History Main / InstantCosplaySurprise

* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', after Kokoa is turned into a little girl, the other girls take her shopping for clothes that fit. She is shocked to find herself cosplaying Arale from ''DrSlump''.

* ''LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai'''s tenth episode features Ayase tricking her friend Kanako into cosplaying from a popular MagicalGirl show. Despite the costume design being a treasure trove of MagicalGirl tropes, Kanako only notices that it's "bratty anime crap" when she catches sight of herself in a car side-mirror.

* A variant in StarTrekTheNextGeneration's ''Ménage à Troi'', when Deanna and Lwaxana are beamed ''out'' of their own clothing and ''into'' [[NakedPeopleAreFunny Ferengi female clothing]]. It's played as both comic and sinister at the same time.
--> Lwaxana: I should have known. Even their transporters can't be trusted.

[[caption-width-right:282:[-What happens when your Fairy Godmother is a CosplayOtakuGirl.-] ]]

This trope is particularly common in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}, where it is used for comedy and (of course) {{fanservice}}.

In classic cartoons, this tends to happen as a "whirlwind" or as a "tear-away", and can even happen with one's own skin and fur.

** This gets used a lot. Another example is in volume 4, when the cheerleaders don disguises in order to interfere with what they think is a date between Negi and Konoka. Misa and Sakurako end up in SailorFuku; Madoka is annoyed to find herself the "odd one out" in a [[WholesomeCrossdresser Chairman Mao suit]]. Lampshaded by the word "Transformation!" at the top of the panel, and by the price tags still dangling from the outfits. Extra points for Misa and Sakurako acquiring instant suntans into the bargain....

* In the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series, ToTheBatpole scenes have the dynamic duo in costume once they reach the batcave, no matter how they were dressed before (eventually revealed to be the result of the "Instant Costume Change Lever" on the wall.) In one episode, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker discovers the Batpoles and slides down one. He is shocked, at the bottom, to find himself dressed as Batman.

* In the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series, ToTheBatpole scenes have the dynamic duo in costume once they reach the batcave, no matter how they were dressed before (eventually revealed to be the result of the "Instant Costume Change Lever" on the wall.)

* In the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' TV series, ToTheBatpole scenes have the dynamic duo in costume once they reach the batcave, no matter how they were dressed before (eventually revealed to be the result of the "Instant Costume Change Lever" on the wall.) In one episode, SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker discovers the Batpoles and slides down one. He is shocked, at the bottom, to find himself dressed as Batman.

** In "Shake Your Tail!", a short preceding ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Pinkie Pie puts all her friends (and herself) in grass skirts and leis in a flurry of flowers, and they at first look puzzled by this.

* In HighSchoolGirlsRPG, more precisely with the MagicalGirl sourcebook, it is very easy to pull off thanks to a spell allowing to change costumes... On yourself, or on someone else... Wait, is that the AlphaBitch with her GirlPosse who humiliated me a week ago? Well, they could be looking like strippers now... [[ShamefulStrip if they're lucky...]]

* In classic cartoons, this tends to happen as a "whirlwind" or as a "tear-away", and can even happen with one's own skin and fur.

** Magic variant: the mirror provides an appropriate wardrobe for Twilight in addition to the physical changes. Although when she realizes this, the fact that she's now ''human'' understandably freaks her out much more than the sudden apparition of clothes.

* In one episode of ''Series/FamilyTies'', Mallory gets a job as a model. During a show, her father meets her backstage. He gets mistaken for a male model, forcibly re-dressed, and pushed out onto the stage.
** He returns [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism believing he has career ahead of him in modelling.]]

* In the ''Anime/MaiHime'' doujinsoft game ''Fuuka Taisen'', one of [[BadassNormal Har]][[JokeCharacter uka's]] specials is a box where, if she grabs her opponent, will almost instantly change her (all the playable characters are female) into an anime character from another series. It doubles as a [[ActorAllusion Voice Actor Allusion]] because the character she changes them into are voiced by the same seiyuu (e.g., Mai, who is voiced by Creator/MaiNakahara, gets changed into Rena from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'').

* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': Inflicted on the Flander's employees by Maxence and Déborah in episode "Bad Taste". Caleb ends up in a freaking chainmail, Hippolyte in a silly {{Hawaiian Shirt|edTourist}}, Dr. Parker... keeps his usual clothes, and Cindy is given a girly, colorful dress. The last part is actually the worst idea of the lot, as it is the barbarian girl's biggest BerserkButton. Carnage ensues.

