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* The Super Goobers [[Goofy]] eats to become Super Goof somehow cause his clothes to magically turn into long underwear. When the Goobers wear off, the clothes magically revert.

* Probably the earliest comic book example is Man O'Metal. When heat touched his body he would turn into metal and be surrounded by flames that could melt metal. His shirts always disappeared, but his pants (and shoes) stayed intact.

== Fan Works ==

* Averted in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''; Paul cannot wear clothing, as he rips through it easily, so he has to use a cosmetic illusion to remain modest—when he feels like it. He does walk around naked on occasion, though rarely in public. On the other hand, George's clothing explicitly goes into [[Hammerspace|his "closet"]] when he [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|changes]], so he keeps a whole wardrobe in there and can put on any stored outfit, any time.

* In the animated movie ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', there is a very blatant example - Susan's wedding dress. She grows from normal size to nearly fifty feet, and the dress (with minor shredding of the skirt) manages to cover as much as a one-piece bathing suit would on her giant form. Never mind that the amount of fabric in the torn wedding dress on her giant form would make maybe thirty normal-sized wedding dresses. It could be [[Handwaved]] by the dress absorbing some of the [[Green Rocks|Quantonium]], but obviously the ''real'' reason is that the movie couldn't have kept its PG rating otherwise.

** A more justified example is {{spoiler|the alien cat suit she wears after Gallaxar abducts her, which shrinks along with her as he drains the Quantonium from her body.}}

* When Yzma accidentally turns Kuzco into a llama near the beginning of ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Kuzco is still wearing clothing when his face becomes that of a llama's, but Kronk stuffs him inside a burlap bag as he is still transforming. When Kuzco is finally freed from said bag by Pacha, he has already finished transforming into a llama, and his clothes are nowhere to be seen! (they are replaced by [[Morphic Resonance|red fur colored to resemble his clothing)]] At the end of the film, when Kuzco defeats Yzma and turns back into a human, he mysteriously gains his clothes back.

* Completely averted (ultimately) in ''[[Pinocchio]]'' when Lampwick turns into a donkey. He retains all his clothes at first, with no damage to them except for a donkey's tail ripping through the seat of his pants. Once he's realized what's happened to him and starts to lose all remaining vestiges of his humanity, he panics and thrashes around so much that ''all'' his clothes fly off his body, leaving him naked and completing his degeneration into an animal.

* In ''[[Cat People (film)|Cat People]]'' (1942), after Irena's first transformation to and from feline form the camera pans along [[Footprints of Muck|tracks]] that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrOCgZOi6uM&feature=PlayList&p=528B19D21E3ACF18&index=5 change from paws to high-heeled shoes], which raises the question of exactly where her clothes go when she's a cat.

* ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men III: The Last Stand]]''. Jean Grey (as Dark Phoenix) is disintegrating everyone and everything around her, and Wolverine gets near her. Her power disintegrates his shirt ([[Good Thing You Can Heal|and his]] ''[[Good Thing You Can Heal|chest]]''), but not his pants.

* Averted in ''[[Big Fish]]'', where {{spoiler|the circus ringmaster}} is stark naked after he changes from a werewolf back into a human. [[Fan Disservice|Even worse]], {{spoiler|1=said ringmaster is played by Danny DeVito.}}

* Averted in ''Beyond Sherwood Forest''. Every time Alina transforms into a dragon, her clothes are destroyed, leaving her naked and shivering when she changes back.

== Literature ==

** This didn't affect the cover artists, since many editions of the books show characters ''and'' their normal clothes transforming in stages (i.e., somebody wearing a red shirt transforming into a cardinal).

** The TV series (when it showed transforming at all...) played this straight, with clothes transforming to and from animal forms with the wearer—for budget and decency reasons, one presumes.

* Same thing in the ''[[Fablehaven]]'' books. This also applies to their [[Time Travel]] device—you can take nothing with you during time travel, including your clothes.

* In [[David Eddings]]' [[Belgariad]] tetradecalogy, a sorcerer's clothes and equipment go "somewhere" when they turn into animals, and reappear when they change back.

* An interesting version in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]:'' In ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', the Pevensies age to adulthood while in Narnia, and their original ages/clothes are magically restored upon their return to England. However, in other books, the characters change into their normal clothes before returning to England (''Prince Caspian''), or take their Narnian clothes back with them (''The Silver Chair'').

* ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' makes this trope [[Older Than Radio]]. It's worth noting that the actual text of the story doesn't specify what happens to Alice's clothes when she changes sizes, but you'd think it would warrant a mention if she were either running around naked or constantly creating makeshift clothes for herself. John Tenniel's illustrations from the book's original publication show this trope is in effect, depicting Alice wearing the same [[Memetic Outfit|now famous]] outfit throughout the story. Pretty much every film version has followed suit, except for [[Alice in Wonderland (film)|the Tim Burton one]].

== Live-Action TV ==

** Piper is wholly naked after she transforms back to human form after being a Wendigo. Same goes for Phoebe after she changes from mermaid back to human.

** On the other hand, Prue is wearing the same clothes when she turns back from a being a dog to human. Same for all three sisters are also wearing clothes after they change back from being beasts during a blue moon.

== Tabletop Games ==

* In the superhero RPG ''[[Trinity Universe (game)|Aberrant]]'', characters can take points in a background called "Attunement" which allows them to keep items on their body from being destroyed by powers like shapeshifting, growing, or self-immolation. The lower levels allow them to protect their own clothes, and the higher levels allow them to protect a whole other person. There's also Eufiber, a material produced by a superpowered "Nova" that shifts at the wearer's will.

* ''[[GURPS Supers]]'' had a buyable Advantage called "Costume"—a costume that works with and adapts to the powers and form of the wearer, similar to Marvel's "unstable molecules".

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'' has characters with shapeshifting ability: {{spoiler|Micah, Pia, and Raven}}. When they transform, they lose or change their clothes, but when they revert to their normal forms. their clothes magically reappear.

* Subverted in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Not only can shapeshifters [[Fan Service|lose their]] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-03-05 clothing] if they aren't careful, at least one of them, Grace, ''prefers'' nudity [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-10 even in human form]. Later, an explicit form of Magic Pants was introduced so the author didn't need to use [[Scenery Censor|creative camera angles]] for most of the scenes. Ellen [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-12-29 couldn't believe Uryuom suit fits her at all]. Later we see it survives [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-01-26 the wearer growing hedgehog spikes] and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-29 remains perfectly fit] on a ''squirrel''.

* Spoofed in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' when Thog breaks out of prison and is actually seen wearing purple pants. After the raging is over, he wonders why his pants changed color.

{{quote|'''Artax''': Uh, Piffany? How'd you avoid this fashion "don't"?

'''Piffany''': Easy! I'm wearing ''robes of modesty''. It takes a ''wish'' to get them off! }}

== Web Original ==

* This trope is standard fare for characters who can grow, shrink, or stretch from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''.

* In [http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=age+regression#/d4p253a this] interactive age-swap animation on [[Deviant ART]], the girl's clothes stretch slightly for modesty's sake as she [[Overnight Age-Up|ages up]], but the guy's pants actually shrink as he [[Fountain of Youth|ages down]].

== Western Animation ==

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