A non-human character in a series, often an animal, is turned into a human. The major difference between this and Become a Real Boy is that the transformed character doesn't want to be human. Such changes are, more often than not, involuntarily forced upon them.
Sometimes, immediately after such transformation follows a Humans Through Alien Eyes sequence as the newly transformed inspects their new, strange foreleg extremities with five wriggling tentacles, the strange growth infecting the very top of their body and the bizarre inability to see in ultraviolet.
Once experiencing what it's like, the creature often can't wait to turn back to normal. The most common version of this trope will involve cats, due to the sly assumption that cats already think they're the best creatures, and also... well, you know. This can also be a Cool and Unusual Punishment for supernatural beings, as the loss of their powers forces them to be Brought Down to Normal. If the character is a nonhuman who hates the human race this may be a Karmic Transformation as they discover Being Human Sucks.
If the change is voluntary, the character only occasionally puts up with it for the sake of convenience. Very often, they are simply so bad at acting human that it's better for everyone that they aren't.
Sometimes the character flips between both, and has no specific problems with it, but does it selectively because it makes other characters feel more comfortable. This trope preferentially happens to the Non-Human Sidekick, where it can't be permanent because it might disrupt the premise of the character.
Naturally, the mascot-dominated demographics of Shōnen and shoujo will result in the transformation into a character who is incredibly adorable or attractive, providing eye candy for the audience while not invoking romantic notions in the established cast.
See also A Form You Are Comfortable With. Compare Become a Real Boy, in which attaining humanity is a central plot point, and Anthropomorphic Transformation, where the animal simply gains human-like traits without becoming fully human. Contrast Animorphism, which is kind of the opposite (humans turn into non-humans). May result in Alien Among Us or a Shapeshifting Lover. Contrast Humanity Is Infectious, where it's the human mindset that is catchy.
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Advertising
- An M&M's ad
for the 2018 Super Bowl features Red, tired of people always wanting to eat him, wishing on a lucky penny that he were human and turning into Danny DeVito in a red M&M suit. Red rejoices in the fact that no one wants to eat him before getting hit by a truck. He later decides to go back to normal by wishing on the penny to be an M&M again. And he becomes an M&M again...a normal sized, seemingly non-sentient M&M candy that sits motionless on the ground and gets stepped on. "Ow" indeed.
Comic Books
- In the After the Fall comics continuation to Angel, the Senior Partners turned Angel into a human to deprive him of his powers, but the Reset Button was eventually pressed again.
- Marvel Universe:
- Champions (2016): In the Champions/Avengers crossover event, the High Evolutionary turns Viv, a sapient robot, into a flesh-and-blood human, ostensibly as an improvement over her artificial form. She finds this state horrifying — for a being used to being able to fly, phase through matter, and turn harder than diamond, a human body is horribly heavy, weak, and fragile, and the loss of the mechanical sensors and digital communications that she used constantly leaves her in effectively a state of sensory deprivation. When she gets a chance to go back to being a robot, she grabs it with both hands.
- Heroes for Hire: White Tiger is an actual tiger, transformed into a human being. She eventually chooses to be changed back into a tiger, as being a human is too confusing for her.
- Fables: Happens quite frequently, mostly because Fables who are nonhuman (or at least don't look human enough) are forced to live in a secluded area called the Farm where they can't leave. As a result, Fables try to save up to buy a glamour spell to give them human appearances. Snow White helps give Bigby the ability to turn into a human with a lycanthropy-stained knife. There is also the case of Colonel Thunderfoot, a rabbit who is turned into a human by the angry mother of a rabbit who dies after Thunderfoot leads the troops into an unwinnable battle. She tells him he can only change back from this "hideous form" if he can find a female rabbit that loves him regardless. By the end of the chapter, his chances look rather bleak.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
- After the original Dr. Robotnik was Killed Off for Real in the 50th issue, the 75th issue reintroduced his Alternate Self from issue 22, a Robotnik from an Alternate Timeline who roboticisied himself to defeat Sonic. He transfers to a new body resembling Doctor Eggman from the main post-Aventures Sonic games, but it wasn't until issue 118 that his humanity was completely restored, bringing him 100% in-line with his video game depiction.
- A variant happens, when Princess Sally's AI sidekick constructs herself a holographic mobian body after experiencing it first hand during a "Freaky Friday" Flip.
