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Stumbling across a discarded pile of empty clothing is a ''bad'' omen in SpeculativeFiction.

After all, those clothes used to belong to ''somebody'', and people don't just ... decide to take off and leave their clothes behind on a regular basis. (Sure, NakedPeopleAreFunny, but let's be serious here.) Therefore, discovering a pile of uninhabited clothing is a definite clue that something ... ''unnatural'' happened to its owner. The cause may be anything (disintegration, a ShrinkRay, BalefulPolymorph, CaughtUpInTheRapture etc.) but this may or may not be obvious to the characters or the audience. The {{Foreshadowing}} goes double if the clothing is ripped, torn, or otherwise provides forensic clues about what might have happened to them.

This can be considered a combination of NoBodyLeftBehind and the inversion of MagicPants: For example, if a character was subjected to a transformation into some kind of monster (say, a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]]), they may have had to rip and shred their own clothing off during the process (unless the process did this all by itself). If the owner's companions should stumble across this monster standing near an empty pile of their friend's shredded clothing, they might mistakenly assume that the monster ''killed'' the person (unaware that said monster ''is'' that person).

Compare SkeletonCrew or SmolderingShoes, which are similar visual hints that something ominous has happened to a character.

In the event that the owner was merely teleported somewhere else and is otherwise fine (sans clothing, that is), see NakedOnArrival.

If PlayedForLaughs and the character is otherwise fine, it's RightOutOfMyClothes.

Notice: As a '''DEATH TROPE''' (sometimes), there can be '''SPOILERS''' here. Beware!

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Lily CAT'', a flesh-absorbing virus leaves only clothing behind after it assimilates crew members on board the ship.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', a whole city full of empty clothes is a sure sign that Cell has been feeding.
** Even more unsettling is the way Cell "feeds" on people : After he stabs them, the victim's body is borken down into genetic material and absorbed inside of Cell, giving the impression that the victim is melting, and only leaving behind piles of clothing after the process is done. Now remember that [[FridgeHorror he also did this on]] ''[[WouldHurtAChild children]]'' (Offscreen, at least). Fortunately, this ''is'' a series where DeathIsCheap, so all of his casualties are eventually revived.
* Vampires that get staked in ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'' usually leave behind a small pile of dust and a pile of clothing.
* Kirihara in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' followed an agent she saw at the scene where she didn't expect him, and found his clothes. The next thing she saw was a chair with another set of clothes "sitting" on it, with sleeves on armpads. It was a case of [[{{Fanservice}} perve]]-[[NakedOnArrival portation]], but she didn't know this at the time.
** Also, [[spoiler: Amber's [[PowerAtAPrice remuneration for her power]] is [[MerlinSickness getting younger]]. After she sacrifices herself to help Hei, she ends up disappearing altogether, with her empty clothes being all that's left of her]].
* Used in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' when Alphonse Elric's body is destroyed when he and his brother Edward attempt [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique human transmutation]]. When Edward sees Al's clothes on the floor empty he knows his little experiment has truly GoneHorriblyWrong.
* Occurs in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' after [[spoiler:Yuni and Gamma]] [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] during the final battle of the Future Arc.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', after [[spoiler:Signum and Shamal are absorbed into the Book of Darkness]], only their winter coats remain on the ground.
* In one work submitted for serialization in ''{{Manga/Bakuman}}'', about a survival challenge in which anyone who tells a lie dies, the people who are killed in such a manner disappear, leaving only their clothes behind, while a voice comes from their clothes and announces the truth.
* In ''{{Manga/Bleach}}''[='=]s "Turn Back the Pendulum" arc, the ninth division knows that something terrible befell the ten Soul Reapers sent to investigate a string of disappearances when they find ten loose uniforms that were removed without being untied.
* In ''{{Anime/S-CRY-ed}}'', Scheris Adjani attempts to save her love interest by using her powers, which drains her life force. It happens off screen, but when he wakes up, all he finds are her clothes.
* ''Anime/PrincessTutu''. A girl called Duck, because she was a duck, turns back into a duck whenever she acts like a duck, thus leaving an empty pile of clothing behind.
* In episode 5 of the ''Anime/MagicUsersClub' TV anime', Akane starts to hiccup, causing various strange things to happen. At one point, she shrinks down, leaving her clothes piled on the club room floor.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', immortals leave these [[spoiler: when they are eaten]].
