Meme template created by Klatuk4u (https://www.deviantart.com/klatuk4u) with additional art by  eduartboudewijn. Thought I'd do it because I've never done one of these before and thought it would be an interesting stroll down memory lane. These aren't necessarily my favorite tfs of all time, just the ones that had the biggest influence on my work and what I enjoy out of tf.

1. Pinocchio
Probably not a big surprise to most people. Anyone my age knows this one, as this was the first Disney movie to get a VHS release, so it ended up being the first Disney movie I ever saw. The donkey tf isn't my favorite tf, if I'm honest. This one came when I was too young to really have a strong reaction to it, but it was definitely my first and it was one I came back to once I started really getting into TF. The running themes of my work are there. People being turned into animals against their will by someone in power over them? Check. Humiliating situation caused by your own actions? Check. Capturing tf victims and claiming ownership of them? Big check in neon lights. I wasn't super into the tf in particular when I first started watching it as a kid, but it definitely had the big things I'm into when I did get into it.

2. Pound Puppies Movie
This movie . . . god damn, this movie sucks. Like, more than you can possibly imagine if you haven't seen it. I would have completely forgotten it if it wasn't for the fact that it was the first tf where I was aware of being into something specifically for tf. It's not even a good tf, either. The context of this scene is the puppies are going through the woods trying to find some of their friends who've been kidnapped by Marvin McNasty (yes, that is his name, it was the 80s, we're all embarrassed) and the puppies are scared. They start imagining terrible monsters that live in the forest while the leader, Cooler (again, it was the 80s) sings an awful song about how it's not real. Part of the song featured a witch coming out and turning some of them into frogs. This lasted all of three seconds before Cooler reminds everybody its not real, then he barks at the witch and she disappears. It's not very good, but it was my first time being specifically interested in the TF itself. This is probably why frog tfs are my favorite tf and why I love using witches to do it.

3. My Little Pony: The Movie (80s)
Another movie that's pretty terrible, but left a profound influence on me. The second thing I got interested in just for the tf, this movie has a villain song number where the witches from the volcano of gloom talk about the great history of villainy their witch ancestors took part in. They go through a gallery of paintings that come to life to illustrate these events. Some of them include turning a prince into a frog (because cliche), a bunch of peasants into pheasants (because it rhymes) and a bunch of sailors into swine (because if you're going to have a grand witch heritage, it will naturally include Circe). A little disappointing that this brief musical number is the only tf content in it. I mean, the TV show this movie was made from did not shy away from TF. Tirek turned the ponies into dragons to pull his chariot. A vain sorceress turned people into glass statues so she could see herself in the reflective surfaces, a weird dog monster turned people to stone. There could have been more in the movie - these are frikin' witches! But no, instead they go with a plan to cover everybody in purple slime. Admittedly, Nothing Can Stop The Smooze is probably the only halfway decent song in that movie, but still . . .
I mean, it's not like the movie could have been any worse.

4. Little Mermaid (Disney)
So, anybody who's taken a look at my gallery knows I'm into polyp tfs. Little Mermaid has the honor of being the first tf content I came across where I knew I was into tf as a fetish. I did not know the term at the time, and it would not be for another couple of years before I fully realized what tf was to me, but it was still a first in a very important way. So, there it is. And again, many of the bigs are there. High contrast tf (going from very big to very small, going from beautiful to ugly). Helplessness of the victim at the hands of a more powerful character. Person claiming ownership of the victim afterward. If this had been a frog tf, it would have covered all of my favorite aspects of tf. This one is still probably the most important influence for how I get into tf, though.

5. TMNT - Bye Bye Fly
I've been trying to hit things in a kind of chronological order, but from here on out, things get a little fuzzy and I'm not sure what order I encountered them in. TMNT was probably the very first show I saw that became a favorite when I was a kid. It's probably the show that made me aware of the concept of favorite. I don't even remember a time when I wasn't waking up early to watch this show as a kid, it was a part of my life from such an early age. But this particular episode was the first time it had a tf on screen that hit my buttons and I also saw after the point where I was into tf. The fact that it caught me completely off-guard was a big thing, too. There's nothing quite like a really pleasant surprise to make a thing stand out, and seeing Michelangelo get zapped into a guinea pig by Baxter Stockman's tf ray gun was definitely a pleasant surprise. I'm less into it now, as the tf is really fast and obscured by flashy, primitive lighting effects, so you don't see it all that clearly, but it did stick with me. You can see it's influence in my space witch character, Cassiopeia. Her tf ray gun is probably a direct nod to this episode in some fashion.

6. The Magic Heart
So, this was the first time I actively sought out a piece of media specifically because I knew it had tf content in it. I didn't watch Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics that much, but I saw a commercial in which this guy turns into a donkey after eating a cabbage and I was like, "SOLD!" and went out of my way to watch the episode just to see it. I was not disappointed. It hits some of my buttons, too. The guy feeds the cabbages to the evil witch and her daughter, then claims ownership of them and sells them to a miller. I'm into it.

7. Super Mario 3
So, I'd been into tf long before I even knew the word "Transformation." Super Mario 3 holds a place of honor among my influences because this was the piece of media that taught me the word. I know this because I very specifically remember asking my mom what the word meant. I played this game very shortly after learning to read, so I was still picking up a lot of new words. When I read it here, I suddenly knew what to call my special interest. Also, wands. Wands had never been a big thing to me before, but the idea that you could have a tool that you could use to transform othesr left a big impact on me. I still like to see wands used as a tf tool to this day. I probably encountered this before the episode of TMNT. It might have even come before The Magic Heart, but my grasp of time is really fuzzy and I'm not sure.

8. Ducktales: Home Sweet Homer
Disney Afternoon cartoons came on right at the time I got home from school when I was in kindergarten. They probably had a lot more tf content than I remember, but there are two in particular that stood out to me. This is the first one. Scrooge gets a letter from Donald with a photo showing a clue to finding an ancient city, long thought lost. He has an idea to find it so he can use it's discovery to increase his reputation (and probably some how his fortune as well). The city, it turns out, was Odysseus's city from The Odyssey and in this strange world, Circe is an evil sorceress queen who took it over after Odysseus's death (? It's never explicitly said, but he's clearly not around). She uses her magic amulet to turn people who defy her into pigs, including almost half the cast off characters we see in the episode, among them Scrooge himself. After her amulet gets destroyed, she is turned into a pig herself and all her other spells get undone. It's not the best episode of Ducktales by a long shot, but it's probably the best tf content in the series, if only because there wasn't a lot to choose from.

9. Rescue Rangers: Good Times, Bat Times
Possibly the official last episode of the show, this was another thing I sought out specifically because of the tf content. The commercials telling us what the next episode would be about hyped us up for "a witch who rides a vacuum cleaner" and showed Dale getting frogged. Again, "SOLD!" Other than it being a frog tf, though, it doesn't really hit too much of my personal likes. Nevertheless, it did cement my interest in TF for the sake of TF, so I gotta give it credit for that. After this, I pretty much knew what I was into.

10. Link To The Past
Picking a last spot was really hard. There's a lot of TF content out there and at this point, I was pretty well cemented in my interests. Link To The Past gets its spot because of two things. First, high contrast: Link turns into a bunny, which is helpless and timid, compared to his normally strong and brave portrayal. Second: video games. Video games were a huge part of my childhood and they didn't really feature a lot of tf content. This one, big exception to it made it stick with me. It probably helps that it's one of the best games in the Zelda Franchise.
And look at that little, pink bunny! He's adorable!