- An issue of Sonic the Comic has an issue where Sonic is a human. As the issue goes, Sonic wakes up one day in a strange bedroom as a human. As he wanders around the house he meets a woman who says she's his mother and makes him believe that Mobius and Sonic the Hedgehog were All Just a Dream. As it turns out, though, it's just a trap by Robotnik. The comic also features Tails as a human.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
- Howard the Duck accidentally became human once, and boy, did he hate it.
- Raptors: A villainous variation: the vampire council finds out to their horror that they are slowly becoming like mortals, and they can die normally or contract diseases.
- In The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis, Zoidberg (who's an alien) turns into a human after landing into a vat of toxic waste. He goes back to normal when he leaves the Simpsons comic.
- Wonder Woman:
- Wonder Woman (1942): Giganta, a female gorilla who has just lost her baby, escapes from her cage, snatches a human baby from a bystander, and subsequently attacks people who try to intervene. She's initially ordered to be put down until Doctor Zool barters for use of her in an evolutionary experiment. She is transformed into a large, strong and violent woman. Because gorillas are deadly violent creatures, of course.
- Wonder Woman (1987): Hermes is convinced to return to Olympus when it becomes clear that his spending his power to play superhero is draining him of what makes him an Olympian due to his lack of worshipers and if he keeps lingering on earth he's going to turn into one of the humans he's been doling out his Condescending Compassion to. The fact that the ichor is his veins is turning to blood is quite unsettling for him.
- Wonder Woman (2011): Hera is turned into a human by Apollo after Zeus dies and Apollo ascends the throne of Olympus. It is a traumatic experience for her, not the least of which is because the part of her nature that made her blind to how horrifically cruel she was has been removed, and she turns to alcohol.
- Wonder Woman (Infinite Frontier): Ratatoskr eats an enchanted tart which transforms him into a human boy but still retaining his horn. Ratatoskr is distressed by this to the point of tears.
- One story in Phil Foglio's XXXenophile involved a witch who had accidentally cast a lust spell on herself. She summoned her patron god, Cernunnos, to, ah, scratch her itch, but even the randy deity can't satisfy her. It turns out her (sentient) cat familiar accidentally dumped a spoonful of a love potion she was making for someone else into something she was drinking. The spell could only be broken by playing with whoever had given her the potion. So Cernunnos turns the cat into a human and had him join in, after which the witch's familiar became the witch's fiancé. The cat enjoys being a man — but also thinks opposable thumbs are overrated and, after the witch declares her love for him, asks "Will you still feed me?"
Comic Strips
- Palmtop the cat in Safe Havens turns into a human ("Pam") as a result of genetic experimentation. The same goes for Vince (formerly a mouse) and Feryl, formerly a bird).
- This happens to the cast of Sherman's Lagoon whenever they ask Kahuna. Of course, their human forms aren't always consistent, so they can look like anybody Kahuna desires.
Films — Animation
- Every human-appearing character in Spirited Away, except Chihiro and her parents. If some of them look human-like, it's only because it's a matter of convenience. This, of course, make sense, since Japanese folklore is rife with this. Most of them are actually frogs (the men) or slugs (the women) while Lin is a weasel, Haku is a dragon, and Yubaba is a crow.
- In Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Van Helsing's Monsterfication Ray is able to transform monsters into humans, with Dracula and his friends subjected to this. Except for Blobby, who gets turned into a small plate of green gelatin instead.
- The shape-changing foxes and tanuki of Pom Poko do their best to blend in with humanity after they lose their fight to save their forests. Some even become real-estate developers themselves.
- In The Sword in the Stone, Merlin forces Archimedes (his pet owl) to obey him by threatening to turn him into a human. This sequence is especially funny because Archimedes's shocked reaction ("You wouldn't dare!") suggests that he considers it to be the most degrading fate imaginable.
- Shrek 2:
- Shrek gets turned into a human after drinking a potion. Unlike most examples, he's perfectly fine with it, (even though he'd much rather be his regular ogre self) since he wanted to make Fiona happy by giving her the Prince Charming she'd always dreamt of.
- It's also revealed that Harold, Fiona's father, got turned into a human from a toad by the Fairy Godmother.
- In The King's Beard, Sophie, a fairy, loses her wings and Pointy Ears once Jasper starts draining the power of her wand. Notably, it's only a temporary stage as part of her withering away, and there's no possibility of her just living as a magicless human.
