Theatre
"Oh, I don't want to be human, I don't want to be human. It's too inhuman!"
— Og (a leprechaun), Finian's Rainbow
"You awake from uneasy dreams to find yourself transformed in your dank lair into a rather small, four-limbed fleshy thing. You're lying on your shell-less - as it were wholly unprotected - back, and when you lift your tiny head - unadorned with its usual sensory antennae - a little, you can see your pinkish belly, partly covered in soft, curling hairs, quite unlike the black bristles you're accustomed to seeing there. Your two - only two! - legs now jut from the end of your torso rather than up from around your abdomen. They look thick and ungainly in proportion to your body and lie there limply, making no attempt to right you on their own - only by actively concentrating can you move the things. What has happened to you?"
— Planescape: Torment, the "sheer bafflement" experience stored within the Sensorium
"By the way, I know that um- you might find it a bit weird 'cause I'm not, like, my normal skin, you know, I'm not... a cat right now; uh- basically, [we were] chatting with them and basically, it kind of didn't fit in to have a giant talking cat amongst all of the other characters, so basically we- we settled with... like, real life me wearing a Stampy hoodie, so- (laughs) It's a little bit different, but it's quite cool, it kind of makes it a bit different to- to normal Stampy Cat, I guess, but- uh, yeah, it's still quite cool, so yeah! Let's speak to- to myself and Stacy!"
"This [ending trope] happens so often in Japanese media that Japanese furries have created a term for it 「ケモナーバッドエンド」which means "furry bad ending" because it’s supposed to be a "good ending" but it’s bad for all of the furries"
— Twitter user KennecFox
