454) Transmutation (animal)

Transmutation (animal) – The ability to turn humans into animals. Transmutation (animal) is also known as Animal Transformation, Animal Transmogrification, Animal Transmutation and Projective Animal Metamorphosis. Similar to 455) Transmutation (elemental), 456) Transmutation (gold), 457) Transmutation (insect), 458) Transmutation (limited), 459) Transmutation (object), 460) Transmutation (organic) and 461) Transmutation (petrification).

Literary Critique of Transmutation (animal)

Circe (DC) had the ability to turn humans into animals. Generally turning a superhero into an animal is a one-shot affair but the exception in the DC universe is Comet. Circe (DC) is one of the few Silver Age characters that does both bad deeds and good deeds in different issues of Action Comics. Lex Luthor (DC) occasionally shows remorse in the Silver Age but does not out and out do good deeds. Generally Silver Age characters are always good or always bad unless they are victims of mind control which is not the case with Circe (Action Comics V1 #311).

Transmutation (animal)-Comet turned into Superhorse-Action Comics V1 #311

Lockjaw (Marvel) speaks in The Thing V1 #3 and therefore is a human that has been transformed into an animal by the Terrigen Mist of the Inhumans. Lockjaw always acted like a dog before he spoke and after he spoke and one has to wonder why he did this given his fellow Inhumans would have to know he was an intelligent being that could talk! This issue is explained away as a joke by Karnak and Gorgon. However, what if the joke is in fact the lie and the Inhumans have their own form of racism that condemns those transmuted into animals into a none human abyss!

Transmutation (animal)-Lockjaw is human-The Thing V1 #3 (Marvel)