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Due to the technology of [[human]]s and the mystical abilities of {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}, humans and Pokémon have exhibited the ability transform into each other's forms under special circumstances.

==Human-to-Pokémon transformation==
[[File:SeaBill.png|thumb|[[Bill]] transformed into {{p|Clefairy}}]]
Under various unusual circumstances, there have been [[human]]s who have transformed into {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}.

===In the core series games===
* In the [[Kanto]]-based games, [[Bill]] accidentally combines himself with a Pokémon and transforms into either {{p|Nidorino}}, {{p|Clefairy}}, or an indistinct Pokémon ([[File:MS Rhydon I.png|link=List of Pokémon icons (Generations I–II)]]) while performing a teleportation experiment.
* In the [[Sinnoh]]-based games, a book in [[Canalave Library]] contains a [[Sinnoh myths|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.
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! style="background: #fff"| [[File:0064Kadabra.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Kadabra}}
| A Pokédex entry states that one morning a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra.

[[Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia]] expands on the topic in a short story titled "The Transformation".

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! style="background: #fff"| [[File:0094Gengar.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Gengar}}
| Gengar was once a human itself. It tries to create another one by taking the lives of other humans.

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! style="background: #fff"| [[File:0563Cofagrigus.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Cofagrigus}}
| People say that Cofagrigus was once human but it no longer remembers it.

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===In spin-off games===
====Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series====
* {{g|Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team}} and {{g|Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX}}: The {{pkmn2|hero}} was asked to save [[Pokémon world (Mystery Dungeon)|the world]] by {{OBP|Gardevoir|Red and Blue Rescue Team}}. They volunteered to transform into a Pokémon, and voluntarily chose to erase their memories as a human.
* {{g|Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky}}: The hero, along with their partner {{OBP|Grovyle|Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky}}, was traveling to the past on a mission to collect the [[Time Gear]]s and prevent the planet's paralysis. However, while traveling through time, they were attacked by {{OBP|Darkrai|Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky}}, who sought to stop them from changing the dark future. As a result of this incident, the hero was transformed into a Pokémon.
* {{g|Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity}}: The hero was asked to save the Pokémon world in a dream by {{OBP|Hydreigon|Gates to Infinity}}, the Voice of Life. They transform into a Pokémon and fall from the sky into the Pokémon world.
* {{g|Super Mystery Dungeon}}: The hero was summoned to the Pokémon world by the spirit of {{OBP|Mew|Super Mystery Dungeon}}, who they defeated [[Dark Matter]] together with in the ancient past. However, after arriving in the Pokémon world, they were attacked by {{OBP|Nuzleaf|Super Mystery Dungeon}} and {{OBP|Beheeyem|Super Mystery Dungeon}}, 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 [[EP241|''Hocus Pokémon'']], {{Ash}} was transformed into a {{p|Pikachu}} by a magic spell.
* In the movie [[M10|''The Rise of Darkrai'']], [[Baron Alberto]] was transformed into a {{p|Lickilicky}}.
* In the [[POKÉTOON|Pokétoon]] video ''[[PT06|Help! I've Turned into a Gengar]]'', [[Hilary]] somehow temporarily transforms into a {{p|Gengar}}.

===Pokémon formed from spirits===
Several Pokémon, particularly {{t|Ghost}} types, are stated in the [[Pokédex]] to be formed from the [[Ghosts in the Pokémon world|spirits]] or souls of [[Death in the Pokémon world|deceased]] humans.
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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0038Ninetales.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Ninetales}}
| According to an enduring legend, nine noble saints were united and reincarnated as Nintetales.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0092Gastly.png|50px]]<br>{{p|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. 

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0442Spiritomb.png|50px]]<br>{{p|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.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0425Drifloon.png|50px]]<br>{{p|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.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0426Drifblim.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Drifblim}}
| The raw material for the gas inside Drifblim's body is composed of souls.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0478Froslass.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Froslass}}
| Froslass was born when the soul of a woman met her end on a snowy mountain bearing a grudge and regrets.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0562Yamask.png|50px]]<br>{{p|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.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0679Honedge.png|50px]]<br>{{p|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.

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! style="background: #fff" | [[File:0708Phantump.png|50px]]<br>{{p|Phantump}}
| According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest. 

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==Pokémon-to-human transformation==
[[File:Zorua Dawn.png|thumb|300px|A wild [[Zorua (M13)|Zorua]] transforming into [[Dawn (anime)|Dawn]], but keeping its tail]]
Some Pokémon have [[move]]s or {{Abilities}}, such as {{m|Transform}} and {{a|Illusion}}, that allow them to take the form of humans. Some notable examples of Pokémon shown doing this are {{p|Ditto}}, {{p|Mew}}, {{p|Latias}}, {{p|Zorua}}, and {{p|Zoroark}}.

===In the core series games===
* In the [[Unova]]-based games, a wild {{p|Zoroark}} in [[Lostlorn Forest]] utilizes its ability to create illusions, transforming itself first into a woman inside a mobile trailer, and then into a {{tc|backpacker}}. It engages in a brief conversation with the player before revealing its true form.

===In animation===
====''Pokémon the Series''====
* In the movie ''[[M05|Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias]]'', {{OBP|Latias|M05}} changes its appearance and disguises itself as {{OBP|Bianca|M05}}.
* In the movie ''[[M13|Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'', wild {{p|Zorua}} and {{p|Zoroark}} use their illusions and sometimes transform into humans.
* [[Luke's Zorua]] plays tricks on characters like [[Georgia]] by transforming into her.

==Trivia==
* Sometimes emotions of humans can transform into Pokémon:
** {{p|Sandygast}} was created when grudges of the dead have possessed a mound of sand and become a Pokémon.
** The four Pokémon of the [[Treasures of ruin]], {{p|Wo-Chien}}, {{p|Chien-Pao}}, {{p|Ting-Lu}}, and {{p|Chi-Yu}}, are said to be born from grudge, hate, fear and envy of people respecively.
* In {{g|X and Y}}, [[Valerie]] expresses her desire to become a Pokémon and creates clothing to imitate one.

== See also ==
* [[Pokémorph]]

[[Category:Pokémon world]]