History Main / InstantCosplaySurprise

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': During the Golden Age of Comics Paula liked springing the ability of her Space Transformer to put subjects in new outfits instantaneously on her guests. The Holliday Girls were mostly pleasantly surprised, but ComicBook/SteveTrevor wasn't a huge fan as he was quite concerned about the dress uniform he'd been wearing when Paula decided he needed more appropriate attire.

* [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1346854.html A certain, legendarily strange Superman/Batman team-up comic]] has Franchise/{{Superman}} pulling this on Franchise/{{Batman}} and himself at the same time in reverse -- out of their costumes and back to normal clothing... in the time it takes Lois Lane to look to one side. Away from them, ''towards them''. Surprisingly played with just a hint of realism -- the speed is more than Bruce Wayne can take, resulting in him feeling highly nauseous and throwing up mere seconds later.

* In ''Fanfic/MegatokyoCampfireStory'', Hatsu is a strange example of a [[CosplayOtakuGirl cosplay otaku]] ''[[DistaffCounterpart guy]]''. In a disturbing twist he's also able to undress and redress people at the speed of light, often in the interests of {{Fanservice}}.

* 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 1978 sitcom ''The Roller Girls'', Don (Creator/TerryKiser), the manager of a roller-derby team, bemoans the fact that a big match is about to start and they're one woman short. The team members advance on him threateningly, surround him, and moments later he finds himself in makeup, in the team uniform, and wearing skates.

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'', you must obtain an enemy uniform. To do this, you hide in the washing machine, and a Sarien comes in and turns it on, automatically changing you into the outfit.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Link starts the game wearing clothes like those everyone else in his village wears. After he first ventures in the Twilight, is turned into a wolf, and eventually purges the Twilight from the area, he's turned back into a Hylian, now wearing the oh-so-familiar green clothes worn by his predecessor in ''Ocarina of Time'', much to his surprise.

* The ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'' episode "Ultra Wankershim" has this done to Beth by the Emotion Lord, who has a new piece of Wankershim gear every time she's seen. She even lampshades it: "Stop applying clothes to me!"

* In ''Webcomic/SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki'', [[http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda4/Issue5/Page5.html Loki goes the magic route]] to put Chiaki into a skimpy red bikini before commenting a Valkyrie battle sport-broadcast style.
-->'''Chiaki:''' Why am I dressed like this?\\
'''[[FourthWallObserver Loki]]:''' Gives the folks at home a [[{{Fanservice}} little somethin']].\\
'''[[TheDitz Chiaki]]:''' Oh! OK!
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen immediately notices the PowerPerversionPotential of Nanase's [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-06-25 clothing exchange spell]].

* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Yuki's ImagineSpot about her friends learning that she's a MagicalGirl mimics this effect.
* In [[http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090813.html a strip]] of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', although Zii and [=DiDi=] agreed to tries the various costumes, [=DiDi=] only reacts after being dolled up.

* One of [[TheFairFolk Jareth's]] {{Signature Move}}s in ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'', for the great annoyance [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-116-Party-Hats-169674358 of everyone else]].
-->'''Javert:''' What have we told you about these unannounced wardrobe alterations?!
* Poor Linda Knight in ''Webcomic/Collar6''. Unhappy captive one minute, ''seriously'' unhappy [[http://collar6.com/archive/collar6-789 rubber housecat the next]].

* The Genie from Disney's adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' sometimes does this to his friends. In [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries the television series]], there is an episode titled "When Chaos Comes Calling" where he turns them into the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/3/39/Gen.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120315185727 Seriously]].
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Rarity change Twilight Sparkle into a half-dozen outfits (ranging from formal wear to cosplaying as the Statue of Liberty) before the latter can break free. Most other instances of getting dressed up prompt this reaction as well, seeing as very few ponies wear clothes on a regular basis.

* Happens a few times in ''Manga/AiKora''.
** In chapter 15, Maeda convinces Sakurako to win money for a new air conditioner (and snap his buddy Shibusawa out of an obsession with ''moe'') by entering a MaidCafe's costume contest.
** In chapter 77, Maeda convinces Yukari to dress up in a cross between a SchoolSwimsuit and a PlayboyBunny outfit as part of a ploy to keep people from finding out [[ClosetGeek she's into video games]].

