The power to assume or possess a base/default form. Sub-power of Mode Switching and Shapeshifting.
Also Called
- Base Mode
- Default Form/Mode
Capabilities
The user, while capable of different transformations and Shapeshifting, possesses a base/default form that they remain in most of the time. Said form is either their True Form or an appearance they prefer using when interacting with others.
Applications
Variations
Levels
- Base Form
- Empowered State
- Powered Form
- Super Form
- Legendary Form
- Hyper Form
- Zenith Form
- Almighty Form
Associations
Known Users
See also: Shapeshifter Default Form and A Form You Are Comfortable With
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Titan-Shifters (Attack on Titan)
- Various Characters (Black Clover)
- Soul Reapers/Shinigami (Bleach)
- Vizards (Bleach)
- Arrancars (Bleach)
- Quincies (Bleach)
- Zephyr (Doom Breaker)
- Allen Walker (D.Gray-man)
- Yu Kanda (D.Gray-man)
- Tyki Mikk (D.Gray-man)
- Jasdevi (D.Gray-man)
- Spirits (Date A Live)
- Digimon (Digimon series)
- Various Characters (Dragon Ball series)
- Various Characters (Fairy Tail)
- Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
- Roxanne/Abyss Dancer (Hero Killer)
- Azure Dragon (Hero Killer)
- Various Characters (High School DXD)
- Several Characters (Hitman Reborn!)
- Killua Zoldyck (Hunter X Hunter)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Various Characters (Mashle: Muscles and Magic)
- Doppel (Monster Musume)
- Several Characters (My Hero Academia)
- Various Characters (Naruto series)
- Various Characters (One Piece)
- Boros (One-Punch Man)
- Garou (One-Punch Man)
- Various Monsters (One-Punch Man)
- Various Characters (Sailor Moon)
- Several Characters (Toriko)
- Several Characters (Transformers Unicron Trilogy)
- Spirit of the Tree of Ages (Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon)
- Various Demons (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Shinobu Sensui (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Cartoons/Comics
- Jake (Adventure Time)
- Various Characters (Archie’s Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Avatars (Avatar series)
- Inque (Batman Beyond)
- Albedo (Ben 10 series)
- Ben Tennyson (Ben 10 series)
- Beastmen (BNA: Brand New Animal)
- Michiru Kagemori
- Erzsebet Báthory (Castlevania: Nocturne)
- Shapeshifting Users (Danny Phantom)
- Martians (DC Comics)
- Beast Boy (DC Comics)
- Nergal Junior (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
- Mimic (IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
- Users of the Phoenix Force (Marvel Comics)
- Mystique (Marvel Comics)
- Skrulls (Marvel Comics)
- Aku (Samurai Jack)
- Steven (Steven Universe)
- Zeta (The Zeta Project)
Literature
- Andalites (Animorphs)
- Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)
- Pennywise (Stephen King's It)
Live Television/Movies
- Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
- Various Power Rangers teams (Power Rangers series)
- Godzilla (MonsterVerse)
- Odo (Star Trek)
- Various Kamen Riders (Kamen Rider series)
- Various Super Sentai teams (Super Sentai series)
- T-1000 (Terminator 2)
- Ultraman Tiga (Ultraman series)
- Ultraman Trigger (Ultraman series)
- Alien Bounty Hunters (The X-Files)
Video Games
- Demigods (Asura’s Wrath)
- Chakravartin (Asura’s Wrath)
- Dracula (Castlevania)
- Various Characters (Devil May Cry)
- Emperor Mateus (Final Fantasy II)
- Zemus (Final Fantasy IV)
- The Creator (Final Fantasy IV)
- Exdeath (Final Fantasy V)
- Terra Brandford (Final Fantasy VI)
- Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI)
- Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Genesis Rhapsodos (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Angeal Hewley (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Tsviets (Final Fantasy VII series)
- Ultimecia (Final Fantasy VIII)
- Zidane Tribal (Final Fantasy IX)
- Kuja (Final Fantasy IX)
- Seymour Guado (Final Fantasy X)
- Vayne Carudas Solidor (Final Fantasy XII)
- Barthandelus (Final Fantasy XIII)
- Caius Ballad (Final Fantasy XIII-2)
- Various Characters (Final Fantasy XIV)
- Ultima (Final Fantasy XVI)
- Manaketes (Fire Emblem)
- Kratos (God of War)
- Thanatos (God of War)
- Rugal Bernstein (The King of Fighters)
- Saiki (The King of Fighters)
- Ansem, Seeker of Darkness (Kingdom Hearts)
- Marluxia (Kingdom Hearts)
- Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
- Saix (Kingdom Hearts)
- Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
- Various Characters (League of Legends)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Ditto (Pokémon)
- Various Pokémon (Pokémon)
- Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Shadow (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Silver (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Ryu (Street Fighter)
- Akuma (Street Fighter)
- M. Bison (Street Fighter)
- Mario (Super Mario Bros.)
- Luigi (Super Mario Bros.)
- Peach (Super Mario Bros.)
- Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
- Mimi (Super Paper Mario)
- Doopliss (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
- Various Characters (Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series)
- Devil Gene Users (Tekken)
Web Animation/Series
- Keyleth (Critical Role)
- Imogen Temult (Critical Role)
- Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)
- Hazel Rainart (RWBY)
- The Curious Cat (RWBY)
Gallery
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Inque (Batman Beyond) can shapeshift into her featureless form to do crime...
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… or use her original human form to get out of things.
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While he turns into aliens, Ben Tennyson (Ben 10 series) often interacts with people in his regular human form.
Amorpho (Danny Phantom) is a master shapeshifter who is really a faceless ghost in a black trenchcoat/hat.
Catopesra (Dragon Ball Super) wearing his Power Suit in Base form.
Aku (Samurai Jack) uses a towering and demonic but vaguely humanoid shape as his preferred form. His true form however is nothing more than a seething, amorphous black mass of pure evil.
Having absorbed her power through the arrow that bound Inuyasha to it for fifty years, the Spirit of the Tree of Ages (Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon) assumes the form of Kikyo to commune with others,
Ultraman Tiga (Ultraman Franchise)
Ultraman Trigger (Ultraman series)
An Alien Bounty Hunter (The X-Files) in the human appearance most commonly assumed by members of his race.
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Zeta (Zeta Project)
Videos
The Galleria (T-800 vs T-1000) - Terminator 2 -Remastered-
What's the dog's name? (Extended scene) - Terminator 2 -Remastered--2
Come with me if you want to live - Terminator 2 -Remastered--2
Pescadero Hospital Escape - Terminator 2 -Remastered--2
The Zeta Project - Ro + Zeta = the most underrated duo in the DCAU 🤖💁♀️ - DC