![]() The Dummy Dopant from Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie Wars 2010 goes through these before entering its true form.An interesting non-magical example occurs in Tropic Thunder with the dedicated method actor Kirk Lazarus briefly playing previous roles before reverting to his original identity.As she is being throttled by Apocalypse, Mystique's scales flutter in waves down her body. Or did it.? The comic book version of Darwin survived having his entire body destroyed, and eventually generated a new one. X-Men: First Class: Invoked when Darwin's body goes through one state after another to adapt to Shaw's energy cherry-bomb about to go off inside him.Terminator: In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, after the T-1000 falls into the molten iron, it morphs into its various forms as it thrashes and screams, then begins to distort and warp in rather Body Horror-esque ways as its shapeshifting breaks down, even sprouting multiple heads out of its body at one point.However, since it wasn't a deadly ritual ( Disney oblige), the hilarious result is that it takes effect at the most embarrassing time imaginable, trapping Dracula as a slippers-wearing flying ostrich with a wolf head for all of eternity. In the climax, as the protagonists complete a ritual to rob him of all his powers, he frantically goes through all the shapes he can think of trying to escape. In the Disney Comics adaptation of the Dracula storyline, Dracula had a great deal more shapes than just a bat, a man and a wolf.In the Death World of Marvel's Ruins (where nobody has Required Secondary Powers), Mystique goes through an epic one resulting from her Shapeshifter Identity Crisis causing her to forget to take her meds for managing her Power Incontinence, and her brain implodes in the end.The comic book series Runaways does this with the Skrull Xavin a couple of times when we're getting to know him/her, although it's a case of short-circuiting (probably the Skrull equivalent of going into shock or throwing up from pain or whatnot), not actual death.Compare Shapeshifter Identity Crisis and My Life Flashed Before My Eyes. No Immortal Inertia is similar but for immortals. See also Shapeshifter Mashup and Perpetually Protean. In shows aimed towards kids or ones where the shapeshifter is especially smart, expect the shapeshifter to possibly survive, thus rendering this trope a bit confusing as the viewer wonders why there's the equivalent of death convulsions going on for a character who will later turn out to be fine.Ī special case of Super-Power Meltdown. ![]() If the purpose of the swan song is to inform the audience who the shapeshifter posed as (and that they were, in fact, a shapeshifter) this becomes a case of Viewers Are Morons. Someone will usually go " This Was His True Form", and look suitably mournful if it was a friend they lost to The Virus. After their swan song they'll settle into their original form and body, often to the surprise of everyone else, especially if said form isn't human. It'll also happen if their powers are short circuited, they're critically injured or KO'd. Much like the life flashing before your eyes thing, it may be considered a realistic survival reflex. When a shapeshifter bites the dust they have a veritable swan song of shape shifting as they slide through every single shape they've stolen throughout the episode or movie. It's no surprise then that dying is no exception. Even the insidious infiltrators like to use their abilities to inspire awe and fear. "Stop it, stop it, turn them off! I can't control it! I can't be all of them, not all at once!" Shapeshifters are showoffs.
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