History Main / ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing

* In ''The Incredible Adventures of Karik and Valya'', the eponymous siblings shrink to insect size, leaing their clothes behind. The girl is '''very unhappy''' about not having her clothes on.

Compare EmptyPilesOfClothing, MySuitIsAlsoSuper, MorphicResonance, and DressHitsFloor. Contrast MagicPants.

Items of clothing have a way of sticking around unchanged, even if their wearer is shrunken, transformed, or outright disintegrated in front of the viewer's eyes. This presentation is usually used as a visual cue to drive home the extremity of what's just happened to the victim. Simple gravity may pile the clothes into a heap, or convenient magic scatter them a moment later, to HideTheEvidence. In other instances, the clothes are ripped apart during the transformation, leaving them in tatters.

* Tiana emerges from her now-empty princess dress after kissing Naveen turns her into a frog in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''.

* In the Filipino soap opera ''Kokak'', a girl is cursed at birth by an witch so that whenever her feet get wet she turns into a frog, then hops out of the pile of clothes she was wearing. This happens a surprising amount of times throughout the show's run.

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' transforming into an elemental (or [[BalefulPolymorph bieng changed into an animal]]) uneqips 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.

* In ' 'ComicBook/PowerPack', the character with the mass powers, usually Jack, sometimes ran into problems when he transformed into cloud form when not wearing his special costume that changed with him.

** Could be justified that perhaps the fact her outfit is essentially a part of her as well as it's her "Royal outfit" so when she made the wish to be a streetrat instead of a Princess, the royal clothing may have disappeared to symbolize leaving behind her old lifestyle.

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', this applies to werewolves, as demonstrated in ''Discworld/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 ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', ordinary clothes are never affected by transformations. Only [[MagicPants special jumpsuits purpose-built by a shapeshifter race]] can adapt.

* 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.

Items of clothing have a way of sticking around unchanged, even if their wearer is shrunken, transformed, or outright disintegrated in front of the viewer's eyes. This presentation is usually used as a visual cue to drive home the extremity of what's just happened to the victim. Simple gravity may pile the clothes into a heap, or convenient magic scatter them a moment later, to HideTheEvidence.

In ' 'ComicBook/PowerPack', the character with the mass powers, usually Jack, sometimes ran into problems when he transformed into cloud form when not wearing his special costume that changed with him.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'', polymorphing into a creature smaller than your usual size can leave you buried under your clothes, armor, and pack full of loot. Polymorphing into a ''bigger'' creature would cause you to destroy your armor as you grow out of it.

* In episode 5 of the ''Anime/MagicUsersClub'' TV anime, Akane starts to hiccup, causing various strange things to happen. At one point, she shrinks down, leaving her clothes piled on the club room floor.
* This is what happens whenever someone dies of Troy in ''Manga/DoubleArts''. First, the seizures, then they become transparents and disappear.

* 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]]]].

* In ''RanmaOneHalf'', curse changes almost never affect clothes. This has led to several scenes where Ryouga and Shampoo end up unexpectedly naked upon transforming back (admittedly the latter don't much care). In Ranma's case, both forms are human and thus don't fall out of their clothes, although there's 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.
* 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.
* 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.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has several cards on theme:

* In ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' #51, Literature/{{Cinderella}} is turned into a mouse, her clothes falling empty to the meadow floor, so she can enter the village of the smalls.
* Most versions of TheWasp has 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 TheUltimates.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. The four panel comic [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Beware_the_pigeons_The_Far_Side_3012.jpg Beware the Pigeons]], depicting a person on a park bench serenely feeding pigeons. The pigeons swarm in number...and ultimately leave the former occupant's clothes draped empty on the bench.

* 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 Ryoga'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.
* There is a most unpleasant variation in the {{Marvel}}[=/=]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... only to die once the metallic screws in his bones turn out [[BodyHorror too big for a rat body to handle]].

* In a literal case of JustWokeUpThatWay: ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'', when Lucas Nickle wakes, and shrinks. Falling from his bed, his underwear is left behind; numerous cases of SceneryCensor ensue.
* ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'', in which bad boys turn into donkeys after misbehaving on Pleasure Island. We see this happen to Lampwick, as animal instincts replace his human reason, and a combination of the shape change itself, and desperate braying and bucking casts all of his clothes off.

** After [[spoiler: King Harold shields Fiona from one of the Fairy Godmother's spells, his suit of armor seems to be the only thing left of him... Until he comes out of the armor, in his original frog form, and reveals the truth about that to the heroes]].

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

* ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'': At the end of Vader's & 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 AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and left his clothes behind. (Vader then stomps on the robe as if to make sure he's not just hiding in there!)
* In the movie adaptation of ''TheWitches'', when someone is turned into a mouse, they leave their clothes behind. When this happens to Luke, the witches stomp on his clothes in an effort to kill him before he can escape.
* The TomCruise remake of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', the alien heat ray reduces people to ash, leaving their clothing behind. [[FridgeLogic But not underwear for some reason]]. [[InvertedTrope Non Magic Pants]]?
* Which, of course, was parodied by ''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 the movie ''Unearthly Stranger'', A man's wife 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 existance while being held by him leaving only her clothes draped over his arms.

* ''The Sword of the Valiant'', starring 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.

* In ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'', an unpinned [[SchmuckBait light grenade]] disintegrates anyone who picks it up, leaving only their clothes behind.

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

** In SG-1: "Counterstrike" the Free Jaffa Nation uses the Dakara superweapon to attack a planet the Ori recently captured. Everyone there [[spoiler:except Adria]] is disintegrated, leaving only their clothes behind.

* ''DoctorWho''. Inverted in "The Day of the Doctor" where a Zygon copies a human, clothes and all. When they meet up later, one of them ponders what will happen if their copy loses a shoe.

* TheDresdenFiles plays this straight and averts this in ''Fool Moon'' 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, and later books mention the Alphas routinely donning clothes that are extremely easy to shed. The hexenwolves (who transform by the power of magical belts) avert this, and their clothes apparently transform with them. The description of the hexenwolves transformation doesn't include details on exactly how their clothes (and any other objects on their person) transform into fur and flesh, but it doesn't describe them tearing their clothes during transformations, or stripping beforehand, so it can be assumed that the belts' spell also covers things that are not part of the human's organic body.

* ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'' features an enormous amount of shapeshifting, and none of it ever shifts the clothing, not even when people get turned to stone. This leads to ''quite'' a lot of nudity and/or wardrobe malfunctions throughout the comic.