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* ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'': The Golden Age Fury of the sequel series ''The Young All-Stars'' transforms into her superpowered form (complete with bulletproof armor) just by thought alone (or sometimes when she gets angry).
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': The comic features two such heroes amongst its CastOfExpies. Golden Gail is a gender-flipped and inverted version of Shazam, being a grown woman who can transform into a superpowered child by saying the magic word "Zafram". Meanwhile, Joseph Weber takes clear inspiration from the Donald Blake version of Thor, being a mortal man who transforms into the godlike Black Hammer when he strikes his eponymous weapon on the ground.
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': The first Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, used a mystical scarab to transform into a superhero. The second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, was never able to get the scarab to work for him, however, so he fought crime as a BadassNormal superhero. When the third Blue Beetle, Jaime Rayes, found the scarab, now revealed as an alien artifact, it turned him into a power-armored superhero).
* ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'': For a while Captain Mar-Vell was trapped in the Negative Zone, and could only return to the main universe when Rick Jones struck the Nega-Bands together, switching places with him.
* ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'': Whoever uses the Hero Dial to transform them temporarily into a superhero-ish sort of thing. The form and powers were random, though with some thought they were always applicable somehow to the current problem.
* ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'': Jay Garrick and Alan Scott gained their powers and costumes via mystical sources. As such, their costumes only appear when they use their powers.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
** Downplayed, but for a while Wally West had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability.
** Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse, also downplay it but in a different way. Normally they're just normal people, but when they recite the formula "3x2(9yz)4a", they gain super speed for a short while, and can keep it going by reciting the formula again, however they don't transform physically and their costumes are exactly that. Shortly before Johnny died, they discovered they weren't ''really'' Henshin Heroes, and in fact they actually had access to their super speed at any time they wanted as they were Speed Force conduits like the Flash; however because Johnny had ''believed'' the formula to be the trigger, he [[PlaceboEffect merely trained himself and his daughter to only have access when they recite that equation]]. Afterwards, Jesse continues to use the formula this way but its more akin to a mantra for focusing herself so she can use her powers, and has been teased over her tendency to recite it over and over as if that would make her faster.
* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': The Ghost Rider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is theoretically this; in human form, Bruce Banner is just a regular guy (though fairly smart), while in Hulk form he's extremely strong and tough, but he's also ''really'' stupid (usually). Because the comic is called The Incredible Hulk instead of The Average Banner, he tends to spend about 90% of the time as the Hulk, with the writers before the 00s reverting him to human form to have him angst for a while. Since ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and its follow up stories, [[SplitPersonalityTeam Banner has been given more control/a partnership with Hulk's personality that allows them to transform back and forth at will]], with Green Hulk taking on a more intelligent form of speech, making them more a classical version of the trope, though both still see each other as the "other guy" to some extent.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while it's partially formed. Iron Man fully qualifies with the "Bleeding Edge" armor, which is stored within Tony Stark's body and called out mentally at need.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jackpot}}'': The Amazing Three were three ordinary children given the power to transform into the heroes Oakman (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - a super-strong flying man made out of oak), Tanya (a flying woman with the ability to shoot lasers from her finger tips) and the Blue Wizard (who couldn't fly, but did possess no end of magic powers) in order to battle the evil alien Vogler.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Ultra Boy had a slight variant. He had all the powers Superboy had, but only one at a time; he could be either super-strong or invulnerable, but not both at the same time.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Thor and Dr. Donald Blake are a variation on this - the difference being that Thor is the original and Blake was a mortal form Odin forced upon his son as a test. Most other wielders of Mjölnir or passable replicas thereof also fit under this trope more-or-less. Including but not limited to Storm when she got repowered by Loki, ComicBook/BetaRayBill (albeit he is also a super soldier; he was already strong but gets a ''lot'' stronger when transformed), ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}} (both of them), and the new ComicBook/{{Thor|2014}} Jane Foster.
* ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} (originally and still sometimes Marvelman - see MM's own page for the convoluted legal history) was a direct homage to Captain Marvel, created while the latter was in the middle of his twenty-year publishing hiatus, and transformed by speaking the word "Kimota" ("atomic" backward, more or less). He likewise had two teenage sidekicks, Young Marvelman/Miracleman and Kid Marvelman/Miracleman, who transformed by speaking their mentor's name.
