History Main / ShapeshiftingSeducer

->'''Logan:''' What do you want, an apology?\\
'''Mystique:''' You know what I want. ''[transforms from one woman to another]'' The question is, what do ''you'' want?
-->-- ''Film/X2XMenUnited''

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', the titular character [[spoiler:(a succubus)]] takes shape based on a victim's perfect image for a girlfriend.
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* Doppel, a member of the "shapeshifter" race from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', offers Kimihito to do whatever he wants to her in the form of whatever woman he desires (while transforming herself into Miia and an idol, naked) as thanks for helping her with her pranks and saving her from the orc.

** Another comic had Electro visiting a [[PowerPerversionPotential shape-shifting prostitute]], who offered to turn into [[Comicbook/NewWarriors Namorita]], [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Sue Storm]], or the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, among others. Spidey interrupted before we found out who Electro "fancied a crack at" this time...

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* A variant on this trope gets {{Discussed}} in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}''. Shallan Davar is a [[GuileHero Lightweaver Radiant]], and among her other abilities can create what amount to magically enhanced alternate personalities, with their own values, mannerisms, and skillsets. After she becomes engaged to [[PrinceCharming Prince Adolin]], she considers creating a "perfect girlfriend" persona to become while with him. Fortunately, Adolin is much more interested in the ''real'' Shallan.

* Doppel, a "doppelganger"(closer to an EldritchAbombination) from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', offers Kimihito to do whatever he wants to her in the form of whatever woman he desires (while transforming herself into Miia and an idol, naked) as thanks for helping her with her pranks and saving her from the orc.

* At the start of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', the illusionist Candace tries to seduce Sylar with, among other forms, [[TwinThreesomeFantasy hot twins]], and ''[[ScrewYourself himself]]''. He kills her to try to steal the power for himself.

** The gang also runs into {{Enthralling Siren}}s in the first episode of season 6, who lure space crews to them so they could [[BrainFood snack on their brains]]. When Lister comes face to face with one, it turns itself into a woman Dave lusted after when he was young. He tries to resist but eventually falls for her charms. Unfortunately, these Sirens are of the MasterOfIllusion rather than body shapeshifting type, so we're soon treated to a shot of Lister making out with an 8-foot alien bug.

* In the ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "First Anniversary", the protagonist's wife is actually a foul shapeshifting alien, whose power makes her appear as every man's perfect woman. Unfortunately, the power starts to fade when used too much on someone, such as her husband.

* In the games ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and its SciFi cousin ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Chaos God(dess) Slaanesh is canonically an androgynous being, which will appear in the form most suited to one's desires. This being Chaos, anything goes from the wholesome to the utterly depraved. Naturally, this fuels a lot of RuleThirtyFour.

* Doppel, a slime girl from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', offers Kimihito to do whatever he wants to her in the form of whatever woman he desires (while transforming herself into Miia and an idol, naked) as thanks for helping her with her pranks and saving her from the orc.

* ''Film/{{Legend|1985}}''. While the protagonists are trapped in Darkness' jail, the fairy Oona tries to get Jack to kiss her by creating an illusion that she's Jack's girlfriend Lily.

When the MasterOfIllusion or character with VoluntaryShapeshifting wants to seduce someone, they have one very powerful tool in their arsenal: they can be anyone's "type". If they get their amorous advances rejected they will simply change their appearance until they hit paydirt. Common users of this tactic are those with VoluntaryShapeshifting as their main power, [[HotWitch Witches]] (''especially'' if her real form is that of a WickedWitch), {{Enthralling Siren}}s, and HornyDevils (aka Succubi and Incubi).

* Bubble is a shapeshifting Glamopod prostitute in ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets''. She's based on the Suffuss from [[ComicBook/ValerianAndLaureline the comics]].

** In "The Man Trap", the MonsterOfTheWeek uses its mind-reading skills to take the form of an ideal lover, often from the victim's past, so it can approach its victims close enough to kill them. However the creature also has emotional needs as well; when first encountered the creature has been living as the wife of a scientist, having [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] his real wife years ago, a [[ReplacementDoppelgangerLoveInterest fact that he's aware of]].

A little research goes a long way in this regard, and a ''lot'' of subtlety is needed to keep the target from figuring out the seducer is a shapeshifter. ... which is actually fairly rare for this trope, since the shapeshifter will typically be showing off their new forms in a superpower equivalent to a strip tease while the seductee is looking. If the fact that they're being seduced by a shapeshifter doesn't give them ShapeshiftingSquick, they may actually [[PowerPerversionPotential find it really kinky]] and start making suggestions.

One of the quickest ways for this tactic to fail is for the shapeshifter not to do ''any'' research on the seductee or badly botch said research. This can happen if they take the form of a lost love, an ex, or their anti-type, the form likeliest to turn them off and make them run screaming.

** Nemesis can alter her appearance and reshape her body to look more adult-like (to give Rito a taste of MarshmallowHell) and even change her appearance to look exactly like other people. In a chapter she transform her body into Yui, Mikan and Lala in order to tease Rito.

* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': Xavin is in love with [[LipstickLesbian Karolina]], but [[YoureNotMyType he's not her type]]. Fortunately Xavin is a Skrull, with the ability to change his shape - even into a ''female'' shape.

