What Would It Feel Like To Transform Into An Anthropomorphic Animal

"We've got a saying on my planet. If God intended us to fly, he wouldn't have taken away our wings."

When an beast is uplifted via some sort of Practical Phlebotinum, it's not plenty for the fauna to merely become smarter and gain the power to speak. Sometimes, the animal will transform physically as well.

It will transition from quadrupedal to bipedal, the forelimbs will either gain Feather Fingers or Humanlike Hand Anatomy, the hindlimbs will develop Humanlike Human foot Anatomy, and its realistic brute eyes will plough into Cartoony Eyes.

As y'all can probably guess, a lot of the above would involve a radical alter in internal anatomy, but this is rarely acknowledged.

While this trope and Uplifted Animal can overlap, one does not necessarily crave the other. An Uplifted Fauna can become smarter without changing much in appearance. Conversely, information technology'due south possible for an beast that was already intelligent to brainstorm with to be physically changed into a more anthropomorphic class.

See also Anthropomorphic Shift (when an animal gradually becomes more anthropomorphic as a serial goes on), Humanity Ensues (when a non-human fully transforms into a homo instead of merely gaining homo-like traits), Uplifted Animal, Bishōnen Line, and Bogus Animal People (when they are transformed via super science). The inversion is Unanthropomorphic Transformation.

Compare Transforming Mecha.

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Examples:

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    Anime & Manga

• Mutual with lupine Digimon:
  • In Digimon Hazard, Garurumon undergoes this when he digivolves into WereGarurumon.
  • In Digimon Data Squad, Gaogamon becomes more humanoid when transforming into MachGaogamon.
  • The Digimon Xros Wars manga gives Dorulumon an anthropomorphic evolution in the form of JagerDorulumon.
• In Kemono Friends, exposure to Sandstar transforms animals into Little Bit Abominable girls.
• When an creature is turned into a familiar in Lyrical Nanoha, they gain the ability to shapeshift into a Little Bit Abominable class.
• In One Piece, this regularly happens with the Homies of the Large Mom pirates. Homies are anthropomorphized animals and inanimate objects given life past Big Mom's Devil Fruit, the Soru Soru no mii.(Soul Soul fruit) When an inanimate object similar a block or a tree is turned into a homie, they ordinarily maintain their original grade only with a oral fissure and eyes, but when an animal becomes a homie, not but exercise they become intelligent, they also change shape, with many quadruped animals like rabbits and crocodiles walking as upright bipeds, along with their forelegs turning into hands.

    Comic Books

• This is The High Evolutionary'southward specialty always since he debuted in the pages of Thor, too since the starting time he had to deal with the Homo-Creature a wolf he turned into a Animal Human with mental powers that eclipsed his own.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the titular reptiles started out every bit ordinary pet store turtles that were mutated past a chemic that turned them human-sized and anthropomorphic. In the original comic, this too happened to Master Splinter, beingness an ordinary rat who was turned into an anthropomorphic one, but after adaptations had him exist a human who was transformed into a giant rat instead.
• Legion of Super-Heroes: In the Postboot continuity, Sensor was a sapient just not-anthropomorphic giant snake. As a consequence of exposure to Hypertaxis free energy subsequently on, she was transformed into a lamia-like form.
• This shows up in the background origin of Marvel Superheroine Tygra. Her people were originally ordinary cats uplifted by a wizard in order to be companions for flesh. Naturally this went off without a hitch.
• Likewise in Curiosity, one of the litter-mates of The Inhumans' dog Lockjaw was sent to Spider-Ham's World of Funny Animals as a puppy, where the "anthropomorphic field" led to her growing up equally a Funny Animal; Doc Jaw.

    Comic Strips

• Calvin and Hobbes has a variant with Hobbes the tiger, which half dozen-year-onetime Calvin sees as a large anthropomorphic Intellectual Animal but everyone else sees as a little stuffed toy.

