Human–Pokémon transformation

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Due to the technology of humans and the mystical abilities of Pokémon, humans and Pokémon have exhibited the ability transform into each other's forms under special circumstances.

Human-to-Pokémon transformation

Bill transformed into Clefairy

Under various unusual circumstances, there have been humans who have transformed into Pokémon.

In the core series games

• In the Kanto-based games, Bill accidentally combines himself with a Pokémon and transforms into either Nidorino, Clefairy, or an indistinct Pokémon () while performing a teleportation experiment.
• In the Sinnoh-based games, a book in Canalave Library contains a folk story about a Pokémon living in a forest that sheds its hide to sleep as a human, and when awoken the human dons the Pokémon hide to roam villages.

Pokédex entries

A few Pokédex entries refer to Pokémon that were once human. It is uncertain how some of these Pokémon transformed or ended up the way they are.

Pokémon	Description
Kadabra	A Pokédex entry states that one morning a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra. Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia expands the entry explaining it's only the plot of a book called "The Transformation".
Gengar	Gengar was once a human itself. It tries to create another one by taking the lives of other humans.
Cofagrigus	People say that Cofagrigus was once human but it no longer remembers it.

In spin-off games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX: The hero was asked to save the world by Gardevoir. They volunteered to transform into a Pokémon, and voluntarily chose to erase their memories as a human.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky: The hero, along with their partner Grovyle, was traveling to the past on a mission to collect the Time Gears and prevent the planet's paralysis. However, while traveling through time, they were attacked by Darkrai, who sought to stop them from changing the dark future. As a result of this incident, the hero was transformed into a Pokémon.
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity: The hero was asked to save the Pokémon world in a dream by Hydreigon, the Voice of Life. They transform into a Pokémon and fall from the sky into the Pokémon world.
• Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: The hero was summoned to the Pokémon world by the spirit of Mew, who they defeated Dark Matter together with in the ancient past. However, after arriving in the Pokémon world, they were attacked by Nuzleaf and Beheeyem, who knocked them out. After waking up, they had lost all their memories, to which Nuzleaf took advantage of to deceive them.

In animation

• In the episode Hocus Pokémon, Ash was transformed into a Pikachu by a magic spell.
• In the movie The Rise of Darkrai, Baron Alberto was transformed into a Lickilicky.
• In the Pokétoon video Help! I've Turned into a Gengar, Hilary somehow temporarily transforms into a Gengar.

Pokémon formed from spirits

Several Pokémon, particularly Ghost types, are stated in the Pokédex to be formed from the spirits or souls of deceased humans.

Pokémon	Description
Ninetales	According to an enduring legend, nine noble saints were united and reincarnated as Nintetales.
Gastly	Poisonous gas comprises 95% of its body. It's said that the remaining 5% is made up of the souls of those who died from the gas.
Spiritomb	Spiritomb was formed from 108 spirits bound to a fissure in an Odd Keystone as punishment for misdeeds 500 years ago. It is uncertain if those spirits were humans.
Drifloon	Drifloon is a Pokémon formed by the spirits of people and Pokémon. It likes to steal away children to the afterlife and expands each time it leads someone away.
Drifblim	The raw material for the gas inside Drifblim's body is composed of souls.
Froslass	Froslass was born when the soul of a woman met her end on a snowy mountain bearing a grudge and regrets.
Yamask	Yamask is said to arose from the spirits of people interred in graves in past ages retaining memories of its former life. The mask they bear used to be its face when it was human.
Honedge	Honedge's soul once belonged to a person who was killed a long time ago by the sword that makes up Honedge's body.
Phantump	According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest.

Pokémon-to-human transformation

A wild Zorua transforming into Dawn, but keeping its tail

Some Pokémon have moves or Abilities, such as Transform and Illusion, that allow them to take the form of humans. Some notable examples of Pokémon shown doing this are Ditto, Mew, Latias, Zorua, and Zoroark.

In the core series games

• In the Unova-based games, a wild Zorua in Castelia City takes an appearance of a boy who does not talk.
• Similarly, a wild Zoroark in Lostlorn Forest utilizes its ability to create illusions, transforming itself first into a woman inside a mobile trailer, and then into a backpacker. It engages in a brief conversation with the player before revealing its true form.

In animation

Pokémon the Series

• In the movie Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias, Latias changes its appearance and disguises itself as Bianca.
• In the movie Zoroark: Master of Illusions, a wild Zorua likes to use its illusions to transform into people it meets, though its tail is still visible and will revert back to its true form if it is grabbed.
• Luke's Zorua plays tricks on characters like Georgia by transforming into her.

Trivia

• Sometimes the emotions of humans can form into Pokémon:
  • Sandygast was created when grudges of the dead possessed a mound of sand and became a Pokémon.
  • The four Pokémon of the treasures of ruin, Wo-Chien, Chien-Pao, Ting-Lu, and Chi-Yu, are said to be born from the grudges, hate, fear, and envy of people.
• In Pokémon X and Y, Valerie expresses her desire to become a Pokémon and creates clothing to imitate one.
• In Pokéstar Studios some movies rely on human characters acting like Pokémon where they aquire properties of Pokémon like type, ablity, moves and statistics. These humans are Black Belt, Brycen-Man, and Monica.
  • Similarly, Pokémon sometimes can become trainer like Ledian in Timegate Traveler Series or like wild Oranguru.

See also

• Pokémorph