I was skimming the channels yesterday and landed on a My Little Pony 90 minute special, where one of the pony's goes through a magic mirror and ends up a human girl. There were some fun bits because she is used to grabbing things with her mouth, not walking upright... It occurred to me that I've seen this sort of thing play out in reverse a few times in comics, where humans transform and have trouble with new bodies, but I haven't seen it where other creatures transform and have trouble with human bodies. At least not often, or not so often that I'd recall it. Anyone have a good example of this?
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Casper the friendly ghost?
Wendy the good witch?
Richie Rich?
Thor, the Thunder Frog?
My first thought was Biron the Bowman, who turned into a horse, but that's the opposite of what you're asking, right?
Something similar was alluded to in the "War with Atlantis" in Justice League, where Orm complained about how much he hated the surface: He felt heavy, for example. And if you think about it, underwater creatures maneuver in three dimensions, essentially "flying" all the time, so being on the surface would feel like being crippled -- not just the weight, but the limited movement (that would probably seem to be moving too fast). And I've always questioned why characters like Aquaman and Sub-Mariner are so quick with their fists, because punching underwater wouldn't be very effective. I imagine underwater combat would be more akin to wrestling than boxing, and that's what Aquaman and Orm would grow up doing. Fistfights would be unknown in Atlantis.
One thing that's rarely addressed, though, is that a lot of underwater creatures really would be crippled on the surface. In that same story, the mindless flesh-eaters from the Atlantic Trench -- eventually called "The Trench" as a species -- would be fundamentally unable to operate on the surface as they were depicted doing. Their eyes, adapted for a low-light environment, would be blinded. And adapted as they are for a high-pressure environment, those big jelly eyes would probably explode out of their heads. God knows how their muscles and such would operate in such an alien environment -- not well, I'm thinking. (And why on earth are they humanoid anyway? They need to be squid-like to live that far down.)
I never saw The Little Mermaid, but she got legs, right? Did she have trouble learning to walk and such?
And there's G'Nort, who acted very dog-like -- I don't remember seeing him carry anything in his mouth, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it, so I wouldn't necessarily remember.
The Little Mermaid did have a little trouble at first as I recall. I remember the Dragon and the George, a short story I think where a man switched bodies with a dragon and the dragon at the end of the story says that he had trouble.
I meant being a creature completely different, in the special you have a pony transformed into girl. I've seen many stories where humans transform into horses (Supergirl had a relationship with one at least once), but never the other way that I can recall.
Kirk G said:
She didn't have the relationship when he was the horse! Only when he wasn't the horse, of course!
And worse, he wasn't a horse, of course, anyway!
And the Norse said that Loki, as a horse, of course, was the MOTHER of Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir!
Kirk G said:
Well if you are a god I figure you're used to switching bodies and forms a lot.
Mark S. Ogilvie said:
"The Dragon and the George" is a novel by Gordon R. Dickson. I think that the original short story on which it was based was called "St. Dragon and the George".
And then, there's the Beyonder.... in Secret Wars II...
I'm sure there were lots. They just don't come to mind right now. But the Shark--Green Lantern's foe--was a super-evolved Shark, who walked around like a humanoid.
I think there must've been other examples like this in the Schwartz comics--because it's the kind of science fiction idea that he would've favoured--check out STRANGE ADVENTURES and MYSTERY IN SPACE. Also there's an issue of DETECTIVE COMICS, where I believe an ape takes over the body of a man and a man takes over the body of an ape.
There was an issue of SUPERBOY where Beppo was transformed into a human and looked just like Clark Kent, while Clark was transformed into a giant gorilla (I don't remember for certain--but I bet red K had something to do with it).
Then there's Travis Morgan's cat in WARLORD--she went back and forth between cat and human. I don't know for sure, but I think the suggestion was that she started out as a cat first.
The human to animal stories are more common, but I'm pretty sure that classic comics had their fair share of animals evolved to human. It's a play on the ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU story and that's a story a lot of comics liked to plagiarize.
Is this the Congo Bill/Congorilla feature?
Jimmm Kelly said:
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