History Main / ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing

%%* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', immortals leave these [[spoiler:when they are eaten]].

* Happens in the first season of ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty Decode'', where the world-destroying parasitic weapon, Ryunka, spreads to the Greater Tokyo Area, petrifying any person into a glasslike substance that [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters]] into dust, leaving behind nothing but piles of clothing. The death of Nataru's (one of Birdy's childhood friends and fellow Altarian) buddies from the Ryunka's destruction is what prompts him to go on a {{Roaring Rampage of Revenge}} in the second season against the criminals responsible for releasing it.
* Vampires that get staked in ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'' usually leave behind a small pile of dust and a pile of clothing.

* In an episode of ''[[Theatre/TheBlueBird Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey]]'', the animated adaptation of ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'', the titular children are [[FountainOfYouth regressed to infancy]]. Because their clothes didn't shrink along with them, this left them as naked babies frolicking to and fro innocently. When they're returned to normal, Berylude wastes no time giving them their clothes back via magic.

* Akira's transformations in ''Manga/DevilMan'' destroy his clothing when he becomes Devilman. He ends up completely naked every time he turns back into his human form.

* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', none of the cursed Sohmas' clothing transforms with them whenever they [[{{Animorphism}} turn into the animals from the]] EasternZodiac. The fact that they're naked whenever they transform back into humans is usually [[NakedPeopleAreFunny played for comedy]].

** Mainly subverted by Envy, although played straight on at least one occasion. While fighting Lan-Fan, Envy wears a coat that flies off while they shapeshift, and they are seen picking it off the ground after the fight. FridgeBrilliance when you realize the coat was [[spoiler:probably a souvenir from Ishval]].
* Mostly averted in ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' since the {{forced transformation}}s of the stories tend to be normally dressed when they return to human forms, but played straight with [[spoiler:Rudolf from "Brother and Sister"]]. Probably because [[spoiler:Rudolf/Brother]] is a pre-teen when he's released, while the others tend to be older teens or adults.

** Inverted with Sesshomaru, who is a [[{{Youkai}} demon]] and transforms into his monstrous figure without affecting his clothing. This just transforms with. This seems to be the case with all demons, who can assume a human form.

* Played with in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with the stands Yellow Temperance and Khnum. Both [[FightingSpirit Stands]] are bound to their users, Rubber Soul and Oingo respectively, and both have similar abilities but differ in major ways: Yellow Temperance can imitate people's clothing while allowing Rubber Soul to still wear his own clothing underneath while Khnum allows Oingo to change his appearance, down to his weight and ''smell'' but he can't imitate clothing, the closest he could do is change his hair to look like Jotaro's nice hat.

* In episode 5 of the ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' TV anime, Akane starts to hiccup, causing various strange things to happen. At one point, she shrinks, leaving her clothes piled on the club room floor.

* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': When the Super Moshis use the Morph Stone to turn into another shape, they're still wearing their capes and masks.

** [[SupermanSubstitute All Might]] is a HenshinHero, transforming from a skinny (if still muscular) guy into a giant with a HeroicBuild. He often goes around wearing clothes that are very baggy on his civilian form but tight after he transforms.
** Variants: [[TheAce Mirio]]'s {{intangibility}} lacks the usual RequiredSecondaryPowers, meaning that he will phase through most clothing. His [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper superhero costume]] gets around this because [[{{Squick}} it's made from his own hair]].
** Likewise, [[NiceGuy Kirishima]]'s outfit [[WalkingShirtlessScene lacks a shirt]] in part to be [[RatedMForManly MANLY]], but also because his power (turning his skin as hard as rock) would tend to rip it anyway.
** Himiko Toga's Quirk allows her to shapeshift into anyone whose blood she has consumed. However she can not shapeshift any clothing she happens to be wearing, so if she needs to be dressed as whoever she is impersonating, she either has to have a spare set of clothing [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter or shapeshift into the necessary outfit]].
* The dreaded Third Impact in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' reduces everyone in the world to puddles of orange fluid and a pile of their clothes, even if that person was already dead at the time. Much earlier, after Shinji was absorbed into Unit 01 the only image on the camera from inside was his empty, floating plugsuit, and after the pod opens Misato is shown clutching it desperately and screaming for him to come back, at which point Shinji (offscreen) re-materializes completely naked a few feet away.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** In ''Manga/OnePiece [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Film Z]]'': [[spoiler:During the Straw Hats' first fight against the villains, Nami and Chopper seemingly disappear after Ain hits them with her power, leaving their clothes behind. However, it turns out they have just been [[FountainOfYouth de-aged into kids]]]].
** As far as the main series goes, Jewelry Bonney's age-altering powers are among the few Devil Fruit abilities that don't affect clothing, which explains the {{Stripperiffic}} outfits she and her crew wears: they need fitting clothes for when they have to turn into children.

* ''Anime/PrincessTutu''. A girl called Duck, because she was originally one, turns back into her original form whenever she acts like a duck, thus leaving an empty pile of clothing behind.

* ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'':

* Occurs in ''[[Manga/Reborn2004 Reborn!]]'' after [[spoiler:Yuni and Gamma]] [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] during the final battle of the Future Arc.
* In the climactic episode of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' when Akio accepts Utena as his new Rose Bride his sister/[[spoiler:lover]] Anthy's eyes roll back into her head as he dress falls to the ground without her in it. She reappears a little bit later dressed in the same short red dress she wore as a child and with her formerly tightly bound hair loose, symbolizing how she's reverted to that role now that she's no longer the Rose Bride.
* ''Manga/SacrificialPrincessAndTheKingOfBeasts'': Leonhart is a lion -beast huge even for the standards of his race. Whenever he becomes a regular, thin human (he keeps his horns, although they get smaller), his clothes become baggy, but he keeps them tied to his body, although his chest gets very exposed.

* On ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'', the episode Mr Frog, Mr Frog features Shimajiro being turned into a toy frog and shrinks out of his pajamas.

* 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.

* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle:'' Originally, [[TransformationIsAFreeAction activating]] his PoweredArmor would destroy Jaime's clothes, making him naked when he turned back. The first time he actually voices a complaint about this, however, the Scarab responds by [[MagicPants making clothes appear]]. When the Scarab is forcibly deactivated and removed at the end of the Reach invasion Jaime has to deal with nudity again. [[FullFrontalAssault He manages]] [[BroughtDownToBadass pretty well]].
* In ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen runs so fast that he loses himself to the Speed Force, leaving just his uniform behind. Same thing with ComicBook/WallyWest in ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''.

* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} can create the appearance of clothes from her own body; as she has pointed out on more than one occasion, although she appears fully clothed, [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter in fact she is actually always naked]].

* ''[[ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen2019 Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen]]'': At one point, Jimmy turns into a [[MythologyGag gigantic turtle]], which naturally shreds his clothing in the process.
* Zigzagged in ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}''. The early Pantha falls under this trope. Later with her amulet, she can shapeshift including her costume like Vampirella. (Who later got a MySuitIsAlsoSuper retcon to shut up nagging fans.)
* Most versions of ComicBook/TheWasp have this; Janet Van Dyne usually has a tiny superhero outfit to wear when she turns into the Wasp. If she doesn't? Well, then she has to fight starkers. This happened a lot in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''.

* There is a most unpleasant variation in the ''Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}''[=/=]''Literature/HarryPotter'' crossover ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3933832/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Invincible-TechnoMage Harry Potter and the Invincible Technomage]]''. A badly wounded Peter Pettigrew is recovering (as a human) in a Muggle hospital after being attacked by a cat in his rat form. As soon as he wakes up, he attempts to shapeshift and escape... but dies once the metallic screws in his bones turn out [[BodyHorror too big for a rat body to handle]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', Elinor's clothes are torn when she turns into a bear. Later, Fergus finds the ripped garments and [[MistakenForOwnMurderer assumes the worst]]. Her clothes are still gone when she transforms back, but luckily she's wrapped in a tapestry for plot reasons by that point. (Meanwhile her toddler sons, who also transformed, are cheerfully streaking.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Kenai's clothes apparently rip when he turns into a bear because Denahi finds them (as in ''Brave'', above). When he turns back near the end, he's naked until Sitka takes a cloak from the rather stunned Denahi and wraps it around him.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]] in one instance, and then averted in a later one in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}.'' When [[DealWithTheDevil Ursula]] transforms [[CuteMute Ariel]] into a human, she's only wearing her SeashellBra; the animators use creative framing until she can improvise a dress out of a sail. When she gets transformed at the end of the film, however, she's inexplicably in a sparkly dress. {{Justified}} somewhat since it was ''her father'' who changed her this time, but GorgeousGarmentGeneration was never listed as one of his powers...

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': [[spoiler:NoImmortalInertia causes Gothel to crumble to dust, while her clothes remain]].

* BigBad Thulsa Doom does this when he [[ScaledUp turns into a giant snake]] in the middle of overseeing an orgy in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', explained in the novelization as fleeing from Conan and his allies.

* During the climax of ''Film/TheFaculty'', the head alien [[spoiler:Marybeth]] shapeshifts multiple times between human and alien forms. The clothes don't come along, meaning that [[spoiler:Marybeth]] spends the end of the film naked. [[spoiler:She tries to use this to seduce Casey, the last non-[[PuppeteerParasite assimilated]] character left standing, during her[[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] to him.]]

