History MagicPants / WesternAnimation

* Some characters in ''TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' are given the ability to transform/affect anything in physical contact with them as well, including their clothes.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' seems rather confused about how BlueBeetle's armor works with his clothes--sometimes he has to take off his shirt before activating it (since the armor comes from his back), sometimes he can do it fine fully-clothed. And when he comes out of his armor, he may be dressed normally or in his boxers, regardless of what he had on originally.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' occasionally dips into this, but the most egregious example occurs in the episode "Double Date", when VillainousGlutton Mandragora charges at Black Canary and she hits him point blank with her Canary Shriek for about 10 seconds. His shirt, naturally, is completely incinerated, since the attack should be fatal at that range, but ([[FanDisservice luckily]]) his pants are fine. And oddly enough, his ''shoes'' don't survive the attack, suggesting that they're literal magic pants.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEsquestriaGirls'', any pony who passes through the portal into the human world becomes human and automatically gains clothes.

* Merrily played with in 'WesternAnimation/TheTick vs. Dinosaur Neil'. As the titular [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Dinosaur Neil]], grown huge and [[ScaledUp 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 [[LimitedWardrobe dinosaur costume]]. I'm not sure if this counts as a subversion, an inversion, an aversion, or ''what''...

* Merrily played with in 'TheTick vs. Dinosaur Neil'. As the titular [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Dinosaur Neil]], grown huge and [[ScaledUp 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 [[LimitedWardrobe dinosaur costume]]. I'm not sure if this counts as a subversion, an inversion, an aversion, or ''what''...

-->'''[[ShaunOfTheDead Shaun]] {{Expy}}:''' Don't touch me! I don't want to be a pharmac—-! Wait a second...that doesn't even make sense. You get touched by a pharmacist, you become a pharmacist? I mean, you can't just ''grow'' a lab coat.

* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare Alex]] transforms into [[TheJuggernaut the Rhino]] with his clothes just vanishing, only to reappear when he returns to normal. The angles chosen for his transformation scenes seem designed to keep the audience from seeing how this happens.

* In an episode of CodenameKidsNextDoor all the weredogs have magic clothes that appear as they change back even though they ripped off as they were changing into weredogs.

* Beast Boy also appears in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' where his costume seems to shrink into a collar whenever he transforms. Becomes FridgeBrilliance when you remember that his "[[BloodBrothers blood sister]]" Miss Martian, another shapeshifter, has special clothes that adjust with her--she probably just got him some of those.

* Used almost literally in ''FairlyOddParents'', where Juandissimo will flex, ripping off his shirt and showing off his muscles...and then uses magic to poof another shirt onto his body. Sometimes he goes through several shirts all at once just by holding his pose.

* ''JusticeLeague'' occasionally dips into this, but the most egregious example occurs in the episode "Double Date", when VillainousGlutton Mandragora charges at Black Canary and she hits him point blank with her Canary Shriek for about 10 seconds. His shirt, naturally, is completely incinerated, since the attack should be fatal at that range, but ([[FanDisservice luckily]]) his pants are fine. And oddly enough, his ''shoes'' don't survive the attack, suggesting that they're literal magic pants.

* Spoofed in ''TheSimpsons'' 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?

* Averted in the 13th episode of ''SymbionicTitan'' 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.

* Spoofed in ''TheSimpsons'' 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?
-->'''Bart:''' Thank God his pants stayed on.
** 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.
-->'''Marge:''' Thank goodness for Super-Stretch underwear.
* The question of what exactly happens to Beast Boy's uniform on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' 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 [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the comics]], Beast Boy's outfit was some sort of unstable molecule suit similar to the ComicBook/FantasticFour outfits. The thing would basically break apart and float on his skin, then reassemble when he scaled back to human form.
** Raven's uniform seems to be able to not only change in size as needed (larger in Nevermore, smaller in The End), but can also change between the normal black/blue and white based on her father's influence over her or her mood (in Spellbound when she falls in love, [[spoiler: in The End bringing her father to earth strips her of most of her memories and powers]]).
* Beast Boy also appears in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' where his costume seems to shrink into a collar whenever he transforms. Becomes FridgeBrilliance when you remember that his "[[BloodBrothers blood sister]]" Miss Martian, another shapeshifter, has special clothes that adjust with her--she probably just got him some of those.