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel'' Starting out in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel1977'', Carol Danvers was one of these, having superpowers in her "Ms. Marvel" identity and none as Carol, with the additional wrinkle she didn't know this - Carol and Ms. Marvel were separate personalities, with Carol gaining a few centimeters and a different haircut whenever she became Ms. Marvel. After a while, the two became aware of one another, and the line between them starting blurring together.
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'': The comic features two such heroes amongst its CastOfExpies. Golden Gail is a gender-flipped and inverted version of Shazam, being a grown woman who can transform into a superpowered child by saying the magic word "Zafram". Meanwhile, Joseph Weber takes clear inspiration from the Donald Blake version of Thor, being a mortal man who transforms into the godlike Black Hammer when he strikes his eponymous weapon on the ground.
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': The first Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, used a mystical scarab to transform into a superhero. The second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, was never able to get the scarab to work for him, however, so he fought crime as a BadassNormal superhero. When the third Blue Beetle, Jaime Rayes, found the scarab, now revealed as an alien artifact, it turned him into a power-armored superhero).
* ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'': For a while Captain Mar-Vell was trapped in the Negative Zone, and could only return to the main universe when Rick Jones struck the Nega-Bands together, switching places with him.
* ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'': Whoever uses the Hero Dial to transform them temporarily into a superhero-ish sort of thing. The form and powers were random, though with some thought they were always applicable somehow to the current problem.
* ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'': Jay Garrick and Alan Scott gained their powers and costumes via mystical sources. As such, their costumes only appear when they use their powers.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'':
** Downplayed, but for a while Wally West had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability.
** Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse, also downplay it but in a different way. Normally they're just normal people, but when they recite the formula "3x2(9yz)4a", they gain super speed for a short while, and can keep it going by reciting the formula again, however they don't transform physically and their costumes are exactly that. Shortly before Johnny died, they discovered they weren't ''really'' Henshin Heroes, and in fact they actually had access to their super speed at any time they wanted as they were Speed Force conduits like the Flash; however because Johnny had ''believed'' the formula to be the trigger, he [[PlaceboEffect merely trained himself and his daughter to only have access when they recite that equation]]. Afterwards, Jesse continues to use the formula this way but its more akin to a mantra for focusing herself so she can use her powers, and has been teased over her tendency to recite it over and over as if that would make her faster.
* ''ComicBook/GhostRider'': The Ghost Rider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is theoretically this; in human form, Bruce Banner is just a regular guy (though fairly smart), while in Hulk form he's extremely strong and tough, but he's also ''really'' stupid (usually). Because the comic is called The Incredible Hulk instead of The Average Banner, he tends to spend about 90% of the time as the Hulk, with the writers before the 00s reverting him to human form to have him angst for a while. Since ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and its follow up stories, [[SplitPersonalityTeam Banner has been given more control/a partnership with Hulk's personality that allows them to transform back and forth at will]], with Green Hulk taking on a more intelligent form of speech, making them more a classical version of the trope, though both still see each other as the "other guy" to some extent.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while it's partially formed. Iron Man fully qualifies with the "Bleeding Edge" armor, which is stored within Tony Stark's body and called out mentally at need.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jackpot}}'': The Amazing Three were three ordinary children given the power to transform into the heroes Oakman (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - a super-strong flying man made out of oak), Tanya (a flying woman with the ability to shoot lasers from her finger tips) and the Blue Wizard (who couldn't fly, but did possess no end of magic powers) in order to battle the evil alien Vogler.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Ultra Boy had a slight variant. He had all the powers Superboy had, but only one at a time; he could be either super-strong or invulnerable, but not both at the same time.
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Thor and Dr. Donald Blake are a variation on this - the difference being that Thor is the original and Blake was a mortal form Odin forced upon his son as a test. Most other wielders of Mjölnir or passable replicas thereof also fit under this trope more-or-less. Including but not limited to Storm when she got repowered by Loki, ComicBook/BetaRayBill (albeit he is also a super soldier; he was already strong but gets a ''lot'' stronger when transformed), ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}} (both of them), and the new ComicBook/{{Thor|2014}} Jane Foster.
* ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} (originally and still sometimes Marvelman - see MM's own page for the convoluted legal history) was a direct homage to Captain Marvel, created while the latter was in the middle of his twenty-year publishing hiatus, and transformed by speaking the word "Kimota" ("atomic" backward, more or less). He likewise had two teenage sidekicks, Young Marvelman/Miracleman and Kid Marvelman/Miracleman, who transformed by speaking their mentor's name.
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel'' Starting out in ''ComicBook/MsMarvel1977'', Carol Danvers was one of these, having superpowers in her "Ms. Marvel" identity and none as Carol, with the additional wrinkle she didn't know this - Carol and Ms. Marvel were separate personalities, with Carol gaining a few centimeters and a different haircut whenever she became Ms. Marvel. After a while, the two became aware of one another, and the line between them starting blurring together.
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%%* The other ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} was one for a while when he was bonded to Rick Jones.
* Comicbook/{{Miracleman}} (originally and still sometimes Marvelman - see MM's own page for the convoluted legal history) was a direct homage to Captain Marvel, created while the latter was in the middle of his twenty-year publishing hiatus, and transformed by speaking the word "Kimota" ("atomic" backward, more or less). He likewise had two teenage sidekicks, Young Marvelman/Miracleman and Kid Marvelman/Miracleman, who transformed by speaking their mentor's name.
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle, especially the first (Dan Garrett used a mystical scarab to transform into a superhero) and the third (Jaime Rayes, who uses the same scarab, now revealed as an alien artifact, to turn into a power-armored superhero). The second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, was never able to get the scarab to work for him, so he is not an example.
* ComicBook/IronMan, to an extent. Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while it's partially formed. Iron Man fully qualifies with the "Bleeding Edge" armor, which is stored within Tony Stark's body and called out mentally at need.
* ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'':
* Comicbook/{{Miracleman}} (originally and still sometimes Marvelman - see MM's own page for the convoluted legal history) was a direct homage to Captain Marvel, created while the latter was in the middle of his twenty-year publishing hiatus, and transformed by speaking the word "Kimota" ("atomic" backward, more or less). He likewise had two teenage sidekicks, Young Marvelman/Miracleman and Kid Marvelman/Miracleman, who transformed by speaking their mentor's name.
* ComicBook/BlueBeetle, especially the first (Dan Garrett used a mystical scarab to transform into a superhero) and the third (Jaime Rayes, who uses the same scarab, now revealed as an alien artifact, to turn into a power-armored superhero). The second Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, was never able to get the scarab to work for him, so he is not an example.
* ComicBook/IronMan, to an extent. Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while it's partially formed. Iron Man fully qualifies with the "Bleeding Edge" armor, which is stored within Tony Stark's body and called out mentally at need.
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* ComicBook/BlueBeetle, especially the first (Dan Garrett used a
* ComicBook/IronMan, to an extent. Basically, it depends on the version of the suit. Sometimes it'll form itself around a bodysuit that goes beneath it. Sometimes it has a compact form like the suitcase suit, though he does have to step in or pull it around him while
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* ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: For a time Diana no longer had her powers when not "transformed" into Wonder Woman. (This was also how it worked in her TV series)
* Comicbook/GhostRider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.
* Comicbook/GhostRider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.
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* ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: For a time Diana no longer had her powers when not "transformed" into Wonder Woman. (This was also how it worked in her TV series)
* Comicbook/GhostRider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.series)
* Comicbook/GhostRider counts as this given that Johnny Blaze (and other riders) had a normal human form and a Spirit of Vengeance form.
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* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Thor and Dr. Donald Blake are a variation on this - the difference being that Thor is the original and Blake was a mortal form Odin forced upon his son as a test. Most other wielders of Mjölnir or passable replicas thereof also fit under this trope more-or-less. Including but not limited to Storm when she got repowered by Loki, Beta Ray Bill (albeit he is also a super soldier; he was already strong but gets a ''lot'' stronger when transformed), Thunderstrike (both of them), and the new Comicbook/{{Thor|2014}} Jane Foster.