* In ''Film/TheHowling'' when Eddie Quist transforms into a werewolf in front of Karen, the resulting transformation rips off his clothes.
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman'', Creator/LilyTomlin's character shrinks until even a small pouch that she wears as clothing is all that's left of her.

* In ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds'', the alien heat ray reduces people to ash, leaving their clothing behind. [[FridgeLogic But not underwear for some reason]]. [[InvertedTrope Non Magic Pants]]?

** Originally true for the main characters, but they quickly figured out how to morph skintight clothing, though looser, baggier clothes remain beyond them (they improve over the course of the series). The kids have to wear [[DressedInLayers leotards and bike shorts under their regular clothes]], and can't morph shoes. This limitation is because the Andalities, who invented morphing tech, [[ExposedExtraterrestrials don't wear clothes]] and so didn't take them into account. It's considered a sign of one's talent when a visiting Andalite is able to morph clothes when turning into a human.

* In Creator/MarieDeFrance's ''Literature/{{Bisclavret}}'', Bisclavret must take off his clothes to change into a wolf, and can't change back without them. Not for reasons of modesty, mind you -- they somehow act as a TransformationTrinket.
* The second book in Betsy Hanes' ''Literature/BoneChillers'' series, ''Little Pet Shop of Horrors'', has a girl who's turned into a dog by a potion. When she regains human form, she realizes she's naked.
* In a book called ''The Demon in Me'' by Michelle Rowen, Dark Witches are dissolved to nothingness very quickly when killed leaving only a pile of clothes.

** 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.

** This plays this straight and averts this in ''Literature/FoolMoon'' with the various werewolf transformations.
*** The loup-garou (who transforms due to a curse on his bloodline) and the Alphas (who transform under their own power) play this trope straight
*** Later books mention the Alphas, who are people who use a magical spell to transform themsleves into wolves, routinely donning clothes that are extremely easy to shed. [[spoiler:The reverse, a wolfwere (a wolf who uses magic to turn into a human)]] also cannot change clothes upon transformation.

** Skinwalkers subvert this because when they look like humans, they can make the clothes to match as part of their disguises.
** Most Denarians, people who carry a coin binding a Fallen Angel, who can shift into another form, like one short woman becoming a giant praying mantis monster, can change their clothes with them.

* {{Implied|Trope}} on the cover of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''The Werewolf of Fever Swamp,'' which shows a wolf howling at the moon with a set of clothes laid out at its feet. The [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} TV adaptation]] shows the half-transformed werewolf is at least shirtless, but the book itself doesn't address the issue at all.
* Zig-zagged in Pierre Bottero's Literature/GwendalavirUniverse. Several characters have a shapeshifting ability [[note]] and it's heavily implied that it's the same power: They must turn into an animal that has roughly [[ShapeshifterBaggage the same size]] as theirs and they all have either only one animal form or just a few into which they can easily turn.[[/note]], but it seems to work differently depending on the user.
** Salim ''In Ewilan's Quest'' can turn into a wolf, but his clothes vanish every time. He starts as [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Reluctant Fanservice Boy]], but Ellana's influence, and not least getting used to ending up naked among people any time the situation gets tense eventually make him grow into [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Shameless Fanservice Boy]]. [[note]] He also learns how to bypass the problem: In case he'd need his clothes after turning back into a human, he puts them off first, secures them inside a backpack, turns into a wolf, and simply carries the bag. Though said operation is done shamelessly, even if people can see. Ewilan is used to it, and [[FemaleGaze probably doesn't mind]] anyway.[[/note]]
** Shaé from ''The Other'' [[spoiler:as well as her son Elio]] however can retain her clothes when she turns back into her human form even if they disappear when she's in animal form. It isn't exactly explained why in-Universe, although Shaé assumes that it's because they are somehow part of her, and thus are included into her animal form. Or she simply has better control over her power than Salim has.

* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, the god Vkandis decides to show his displeasure with his priesthood by (among other things) incinerating the high priest with a BoltOfDivineRetribution; a witness says that nothing was left but the man's smoking vestments and boots.

* In ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'', when the person who would have been sent through time and space to the cupboard is dead, all that gets sent back is a neatly-folded pile of clothing. [[spoiler:This is the fate of Tommy, the WWI-era medic from the first book.]]

* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', werewolf Shelena has to strip and stash her clothes away before shifting forms because they'd otherwise get torn in the process. When at one point she is magically forced to shift forms while clothed, she finds herself in the situation of having to cross the village while holding it all together with just two hands. As she puts it, the less is said about the incident, the better and she ''really'' hates the fact that [[{{Weredragon}} dragon]] Gloom has MagicPants.
* The first ''Literature/MagicShop'' book involves a ring that can turn you into a monster. When protagonist Russell breaks the rules about how to use it properly he actually bursts into flames and winds up temporarily {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed. Mr. Elives manages to turn him back, but doesn't care that Russell [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside has to run home naked]] as a result.
* In the ''Literature/MercyThompson'' series, clothing is not kept during shifting -- and for werewolves, who become larger when they shift, it is torn. Werewolves and other shapeshifters will therefore discard their clothing prior to shifting if there is time to do so. As a side effect, shapeshifters (and those who live with them) tend to be comfortable with casual nudity. The exception is Charles, who can make clothes magically appear on his body due to his [[MagicalNativeAmerican background]].

** The vampires invert it. When they change, their clothes do not.

** But the werewolves are playing it straight. At their transformation, their clothes are torn and they are naked.
* Helene from ''Literature/{{Mouse|2017}}'' turns into a tanuki to search Mouse's room. When she transforms back, he finds her naked in his bed.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/OperationChaos'', the narrator takes off his clothes to shift. This is simply because a large wolf inside a man's clothes is very awkward -- and doesn't automatically tear the clothes.
* Werewolves in ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'' (and the related ''Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries'') routinely strip before transforming. One novel suggests that "cloakrooms" became popular for the benefit of the werewolf members of society; they could undress and don a cloak if there was going to be a delay in transforming, or collect a cloak if they'd arrived in wolf form.
* ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts:'' Aycayia (basically a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent manatee]] {{selkie|sAndWereseals}}) is naked when she takes off her magic skin, though she often uses seaweed as ImprovisedClothes. Also {{Implied|Trope}} with the Kim kids, to explain why they're naked after spending two days turning to dolphins and back.

* In the book series "Soul Guardians", by Kim Richardson, when the Oracles wanted to de-angel-fy someone they forced them to take a cold shower in a special chamber where the water disintegrated their body into a shiny foamy substance that was washed away down the drain by the water leaving a free-floating soul and a pile of clothes.
* Werewolves in Creator/LisaShearin's ''[=SPI=] Files'' series have to strip or else suffer ClothingDamage when they transform. Most spend the hours prior to the full moon in cheap track clothes and flip-flops. Luckily for Yasha, the series' primary werewolf character, he works for a CrazyPrepared secret organization that protects the {{Masquerade}}, so when he ''has'' to dress formally during an undercover mission, he's issued the perfect outfit for this trope: a ''male stripper's tuxedo'' that's held together by snaps so as to be shed with ease.

* Used in ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife'', when the title time traveler... time travels.
* In ''Literature/{{Touch|2017}}'', James' [[BlowYouAway powers]] allow him to change his whole body into air. The first time this happens he's flying and feels the odd sensation of his clothes passing ''through'' him as they flutter to the ground. (He recovers the hoodie but has to fly home without any pants, thankfully too high to be seen.) He's a lot more powerful in this form, but the fact that he reforms naked means that he tries to avoid using it.

* In the ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' episode "The Longest Day", Lauren kills herself, dissolves, and leaves a pile of empty clothes.

* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' has Termite, a supe who can shrink himself. However, the pants he wears while small get ripped after returning to normal size, leaving him in the nude.

** Season 5 gives us [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Glory and Ben]], two beings who share a single body. Whenever one switches to the other they're stuck wearing whatever clothes the other half was wearing. At one point we see Glory shift into Ben during a close-up. For the rest of the scene, it looks like he's shirtless until the camera pans out to reveal he's still wearing Glory's strapless dress.

* In ''Series/{{Doom Patrol|2019}}'', Rita Farr's powers result in her melting into a hideous blob of mobile flesh if she loses concentration, destroying her clothes in the process if the transformation is allowed to go all the way. It's for this very reason that Rita SleepsInTheNude.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "DNA Mad Scientist" ends with the villain Namtar being injected with a serum that undoes all his genetic upgrades, causing him to dramatically revert to his original form -- an unintelligent lab rat. In the process, he also shrinks out of his harness-like costume, his tortured assistant gladly discarding it as [[TheDogBitesBack she returns Namtar to his cage]].

* In the Filipino soap opera ''Kokak'', a girl is cursed at birth by a witch so that whenever her feet get wet she turns into a small frog, then hops out of the pile of clothes she was wearing. This happens a surprising amount of times throughout the show's run.
* In the first episode of ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack'', after being exposed to the chemical GC-161, Alex leaves her clothes behind the very first time she shapeshifts into a puddle, much to the shock of her friends. Equally shocking to them is her reappearing NakedOnArrival a moment later. The ''second'' and subsequent times Alex does this, she has learned to shift her outfit along with her (at first only that one outfit, later anything); thus MagicPants is the trope through the rest of the series.