* Combined with NoBodyLeftBehind in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': when Saffron is absorbing everything in range during his metamorphosis, Akane tries to shut off the magical water he needs by closing the Phoenix Tap. Unfortunately, the heat-based Kinjakan, a weapon used to open the device, instantly disintegrates anything that touches it while water is running through the tap. So Akane manages to shut the tap off, Ranma screams at her to run and -- after a flash of light, Akane's empty clothes flutter to the ground. [[spoiler:It turns out that she had only been magically dehydrated into the size of a doll, and was still inside those clothes, but pretty much everyone had a HeroicBSOD until they found out they could still save her]].
* This is what happens whenever someone dies of Troy in ''Manga/DoubleArts''. First, the seizures, then they become transparents and disappear.
* The dreaded Third Impact in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' reduces everyone in the world to puddles of orange fluid and a pile of their clothes, even if that person was already dead at the time.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': [[spoiler: At one point during Team Natsu's fight with Hades, the latter used a technique named "Katsu" on Wendy, causing her to disappear instantly, only leaving her clothes behind. Fortunately, it turns out she was saved at the last minute by Horologium, and that Hades' attack actually didn't hit her.]]
* In ''Shuffle! Memories'' ep 12, practically the whole group is shrunk one by one while on a cruise ship, leaving behind their swimsuits.
* Happens in the first season of ''{{Birdy The Mighty}} Decode'', where the world-destroying parasitic weapon, Ryunka, spreads to the Greater Tokyo Area, petrifying any person into a glass-like substance that [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters]] into dust, leaving behind nothing but piles of clothing. The death of Nataru's (one of Birdy's childhood friends and fellow Altarian) buddies from the Ryunka's destruction is what prompts him to go on a {{Roaring Rampage of Revenge}} in the second season against the criminals responsible for releasing it.
* Subverted in ''Manga/OnePiece [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Film Z]]'' : [[spoiler: During the Straw Hats' first fight against the villains, Nami and Chopper seemingly disappear after Ain hits them with her power, leaving their clothes behind. However, it turns out they have just been [[FountainOfYouth deaged into kids]]]].
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the card [[http://magiccards.info/eve/en/161.html Snakeform]] shows a snake slithering out of a pile of clothes that was once a mage.
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220265 Turn to Frog]] uses the same basic concept in its art.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', the Flash runs so fast that he loses himself to the Speed Force, leaving just his uniform behind.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Chick Tract|s}}'' "Last Generation," this happens to the people who ascend in the Rapture.
* ''{{ComicBook/X-Men}}: The Hidden Years # 1'' "Once More the Savage Land": Marvel Girl is said to have passed onto the land of the dead, showing only her empty costume laying across a table.
* In ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' #51, Literature/{{Cinderella}} is turned into a mouse, her clothes falling empty to the meadow floor, so she can enter the village of the smalls.
* The cover of DC Comics' ''Legends'' issue 5 has Captain Marvel standing amidst a pile of empty superhero clothes.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. The last panel of [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Beware_the_pigeons_The_Far_Side_3012.jpg this cartoon]]. Beware the pigeons...
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Tiana emerges from her now-empty princess dress after kissing Naveen turns her into a frog in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.
* ''RockADoodle'' has the scene where the evil owl turns Edmund into a furry.
* ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'': Happens to [[spoiler:Mother Gothel]] at the end, as a result of Flynn finally cutting Rapunzel's hair.
* In ''TheAntBully'', when he shrinks his under wear is left behind.
* Subverted in ''{{Shrek}} 2'' : After [[spoiler: King Harold shields Fiona from one of the Fairy Godmother's spells, his suit of armor seems to be the only thing left of him... Until he comes out of the armor, in his original frog form, and reveals the truth about that to the heroes]].
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''StarWars''
** When Vader swings a killing blow at Obi-Wan in ''ANewHope,'' the only thing left of Obi-wan is his robe and lightsaber. Vader stomps on the robe as if to make sure he's not just hiding in there.
** Later in the trilogy, Yoda disappears too.
* In the most recent ''{{Narnia}}'' film (''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''), Edmund and Caspian find Eustace's smoldering clothes and assume something terrible's happened to him. It has, though not what they expect.
* Another variant in ''NightOfTheComet''. After almost everyone on Earth goes outside to look at a comet, their bodies are reduced to a red dust, leaving their clothes scattered on the ground with the dust spilling out of them.
* The TomCruise remake of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', the alien heat ray reduces people to ash, leaving their clothing behind. [[FridgeLogic But not underwear for some reason]]. [[InvertedTrope Non Magic Pants]]?
** Which, of course, was parodied by ''ScaryMovie'': a bunch of rappers instead left their Bling behind. Somehow the people manage to get one and when they ReverseThePolarity it becomes TheNudifier.