** She transformed into different attractive women for Wolverine years earlier. The first time when she needed protection against Spiral and the second when she needed protection against Sabretooth. In a recent story arc it was revealed that she had in fact started using this tactic against Wolverine nearly a century ago.
* Vanessa Carlyle, Copycat, once transformed into four different types of attractive women who kept bumping into ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, in order to secure that one of them should be his type. Being Deadpool he ended up having sex with all of them before revealing that he knew it was her all along. After that she kept transforming into different superheroines in bed. Years previously, she transformed into a wide assortment of attractive women to seduce a tycoon, so she could blackmail him to not let his wife know.

* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''. Merlin using his magic to change Uther Pendragon into the form of the Duke he's fighting in order to sleep with the Duke's wife.

* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', Freddy Krueger uses his dream powers to turn himself into a beautiful nurse working at Westin Hills whom Joey was in love with to lure him away from the group. Things get ugly fast, and he ties Joey to the bed over a fiery chasm before turning back to his burned, dreamstalking self.

* The movie ''Virtual Girl'' features a [[KissMeImVirtual virtual reality sex program]] [[AIIsACrapshoot gone mad]] that can change into any shape that the user desires. When the protagonist has sex with her, she actually changes form several times in mid-coitus.

* The reluctant, eponymous succubus in Richelle Mead's ''Literature/GeorginaKincaid'' series relies on this power to seduce (mainly) men in order to get the life energy her kind need. Much is made of the fact that the seduction of morally upstanding individuals is made easier by simple groundwork, plus a lot of skill in 'seductive techniques'. Brand-new succubi apparently often lack this carefully-cultivated skill, instead relying on their physical attributes. When Georgina is assigned an apprentice to supervise, she is horrified that the newbie considers 6ft blonde bombshells with breasts that defy physics to be every man's ideal. Said apprentice later reveals that she has much success with college boys, but can't understand why she can't snare moral men. Also, none of the several people Georgina - which isn't her actual name - has romantic entanglements with are attracted through any deliberate act of hers; they fall for her because of who she is. Whenever it is mentioned, none of them ''seem'' interested in the uses the shape-shifting ability might have in the bedroom. This is made more complicated by the fact that Georgina's 'default' form is not her original one either, and hasn't been for about 1500 years.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Small Potatoes", Eddie Van Blundht used his shapeshifting abilities to seduce women, generally by posing as their husbands. In one case, he took advantage of a woman crazed about ''Franchise/StarWars'' by appearing to her as Luke Skywalker. [[spoiler:This tripped him up. He knew about her obsession from years ago, and her social circle was pretty small.]]

** The gang also runs into {{Enthralling Siren}}s in the first episode of season 6, who lure space crews to them so they could [[BrainFood snack on their brains]]. When Lister comes face to face with one, it turns itself into a woman Dave lusted after when he was young. He tries to resist, but eventually falls for her charms. Unfortunately these Sirens are of the MasterOfIllusion rather than body shapeshifting type, so we're soon treated to a shot of Lister making out with an 8-foot alien bug.

* Lyekka of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' has a natural form of a carnivorous plant monster. However she can take on an attractive human/humanoid appearance in order to lure victims closer so she can feed on them. She ''does'' have a "default" form, however it's the one she specifically used with Stan, and continues to appear in that guise after she falls in love with him.

* Done in all sorts of confusing ways in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio "The Maltese Penguin", in which the FilmNoir parody FemmeFatale seems to find Frobisher's penguin form very sexy ([[ShoutOut "You know how to quack, don't you? You just stiffen your beak, and vibrate."]]). She's also attracted to his Doctor form, even though Frobisher notes in his PrivateEyeMonologue that he has trouble kissing people with it because he's more used to having a beak, and that he struggles with humanoid forms because they have 'all those bits hanging off them, which don't even seem to have a use'. [[spoiler: And he's also attracted to ''her'' penguin form. And her default form. And even when she tells him that she had become the pool of blood he'd inspected in an earlier scene, she says it really tickled when he touched it and he seems to find it rather sensual.]] Probably in their case attraction is really just all about the people rather than the bodies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', the titular character [[spoiler: (a succubus)]] takes shape based on a victim's perfect image for a girlfriend.

** In "Homecoming", a wife greets her returning husband... only for him to admit in full honesty that he's a shapeshifter disguised as her husband in order to seduce her. Disappointed, she thanks him politely for telling her the truth. [[spoiler:And takes him to bed anyway.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'''s changelings, who are essentially G-rated [[HornyDevils succubi]], impersonate other sentient creatures and [[EmotionEater feed off of the love]] of those close to them. Presumably, this trope is how they go about it when they're not amassing in force to invade entire nations, as was witnessed in the case of [[spoiler: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Chrysalis]] impersonating Princess Cadance in order to leech off of Shining Armor]].

* Attempted in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' by a demoness with shapeshifting powers who wanted in with [[BadPowersGoodPeople Cole]], who was himself set on a path to becoming the next [[BigBad Source]]. However, Cole [[SingleTargetSexuality is interested solely in Phoebe]]; he didn't give (much of) a damn about the demoness even if she took on Phoebe's form.

* Surprisingly averted in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. Ron points out that Tonks is nowhere as pretty as Fleur. Hello? Tonks is a shapeshifter, she can be the girl of anyone's dream. Possibly justified as Fleur is part [[TheFairFolk veela]], and has supernatural glamour (which Tonks presumably can't imitate) as well as physical beauty.
** Tonks is the kind of person who would want to be loved for who she ''is'', not for how she can ''look''. Besides, in the wizarding world, beauty is cheap, see polyuice potion. Superficial "love" is also cheap, see love potion.