- "I'm not even human now!"
- ― Llenn (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online)
- "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
- ― Borg Collective (Star Trek)
The power to transform people into different creatures. Sub-power of Conversion Manipulation. Opposite to Conversion Negation.
Also Called
- Racial Conversion
- Species Conversion/Transformation
- Turning
Capabilities
User can permanently transform other beings into other kinds of creatures, typically the kind they are; for example, vampires transforming humans into other vampires through a bite. The methods used vary depending on the circumstances; generally through blood or bites, sometimes through injection or spells.
Variations
- Alienization
- Angelization
- Beastification
- Corpse Conversion
- Demonization
- Deification
- Dollification
- Draconization
- Eldritch Conversion
- Geniefication
- Ghoulification
- Humanization
- Hybridization
- Mutation Inducement
- Robotization
- Therianthropic Infection
- Undead Conversion
Methods
Techniques
Associations
- Contagion Embodiment
- Conversion Empowerment
- Conversion Manipulation
- Conversion Resurrection
- Conversion Slash
- Curse Inducement
- Disease Generation
- DNA Manipulation
- Elemental Transformation
- Infection Empowerment
- Infectious Bite
- Mutation Inducement
- Power Bestowal
- Power Erasure
- Self-Spawn
- Soul Conversion
- Species-Shifting
- Undead Physiology
- Vampire Physiology
- Werewolf Physiology
Limitations
- May not affect the victim's mind, allowing them to maintain individuality.
- Usually irreversible.
- May not work on users of Regenerative Healing Factor or people who are Indestructible.
- Certain supernatural DNA may keep the conversion from completing.
- May be constantly active and uncontrollable.
- The change may be reversible, or at least preventable.
- Conversion Negation and Transformation Negation can reverse the change.
- May be reversible by destroying the source.
- Conversion Immunity
Known Users
Folklore/Mythology
- Werewolves (Folklore/Mythology)
- Undead (Folklore/Mythology)
- Ghouls
- Vampires
- Zombies
Live Television/Movies
- Wraither Demons (Angel)
- Vampires (Blade Trilogy)
- Reapers (Blade II)
- Vampires (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel)
- Avatars (Charmed)
- Spider Demons (Charmed)
- Vampires (Charmed)
- Banshees (Charmed)
- Wendigos (Charmed)
- Furies (Charmed)
- Nymphs (Charmed)
- Enchantress (DC Extended Universe)
- Ood (Doctor Who)
- Cybermen (Doctor Who)
- Krynoids (Doctor Who)
- The Flood (Doctor Who)
- The Master (Doctor Who); via the Immortality Gate
- Gas Mask Zombies (Doctor Who)
- Jamie/The Empty Child
- Saturnyns (Doctor Who)
- Wirrn (Doctor Who)
- Zygons (Doctor Who)
- CyberKing (Doctor Who)
- Adipose (Doctor Who)
- Fireplace Monsters (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark)
- Deadites (The Evil Dead)
- Kal (Halloweentown 2: Kalabar's Revenge); via the Creature Spell and the Grey Spell
- Rick Twitler/Virus (Henry Danger); temporarily
- Dragon King (Legend of Mermaid)
- Nyx (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland); turns anyone who takes her water into genies
- Nighloks (Power Rangers Samurai)
- Borg (Star Trek)
- Thing Monsters (The Thing)
- Halflings (True Blood); by using up all of their powers, they become ordinary humans themselves
- Vampires (Underworld)
- Lycans (Underworld)
- Vampires (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); turn humans and witches into vampires, and siphoners into vampire-witch hybrids
- Hybrids (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); turn humans and witches into vampires, and siphoners into vampire-witch hybrids
- Klaus (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); turn humans and witches into vampires, werewolves into vampire-werewolf hybrids, and siphoners into vampire-witch hybrids
- Hope Mikaelson (The Vampire Diaries/The Originals); turn humans and witches into vampires, werewolves into vampire-werewolf hybrids, and siphoners into vampire-witch hybrids
- Penelope Gardiner/Athena Browning (Witches of East End); via Power Absorption for Humanization
- Witches and Warlocks (Witches of East End); turn humans into witches via Magic
Literature
- Characters with morphing powers (Animorphs); permanently become one creature if they stay transformed for longer than two hours
