
- #The hidden movie shapeshifter tracking a criminal movie#
- #The hidden movie shapeshifter tracking a criminal series#
#The hidden movie shapeshifter tracking a criminal movie#
#The hidden movie shapeshifter tracking a criminal series#
The comic book series Runaways does this with the Skrull Xavin a couple of times when we're getting to know him/her, although it's a case of short-circuiting (probably the Skrull equivalent of going into shock or throwing up from pain or whatnot), not actual death.Compare Shapeshifter Identity Crisis and My Life Flashed Before My Eyes. No Immortal Inertia is similar but for immortals. See also Shapeshifter Mashup and Perpetually Protean. In shows aimed towards kids or ones where the shapeshifter is especially smart, expect the shapeshifter to possibly survive, thus rendering this trope a bit confusing as the viewer wonders why there's the equivalent of death convulsions going on for a character who will later turn out to be fine.Ī special case of Super-Power Meltdown. If the purpose of the swan song is to inform the audience who the shapeshifter posed as (and that they were, in fact, a shapeshifter) this becomes a case of Viewers Are Morons. Someone will usually go " This Was His True Form", and look suitably mournful if it was a friend they lost to The Virus. After their swan song they'll settle into their original form and body, often to the surprise of everyone else, especially if said form isn't human. It'll also happen if their powers are short circuited, they're critically injured or KO'd. Much like the life flashing before your eyes thing, it may be considered a realistic survival reflex. When a shapeshifter bites the dust they have a veritable swan song of shape shifting as they slide through every single shape they've stolen throughout the episode or movie. It's no surprise then that dying is no exception.

Even the insidious infiltrators like to use their abilities to inspire awe and fear.

"Stop it, stop it, turn them off! I can't control it! I can't be all of them, not all at once!" Shapeshifters are showoffs.
