Shapeshifting is a magical ability featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time and Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the second episode of the first season.
Known Ways to Shapeshift
A glamour is an illusion, and only affects the perception of people who see the glamoured person or object, as opposed to changing its actual form. Transfiguration, on the other hand, is a complete shape-shift, where the person physically transforms into another being or form.[nb 1][1] ("Siege Perilous")
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List of Shapeshifts
S | Ep | Type | Turned | Into | By | Status |
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1 | 2 | Shapeshifting spell | The Gnome | Petrified | Evil Queen | Permanent |
Evil Queen | A mouse | Herself | Reversed | |||
1 | 3 | Dark fairy dust | 3 bridge trolls | Bugs | Snow White | Permanent |
1 | 4 | Shapeshifting spell | The Fairy Godmother | Enlarged | Herself | Permanent |
1 | 5 | Transformation potion | Donna | Marionettes | Myrna | Permanent |
Stephen | Martin | |||||
Shapeshifting spell | Jiminy | A cricket | Blue Fairy | Permanent | ||
1 | 8 | Glamour spell[2] | Zoso | Himself with normal skin | Himself | Reversed |
1 | 12 | Glamour spell[3] | The beating heart of the first Titan[3] | The jeweled chalice that looks like the Holy Grail | Unknown | Permanent |
Shapeshifting spell | Gaston | A rose | Rumplestiltskin | Permanent | ||
1 | 13 | King Midas' touch[4] | Frederick | A golden statue | King Midas | Reversed |
Magical ability | The Siren | Snow White | Herself | Reversed | ||
Waters of Lake Nostos | Frederick in a golden statue | Back to his normal self | Prince Charming | Permanent | ||
1 | 14 | Shapeshifting spell | Nova | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
1 | 15 | Werewolf ability | Red Riding Hood | Werewolf | Herself | Reversed |
1 | 16 | |||||
1 | 17 | Glamour spell | Evil Queen | An old woman | Herself | Reversed |
Magic mushroom | Valet | Enlarged | Evil Queen | Permanent | ||
1 | 19 | Shapeshifting spell | Donkey Driver | A snail | Rumplestiltskin | Permanent |
1 | 20 | Shapeshifting spell | Pinocchio | Himself as a real boy | Blue Fairy | Reversed |
1 | 22 | Magical ability | Maleficent | A dragon | Herself | Reversed |
2 | 3 | Glamour spell | Cora | Lancelot | Herself | Reversed |
2 | 4 | Shapeshifting spell[4] | A butcher | A pig | Rumplestiltskin | Unknown |
2 | 7 | Werewolf ability | Red Riding Hood | Werewolf | Herself | Reversed |
Ruby | Herself | Reversed | ||||
Anita Lucas | Herself | Reversed | ||||
2 | 10 | Shapeshifting spell | Fisherman | Fish | Cora | Apparently Permanent |
Glamour spell | Unnamed person | Archie Hopper | Cora | Apparently Permanent | ||
Glamour spell | Cora | Regina Mills | Herself | Reversed | ||
2 | 11 | Shapeshifting spell | William Smee | A rat | Mr. Gold | Reversed |
Fairy dust | Yaoguai | Prince Phillip | Belle | Permanent | ||
2 | 12 | Glamour spell | Cora | Henry Mills | Herself | Reversed |
2 | 13 | Magic mushroom | Anton | Shrunk | Jack | Reversed |
Enlarged | Regina Mills | Reversed | ||||
2 | 15 | Glamour spell | Cora | Blue Fairy | Herself | Reversed |
2 | 16 | Shapeshifting spell | Straw | Gold | Cora | Permanent |
2 | 19 | Shapeshifting spell | Henry Mills | A statue | Mr. Gold (via the Fairy Godmother's wand) |
Dreamt |
Glamour spell (Six-Leaf Clover)[5] |
Robin Hood | Unnamed person | Himself | Reversed | ||
2 | 20 | Glamour spell | Evil Queen | A peasant ("Wilma") |
Rumplestiltskin | Reversed |
Glamour spell | Regina Mills | Fisherman | Herself | Reversed | ||
3 | 1 | Shapeshifting spell | The mermaid | A hardwood | Regina Mills | Permanent |
3 | 2 | Magical ability | The Shadow | Belle | Itself | Reversed |
3 | 3 | Shapeshifting spell | Tinker Bell | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