- Wizards and Witches (Harry Potter); via advanced Transfiguration
- Vampires (Shadow Falls)
- Werewolves (Shadow Falls)
- Vampires (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Werewolves (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)
- Vampires (Twilight Saga)
- Werewolves (Twilight Saga)
- Vampires (The Vampire Chronicles)
Comics
- Skinner Sweets (American Vampire)
- Vampires (DC Comics)
- Axos (Doctor Who: The Golden Ones); via Goruda Brain Tonic
- Sil (Gold Digger)
- Malebolgia (Image Comics)
- Vampires (Marvel Comics)
- Brood (Marvel Comics)
- Prime Sentinels (Marvel Comics)
- Ravna (Star Wars)
- Rakghouls (Star Wars Legends)
Video Games
- Joseph Bertrand III (inFAMOUS 2)
- Bloody Mary (inFAMOUS 2: Festival of Blood)
- Firstbloods (inFAMOUS 2: Festival of Blood)
- Heartless (Kingdom Hearts)
- Nobodies (Kingdom Hearts)
- Shadow Beasts (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
- Shroobs (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)
- Ing/Darklings (Metroid Prime 2: Echoes)
- Succubi (Monster Girl Quest)
- The Infected (Prototype)
- Zombies (Resident Evil)
Cartoons
- Pure Elementals (Adventure Time)
- Lumpy Space People (Adventure Time)
- Ectonurites (Ben 10)
- Zs'Skayr (Ben 10)
- Diagon (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien)
- Xenocytes/DNAliens (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
- Dracule (Dragon Eye)
- Necromorphs (Dead Space)
- Chupacabra (Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Elizabeth Frankenstein (Mary Shelley's Frankenhole)
- Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Darkblade (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Pharaoh (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Puppeteer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Gamer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Doof "zombies" (Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacist)
- Aparoids (Star Fox: Assault)
- Kanshuu (World Embryo)
Anime/Manga
- Demons (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Muzan Kibutsuji
- Tamayo
- Karasumi (Hiniiru)
- Slash (Jibaku-kun: Twelve World Story)
- Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon); using the Silver Crystal
- Methuselah (Trinity Blood)
Other
- Urdlen (Forgotten Realms)
- Certain Monsters (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
- Anubis; via mummy curse
- Apophis; via Aphophis neurotoxin
- Succubi/Incubi; via demon energy transfusion
- Werewolves
- The Bastard (Whateley Academy)
Known Objects
- Rick Twitler's Computer Virus (Henry Danger)
- Titan Serum (Attack on Titan)
- Hōgyoku (Bleach)
- Old Blood (Bloodborne)
- Cagaster Disease (Cagaster of An Insect Cage)
- Pontiff's Left Eye and Pontiff's Right Eye (Dark Souls III)
- Electro Axe (DC Extended Universe)
- Goruda Brain Tonic (Doctor Who)
- Immortality Gate (Doctor Who)
- Invincishroom (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga)
- M.U.L.C.H (Milo Murphy's Law: The Phineas and Ferb Effect); transforms humans into Pistachion
- Butterfly/Moth Miraculous (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- Mortal Cup (The Mortal Instruments); transforms humans into Shadowhunters
- Infernal Cup (The Mortal Instruments); transforms Shadowhunters into Endarkened
- Tunguuk's Mask (My Babysitter's a Vampire); transforms whoever is in a costume into that character
- Heart Stone (My Fairy Tail Love Story); transforms whoever touches it into a mermaid/merman
- Pearl of Transformation (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
- God Tree (Naruto)
- Genie Lamp (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Doofenshmirtz's Repulse-inator (Phineas and Ferb: Night of the Living Pharmacist)
- Silver Crystal (Sailor Moon)
- Lightstar Crystal (Skeleton Warriors); transforms humans into Skeletons
- The Muur Talisman (Star Wars Legends)
- Magic Meat/Fofoo (Transformers Rescue Bots); transforms whoever consumes it into hairy beast during the night
Known Locations
- Moon Pool (H2O: Just Add Water/Mako Mermaids); transforms humans into merpeople
- Planet Geo (Guy: Double Target)
- Okami Mountain Spring (Majimoji Rurumo); transforms humans into wolves
See Also
For fan-fictional to non-canon characters, see here.
