David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The classic shapeshifters like werewolfs or vampires, or other theriantrophical beings.
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Shapeshifting is an old fantasy of mankind. The old stories of werewolfs and vampires are early manifestations of those fantasies. There have been numerous new interpretations of these fantasies, even mixed with modern settings in science fiction stories. Which category of shapeshifters is your favorite? Discuss here.
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Jennifer Lawrence in Dark Phoenix (2019)
Human mutants, not classical theriantrophical. -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Seemingly harmless plants from outer space that transform peoples bodies by breeding perfect body copies with the loss of the victim's personality, replaced by a new alien personality. -
Charles Hallahan in The Thing (1982)
Molecular intruders that intrude a host genetically by touch or droplet infection, hide inside and break out as chimera when threatened. -
Tom Hardy in Venom (2018)
Symbionts that timewise overtake the functions of the bodies of their hosts to aim for their own goals, distracting the lifes of their hosts, but also talking to & helping them. -
Robert Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Liquid metal shapeshifting robots, manufactured by an artificial intelligence which was formerly invented by humans, but then switched to a self-developement-mode. -
Linda Blair in The Exorcist (1973)
Shapeshifter by demonic posession, including change of eyecolor, 360° turning heads or unnormal deformity of the limbs. -
Gerard Butler in Gods of Egypt (2016)
Shapeshifting gods. -
Will Smith in Aladdin (2019)
Magical shapeshifting. -
Ben Mendelsohn in Captain Marvel (2019)
Humanoid, but still nonhuman alien shapeshifters, shapeshifters by alien race, genetically. Suggested by TsarStepan -
Peter Cullen in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Shapeshifting robotic alien lifeforms of solid metal which shift between their robot form and daily objects like cars, planes, or toasters. -
Dreamscape (1984)
Shapeshifters in dream sequences. -
Betty White
This is not my type of fantasy.