3 | 4 | Magical ability | The Shadow | Belle | Itself | Reversed |
3 | 6 | |||||
3 | 6 | Shapeshifting spell | ||||
Ariel | A human | Ursula (Deity) | Reversed | |||
Evil Queen | Herself as a cecaelia ("Ursula (Deity)") |
Unknown | Reversed | |||
Sea Bracelet | Snow White | A mermaid | Ariel | Reversed | ||
3 | 7 | Sea Bracelet | Ariel | A human | Herself | Reversed |
3 | 10 | Magical ability | Prince Charming | Petrified | Medusa | Reversed |
Medusa | Permanent | |||||
3 | 13 | Flying Monkey's bite | Little John | Flying Monkey | Flying Monkey | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | A flying monkey | A plushie toy | Evil Queen | Permanent | ||
3 | 16 | Glamour spell | Rumplestiltskin | Evil Queen | Himself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Walsh | Flying monkey | Zelena | Presumed Reversed | ||
3 | 17 | Glamour spell | Zelena | Ariel | Herself | Reversed |
3 | 19 | Shapeshifting spell | Aurora | Flying monkeys | Zelena | Reversed |
Prince Phillip | ||||||
3 | 20 | Shapeshifting spell | Gold Threads | Golden brain | Zelena | Unknown |
Glamour spell | Zelena | Melted | Herself | Reversed | ||
3 | 21 | Glamour spell | Emma | A princess ("Princess Leia") |
Rumplestiltskin | Reversed |
Hook | A prince ("Prince Charles") | |||||
Werewolf ability | Red Riding Hood | Werewolf | Herself | Reversed | ||
3 | 22 | Dark fairy dust | Snow White | A bug | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | A bug | Snow White | Blue Fairy | Permanent | ||
Dark fairy dust | 3 bridge trolls | Bugs | Evil Queen | Permanent | ||
4 | 4 | Transformation potion | The Apprentice | A rat | Rumplestiltskin | Reversed |
4 | 11 | Shapeshifting spell | Maleficent | A flock of ravens | Herself | Reversed |
4 | 13 | Magical ability | Maleficent | A dragon | Herself | Reversed |
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4 | 14 | Glamour spell | Mr. Gold | Hook | Himself | Reversed |
4 | 15 | Transformation potion | August Booth | Back to his hardwood self | Mr. Gold | Reversed |
Transformation potion (enlarging potion) |
The Jolly Roger | Enlarged | Hook | Permanent | ||
Shapeshifting spell (using Poseidon's trident) |
Ursula (mermaid) | Herself as a cecaelia | Herself | Permanent | ||
4 | 17 | Glamour spell (Six-Leaf Clover) |
Zelena | Marian | Herself | Reversed |
4 | 19 | |||||
4 | 20 | Magical ability | Lily Page | A dragon | Herself | Reversed |
4 | 22 | |||||
5 | 1 | Glamour spell | Zelena | Regina Mills | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Mr. Clark | Petrified | Emma Swan | Reversed | ||
5 | 2 | Shapeshifting spell | Dopey | A tree | Power of the Third Dark Curse | Reversed |
5 | 3 | Glamour spell | Emma Swan | Herself with normal hair and skin | Herself | Reversed |
5 | 5 | Shapeshifting spell (with the tear of lost love) |
Merlin | A tree | Nimue (with Merlin's tear) |
Reversed |
A tree | Merlin | Emma Swan (with Henry Mills' tear) |
Permanent | |||
5 | 6 | Transformation potion (Spell of Mor'du) |
Merida | A bear | Herself (forced by Emma Swan) |
Reversed |
Anti-Transformation Powder | A bear | Merida | Mr. Gold | Permanent | ||
5 | 7 | Shapeshifting spell | Holy Grail | Excalibur | Merlin (with the help of the Promethean Flame) |
Permanent |
5 | 8 | Glamour spell[6] | The name "Killian Jones" on Excalibur[7] | Disappeared | Emma Swan | Reversed |
5 | 9 | Shapeshifting spell | Ruby | Werewolf | Witch | Reversed |
5 | 11 | Glamour spell | Hook | Henry Mills | Himself | Reversed |
5 | 12 | Glamour spell | Cora | Valet | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Valet | Shrunk | Evil Queen | Reversed | ||
5 | 16 | Glamour spell | Zelena | Mother Superior | Herself | Reversed |
5 | 18 | Werewolf ability | Ruby | Werewolf | Herself | Reversed |
5 | 20 | Glamour spell | A wineskin filled with water from the Acheron | An enchanted heart | Mr. Gold | Permanent |