-->'''Bruce:''' Who's your best friend?
-->'''Jen:''' Nikki.
-->'''Bruce: [buzzing sound]''' Spandex! Spandex is your best friend.

* Averted in the [[ShowWithinAShow horror movie]] in the video for Music/MichaelJackson's "Music/{{Thriller}}", since his character turns into a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]], but is still dressed.
* ''Music/TheProdigy'': In the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_nKpEkILs "Nasty"]], the four men chasing after the fox end up being transformed into foxes by the fox, and get up out of their clothes as they look confused.

* 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, hastily covered in a tarp.

* Brooke, the shapeshifting Melusine in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has problems with this. Her alternate form being that of a SnakePerson with a relatively humanoid torso but a snakelike lower body, her blouse and skirt are intact when she return to human form, but without her shoes or lower garments (a particular problem when wearing trousers).

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zags]] this: VoluntaryShapeshifting spells cause the user's gear to resize or vanish into {{Hammerspace}}; on the other hand, a Hag's ''[[ForcedTransformation baleful polymorph]]'' spell turns Vaarsuvius into a lizard but leaves their clothes behind, forcing them to take advantage of a SceneryCensor when the spell is broken. This is coherent with the ''D&D'' rules used by the comic.

* ''Webcomic/UnDivine'' zig-zags around this. Esther the demon first appears in human shape wearing borrowed clothes, and later goes shopping for more. However, she also appears in a school uniform which can hardly be borrowed, given the size of her -- and who would it be borrowed from?

* Used weirdly in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries''. In "Do the Rat Thing", Jasmine is transformed into a rat, shrinking out of the cloak she was wearing over her usual outfit, but the outfit itself changed with her and was restored when she was changed back. Also her iconic earrings just vanish completely when transformed.

** In the beginning of "Back With a Vengeance", Ben still wears his yellow rain poncho in his alien forms, even though the series usually follows "MagicPants" rules. Possibly because it's not part of [[LimitedWardrobe his normal outfit]].

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', after Gwen frees Kevin from the taedenite shell, it's shown that his trademark black T-shirt was torn in rags, but he keeps his long-sleeved gray shirt, along with his jeans, though they have some holes. When he becomes a combination of the materials he absorbs in "[[Recap/Ben10AlienForceS3E02VengeanceOfVilgaxPart2 Vengeance Of Vilgax]]", his clothes are disintegrated by the explosion, leaving him in his black underwear. He's still in his undies when he is temporarily "cured" in "Trade-Off", but, when he reunites with Ben and Gwen, he is fully dressed, hinting he went back home for clothes (but it's not shown how he did that without being arrested). At the end of the episode, the explosion destroys partially his clothes and apparently disintegrates his boots (or they were ripped off by the explosion). When he becomes human again in the last episode, Kevin is in his undies. [[MrFanservice Well, he is a tall, handsome teenager, and kids were not the only ones to watch.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury", Dodgers is not concerned by Marvin's DisintegratorRay because he's wearing his [[BulletProofVest disintegration-proof vest]]. Marvin fires and Dodgers is totally disintegrated -- except for the vest, which remains floating in place briefly before slumping down on the pile of Dodgers' powdered remains. (Fortunately, the Eager Young Space Cadet has a [[ResetButton reintegration gun]] handy.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': in "Little Big Mask", Stanley Ipkiss creates an anti-aging cream and [[ProfessorGuineaPig tests it on himself]] -- only to find that it's actually a very potent FountainOfYouth. Whenever Stanley regresses, his clothes fit progressively less and less until he simply steps out of them as a toddler; even the Mask can't help but notice the effects when he shrinks out of his silk bathrobe and into infancy. In the climax, Peggy wakes up to find Stanley's latest baby clothes empty and assumes he's suffered a DeathByDeaging... only for it to turn out that baby Stanley was just getting a checkup from a doctor, though by now, he's shrunk out of the Mask too. Not long after, when Peggy finally manages to restore Stanley to normal, he finds himself growing up naked except for a diaper.
%%* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the changelings in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The ones that mimic Applejack somehow get [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter a copy of her trademark hat]] out of the deal.%% Unclear if it's really an inversion.

** The climax of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]" features Rick trying to cure his rapidly-spreading LovePotion, only to end up mutating the victims into praying mantis hybrids, 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 shrink along with them all the way down to microscopic size]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Normal gems' clothes [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter are part of]] their magically-constructed HardLight bodies. However, [[HalfHumanHybrid Steven]] has an organic body and wears regular clothes, which his shapeshifting and fusion usually ([[MagicPants but not always]]) leave unaltered.
* In the 1933 Disney WesternAnimation/{{Silly Symphon|ies}}y ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', the eponymous [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]] on two legs becomes enraged at not being able to enter the brick house of the third little pig. In a VillainousBreakdown, {{Animorphism}} kicks in. Gloves and his hat fly off, and desperate breaths to blow the brick house down break his suspenders. Ultimately, he steps out of his pants, completely naked, and acting fully like a wild four-legged wolf for the rest of the cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':
** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] -- Karen/Bumblebee's shrinking [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman comes from a suit]], but it doesn't affect other clothes that she's wearing. In "Alienated" she's DressedInLayers, but when she suddenly needs to shrink, her outer clothes are left behind as she flies off in her hero costume.

->''I ducked around a corner into the mouth of an alley, then kicked off my slippers, the only parts of my dress that weren’t spun from fox-magic. (Magical garments never lasted beyond a seduction. My mother had remarked that this was the fate of all human clothes anyway.) I loved those slippers, which I had purloined from a rich merchant’s daughter, and it pained me to leave them behind. But I could get another pair of slippers later.''
-->-- '''''Foxfire, Foxfire''''', by Yoon Ha Lee

* In Tim Burton's ''Film/{{Alice in Wonderland|2010}}'', Alice is shrunk until only her dress remains. She, in fact, changes size several times in the film, justifying [[UnlimitedWardrobe new outfits with each new size]]. This is a contrast from the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland original text]], in which her clothes changed size with her. Presumably this was done for the sake of {{fanservice}}.

* BigBad Thulsa Doom does this when he [[ScaledUp turns into a giant snake]] in the middle of overseeing an orgy in ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', explained in the novelization as fleeing from Conan and his allies.
* In ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', when a demon is killed, its human host is also destroyed, turning into ash. Only the human host's clothing is left behind.
* During the climax of ''Film/TheFaculty'', the head alien [[spoiler:Marybeth]] shapeshifts multiple times between human and alien forms. The clothes don't come along, meaning that [[spoiler:Marybeth]] spends the end of the film naked. [[spoiler:She tries to use this to seduce Casey, the last non-[[PuppeteerParasite assimilated]] character left standing, during her [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] to him.]]

* During the climax of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2019}}'', Gruagach is shrunk back down to his original size and then some [[spoiler:when Nimue betrays him]], so his gauntlet and armored shorts clank to the floor as he swiftly dwindles to infant-size. [[spoiler:And then Nimue pops him like a blister.]]

* The creature from ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' can absorb and perfectly replicate its victims, but can't mimic clothing and usually needs to rip through clothes in order to fully assimilate. As such, finding a character's shredded coat puts the rest of the crew on edge over who's really the Thing.

* In ''Film/{{The Witches|1990}}'', 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 destroys his dollhouse apartment as well!]]

In {{Shapeshifting}}, this can be an effect of {{Animorphism}}, or as simple as JustWokeUpThatWay. [[TitleDrop Shapeshifting excludes clothing]]. Naturally. Also a frequent pairing with the BalefulPolymorph or IncredibleShrinkingMan. Since the clothes stay where they are, if the victim has survived the event, it's likely to lead to NakedOnRevival. However, works unwilling to depict nudity may nonetheless ignore the effect on reversal, in favor of returning the character to human form fully clothed. In some forms of shapeshifting, in fact, the character must get his hands on the original clothes to change back.

* Mostly averted in ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' since the {{baleful polymorph}}s of the stories tend to be normally dressed when they return to human forms, but played straight with [[spoiler:Rudolf from "Brother and Sister"]]. Probably because [[spoiler:Rudolf/Brother]] is a pre-teen when he's released, while the others tend to be older teens or adults.

** The ''{{baleful polymorph}}'' spell makes clothes and equipment fall around the transformed victim. Note that creatures with the Shapechanger subtype can regain their true form at will, but that doesn't solve the problem of recovering their gear. In most other cases, shapeshifting does include clothes, though.

* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' transforming into an elemental (or [[BalefulPolymorph being changed into an animal]]) unequips all your gear and puts it into your inventory, leaving you in your underwear when the spell expires. If [[InventoryManagementPuzzle the inventory is full]], it will just drop excess items on the ground. As most of Arcanum's [=NPCs=] are [[ArtificialStupidity devout kleptomaniacs]], the gear you forgot to pick up may be either salvaged by a teammate or stolen by a nosy bystander.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zags]] this: VoluntaryShapeshifting spells cause the user's gear to resize or vanish into {{Hammerspace}}; on the other hand, a Hag's ''{{baleful polymorph}}'' spell turns Vaarsuvius into a lizard but leaves their clothes behind, forcing them to take advantage of a SceneryCensor when the spell is broken. This is coherent with the ''D&D'' rules used by the comic.

