Shapeshifter Guilt Trip/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Shape Shifter transforms into The Hero's loved one, giving him hesitation.

• Straight: Eva transforms into Bob's Dead Little Sister Alice, forcing Bob into a Heroic BSOD.
• Exaggerated: Eva transforms into Bob's dead family, driving Bob to suicide.
• Downplayed: Eva transforms into Bob's pet dog, which makes Bob confused.
• Justified: Eva knows about Bob's past to hit where it hurts.
• Inverted: Eva transforms into Bob's sworn-enemy, and taunts him in order to make him lose his composure and judgment.
  • Eva is on Bob's side, and transforms into Bob's mentor to give him more confidence.
• Subverted: Eva transforms into Alice, but Bob gives no response...
• Double Subverted: Until Eva, as Alice, calls him out for letting her die. Cue BSOD.
• Parodied: Eva turns into Bob's neglectful father, hoping to start a Heroic BSOD. Cue the parental abandonment issues.
• Deconstructed: Eva transforms into Alice, but instead of pressing a BSOD button, it pressed a Berserk Button. Eva soon finds herself in fifteen separate pieces, with enough of her body to still be torn apart.
• Reconstructed: Eva decides to stay as Alice, so that while Bob is killing her, it would look like he's killing Alice, thus BSOD moment.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: This strategy never comes across Eva's mind
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "Oh yeah, transform into my Dead Little Sister, very original."
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Eva doesn't go for old wounds, seeing them as a cheap way to achieve a win.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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