Shapeshifting

Ability:

Alter one's form and appearance

Limitations:

- Users may need awareness of each form's limitations & weaknesses
- Users of Mind Reading may detect true identity
- Unconsciousness, excessive pain, or death may involuntarily revert the user
- May require visual or genetic sampling to have access to likenesses
- May be limited to length of time dedicated to transformation
- May be limited to humanoid shapes
- May be unable to transform into complex machinery
- May be unable to augment their natural abilities
- Staying in a single form for extended periods may start affecting user behavior
- The process of changing shape may be painful
- Users may involuntarily transform in response to physical or mental stimuli
- Assuming different forms might lead the user to develop different personalities
- Reflective objects such as mirrors may reveal a person true form

Variations:

- Age Shifting
- Consumption Shapeshifting
- Magical Shapeshifting
- Object Shapeshifting
- Vehicle Morphing

Users:

- Martians (DC Comics)
- Chameleon Boy (DC Comics)
- Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
- Miss Martian (DC Comics)
- Mystique (Marvel Comics)
- Morph (Marvel Comics)
- Chameleon (Marvel Comics)
- Spawn (Image Comics)
- Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
- T-1000 (Terminator)
- Changelings (Star Trek)
- Chameloids (Star Trek)