Animal Transformation
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A fanfic trope in which one or more characters is transformed into an animal, or else an Alternate Universe story wherein the characters are cast as animals. Usually such stories are considered crackfic, but they may be especially long and involved specimens of the genre. Fic set in fandoms where it is canon for characters to turn into animals, such as Harry Potter animagus fic or stories about other fantasy or comic characters with shapeshifting superpowers, usually are not called animal transformation fic, but labeled with the universe's term. Fic about characters being inanimate objects or ideas is sometimes called Anthropomorfic.
This trope is at least if not more popular in Japanese fandom; many doujinshi feature characters as animals, drawn either with selected animal features (as in the ears and tails of catgirls) or completely changed.
Although examples can be found for an enormous variety of animals, the most common types are pets, especially cats.
Examples
- The Professionals zine Cat Tales by Fanny Adams (pub. 1986), featured characters as cats.
- Starsky & Hutch: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night by Suzan Lovett, originally published in Code 7 v.4, featured Starsky & Hutch transformed into cats, inspired by the Cat Tales zine.
- Stargate: Atlantis is somewhat infamous for animal transformation and AU fics, as on these lists: Animal AU recs and Animal Transformations recs
- Star Trek: TOS: In Children of the Sun by Gloria Fry with art by Maggie Symon) aliens transform Spock into a sort of giant sabertooth wolf-thing as part of an experiment, originally zine-published.[1]
- ↑ Children of the Sun online (accessed 7 Jan 2010)