- The Last Unicorn, the titular unicorn is turned into a human girl in the mid point of the movie. The rest of the story deals with the consequences of her newly-acquired humanity. By the climax, "Amalthea" has come so strongly to the fore that she dies when the unicorn returns to her rightful form.
- Occurs thrice in Cinderella:
- In the first movie, Cinderella had the Fairy Godmother turn both Major the horse and Bruno the bloodhound into humans to serve as the drivers for Cinderella's pumpkin coach (since the role of the horses have been taken by the mice).
- The second movie had a sequence in which the mouse Jacques asked the Fairy Godmother to turn him into a human so he could be more helpful to Cindy. He learns that being a human isn't what he expected and is horrified when he accidentally scares the other mice. He gets into several shenanigans including angering an elephant at a fair into a rampage, in his panic he cries out for the Fairy Godmother who points out he could scare the elephant into stopping if he was still a mouse. With his permission she changes him back and he saves the day learning it's better be himself in the process.
- In the third movie, the cat Lucifer is transformed into a human in order to drive a pumpkin carriage containing Cinderella off a cliff.
- Played for a quick joke in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. After SpongeBob foils Plankton's plot, King Neptune proceeds to unfreeze Mr. Krabs with his trident, only to turn him into a fat human boy. Neptune says he accidentally had his trident set to real boy ending, so he fixes up Krabs and turns him back to normal.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls:
- The plot of the first movie involves Twilight Sparkle traveling to another dimension where she turns into a human teenager. A good chunk of the movie's comedy stems from Twilight trying not to act like a pony and failing miserably at it.
- Sunset Shimmer is also a pony turned human, though she's had a lot more time to practice acting like one by the time of the film. In contrast to most examples, she seems to prefer her human form after spending so much time as one, having no interest in permanently returning to her home dimension following her Heel–Face Turn.
- Similarly, in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the Dazzlings were sirens in the form of merponies who attempted to take over Equestria thousands of years ago. They were defeated by Star Swirl the Bearded and banished to the human world, where they were trapped in human form with a limited version of their powers.
- In the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night short "Mirror Magic", Starlight Glimmer travels to the human world and becomes human, needing a similar period of adjustment like Twilight did.
Films — Live-Action
- In Aladdin (2019), the Genie becomes a human after being freed.
- In the 1940 film The Blue Bird starring Shirley Temple, a fairy transforms the children's pets Tylo the dog and Tylette the cat into humans to help them on their quest.
- In City of Angels, angels can choose to become human...but they have to commit angel suicide to do it. Nathaniel Messenger (Dennis Franz's character) did so before the beginning of the movie and Nic Cage's character does it near the end.
- In Cool World, Holli the Doodle becomes human after having sex with Jack.
- The vampire film, Daybreakers has two interesting examples. In a vampire-ruled world, human blood is running out. In their search for a cure to vampirism, the remaining human rebels find out that rapid exposure to sunlight, usually lethal, followed by immersion in water, can revert a vampire to human form. The cure is impractical to use on the billions of vampires, but they discover that drinking cured blood cures the feeder. This creates a sort of positive virus effect, the starved vampires feeding on cured people, getting cured, then being fed on themselves, curing more people.
- In Dragonheart A New Beginning Griffin, the Antagonist of the film reveals that he was a dragon who forced into a human form and he has been trying to become a dragon once again by reclaiming his heart, he transforms back into his true form at the climax of the film.
- When Freddy is dragged into the real world in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, he briefly becomes human again. He turns back into his standard form pretty quickly though.
- In Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge, mystical beings who succumb to the "Grey Spell" undergo a Bit-by-Bit Transformation into a color-drained human with mundane interests.
- Hisss: The Nagini is able to transform into a Head-Turning Beauty female human, with only her reptile eyes hinting at her true nature.
- Two instances with The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. First, the aliens transform themselves into humans, and have newfound experiences with human emotions. Next, the other scientist merges four animals into one human - who can talk in English but still has animal behavior (such as table eating habits that the aliens copy.)
- The raven Diaval in Maleficent is turned into a man by the titular character at first to save him from being beaten to death by a farmer. After he pledges service to her, she keeps him as a raven to spy for her, and a human to give his reports.
- Near Dark: Vampirization can be reversed with human blood infusion. In the end, Caleb is turned back by his father and sister, and he does the same thing to Mae.
