History MagicPants / WesternAnimation

** Averted in the season 7 premiere "Bonnie and Neddy." Finn and Jake start wearing armor while serving as the King of Ooo's guards [[spoiler: after he takes over the Candy Kingdom]]. At first, Jake likes the armor while Finn doesn't, but later the tables turn when Finn finds it has grown on him, but Jake gets tired of it because it limits his stretching ability.

-->'''Marge:''' Thank goodness for Super-Stretch underwear.

** Usually, Steven's clothes don't change at all when he shapeshifts. However, in "Cat Fingers", he accidentally grows autonomous cat-like bodily extensions that [[BodyHorror outmass the rest of his body]]. Despite many holes being torn in them, Steven's pants and shirt remain intact throughout.
** When Steven and Connie first [[FusionDance fuse]] into Stevonnie, they're only about as tall as a late teen/young adult, so the clothing they were wearing turns into an appropriately-size article -- Steven's pants become shorts, Connie's dress and Steven's shirt become a crop top. Neither of their shoes fit, but they were both barefoot at the time, so Stevonnie was too. However, Stevonnie's later fusions have some or all of either part's clothes, as well either or both's footwear, disappear completely, then reappear when Stevonnie defuses. Similarly, forming Smokey Quartz, the first fusion of Steven and a gem, seemingly turns Steven's shirt into a tank top, and both it and his pants are stretched so much that it seems they should tear.
** Peridot cannot shapeshift, so if she wants to wear something different (without [[ResurrectiveImmortality reforming]]), she has to find some actual ones and change into them--or, more commonly, [[DressedInLayers wear them over her regular clothes]]. However, she once wore a dress and shoes, which disappear [[NoBodyLeftBehind along with her body when she's "poofed"]].

* Most natural shapeshifters in any Creator/{{Filmation}} series usually have no issue with their clothing disappearing and reappearing as needed. Klone of ''WesternAnimation/{{Blackstar}}'' fame could shift into any number of monstrous, inhuman shapes, but his trademark outfit was always present when he shifted to his default form.

* {{Averted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' since [[SuperpowerLottery M'gann]] wears special Martian clothes [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper that change into whatever she wants]]. [[{{Animorphism}} Beast Boy]]'s clothes shrink into a collar when he transforms; though the show never makes it clear, WordOfGod says that it's the same material as M'gann's outfit, though only "programmed" with two different forms (since Gar presumably can't issue it psychic commands).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[LimitedWardrobe only has one outfit]].

** 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 [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper a tuxedo that shifts shape with its wearer]] is very expensive to rent.

* 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.

** Peridot cannot shapeshift, so if she wants to wear something different (without [[ResurrectiveImmortality reforming]]), she has to find some actual ones and change into them--or, more commonly, [[DressedInLayers wear them over her regular clothes]]. However, she once wore a dress and shoes, which disappear [[NoBodyLeftBehind along with her body when it's she's "poofed"]].

* Most natural shapeshifters in any ''Creator/Filmation'' series usually have no issue with their clothing disappearing and reappearing as needed. Klone of ''WesternAnimation/Blackstar'' fame could shift into any number of monstrous, inhuman shapes, but his trademark outfit was always present when he shifted to his default form.

** Peridot cannot shapeshift, so if she wants to wear something different (without [[ResurrectiveImmortality reforming]]), she has to find some actual ones and change into them--or, more commonly, [[DressedInLayer wear them over her regular clothes]]. However, she once wore a dress and shoes, which disappear [[NoBodyLeftBehind along with her body when it's she's "poofed"]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Though Sandman is explicitly a TechnicallyNakedShapeshift, [[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.

-->'''[[Film/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.
-->'''Ed {{Expy}}:''' I don't know, perhaps the disease infects your clothin' as well.
-->'''Shaun Expy:''' Infects my c—-are you insinuating that my clothes are alive? That's scarier than these pharmacists saying--

* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': When Steven and Connie FusionDance into Stevonnie, they're only about as tall as a late teen/young adult. Whatever clothing they were wearing turns into an appropriately-size article - Steven's pants become shorts, Connie's dress and Steven's shirt become a crop top. Neither of their shoes fit.
** In "Crack the Whip," however, they're mysteriously missing Connie's clothes and only wearing Steven's. Also, Stevonnie is always barefoot even if Steven and/or Connie were wearing shoes; they are always either mysteriously removed or disappear. Especially strange in the aforementioned episode when Connie has tennis shoes on which are nowhere to be seen on or around Stevonnie, but Connie is wearing them both before and after the fusion.
** Usually this trope is [[JustifiedTrope justifed]] with gem fusions as the gems' clothes [[BizarreAlienBiology are technically part of their bodies]] and transform along with them. It gets stranger though in the case of Smokey Quartz, the first fusion of Steven and a gem, as Steven's shirt seems to change into a tank top and both it and his pants are stretched so much that it seems they should tear.

* {{Averted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' since [[SuperpowerLottery M'gann]] wears special Martian clothes [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper that change into whatever she wants]]. [[{{Animorphism}} Beast Boy]]'s clothes shrink into a collar when he transforms; though the show never makes it clear, WordOfGod says that it's the same material as M'gann's outfit, though only "programmed" with two different forms (since Gar presumably can't issue it psychic commands).

* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/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''. They're waterproof and and can change into different outfits.

* In an episode of ''{{Robotboy}}'', Tommy tries to drink a potion that he knows will turn him into a savage giant, because that's the only way to save Robotboy. However, the potion slips out of his hand, and Lola catches it. Knowing that they're running out of time, Lola drinks it instead. Even though she immediately grows nearly twenty times her original size, her dress never even gets as much as a single shred.

* Some characters in ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'' 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?

* Used on ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovrs'' in the episode "A Hair of the Dog That Bit You". When Colleen first transforms into a werewolf onscreen, she tears through her uniform and is basically naked, but she somehow has her uniform back on and in one piece when she's returned to normal.

* ''DanVs'' provides a particularly odd version in "Canada:" when Chris [[spoiler:turns into a bear]] it shreds all his clothes except for his underwear and jacket, but when it's undone, his shirt and pants reappear, only slightly torn and disheveled.

* Gandhi in ''CloneHigh'' shrinks in a "trippy adventure through his subconscious" and happily notes that his clothes shrink and his voice raises in pitch miraculously in proportion with his body.

** Usually this trope is [[JustifiedTrope justifed]] with gem fusions as the gems' clothes [[WeirdAlienBiology are technically part of their bodies]] and transform along with them. It gets stranger though in the case of Smokey Quartz, the first fusion of Steven and a gem, as Steven's shirt seems to change into a tank top and both it and his pants are stretched so much that it seems they should tear.

* 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.

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

* 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 ''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:

* {{Averted}} on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' since [[SuperpowerLottery M'gann]] wears special Martian clothes [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper that change into whatever she wants]]. [[{{Animorphism}} Beast Boy]]'s clothes shrink into a collar when he transforms; though the show never makes it clear, WordOfGod says that it's the same material as M'gann's outfit, though only "programmed" with two different forms (since Gar presumably can't issue it psychic commands).

* 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.

* 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, so when she changes back she's naked. Lance quickly gives her his sweater to cover her up.

* 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.