* In the film ''Vanishing on 7th Street'', during a brief power failure, just about everyone in the city vanishes, leaving only their clothes.
* In the film ''The H-Man'', there is a radioactive blob going around absorbing people until only their clothes are left.
* In the film called ''The Moment After'', the beginning scenes show signs of the recent "rapture" event, showing piles of empty clothes littering the street and homes.
* In the new ''Film/AliceInWonderland'', Alice is shrunk until only her dress remains.
* In the movie ''Unearthly Stranger'', A man's wife turns out to be a member of an invading alien race. when she tries to stop them, her people, they kill her by fading her out of existance while being held by him leaving only her clothes draped over his arms.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', KeanuReeves plays a priest-like warrior who battles demons. when the demon is killed its human body is destroy, turning to ash, until only clothes remain.
* In the movie adaptation of ''TheWitches'', when someone is turned into a mouse, they leave their clothes behind. When this happens to Luke, the witches stomp on his clothes in an effort to kill him before he can escape.
* ''Proteus'' (1995) is a movie about an experiment gone wrong on an oil platform out in the middle of the ocean. The creature that is created absorbs the bodies of its victims until nothing is left but clothes, so it can mimic their form. It's based on the book called ''{{Literature/Slimer}}'' by Harry Adam Knight.
* In the movie ''{{Film/Troll 2}}'', a girl drinks a potion from a woman pretending to help. It turns out that the woman is in league with the goblins and the potion given to the girl slowly melts her into slime. You have to look close but you can see her clothes laying in the puddle of green slime before the goblins come to eat her.
* ''The Sword of the Valiant'', starring SeanConnery. An apprentice witch is turned into a red frog for being naughty by his character. The scene finishes as they converse while she is perched a top of her empty dress surrounded by her accessories.
* When Santa dies in ''TheSantaClause'', all that's left is his Santa suit, which Tim Allen must don.
* ''Film/HarryPotter''
** In the first movie, Quirrell collapses to dust, leaving his clothes to fall empty to the floor.
** In the third film, Pettigrew leaves behind his clothes after turning into a rat. Which is weird, seeing how Animagi always have clothes on when they turn human and [=McGonagall's=] cat form is noted to have markings around its eyes which resemble her glasses. In the book, this occurs at a different point, also with Pettigrew. After he [[spoiler:framed Sirius for his death]] and turned into a rat, it's mentioned he left behind a pile of clothes and one finger. So... was he naked in the Shrieking Shack? Maybe they just conjure clothes when they turn human since [[AWizardDidIt they are wizards, after all]].
* In ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'', one of the trio's completely missing except for his neatly-arranged clothing (and a toad).
* Empty piles of bandages are all that is left after the protagonist of ''{{Mannequin}}'' is whisked across time and space.
* [[spoiler:Allison]] in ''TheGrudge 2'' is pulled ''into'' her clothes, leaving them in a heap on the floor in front of [[spoiler:Jake]]. [[SubvertedTrope Kayako then manifests inside the clothes to menace her next victim.]]
* In ''Film/DaddyDayCare'', the guys panic when they find Tony's empty Flash costume. In homage to this trope's prevalence in science fiction, uber-nerd Marvin even worries that he's been vaporized. Turns out he just doesn't want to be Flash anymore. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming He wants to be Tony.]]
* In ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'', Lily Tomlin's character shrinks until even a small pouch that she wears as clothing is all that's left of her.
* In the first movie in the ''Film/{{Apocalypse}}'' film series, when the Rapture takes place, believers in Christ leave behind empty piles of ''neatly folded'' clothing.
* When the cult leader in ''Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers'' is killed, his body disappears leaving only his clothes behind. This makes the main character question if he truly is dead.
* In the movie ''{{Wishmaster}} 2'', a theif who was cornered by the Djinn is so scared he wishes [[RetGone he were never born]]. ''[[JackassGenie Very]]'' [[FountainOfYouth bad]] [[TooDumbToLive idea]]. His clothes are all that's left of him after the Djinn has granted his wish.
* In ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'', an unpinned [[SchmuckBait light grenade]] disintegrates anyone who picks it up, leaving only their clothes behind.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Used in ''LeftBehind'' and other "Rapture" stories to indicate that the person in question has been taken by the Lord. Depending on the skill of the writer, this can still be pretty terrifying.
** Subverted in ''The Rapture of Canaan''. In a religious community, everyone believes that the narrator's illegitimate son is the second coming of Christ and thus figure that the Rapture is on the way. One morning, they find the leader of the community's pile of clothes lying around, leading the more extreme members to assume that the Rapture happened and they weren't taken because they'd sinned. Most of the other members assumed that their leader (who had recently had a stroke) just went crazy and ran off with no clothes on. [[spoiler:Turns out, that's just what happened.]]
