History Main / ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing

* In Anime/TwelveMonths when Anya’s stepmother and stepsister are turned into dogs as punishment for their selfish behavior, as they fight with each other their clothes come off.

* ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts:'' Aycayia (basically a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent manatee]] {{selkie}}) is naked when she takes off her magic skin, though her often uses seaweed as ImprovisedClothes. Also {{Implied}} with the Kim kids, to explain why they're naked after spending two days turning to dolphins and back.

{{inver|tedTrope}}sions include TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter, as well as ShapeShiftingIncludesClothing. Compare InvisibleStreaker (aka "Invisibility Excludes Clothing") EmptyPilesOfClothing, MySuitIsAlsoSuper, MorphicResonance, and DressHitsFloor. Contrast MagicPants.

The {{inver|tedTrope}}sion is TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter. Compare InvisibleStreaker (aka "Invisibility Excludes Clothing") EmptyPilesOfClothing, MySuitIsAlsoSuper, MorphicResonance, and DressHitsFloor. Contrast MagicPants.

* Throughout ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'', Kuroe Akaishi's transformations lead to frequent clothing damage. The initial and common {{Partial Transformation}}s (such as sprouting dorsal spikes or a tail) cause all sorts of tears, compelling her to wear baggy clothes and HandHidingSleeves to prevent such tearing and to conceal the changes from her classmates. But when she goes into full {{Kaiju}} form, her outfit gets completely shredded, leaving her naked upon turning back human. The first time she became Harugon, when she initially [[ThatWasNotADream thought she dreamed the whole incident]], her mother bragged about having washed her uniform until it was like brand new to obscure the fact that it ''was'' brand new.

* Downplayed implied example with Kafei from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. He was [[FountainOfYouth turned into a child]] by the Skull Kid, and his [[HandHidingSleeves shirt sleeves]] and shoes seem a tad bit too big for him.

Typically onscreen; in any case, the cause of the loss of clothing is revealed to the audience and characters present in the scene. May trigger a foreboding EmptyPilesOfClothing moment if discovered later by a character, ''without'' this context. In more comedic situations, characters [[ObliviousTransformation obliviously transformed]] into larger forms may initially assume their clothes ShrunkInTheWash.

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': The SpellConstruction rules use different magical techniques to affect different materials, so transformative magic affects only the target's body ("Corpus" magic) unless extra techniques are incorporated into the spell ("Herbam" for plant-based clothes, "Animal" for fur or leather, or "Terram" for metal armour).

Typically onscreen; in any case, the cause of the loss of clothing is revealed to the audience and characters present in the scene. May trigger a foreboding EmptyPilesOfClothing moment if discovered later by a character, ''without'' this context.

* In ''VideoGame/InFamous2'', when the giant monster that's been terrorizing New Marais reverts to its true, human form, it's naked - though most of it's [[CensorSteam hidden by a cloud of green gas]], both hiding everything below the waist and preventing anyone but Cole from seeing that the monster is actually [[spoiler: Joseph Bertrand III]]. The culprit is next seen fleeing the area by boat, wearing a tarp as an improvised cloak.

* In ''Film/BigFish'', it's revealed that ringmaster Amos Winslow is a werewolf when he leaps out of his trailer one night in full-bown canine form, sans clothes; he turns up the next morning stark naked, and has to be lent a towel to spare his dignity any further damage.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "DNA Mad Scientist" ends with the villain Namtar being injected with a serum that undoes all the genetic upgrades he's given himself since he took over the lab, causing him to dramatically revert to his original form - an unintelligent lab rat. In the process, he also shrinks out of the harness-like costume he wore throughout the episode, his tortured assistant gladly discarding it as [[TheDogBitesBack she returns him to his cage]].

** "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]" features Rick trying to cure his rapidly-spreading LovePotion, only to end up mutating the victims into mantis-men, several of them tearing through their shoes in the process. Rick's attempts to fix the matter just turns them all into lumbering blobs of flesh - and because they're much bigger than their original forms, many of them are seen bursting out of their clothes.