* In ''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland'', the kids retain the same clothes after they've been changed into monsters. All their clothes manage to stay on them, although they do occasionally become tattered. Weirdly, the tatters just disappear when they're restored to human form.

* In ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' when Tetsuo loses control over his telekinetic powers he mutates into a giant blob, his clothes are destroyed in the process.

* In ''Devil & Devil'', one of the first enemies is a tentacled monster that can suck the life and time out of people, [[FountainOfYouth deaging them to infancy]]. Because this doesn't include their clothing, this lead to confusion when the monster attacks a female teacher, leading to the strange discovering of a baby girl "wearing" a young woman's clothes.
* Akira's transformations in ''Manga/DevilMan'' destroy his clothing when he becomes Devilman. He ends up completely naked everytime he turns back into his human form.

* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', none of the cursed Sohmas' clothing transform with them whenever they [[{{Animorphism}} turn into the animals from the]] EasternZodiac. The fact that they're naked whenever they transform back into humans is usually [[NakedPeopleAreFunny played for comedy]].

** Mainly subverted by Envy, although played straight on at least one occasion. While fighting Lan-Fan, Envy wears a coat which flies off while they shapeshift, and they are seen picking it off the ground after the fight. FridgeBrilliance when you realize the coat was [[spoiler:probably a souvenir from Ishval]].

* In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', the ninetailed fox, Ils Nineta can't transform her clothes so she has to use her powers cautiously or risk ending up naked.

* In a chapter of the Japanese-only ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' manga, after Nepgear, Uni, Rom and Ram are accidentally [[FountainOfYouth turned into babies]], they are seen swimming in their oversized clothes. Because said clothes don't magically reappear when the girls are returned to normal, this leads to a minor NakedFreakOut from them.
* Himari of ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' changes to a regular sized cat at one point, and is naked when she changes back. She ends up fully clothed shortly afterwards, but that's because she had stashed her kimono close by and can dress quickly.

** In ''Manga/OnePiece [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Film Z]]'': [[spoiler:During the Straw Hats' first fight against the villains, Nami and Chopper seemingly disappear after Ain hits them with her power, leaving their clothes behind. However, it turns out they have just been [[FountainOfYouth deaged into kids]]]].

** Jusenkyō curse changes seldom affect clothes. This has led to several scenes where Ryōga and Shampoo end up unexpectedly naked upon transforming back (admittedly, the latter doesn't much care). In Ranma's case, both forms are human and thus don't fall out of their clothes (except for ditching shoes) although there have been occasions of humiliation when he turns into a guy while wearing distinctly female clothing. The only clear exception to the rule is Genma, who always wears his clothes even though his panda form doesn't, because no-one wants to see a naked old man.
** Hinako-sensei can switch from a little girl to a buxom woman by draining ki, but her clothes are unchanged. So she wears a dress (or swimwear) that is large for her child form, but become taut over her adult form.

* ''Anime/ValkyrieDriveMermaid'': Nimi Minimi uncontrollably grows into a giant, tearing through her clothes and leaving her naked. The others clothe her in a makeshift bikini made of sheets, but she continues to grow and tears through them as well, until her partner Noe Oya manages to reverse the effect and return her to normal size.

** Bigby Wolf loses his clothes every time he goes into Big Bad Wolf form. If he's planning to do a lot of fighting, he will often start battle in the buff partially transformed in a wolfman form for modesty. He does borrow a shirt from Beast at least once, at the beginning the Mr. Dark storyline.

* This features in the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' ElsewhereFic ''Fanfic/BoyScoutsOneHalf''. As in the work that inspired it, there are six characters (seven, if you count the original work's Ryōga's running gag cameo appearances) who suffer from curses that frequently alter their physical forms. This change does not effect what they are wearing. Two of the characters merely suffer a change of gender, so clothes wouldn't be lost upon changing, but depending on the apparel there is a chance it may suddenly not be appropriate. The other four turn into animals, and there has been cases of characters, after being transformed back into their human forms, having to struggle to protect their modesty.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBridgeHumanitysStand'', Tytanna is a {{Kaiju}} who can take on a human sized form, but she can't take her clothes with her when she goes back to kaiju size.

** The Childlike Researchers are stuck perpetually [[FountainOfYouth regressing into their youth and back]], and their clothes don't change with them; as such, when [[spoiler:Morrible]] begins draining Elphaba's life-force to stabilize her own age, Elphaba regresses until she's an eight-year-old in adult-sized clothing. Later, Elphaba uses this same effect to disguise herself in Unbridled Radiance, erupting out of her child-size clothing when she returns to adulthood.

* In ''Fanfic/WhatsInAHoard'', Izuku's family on his father side can [[ScaledUp turn into dragons]]. Izuku notes that most clothing can't survive a basic transformation, let alone someone turning into a twenty meter dragon with three extra appendages, so their hero costumes are made from their own scales. Though as the process is time consuming and expensive (not to mention painful), Izuku's initial costume is only a pair of pants.

* In a literal case of JustWokeUpThatWay: ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' has this, when Lucas Nickle wakes, and shrinks. After he falls from his bed, his underwear is left behind; numerous cases of SceneryCensor ensue. When he's turned back to normal, he's again without clothes, though only his butt is visible.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Kenai's clothes apparently rip when he turns into a bear, because Denahi finds them (as in ''Brave'', above). When he turns back near the end, he's naked until Sitka takes a cloak from the rather stunned Denahi and wraps it around him.

*** Pettigrew leaves behind his clothes after turning into a rat. Which is strange, because in an earlier scene in the same movie Pettigrew turned from an apparently naked rat to a fully clothed human. The books and the rest of the movies avert this, as Animagi always have clothes on when they turn human and [=McGonagall's=] cat form is noted to have markings around its eyes which resemble her glasses.

* ''Film/SwordOfTheValiant'', starring Creator/SeanConnery. An apprentice witch is turned into a red frog for being naughty by his character. The scene finishes as they converse while she is perched a top of her empty dress surrounded by her accessories.

* Many variants of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] folklore have them taking off their clothes. It's possible that, unlike in modern tellings, this is supposed to part of the transformation ritual than just a way to keep your clothes from ripping.

** This significant piece of the story was completely and [[CoversAlwaysLie absolutely ignored on the cover art]] (which featured the book's narrator transforming into an animal featured in the story.) The creators readily admitted that this was done simply to make the covers more interesting, since they now had various colors and fabric textures to incorporate.

* ''Literature/ForLoveOfEvil'' features a sorcerer's apprentice learning how to shape shift but not knowing how to take his clothing along with him during the change.

* Zig-zagged in Pierre Bottero's Literature/GwendalavirUniverse. Several characters have a shapeshifting ability [[note]] and it's heavily implied that it's the same power : They must turn into an animal that has roughly [[ShapeshifterBaggage the same size]] as theirs and they all have either only one animal form, or just a few into which they can easily turn.[[/note]], but it seems to work differently depending on the user.
** Salim ''In Ewilan's Quest'' can turn into a wolf, but his clothes vanish every time. He starts as [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Reluctant Fanservice Boy]], but Ellana's influence, and not least getting used to ending up naked among people any time the situation gets tense eventually make him grow into [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Shameless Fanservice Boy]]. [[note]] He also learns how to bypass the problem: In case he'd need his clothes after turning back into a human, he puts them off first, secures them inside a backpack, turns into a wolf and simply carries the bag. Though said operation is done shamelessly, even if people can see. Ewilan is used to it, and [[FemaleGaze probably doesn't mind]] anyway.[[/note]]
** Shaé from ''The Other'' [[spoiler:as well as her son Elio]] however can retain her clothes when she turns back into her human form even if they disappear when she's in animal form. It isn't exactly explained why in-Universe, although Shaé assumes that it's because they are somehow part of her, and thus are included into her animal form. Or she simply has a better control over her power than Salim has.

* ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts:'' Aycayia (basically a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent manatee]] {{selkie|sAndWereseals}}) is naked when she takes off her magic skin, though her often uses seaweed as ImprovisedClothes. Also {{Implied|Trope}} with the Kim kids, to explain why they're naked after spending two days turning to dolphins and back.
* Anyone who [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shifts Aspect]] in ''Literature/{{Runemarks}}'' and its sequel and prequel invariably ends up naked after shifting back. Loki in particular spends a lot of time starkers.

* In the book series "Soul Guardians", by Kim Richardson, when the Oracles wanted to de-angel-fy someone they forced them to take a cold shower in a special chamber where the water disintegrated their body into a shiny foamy substance that was washed away down the drain by the water leaving a free floating soul and a pile of clothes.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch|2017}}'', James' [[BlowYouAway powers]] allow him to change his whole body into air. The first time this happens he's flying, and feels the odd sensation of his clothes passing ''through'' him as they flutter to the ground. (He recovers the hoodie but has to fly home without any pants, thankfully too high to be seen.) He's a lot more powerful in this form, but the fact that he reforms naked means that he tries to avoid using it.

* In the ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' episode "The Longest Day", Lauren kills herself, dissolves and leaves a pile of empty clothes.

** Season 5 gives us [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan Glory and Ben]], two beings who share a single body. Whenever one switches to the other they're stuck wearing whatever clothes the other half was wearing. At one point we see Glory shift into Ben during a close-up. For the rest of the scene it looks like he's shirtless, until the camera pans out to reveal he's still wearing Glory's strapless dress.

