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* ''VideoGame/BearAndBreakfast'': Among the animal cast, Margaret and Anni are fully clothed while Hank and Will wear nothing but hats.

** Inverted with Penelope Pussycat and Speedy Gonzales.

** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is usually clothed in nothing but his fur coat and WhiteGloves unless he's pulling one of his famous [[DisguisedInDrag crossdressing shenanigans]]; WesternAnimation/LolaBunny, making [[Film/SpaceJam her debut]] in the 1990s, is never seen wearing anything less than a full outfit ([[Barefoot CartoonAnimal except for shoes]]). The same generally tends to apply with other characters and their respective love interests/{{Distaff Counterpart}}s, such as with Daffy Duck and [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow Tina Russo]], as well as Porky Pig and Petunia Pig.

** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is usually clothed in nothing but his fur coat and WhiteGloves unless he's pulling one of his famous [[DisguisedInDrag crossdressing shenanigans]]; WesternAnimation/LolaBunny, making [[Film/SpaceJam her debut]] in the 1990s, is never seen wearing anything less than a full outfit. The same generally tends to apply with other characters and their respective love interests/{{Distaff Counterpart}}s, such as with Daffy Duck and [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow Tina Russo]], as well as Porky Pig and Petunia Pig.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is usually clothed in nothing but his fur coat and WhiteGloves unless he's pulling one of his famous [[DisguisedInDrag crossdressing shenanigans]]; WesternAnimation/LolaBunny, making [[Film/SpaceJam her debut]] in the 1990s, is never seen wearing anything less than a full outfit. The same generally tends to apply with other characters and their respective love interests/{{Distaff Counterpart}}s, such as with Daffy Duck and [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow Tina Russo]], as well as Porky Pig and Petunia Pig.
** In an classic cartoon, ''Hare Splitter'', Bugs and his romantic rival only wear gloves, while Daisy, their love interest, is in sweater and skirt. What's more, she lives in an above-ground bungalow, and they live in holes in the ground. Perhaps she just has more style.
** Inverted with Penelope Pussycat and Speedy Gonzales.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' plays this straight with Buster and Babs Bunny, the former wearing just a shirt without pants and the latter wearing a blouse and skirt. The other {{Funny Animal}}s avert this, however; Shirley [=McLoon=] doesn't wear pants, while Fifi La Fume is completely nude barring her [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal accessories]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', all the male rangers wear shirts but no pants - Chip doesn't even have a shirt, just a coat. Gadget wears a full jumpsuit. While this is partly justified normally since she's a mechanic, even when the Rangers wear something other than their usual outfits, Gadget is always fully clothed. This is lampshaded in the episode ''A Fly in the Ointment'', where Nimnul's invention swaps Gadget and Dale's heads. Once she realizes what just happened, a visibly uncomfortable Gadget -- trying to pull the bottom of Dale's shirt below her waist -- remarks "It's kinda breezy in here, isn't it?" and quickly improvises a skirt for herself.
* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit parodies the trope; in a ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' skit, Gadget decides to simply walk around with just her jumpsuit top (all the while she flaunts her bare curves as {{Sexophone}} music plays), pointing out the DoubleStandard when Chip gawks at her lack of pants. All of her male friends [[AllMenArePerverts then feel a sudden urge to quickly leave the room]], much to Gadget's confusion.
-->'''Chip:''' Gadget, you're not wearing pants!\\