    Films — Animation

• Professor MacKrill in Help! I'yard a Fish has a potion that tin can turn humans into fish, every bit well equally an antidote that tin can opposite the effect. This antidote can also transform realistic-looking fish into cartoony and anthropomorphic versions of themselves, and if too much is consumed, the fish volition go a human. This is how the villain, a power-hungry pilot fish named Joe, is defeated, as humans cannot breathe underwater.
• In Pom Poko, the tanuki have the ability to transform from realistic not-anthropomorphic raccoon dogs to Funny Animals that well-nigh resemble Care Bears.
• Helm Neweyes from We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story has a magic cereal called Brain Grain that turns dinosaurs from vicious, unintelligent beasts with more realistic designs, to stylized, big-eyed, talking cartoon characters. His evil brother Professor Screweyes has a pill that can contrary this issue, but the homo child characters manage to turn the dinosaurs dorsum into their cartoony selves just by hugging them.

    Films — Live-Action

• In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it'due south mentioned that the Star of Astoroth is what turned the animals on the Island of Naboombu into animated Funny Animals, implying that they were regular live-action non-talking animals beforehand.
• In The Muppets' Sorcerer of Oz, Toto is played by a regular prawn in a fish tank in the mundane world, and Pepe the King Prawn in Oz.

    Literature

• The Island of Doctor Moreau is a agonizing early unbuilt version of this. The titular md tries to turn animals into humans via hypnosis and surgery without coldhearted, driving them mad. (Later adaptations use genetic engineering instead.)
• The magic crocodile tongues in James and the Giant Peach have the ability to turn regular bugs into giant wearing apparel-wearing versions of themselves. This is made more explicit in Henry Selick's motion-picture show adaptation, where we encounter Ms. Spider as both a small realistic live-activity spider, and a gigantic stop-motion spider with a homo-like face. In this case, it's implied that the bug characters were already intelligent even before they transformed.
• Playing with by David Brin'due south Uplift. The titular Uplifted Animals are typically also modified to let them use tools. While dolphins mostly just have neural jacks that let them command robotic arms, chimpanzees had their spines straightened and their hands modified. And of form the countless conflicting races accept made endless modifications to their "client" races, simply whether that qualifies equally "anthropomorphic" is anyone's estimate.
• State of war With No Proper name: The Change causes most surface animals to become bipedal and sapient, with opposable thumbs.
• In the Bernice Summerfield novel Oh, No It Isn't!, Benny and her friends go transported to a world based on Panto tropes. Wolsey, an ordinary true cat in the real world, becomes an anthropomorphic character similar to Puss-in-Boots. In the Audio Adaptation past Large Finish, he's voiced by Nicholas Courtney.

    Tabletop Games

• Traveller: The Vargr are an intelligent race descended from Earth canines that were genetically manipulated by the Ancients. They were adjusted to stand upright on their back feet and their forepaws were contradistinct into easily so they can manipulate objects.
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition: This edition has a supplement, Pages from the Mages, which features a spell chosen Evolve, which will alter an fauna to make it wait more humanoid. This can include giving it an upright humanoid shape, ii artillery and two legs (adding or subtracting as necessary), hands (so it can dispense objects), and a human-similar face.
• Pathfinder: The Anthropomorphic Brute spell temporarily or permanently transforms an brute into a humanoid version of itself, complete with prehensile limbs, the intelligence of a (very dim) human, and the ability to speak Common.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness: The player characters are formally normal animals that were mutated just like the Ninja Turtles and Splinter (though there is a 14% chance that the graphic symbol was built-in that manner).

    Video Games

• The "Day of Awakening" in the backstory of Issues Fables granted insects plus a few spiders human sapience and lifespans aslope a number of other human features.
  • All became bipedal, losing a pair of legs in the process, with the exception of the spiders.
  • All who had ocelli lost them with the exception of the Mantises.
  • Mantises gained fingers in place of their scythe-arms.
  • Many lost their mandibles and take a simple human looking mouth. Some butterflies, moths and mosquitoes retain their proboscis. Strangely, a few mosquitoes have both a mouth and a proboscis.
  • When Zasp gets indigestion during the Eating Contest, he clutches his midsection like a man would, implying the organs are in in that location and not inside the abdomen.
• Crash Bandicoot and the other anthropomorphic members of his cast were transformed from normal Australian fauna to Funny Beast characters cheers to Dr. Neo Cortex and his experiments with the Evolvo-Ray.