* This happens a few times in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', both the anime and manga:
** During the martial art skating match against the Golden Pair, Ranma-chan and Ryōga are swept away by the "Kolkhoz High Fashion Club" when the audience complains that Ranma's costume isn't sexy enough. They bring in portable booths as dressing rooms, but are quite fast to put Ryōga and Ranma into proper skating outfits.
** When Principal Kunō is teaching Akane how to swim, he promises a swimsuit which would allow her to "swim with the grace of a swan". She [[ImagineSpot imagines]] a beautiful ballerina outfit and goes to put it on. Next panel, it's actually a full-body suit making her look like an ugly duck, and she {{Megaton Punch}}es the Principal.
** A similar "dressing themselves without realizing what they're wearing" variant occurs to female Ranma. When trying to help a [[IllGirl sickly young boy]] who won't take his medicine unless she takes him on a date, she accepts the clothes he hands to her just to play along. It's only after she's dressed that she realizes she's wearing a SailorFuku blouse and gym bloomers (no skirt). She [[MegatonPunch kicks him out the window]] and calls him a paedophile.
** The "martial art" variant happens later in the manga (Book #34). Happōsai is trying to force Ranma to wear a PlayboyBunny outfit, and after a SingleStrokeBattle, he manages to put a SailorFuku... on the ''male'' Ranma. Just as he's about to meet his mother to prove he is ''manly''.
** The trope could be said to be half-used during the fight against Ryū Kumon, where Ranma performs the Umi-Senken to remove Ryū's (and Sōun's) clothes in a blink. This one doesn't even need PowerPerversionPotential to be misapplied.
** A {{Filler}} scene in the very early anime implies that Nabiki keeps doing this to female Ranma when the latter's clothes are all in the laundry. Although the changes happen off-screen, Ranma keeps running in and out of frame wearing a [[WholesomeCrossdresser kimono]], a dominatrix outfit, and even a Las Vegas-style showgirl outfit, complete with tiara and feathers, all while screaming at Nabiki to stop it.
** Being knocked out and waking up in a wedding dress/wedding kimono/wedding tux happens to Akane and Ranma twice each (and in Ranma's case, the tux ''and'' the kimono).
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** The girls do this to Negi on several occasions. Most notably, at the Mahora Festival haunted house, they dress him as a [[WholesomeCrossdresser cute female kitsune]].
** There's also the distracted variant where Asuna and Setsuna get tricked into ''dressing themselves up'' in PantyFighter garb right before their tournament match, and not noticing what they are putting on until it is too late.
** 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 Boy's Uniform]]. 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....
** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v05/c042/9.html Konoka drags Setsuna into a costume shop]]. She winds up in [[WholesomeCrossdresser Samurai garb]] to complement Konoka's [[{{Ojou}} princess outfit]]. [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v05/c042/10.html It's really very fetching.]] Random people passing by thought they were a couple, leading to a [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v05/c042/11.html rather "nice" photo shoot]].
** There's also the MaidCafe bit at the beginning of the festival arc. Granted, most of the girls dressed themselves, but you can see Akira is completely baffled as to why she's suddenly a bunnygirl. Mana is also surprised to suddenly be a miko (although Mana ''is'' a miko -- she's surprised to suddenly be dressed in the "porn" version of the uniform, especially as the clothes really don't look right with her height).
** Poor Ako gets knocked out and stuffed into a PlayboyBunny outfit and arranged into an interesting pose. Her friends snap the photo just as she regains consciousness, and "accidentally" email it off to Ako's crush, "Nagi", [[spoiler:who is really the ten-year-old Negi.]]

* Averted (and maybe even subverted) by ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', in that getting Mikuru into a costume usually involves an extended sequence of Haruhi wrestling her down and stripping her (more or less offscreen).
* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' manga volume 16 has Excel ambushed in a flagrantly [[LesYay yuri-tastic]] manner and stuffed into a ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Pretty Cure]]'' outfit. Though it's mildly averted -- while Excel isn't particularly enthusiastic, she's more bothered by the fact that the costume isn't her ACROSS uniform. Also, the change in outfits is not an instant switcheroo; it's a multi-panel affair, complete with lines like "You must take off ''everything'' <3" and "Oh my, this is your real hair... it's so soft... to the touch..."
* In the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' OVA, Konata (already cosplaying as [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Nagato's]] wizard costume from the NonIndicativeFirstEpisode) changes Kagami into a {{Meido}}, {{Miko}}, [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3222/2894425402_b267df7680_o.png Rin Tohsaka]], and [[http://anime2.kokidokom.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/lucky-star-ova-8.jpg Hatsune Miku]]. Can you resist the Grade S ZettaiRyouiki?!
* 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?'''"

* 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 ''Manga/DoctorSlump''.

* ''Manga/DNAngel'' has Daisuke's mom pulling this on him in the anime. Whenever she wants him to do a thief job he doesn't want to, she hands him a phone and while he's talking on it, she somehow manages to get him dressed in his thief clothes. Even more incredible that some of those clothes are pullover shirts, so how...? Naturally, Daisuke freaks out afterward but it's expected (sort of) since his mother was trained to be a master thief.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': This happens to Ichigo in one of the [[{{Anime}} New Year]] [[{{Filler}} specials]]. He's roped into helping [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Komamura]] and [[MamaBear Unohana]] make a film about a humanoid dog hero that saves lives, only to find himself forced to wear a badly designed dog costume. He's not amused.

* The Genie from Disney's adaptation of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' sometimes does this to his friends. In [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries the television series]], there is an episode titled "When Chaos Comes Calling" where he turns them into the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/3/39/Gen.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120315185727 Seriously]].

** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls2013 First movie]]:

Being knocked out and waking up in a weird outfit usually also counts. After all, dressing up someone unconscious isn't that easy either. Not to mention what it implies...

