History MagicPants / LiveActionTV

* Played straight and lampshaded in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''. The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] main cast can transform into bats and back without their clothing being affected. When newly turned Jenna asks where their clothes go when they're in bat form, the other vampires are all flummoxed, clearly having never thought about it before, and advise her [[BellisariosMaxim not to worry about it]].

* Played straight and lampshaded in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''. The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] main cast can transform into bats and back without their clothing being affected. When newly turned Jenna asks where their clothes go when they're in bat form, the other vampires are all completely flummoxed, clearly having never thought about it before.

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** {{Inverted}} with Miley the mermaid--her clothes don't rip when she changes back, they just disappear, nor do they return when she regains human form.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Woof}}'' - very much so - Eric Banks/Rex Thomas lost his clothes every transformation.

* Played straight and lampshaded in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''. The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] main cast can transform into bats and back without their clothing being affected. When newly turned Jenna asks where their clothes go when they're in bat form, the other vampires are all completely flummoxed, clearly never having thought about it before.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Most of the Doctors have spent at least the first few minutes after regeneration in their predecessors' costumes.[[note]]The exceptions are Two, whose clothes regenerated with him; Eight, who regenerated nude due to his predecessor being declared dead and slabbed in the morgue; and Nine, who was introduced after already having regenerated and changed clothes.[[/note]] These men, and now one woman, have varied noticeably in height and build, but aside from slight bagginess and the occasional frayed sleeve, everything has more or less fit, no overly-long or short trouser legs or uncomfortable shoes in sight.
** In the New Series, it's especially noticeable with the Twelve to Thirteen switch. The previous New Series Doctors, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve, were all tall and thin, with relatively slight differences in height and build. Thirteen, on the other hand, is half a foot shorter than Twelve and, although there's a RunningGag in her [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth first episode]] about her having a hard time finding things in Twelve's too-big coat, Twelve's trousers and boots seem to fit perfectly despite the fact that they should logically be uncomfortably large for her to wear.

* ZigZagged in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'':

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Most of the Doctors have spent at least the first few minutes after regeneration in their predecessors' costumes.[[note]]The exceptions are Two, whose clothes regenerated with him; Eight, who regenerated nude due to his predecessor being declared dead and slabbed in the morgue; and Nine, who was introduced after already having regenerated and changed clothes.[[/note]] These men, and now one woman, have varied noticeably in height and build, but aside from slight bagginess and the occasional frayed sleeve, everything has more or less fit, no overly-long or short trouser legs in sight..

* Most of the Doctors on ''Series/DoctorWho'' have spent at least the first few minutes after regeneration in their predecessors' costumes.[[note]]The exceptions are Two, whose clothes regenerated with him; and Eight, who regenerated nude due to his predecessor being declared dead and slabbed in the morgue.[[/note]] These men, and now one woman, have varied noticeably in height and build, but aside from slight bagginess and the occasional frayed sleeve, everything has fit.

* In ''Series/H2OJustAddWater'' and ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'', during the shift from human to merfolk form not only do clothes disappear until they become human again but any hair decorations and hair spray also disappear, leaving the transformee's hair untied. This seems to work both ways, as when Emma dyed her hair red in mermaid form, it reverts to her natural blonde color when she is human. Only moon rings are shown to carry over during the transformation, [[AWizardDidIt likely due to their magical nature]].

* In the Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Thats So Raven}}'', when Raven and Chelsea are turned into cows, their clothes disappear, likely because the producers couldn't fit it on the large bodies of the two heifers.

* Played with on ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' when Neil loses his temper and transforms into The Incredible Hippie, complete with sleeve-splitting shots and his pants bursting open only from the knees down. Then it turns out to be a fantasy-sequence in which he only imagined he'd transformed... except his clothes are ''still torn''.

* Averted in ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''; Alex's first attempt at morphing into silver goo winds up with Alex naked and hiding behind a washing machine. The second time, she manages to morph her clothes with her.

* Averted in ''Series/BeingHuman''. Poor George gets no Magic Pants when he transforms into a werewolf.

* In ''H2OJustAddWater'' and ''MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'', during the shift from human to merfolk form not only do clothes disappear until they become human again but any hair decorations and hair spray also disappear, leaving the transformee's hair untied. This seems to work both ways, as when Emma dyed her hair red in mermaid form, it reverts to her natural blonde color when she is human. Only moon rings are shown to carry over during the transformation, [[AWizardDidIt likely due to their magical nature]].

* In H2OJustAddWater and MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure, during the shift from human to merfolk form not only do clothes disappear until they become human again but any hair decorations and hair spray also disappear, leaving the transformee's hair untied. This seems to work both ways, as when Emma dyed her hair red in mermaid form, it reverts to her natural blonde color when she is human. Only moon rings are shown to carry over during the transformation, [[AWizardDidIt likely due to their magical nature]].

* Somewhat enhanced in ''PowerRangers'' and other {{Toku}}satsu series, where if a character covered in filth transforms, they'll be squeaky clean when they de-morph. Apparently the Morphing Grid does sheets, too.
* Averted in ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''; Alex's first attempt at morphing into silver goo winds up with Alex naked and hiding behind a washing machine. The second time, she manages to morph her clothes with her.

