Humanity Ensues / Fan Works

• In Oh The Humanity, Snatcher is turned back into The Prince due to accidentally shattering a Time Piece.
• In Lost Tales of Fantasia, Scar is turned human to help the Disney villains siding with the Nazis. He offers the same to Shere Khan.
• In episode 44 of Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, Pittan gains the ability to become human from Queen Aida, and is absolutely displeased with this, even refusing to go to school with the other girls. He does go anyways.
• The Incredibles: Rise of the Galeforces gives us a variant on this concept, with a little help from Genetic Memory. While it helps explain why the cloned Supers can access memories of their past lives, it also applies to non-human creatures as well. Thus, if a non-human creature, such as a Pteranodon in Adam's case, is cloned such that the copy has a predominantly human form, the copy would thus feel as though he were actually transformed into a human being.
• In the Death Note fic Constant Temptation Ryuk (a shinigami) is caught and punished for interfering in human affairs and being turned into a human is his punishment. Ryuk decides it's totally worth it when Watari shows him how to make apple pie.
• This is a commonly used trope in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan works, and was widely used even before the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls series used a version of this in canon.
  • In Anthropology, Lyra Heartstrings 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 change her hooves into hands, and it is eventually revealed that she was Human All Along, her obsession stemming from her previous life as a human. She's turned back into a human, and is sent to Earth.
  • Diaries of a Madman: Twilight is turned into a human by a botched spell on Trixie's part. Once the spell is reversed, a few others occasionally make use of the human form.
  • The Dresden Fillies: The third story, Great Power, has Twilight turn the Mane Six and Spike into humans in order to travel to Chicago. Things go wrong almost immediately — among other things, they kept their original hair colors (explained away as hair dye) and Spike's slitted dragon eyes (explained as contact lenses).
  • If Wishes Were Ponies: Ponies who travel to Earth through the portal become human witches and wizards, but are able to return to their original form thanks to the portal turning them into animagi. The same thing also happens to any changelings who traverse the portal; while they retain their shapeshifting powers and need to feed on love their Shapeshifter Default Form becomes human.
  • RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Trixie accidentally manages to turn Lyra into a human in Helping... Hands?. Trixie thought the spell was supposed to turn Lyra into a zebra, but unbeknownst to her the spellbook had been very badly mislabeled. Unlike in most fanon portrayals, Lyra does not enjoy it (and notably doesn't know what it is she's been turned into, settling on "naked bear"). In addition, the fact that the spellbook was badly mislabeled makes it very hard to turn her back, as while they know that there is a counterspell, they don't know which spell it is.
  • A Twilight Landing sees Twilight Sparkle being turned into a human after being zapped to Earth. It takes getting used to walking, and she has to be reminded several times not to walk around naked. She's also curious about humans, but not to the point of obsession like Lyra above.
  • The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The fourth arc of the story has the new Mane Six - an ahuizotl, a batpony/nox pony, a unicorn/changeling hybrid, a griffon, a minotaur and a diamond dog - traveling through the Crystal Mirror and visiting the world of Canterlot High. They are most astounded to have this happen to them.
• In Incarnation of Legends, various Servants have been incarnated as humans in the DanMachi world for unknown reasons. One of the story's mysteries is finding out why. There's also the implication that Oryou is happy to be human, as she can now produce the "next Sakamoto", much to Ryoma's embarrassment.
• The Portal fandom has an affinity for turning Wheatley human, usually so some sort of physical contact can take place between him and any given story's love interest. In the more lemony explorations of this, Wheatley tends to find himself having new feelings or even "discovering the joys of the human body", so to speak. There's usually a reference to the Itch during these sequences, as that plot point has been repeatedly (mis?)interpreted as a sexual innuendo.
  • Blue Sky (Waffles) provides the most famous example of the Wheatley Turns Human narrative, and also showcases the popular trope of Wheatley's human form being based off of his voice actor, Stephen Merchant.
  • Portalborn: In a variation, Daryn's use of the Wabbajack on Wheatley turns him into a high elf. He freaks out at first and thinks there's something on his head when it's actually his hair. This also happens to the Oracle Turret and GLaDOS herself.
  • The Punishment: In something of a retroactive example, Wheatley was a human to begin with but had his memory wiped when he was turned into a core, and thus finds the process of being returned to his original form as disconcerting as he typically does in these stories.
• In This Bites!, this is what happens when the Going Merry consumes the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child.
  • Something similar is done in Coby's Choice, where Iceberg allows Merry's avatar to permanently manifest by dismantling the ship and creating a heart totem she's bound to.
• In What The Water Gave Me, after Astrid officially declares her love, Hiccup (a merman in the story) ends up going through a chrysalis stage, emerging from it as fully human. It doesn't last. At the end the trope is inverted when Astrid becomes a mermaid.
• In the My Life as a Teenage Robot fanfic Phoenix Fire, after suffering an accident so severe that she can't be repaired, Jenny has her mind transferred into the body of Dr. Wakeman's brain-dead daughter, thus becoming a human girl.
• In A Goddess Comes to Call, Mara breaks the cardinal rule of Hell by granting a wish without getting anything in exchange, and is turned into a human woman for the span of a human lifetime as punishment. Since this means she gets to be with Sylia, it also qualifies as an Unishment.