Gallery
Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time) was able to turn everyone and everything around her into candy when her elemental powers reached their peak, as well as make them more sweet in behavior. She was also shown to be able to convert even other Elementals, like Flame Princess.
Patience St. Pim (Adventure Time) was able to turn everyone and everything around her into ice when her elemental powers reached their peak, as well as make them more depressed in behavior.
Slime Princess (Adventure Time) was able to turn everyone and everything around her into slime when her elemental powers reached their peak, as well as make them more relaxed and festive in behavior.
Flame Princess (Adventure Time) was able to turn everyone and everything around her into fire when her elemental powers reached their peak, as well as make them more enraged and blood-hungry in behavior
Skinner Sweets (American Vampire) converting Pearl Jones into an American Vampire by feeding her his blood.
Diagon (Ben 10) could convert countless beings into Esoterica, his cross dimensional foot soldiers.
Deacon Frost (Blade) viewed Vampirism as a gift.
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The Hōgyoku's (Bleach) ability to manifest the desires and potential of any creature allows it to, amongst others, turn Hollows into Arrancar, Shinigami into Hollows, and humans into Fullbringers.
Pontiff's Left Eye (Dark Souls III) is a type of ring created by Pontiff Sulyvahn to be given to his Outrider Knights, transforming them into frenzied beasts...
...such as the unnamed Boreal Outrider Knight...
...Vordt of the Boreal Valley...
...and the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
The energy emitted by Steppenwolf's (DC Extended Universe) Electro Axe can convert humans into Parademons.
Cybermen (Doctor Who) seek to convert every living thing in the universe into one of their race
Doctor Constantine (Doctor Who) being transformed into a gas mask zombie
Noah (Doctor Who) being transformed into a wirrn.
Using the Immortality Gate, The Master (Doctor Who: The End of Time) turned every human on earth into 6,727,949,338 clones of himself.
Saturnyns (Doctor Who) could covert other species into members of their own kind via blood transfusion.
Children being converted into Axons (Doctor Who: The Golden Ones)
The Moon Pool (H2O: Just Add Water and Mako Mermaids) transforms any human into merpeople on a full moon.
After touching his living computer virus Rick Twitler and his goon was able to turn people into living virus by sneezing on them.
Joseph Bertrand III (inFAMOUS 2) converting a human into a Corrupted.
The Shroobs (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time) convert other beings into Shroobs or Shroob-like beings via a process called "Shroobification."
The Machine Used for Literally Converting Humans To Plants, aka M.U.L.C.H., (Milo Murphy's Law: The Phineas and Ferb Effect) was created by Derek to transform humans into Pistachions.
Hawk Moth (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir), with the power of the Butterfly/Moth Miraculous, is able to transform others into supervillains, complete with their own arsenal of superpowers.
Darkblade (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) has the power to convert humans into members of his army of knights.
Pharoah (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to channel the power of Anubis, converting humans around him into mummies.
Puppeteer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) has the power to control those whose caricature she possesses, using Marinette's dolls as a means of doing so. When using this power on purified supervillains, the villains regain their powers and villain identities.
Gamer (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir) is able to convert humans into units of power, upgrading his mech with them.
The Succubi (Monster Girl Encyclopedia) are hailed by both other mamono and the Demon Lord as the ultimate monster for their ability to procreate more and more monster girls, even monster boys who they take as their mates.
Lilim (Monster Girl Encyclopedia) are an enhanced race of succubus who are hailed as daughters of the Demon Lord. Like their weaker counterparts, they have the ability to transform others, be they male or female, into different kinds of monster, demons or beasts.
The God Tree (Naruto) can convert any human ensnared in the Infinite Tsukuyomi into White Zetsu.
Lord Ravna (Star Wars) is a vampiric, batlike alien who can convert others into members of his species by scratching them.
The Muur Talisman (Star Wars Legends) is an ancient Sith artifact that allows its owner to transform any sentient creature, with the exception of force-sensitive beings and certain alien species, into mindless Rakghouls and control them as their obedient slaves.
Celeste Morne (Star Wars Legends) using the Muur Tailsman to transform Darth Vader's Stormtroopers into Rakghouls.