Why are you just standing there? She's totally going to kick your ass when she's done transforming. Oooooh! You're doing that thing where you're being uncharacteristically chivalrous even though you just murdered her entire defenseless family for some cheap laughs. Well, it's your funeral, buddy. This is where a villain, usually, will obligingly wait for the hero to finish his transformation before proceeding to bloody murder. This is separate from a Transformation Sequence in that while the sequence can be ignored, in this case it IS ignored. Villains may have several reasons for doing this.
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| - Why are you just standing there? She's totally going to kick your ass when she's done transforming. Oooooh! You're doing that thing where you're being uncharacteristically chivalrous even though you just murdered her entire defenseless family for some cheap laughs. Well, it's your funeral, buddy. This is where a villain, usually, will obligingly wait for the hero to finish his transformation before proceeding to bloody murder. This is separate from a Transformation Sequence in that while the sequence can be ignored, in this case it IS ignored. Villains may have several reasons for doing this.
* He has thus far been able to curbstomp the hero previously and is looking for a decent challenge.
* He thinks the hero is hopelessly outmatched even transformed.
* He is trying to turn them with a Not So Different speech.
* He is trying to expose their Super-Powered Evil Side. Whatever the case may be, it ultimately comes down to the villain being Genre Blind, and it rarely works out in his favor. A Dangerously Genre Savvy villain will just shoot first and get it over with. Outside of narrative justifications, this trope can be chalked up to an abuse of Rule of Cool. Why don't these flashy, drawn-out transformation sequences usually get interrupted? Simple: because they are so flashy that you're supposed to be thinking "Wow, that looks so cool!" and nothing else. Overall, whether you're okay with this trope or not reflects your stance on Willing Suspension of Disbelief. In-universe examples also sometimes show these transformations happening in real time, I.E. so fast (or that it actually never happened) that it justifies why the villains or even the heroes can't just kill them while they transform. Sub-trope of Transformation Sequence. Compare Distracting Disambiguation and Talking Is a Free Action. Examples of Transformation Is a Free Action include:
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