* ''Comicbook/TheFlash'': Jay Garrick and ComicBook/GreenLantern Alan Scott of ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'' gained their powers and costumes via mystical sources. As such, their costumes only appear when they use their powers.
** Downplayed, but for a while ComicBook/WallyWest had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability.
** Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse, also downplay it but in a different way. Normally they're just normal people, but when they recite the formula "3x2(9yz)4a", they gain super speed for a short while, and can keep it going by reciting the formula again, however they don't transform physically and their costumes are exactly that. Shortly before Johnny died, they discovered they weren't ''really'' Henshin Heroes, and in fact they actually had access to their super speed at any time they wanted as they were Speed Force conduits like the Flash; however because Johnny had ''believed'' the formula to be the trigger, he [[PlaceboEffect merely trained himself and his daughter to only have access when they recite that equation]]. Afterwards, Jesse continues to use the formula this way but its more akin to a mantra for focusing herself so she can use her powers, and has been teased over her tendency to recite it over and over as if that would make her faster.
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'': Depending on who's writing him, he may or may not have some form of this. The older stories treated him as a guy who had returned from death and could when he wanted, take on a ghostly form with mystical powers. Most later writers treat the Spectre and the human host it's associated with as separate characters, with how much control the host has when in Spectre form being highly variable. In the Ostrander run the two were separate to the extent that Corrigan didn't have a "Spectre form"; the Spectre essentially lived inside him (but could temporarily leave and act independently).
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Ultra Boy had a slight variant. He had all the powers Superboy had, but only one at a time; he could be either super-strong or invulnerable, but not both at the same time.
* The protagonist of ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' had an alien artifact that would transform him (or her) temporarily into a superhero-ish sort of thing. The form and powers were random, though with some thought they were always applicable somehow to the current problem.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is theoretically this; in human form, Bruce Banner is just a regular guy (though fairly smart), while in Hulk form he's extremely strong and tough, but he's also ''really'' stupid (usually). Because the comic is called The Incredible Hulk instead of The Average Banner, he tends to spend about 90% of the time as the Hulk, with the writers before the 00s reverting him to human form to have him angst for a while. Since ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and its follow up stories, [[SplitPersonalityTeam Banner has been given more control/a partnership with Hulk's personality that allows them to transform back and forth at will]], with Green Hulk taking on a more intelligent form of speech, making them more a classical version of the trope, though both still see each other as the "other guy" to some extent.
* The Amazing Three of ''ComicBook/{{Jackpot}}'' were three ordinary children given the power to transform into the heroes Oakman (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - a super-strong flying man made out of oak), Tanya (a flying woman with the ability to shoot lasers from her finger tips) and the Blue Wizard (who couldn't fly, but did possess no end of magic powers) in order to battle the evil alien Vogler.
* The Golden Age Fury of the ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' sequel series ''The Young All-Stars'' transforms into her superpowered form (complete with bulletproof armor) just by thought alone (or sometimes when she gets angry).
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel1977:'' Starting out, Carol Danvers was one of these, having superpowers in her "Ms. Marvel" identity and none as Carol, with the additional wrinkle she didn't know this - Carol and Ms. Marvel were separate personalities, with Carol gaining a few centimeters and a different haircut whenever she became Ms. Marvel. After a while, the two became aware of one another, and the line between them starting blurring together.
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'' features two such heroes amongst its CastOfExpies. Golden Gail is a gender-flipped and inverted version of Shazam, being a grown woman who can transform into a superpowered child by saying the magic word "Zafram". Meanwhile, Joseph Weber takes clear inspiration from the Donald Blake version of Thor, being a mortal man who transforms into the godlike Black Hammer when he strikes his eponymous weapon on the ground.
* ''Comicbook/TheFlash'': Jay Garrick and ComicBook/GreenLantern Alan Scott of ''ComicBook/{{Earth 2}}'' gained their powers and costumes via mystical sources. As such, their costumes only appear when they use their powers.
** Downplayed, but for a while ComicBook/WallyWest had his suit as an extension of his powers, literally forming it from Speed Force energies solidifying into material. Whether this is how his suit works still varies from writer to writer depending on, essentially, if they know/remember this is a thing, but even when it is, Wally is fully able to use his powers without forming the suit first, so the transforming is just for recognisability.
