Mutagenic Food/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character eats something and then transforms into whatever it was they just ate.
 * Straight: Bob eats a magical chicken sandwich and starts turning into a mutant chicken thing.
 * Exaggerated:Bob eats a chicken sandwich and turns into a chicken sandwich.
 * Downplayed: Bob eats a chicken sandwich, begins clucking briefly, and then goes back to normal.
 * Bob eats a lot of carrots and starts to turn orange.
 * Justified: Bob's species naturally assimilates the DNA of their prey.
 * Inverted: Bob takes a bite out of his chicken sandwich, which then transforms into another Bob.
 * Subverted: Bob starts growing feathers and assumes it was caused by the sandwich- however he later discovers it was a curse.
 * Double Subverted: ...the curse of the chicken-flavoured crisps he had for lunch.
 * Parodied: We see Alice adding Mutagenic Goo to Bob's chicken sandwich. There is a dramatic cut to Bob eating the sandwich. The camera zooms in to his face as a look of discomfort starts to form, and then... he belches. He's fine.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob takes a bite of the sandwich and turns into a chicken thing, even though Alice had already taken a bite and is completely fine. It's then revealed that Bob's real form is that of a mutant chicken thing and the sandwich had nothing to do with it. But then Alice has seafood and starts growing fish scales...
 * Averted: Bob eats a sandwich and nothing unusual happens.
 * Enforced: "I drew this cool picture of Bob turning into a freaky chicken! Can we put this in the show somehow?"
 * Lampshaded: "Well, you know the old saying, Bob- You are what you eat!"
 * Invoked: Bob dunks his sandwich in Mutagenic Goo before he eats it, hoping something cool will happen.
 * Exploited: The Big Bad puts the spell on Bob's food to turn him into something less threatening.
 * Defied: Bob refuses to eat the magic sandwich, no matter how magically delicious it looks.
 * Bob becomes a Chicken Refugee.
 * Discussed: "Bob! Don't eat that radioactive sandwich! I don't want you scratching around and laying eggs in my house!"
 * Conversed: ???

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