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* Averted in ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. The main character repeatedly turns from a human to a duck and back again, losing her clothes in the process and having to constantly hide somewhere to redress. However, it's played straight when Ahiru transforms into the titular [[Magical Girl]].

* Allen Walker, the protagonist of ''[[D.Gray-man]]'', has a left arm made of [[Empathic Weapon|Innocence]]. When he activates it, it becomes a huge, armored claw that goes all the way up to his shoulder, even though he usually wears long sleeves. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in one of the manga volumes, where he [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|answers a reader's question]] about it.

* In an early episode of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', Utena rips off the (sleeveless) dress that she's wearing to reveal her usual (longsleeved) [[Custom Uniform|uniform meant for boys]] underneath. This is blatant enough to be (and knowing ''Utena'' probably ''is'') a [[Lampshade Hanging]].

* When Chrono of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' transforms from his [[Sleep Mode Size]] into his true form, he goes from wearing a red coat over a 1920's-esque outfit into a [[Badass]] jacket ([[Shirtless Scene|sans shirt]]) and pants. When he returns to his childlike form, his usual outfit reappears. (This causes a very interesting sight to happen later in the manga--when part of his coat is blown away before his transformation is triggered, after his switch back to his child form part of his coat is in tatters. Which causes one to wonder...how can his coat can be damaged by ''bullets'', but [[Fridge Logic|doesn't get destroyed when he grows an extra foot or two and gains abs and a six pack]]?)

* When [[Iron Man]]'s identity is first revealed to the Avengers, the villain literally melts his armour off leaving him in nothing but a red thong. This could also be female [[Fan Service]].

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

* A very odd version of this trope (probably caused by an artist error) happens in the werewolf comicbook ''In the Blood''. At one point in the first issue we see the main character strip down completely naked before he transforms into a werewolf, but a few pages later while he is still transformed he is clearly wearing tattered pants.

* In earlier versions [[The Creeper]] has a device inside him that can make his costume reappear and disappear.

** And later, we learn that his pants are literally magic: Sean and his dad blow Wolfman to pieces with a stick of dynamite and he soon reassembles himself, pants and all.

* Averted in the 1957 [[B-Movie]] ''[[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'', as the angst-ridden protagonist reflects:

* Also averted in both the original and remake of the B-Movie ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]]''. Naturally in the 50's original, it's not shown on camera, but in the 90's remake, it is. Also in its [[Rule 34]] / [[Plot What Plot]] softcore parody ''Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds''. (No, I'm not kidding.)

* Completely averted in ''[[Village of the Giants]]'' -- the teens grow to enormous size rapidly and their clothing proves to be utterly inadequate. Fortunately, [[Curtain Clothing|some giant curtains]] are on hand to cover their shame.

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', the golem girls have their clothes disappear when they take animal forms, but they reappear when they return to human. Phix is able to make her clothes change with her when she shapeshifts. Nudge is once left with [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/nine-to-five/ a dress that is way too big] because she can't do the same. {{spoiler|[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/spider-dreams/ Neither can Shelly]}}

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|Piffany]] from ''[[Nodwick]]'' is always properly dressed no matter what. As most of such thigs in ''[[Nodwick]]'', this was explicitly stuffed [[In-Universe]] just for fun, as the characters discover when robbed to the underwear:

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

 

== Western Animation ==

* Spoofed in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in the episode, "I Am Furious Yellow". Through a series of pranks by Bart, Homer winds up covered in green paint and shirtless, throwing him into a whirlwind of rage. What's Bart's only reply after beholding the sight he's put into motion?

** In the Simpsons comic book, Homer once ended up becoming 50 ft tall as a result of an experiment performed on him by Mr Burns. Most of his clothes are destroyed in the transformation, including his pants.

* The question of what exactly happens to Beast Boy's uniform on ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' whenever he changes into an animal is never explained, or even ''attempted'' to be explained. In an episode where he is infected with a virus that turns him into a werebeast his clothes are shredded -- in fact the second time he transforms into the monster he completely tears off his clothes (pants included) and yet when he changes back his pants are intact. In [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]], Beast Boy's outfit was some sort of unstable molecule suit similar to the [[Fantastic Four]] outfits. The thing would basically break apart and float on his skin, then reassemble when he scaled back to human form.

* In ''[[Ben 10]]'', Ben's clothes are outright said to be a memory of what he was wearing when he booted up, so they're incorporated into what the alien form is wearing when he transforms. When the alien isn't wearing clothes, then they just sorta disappear most of the time, though in a few cases, most notably Cannonbolt, they look like they're incorporated into the alien's ''skin''. Good thing, as he [[Limited Wardrobe|only has one outfit]].

* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', when a gargoyle turns to stone during the day, any personal possessions he has on him (including clothing) will turn to stone with him. [[Word of God]] says [[A Wizard Did It]] in Roman times with a "spell of humility", and that there's a story there to tell (if the series would stop getting [[Screwed by the Network]] long enough to actually tell it).

* The "Grande Size Me" episode in the fourth season of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', aside from being an [[Anvilicious]] episode espousing healthy food choices, also had Ron turn into an enormous, yellowish, [[Incredible Hulk]]-like thing that talked in [[Hulk Speak]] and craved fast food. When he turned back, they oddly went with the [[Running Gag]] and had him reduced to his boxers--which were intact.

** Not to mention the episode where he transformed into a large, naked, mutant beaver, and when he got better his clothes spontaneously regenerated.

** And then there was the time Ron put on the muscle enhancing ring and suddenly got all buff...his clothing survived the transformation perfectly intact. This seems to be a hidden theme with Ron.

* In [[Codename: Kids Next Door|Operation D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E.]] all the weredogs have magic clothes that appear as they change back even though they ripped off as they were changing into weredogs. It ''is'' a kids show, though ...

* In ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'', when Jake transforms into his dragon form his clothes disappear, same goes for the other dragons. When he transforms back into human form his clothes reappear. This is lampshaded beautifully by {{spoiler|Jake's dad}} in the last episode:

* Merrily played with in '[[The Tick]] vs. Dinosaur Neil'. As the titular [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Dinosaur Neil]], grown huge and [[Scaled Up|apparently nude]], rampages through the city, the mad scientist character who appears occasionally has somehow already built a pair of appropriately-sized pants. The pants (held up by something that looks sort of like a shuttle gantry) are promptly struck by lightning, and Dinosaur Neil is subdued by other means, shrunken back to human... where he is once again wearing his [[Only One Outfit|dinosaur costume]]. I'm not sure if this counts as a subversion, an inversion, an aversion, or ''what''...

* Carter in the 1987 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series always have his clothes intact when reverting to normal after his mutated transformation. Averted the first time he transforms, but played straight on all subsequent occasions.

* Averted in the 13th episode of [[Sym-Bionic Titan]] when Ilana is turned into a monster by a virus implanted from a reptilian beast her clothes are shredded bit by bit, when she changes back she's naked Lance quickly gives her his sweater to cover her up.