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Notice: As a '''DEATH TROPE''' (sometimes), there can be '''SPOILERS''' here. Beware!

== Anime & Manga ==

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* In ''[[Magic Users Club (Anime)|Magic Users Club]]'', a girl catches a magical cold and suddenly shrinks, leaving her clothes piled on the club room floor.

* In ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]'', immortals leave these {{spoiler|when they are eaten}}.

* Combined with [[No Body Left Behind]] in ''[[Ranma ~~One Half~~ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'': when Saffron is absorbing everything in range during his metamorphosis, Akane tries to shut off the magical water he needs by closing the Phoenix Tap. Unfortunately, the heat-based Kinjakan, a weapon used to open the device, instantly disintegrates anything that touches it while water is running through the tap. So Akane manages to shut the tap off, Ranma screams at her to run and -- after a flash of light, Akane's empty clothes flutter to the ground. {{spoiler|It turns out that she had only been magically dehydrated into the size of a doll, and was still inside those clothes, but pretty much everyone had a [[Heroic BSOD]] until they found out they could still save her}}.

* Combined with [[No Body Left Behind]] in ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'': when Saffron is absorbing everything in range during his metamorphosis, Akane tries to shut off the magical water he needs by closing the Phoenix Tap. Unfortunately, the heat-based Kinjakan, a weapon used to open the device, instantly disintegrates anything that touches it while water is running through the tap. So Akane manages to shut the tap off, Ranma screams at her to run and -- after a flash of light, Akane's empty clothes flutter to the ground. {{spoiler|It turns out that she had only been magically dehydrated into the size of a doll, and was still inside those clothes, but pretty much everyone had a [[Heroic BSOD]] until they found out they could still save her}}.

* This is what happens whenever someone dies of Troy in ''[[Double Arts (Manga)|Double Arts]]''. First, the seizures, then they become transparents and disappear.

* The dreaded Third Impact in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' reduces everyone in the world to puddles of orange fluid and a pile of their clothes, even if that person was already dead at the time.

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