Doomed New Clothes: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Ranma One Half½]]'': Akane is very proud and very happy. She has grown up a little bit, enough to make her buy a new bra. She never even got to wear it --[[Dirty Old Man|Happosai]] steals it off the hamper at the bathhouse and tries to force [[Gender Bender|female Ranma]] into it. Problem is, Ranma is significantly more grown up than Akane, and the bra is stretched out and ruined. Cue Akane's wrath.

* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', the titular character is at one point given a new cashmere coat to wear while out in town doing errands. Cue lampshade hanging en masse by everyone he meets. He does a spectacular job of dodging hazards, but then ends up jumping in a pond to save a friend of his master.

{{quote| Oh no, I just spilled a can of paint! The kind that stains cashmere!}}

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', the titular character recently started sporting a [[Badass Longcoat|badass longcoat]] to go along with his new [[Took a Level Inin Badass|level of badass]]. After the start of a decent showing, he promptly got his ass kicked, which climaxed in the destruction of the coat, among other things.

* The fate of Asaka's Yukata in the anime ''[[Dokkoida (Light Novel)|Dokkoida?!]]''.

* Susan in the Hayley Mills version of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''. There she is, having a nice conversation with a boy on a porch, and her new dress gets cut up as part of a feud with her lookalike and as-yet unknown sister Sharon.

* Lina Lamont wears a new dress (hey, she's a famous actress at a movie premiere, of ''course'' it's a new dress) to a party celebrating her newest movie in ''[[Singin' in Thethe Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]''. She ends up covered in the cake that's been specially made to honor her.

* In ''[[The Incredible Hulk (Filmfilm)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' movie we see Banner buy new clothes and ''know'' that those clothes are gonna be toast. Although the [[Magic Pants|pants survive]].

* Oh, [[PansPan's Labyrinth|Ofelia.]] "Here's your new dress, shoes, and hair ribbon. [[Forbidden Fruit|Be sure to keep them clean]], you must look good for [[Psycho for Hire|your father's]] party tonight." To give the girl credit, she tries to take some care of her clothes by taking her fancy dress off and hanging it on a branch before she goes hunting for a magic toad under a long-dead fig tree. However, it doesn't work, the dress gets lost, and by the time she finds her dress and wanders home again, the poor thing is covered head-to-toe in mud.

* ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|Fantastic Four]]: Rise of the Silver Surfer.'' Johnny is frustrated that he must destroy his new suit to chase the Silver Surfer. One wonders why Reed didn't make an unstable molecule tuxedo.

* ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'': Marion's dress from Belloq gets dirtied from being in the Well of Souls, and [[Action Dress Rip|Indy tears up most of the skirt.]]

* [[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]] had this happen on the day she was trying for Best Dressed in the yearbook. Of course, buying new clothes she couldn't really afford and planning to return them for a refund later was just ''asking'' for it.

* The opening credits of ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'' feature Carrie walking down the street in a nice dress, only to be splashed by muddy water from a passing bus.

* An episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' had the gang buy new clothes to go out to the ballet. When Fred points out that they're broke, Cordelia assures her that they can tuck in the tags and return the clothes tomorrow. Of course, that was before they had to do battle with a group of demons.

* The future Anita Radcliff in the animated version of ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''. Clearly she spent hours ironing her new spring suit, but there she goes into the pond! Note that when you combine [[Meet Cute|Meet Cutes]]s and new clothes the probability of catastrophe increase exponentially.

* Veronica Vreeland in ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]''. There she is, buying a new dress for her date with Bruce Wayne and along comes a spooked Harley Quinn. [[Watch the Paint Job|Her car gets ruined]], too.

* In an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward]]'', Raphael tears his own (rented) tux to shreds as he draws his laser-sais when a fight broke out.

* ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' "Call Hating", Tuck walks home with a fresh haircut and a white tuxedo. Robots attack the city. Mud was involved.

* [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]] falls victim to this trope several times in the episode "Picture Day", in which he attempts to stay clean while avoiding (among other things) being mistaken for a trash receptacle and being dumped into Patrick's peanut butter and jelly taco...

* One episode of [[Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]] revolves around Wubbzy trying to get to the photographer without getting all muddy, but [[Failure Is the Only Option]], it seems.

* In the Disney version of ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', the title character shows off her new [[Princesses Prefer Pink|pink dress]] made by her mice friends. Her stepsisters aggressively tear it to pieces.

{{quote| '''Principal Skinner''': Normally I wouldn't go near a giant chocolate cake in my dress polyester, but with [[Trickster Archetype|Bart Simpson]] [[Tempting Fate|safely encapsulated]], I'd be delighted to pose.}}

* One of the running gags of ''[[My Little Pony]]:[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Friendship Is Magic]]'', is that Rarity, the fashionista of the group, often has her nice clothes get messy, dirty, or destroyed.

** She successfully [[Defied Trope]] this during the brunch in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E22 A Bird in Thethe Hoof|"A Bird in the Hoof"]].

{{quote| "'''Nobody move, and my dress won't get hurt!'''"}}

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