    Webcomics

• Freefall: Overlapping with Adults Are More Anthropomorphic, Bowman's wolves like Florence are born looking like normal cerise wolf puppies but equally they mature they develop speech, shift to a bipedal stance, and abound fingers.
• While Schlock Mercenary has several uplift species (dolphins, diverse apes, polar bears), the elephants qualify for this trope — willing to stand on two legs, able to grab and use rifles, and one strip had a joke based on "Want to thumb-wrestle?". (The polar bears may also qualify; Captain Landon, part of one constabulary'southward Internal Affairs partition, can as well hold guns; this suggests ameliorate fine motor control and 'fingers' versus 'toes' to do so.)
• In an El Goonish Shive filler strip, Jeremy the cat with hedgehog spines is shown every bit a humanoid.

    Web Original

• "Feral to anthro" (or vice versa) is a common theme in furry fine art, some of them even having ane species turning into another (for instance, an anthro wolf turning into a feral gazelle). Non-anthro animals sprouting breasts can exist either Fanservice or Squick depending on who you enquire.

    Western Blitheness

• This is actually the origin for Rath-Amon from Conan the Adventurer. Starting out as a Stygian Sand Cadger, he was uplifted by Rap-Amon, who wanted to make something more than competent than his human servants. He succeeded. Interestingly, though he does maintain a homo form, or a humanoid-lizard form if near star-metal, he'due south apparently still subject area to his original biology. Feeling mysteriously weakened, he goes to Ready to find out why, simply to be told that, as a sand lizard, he all the same has to periodically shed his skin, something he has to resume his original class to accomplish.
• In an episode of Earthworm Jim, Peter Puppy is revealed to have originally been an ordinary canis familiaris until he got sucked into a portal to heck where Evil the Cat had a demon possess him which makes him anthropomorphic and grants him heightened intelligence and the power to talk. When Jim and Peter face up Evil to have the demon removed (In an effort to get rid of Peter'due south monster course), Peter loses all of these features. However, Peter takes the demon back at the end.
• The premise of Wild West COW Boys Of Moo Mesa is that about of the primary characters were ordinary animals (virtually notably cows) that were transformed into Funny Animals by a random falling star.
• Road Rovers has a team of five dogs transformed into anthropomorphic superheroes.
• Darwin from The Amazing Globe of Gumball started off as a regular pet fish for Gumball, but soon learned to talk afterward bonding with him, although information technology's unsaid that he was intelligent fifty-fifty before this. Eventually, he developed legs and lungs through sheer decision to make his fashion back to Gumball after they were separated.
• SuperMansion: Cooch was an ordinary cat until she was evolved past an "evo-ray". She has retained a very feline personality and attention span.
  • Happens temporarily to Robobot, too; while in the earth of mythology, a magic potion turns him homo, and he delights in every sensation — even defecating.
• In the live-action music video for the song "Party This night" from Regular Show, Rigby is briefly played past a real raccoon earlier going backside a trash can and coming out as a homo thespian in a raccoon costume.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Sandy Cheeks turns into a realistic alive-activity squirrel whenever she is on land. The other characters will besides sometimes plow into live-action versions of themselves on dry out country depending on the episode.
  • Inverted in the episode "Feral Friends", which has Neptune'southward Moon coming up and temporarily turning everyone except Sandy into realistic non-anthropomorphic versions of their respective species. The episode ends with Neptune's Sun turning Sandy into a non-anthro squirrel. It doesn't have this effect on the less anthropomorphised puppet character Potty the Parrot, instead turning him into a (cheap puppet) pterodactyl! (And Patchy, a human, into a caveman)
• In the DuckTales (2017) episode "Double-O Duck in: You lot Merely Crash Twice!" firing an intelligence ray at an ordinary non-anthro white mouse makes her humanoid, and beginning wearing a purple jumpsuit. Her equally familiar-looking friends are similarly affected.
• Legends of Chima: The diverse tribes of Chima were once normal animals until exposure to Chi fabricated them evolve into sapient creatures.

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