History Main / UnanthropomorphicTransformation

The inversion of AnthropomorphicTransformation. A FunnyAnimal or HumanoidAnimal character is transformed into a non-anthropomorphic version of the same animal. This could be through a ForcedTransformation or VoluntaryTransformation, because they've travelled to a FisherKingdom where anthropomorphic animals aren't a thing, an innate {{Shapeshifting}} ability, or in the case of an UpliftedAnimal, the effect of a DevolutionDevice. The key point, though is that they're recognizably the same character, just a regular animal version.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Played for tragedy in the episode "The Lizard King." Spiderman discovers a primitive society of lizard/human mutants living under New York, a by-product of the experiments of Dr. Curt Conners, aka The Lizard. Viewing him as a father, they kidnap Conners to try to understand their origins and gain a purpose in life. Unfortunately a combination of learning they were nothing but an accident and Conners' Lizard persona encouraging their more brutal aspects for his own benefit causes one of their number to become disgusted with her people. Thus does she detonate a gene bomb and return all the lizard people back to normal lizards.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaucers}}'': The good guys had the power to do this via Dino-volving, which allowed them to transform their humanoid bodies into the much larger forms of their dinosaur ancestors. They gained proportional strength and stamina, as well as retained their normal intelligence and ability to speech, but lost their opposable thumbs and outfits.

If it happens without an alternate universe explanation, it leads to FurryConfusion. If characters switch back and forth without it being flagged up as a change, it's an AnthropomorphicZigZag. An anthropomorphic animal who is turned into a ''different'' non-anthropomorphic animal (for instance [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 Poe de Spell]] being changed from a FunnyAnimal duck to a normal raven) is just a regular ForcedTransformation.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': The sad fate of Mobius's Tasmanian Devil species, courtesy of the Echidnas who weren't keen on competition for space. To add insult to the injuries, the newly christened "devil dogs" were then employed by the Echidnas as guard dogs, work beasts, and experimental animals. Thrash, the last unaltered Tasmanian Devil, is understandably upset by this and enacts a scheme to even the score by eliminating all but one of the Echidna (as well as Charmy's fiance Saffron for some reason).

* ''Manga/OutlawStar'': Aisha Clan-Clan, and in fact all of her species the Ctarl-Ctarl, are nigh-invincible humanoid alien CatFolk. If an opponent proves able to fight them in this form, and there happens to be a moon present, they're capable of transforming into an even more fearsome giant cat form equipped with fangs and claws to rend said opponent to pieces, as Jukai and Iraga of the Anten Seven find out firsthand.

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* In ''The Constant Rabbit'' by Creator/JasperFforde, [[spoiler:this happens at the very end, when all the rabbits turn from anthropomorphic back into normal rabbits. Thankfully, they take the foxes with them.]]

* Weaponized in ''Webcomic/CrimsonFlag'' by the primary antagonist. The reason this proved so easy to do is a major part of TheReveal. [[spoiler:In the distant past Reyn — the anthropomorphic foxes — were [[UpliftedAnimal created out of ordinary animals]] to serve dragons. In effect, they spend all their lives transformed to bipedal talking magic-wielding foxes, but that can be easily switched off. In the end of the comic they teach at schools [[VoluntaryShapeshifting how to transform to bipedal form out of animal form]].]]