* Some characters, like ''[[TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack Alex Mack]]'' and ''DannyPhantom'' are given the ability to transform/affect anything in physical contact with them as well, including their clothes.
** In the pilot, Alex Mack didn't have this ability (although only on her accidental first try), but obviously they couldn't get away with having their (underage) heroine end up naked every few minutes, could they?
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. When Leela tells her parents she is Clobberella, she rips off her usual outfit of tank top, pants and heavy boots to reveal a sleeveless, leg-baring superheroine costume beneath. A few moments later, she rips this off too, revealing...another tank top, pants and boots. (Her explanation: "It was brisk. I dressed in layers.") Extra-absurd because the original tank top wouldn't have covered the shoulder pads from her costume, her costume had bare legs that wouldn't have covered a hidden pair of pants, and her long pair of gloves simply appeared and vanished at a whim.
** Also handwaved in the episode "A Bicyclops Built For Two": Leela meets the the only other cyclops -- Alkazar -- who turns out to be a shape-shifter using the "I'm the only other member of your species" tack on four other [[LastOfHisKind last-of-their-kind]] females. When asked why he made the foolish mistake of trying to marry all of them at the same day he points out that a tuxedo that shifts shape with its wearer is very expensive to rent.

* In the BBC Wales cartoon ''SuperTed'', the eponymous teddy bear would transform by ''unzipping his skin'' revealing his costume beneath. He was also seen to transform back by the same method with his skin underneath the costume. This led to a certain amount of horror; one could imagine his body gradually shrinking to microscopic size while still attached to a normal sized head.
* In ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', the Sandman [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope. Other than some discretionary SceneryCensor, no effort is made to hide the fact that he was nude during the FreakLabAccident that changed him into [[BlobMonster living sand]]. Thusly, any clothes he manifests are a function of his VoluntaryShapeshifting.
** Played straight with [[AntiVillain Mark Allan/Molten Man]]--activating his powers dissolves his clothes, but for some reason he still has on a pair of shorts. When he first turns back, his pants are suddenly normal too.
* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare Alex]] transforms into [[TheJuggernaut the Rhino]] with his clothes just vanishing, only to reappear when he returns to normal. The angles chosen for his transformation scenes seem designed to keep the audience from seeing how this happens.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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. WordOfGod says AWizardDidIt in Roman times with a "spell of humility", and that there's a story there to tell (if the series would stop getting ScrewedByTheNetwork long enough to actually tell it).
** Averted with Fox in ''Eye Of The Beholder''. When she turns back she's completely naked, and Elisa, whose wearing a Halloween costume over her normal clothes, takes the skirt off [[YouMustBeCold so Xanatos can cover her up]].