* In the movie and most episodes of season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' where the humanoid animal characters get to have clothing other than [[FurIsClothing their own fur]], Oggy, Jack, Bob and various other male animals are often seen pantsless, whereas Olivia is usually fully clothed in a dress.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', all the male characters except Austin are wearing less clothing (Tyrone is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal pantless]] and Pablo is [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal almost completely naked]]) than the female characters (Tasha and Uniqua), who are more or less fully dressed. All five of them do seem to at least dress themselves up more during the episode while playing pretend.
* Rebecca and Molly Cunningham from ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' are fully dressed (except for being {{Barefoot Cartoon Animal}}s), but Kit Cloudkicker and Baloo are pantsless. {{Averted}} in that most male characters in the show are fully dressed.
* WesternAnimation/{{Mickey|Mouse}} and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse follow this trope in more modern appearances like in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'', where Mickey remains shirtless but Minnie is wearing a full dress. In the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, however, Minnie was every bit as [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal shirtless]] as Mickey. She reverted to this look for most of the shorts produced for ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks'', and generally anything that apes the Inkblot style of the black-and-white shorts. This is only in regards to their "classic" looks; they're fully dressed in every other costume.
** Their friends WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/{{Donald|Duck}}, and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck seem to apply this trope more often, as Donald Duck reamins pantsless while Goofy is fully-dressed (except in the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' TV series, where he is seen pantsless, too). However, depending on the situations, Daisy can either be as pantsless as Donald or wear any kind of dress to contrast him.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'', Kitty Katswell is fully clothed, but Dudley Puppy wears only a shirt. However, this trope seems to change DependingOnTheWriter. Whenever they're at a pool or beach setting, Dudley will put on shorts and Kitty will wear a swimsuit but there was also an episode that called for them to shave off their fur, with Kitty shaving hers into the shape of a one-piece swimsuit while Dudley shaved his into a bikini, meaning that the two of them were still technically nude.
* Averted with Mrs. Puff in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', whose underside is always visible because she wears a skirt with no pants.
** Squidward is the only male who doesn't wear pants, and this is often lampshaded.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Mordecai and Rigby are naked, while their respective love insterests Margaret and Eileen are fully clothed, but the reason the former pair go out like that is revealed to be because Rigby started a naked trend as a child and all his friends followed suit.

* Downplayed as Cindy Bear is a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, whereas both WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo Boo are AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal[=s=] (though you could make a case for Cindy's tutu being too insubstantial to be considered anything but an accessory).
* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood''. Daniel Tiger and his dad wear sweaters and shoes without pants, but his mom wears pants along with her shirt and shoes. Margaret, his baby sister, wears a full onesie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' features AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal male cat WesternAnimation/PussInBoots, who only wears a hat and his trademark boots and FullyDressedCartoonAnimal female cat Dulcinea, who wears a long dress with sleeves and boots.
* Inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode, "Heads of Beef." The male pig, Jean Bon, wears a full outfit with pants, while his wife wears a dress without any panties.

* Like their main game counterparts, the male main characters in ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' usually wear only a shirt at best while the girls wear full outfits. This is lampshaded in one episode when Amy makes a bet that the loser must do the winner's laundry for a month and Sonic points out that it's unfair since he and Knuckles almost never wear clothes. Most male characters tend to follow the same pattern, though full outfits do show up on special occasions.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': On top of some BizarreSexualDimorphism, the Wilson family have Jackie and Rachel fully clothed while Harold and Tobias only wear accessories (Harold has a tie, Tobias a sweatband). Otherwise, male and female characters alike wear similar amounts of clothing--most commonly all or nothing.

%%* Adverted in ''WesterAnimation/Animaniacs'' as Wakko is pantsless, Yakko and Dot are shirtless while Minerva Mink is fully clothes without shoes, most of the characters are either half dressed or almost naked.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'':
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Schooltown Follies" where most of the students are fully-dressed, but Jeff and the pig boy don’t wear shirts.
** The male [[PumpkinPerson inhabitants]] of Pottsfield walk around with their pumpkin bodies on full display, while the women wear dresses that make them resemble corn husk dolls. [[SubvertedTrope Of course, considering that everyone there is in costume, the men are technically fully-clothed as well.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBearWhoSleptThroughChristmas'': The male bears like protagonist Ted E. Bear are shown wearing jackets, vets, hats, ties, etc but no pants. Females like Patti Bear are completely dressed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LittleDogsOnThePrairie'', most of the cast are Main/AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimals, but Miss Kitty is fully dressed,

* Zigzagged in the third ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game, ''Spyro: Year of The Dragon'', Hunter the cheetah wears nothing at all, whereas Bianca the rabbit wears an entire robe. However, it does have notable exceptions with Sheila the Kangaroo and the Sorceress, who are both {{Accessory Wearing Cartoon Animal}}s.

[[caption-width-right:350:Women not wearing pants (or skirts) would be [[JustForPun a little looney.]]]]

* Inverted in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' as Giggles, Petunia, Flaky, and Lammy don't wear pants while Russel and Disco Bear are Fully-Dressed Males. Even then, these guys are outliers since the majority of the main characters (both male and female) either [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal wear accessories only]] or are {{half|DressedCartoonAnimal}}-dressed.