* ''Series/InFromTheCold'': Jenny has to strip before body morphing or else use clothing which fits both forms.

* Although Odo from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' normally averts this ([[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter his "clothing" is actually a part of himself]]), [[spoiler:when he regained his changeling abilities after being stripped of them, and changed form for the first time since then, he left his old "solid" clothing behind]].
* In the CITV series ''Series/{{Woof}}!'', as befits turning into a dog and losing their clothes through the shift (though for obvious reasons, they are covered up in some way during this scene), all 3 of Eric, Rex and Jim go through this. In the first episode, Eric's mum comments when seeing him in bed about how dirty his hands and feet are, and she assumes it's through not washing at night, when the real reason is, he's been walking through mud as a dog. Also, in the second episode, due to a visit of the swimming pool, and that being the place where Eric transformed, while not fully dressed, his friend Roy forgets one of his socks to bring along, and also puts his trunks next to his shirt, wetting the poor boy's shirt. This causes Eric to go sockless, while not shoeless. Also, later again in a series 5 episode, his new friend Rachel has forgotten to bring clothes for him, as it's been a rush again, but fortunately, she does have some clothes, which appears to be very short shorts and a T shirt, though no shoes or socks, as his dad quite aggressively comments on when he sees him. Eric remains barefoot for the rest of the episode, while walking in an airport, a car park and a hospital- potentially dangerous, but then again, it could be healthy?

* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' transforming into an elemental (or [[BalefulPolymorph being changed into an animal]]) unequips all your gear and puts it into your inventory, leaving you in your underwear when the spell expires. If [[InventoryManagementPuzzle the inventory is full]], it will just drop excess items on the ground. As most of Arcanum's [=NPCs=] are [[ArtificialStupidity devout kleptomaniacs]], the gear you forgot to pick up may be either salvaged by a teammate or stolen by nosy bystander.

* ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyouIVTheApocalypse'': Madame Appetit is a monstrous pig-woman who sends out her "Debu Rangers" to make everyone in the American Southwest obese so that she can later [[ImAHumanitarian make them into food]] ("debu" is Japanese for "fat", by the way). One such unfortunate victim shown in an animated cutscene is a girl named Karen; a Debu Ranger sneaks through her window at night and force feeds her a handful of magic biscuits, causing her to rapidly fatten up and rip most of her nightgown to shreds.

** It seems to vary between spells, since the evil guy who forced magic users to petrify themselves noticed (too late) something was up with his last victim because the scroll he left and the spell she actually used differed on that point.

* When Zoë from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' turns into a camel, clothing she wears only transforms in as far as it rips when the camel doesn't fit into the clothes. Later, she gets genre savvy enough to [[spoiler:wear easily sliding tubular clothes and thus]] not end up naked when transforming back.
* ''Webcomic/UnDivine'' zig-zags around this. Esther the demon first appears in human shape wearing borrowed clothes, and later goes shopping for more. However she also appears in a school uniform which can hardly be borrowed, given the size of her -- and who would it be borrowed from?

* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'': In "[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica]]", Veronica gets hit with a growth ray and gradually increases in size. Her clothes at first become too tight and she is forced to change into her dad's track suit. Then she becomes a giant and her clothes rip offscreen, and judging by the reactions of the bystanders, she ''was'' rendered naked. She makes a toga for herself out of a tent. When her friends manage to get her back to normal, she ends up naked again and quickly covers herself with the tent.

** Zigzagged with Kevin. After having absorbed the Omnitrix' powers, his clothes transform with him until he powers off in the end of "Framed". After Ben dismisses him with contempt, Kevin's rage turns him into an amalgam of the Omnitrix' aliens, ripping his clothes, including his pants. When the transformation is complete, however, he's got MagicPants (despite the scary scenes, it's still a kids' show).
** During the flashback showing how he became human again in "Nor Iron Bars or a Cage" (WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien), his gothic clothes are inexplicably back -- except for his military green pants, that were replaced by a jeans.
** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', after Gwen frees Kevin from the taedenite shell, it's shown that his trademark black T-shirt was tore in rags, but his keeps his long-sleeved gray shirt, along with his jeans, though they have some holes. When he becomes a combination of the materials he absorbs in "[[Recap/Ben10AlienForceS3E02VengeanceOfVilgaxPart2 Vengeance Of Vilgax]]", his clothes are disintegrated by the explosion, leaving him in his black underwear. He's still in his undies when he is temporarily "cured" in "Trade-Off", but, when he reunites with Ben and Gwen, he is fully dressed, hinting he went back home for clothes (but it's not shown how he did that without being arrested). In the end of the episode, the explosin destroys partially his clothes and apparently disintegrates his boots (or they were ripped off by the explosion). When he becomes human again in the last episode, Kevin is in his undies. [[MrFanservice Well, he is a tall, handsome teenager, and kids were not the only ones to watch.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': in "Little Big Mask", Stanley Ipkiss creates an anti-aging cream and [[ProfessorGuineaPig tests it on himself]] -- only to find that it's actually a very potent FountainOfYouth. Whenever Stanley regresses, his clothes fit progressively less and less until he simply steps out of them as a toddler; even the Mask can't help but notice the effects when he shrinks out of his silk bathrobe and into infancy. In the climax, Peggy wakes up to find Stanley's latest baby clothes empty, and assumes he's suffered a DeathByDeaging... only for it to turn out that baby Stanley was just getting a checkup from a doctor, though by now, he's shrunk out of the Mask too. Not long after, when Peggy finally manages to restore Stanley to normal, he finds himself growing up naked except for a diaper.

** In ''Literature/LastContinent'', ambient magic begins playing merry hell with the UU faculty's temporal glands when they arrive in early XXXX, resulting in several of the wizards aging or regressing at random; their robes do not change to match their new ages, especially noticeable when Archchancellor Ridcully becomes a toddler.

%%* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', immortals leave these [[spoiler: when they are eaten]].

* Mostly averted in ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'' since the {{baleful polymorph}}s of the stories tend to be normally dressed when they return to human forms, but played straight with [[spoiler: Rudolf from "Brother and Sister"]]. Probably because [[spoiler: Rudolf/Brother]] is a pre-teen when he's released, while the others tend to be older teens or adults.

** The Childlike Researchers are stuck perpetually [[FountainOfYouth regressing into their youth and back]], and their clothes don't change with them; as such, when [[spoiler: Morrible]] begins draining Elphaba's life-force to stabilize her own age, Elphaba regresses until she's an eight-year-old in adult-sized clothing. Later, Elphaba uses this same effect to disguise herself in Unbridled Radiance, erupting out of her child-size clothing when she returns to adulthood.

* During the climax of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2019}}'', Gruagach is shrunk back down to his original size and then some [[spoiler: when Nimue betrays him]], so his gauntlet and armored shorts clank to the floor as he swiftly dwindles to infant-size. [[spoiler: And then Nimue pops him like a blister.]]

** ''Film/ANewHope'': At the end of Vader and Kenobi's lightsaber duel, Kenobi seemingly gives up and lets Vader slice him - but when he does so, we (and Vader) find his clothes empty. He would AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and leave his clothes behind. (Vader then stomps on the robe as if to make sure Kenobi is not just hiding in there!)

* In Creator/MarieDeFrance's ''Literature/{{Bisclavret}}'', Bisclavret must take off his clothes to change into a wolf, and can't change back without them. Not for reasons of modesty, mind you--they somehow act as a TransformationTrinket.

* In ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'', when the person who would have been sent through time and space to the cupboard is dead, all that gets sent back is a neatly-folded pile of clothing. [[spoiler: This is the fate of Tommy, the WWI-era medic from the first book.]]

** In the episode "Boom Town," Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen (AKA Margaret Blaine) tries to use the TARDIS as a bomb that will open the rift under Cardiff and allow her to escape Earth - destroying the planet in the process. However, in the chaos, the heart of the TARDIS is uncovered, exposing Blon to its sheer temporal power. A moment later, her empty [[FaceStealer skin suit]] hits the floor. Jack assumes that she's been disintegrated, but the Doctor reveals that the TARDIS has [[RaiseHimRightThisTime given Blon a second chance at life]]: under the pile of empty clothes and human skin, there's an egg.

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

* Although Odo from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' normally averts this ([[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter his "clothing" is actually a part of himself]]), [[spoiler: when he regained his changeling abilities after being stripped of them, and changed form for the first time since then, he left his old "solid" clothing behind]].

** Both ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' have it so that the change does not apply to clothing unless a Ritual is performed to "dedicate" the clothing to the shifter. However, 2e of ''Forsaken'' modifies this so that clothing automatically dedicates to the werewolf - unless they're at [[KarmaMeter Harmony]] 10 (i.e., so human that the wolf is drowned out), at which point it doesn't work.

* 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, hastily covered in a tarp.

* 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 shrink along with them all the way down to microscopic size]].

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', after Gwen frees Kevin from the taedenite shell, it's shown that his trademark black T-shirt was tore in rags, but his keeps his long-sleeved gray shirt, along with his jeans, though they have some holes. When he becomes a combination of the materials he absorbs in "[[Recap/Ben10AlienForceS3E02VengeanceOfVilgaxPart2 Vengeance Of Vilgax]]", his clothes are disintegrated by the explosion, leaving him in his black underwear. He's still in his undies when he is temporarily "cured" in "Trade-Off", but, when he reunites with Ben and Gwen, he is fully dressed, implying he went back home for clothes (but it's not shown how he did it without being caught by the police). In the end of the episode, the explosin destroys partially his clothes and apparently disintegrates his boots (or they were ripped off by the explosion). WHen he finally becomes human again in the last episode, Kevin is in his undies again. [[MrFanservice Well, he is a tall, handsome teenager, and kids were not the only ones to watch.]]]