* Used in ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', when the title time traveler... time travels.
* In ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'', when the person who would have been sent through time and space to the cupboard is dead, all that gets sent is a pile of clothing.
* In one of Creator/EllisPeters's ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'' murder mysteries, a monk who was standing an all-night vigil is found in the morning to have vanished, leaving only his clothes behind, and many of his fellow monks assume he's been bodily assumed into heaven. The truth is rather more mundane.
* Averted somewhat weirdly in Creator/StephenKing's ''TheLangoliers'', where most of the passangers disappear from a plane when it crosses a time rip, and they leave behind watches, glasses, jewels, even surgical pins -- but not clothes. One character lampshades this, saying: "What was taken and what was left behind [...] doesn't seem to have a lot of rhyme or reason to it."
* In a book called ''The Demon in Me'' by Michelle Rowen, Dark Witches are dissolved to nothingness very quickly when killed leaving only a pile of clothes.
* In the book ''Samantha Slade -- Confession of a Teenage Frog'', a girl tests a "formula for greatness" created by a small boy she babysits to help her win an election at school. It turns out that the stuff randomly turns her into a frog, so she is constantly having to crawl out of a pile of her clothes.
* In the Creator/StephenKing book series ''Franchise/TheDarkTower: Literature/TheGunslinger -- Little Sisters of Eluria'', one of the sisters betrays the others to help Roland, The Lone Gunslinger. After they have gotten away and believe they are safe, they rest in a cave. But during the sleep, Roland hears tiny bells and awakes to find only the empty clothes of the woman who helped him. [[spoiler:She was turned into a bunch of tiny bugs by the sound of the bell.]]
* In the book ''True Angel: Hero'' by Laura Amy O'Hanlon, Kennedy kills her mother Ocran, who is a bad woman. When she dies, she vanishes instantly leaving her empty clothes to fall to the ground.
* In the book ''Literature/BloodMusic'' by Greg Bear, a strange infection ravages Europe that totally and complete destroys the human in most cases almost instantly leaving only their clothes.
* In the William Essex novel ''Slime'', the living, flesh-eating toxic waste dissolves and consumes its victims, leaving nothing but their empty clothes behind, without any blood or even any residue of itself.
** Speaking of slime, ''{{Literature/Slimer}}'' by Harry Adam Knight concerns a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever mutated great white shark]] which absorbs the minds and bodies of its victims (similar to ''Phantoms'') leaving behind just their slime-drenched empty clothing.
* ''Literature/TheClone'' has an interesting variation. The [=titular=] BlobMonster is an ExtremeOmnivore that absorbs both living and nonliving matter, but there are certain types of fabrics it won't eat. Nylon, for example, will get incorporated into the "clone" mass, but cotton will be rejected. Regardless, there's always ''some'' kind of empty clothes left after it gets done with someone.
* [[spoiler: [[PokemonSpeak Eppon]] the weapon]] in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Army of Terror'' kills by turning peoples' bodies to gel and absorbing them, leaving their clothes and weapons to fall empty. Full armor and no exposed skin seems to help, but that's not its only attack.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone''
** In "Long Live Walter Jameson", an immortal man gets shot and NoImmortalInertia kicks in, reducing him to a pile of dust in an otherwise empty suit on the floor.
** "Queen of the Nile". A man suffers RapidAging and becomes dust inside his clothing.
* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'': "The Omega Glory" is a subversion as the crew's uniforms weren't empty: they still had crystals (the remains of the crew's bodies) inside of them.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
** An example occurs when Deanna and her mother are transported to a Ferengi ship without their clothes.
** In "The Best of Both Worlds", after Picard is captured by the Borg, the search party looking for him on the Borg cube initially find only his uniform in a locker. They shortly thereafter find out he's been turned into a Borg himself.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** In the episode "Utopia", a crewman is vaporised by Particle of the Week Radiation, leaving only his clothes behind.
** In the episode "Partners in Crime", little creatures called Adipose are born from the fat of those who have been taking the enzyme used to create them. In a pinch, however, the Adipose can convert all types of cell tissue, resulting in this trope.
* In the show ''Series/FreddysNightmares'', on a episode called "Sister's Keeper", Freddy is attacked by twin girls, one in front to distract and one in back to attack. When she swings her bat to attack Freddy, he vanishes and his clothes drop to the floor.