• In The Dark Lords of Nerima, Beneda the youma is turned into a human girl with water from the Spring of Drowned Girl.
• At the end of Heart of Fire, Kathryn tries to save the fire drake Smaug from death with her magic. She manages to do that while unwittingly turning him into a human. In the sequel Heart of Ashes, Smaug has to get by in the body of a human, a species he has looked down upon all his life. He eventually learns to magically change between his true dragon form and the human form.
• Happens to Morgana in the Persona 5/JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fic Vanishing Act. Which leads to a Ship Tease with Ann.
• In the Danny Phantom fanfic Resurrected Memories, Ember Mclain gains a human form, effectively becoming a halfa.
• A somewhat-popular plot in the Adventure Time fandom is turning Flame Princess into a human. The means vary, but it's always done with the express purpose of allowing her and Finn to have a relationship without the threat of Finn being burned alive or Flame Princess' elemental matrix destroying the world.
• In the RWBY fic Pawprints, people who have both a human and animal form are called "Panthers". Some Panthers are born in animal form. These Panthers are considered dangerous beasts by the government and it's required that they be killed upon birth. Animal-born Panthers hide from humans to avoid being killed.
• An Anthem for Sheltered Bays: In the mermaid and harpy communities there's a potion that triggers a transformation into a human. Ymir's feathers peeled off and he's implied to have gain bone density, while Eren, Mikasa and Armin have to cut off their tails in order for their legs to grow.
• Cardcaptor Rad: Because of a "Freaky Friday" Flip, Hot Shot the Transformer and Rachel the human switch minds. Hot Shot thinks it's a chance to know humanity more acutely, but continually finds himself disenchanted; he hates how he has to breathe constantly, that you have to pay for things and that he can't take care of himself or even can't handle high levels of emotions in a human body. By the end, he's more than glad to be back in his own body.
• Phylactery: The homunculi are bright back as true humans after being resurrected. Envy and Lust are very much not pleased when they discover this, while Pride adopts his new identity thoroughly enough to refuse to go by his old name anymore.
• Stories of the Vanished Man: In Reconstructing the Last Treasure of the Man, Doctor Doofenshmirtz's latest -inator, the Anthropomorphinator, turns his dogs and Perry the Platypus into humans.
• Inverted in Perfectly Alien - the human wizard Harry Potter is turned into a Cybertronian sparkling by the Allspark.
• RWBY: Epic of Remnant: A combination of being exposed to Tiamat's Black Mud and Angra Mainyu trying to repair their bodies with his Reality Marble causes Gudako's Servants to become human. They still have their superhuman abilities, but they are not has powerful as they would normally be, they can't go into spiritual form, they actually have to eat and sleep, and they lost their immunity to non-magical attacks.
• In Storm Clouds And Grey Skies, the mermaid Leia suddenly turns human due to a botched spell by the Witch Princess.
• This happens to an Alpha Beowolf in RWBY: A Grimm fate due to a combination of liquid Dust and petals from Ruby Rose's Semblance, and it is not pleasant. It is Played With, however, since he is turned into a wolf Faunus, but Blake questions this, since while real Faunus have only one animal feature, he retains his ears, fangs, tongue, claws, and tail in Faunus form. Given that Grimm hunt down humans, he does not take his new form well, and he struggles to adapt to Remnant's society, especially due to the Fantastic Racism that Faunus face regardless. When found by Ozpin, he is given the name Fenrir Lupus, and they later find out that if his new Aura is depleted, he will be able to turn back into his original body.
• My Hostage, Not Yours: In the third story, the Tallest punish Tak for her failures by surgically transforming her into a human and dumping her on Earth.
• Downplayed but simultaneously deconstructed and Played for Drama in the Justice League/Castlevania crossover Lord of the Castle. The character in question, Alucard, is already half-human due to being a Dhampyr with his father being Dracula, but an encounter with Mr. Mxyzptlk ends up turning him completely human. In doing so, Alucard loses his regenerative powers (which served as his immune system) and ability to sustain on blood (essentially leaving him starved), which leads to his organs failing and needing urgent medical attention; thankfully, he is saved when Superman is able to trick Mr. Mzyxptlk into banishing himself, undoing all the damage done to the world and turning Alucard back into a dhampyr. Simultaneously, though, him being human left Castlevania without a lord, leading to Carmilla, Cornell, Magnus, and Shaft escaping from Hell, and with the aid of Death (who takes after his game portrayal of Dracula's loyal servant instead of the animation's portrayal of him as the Greater-Scope Villain), intend to kill Alucard and bring Dracula back to life.
• In What Tomorrow Brings, Aftran (a Yeerk turned humpback whale) is briefly sent to the splinter universe in a human form so she can talk to Cassie.
• The Story of a Gardevoir That Became a Trainer': It's part of the premise. And she's not the only Pokémon turned human, either, though it's not widely known to most people.
• The premise in Demon In Fodlan is that the aftermath at the Temple of Time stripped Goetia a majority of his powers and turned him into a human. He decides to use this opportunity to observe humanity as a human, though his mannerism and behavior strikes him as odds by the other characters in the Officer's Academy.

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