History ShapeshifterGuiltTrip / ComicBooks

* Pictured on the main page is Mimic the Octopus from [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)]]; as his name would imply, he's an octopus capable of mimicking others [[ImposterForgotOneDetail (to an]] [[MorphicResonance extent)]] through shapeshifting. Being the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] he is, Mimic enjoys playing on others' feelings and employs this trope from time to time, such as when [[spoiler:Whisper has him dead-to-rights during their first encounter by assuming the forms of their dead Diamond Cutter comrades in a bid to throw her off]], or when making a point to Tangle that [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids attachments are a weakness]] by taking the form of her close friend Jewel, thus preventing Tangle from attacking him despite knowing it's Mimic.[[note]]that said, both instances [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope with Whisper's RelativeButton pushing her to attack Mimic regardless while Tangle, while affected at first, uses her tail to attack Mimic from behind[[/note]]

* Pictured on the main page is Mimic the Octopus from [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)]]; as his name would imply, he's an octopus capable of mimicking others [[ImposterForgotOneDetail (to an]] [[MorphicResonance extent)]] through shapeshifting. Being the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] he is, Mimic enjoys playing on others' feelings and employs this trope from time to time, such as when [[spoiler:Whisper has him dead-to-rights during their first encounter by assuming the forms of their dead Diamond Cutter comrades in a bid to throw her off]], or when making a point to Tangle that [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids attachments are a weakness]] by taking the form of her close friend Jewel, thus preventing Tangle from attacking him despite knowing it's Mimic.[[note]]that said, both instances [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope with Whisper's RelativeButton pushing her to attack Mimic regardless whereas Tangle, while affected at first, uses her tail to attack Mimic from behind[[/note]]

* Pictured on the main page is Mimic the Octopus from [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)]]; as his name would imply, he's an octopus capable of mimicking others [[ImposterForgotOneDetail (to an]] [[MorphicResonance extent)]] through shapeshifting. Being the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] he is, Mimic enjoys playing on others' feelings and employs this trope from time to time, such as when [[spoiler:Whisper has him dead-to-rights during their first encounter by assuming the forms of their dead Diamond Cutter comrades in a bid to throw her off]], or when making a point to Tangle that [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids attachments are a weakness]] by taking the form of her close friend Jewel, thus preventing Tangle from attacking him despite knowing it's Mimic.

* Pictured on the main page is Mimic the Octopus from [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)]]; as his name would imply, he's an octopus capable of mimicking others [[ImposterForgotOneDetail (to an]] [[MorphicResonance extent)]] through shapeshifting. Being the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] he is, Mimic enjoys playing on other peoples' feelings and employs this trope from time to time, such as when [[spoiler:Whisper has him dead-to-rights during their first encounter so he assumes the forms of their dead Diamond Cutter comrades to throw her off]], or when making a point to Tangle that [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids friendships are a weakness]] by taking the form of her close friend Jewel, preventing her from attacking him despite knowing it's Mimic.

* Pictured on the main page is Mimic the Octopus from [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)]]; as his name would imply, he's an octopus capable of mimicking others [[ImposterForgotOneDetail (to an]] [[MorphicResonance extent)]] through shapeshifting and, being the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] [[TheSociopath sociopath]] he is, enjoys doing this to throw enemies off-guard, namely [[spoiler:Whisper by shapeshifting into the dead Diamond Cutters]] and later Jewel the Beetle when confronting Jewel's close friend, Tangle.

* During ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', several Skrulls shapeshift into corpses and claim to be victims of [[ComicBook/CivilWar the Stamford Incident]]. Although it works on Penance at first, [[{{Wangst}} he remembers the faces of everyone who really perished]] and attacks.

* ''ComicBook/{{Elementals}}'' by Bill Willingham did an elaborate variant which [[TheReveal revealed]] that a {{ShapeShift|ing}}er that the Elementals had fought before had, over the course of a StoryArc gotten one of the team, Morningstar, to fall in love with him/her.

* ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'': Xavin shifts into the late wife of a [[ForcedTransformationman-turned-monster]] to talk him down from his destructive rampage.

* A rare heroic example comes from ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm''. When team was fighting Lord Entropy, an impossibly powerful madman who wanted revenge against Lord Emp for killing his wife, Voodo used her illusion to look like her. Entropy was so confused that Emp had enough time to prepare to wipe the floor with him.

* ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'': Xavin shifts into the late wife of a [[ForcefulTransformation man-turned-monster]] to talk him down from his destructive rampage.

* ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'': Xavin shifts into the late wife of a [[BalefulPolymorph man-turned-monster]] to talk him down from his destructive rampage.