* In the UK ''Series/BeingHuman'' episode The Longest Day, Lauren kills herself, dissolves and leaves a pile of empty clothes.
* ''{{Series/The X-Files}}'' episode "Agua Mala" has wet piles of clothes left behind as the only trace of victims of a water-born parasite. This is because the parasite converts the human body to water in order to further its reproductive cycle.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** When they AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, people in the series leave their clothes behind.
** This is also what is left after an attack with the Dakara Superweapon set to destroy living matter, in season 10 episode "Conterstrike".
* ''{{Charmed}}'' : In the episode "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans", 3 elderly ladies want to regain their youth, but their spell backfires and instead of restoring their youth, the villain turns them into dust, resulting in this trope.
* Parodied in ''{{Glee}}'' when Kitty punishes Dottie Kazatori. She has her Left Behind Club leave piles of clothing all over the meeting room right after Dottie leaves, and when she returns she thinks the rapture has occurred and she thinks the rapture occured.
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[[folder:Commercials]]
* In the new Axe Anti Dandruff commercial called "Dusted," three lovely young women are instantly reduced to dust in the presence of a certain young man, leaving their empty clothes to flutter to the ground.
* Happens in a Koff Beer commercial called "cinderella," where a man walks up to the bar looking confused and carrying a single shoe. He sees a beautiful woman across the bar. She runs out and he chases her. She runs down an alley about half way. For some odd reason that isn't explained, she disappears in a flash of light. Her dress falls to the pavement covering one of her shoes. He picks up the exposed one and finds himself walking up to the bar looking confused and carrying a single shoe. It's a loop!
* G.U. Japan has the singing group "Kyary Pamyu Pamyu," as three vampires rising from their coffins and striking scary vampire poses, only one them accidentally kicks off her shoe, which hits a switch that opens a window. The sunlight pours in and poof, they vanish in a puff of smoke.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', mysteriously abandoned armor is often the only warning you'll get that the room its in is filled with a nigh-invisible, flesh-dissolving gelatinous cube.
** In Urban Arcana, when a shadowkind (a creature native to the D&D world) dies, it [[NoBodyLeftBehind disappears]] in 1D4 rounds, "leaving no trace of itself other than its clothing and equipment".
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'', the people of Dionyl subvert this trope -- they ''are'' spirits with nothing but empty clothes for a physical form.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'': Empty piles of clothes are shown in the background during the Stray Dog bossfight. It's not really explained, but the prevalent fan theory is that Jennifer is mentally censoring out the corpses that should be inhabiting them. It's a justification for the practical reason that showing dead children in a video game, a console game at any rate, is a big no-no. The game pretty masterfully avoids showing almost any of the horrible things kids go through in the story, arguably making it feel a lot worse than if they just said and showed things straight up.
* In the game ''Missing on Lost Island'' you and your girlfriend are attacked by goons. During the fight your girlfriend is shot by a strange ray gun and vanishes leaving only her clothes. Soon after, you are also shot with the same gun.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* TropeNamer: In one strip of ''TheDragonDoctors,'' an explorer investigating a science station exclaims, "Empty piles of discarded clothing! That's bad. That's always a bad sign!" He wonders if they've been disintegrated or mutated into monsters; turns out most of them overdosed on a FountainOfYouth.
* ''TheGoodWitch'': The only thing left behind after a sinister minister sucks people up into himself to consume their life force.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' had Sensei Greg running to help Grace who he thought was in danger and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-17 finding clothes on the floor]]. And then [[CatScare he met Jeremy]].
* Creator/ScottMcCloud's three-panel one-shot [[http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/mi/mi-06/mi-06.html Man-Eating Shoes]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Christmas episode "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls", the Smiths dig up Santa's corpse to find that Santa's body has vanished, leaving the iconic Santa outfit behind. Turns out [[spoiler:he was magically transported to the North Pole to regenerate]].
* In SpongebobSquarepants, Spongebob ends up leaving his clothes behind on a plant when hiding, and Sandy thinks that he's gone missing ("Spongebob always folds his clothes nearly before running around in the nude!"). Naturally, when she gets the town to look for him, HilarityEnsues.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Cyberchase''. An early episode had the Cybersquad go to a cybersite where everything was scaled ten times bigger than them. At first they believe they had shrunk, but Inez says this trope would have happened if they really shrank.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* When Harold Camping declared that [[CaughtUpInTheRapture the Rapture]] would happen on the 21 of May 2011, a project on TheImageboardThatMustNotBeNamed encouraged posters to get up early and lay out empty piles of clothes (and/or SmolderingShoes) to freak people out.
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