5 | 22 | Dr. Jekyll's Serum | Jekyll | Mr. Hyde | Poole | Reversed |
6 | 5 | Glamour spell | Evil Queen (serum) | Archie Hopper | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Archie Hopper | A cricket | Zelena | Reversed | ||
6 | 7 | Shapeshifting spell | Blue Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
6 | 8 | Glamour spell | Evil Queen (serum) | Regina Mills | Herself | Reversed |
Magical ability | The Dragon | A dragon | Himself | Unknown | ||
6 | 9 | Shapeshifting spell | Blue Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Black Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed | ||
Shapeshifting spell | Mother Superior | Mother Superior | Shrunk | Reversed | ||
Gideon | ||||||
6 | 10 | Glamour spell | Regina Mills | Evil Queen | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | Evil Queen (serum) | A cobra | Gideon | Reversed | ||
6 | 15 | Transformation potion | Prince Achmed | A wooden staff | Jafar | Permanent |
Jafar | Jasmine | |||||
Glamour spell | Gideon | "Æsop" | Himself | Reversed | ||
6 | 16 | Shapeshifting spell | Black Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Permanent |
Great Spider from the Echoless Forest | Shrunk | Mr. Gold (via the Dark One Dagger) | ||||
Dark fairy dust | Roderick | A bug | Black Fairy | |||
6 | 19 | Glamour spell | Black Fairy | Mary Margaret Blanchard | Herself | Reversed |
Gideon | David Nolan | Himself | Reversed | |||
Shapeshifting spell | Blue Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed | ||
Tiger Lily | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed | |||
Shapeshifting spell | Fiona (A human) | A fairy | Herself (with Tiger Lily's wand and an incantation) |
Permanent | ||
6 | 20 | Shapeshifting spell | Blue Fairy | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
7 | 5 | True Love's Kiss | Robert | A frog | His true love | Permanent |
7 | 7 | Glamour spell | Gothel | Rapunzel Tremaine | Herself | Reversed |
7 | 8 | Transformation potion (shrinking potion) |
Cinderella | Shrunk | Herself | Reversed |
7 | 10 | Blood Magic | Drizella | Petrified | Rapunzel Tremaine | Reversed |
7 | 14 | Shapeshifting spell | The Troll | A sculpture | Alice | Permanent |
7 | 15 | Glamour spell | Gothel | Regina Mills | Herself | Reversed |
Shapeshifting spell | A bole | Candies | Gretel | Permanent | ||
7 | 19 | Glamour spell | Gothel (A tree nymph) |
A human | Herself | Permanent |
7 | 20 | Shapeshifting spell | Margot | Shrunk | Tilly | Reversed |
Rogers | ||||||
Weaver | ||||||
Eloise Gardener | A tree | Permanent | ||||
7 | 21 | Shapeshifting spell | Jacinda Vidrio | Shrunk | Rumplestiltskin (Wish Realm) | Reversed |
Lucy | ||||||
Rogers | ||||||
Weaver | ||||||
Henry Mills | ||||||
W | 2 | Shapeshifting spell | Silvermist | Enlarged | Herself | Reversed |
W | 4 | Shapeshifting Spell | Amara | A serpent (Amara) | Jafar | Reversed |
A serpent (Amara) | A staff | |||||
W | 5 | Shapeshifting spell | Will Scarlet | Petrified | Jafar (via the serpent staff) |
Reversed |
W | 7 | Transformation potion | Jafar | Edwin | Himself | Reversed |
W | 10 | Shapeshifting spell | A stick | A sword | Red Queen | Permanent |
W | 12 | Shapeshifting spell | A chandelier | A hydra | Amara | Reversed |
C | SQ | Werewolf ability | Adair | Werewolves | Themselves | Reversed |
Adalyn | ||||||
Red Riding Hood | ||||||
Shapeshifting spell | The Huntsman | Sea creatures | Magic Totem | Reversed | ||
Snow White | ||||||
Red Riding Hood |
Trivia
Other Notes
- In magic lore, a glamour is a spell cast on somebody to make them see something the spell-caster wishes them to see, when in fact they are not what they seem to be. Shapeshifting, on the other hand, is a common theme in mythology, folklore and fantasy fiction, which refers to the ability to physically transform into another being or form.
