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* {{Animorphism}}: The A-plot is ''built'' on this trope. Most of the bad endings involve you being turned into some kind of animal, including a mosquito, a bear, a tarantula, a mouse, a raven, a fish, a snake, and a kangaroo rat.
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* {{Animorphism}}: The A-plot is ''built'' on this trope. Most of the bad endings involve you being turned into some kind of animal, including a mosquito, a bear, a tarantula, a mouse, a raven, a fish, a snake, and a kangaroo rat. Consequently, you end up on the wrong side of AlwaysABiggerFish in nearly all of them.
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* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: While not indicated to be the case anywhere else in the A-plot, one bad ending has this be the case as you retake human form to freak out a group of tourists, only to find that your clothes have vanished, leaving you naked in front of them.
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* MortonsFork: At one point. the story presents a pair of animal morphs that [[LampshadeHanging even the book admits sound less-than-ideal]]: a slow-as-molasses tarantula morph to cross a busy street, or a mosquito morph through a bat infested cave, right after you ate a mosquito when you were in bat morph minutes earlier. The choices end as well as you expect. [[TakeAThirdOption The logical third option]] -- i.e., turn into a tarantula and wait in the cave until the snake eyes reset into two other and presumably better animal choices -- was completely absent.
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* MortonsFork: At one point. the story presents a pair of animal morphs that [[LampshadeHanging even the book admits sound less-than-ideal]]: a slow-as-molasses tarantula morph to cross a busy street, or a mosquito morph through a bat infested cave, right after you ate a mosquito when you were in bat morph minutes earlier. The choices end as well as you expect. [[TakeAThirdOption The logical third option]] -- i.e., turn into a tarantula and wait in the cave until the snake eyes reset into two other and presumably better animal choices -- was completely absent.absent.
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You and your family are on vacation in Snakebite Canyon and you have the option to buy one of two magical items. Buying the "snake eyes" allows you to transform into different animals, but you have a choice of only two at a time, and you can't always choose when you transform. Buy the map, and it will guide you to treasure in an old mine - after a very dangerous journey to get there.
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* GoldFever: Your goal in one storyline is to claim a vast amount of gold hidden in an old mine.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In the "map" storyline, at one point, you have the choice of following the trail on the map or a reflection. Following the trail gets you to the good ending much faster, whereas the reflection takes you on a longer detour with several possible bad endings, and many more obstacles to face before
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In the "map" storyline, at one point, you have the choice of following the trail on the map map, or a reflection. reflection that looks like it could guide you to the treasure. Following the trail gets you to the good ending much faster, whereas the reflection takes you on a longer detour with several possible bad endings, and many more obstacles to face beforebefore you can get the good ending. All this could be avoided by simply following the path marked out for you on the map.
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The ''Give Yourself Goosebumps'' book where you shapeshift into different animals.
You and your family are on vacation in Snakebite Canyon and you have the option to buy one of two magical items. Buying the "snake eyes" allows you to transform into different animals, but you have a choice of only two at a time, and you can't always choose when you transform. Buy the map, and it will guide you to treasure in an old mine - after a very dangerous journey to get there.
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!!''Alone in Snakebite Canyon'' provides examples of:
* {{Animorphism}}: The A-plot is ''built'' on this trope. Most of the bad endings involve you being turned into some kind of animal, including a mosquito, a bear, a tarantula, a mouse, a raven, a fish, a snake, and a kangaroo rat.
* BigBrotherBully: Your older brother Pete is constantly picking on you and making trouble for you.
* BittersweetEnding: Getting turned into a bear. You can't go back to your family, but you enjoy hibernating in winter and are treated well by the scientists studying you.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In the "map" storyline, at one point, you have the choice of following the trail on the map or a reflection. Following the trail gets you to the good ending much faster, whereas the reflection takes you on a longer detour with several possible bad endings, and many more obstacles to face before
* EyeScream: You transform using magical "snake eyes" - which had to be removed from the snake at some point. In one ending you and Pete both get your eyes ripped out after failing to solve a puzzle.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In the "map" storyline, you need a key to the mine to be able to access the gold safely - otherwise [[spoiler:you get eaten by a panther guarding the treasure]]. You can ''also'' access the mine from the "transformation" storyline but, since there's no way to get the key in this storyline, you're doomed to a bad ending.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: The book is practically '''based''' on this trope, with at least one named character ending up stuck in a random animal-form by most endings.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the "map" storyline, with one notable exception ([[spoiler:taking a shortcut in the mine gets you killed]]), it's usually safer to follow Pete's advice than your own instinct.
* LuckBasedMission: Some endings are decided by factors outside the reader's control, such as how many letters there are in your name or what time it is.
* MortonsFork: At one point. the story presents a pair of animal morphs that [[LampshadeHanging even the book admits sound less-than-ideal]]: a slow-as-molasses tarantula morph to cross a busy street, or a mosquito morph through a bat infested cave, right after you ate a mosquito when you were in bat morph minutes earlier. The choices end as well as you expect. [[TakeAThirdOption The logical third option]] -- i.e., turn into a tarantula and wait in the cave until the snake eyes reset into two other and presumably better animal choices -- was completely absent.
You and your family are on vacation in Snakebite Canyon and you have the option to buy one of two magical items. Buying the "snake eyes" allows you to transform into different animals, but you have a choice of only two at a time, and you can't always choose when you transform. Buy the map, and it will guide you to treasure in an old mine - after a very dangerous journey to get there.
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!!''Alone in Snakebite Canyon'' provides examples of:
* {{Animorphism}}: The A-plot is ''built'' on this trope. Most of the bad endings involve you being turned into some kind of animal, including a mosquito, a bear, a tarantula, a mouse, a raven, a fish, a snake, and a kangaroo rat.
* BigBrotherBully: Your older brother Pete is constantly picking on you and making trouble for you.
* BittersweetEnding: Getting turned into a bear. You can't go back to your family, but you enjoy hibernating in winter and are treated well by the scientists studying you.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: In the "map" storyline, at one point, you have the choice of following the trail on the map or a reflection. Following the trail gets you to the good ending much faster, whereas the reflection takes you on a longer detour with several possible bad endings, and many more obstacles to face before
* EyeScream: You transform using magical "snake eyes" - which had to be removed from the snake at some point. In one ending you and Pete both get your eyes ripped out after failing to solve a puzzle.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: In the "map" storyline, you need a key to the mine to be able to access the gold safely - otherwise [[spoiler:you get eaten by a panther guarding the treasure]]. You can ''also'' access the mine from the "transformation" storyline but, since there's no way to get the key in this storyline, you're doomed to a bad ending.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: The book is practically '''based''' on this trope, with at least one named character ending up stuck in a random animal-form by most endings.
* JerkassHasAPoint: In the "map" storyline, with one notable exception ([[spoiler:taking a shortcut in the mine gets you killed]]), it's usually safer to follow Pete's advice than your own instinct.
* LuckBasedMission: Some endings are decided by factors outside the reader's control, such as how many letters there are in your name or what time it is.
* MortonsFork: At one point. the story presents a pair of animal morphs that [[LampshadeHanging even the book admits sound less-than-ideal]]: a slow-as-molasses tarantula morph to cross a busy street, or a mosquito morph through a bat infested cave, right after you ate a mosquito when you were in bat morph minutes earlier. The choices end as well as you expect. [[TakeAThirdOption The logical third option]] -- i.e., turn into a tarantula and wait in the cave until the snake eyes reset into two other and presumably better animal choices -- was completely absent.