* In the Axe Anti Dandruff commercial called "Dusted," three lovely young women are instantly reduced to dust in the presence of a certain young man, leaving their empty clothes to flutter to the ground.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', immortals leave these [[spoiler: when they are eaten]].

* In ''Devil & Devil'', one of the first enemies is a tentacled monster that can suck the life and time out of people, [[FountainOfYouth deaging them to infancy]]. Because this doesn't include their clothing, this lead to confusion when the monster attacked a female teacher, leading to the strange discovering of a baby girl "wearing" a young woman's clothes.

* Used in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' when Alphonse Elric's body is destroyed when he and his brother Edward attempt [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique human transmutation]]. When Edward sees Al's clothes on the floor empty he knows his little experiment has truly GoneHorriblyWrong.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'':

** Variants: [[TheAce Mirio]]'s {{intangibility}} lacks the usual RequiredSecondaryPowers, meaning that he will phase through most clothing. His [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper superhero costume]] gets around this because [[{{Squick}} it's made from his own hair]]. Likewise [[NiceGuy Kirishima]]'s outfit [[WalkingShirtlessScene lacks a shirt]] in part to be [[RatedMForManly MANLY]], but also because his power (turning his skin as hard as rock) would tend to rip it anyway.

* The dreaded Third Impact in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' reduces everyone in the world to puddles of orange fluid and a pile of their clothes, even if that person was already dead at the time. Much earlier, after Shinji was absorbed into Unit 01 the only image on the camera from inside was his empty, floating plugsuit, and after the pod opens Misato is shown clutching it desperately and screaming for him to come back, at which point Shinji (offscreen) re materializes completely naked a few feet away.

* 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.

* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle:'' Originally, [[TransformationIsAFreeAction activating]] his PoweredArmor would destroy Jaime's clothes, making him naked when he turned back. The first time he actually voices a complaint about this, however, the Scarab responds by [[MagicPants making clothes appear]]. When the Scarab is forcibly deactivated and removed at the end of the Reach invasion Jaime has to deal with nudity again. [[FullFrontalAssault He manages]] [[BroughtDownToBadass pretty well]].
* Most versions of ComicBook/TheWasp have this; Janet Van Dyne usually has a tiny superhero outfit to wear when she turns into the Wasp. If she doesn't? Well, then she has to fight starkers. This happened a lot in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''.

* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} can create the appearance of clothes from her own body; as she has pointed out on more than one occasion, although she appears fully clothed, [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter in fact she is actually always naked]].
* ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen2019'': At one point, Jimmy turns into a [[MythologyGag gigantic turtle]], which naturally shreds his clothing in the process.

* A villain in a ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'' book uses a [[BalefulPolymorph potion that changes people into dogs]]. When Peewit tries it so that they can find an antidote, he keeps his human clothes after being transformed (and never bothers to change out of them). When another victim is restored to human form, he finds himself stark naked (the comic being targeted to children, we never see below his chest, but it is clear from everybody's reaction that it is the case).

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridgeHumanitysStand'', Tytanna is a {{Kaiju}} who can take on a human sized form, but she can't take her clothes with her when she goes back to kaiju size.
* Usually averted by George, whose clothes transfer to [[BagOfHolding his closet]] when he changes, but in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', he makes the mistake of turning into himself as muscular as possible—in the same outfit he had been wearing. He immediately suffers the painful effects of being mummified in clothes many sizes too small for him. It tears apart all around his body, and he changes back as soon as he can, in a different outfit, of course. He then throws the ruined clothes away.
** Which becomes a plot point a week or so later, when after a disaster he awakens in an island hut wearing the clothing he'd trashed while HulkingOut—undamaged.

* ''Fanfic/TheBeastThatIAm'': Shinobu's new [[ComicBook/SheHulk alter ego]] is roughly two feet taller than her and several times her weight, causing her to shred her clothes whenever she transforms.
* ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen'':
** During flashback sequences in the alternate Oz, the Plague of Transformations results in numerous people across Oz being temporarily transformed into various animals, usually shrinking out of their clothes or tearing out of them in the process. The alternate Glinda and Boq are both victims of this.
** When ''our'' 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 lend her a cloak to spare Glinda further embarrassment. By the end, she appears to finally have it under control.
** In one of the other alternate realities that Elphaba briefly 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.
** The Childlike Researchers are stuck perpetually [[FountainOfYouth regressing into their youth and back]], and their clothes don't change with them; as such, when [[spoiler: Morrible]] begins draining Elphaba's life-force to stabilize her own age, Elphaba regresses until she's an eight-year-old in adult-sized clothing. Later, Elphaba uses this same effect to disguise herself in Unbridled Radiance, erupting out of her child-size clothing when she returns to adulthood.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]] in one instance, and then averted in a later one in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}.'' When [[DealWithTheDevil Ursula]] transforms [[CuteMute Ariel]] into a human, she's only wearing her SeashellBra; the animators use creative framing until she can improvise a dress out of a sail. When she gets transformed at the end of the film, however, she's inexplicably in a sparkly dress. {{Justified}} somewhat since it was ''her father'' who changed her this time, but GorgeousGarmentGeneration was never listed as one of his powers...
* When Kuzco from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' transforms into a llama, his clothes stay on him. When he takes the potion to transform him back into a human, he isn't wearing any clothes. Instead of a direct cut, a cloud of smoke appears before it presumably takes us to a few days into the future... take from that what you will.

* 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 with them, leaving the Nerdlucks unclothed - though given that the Nerdlucks were originally ExposedExtraterrestrials, this isn't much of a problem. Pound lampshades this: "My clothes don't fit."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', Elinor's clothes are torn when she turns into a bear. Later, Fergus finds the ripped garments and [[MistakenForOwnMurderer assumes the worst]]. Her clothes are still gone when she transforms back, but luckily she's wrapped in a tapestry for plot reasons by that point. (Meanwhile her toddler sons, who also transformed, are cheerfully streaking.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', Kenai's clothes apparently rip when he turns into a bear, because Denahi finds them (as in ''Brave'', above). When he turns back near the end, he's naked until Sitka takes a cloak from the rather stunned Denahi and wraps it around him.
* ''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 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 destroys his dollhouse apartment as well!]]

* Parodied by ''Film/ScaryMovie'': a bunch of rappers instead left their Bling behind. Somehow the people manage to get one and when they ReverseThePolarity it becomes TheNudifier.
* In ''Film/UnearthlyStranger'', a woman turns out to be a member of an invading alien race. when she tries to stop them, her people, they kill her by fading her out of existence while being held by her husband, leaving only her clothes draped over his arms.
* In ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', when a demon is killed, its human host is also destroyed, turning into ash. Only the human host's clothing is left behind.
* ''Film/SwordOfTheValiant'', starring Creator/SeanConnery. An apprentice witch is turned into a red frog for being naughty by his character. The scene finishes as they converse while she is perched a top of her empty dress surrounded by her accessories.
* When Santa dies in ''Film/TheSantaClause'', all that's left is his Santa suit, which Tim Allen must don.
* Empty piles of bandages are all that is left after the protagonist of ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'' is whisked across time and space.
* [[spoiler:Allison]] in ''Film/TheGrudge 2'' is pulled ''into'' her clothes, leaving them in a heap on the floor in front of [[spoiler:Jake]]. [[SubvertedTrope Kayako then manifests inside the clothes to menace her next victim.]]
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingWoman'', Creator/LilyTomlin's character shrinks until even a small pouch that she wears as clothing is all that's left of her.

