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* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] '''loves''' this Trope:
** The Queen's "perfect disguise" in ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]]'' certainly counts, depending whom you ask; it's absolutely terrifying enough and--more importantly--it reflects the Queen's true nature. ''Supremely'' ironic given that the Queen wants to be "Fairest of Them All".
** In ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' Maleficent turns into a dragon to fight Prince Philip, respectively.
{{quote| '''Maleficent''': Now shall you deal with me, O Prince, and all the powers of '''''Hell!'''''}}
*** Disney parodied that scene as early as ''[[The Sword in
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' Jafar turns into a [[Scaled Up|giant cobra]], then into an "all powerful" genie. The thing is, [[Guile Hero|Aladdin actually tricked Jafar]] into wishing he was a genie, so he'd be trapped in a lamp.
*** This seems brilliant only in the context of the rules set by the film; Aladdin used a [[Chekhov's Gun]] of a comment of the genie's back at the oasis. The actual djinni even in the proper translated Thousand And One Nights are enslaved in precisely one story: Aladdin, which features a 'slave of the ring' and a 'slave of the lamp.'
*** There was a mysterious slave from nowhere that dumped the transformed fish in the fire in 'The Fisherman and the Genie.' He may have been a genie himself, although the title character was just shut up in a jug so long he resolved to kill whoever let him out.
** Appropriately for an [[Affectionate Parody]] of their own movies, the villain of ''[[Enchanted]]'' turns into a big dragon [[Evil Gloating|who will NOT shut up]].
*** "[[You're Insane!|You're crazy!]]" "No. Spiteful, vindictive, VERY large but ''never'' crazy."
** Parodied in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
*** In an even more comical version, ''Kronk's New Groove'' features Yzma using a potion that will turn her into something that her enemies (in this case a bunch of old people who she sold fake potions to) cannot harm... a cute little bunny. Unfortunately for her, while they don't harm her, the local condor doesn't mind taking her for food.
*** In one episode of the ''Emperor's New School'' Yzma does turn into a giant snake. And in another episode she and Kuzco have a transformation potion duel--one of the things Yzma turns into is a Tyranosaurus Rex.
*** And she once made a potion that would turn her into the most hideous, terrifying thing imaginable, so frightening the other wouldn't be able to do anything about her... comically subverted when she transforms into herself.
** Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' is almost a sick parody of the "Look at my true form and despair" variation.
{{quote| "Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked [[Punctuated for Emphasis|JUST! LIKE!! THIIIIISSS!!!!!]]}}
** At the end of ''[[
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'': When the King of Mexico drinks the worm . . .
* In the ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' [[OAV]], the human bad guy leaps into a tank of magical ink, turning into a giant inky monster with metal tentacles, constantly spawning four-color minions.
* A few characters on ''[[
** Mojo became one giant ape in the Powerpuff Girls movie. Him also did this in the episode Speed Demon and Power Noia, though into two different forms. It actually works very well for HIM in Speed Demon and for Mojo in [[The Movie]]. So does Sedusa when she tricks the Gangrene Gang into stealing three egyptian artifacts for her. Not only does it restore her hair, it turns her into a giant, real-snake haired monster bent on destroying the Powerpuffs and Townsville. Remember, it's always about the tiara!
* On the ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'' series, a corrupt mayoral candidate who has been illegally using growth hormones to sabotage his rival's campaign gets caught red-handed with the stuff, downs it in a panic, and you can guess the rest.
* Kevin 11 from ''[[
** Then again, there's more than one way to look at the phrase "true form":
{{quote| '''Kevin''': It's payback time for turning me into a freak!<br />
'''Ben''': You always were a freak, Kev. It's just that now the ugly's also on the outside. }}
** Fortunately for Kevin, {{spoiler|''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** In ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'', Kevin absorbs the power of the Ultimatrix to stop an incredibly powerful villain, attaining a new one-winged angel form.
** Doctor Victor, from the third season finale, is another straight example, an absurdly large NASA scientist at first appearance but secretly a hulking [[Frankenstein's Monster]]-esque alien beneath the facade.
*** The third season finale of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** An interesting [[Justified Trope|Justified]] example occurs in the [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[
* Parodied with typical relish in a Halloween episode of ''[[
** [[
*** And in "Pandemic Part 2", there was an evil United States head of Homeland Security who, after revealing he was the leader of the guinea creatures, transformed into a {{spoiler|GUINEA PIRATE}}.
** Ahem. [[Barbra Streisand
* Appropriately for a film that (ahem) was an intentional homage to the classic films, the villain in ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' has the ability to become "The Great Animal". His monstrous true form was teased throughout the entire movie until the very end - only to have him bring the [[Narm]] and change into what appears to be a big fruitbat.
* [[Don Bluth]] likes Disney movies as well and has used this at least twice:
** In the already insane ''[[Rock
** The spin-off movie ''[[Bartok the Magnificent]]'' has Ludmilla (voiced by Catherine O'Hara of ''[[SCTV]]'') steal a potion that Babayaga has given Bartok to aid him in his quest - it turns you into whatever you are, deep down inside. She drinks it and...