- Boots of A Simple Wish was once a dog who was transformed into a human by her master, Claudia, to serve as her Dragon. She is turned back following her Heel–Face Turn and is subsequently adopted by Murray.
- Wolffy, Wolnie, and Paddi are transformed into humans in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy, after usually being wolves and a goat. In the second film, Wilie, Wolffy's son who is a wolf himself, is transformed into a human (he appeared in the first movie, but was transformed into a dog instead of a human).
- In Stardust, Lamia turns a goat into a human to play the part of an innkeeper in her trap. He still acts like a goat, bleating and chewing on people's clothing.
- The 2017 Romantic Comedy Unleashed is about a young woman wishing that there were "guys out there like" her pet Labrador retriever and cat... who turn into a blonde Hunk and suave Casanova respectively and start fighting over her to keep a roof over their heads while she remains oblivious of the guy crushing on her. Both of the pets still keep their animal behaviors however such as the cat climbing a tree and needing the fire department getting him down and the Lab humping a copy machine.
- Throughout Finian's Rainbow, Og is slowly turning into a human due to losing his pot of gold. By the end, he's become completely mortal.
- X-Men: The Last Stand has this happening to mutants who are exposed to the "cure".
- The 1951 film You Never Can Tell is a literal dog and pony show. King is the Pet Heir of a wealthy man. Should King die, the fortune passes to his caretaker, Ellen (Peggy Dow). King is soon found poisoned, and Ellen is framed for the murder. In Beastatory, the animals' Purgatory preceding Heaven, King asks God (a Lion, of course) permission to return to earth to seek justice. He is sent back as a man: Rex Shepherd, Private Detective (Dick Powell). With him is a champion racing mare, Golden Harvest (Goldie Harvey in her human form, played by Joyce Holden). The "humanimals" have to catch the real killer (who's about to marry Ellen, of course) before the next full moon or they'll have to stay on earth as people. They retain some of their animal traits — Rex snacks on kibble and chases balls, Goldie races buses and visits her grandchildren at the track. Most Humanimals are sent back to right wrongs they have done and are not aware they're really animals. But a surprising number are volunteers — as Goldie tells Rex, you never can tell.
Pinballs
- Occurs in The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot, where an influx of human DNA turns a Humongous Mecha into a giantess.
Roleplay
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers:
- Audilith the Gigalith was turned human as a result of the Glitch Area in Twist Mountain. She was not very fond of it, deciding she'd rather not be human again.
- This is also a common occurrence on April Fools Days, where several odd things happen, though things are returned to relative normalcy by the day's end.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- A very old spin on Our Were Beasts Are Different in D&D is the existence of "beastweres" — shapeshifters that begin as intelligent magical animals but can transform into partially and/or wholly human forms. These are sometimes referred to as "therianthropes" in contrast to "lycanthropes" (any werebeast of the conventional humanoid-to-animal model), and their naming convention is always done as (animal)were. The oldest of these is the wolfwere, but other versions include the jackalwere (which eventually surpassed its predecessor) and the Maztican coyotlywere.
- Mystara: The origin of the Rakasta Cat Folk is based on the Aesop's fable above, about the cat transformed into a woman. In this version, however, instead of turning her back into a cat when she shows her nature, the gods decide to split the difference and turn both husband and wife into the first Rakasta.
- Ravenloft:
- One NPC from the Carnival supplement is a former snake familiar of an evil wizard, whose master used to turn her into a sexy elf for "companionship"; gaining her freedom when she joined the Carnival, she now works as a snake-charmer and dancer. The other is either a leopard who turns into a man, or vice versa: he's not sure which.
- From the Darklords supplement, Baron Urik von Kharkov started life as a black panther. He was turned into a dark-skinned man by Morphayus, a wizard of Thay, to be used as a killer. Upon entering Ravenloft, he soon was turned into a vampire and, after his vampire lord was destroyed, became a Darklord.
- Shadowrun:
- There are rules for playing a character who can shift between human and an animal form. The main drawback to such a character isn't the hefty investment of character generation resources, it's the fact that such characters are supposed to be played as animals that turn into people, not people that turn into animals, which makes justifying why they're hanging out with a bunch of gun bunnies in a smelly city sprawl rather than climbing trees a bit difficult.
- The Great Dragons can freely shift between human and dragon form. For example, Lofwyr, the CEO of the German Mega-Corp Saeder-Krupp, is known as "Hans Brackhaus" in his human form.