** Johnny Quick and his daughter, Jesse, also downplay it but in a different way. Normally they're just normal people, but when they recite the formula "3x2(9yz)4a", they gain super speed for a short while, and can keep it going by reciting the formula again, however they don't transform physically and their costumes are exactly that. Shortly before Johnny died, they discovered they weren't ''really'' Henshin Heroes, and in fact they actually had access to their super speed at any time they wanted as they were Speed Force conduits like the Flash; however because Johnny had ''believed'' the formula to be the trigger, he [[PlaceboEffect merely trained himself and his daughter to only have access when they recite that equation]]. Afterwards, Jesse continues to use the formula this way but its more akin to a mantra for focusing herself so she can use her powers, and has been teased over her tendency to recite it over and over as if that would make her faster.
* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'': Depending on who's writing him, he may or may not have some form of this. The older stories treated him as a guy who had returned from death and could when he wanted, take on a ghostly form with mystical powers. Most later writers treat the Spectre and the human host it's associated with as separate characters, with how much control the host has when in Spectre form being highly variable. In the Ostrander run the two were separate to the extent that Corrigan didn't have a "Spectre form"; the Spectre essentially lived inside him (but could temporarily leave and act independently).
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Ultra Boy had a slight variant. He had all the powers Superboy had, but only one at a time; he could be either super-strong or invulnerable, but not both at the same time.
* The protagonist of ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' had an alien artifact that would transform him (or her) temporarily into a superhero-ish sort of thing. The form and powers were random, though with some thought they were always applicable somehow to the current problem.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk is theoretically this; in human form, Bruce Banner is just a regular guy (though fairly smart), while in Hulk form he's extremely strong and tough, but he's also ''really'' stupid (usually). Because the comic is called The Incredible Hulk instead of The Average Banner, he tends to spend about 90% of the time as the Hulk, with the writers before the 00s reverting him to human form to have him angst for a while. Since ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and its follow up stories, [[SplitPersonalityTeam Banner has been given more control/a partnership with Hulk's personality that allows them to transform back and forth at will]], with Green Hulk taking on a more intelligent form of speech, making them more a classical version of the trope, though both still see each other as the "other guy" to some extent.
* The Amazing Three of ''ComicBook/{{Jackpot}}'' were three ordinary children given the power to transform into the heroes Oakman (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - a super-strong flying man made out of oak), Tanya (a flying woman with the ability to shoot lasers from her finger tips) and the Blue Wizard (who couldn't fly, but did possess no end of magic powers) in order to battle the evil alien Vogler.
* The Golden Age Fury of the ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' sequel series ''The Young All-Stars'' transforms into her superpowered form (complete with bulletproof armor) just by thought alone (or sometimes when she gets angry).
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel1977:'' Starting out, Carol Danvers was one of these, having superpowers in her "Ms. Marvel" identity and none as Carol, with the additional wrinkle she didn't know this - Carol and Ms. Marvel were separate personalities, with Carol gaining a few centimeters and a different haircut whenever she became Ms. Marvel. After a while, the two became aware of one another, and the line between them starting blurring together.
* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'' features two such heroes amongst its CastOfExpies. Golden Gail is a gender-flipped and inverted version of Shazam, being a grown woman who can transform into a superpowered child by saying the magic word "Zafram". Meanwhile, Joseph Weber takes clear inspiration from the Donald Blake version of Thor, being a mortal man who transforms into the godlike Black Hammer when he strikes his eponymous weapon on the ground.
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* Eric Draven, from ''Roleplay/MallFight''. He started off as a Green Ranger, moved onto becoming Kamen Rider Black, and now transforms (actually saying "HENSHIN!") into a fusion between Kamen Rider and Comicbook/GhostRider.
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* Eric Draven, from ''Roleplay/MallFight''. He started off as a Green Ranger, moved onto becoming Kamen Rider Black, and now transforms (actually saying "HENSHIN!") into a fusion between Kamen Rider and Comicbook/GhostRider.ComicBook/GhostRider.
