“brain transplant”
“CIA experiment”
“mind-swapping machine”
“mind-swapping technology”
“pressing the button on a computer in Heaven”
“body switching machine”
“mind-swapping helmets”
“wish from magic stone”
“wizard’s spell”
“magic potion”
“kids cast voodoo spell”
“demonic ritual”
“alien powers”
“Mystic with soul transfer ability”
“lightning strikes mind-reading device”
“unknown means”
“Warden powers to swap minds of two sleeping participants”
“wish during planetary alignment”
“drank a potion”
“side-effect of teleportation spell”
“urinating at magic fountain”
“badly programmed dimensional light machine that professor activates by accident”
“science experiment on ancient African beetle goes wrong”
“wish during full moon”
“Christmas wish”
“wish”
“statue casts a spell”
“magic wind”
“kiss”
“Heart Swap attack”
“Indian idol”
“touched weird artifact”
“magical research”
“magic mirror”
“sharing magic liquor bottle”
“train malfunction”
“Yogurt machine”
“fortune cookies”
“magic typewriter”
“spell on a paper”
“device (mad scientist)”
“aboriginal leash of dreams”
“spell by alien”
“spell by Puppet King”
“spell by magician”
“combination of spell and brain scan”
“ball of light”
“magic bell”
“earrings”
“ingesting Gorgon’s blood”
“mind-loading machine loads wrong data”
“collided in mid-air and struck by lightning during a thunderstorm”
“wish during Aurora Borealis”
“spell by Lisa”
“lightning storms”
“magic toilet”
“car accident”
“activated by head-butt”
“arguing under stars”
“inhale laughing gas at a dentist’s office”
“magic biscuits”
“one night stand”
“magic dragon phone”
“mysterious headache”
“hug”
“magic earmuffs”
“homeless person”
“soccer ball from fortune bag”
“magic taquitos”
“staring at fox’s eyes”
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Holy shit, that was Katherine Heigl in Wish Upon A Star?
YEP. And the little girl from I believe Halloween 5.
That movie really was at the forefront of the golden age of DCOMs
BRINK.
MOTOCROSSED.
OTHERS WHICH HAVE NOT LEFT AS MUCH OF AN IMPACT, APPARENTLY.
Oh man, here’s the full list on Wikipedia. Down the rabbit hole.
edit: Please, for the love of all that is good in this world, read the wikipedia summary of the plot of Brink[!].
LET’S TALK ABOUT MOTOCROSSED. PRACTICALLY MULAN ON DIRTBIKES. and ugh Riley Smith, what a babe.
and Never Forget Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. (zoom zoom zoom)
Most of what I remember of Motocrossed is the scene where Riley Smith takes his shirt off for some totally chill bro swimming time. Sigh.
Briiiink. I’d forgotten its name, but not the race scene(s).
Tiger Town premiered ON MY BIRTH DAY (note the space–it’s intentional). It literally came out the same day, um, I did. So now I must to find out about it, because I’ve never heard of it…
SHE SURE WAS. I… might have watched that movie for the sixth time like… a week ago. Shitty teen movies are my kryptonite.
That movie has stuck WITH ME through the years, though I haven’t re-watched it in forever. Some sort of crazy rules about shaving your legs every day? That is some bullshit, ladies.
Her credits at the time are just delightful: a sequel to Under Siege and a really weird movie in which she pretends her father (Gerard Depardieu) is her boyfriend at a posh resort.
Well that’s…odd. (One would assume that last bit is “My Father, The Hero”?)
Indeed. There’s a scene in which he performs “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” in front of all the resort guests and they decide he’s a monster. It’s funny because IT FEELS TRUE.
I tell my wife about that scene about once every six months. “Did I tell you about that movie where Gerard Depardieu sings a highly inappropriate song to his daughter?”
“Yes,” she sighs patiently.
MY! FATHER! THE! HERO! I have watched that on basic cable so many times, but not in at least a decade! Back when Katherine Heigl was just Isabelle from Roswell and the older sister from Wish Upon a Star. Those were the days.
I can’t believe I just learned about this movie. I also can’t stop telling everyone about it.
HOW does this movie exist? What the shit, 90s? And after he finds out she’s been telling people she’s his lover (a world of no), he continues the charade? WTFFFFFFF.
Public Service Announcement: Wish Upon a Star is on Netflix. Or at least it was a few months ago when I discovered it and immediately watched it.
I feel very strongly that “hug” should be at the bottom of the list. I literally can’t think of a lazier or more baffling plot device than, “And then…they hug, I guess? That oughta do it!”
It says that one’s from a Julio Cortazar story– I haven’t read the story in question, but he has another one where a man switches bodies with a salamander just by looking at it too much. A hug is a very active plot device by comparison.
I remember that one! He goes to the zoo and keeps looking at the axolotl and somehow becomes the axolotl! I haven’t thought about that since I had to read it for my weirdass sophomore-year Animal Theory class.
“Animal Theory”?
I don’t see Polyjuice Potion on here. Maybe because it is only temporarily effective?
I suppose it could be argued that that’s not a body SWAP so much. Unless both parties drank potions targeting each other at the same time.
take it up with the list on wikipedia
Not a body swap, more of a glamour but with the addition of DNA.
This is bullshit; they don’t even eat the magic taquitos!
SHENANIGANS.
