Basic Trope: A monster who used to be human.
* Played Straight: The Evil Bob-Thing used to be Bob.
* Exaggerated: All monsters were once humans.
* Downplayed: Bob becoming Alice is treated as this.
* Justified: This is the only way new monsters can be created.
* Inverted: Bob is a human who used to be a monster.
* Subverted: The Bob-Thing was always a monster.
* Double Subverted: The Bob-Thing was lying.
* Parodied: Bob gets turned into a cute bunny rabbit. Or, a friendly monster character mentions in passing that it used to be human, but didn't much like it.
* The monster was once named "A. Man", but had it legally changed.
* The Bob-Thing was once a man, despite being a woman.
* Zig Zagged: Bob keeps repeatedly changing between his human form a
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| - Basic Trope: A monster who used to be human.
* Played Straight: The Evil Bob-Thing used to be Bob.
* Exaggerated: All monsters were once humans.
* Downplayed: Bob becoming Alice is treated as this.
* Justified: This is the only way new monsters can be created.
* Inverted: Bob is a human who used to be a monster.
* Subverted: The Bob-Thing was always a monster.
* Double Subverted: The Bob-Thing was lying.
* Parodied: Bob gets turned into a cute bunny rabbit. Or, a friendly monster character mentions in passing that it used to be human, but didn't much like it.
* The monster was once named "A. Man", but had it legally changed.
* The Bob-Thing was once a man, despite being a woman.
* Zig Zagged: Bob keeps repeatedly changing between his human form a
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| - Basic Trope: A monster who used to be human.
* Played Straight: The Evil Bob-Thing used to be Bob.
* Exaggerated: All monsters were once humans.
* Downplayed: Bob becoming Alice is treated as this.
* Justified: This is the only way new monsters can be created.
* Inverted: Bob is a human who used to be a monster.
* Subverted: The Bob-Thing was always a monster.
* Double Subverted: The Bob-Thing was lying.
* Parodied: Bob gets turned into a cute bunny rabbit. Or, a friendly monster character mentions in passing that it used to be human, but didn't much like it.
* The monster was once named "A. Man", but had it legally changed.
* The Bob-Thing was once a man, despite being a woman.
* Zig Zagged: Bob keeps repeatedly changing between his human form and his monster form.
* Averted: Bob stays human.
* Enforced: The writers wanted to give a psychological aspect to the horror by having it being once a man.
* Lampshaded: "That thing... it wasn't always like this."
* Invoked: Bob does everything he needs to do to become a Bob-Thing.
* Defied: Knowing that there is a very real chance that he may turn into a monster, Bob seeks to prevent it.
* Discussed: "Oh my god... now we know what happened to Bob."
* Conversed: "In stories like this, the most inhuman monsters were all once humans."
* Played for Laughs: ...
* Played for Drama: Due to the nature of this trope, almost every example will already be played as this.
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