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Simply put, [[Magic Pants]] are the "civilian" clothing the characters wear as they go about their daily business. They may lose them during the [[Transformation Sequence]], but once the dirty work is done, they'll appear back in them often right where they were standing. This can even happen if the transformations are shown to explicitly ''destroy'' the clothing, and in some cases, the rest of the clothing is destroyed but the pants mysteriously survive.

 

 

For costumes that can be tattered to almost any extreme just short of the point where they reveal the character's naughty bits, see [[Clothing Damage]].

** The epilogue to the "Spider-Island" storyline, "The Naked City', involves...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a whole lot of people finding themselves naked]] after briefly becoming spider-monsters. The only ones not freaked out are the superheroes, who, as Hawkeye notes, spend all their time in skintight spandex anyway. Instead of panicking, they start pointing out things like Misty Knight still having her headband and T'Challa losing his beard but keeping his hair the same length. Hawkeye eventually hand-waves the whole thing. "We live in a world where Hulk grows ten times his size and his pants stay on. Roll with it."

* Kimo in recent issues of ''[[Elf Quest]]'' learns how to shapeshift into a wolf. When he's in wolf form he wears a bandana around his chest, but when he changes back to elf form it apparently slips down his torso to conveniently become a sarong.

* Justified through an aversion in ''[[Captain Atom]]''. When Nathaniel Adam transforms into Captain Atom, his clothing disappears, but usually reappears when he transforms back, except for the one time, in issue #8, that he transformed back into Nathaniel Adam involuntarily while unconscious. Then he was naked. The implication is that, without realizing it, Nate was using his matter-creation and manipulation abilities to recreate the clothes he was wearing when he transformed. Some fans have [[Alternate Character Interpretation|even inferred]] that Nate was recreating his whole body in this manner.

** Although there is a scene from ''[[Justice League Europe]]'' showing Captain Atom transforming to his superpowered form, and it appears that the clothes were just pushed underneath the silver layer.

* The [[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]] generally turns its wielder into a battle form covered with sort of Stripperiffic "[[Breast Plate|armor]]", but while it ''can'' transform clothes, the exact fate of said clothes and the amount of generated [[Fan Service]] mostly depends on the specific wielder.

** It happens again during the [[Marvel Adventures]] run. But this time he gets some boxers.

{{quote| "Your only mistake was melting Iron Man's pants!" }}