** [[Don Bluth]] actually worked for Disney around the time of movies like ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', so he was just carrying on the tradition.
* Red, the demonic cat in [[All Dogs Go to Heaven]] 2 has three forms. One is an old looking dog with green eyes that have [[Nightmare Fuel|NO PUPILS]]. Another is a red demonic cat-jaguar...thing that wears a cape. His third and most powerful form is when he grows to ridiculous size and has his eyes glow bright red. Did I mention that he [[Evil Gloating|never shuts up]]?
* [[Sealed Evil in
* Characters, particularly [[Batman]] Villains, in the [[DCAU]] like this trope a lot as well:
** [[The Joker]] loved disguising himself and then revealing his true [[Monster Clown]] face (he's better known for doing this in [[The Movie]]);
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** '''''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|"I!!! AM!!! '''BANE!!!!!"]]'''''
** One of the more way-out examples is the episode "Home and Garden", where Poison Ivy created a race of plant people who start out as normal-looking babies (save for the fact that they've emerged from giant seed pods) but may suddenly mutate into huge, green, ogrish thugs;
** Eventually it got to the point where the Preserver assumed a monstrous form to fight Lobo in the ''[[Superman:
** It was even nastily subverted by the time the ''[[
** Speaking of ''[[
*** This is also the series where the writers admitted they would blow up the building if they couldn't figure out a good way to end an episode.
** In the terrible trio episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
** In the 2006 revival, Stoker (the Biker Mice's mentor) turns into an insane rat-like monstrosity called "Stoker Rat" by the light of the sun due to radiation.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Catscratch]]''. While the brothers are watching a scary monster movie, they are interrupted by Human Kimberly at their door with a gift of broccoli. Gordon is fiercely allergic to the broccoli and he puffs up so bad that he [[Coincidental Accidental Disguise|looks just like]] the monster in the movie. Mr. Blik and Waffle think he ''is'' the monster from the movie and run for their lives. When they can no longer run they are faced with their only option: fight the beast.
** It also subverted in the episode with the Banshee. The true form of the Banshee is revealed to be a "beautiful" seal woman - depicted as a seal with a dress and long blonde hair.
* ''[[Monster House]]'' contains one of the most bizarre versions of this ever. Bizarre, because the [[Big Bad]] in question is a '''''house''''' that has [[Exactly What It Says
* Happens a lot in ''[[
* In ''[[Cubix Robots for Everyone]]'' the second main villain a female [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who runs Rubix Corp turns out to actually be an alien and in one episode reveals her true form.
** Even more squicky is that the alien sounded like it was a ''male''!
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* Spoofed in ''[[Igor]]'' where Jackyln runs out of pills and turns into her true form- a cute little Igorrette.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' has {{spoiler|The Lead Eliminator, who eventually morphs into the powerful Destructinator}} in the "Wishology" trilogy.
* ''[[Captain Simian
* This happened to Valtor in ''[[
* Aa'une went from glowing [[Evil Overlord]] to a giant monster with several tentacles when exposed to the energies of Lake Blakeer. Then in the next episode he goes down right [[Eldritch Abomination]] by growing extra mouths and more tentacles.
** Promptly subverted when Iparu's shapeshifting power allows him to assume an identical form and match Aa'une blow-for-blow in his powered-up state.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In a heroic version, ''[[
** Koizilla is 'heroic,' but it also appears to have [[What the Hell, Hero?|sunk most of the Fire Nation fleet]], plunging thousands of naval personnel into the polar waters. Even assuming some vessels survived and were able to perform rescues and that the Water Tribe took a bunch of hostages for ransom, that still leaves the biggest kill count of the series on the [[Technical Pacifist]] hero. The season ''two'' finale, on the other hand, featured a [[Magnificent Bastard|villain]] winning the biggest city in the world: with zero casualties.
*** Said villainess then went to suggest performing genocide on the entire Earth kingdom, meaning that she was only saving those people to kill them letter. Also Koizilla didn't appear to kill anyone (Zhao doesn’t count, that happened only after the spirit left Aang), seeing that if he did went on a rampage, not a single soldier would have managed to escape to the ships, yet many, if not all the Fire Nation ships managed to flee with Koizilla just looking at them from afar. If you want to get picky, all those soldiers that weren't killed would go on to further attack Aang and the earth kingdom again in the future, so there's really no moral choice here.
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4GaPcLgOs Unicron does it with style in the '86 movie.]
** {{spoiler|A human example with Silas}} in ''[[Transformers Prime]]''. {{spoiler|After being mortally injured when Nemesis Prime falls on top of him, his mind is transferred into the body of the recently killed Breakdown.}}
* Venger, from [[Dungeons and Dragons (
* In the ''[[
* There is also ''[[
* ''[[Jimmy Two
* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' series finale, Dr. Drakken is [[Plant Person|mutated by accidental exposure to a plant serum]]. This is initially [[Played for Laughs]] ("I look like a kid playing the flower in a school play!"), and then played straight as Drakken's vines prove powerful enough to defeat [[Tripod Terror|alien fighting machines]].
* In the season 2 finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* [[
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