* In ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'', an unpinned [[SchmuckBait light grenade]] disintegrates anyone who picks it up, leaving only the victim's clothes behind.
* BigBad Thulsa Doom does this when he [[ScaledUp turns into a giant snake]] in the middle of overseeing an orgy in ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'', explained in the novelization as fleeing from Conan and his allies.
* In ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'', Pete is apparently transformed into [[BewitchedAmphibians a toad]], which his fellow adventurers find in his otherwise empty clothing.
* In ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', this was considered as an option for Maleficent's raven companion Diaval. However, they went with the MagicPants version, as the movie is meant for children, and having Diaval put on clothes behind a bush whenever he is turned into a man would be a waste of time. Played straight when Maleficent initially turns him into a human -- his feathers don't turn into clothes, he's naked. After [[StrippingTheScarecrow robbing a nearby scarecrow of its clothes]], Diaval remains dressed for the rest of the movie.
* At the end of ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite'', Dracula leaves his BadassCape behind after turning into a bat, leaving Jeffery to stab madly at it with his wooden stake until Lt Ferguson tells him to stop because Dracula has long gone. The two of them then help themselves to the cape to impress women.
* In ''Film/TheHowling'' when Eddie Quist transforms into a werewolf in front of Karen, the resulting transformation rips off his clothes.
* The creature from ''Film/{{The Thing|1982}}'' can absorb and perfectly replicate its victims, but can't mimic clothing and usually needs to rip through clothes in order to fully assimilate. As such, finding a character's shredded coat puts the rest of the crew on edge over who's really the Thing.
* During the climax of ''Film/TheFaculty'', the head alien [[spoiler:Marybeth]] shapeshifts multiple times between human and alien forms. The clothes don't come along, meaning that [[spoiler:Marybeth]] spends the end of the film naked. [[spoiler:She tries to use this to seduce Casey, the last non-[[PuppeteerParasite assimilated]] character left standing, during her [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] to him.]]
* In ''Film/BigFish'', it's revealed that ringmaster Amos Winslow is a werewolf when he leaps out of his trailer one night in full-blown canine form, sans clothes; he turns up the next morning in human form and stark naked, and has to be lent a towel to spare his dignity any further damage.
* The climax of ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'' features Sherman Klump trying to reabsorb [[EnemyWithout Buddy Love]] back into his body by tricking him into accidentally ingesting a dose of his FountainOfYouth formula. As a result, Buddy immediately regresses into a two-year-old and out of his clothes -- leaving him completely naked in front of the executives he was trying to sell the formula to. For good measure, Buddy is annoyed at being stared at and angrily insists that "this is an impressive package for a toddler!"
* The sorceress Fin Raziel of ''Film/{{Willow}}'' has spent the last few decades trapped in the form of a possum courtesy of Bavmorda, and [[IneptMage Willow]]'s efforts to undo the spell only wind up transforming her into various other animals; towards the end of the film, however, Willow ''finally'' manages to get the spell right -- leaving Raziel human and naked.

* Many variants of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] folklore have them taking off their clothes. It's possible that, unlike in modern tellings, this is supposed to part of the transformation ritual than just a way to keep your clothes from ripping.

* Helene from ''Literature/Mouse2017'' turns into a tanuki to search Mouse's room. When she transforms back, he finds her naked in his bed.

** Characters who AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence leave empty clothes behind. This is first seen in ''Series/StargateSG1'', episode "Maternal Instinct", when the monk at the temple ascends after being shot by Apophis' Jaffa.
*** Naturally, the reverse is true, where characters who descend and become mortal will typically appear nude until they put some clothes on. Usually [[NakedPeopleAreFunny played for laughs]].

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* ''Music/TheProdigy'': In the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_nKpEkILs "Nasty,"]] the four men chasing after the fox end up being transformed into foxes by the fox, and get up out of their clothes as they look confused.

* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', shapeshifting with Life magic excludes clothing, but by adding Matter magic to the spell, a mage can make their gear resize to fit their new form or vanish into {{Hammerspace}} while they're transformed.
* Both ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' have it so that the change does not apply to clothing unless a Ritual is performed to "dedicate" the clothing to the shifter. However, 2e of ''Forsaken'' modifies this so that clothing automatically dedicates to the werewolf - unless they're at [[KarmaMeter Harmony]] 10 (i.e., so human that the wolf is drowned out), at which point it doesn't work.

* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' transforming into an elemental (or [[BalefulPolymorph being changed into an animal]]) unequips all your gear and puts it into your inventory, leaving you in your underwear when the spell expires. If [[InventoryManagementPuzzle the inventory is full]], it will just drop excess items on the ground. As most of Arcanum's [=NPCs=] are [[ArtificialStupidity devout kleptomaniacs]], the gear you forgot to pick up may be either salvaged by a teammate or stolen by nosy bystander.
* With ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'''s [[HornyDevils Morrigan Aensland]], it's downplayed, averted, and zigzagged all at once. She has the ability to shift her wings into a flurry of bats, but one of the promotional videos for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' shows her dispersing her entire being into a flurry of bats, leaving no clothes behind. This is because her clothes [[ItMakesSenseInContext are also composed of bats.]]
* Downplayed implied example with Kafei from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. He was [[FountainOfYouth turned into a child]] by the Skull Kid, and his shirt sleeves and shoes seem a tad bit too big for him.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'': The gelatinous [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie Researchers]] still wear the tattered, ill-fitting lab coats of their human hosts. The pants of the victims have disappeared entirely because there's no way those could fit around the glop that replaced the victims' legs.
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': When you change shape using the Morph Stone and a personal item during the Super Moshi missions, you're still wearing your cape and mask.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/TheWolfAndTheWaves'', where your clothes are only visible when in human form.
* 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, hastily covered in a tarp.

* In ''VisualNovel/IkemenRevolution'', Harr's route has a scene where the female main character shrinks after drinking a magic potion (a clear homage to the shrinking scene in ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', although Alice didn't have to worry about this trope) and her dress doesn't shrink along with her, leaving her tiny and naked. She's able to tie a handkerchief around her body to preserve her modesty before she finds Harr and asks him to undo the shrinking spell, but they both forget that her handkerchief dress similarly won't change size along with the rest of her which leads to much embarrassment when he restores her to full size and winds up seeing ''way'' more of her than he planned for.

* Creator/ScottMcCloud's three-panel one-shot [[http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/mi/mi-06/mi-06.html Man-Eating Shoes]] speaks for itself with its title and the result of man at bus stop "discovering the nature" of said shoes.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''Webcomic/WildeLife:'' WordOfGod describes [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent animal people]] as not so much "transforming" as having two bodies that they can switch between; hence, whatever clothes they wear remain on their human bodies even when they take animal form. However, it doesn't work on some substances, like metal; the main shapeshifter, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Cliff]], retains his tongue stud in both human and wolf form.
* In ''Webcomic/BusterWildeWeerwolf'', Buster the werewolf still has Bernard's human clothes when he transforms.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}},'' the brother in ''Literature/BrotherAndSister'' is naked when he finally turns back into a human. (Which is odd, because when he gets transformed his clothes sort of just vanish.) Also a weird version, [[AvertedTrope averting]] JacobMarleyApparel: the sister died while taking a bath, but her ghost is wearing the nightgown that she was wearing right before that. [[spoiler:Which also averts NakedOnRevival.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{UnDivine}},'' zig-zags around this. Esther the demon first appears in human shape wearing borrowed clothes, and later goes shopping for more. However she also appears in a school uniform which can hardly be borrowed, given the size of her - and who would it be borrowed from?
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The werewolf knights destroy their armor when they transform. They're sore that an entire nation of mad scientists hasn't invented something for that.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zags]] this: VoluntaryShapeshifting spells cause the user's gear to resize or vanish into {{Hammerspace}}, but a Hag's BalefulPolymorph spell turns Vaarsuvius into a lizard but leaves their clothes behind, forcing them to take advantage of a SceneryCensor when the spell is broken. This is coherent with the ''D&D'' rules used by the comic.
* Brooke, the shapeshifting Melusine in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has problems with this- reappearing with her blouse and skirt intact, but without her shoes or lower garments - a particular problem when wearing trousers.

* In the 1933 Disney WesternAnimation/{{Silly Symphon|ies}}y ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', the eponymous [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]] on two legs becomes enraged at not being able to enter the brick house of the third little pig. In a VillainousBreakdown, {{Animorphism}} kicks in. Gloves and his hat fly off, and desperate breaths to blow the brick house down break his suspenders. Ultimately, he steps out of his pants, completely naked, and acting fully like a wild four-legged wolf for the rest of the cartoon.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'', Dodgers is not concerned by Marvin's DisintegratorRay because he's wearing his [[BulletProofVest disintegration-proof vest]]. Marvin fires and Dodgers is totally disintegrated -- except for the vest, which remains floating in place briefly before slumping down on the pile of Dodgers' powdered remains. (Fortunately, the Eager Young Space Cadet has a [[ResetButton reintegration gun]] handy.)
* Done solely for the RuleOfFunny in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GetAce''. After masquerading as Ace, [[MasterOfDisguise Ned]] reverts to his true appearance still wearing Ace's clothes, which are comically undersized for him, as Ace is a scrawny kid and Ned is a large adult. Not only is this not how Ned's disguises usually work (Ned just has an InstantCostumeChange to look like whoever he wants), it also begs the question of how he got Ace's clothes in the first place.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the beginning of "Back With a Vengeance", Ben still wears his yellow rain poncho in his alien forms, even though the series usually follows "MagicPants" rules. Possibly because it's not part of [[LimitedWardrobe his normal outfit]].