* Averted in ''TrueBlood'' when Sam the shape-shifter changes back into human, he has to find things to cover up with and get people to bring him clothes.
* Invoked in ''TheVampireDiaries'' where Tyler removes most of his clothing in preparation for his transformation into a werewolf, but keeps his pants on in case "it's like the Hulk". It's not.
* Averted in ''{{Woof}}'' - very much so - Eric Banks/Rex Thomas lost his clothes every transformation.
* Played with on ''TheYoungOnes'' when Neil loses his temper and transforms into The Incredible Hippie, complete with sleeve-splitting shots and his pants bursting open only from the knees down. Then it turns out to be a fantasy-sequence in which he only imagined he'd transformed... except his clothes are ''still torn''.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Rascals", Picard, Ensign Ro, Keiko, and Guinan are in a transporter accident that beams them onto the Enterprise as 12-year-old children while their clothes all shrink to fit their child bodies perfectly. In the end, They show Picard turned back into an adult with the transporter and again, his clothes grow with him.

** In the Season 3 episode "Beauty and the Beasts" [[spoiler:Angel]] somehow gains pants after coming back from the dead nude, despite having regressed to an animalistic state and living in the wilderness.

* Somewhat enhanced in ''PowerRangers'' and other {{Toku}}satsu series, where if a character covered in filth transforms, they'll be squeaky clean when they de-morph. Apparently the Morphing Grid does sheets, too.
* Mostly averted in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' -- the shapeshifter Odo forms clothes out of his own substance, but seems to have a Magic Combadge. The ExpandedUniverse either implies that he'd usually put the badge on the inside of whatever he turned into (since he didn't need to actually make organs and so on). Which doesn't explain where it goes when he turns into things like puddles of water.
** Also played straight in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Tuvix". An alien plant gets mixed up in the transporter beam and merges Neelix and Tuvok into one new being, even merging Tuvok's uniform and Neelix's Talaxian clothes into a Starfleet uniform made of Talaxian-patterned fabric. Later when the procedure is reversed, Tuvix is separated back into Tuvok and Neelix, each of whom somehow have their own ''copy'' of Tuvix's uniform.
*** Justified in the fact that the clothes Tuvix had been wearing when he was split apart was not the merged Starfleet-Talaxian outfit but instead a regular Starfleet uniform. At the very least, the Magic Pants are consistent.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Rascals", Picard, Ensign Ro, Keiko, and Guinan are in a transporter accident that beams them onto the Enterprise as 12-year-old children while their clothes all shrink to fit their child bodies perfectly. In the end, They show Picard turned back into an adult with the transporter and again, his clothes grow with him.

* Present in ''every'' episode of ''Series/{{Manimal}}'' where Dr. Jonathan Chase (a.k.a. Manimal) [[TransformationSequence transforms]] into a panther, hawk, dolphin, cat, or whatever animal-du-jour. In the pilot he transforms to a panther while wearing a tux, and the tux is nowhere to be seen. Upon retransformation to a human he is still wearing the same tux. This is repeated throughout. Sometime we even see the clothes he wears being torn up by the transformation.

* Averted in ''{{Woof}}'' -- very much so -- Eric Banks/Rex Thomas lost his clothes every transformation.
* Averted in ''Series/BeingHuman''. Poor George gets no Magic Pants when he transforms into a werewolf.

* ZigZagged in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'':
** 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.

* Played with on ''TheYoungOnes'' when Neil loses his temper and transforms into The Incredible Hippie, complete with sleeve-splitting shots and his pants bursting open only from the knees down. Then it turns out to be a fantasy-sequence in which he only imagined he'd transformed... except his clothes are ''still torn''.
* An extreme example of Magic Pants is in Legend of the Seeker, Season 1, Episode 19 "Cursed". There is a scene where a naked kalthrop (i.e. werewolf) is killed, and then turns back its human form, with the Sword of Truth protruding from its chest. The problem...the [[spoiler:now unmutated king]] is still wearing the clothes we saw before. A second scene shows a battle where another kalthrop, again naked, is finished fighting, goes into a corner, and (hidden from the camera) turns back into [[spoiler: queen Corah]] who not only is fully clothed as we saw before, but has the [[spoiler: crown]] on [[spoiler:her]] head, like nothing happened. This got my attention right away, no Fridge Logic required! It just seemed lazy to me.
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'' the twin Alpha werewolves Aiden and Ethan [[spoiler: can do a FusionDance to merge into a giant Super-Alpha. For [[{{Fanservice}} some reason]] they feel the need to strip all the clothes off of their upper bodies before merging. But their pants and shoes merge when they do]].
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* Present in ''every'' episode of ''Series/{{Manimal}}'' where Dr. Jonathan Crane (a.k.a. Manimal) [[TransformationSequence transforms]] into a panther, hawk, dolphin, cat, or whatever animal-du-jour. In the pilot he transforms to a panther while wearing a tux, and the tux is nowhere to be seen. Upon retransformation to a human he is still wearing the same tux. This is repeated throughout. Sometime we even see the clothes he wears being torn up by the transformation.

* Present in ''every'' episode of ''{{Manimal}}'' where Dr. Jonathan Crane (aka Manimal) [[TransformationSequence transforms]] into a panther, hawk, dolphin, cat, or whatever animal-du-jour. In the pilot he transforms to a panther while wearing a tux, and the tux is nowhere to be seen. Upon retransformation to a human he is still wearing the same tux. This is repeated throughout. Sometime we even see the clothes he wears being torn up by the transformation.