Instant Cosplay Surprise: Difference between revisions

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== Anime & Manga ==

* This happens a few times in ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma ~~One Half~~]]'', both the anime and manga:

* This happens a few times in ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma Â½]]'', both the anime and manga:

** During the martial art skating match against the Golden Pair, Ranma-chan and Ryōga are swept away by the "Kolkhoz High Fashion Club" when the audience complains that Ranma's costume isn't sexy enough. They bring in portable booths as dressing rooms, but are quite fast to put Ryōga and Ranma into proper skating outfits.

** When Principal Kunō is teaching Akane how to swim, he promises a swimsuit which would allow her to "swim with the grace of a swan". She [[Imagine Spot|imagines]] a beautiful ballerina outfit and goes to put it on. Next panel, it's actually a full-body suit making her look like an ugly duck, and she [[Megaton Punch|Megaton Punches]] the Principal.

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** In chapter 15, Maeda convinces Sakurako to win money for a new air conditioner (and snap his buddy Shibusawa out of an obsession with ''moe'') by entering a [[Maid Cafe]]'s costume contest.

** In chapter 77, Maeda convinces Yukari to dress up in a cross between a [[School Swimsuit]] and a [[Playboy Bunny]] outfit as part of a ploy to keep people from finding out [[Closet Geek|she's into video games]].

* In ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'', after Kokoa is turned into a little girl, the other girls take her shopping for clothes that fit. She is shocked to find herself cosplaying Arale from ''[[Dr. Slump]]''.

* In ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'', after Kokoa is turned into a little girl, the other girls take her shopping for clothes that fit. She is shocked to find herself cosplaying Arale from ''[[Dr. Slump]]''.

* ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai]]'''s tenth episode features Ayase tricking her friend Kanako into cosplaying from a popular [[Magical Girl]] show. Despite the costume design being a treasure trove of [[Magical Girl]] tropes, Kanako only notices that it's "bratty anime crap" when she catches sight of herself in a car side-mirror.

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== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon gains a sentient PDA he names Skynet. One of its abilities is that it lets any authorized user change Kyon's clothing. Haruhi uses this to scan pictures from the Internet, and makes Kyon cosplay in Victorian suits, along with Yuki in her [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] dress.

* One of [[The Fair Folk|Jareth's]] [[Signature Move|signature moves]] in ''[[Roommates 2007]]'', for the geat annoyance [http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-116-Party-Hats-169674358 of everyone else].

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== Live-Action TV ==

* Happens to the title character in ''The John Larroquette Show'', who refuses to dress up for a charity collection... until [[Ms. Fanservice]] [[Favoritism Flip Flop|purrs like a kitten]]. [[Gilligan Cut|Cue next scene]] and audience laughter as John Larroquette is standing there dressed like a duck.

* In the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series, [[To the Batpole]] scenes have the dynamic duo in costume once they reach the batcave, no matter how they were dressed before (eventually revealed to be the result of the "Instant Costume Change Lever" on the wall.) In one episode, [[The Joker]] discovers the Batpoles and slides down one. He is shocked, at the bottom, to find himself dressed as Batman.

* In one episode of ''[[Family Ties]]'', Mallory gets a job as a model. During a show, her father meets her backstage. He gets mistaken for a male model, forcibly re-dressed, and pushed out onto the stage.

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== Video Games ==

* ''[[Blaz Blue]]''

** Litchi repeatedly inflicts this on Noel in Noel's joke ending to ''[[Blaz Blue Calamity Trigger]]'''s story mode.

** Litchi repeatedly inflicts this on Noel in Noel's joke ending to ''[[Blaz Blue: Calamity Trigger]]'''s story mode.

** In ''[[Blaz Blue Continuum Shift|Continuum Shift]]'', Tsubaki ends up as the victim of these antics instead.

** In ''[[Blaz Blue: Continuum Shift|Continuum Shift]]'', Tsubaki ends up as the victim of these antics instead.

* Near the end of ''[[Space Quest]]'', you must obtain an enemy uniform. To do this, you hide in the washing machine, and a Sarien comes in and turns it on, automatically changing you into the outfit.

* In the ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' doujinsoft game ''Fuuka Taisen'', one of [[Badass Normal|Har]][[Joke Character|uka]]'s specials is a box where, if she grabs her opponent, will almost instantly change her (all the playable characters are female) into an anime character from another series. It doubles as a [[Voice Actor Gag]] because the character she changes them into are voiced by the same seiyuu (i.e., Mai, who is voiced by [[Mai Nakahara]], gets changed into Rena from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'').