- The World of Darkness:
- Old World of Darkness:
- Changeling: The Dreaming: With the encroachment of Banality and a severe decrease in all-around belief, the faeries who were unable to make it back to Arcadia bound their souls to human bodies. A changeling generally goes through a normal childhood until their fae soul goes through "Chrysalis," at which point they begin to perceive the world of the fae and start recalling information about their past lives.
- Vampire: The Masquerade: At the end of "Wormwood", one of the apocalyptic scenarios in the Gehenna sourcebook, those vampires who manage to go through the forty nights in the sanctuary and earn a measure of redemption find that God strips them of their curse and returns their humanity to them, granting them a second chance to live without their Beast or their dark hungers to lead them down a monster's path.
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Some werewolves originate as wolves. These, though as intelligent as the others, usually find shapeshifting less than pleasant and make use of it only for special purposes. Some factions, such as the human-hating (and all-wolf) Red Talons rarely take on human shapes at all.
- Chronicles of Darkness:
- Changeling: The Lost: Those humans who were taken and turned into Beasts and Elementals have a hard time adjusting back to being human again. The Beasts have a hard time thinking non-instinctively after being animals for so long, and the Elementals have trouble relating to other people after spending so long as flames or trees.
- Demon: The Fallen: Demons who'd escaped from the Abyss had to take empty bodies (the brain-dead, the severely insane, and the recently dead) to remain on Earth. This actually grounded a lot of them and made them less demonic, seeing as they were experiencing human emotion and sensation for the first time after millennia in a featureless abyss.
- Old World of Darkness:
Theatre
- The Tsukiuta idols live in a dorm with their 10 mostly magical pets. One night, a curse from the demon world comes through and turns some of those pets into humans - and they're just as attractive as their idol caretakers. Thus begins the plot of the fourth play in the series, Lunatic Party. What follows is exactly what it says on the tin.
- In the seventh play, Cyber-Dive Connection, Nakai-san the reindeer (who is actually a fairy) regains his human form and asks the idols to come with him into the digital world to rescue Santa. An Ass-kicking Cyberpunk Christmas ensues. Croquet (the dog) is along for the ride, as is series mascot giant rabbit Kuroda, who did not appear in Lunatic Party.
Web Animation
- Inkling Meggy Spletzer from SMG4 ends up turning into a human at the climax of the Anime Arc. In order to stop Francis, she allows Axol to drain all of her ink to power up his magic pen, Inkweaver, to draw something that can defeat Francis' Super Saiyan Blue Goku. She survives, but loses everything about her Inkling self aside from her voice. And she loses that in the climax of the YouTube Arc, where a remote command from the YouTube Master Control Remote switches her language from Inkling to English. According to the creators, Meggy's humanization was planned from the beginning.
- Melony, a simple watermelon outfitted with Meggy's headgear, also becomes human when a Fierce Deity Mask lands on it. The result is a cute, sleepy, hoodie-wearing girl with the voice of Korone Inugami who likes to sleep on bushes.
Webcomics
- Myan from Cat Nine though she's more of a Cat Girl because the spell that allows her to transform was incomplete. She doesn't seem to mind though.
- All the main characters in Deities eventually take on a human form, even God who is reluctant to at first.
- In Godslave, Heru makes Sobek, crocodile god, turn into a human, to Sobek's disgruntlement.
- Red from Gunnerkrigg Court is a Regional Fairy who wants to become human, initially. The first time we see her post-metamorphosis, she's in a barely-contained rage over her new body and over the human classes she has to take.
- Although, once she learns about haircuts, she is pretty enthusiastic about the misguided notion that you can chop bits off a human's body, and Annie and Kat have to forcibly restrain her from trying it herself.
- The reverse also happens: humans can become animals through a similar process.
- And most non-fairy girls get turned into male humans. Ouch. Not going to stop the horny bunny!
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has the butterfly creature Princess Voluptua, who spends most of her time in the comic disguised as a beautiful woman.
- In Kevin & Kell, the portal from Furth to Earth transforms animals into humans. Except Mrs. Aura and Nigel, who become dolphins. In Mrs Aura's Twitter feed, she became a human subsequently and the current retcon appears to be that dolphin-world is a separate reality.