* Inverted with ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' where Chicken Little wears all clothing while Abby wears only a shirt, á la WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Most of the Male Characters in the 2005 movie wear full clothes but no shoes.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

'''Chip:''' [having ADateWithRosiePalms on the spot] I, ''uhhhhhhhh'', [[IllBeInMyBunk I'll be in my room with the door locked!]]

* Justified in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13955197/1/What-are-Clothes-for-on-Mobius What are Clothes for on Mobius?,]]'' where [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SonicX Cream The Rabbit]] asks [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM Sally Acorn]] (after her mother Vanilla avoids the subject) why Mobian girls wear clothes and boys don't. Sally gives 3 reasons: because the clothes are beautiful, because they convey a behavioral message and also because of sheer male oppression. Defied by Cream, who decides to walk around the city without clothes, and also [[SleepsInTheNude sleep naked]] (but without completely renouncing to clothes). Vanilla thinks it's weird at first, but later gives Cream her full support. [[spoiler:In the end, it's revealed that Vanilla always [[SkinnyDipping swims naked in the river at night]], while Cream sleeps at home.]]

* In the third ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' game, ''Spyro: Year of The Dragon'', Hunter the cheetah wears nothing at all, whereas Bianca the rabbit wears an entire robe.

* ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'' Averted since some of the characters (including the females) wear no clothes at all except for a few occasions. For instance, Lucy wore nothing but her bow most of the time, but she was experiencing some girl problems, she came to school fully clothed.

* A human example in ''WesternAnimation/Tarzan'': Jane wears a dress while Tarzan wears only a loincloth (although at the end, Jane is wearing a bikini; also Tarzan briefly wears his deceased father's full suit of clothes when he prepares to go to England with Jane).

* Satirized in the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' one-shot fic ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/alexwarlorn/art/Princess-Sally-s-Revolution-836809860 Princess Sally's Revolution]]'', written by ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' author alexwarlorn. After a disgruntled [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM Sally Acorn]] unleashes a mass brainwashing event in an attempt to {{def|iedTrope}}y this trope on a grand scale, many of the male characters are left flustered and/or utterly bewildered by their female peers suddenly walking around in the buff for no explained reason, despite most of them wearing nothing but shoes and gloves themselves. The gals, having unknowingly adopted Sally's attitude towards clothing as a result of the brainwashing, aren't bothered by their state of nudity in the slightest, and respond to the guys' [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn protests]] by pointing out the double standard.

* Justified in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13955197/1/What-are-Clothes-for-on-Mobius What are Clothes for on Mobius?]]'', where [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SonicX Cream The Rabbit]] asks [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM Sally Acorn]] (after her mother Vanilla avoids the subject) why Mobian girls wear clothes and boys don't. Sally gives 3 reasons: because the clothes are beautiful, because they convey a behavioral message and also because of sheer male oppression. Defied by Cream, who decides to walk around the city without clothes, and also [[SleepsInTheNude sleep naked]] (but without completely renouncing to clothes). Vanilla thinks it's weird at first, but later gives Cream her full support. [[spoiler: In the end, it's revealed that Vanilla always [[SkinnyDipping swims naked in the river at night]], while Cream sleeps at home.]]

* Inverted with ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' where Chicken Little wears all clothing while Abby wears only a shirt, á la WesterAnimation/DonaldDuck. Most of the Male Characters in the 2005 movie wear full clothes but no shoes.

-->-- ''WebComic/NerfNow'', in TheRant for "[[http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/797 Gotta Go Naked]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' plays this straight with Buster and Babs Bunny, the former wearing just a shirt without pants and the latter wearing a blouse and skirt. The other {{Funny Animal}}s avert this, however; Shirley [=McLoon=] doesn't wear pants, while Fifi la Fume is completely nude barring her [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal accessories]].

** Their friends WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/{{Donald|Duck}}, and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck seem to apply this trope more often, as Donald Duck reamins pantsless while Goofy is fully-dressed (except in the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 TV series, where he is seen pantsless, too). However, depending on the situations, Daisy can either be as pantsless as Donald or wear any kind of dress to contrast him.

* Most of the female ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' characters are fully dressed and most of the male characters are pantsless.

* In the ''Literature/FrancesTheBadger'' series, Frances's father goes naked, while her mother usually a dress, though sometimes just a skirt. Averted with Frances and other little girl badgers, however, who usually go naked and only wear dresses to school or to parties.