This is frequently the deed of a LovableSexManiac, and even when not the case, the clothes will commonly be some kind of {{fetish}} wear, like CatGirl, FrenchMaid, NaughtyNurseOutfit, PantyFighter, PlayboyBunny, [[GoGoEnslavement Slave Girl]], etc. -- [[DraggedIntoDrag even if the subject is male!]] Often an excuse for the artists to put the characters into some unusual costumes that they usually wouldn't be caught dead wearing.

* In ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', there's a great scene where {{Deadpool}} wakes up very surprised to be dressed in an ComicBook/{{X-Men}} costume. {{Wolverine}} and Beast are standing nearby and note that they were betting as to whether Deadpool would hurl or think he was really on the team when he saw the costume.

** Human!Rarity later pulls an ordinary one Twilight, putting her in a new dress and a blonde wig in a flash so that the student body wouldn't recognize and mock her any longer after the embarrassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', at a point midway through the third season, immediately following a WhamEpisode where the party was scattered and unknown whether to be alive or dead. Lina wakes up wearing an ElegantGothicLolita costume. After several moments of gathering her thoughts and trying to figure out where she is, she finally notices, leading to an even split of mortification and all-consuming rage. The remainder of the episode plays out as an homage to ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' (with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins!]]), and at the end, she discovers that her outfit is an amusement park costume, receiving her regular clothes back in a dry-clean bag. However, the last line of the episode is her saying, "There's just one thing I haven't figured out. '''Who took off my clothes?'''"

* ''Westernanimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':

** Human!Rarity later pulls an ordinary one Twilight, putting her in a new dress and a blonde wig in a flash so that the student body wouldn't recognize and mock her any longer after the embarassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.

* Invoked by Mary in ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany''. The cast is stranded in an alternate dimension. The team brains cook up a spell to hop from dimension-to-dimension, ''Series/QuantumLeap''-style, in order to get back home. Mary modified it so they end up in the [[CostumePorn most fashionable]] attire for that dimension. [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses Tiren]] hates this.

** Human!Rarity pulls one on Twilight, putting her in a new dress and a blonde wig in a flash so that the student body wouldn't recognize and mock her any longer after the embarassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.

A variant exists when a person is expected to change clothes by him- or herself and is handled the outfit, absentmindedly dressing up. Again, just as implausibly, the reaction shot comes only after having finished putting everything on, up to the last button, as if the character just couldn't see what the costume looked like beforehand.

** In "Shake Your Tail", a short preceding ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Pinkie Pie puts all her friends (and herself) in grass skirts and leis in a flurry of flowers, and they at first look puzzled by this.

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* In ''Westernanimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', Human!Rarity pulls one on Twilight, putting her in a new dress and a blonde wig in a flash so that the student body wouldn't recognize and mock her any longer after the embarassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.

This is frequently the deed of a LovableSexManiac, but even when not the case, the clothes will commonly be some kind of {{fetish}} wear, like CatGirl, FrenchMaid, NaughtyNurseOutfit, PantyFighter, PlayboyBunny, [[GoGoEnslavement Slave Girl]], etc. -- [[DraggedIntoDrag even if the subject is male!]] Often an excuse for the artists to put the characters into some unusual costumes that they usually wouldn't be caught dead wearing.

!!Examples

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''

* ''Manga/GirlsBravo''

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler''

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''

* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': Inflicted on the Flander's employees by Maxence and Déborah in episode "Bad Taste". Caleb ends up in a freaking chainmail, Hippolyte in a silly {{Hawaiian Shirt|edTourist}}, Dr. Parker... keep his usual clothes, and Cindy is given a girly, colorful dress. The last part is actually the worst idea, as it is the Barbarian girl's biggest BerserkButton. Carnage ensue.

* Happens to the title character in ''The John Larroquette Show'', who refuses to dress up for a charity collection... until MsFanservice [[FavoritismFlipFlop purrs like a kitten]]. [[GilliganCut Cue next scene]] and audience laughter as John Larroquette is standing there dressed like a duck.

* In the ''Anime/MaiHime'' doujinsoft game ''Fuuka Taisen'', one of [[BadassNormal Har]][[JokeCharacter uka's]] specials is a box where, if she grabs her opponent, will almost instantly change her (all the playable characters are female) into an anime character from another series. It doubles as a [[ActorAllusion Voice Actor Allusion]] because the character she changes them into are voiced by the same seiyuu (i.e., Mai, who is voiced by Creator/MaiNakahara, gets changed into Rena from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'').