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Who will be next to join the Hall of Kings?

Welcome to King of the Mountain, a long-running standard Save My contest whose purpose it is to crown the top character for various type of "job" tropes. This is the 28th iteration of the contest, and this time we'll be checking out Save My Shapeshifter as per the community nominations. Nomination rules are below:

Rules::

-You may nominate 5 characters every hour.
-The first 100 characters to reach 3 unique nominations will make up the field.
-Fictional characters from any media source are allowed.
-Former champions (listed above) are retired and cannot re-enter.
-No trading or rallying of nominations.
-I reserve the right to disqualify any entrant I find invalid for the contest's theme.

What is a Shapeshifter: A character possessing the ability to change their physical form. I consider a shapeshifter to be a character that possesses the ability to go back and forth between at least one form and another, and do so regularly. The ability to control the catalyst isn't necessarily important, but transformation needs to be often enough to warrant consideration as this. I will also allow characters that can bend and contort their bodies into other things, a good example of that is Elastigirl from The Incredibles. In closing, shapeshifting should be at the forefront of this character; it should be important to them, as always.

What I don't consider shapeshifting:

-No boss battle characters. Characters that go into that "final form" are a gameplay, typically, driven thing. So none of those please unless the character bosses the ability to do that outside of one specific battle with them.

-No "upgraded" characters. Putting on a cape doesn't make Clark Kent a shapeshifter (nor does undefined retro talents of Superman, for the record). Same goes for anyone in a game that gets an item and just upgrades; that's just part of a video game. Other media "power up" style characters aren't shapeshifters either.

That's about it, I think. Try to use your best judgement when nominating characters, as always. If you think you have to ask, please just don't nominate them. I'll handle all disqualifications once we reach the 100 character threshold. Have fun; let's nominate!
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