* Used almost literally in ''FairlyOddParents'', where Juandissimo will flex, ripping off his shirt and showing off his muscles...and then uses magic to poof another shirt onto his body. Sometimes he goes through several shirts all at once just by holding his pose.
* Surprisingly averted in the pilot of ''GeneratorRex''. When Rex cures a man who has mutated into a skyscraper-sized monster, the man is naked when he reverts to normal. Apparently this is common enough that the goon squad following Rex had a towel on hand in anticipation. It's played straight in later episodes, as most Evos revert to fully-clothed humans, or at most have a ripped shirt. This would seem to suggest that the poor bastard in the pilot was already naked when he turned.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the episode featuring the return of the Man-Bat (a person who was effectively a werebat) has in addition to a Magic Pants, a Magic Shirt. Rather than being the prime suspect, it's his ''wife'', and though her transformation shreds quite a bit of her shirt, it's still enough to keep her decent when she turns back. Except for the earlier times when the Man-Bat had no shirt at all, but we never got to see the times when she turned back ''then''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' seems rather confused about how BlueBeetle's armor works with his clothes--sometimes he has to take off his shirt before activating it (since the armor comes from his back), sometimes he can do it fine fully-clothed. And when he comes out of his armor, he may be dressed normally or in his boxers, regardless of what he had on originally.
* Used by [[spoiler:Samy]] on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', during a JekyllAndHyde plot.
* Averted ''and'' played straight in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', to ridiculous extents. Dee Dee eats one of Dexter's experiment cookies while donning a rat costume, and her costume turns to shreds when she becomes huge. Somehow, her ''normal clothes stay intact as she transforms into a 50ft giantess.''
* In [[CodenameKidsNextDoor 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 ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'', 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:
-->"[[FridgeLogic When they turn into dragons what happens to their clothes?]]"
* Merrily played with in 'TheTick vs. Dinosaur Neil'. As the titular [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Dinosaur Neil]], grown huge and [[ScaledUp 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 [[LimitedWardrobe dinosaur costume]]. I'm not sure if this counts as a subversion, an inversion, an aversion, or ''what''...
-->'''Scientist:''' Bring him to zhe pants...
** In another episode featuring Dinosaur Neil a villain named Idigestable Man jumps into his mouth as he is transforming into his dinosaur state, he leaps down his throat and into his stomach, the acid instantly burns away his clothes but his underwear and boots remain intact.
* Carter in the 1987 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' series always has his clothes intact when reverting to normal after his mutated transformation. Averted the first time he transforms, but played straight on all subsequent occasions.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', during the climactic duel, Aang and Ozai end up wearing nothing but their trousers, which seem to be fireproof (possibly justified given that they're in the ''Fire'' Nation at the time).
* In ''WesternAnimation/KassaiAndLeuk'', Marana's clothes transform with her whenever her InvoluntaryShapeshifting kicks in.

* Played with on ''WesternANimation/AdventureTime''. Jake is a magical shapeshifting orange dog, but he DOES wear nearly invisible pants woven by pixies.
* The 1982 ComicBook/IncredibleHulk cartoon combined this with LimitedWardrobe to a bizarre effect: whenever he changed back from the Hulk, his clothes reappeared unharmed.
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* The 1982 [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk]] cartoon combined this with LimitedWardrobe to a bizarre effect: whenever he changed back from the Hulk, his clothes reappeared unharmed.

* This is taken even further in ''TeamU

* Played with on ''AdventureTime''. Jake is a magical shapeshifting orange dog, but he DOES wear nearly invisible pants woven by pixies.

* This is taken even further in ''TeamUmizoomi''. You don't see Milli and Geo's clothes soaked, shredded or otherwise. Heck, they even change colors.

* In ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', the Sandman [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this trope. Other than some discretionary SceneryCensor, no effort is made to hide the fact that he was nude during the FreakLabAccident that changed him into [[TheBlob living sand]]. Thusly, any clothes he manifests are a function of his VoluntaryShapeshifting.

* This is taken even further in ''TeamUmizoomi''. You don't see Milli and Geo's clothes soaked, shredded or otherwise. Heck, they even turn into spacesuits.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', during the climactic duel, Aang and Ozai end up wearing nothing but their trousers, which seem to be fireproof. Must be that high-quality Fire Nation design....
** Well, if there was a nation of firebenders, don't you think that someone would design fireproof clothing?

* ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' seems rather confused about how BlueBeetle's armor works with his clothes--sometimes he has to take off his shirt before activating it (since the armor comes from his back), sometimes he can do it fine fully-clothed. And when he comes out of his armor, he may be dressed normally or in his boxers, regardless of what he had on originally.

** Well, if you lived in a nation of firebenders, don't you think that someone would design fireproof clothing?