* Zig-zagged in the ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' the episode "Shrink To Fit": here, Sabrina and Chloe use [[IncredibleShrinkingMan a shrinking spell]] so they can fit into some extra-tight jeans, but soon find the hard way that the spell isn't stopping; [[ComedicUnderwearExposure their now-oversized jeans fall down right in the middle of the school cafeteria]]. Before long, the two of them shrink down into their clothing in mid-run, reducing them to hopping along in their gigantic socks. However, they soon substitute these for some borrowed doll clothes - which [[MagicPants somehow shrinks along with them all the way down to microscopic size]].

* Zig-zagged in the ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' the episode "Shrink To Fit": here, Sabrina and Chloe use [[IncredibleShrinkingMan a shrinking spell]] so they can fit into some extra-tight jeans, but soon find the hard way that the spell isn't stopping; [[ComicUnderwearExposure their now-oversized jeans fall down right in the middle of the school cafeteria]]. Before long, the two of them shrink down into their clothing in mid-run, reducing them to hopping along in their gigantic socks. However, they soon substitute these for some borrowed doll clothes - which [[MagicPants somehow shrinks along with them all the way down to microscopic size]].

** When Glinda joins the [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Amorphous League]], she finds that novice shapeshifters can't manifest clothes at first, so her first transformation features her growing and shrinking independently of her clothes until she tears right through them. Even once she [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter gets the hang of creating her own clothing]], she still has trouble getting it to work in battle, forcing Elphaba to loan her a cloak to spare Glinda further embarrassment.
** In one of the alternate realities that Elphaba visits, she finds that her counterpart is dying of magical radiation poisoning, forcing the alternate Dorothy to [[ToyTransmutation transform her into a doll]] [[EmergencyTransformation to save her life]], resulting in the other Elphaba shrinking out of her clothes as she does so.

* In ''VideoGame/InFamous2'', when the giant monster that's been terrorizing New Marais reverts to its true, human form, it's naked - though most of it's [[CensorSteam hidden by a cloud of green gas]], both hiding the nudity and preventing anyone but Cole from seeing that the monster is actually [[spoiler: Joseph Bertrand III]]. The culprit is next seen fleeing the area by boat, wearing a tarp as an improvised cloak.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBabyFamilyBusiness'' features Tim and Ted being given a FountainOfYouth formula that will allow them to go undercover at Tabitha's school and find out what the BigBad's up to. Both men want to take the formula, kicking off a massive brawl in which both Tim and Ted each take small doses while trying to fight off the other, shrinking further and further out of their clothes as they do so. The fight ends with Tim as a child and Ted as a baby, both of them completely naked - complete with {{Scenery Censor}}s.

* In ''Film/TheWitches1990'', when someone is turned into a mouse, they leave their clothes behind. When this happens to Luke, the witches immediately stomp on his clothes in an effort to kill him before he can escape. [[spoiler: At the very end of the film, Luke is restored to normal by the Grand High Witch's [[HeelFaceTurn assistant]], he's naked - and he broke the improvised dollhouse he was staying in while returning to normal size as well!]]

* In ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies'', a thief who was cornered by the Djinn is so scared he wishes [[ExactWords he were never born]]. ''[[JackassGenie Very]]'' [[FountainOfYouth bad]] [[TooDumbToLive idea]]. His clothes are all that's left of him after the Djinn has granted his wish.

* In ''Series/Bitten'', Elena is regularly forced to strip herself of her clothes before she transforms into a werewolf. This is true of the other werewolves seen in the series.

* In the season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty,'' the President of the United States ingests a shrinking pill and slowly shrinks out his suit, which Rick and Morty mock him for as Rick is capable of size changing that include clothes.

* Having lost the Ultimate Game to the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes in ''Film/SpaceJam'', the Monstars surrender their LiquidAssets and shrink back to Nerdluck size. Their Monstar uniforms do not shrink, leaving the Nerdlucks unclothed. Pound lampshades this: "My clothes don't fit."

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', this applies to werewolves, as demonstrated in ''Literature/MenAtArms'' when Angua suffers GoneSwimmingClothesStolen and has to stay in wolf shape until she can get back to the watch house and improvise some clothing (in later books she keeps a bag with a dress when in wolf form). It also applies to female vampires, but not male ones, because the Discworld runs on tropes including the RuleOfSexy.

* Having lost the Ultimate Game to the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes in ''Film/SpaceJam'', the Monstars surrender their LiquidAssets and shrink to Nerdluck size. Their Monstar uniforms do not shrink, leaving the Nerdlucks unclothed. Pound lampshades this: "My clothes don't fit."