** The "martial art" variant happens later in the manga (Book #34). Happōsai is trying to force Ranma to wear a PlayboyBunny outfit, and after a SingleStrokeBattle, he manages to put a SailorFuku... on the ''male'' Ranma. Just as he's about to meet his mother to prove he was ''manly''.

* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', where Harem uses her {{teleportation}} and multiple bodies to take off Halo's glasses, switch her shirt for another and put a wig on her, which is shown in three quick panels, [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-787-going-outcognito/ though it's still too fast for Sydney to resist it.]]

* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', where Harem uses her {{teleportation}} and multiple bodies to take Halo's glasses, switch her shirt for another and put on a wig on her, which is shown in three quick panels, though it's still too fast for Sydney to resist it.

* The Genie from Disney's adaption of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' sometimes does this to his friends. In [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries the television series]] he turns them into the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtBTLQYnZbo Seriously]].

* In the 1978 sitcom ''The Roller Girls'', Don (TerryKiser), the manager of a roller-derby team, bemoans the fact that a big match is about to start and they're one woman short. The team members advance on him threateningly, surround him, and moments later he finds himself in makeup, in the team uniform, and wearing skates.

* ''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 one is actually the worst idea of the lot, as it is the barbarian girl's biggest BerserkButton. Carnage ensues.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':
** [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls First movie]]:

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':
** Magic variant: the mirror portal provides an appropriate wardrobe for Twilight Sparkle 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.
** Human Rarity later pulls an ordinary 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 embarrassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.
** In "Shake Your Tail!", a short preceding ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Pinkie Pie dresses all her friends (and herself) as hula dancers, with grass skirts and leis, in a flurry of flowers, and they at first look puzzled by this.
** In "Life Is a Runway", Rarity plain and simply uses magic beams to put Derpy, Cherilee, Lyra and Bon Bon into fashion model clothes (and new hairstyles), although it's probably just {{Music Video|Tropes}} logic.
** Rarity demonstrates once again her skill in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'' by putting Rainbow Dash into a soccer uniform in a flash -- pretty much with the same move she used on Twilight Sparkle in the first movie.
** From [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight "Movie Magic"]], the stagehand who mistakes the girls for the actresses playing the JustForFun/PowerPonies has no trouble putting all seven of them in costumes -- within three minutes according to the dialogue -- and then pushes them on set. This is made even more unlikely if you know anything about real-life movie superheroes costumes, which tend to be very elaborate affairs.

** A similar "dressing themselves without realizing what they're wearing" variant occurs to female Ranma. When trying to help a [[IllGirl sickly young boy]] who won't take his medicine unless she takes him on a date, she accepts the clothes he hands to her just to play along. It's only after she's dressed that she realizes she's wearing a SailorFuku blouse and gym bloomers (no skirt). She [[MegatonPunch kicks him out the window]] and calls him a {{Lolicon}}.

** From [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight "Movie Magic"]], the stagehand who mistakes the girls for the actresses playing the JustForFun/PowerPonies has no trouble putting all seven of them in costumes -- within three minutes according to the dialogue -- and then pushes them on set.

** There's also the distracted variant where Asuna and Setsuna get tricked into ''dressing themselves up'' in PantyFighter garb right before their tournament match, and not noticing what they were putting on until it was too late.

* Poor Linda Knight in ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}''. Unhappy captive one minute, ''seriously'' unhappy [[http://collar6.com/archive/collar6-789 rubber housecat the next]].

** A similar "dressing themselves without realizing what they're wearing" variant occurs to female Ranma. When trying to help a [[IllGirl sickly young boy]] who won't take his medicine unless she takes him on a date, she accepts the clothes he hands to her just to play along. It's only after she's dressed that she realizes she's wearing a SailorFuku blouse and [[FetishFuel gym bloomers]] (no skirt). She [[MegatonPunch kicks him out the window]] and calls him a {{Lolicon}}.

** A {{Filler}} scene in the very early anime implies that Nabiki keeps doing this to female Ranma when the latter's clothes are all in the laundry. Although the changes happen off-screen, Ranma keeps running in and out of frame wearing a [[WholesomeCrossdresser kimono]], a [[FetishFuel dominatrix outfit]], and even a Las Vegas-style showgirl outfit, complete with tiara and feathers, all while screaming at Nabiki to stop it.

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

* In ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', there's a great scene where SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} wakes up very surprised to be dressed in an ComicBook/XMen costume. ComicBook/{{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.
-->'''Deadpool:''' (''slight smile'') I hurled.

* In the ''Anime/MaiHime'' doujinsoft game ''Fuuka Taisen'', one of [[JokeCharacter Haruka'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'').

* GirlGenius: when [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060628 Lucrezia abruptly gains control of Agatha's body]], she's astonished to discover the dress that Tarvek provided for Agatha.
--> Lucrezia: '''Really''' now - playing with '''dolls''', at '''your''' age.

** Magic variant: the mirror portal 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.
** Human!Rarity later pulls an ordinary 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 embarrassing videos of Twilight show up on the Net.

* One of [[TheFairFolk Jareth's]] {{Signature Move}}s in ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'', for the geat annoyance [[http://asherhyder.deviantart.com/art/Roommates-116-Party-Hats-169674358 of everyone else]].