Fandom Snowflake 2021 #5: Watch carefully

Challenge #5 wants us to talk about a part of something we love.

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.
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Whether it is to fix-it, honor it, or expand upon it, canon is why we are all here. So, let's celebrate canon today and talk about our favorites. Nostalgic, new, problematic, or forever canons are all welcome to be loved, dissected, and discussed. Have a favorite scene? A much-loved character? A much-maligned character? Just love the whole thing epically? Talk about it all or as little as you want!

If you are interested in my many hundreds of thousands of words worth of complaining and aggravation at the terrible handling of The Dragonriders of Pern, the link is in the sidebar, and the first author's run is on AO3. Which is s lot to ask someone to do for a challenge, so instead, I'm going to talk about something that might get glossed over after the first couple times of seeing it - transformation sequences!

( Transformation sequences convey information, especially in Miraculous Ladybug )

So! I think this principle, that the transformation sequence is supposed to say something specific and important about either the person transforming or the powers being granted to them, is fairly generalizable, that regardless of whether it's a Kamen Rider, a Sentai member, a Magical Girl, or any other hero who goes through a specific transformation sequence. Counterexamples and subversions welcome, as are more examples that do fit the pattern, whether they're being played straight or deconstructively.