** During the flashback showing how he became human again in "Nor Iron Bars or a Cage" (WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien), his gothic clothes are inexplicably back - except for his military green pants, that were replaced by a jeans.
** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', after Gwen frees Kevin from the taedenite shell, it's shown that his trademark black t-shirt was tore in rags, but his keeps his long-sleeved gray shirt, along with his jeans, though they have some holes. When he becomes a combination of the materials he absorbs in "[[Recap/Ben10AlienForceS3E02VengeanceOfVilgaxPart2 Vengeance Of Vilgax]]", his clothes are disintegrated by the explosion, leaving him in his black underwear. He's still in his undies when he is temporarily "cured" in "Trade-Off", but, when he reunites with Ben and Gwen, he is fully dressed, implying he went back home for clothes (but it's not shown how he did it without being caught by the police). In the end of the episode, the explosin destroys partially his clothes and apparently disintegrates his boots (or they were ripped off by the explosion). WHen he finally becomes human again in the last episode, Kevin is in his undies again. [[MrFanservice Well, he is a tall, handsome teenager, and kids were not the only ones to watch.]]]
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the changelings in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. The ones that mimic Applejack somehow get [[TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter a copy of her trademark hat]] out of the deal.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Whenever Eda transforms into the Owl Beast, her clothes disappear, returning when she turns back into a woman; probably they turn into feathers. After she makes a truce with the owl creature, her clothes remain in her harpy form.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':
** The climax of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 Rick Potion #9]]" features Rick trying to cure his rapidly-spreading LovePotion, only to end up mutating the victims into praying mantis hybrids, 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.
** In the season 3 finale, 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 includes clothes.
** Early in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS5E10RickamuraiJack Rickamurai Jack]]," a forty-year-old Morty arrives in a desperate attempt to lure Rick out of his solo adventures, claiming that the family has gone to hell in the years since he left. For good measure, Morty is wearing the exact same clothes he wore as a fourteen-year-old despite them clearly no longer fitting, giving the impression of being a middle-aged loser stuck in his GloryDays. However, when Rick returns home, it turns out that Morty was just lying in the hopes of guilt-tripping him into returning, and actually took an aging serum from Rick's lab in order to make the lie convincing - the ''real'' reason why his normal clothes didn't fit.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'': In "[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica]]", Veronica gets hit with a growth ray and gradually increases in size. Her clothes at first become too tight and she is forced to change into her dad's track suit. Then she becomes a giant and her clothes rip offscreen, and judging by the reactions of the bystanders, she ''was'' rendered naked. She makes a toga for herself out of a tent. When her friends manage to get her back to normal, she ends up naked again and quickly covers herself with the tent.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': in "Little Big Mask," Stanley Ipkiss creates an anti-aging cream and [[ProfessorGuineaPig tests it on himself]] - only to find that it's actually a very potent FountainOfYouth. Whenever Stanley regresses, his clothes fit progressively less and less until he simply steps out of them as a toddler; even the Mask can't help but notice the effects when he shrinks out of his silk bathrobe and into infancy. In the climax, Peggy wakes up to find Stanley's latest baby clothes empty, and assumes he's suffered a DeathByDeaging... only for it to turn out that baby Stanley was just getting a checkup from a doctor, though by now, he's shrunk out of the Mask too. Not long after, when Peggy finally manages to restore Stanley to normal, he finds himself growing up naked except for a diaper.
* 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 shrink along with them all the way down to microscopic size]].

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism/ 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]] shows what would happen to [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] if his pants were not [[MagicPants magic]].

* Played with in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with the stands Yellow Temperance and Khnum. Both [[FightingSpirit Stands]] are bound to their users, Rubber Soul and Oingo respectively, and both have similar abilities but differ in major ways: Yellow Temperance can imitate people's clothing while allowing Rubber Soul to still wear is own clothing underneath while Khnum allows Oingo to change his appearance, down to his weight and ''smell'' but he can't imitate clothing, the closest he could do is change his hair to look like Jotaro's nice hat.

* Played with in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' with the stands Yellow Temperance and Khnum. Both [[FightingSpirit Stands]] are bound to their users, Rubber Soul and Oingo respectively, and both have similar abilities but differ in major ways: Yellow Temperance can imitate people's clothing while allowing Rubber Soul to still wear is own clothing underneath while Khnum allows Oingo to change his appearance, down to his weight and ''smell'' but he can't imitate clothing, the closest he could do is change his hair to look like Jotaro's NiceHat.

* Helene from ''Literature/{{Mouse}}'' turns into a tanuki to search Mouse's room. When she transforms back, he finds her naked in his bed.

* Occurs in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' after [[spoiler:Yuni and Gamma]] [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] during the final battle of the Future Arc.

* In Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', Alice is shrunk until only her dress remains. She, in fact, changes size several times in the film, justifying [[UnlimitedWardrobe new outfits with each new size]]. This is a contrast from the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland original text]], in which her clothes changed size with her. Presumably this was done for the sake of {{fanservice}}.

** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Pettigrew leaves behind his clothes after turning into a rat. Which is strange, because in an earlier scene in the same movie Pettigrew turned from an apparently naked rat to a fully clothed human. The books and the rest of the movies avert this, as Animagi always have clothes on when they turn human and [=McGonagall's=] cat form is noted to have markings around its eyes which resemble her glasses.

* During the climax of ''Film/Hellboy2019,'' Gruagach is shrunk back down to his original size and then some [[spoiler: when Nimue betrays him]], so his gauntlet and armored shorts clank to the floor as he swiftly dwindles to infant-size. [[spoiler: And then Nimue pops him like a blister.]]

** ''Film/ANewHope'': At the end of Vader & Kenobi's lightsaber duel, Kenobi seemingly gives up and lets Vader slice him - but when he does so, we (and Vader) find his clothes empty. He would AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and leave his clothes behind. (Vader then stomps on the robe as if to make sure Kenobi is not just hiding in there!)

* The creature from ''Film/TheThing1982'' can absorb and perfectly replicate its victims, but can't mimic clothing and usually needs to rip through clothes in order to fully assimilate. As such, finding a character's shredded coat puts the rest of the crew on edge over who's really the Thing.

* 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 in human form and stark naked, and has to be lent a towel to spare his dignity any further damage.
* The climax of ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'' features Sherman Klump trying to reabsorb [[EnemyWithout Buddy Love]] back into his body by tricking him into accidentally ingesting a dose of his FountainOfYouth formula. As a result, Buddy immediately regresses into a two-year-old and out of his clothes - leaving him completely naked in front of the executives he was trying to sell the formula to. For good measure, Buddy is annoyed at being stared at and angrily insists that "this is an impressive package for a toddler!"
* The sorceress Fin Raziel of ''Film/{{Willow}}'' has spent the last few decades trapped in the form of a possum courtesy of Bavmorda, and [[IneptMage Willow]]'s efforts to undo the spell only wind up transforming her into various other animals; towards the end of the film, however, Willow ''finally'' manages to get the spell right - leaving Raziel human and naked.

* In ''Literature/Touch2017'', James' [[BlowYouAway powers]] allow him to change his whole body into air. The first time this happens he's flying, and feels the odd sensation of his clothes passing ''through'' him as they flutter to the ground. (He recovers the hoodie but has to fly home without any pants, thankfully too high to be seen.) He's a lot more powerful in this form, but the fact that he reforms naked means that he tries to avoid using it.

* In the ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' episode "The Longest Day", Lauren kills herself, dissolves and leaves a pile of empty clothes.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' has Termite, a supe who can shrink himself. However, the pants he wears while small get ripped after returning to normal size, leaving him in the nude.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'';

* In ''Series/DoomPatrol2019,'' Rita Farr's powers result in her melting into a hideous blob of mobile flesh if she loses concentration, destroying her clothes in the process if the transformation is allowed to go all the way. It's for this very reason that Rita SleepsInTheNude.

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_767_42-sci-fi-movies-if-they-were-updated-realism/ 42 Sci-Fi Movies (If They Were Updated for Realism)]] shows what would happen to [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] if his pants were not [[MagicPants magic]].

* ''Literature/RainOfTheGhosts:'' Aycayia (basically a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent manatee]] {{selkie|sAndWereseals}}) 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.

* In ''Literature/Touch 2017'', James' [[BlowYouAway powers]] allow him to change his whole body into air. The first time this happens he's flying, and feels the odd sensation of his clothes passing ''through'' him as they flutter to the ground. (He recovers the hoodie but has to fly home without any pants, thankfully too high to be seen.) He's a lot more powerful in this form, but the fact that he reforms naked means that he tries to avoid using it.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch 2017}}'', James' [[BlowYouAway powers]] allow him to change his whole body into air. The first time this happens he's flying, and feels the odd sensation of his clothes passing ''through'' him as they flutter to the ground. (He recovers the hoodie but has to fly home without any pants, thankfully too high to be seen.) He's a lot more powerful in this form, but the fact that he reforms naked means that he tries to avoid using it.
* In the book ''True Angel: Hero'' by Laura Amy O'Hanlon, Kennedy kills her mother Ocran, who is a bad woman. When she dies, she vanishes instantly leaving her empty clothes to fall to the ground.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the beginning of "Back With a Vengeance, Ben still wears his yellow rain poncho in his alien forms, even though the series usually follows "MagicPants" rules. Possibly because it's not part of [[LimitedWardrobe his normal outfit]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' In the beginning of "Back With a Vengeance, Ben still wears his yellow rain poncho in his alien forms, even though the series usually follows "MagicPants" rules. Possibly because it's not part of [[LimitedWardrobe his normal outfit]].

* Done solely for the RuleOfFunny in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GetAce''. After masquerading as Ace, [[MasterOfDisguise Ned]] reverts to his true appearance still wearing Ace's clothes, which are comically undersized for him, as Ace is a scrawny 14-year-old and Ned is a large adult. Not only is this not how Ned's disguises usually work (Ned just has an InstantCostumeChange to look like whoever he wants), it also begs the question of how he got Ace's clothes in the first place.

* Done solely for the RuleOfFunny in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GetAce''. After masquerading as Ace, [[MasterOfDisguise Ned]] reverts to his true appearance still wearing Ace's clothes, which are comically undersized for him as Ace is a scrawny 14-year-old and Ned is a large adult. Not only is this not how Ned's disguises usually work (Ned just has an InstantCostumeChange to look like whoever he wants), it also begs the question of how he got Ace's clothes in the first place.