Also, signing up for any uneaten magic taquitos. I’ll take that risk.
A google search for “magic taquitos” brings up 100% recipes and 0% body swap plans.
Society just keeps letting me down.
this is excellent for dramatic reading aloud to friends
I have tested both magic toilet and one-night-stand techniques and IMO they aren’t that implausible
A shame the Community one isn’t more detailed, because “Wish (but actually one person faked it to avoid dealing responsibly with his social relationships and the other one played along because first guy is his best friend and didn’t know any other way to help)” is honestly the MOST plausible method of body swap
I don’t know, just intuitively it seems like “magic dragon phone” ought to be more plausible than “yogurt machine.” Mind-swapping just doesn’t seem like it’s within the compass of non-magical yogurt machines, is all.
Right? Magic dragon phone is legit.
The froyo is also cursed…but it comes with a few topping!
tbh I scrolled down looking for how low fortune cookie had fallen on this years list.
“activated by head-butt” really got jobbed here. the crooked “unknown means” lobby has clearly got its grimy hands all over this list
Why is “spell by magician” so much lower than “wizard’s spell”? WHY THIS ANTI-MAGICIAN BIAS.
Edit: I also have a lot of questions about “science experiment on ancient African beetle goes wrong.” Like, in my experience, the consequences of “science experiment on bug goes wrong” are pretty much limited to “bug dies,” “bug escapes,” “bug bites experimenter,” “bug bites experimenter and then escapes”… mostly bug-related stuff, is my point. “Two people swap bodies” does not seem bug-related. (Unless it’s actually one person swapping bodies with the beetle? I could accept that.)
…”experimenter bites bug”, “experimenter fakes biting bug, then lets it escape”…
Magic figs
Why is “wish during planetary alignment” so much higher than “wish during full moon”? Why is “wish during Aurora Borealis so much lower than both of them? I would also expect “train malfunction” to be lower than anything involving magic or mad scientists.
Anything with trains gets an automatic bump
Of all of these, I think “one-night stand” is the most terrifying.
Edit: I lied. “Yogurt machine,” definitely.
“spell by Puppet King”
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH TEEN TITANS!
That episode was probably my favorite episode ever. I may ship Starfire/Raven more than a little bit…
I’m ad-libbing a lot here but I love this scene:
“to fly you must think of a very happy thought”
“yeah, I don’t do that”
“VERY HAPPY THOUGHT”
“no”
“HAPPY, RAVEN BE HAPPY”
“no argh”
“YES! HAPPY HAPPY RAVEN HAPPY POSITIVITY ALWAYS”
……”hey look I’m flying”
“wow what did you think of”
“you, not talking”
SHOTS FIRRRRED
now it’s time for everybody to talk about my favorite Futurama episode, The Prisoner of Benda, and the unexpected sweetness of Fry and Leela having sex in the Professor and Zoidberg’s bodies.
*pours one out for Mop Bucket & Scruffy*
Staring into a fox’s eyes is also a book.
Ah, I didn't think of that. Still, there could be enough for every wizard to spend a day in the life of a member of another group – after all, Crouch swigged the stuff every day for a year, though granted it helped that he had access to the school potions cupboard.
I FUCKING LOVE BODY SWAPS.
When it’s done more for comedy rather than drama OF COURSE.
But not even a shitty, goofy wrestler could ruin the perfection that the the Warehouse 13 swap episode.
The Farscape swap episode is BRILLIANT. Everyone does such a great job impersonating each other’s mannerisms and VOICES. Ugh Farscape is so good I can’t even deal.
While my favorite cartoon ever, Jackie Chan Adventures does do a full body swap episode (where Jade and Jackie switch) and it’s great, there is an episode where chi transfusions are necessary. So burly Tohru acts like pint-size queen of awesome Jade, and Jade begins to act like Uncle. I think the chi transfusion episode is more fun.
The Eureka body swap episode is pretty delightful if a bit cheesecake-y.
Is Face/Off under CIA experiment? Or was that ruled out on grounds of “same body?”
Oooh also one of the best fics I have come across that employs polyjuice genderswapping is https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537755/68/Amends-or… (Hermione/Neville and Hermione/Draco, which I DON'T EVEN SHIP but it's SO PLAUSIBLE)
PRIMARY SOURCE CHECK: "This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen," said Hermione, as they scanned the recipe. "Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed and knotgrass," she murmured, running her finger down the list of ingredients. "Well, they're easy enough, they're in the student store-cupboard, we can help ourselves. Oooh, look, powdered horn of a Bicorn – don't know where we're going to get that… Shredded skin of a Boomslang — that'll be tricky, too — and of course a bit of whoever we want to change into." –CoS, Ch. 10.
INTERESTING. Lacewing flies are very common, leeches likewise, and knotgrass is an invasive weed (the polygonum seen by every roadside!). Perhaps there is a means to produce PJP in bulk with comparatively low overhead. Moreover, should this compelling scheme take root, surely there is an emergent sector for cultivating boomslang skin, etc, to meet demand. Whatever the invisible hand of the apothecary will bear!
Let this comment stand as testimony to the ultimate supremacy of capitalism in Harry Potter. Ayn Rand OUT.
“Magic toilet” made me laugh, and then I saw it was part of a series called “Jiggy McCue” and I REALLY lost it.
This list is missing “surgically switching faces” a là Face/Off
Man, I tried so many of these.