- Francis Fennec, the son of a fennec fox and a human-turned-rabbit, spent the first year of his life as what could only be described as a hereditary mess of an unclassifiable animal. Later, though, he turned into a human. Lindesfarne's research revealed that because Danielle was originally a human, any children born to her would eventually turn human...as would her own, since she too came from the human world originally. Funny thing, though, Francis isn't that bothered about his humanity, since he's still a baby, but the uproar that ensued from the general population...
- Inverted with Danielle - she was originally human, but became a rabbit after going through the portal.
- Lovely Lovecraft: Nyarlathotep and Azathoth, as well as the other Outer Gods, have been forced into humanoid bodies and mortal existences for reasons as yet undiscovered. Nyarlathotep appears to be taking on some human traits, or at least is growing interested in human concepts such as trust and compassion.
- Narbonic:
- Artie the superintelligent talking gerbil is temporarily turned into a human for a specific mission. The transmogrifier ray reacted with his modified DNA to cause him to spontaneously switch between human and gerbil forms. Eventually he learns to control the changes, but he still thinks of himself primarily as a gerbil. Also fits the trope by having moviestar-type good looks, and a voice to match.
- Also, Caliban the demon renounces his demonic powers and becomes mortal. He looks mostly the same, except for having lost the wings and horns, but that's because even as a demon he appeared as a little blond guy with a British accent.
- All Ace characters in Pandect are animals that can turn human at will. Since humanity comes with a soul and a greatly extended lifespan, earning Ace is a great reward, albeit one with a lot of responsibility attached.
- Princess Tigress Reborn is about Bai Ying, a pet tigress whose rage at her master's tragic death somehow reincarnated her as a human. She likes having the change to get revenge, but ofterwise considers the new form a downgrade; humans are held to much higher standards of etiquette than animals, and attach importance to sex that she does not.
- While Aylee from Sluggy Freelance has never become fully human, she has eventually adopted a form close enough that, with a little makeup and contact lenses she can reasonably pass herself off as one. She actually seems quite happy about the transformation (particularly having fingers delicate enough to do things like pick paperclips off a table), though some of her attempts to fit in with humans can be a little frustrating.
- Subverted in Witchprickers, when Ilemauzer the talking bat asks Old Scratch to change her into a human, only to turn into a Beast Man instead.
- Boyfriend of the Dead: The longer a zombie goes without eating human flesh, the more it remembers of being human. Seeing elements of its human life seems to help; N focuses on his cooking, and many background zombies rediscover the joys of smartphones and tourism. Alex kills so many zombies that she manages to horrify many of them into regaining their sanity.
- Towards the end of Peritale side-story Life Of Melody, Razzmatazz becomes human after tearing out his own fairy wings.
- In The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred, Camlann, the sentient magic sword is turned into a human thanks to Éclat's power.
- Becoming Blizzard combines this with Our Were Beasts Are Different - Amadeus' ex-boyfriend, a bear, turns into a human when there is a full moon.
- In Kill Six Billion Demons, White Chain does this to herself as part of her apotheosis. She shrugs off her angelic nature, punches a demiurge with enough force to break her own forged ash armour, then creates a new human shell for herself, all faster than the spectators can see.
Web Original
- Law Of Talos has Karl, a animated statue, turn into a human in the end due to A Wish to bring back every dead from the Tournament back to life (he was killed in the final round)... apparently the wish thought Animated Statue does not = Life. He is not pleased.
- Vanguard, which involves a planet where bugs are apparently the dominant species being struck by a strange meteor. A scout goes to investigate...
- The end of Gaia Online's poorly-named "Demonbusters" event has the central demigod characters stripped of their powers and reduced to mortality. Subsequent events feature them trying to return to being deities, to no avail.
- SCP-1575 of SCP Foundation is a magical fountain which turns any animal that drinks from it into a human. Unlike most examples of the trope, Body Horror is involved.
Web Videos
- Vampire Carmilla's humanity is restored in the last chapter of Carmilla the Series. She then gambles her new life to restore Laura after her Heroic Sacrifice.
Laura: Don't take this the wrong way, but why am I not dead? And is that a heartbeat?
- In Atop the Fourth Wall, this ends up happening to Mechakara. After being killed in The Movie, he's subsequently brought back to life during "The Clone Saga" by the healing properties of the Plot Hole, albeit as a full human. Turns out to be quite the Karmic Transformation, as his entire goal in the first place was to Kill All Humans.
