History Main / HumanityEnsues

* Inverted in DigimonFrontier; one of the main themes is of the human children coming to terms with their new identities as digimon. For example, this theme becomes apparent in one episode in which Duskmon inflicts a [[spoiler: LotusEaterMachine]] on Takuya, sending him back to the [[spoiler: human world, on the day he left for the digital world, in the form of a childlike digimon. Due to this, Takuya starts to realise that he's no longer completely human.]]

* Every human-appearing character in ''SpiritedAway'', 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.
* The shape-changing foxes and tanuki of ''PomPoko'' 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 ''{{Shrek}} 2'', Shrek gets turned into a human after drinking a potion. It's also revealed that [[spoiler:Harold, Fiona's father, got turned into a human from a toad by the Fairy Godmother]].

* Disney's direct-to-video ''Disney/{{Cinderella}} II: Dreams Come True'' had a sequence in which the mouse Jacques was turned into a human so he could be more helpful to Cindy.
** Also, in ''Cinderella III,'' the cat Lucifer is transformed into a human [[spoiler:in order to drive a pumpkin carriage containing Cinderella off a cliff.]]
** And the first ''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 [[FurryConfusion the role of the horses]] have been taken by the mice).

* Lyra Heartstrings of the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic ''{{Fanfic/Anthropology}}'' is convinced that humans are more than just a fairy tale, and desperately wishes to know more about them, how they lived, etc. She goes so far as to [[spoiler:change her hooves into hands]], and it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:she was HumanAllAlong]]
* The female writers of the Portal fandom have an affinity for turning {{Wheatley}} human, usually so some sort of physical contact can take place between him and a Mary Sue (but more frequently Chell acting as little more than a Mary Sue). In the more lemony explorations of this, Wheatley tends to find himself having new feelings or even "discovering the joys of the human body" if you catch my drift. There's usually a reference to The Itch during these sequences, as that plot point has been repeatedly (mis?)interpreted as a sexual innuendo. The most famous example of the Wheatley Turns Human narrative is Blue Sky, which also showcases the popular trope of Wheatley's human form being based off of the voice actor, Stephen Merchant.

* In the OldWorldOfDarkness roleplaying game ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', some of the werewolves originated as wolves. These, though as intelligent as the others, usually find shapeshifting [[TransformationTrauma less than pleasant]] and make use of it only for special purposes. Some factions, such as the genocidal (and all-wolf) Red Talons rarely take on human shapes at all.
** This was also part of the backstory for the changelings of ''ChangelingTheDreaming''. 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.
** In the [[NewWorldOfDarkness reboot]] of the same game, ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', 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.

** Also in the NewWorldOfDarkness -- this appears in many late-game or final sessions of ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated, due to the player characters' primary goal being to BecomeARealBoy.

* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' involves Twilight travelling into {{another dimension}} to retrieve her stolen [[CoolCrown Element of Magic]], and turning into a human in the process.

* [[spoiler:Katherine Petrova]] in the Season finale of ''Series/{{The Vampire Diaries}}''.

** Which should have been [[SarcasmMode obvious]]. Cats [[ComicallyMissingThePoint don't talk]]. Use [[InJoke your head]], [[ViewersAreIdiots audience.]]

* EDI in the ''MassEffect'' series. She starts out as a body-less AI residing in the Normandy SR2, and eventually she is referred to as the Normandy herself. In the third game, she gains a body, and with it, a new perspective on humanity that eventually causes her to refer to ''herself'' as alive.

* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' involves Twilight travelling into {{another dimension}}, and turning into a human in the process.

* Also the entire premise of {{HatarakuMaousama}}!" The Devil, his loyal underling, and his sworn enemy are transported to modern Japan, lose their powers, and become minimum-wage employees living as broke young adults.

* An interesting example from the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Project'': most fairies in Gensokyo are perfect {{mook}}s, lacking in personality but able to endlessly respawn if killed. [[AnIcePerson Ice fairy]] Cirno, on the other hand, has [[SmallNameBigEgo quite]] [[TheDitz a]] personality, and is several magnitudes more powerful than the average fairy. When she encounters Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, the yama conjectures that because Cirno's [[strike:[[MemeticMutation the strongest!]]]] so powerful and able to move around and cause trouble, she's coming closer to becoming a {{youkai}} and therefore mortal. The conversation goes completely over Cirno's head, of course...

* Also the entire premise of "{{Hataraku Maou-sama!}}" The Devil, his loyal underling, and his sworn enemy are transported to modern Japan, lose their powers, and become minimum-wage employees living as broke young adults.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': There are two examples of animals gaining morphing power from touching the morphing cube. One, an otherwise incredibly dangerous Cape Buffalo, nearly achieves sapience [[spoiler: but then gets killed off]]. The other is [[NightmareFuel an ant that partially morphs into Cassie]].

*** It screams as it loses its mind and its connection to the colony. One of the most terrifying scenes in a series packed with NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had Grim become a human mortal because he was suffering from "encroaching doom syndrome".

* One of [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden's]] allies in ''Fool Moon'', [[spoiler:[[AmazonianBeauty Tera West]]]], is revealed to be a wolfwere, a wolf who can take the form of a human. [[spoiler:After the death of her lover,]] she goes back to the mountains to live with her pack.

* '''Film/XMenTheLastStand''' has this happening to mutants who are exposed to the "cure".