Appearances
Reason: Check Special appearances
Once Upon a Time: Season One | ||||||||||
"Pilot": | "The Thing You Love Most": | "Snow Falls": | "The Price of Gold": | "That Still Small Voice": | "The Shepherd": | "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter": | "Desperate Souls": | "True North": | "7:15 A.M.": | "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": |
Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Skin Deep": | "What Happened to Frederick": | "Dreamy": | "Red-Handed": | "Heart of Darkness": | "Hat Trick": | "The Stable Boy": | "The Return": | "The Stranger": | "An Apple Red as Blood": | "A Land Without Magic": |
Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
"Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears |
"In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Three | ||||||||||
"The Heart of the Truest Believer": | "Lost Girl": | "Quite a Common Fairy": | "Nasty Habits": | "Good Form": | "Ariel": | "Dark Hollow": | "Think Lovely Thoughts": | "Save Henry": | "The New Neverland": | "Going Home": |
Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent |
"New York City Serenade": | "Witch Hunt": | "The Tower": | "Quiet Minds": | "It's Not Easy Being Green": | "The Jolly Roger": | "Bleeding Through": | "A Curious Thing": | "Kansas": | "Snow Drifts": | "There's No Place Like Home": |
Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Four | ||||||||||
"A Tale of Two Sisters": |
"White Out": |
"Rocky Road": |
"The Apprentice": |
"Breaking Glass": |
"Family Business": | "The Snow Queen": |
"Smash the Mirror": |
"Fall": | "Shattered Sight": |
"Heroes and Villains": |
Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears |
"Darkness on the Edge of Town": |
"Unforgiven": | "Enter the Dragon": | "Poor Unfortunate Soul": |
"Best Laid Plans": | "Heart of Gold": | "Sympathy for the De Vil": |
"Lily": | "Mother": | "Operation Mongoose Part 1": |
"Operation Mongoose Part 2": |
Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears |
Once Upon a Time: Season Five | |||||||||||
"The Dark Swan": | "The Price": | "Siege Perilous": | "The Broken Kingdom": | "Dreamcatcher": | "The Bear and the Bow": | "Nimue": | "Birth": | "The Bear King": | "Broken Heart": | "Swan Song": | |
Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | |
"Souls of the Departed": | "Labor of Love": | "Devil's Due": | "The Brothers Jones": | "Our Decay": | "Her Handsome Hero": | "Ruby Slippers": | "Sisters": | "Firebird": | "Last Rites": | "Only You": | "An Untold Story": |
Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Six | ||||||||||
"The Savior": | "A Bitter Draught": | "The Other Shoe": | "Strange Case": | "Street Rats": | "Dark Waters": | "Heartless": | "I'll Be Your Mirror": | "Changelings": | "Wish You Were Here": | "Tougher Than the Rest": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Mentioned | Appears | Appears | Appears | Appears | Absent |
"Murder Most Foul": | "Ill-Boding Patterns": | "Page 23": | "A Wondrous Place": | "Mother's Little Helper": | "Awake": | "Where Bluebirds Fly": | "The Black Fairy": | "The Song in Your Heart": | "The Final Battle Part 1": | "The Final Battle Part 2": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent |
Once Upon a Time: Season Seven | ||||||||||
"Hyperion Heights": | "A Pirate's Life": | "The Garden of Forking Paths": | "Beauty": | "Greenbacks": | "Wake Up Call": | "Eloise Gardener": | "Pretty in Blue": | "One Little Tear": | "The Eighth Witch": | "Secret Garden": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent |
"A Taste of the Heights": | "Knightfall": | "The Girl in the Tower": | "Sisterhood": | "Breadcrumbs": | "Chosen": | "The Guardian": | "Flower Child": | "Is This Henry Mills?": | "Homecoming": | "Leaving Storybrooke": |
Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Appears | Appears | Archive |
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | ||||||||||
"Down the Rabbit Hole": | "Trust Me": | "Forget Me Not": | "The Serpent": | "Heart of Stone": | "Who's Alice": | "Bad Blood": | ||||
Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Appears | Absent | Appears | ||||
"Home": | "Nothing to Fear": | "Dirty Little Secrets": | "Heart of the Matter": | "To Catch a Thief": | "And They Lived...": | |||||
Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Appears | Absent |
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Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
"Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
Absent | Archive | Absent | Archive | Absent | ||||||
"Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
Absent | Archive | Archive | Archive |
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Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
References
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Emma: "Forget the de-cloaking potion. It's not a glamour anyway."
Regina: "Are you sure?"
Mary Margaret: "If I'm getting this right, the tree could actually be him, transfigured."
("Siege Perilous")