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* The fairies from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' are a {{downplayed}} example. Although they behave and look mostly like humans when un-transformed, they retain a modicum of magic -- making objects levitate, preparing minor messes, launching minor magic attacks, summoning clothes, and opening portals. To be fair, teleporting is a rather inconsistent power since, in some seasons, they need Stella's scepter or a special transformation to do so. This is all enough for mundane affairs and low-danger situations. However, when is time for ass-kicking, they transform into full fairy form, where having fully functional wings is the least of their abilities. Depending on the transformation they can lift curses, heal, tap on magic while in magicless lands, draw power from people's faith in them, go underwater, and access special dimensions. The show is a MagicalGirlWarrior series [[{{Animesque}} heavily influenced by Maho Shojo anime]], and the main girls have their own set of StockFootage Sailor Moon-esque transformation sequences.
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* The fairies from ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Fairies are a {{downplayed}} example. Although they behave and look mostly like humans when un-transformed, they retain a modicum of magic -- making magic--making objects levitate, preparing repairing minor messes, launching minor magic attacks, summoning clothes, and opening portals. To be fair, teleporting is a rather inconsistent power since, in some seasons, they need Stella's scepter or a special transformation to do so. This is all enough for mundane affairs and low-danger situations. However, when is it's time for ass-kicking, they transform into full fairy form, where having fully functional wings is the least of their abilities. Depending on the transformation they can lift curses, heal, tap on magic while in magicless lands, draw power from people's faith in them, go underwater, and access special dimensions. The show is a MagicalGirlWarrior series [[{{Animesque}} heavily influenced by Maho Shojo anime]], and the main girls have their own set of StockFootage Sailor Moon-esque transformation sequences.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'': While a skilled martial artist as both Lan Jun and Jade Armor, Lan Jun only has access to the ElementalPowers of the Beasticons as Jade Armor.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' as well as its DistaffCounterpart, ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''. Likewise in He-Man's [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 2002 reboot]], in which there's a much greater visual difference between his normal and super-powered forms, and in 2018's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', where She-Ra is notably taller than Adora ("Like, eight feet tall").
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' as well as its DistaffCounterpart, ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower''. Likewise in He-Man's [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 2002 reboot]], in which there's a much greater visual difference between his normal and super-powered forms, and in 2018's ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', where She-Ra is notably taller than Adora [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerAdora Adora]] ("Like, eight feet tall").
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': As the revamp of one of 1980s [[TropeCodifier]]s [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerAdora Adora]] TransformationSequence follows all the old standbys, placed into a starfield, then turned into light while her form shifts into a larger adult version, al while in continuous movement with her sword twirling around. This form has SuperStrength, SuperToughness and numerous other goodies so she checks all the boxes.
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* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. Mei's NotQuiteFlight ability is a consequence of being able to precisely and accurately control the generation of the poof of smoke associated with her transformation between her human and giant red panda forms and vice versa. It could therefore be said that she has the ability in both forms but it alternates from one to the other.
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* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. Mei's NotQuiteFlight ability is a consequence of being able to precisely and accurately control the generation of the poof of smoke associated with her transformation between her human and giant red panda forms and vice versa. It could therefore be said that she has the ability in both forms but it alternates from one to the other.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ZakStorm'': When Zak holds his TalkingWeapon Calabrass aloft and speaks the words "[[ByThePowerOfGrayskull Give me the Eye of *Element*!]]", he goes through a TransformationSequence, wherein Calabrass becomes imbued with the respective element and Zak is engulfed with a [[FashionableAsymmetry full-armor on his left arm]]. His headband piece becomes a [[EyepatchOfPower matching eye-patch to boot]].
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The name comes from the Japanese term for the trope, ''henshin'' (literally meaning "change body" but more practically translated as "transformation" or "metamorphosis" ... and ''not'' to be confused with the {{Shapeshifting}} or {{Metamorphosis}} tropes).
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The name comes from the Japanese term for the trope, ''henshin'' (literally meaning "change body" but more practically translated as "transformation" or "metamorphosis" ... and ''not'' to be confused with the {{Shapeshifting}} or {{Metamorphosis}} tropes).
tropes — ''henshin'' always refers to superheroes).
