Magic Pants / Animated Films

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• In Alice in Wonderland, Alice does her share of shrinking and growing throughout the movie, yet her entire outfit (dress, stockings, shoes, bloomers, etc.) fits her perfectly the whole time.
• Averted in The Ant Bully where the wizard ant's magic for some reason cannot shrink clothing.
• This is both averted and played on in Brave. When Queen Elinor changes into a bear, her clothes are torn and left behind, similar to Tiana. However, whereas Tiana gets a fancy foliage-inspired wedding dress when she turns human again, Elinor remains naked, only covered by the tapestry she and Merida assumed was necessary to facilitate the transformation.
• Averted at the end of Brother Bear, where Kenai is now naked after Sitka turns him back into a human when he and Koda start defending each other from being killed by Denahi, who then performs a Heel–Face Turn the moment he sees Kenai now transformed back. However, it turns out that at this point, Kenai now doesn't even need to wear clothes anymore due to him wanting to remain as a bear permanently instead, just so he can remain with Koda forever.
• Subverted in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as Wallace's Y-fronts do survive the transformation sequence, as they are clearly shown to be intact when they fly into the face of Quartermaine. When Wallace reverts to human form, it leads to some funny Scenery Censor items. (This includes a cardboard box that says "Contains Nuts".)
• In the Dot and the Kangaroo sequel Dot and Keeto, Dot's dress remains intact and fits her perfectly even after she shrinks down to the size of a bug.
• When Yzma accidentally turns Kuzco into a llama near the beginning of The Emperor's New Groove, Kuzco is still wearing clothing when his ears, neck, hands, and face become that of a llama's, but Kronk stuffs him inside a burlap bag as he is still transforming. When Kuzco is finally freed from said bag by Pacha, he has already finished transforming into a llama, and his clothes are nowhere to be seen (They are replaced by red fur colored to resemble his clothing.)
• In Encanto, Camilo's Human Shifting changes his clothes to match whomever he's currently imitating.
• Lampshaded in Hotel Transylvania, where Jonathan immediately wonders if Mavis, Dracula's daughter, was wearing tiny bat clothes when she transformed from bat to human. While she obviously isn't wearing clothes as a bat, she does at one point transform while wearing a Hawaiian shirt, which shrinks to fit her bat form.
• The Incredibles:
  • Lampshaded since Edna Mode is a Magic Pants Tailor.
  • Jack-Jack's diaper. As seen in the sequel, is diaper remains behind and doesn't travel with him. However, when he uses his powers to fight Syndrome, his diaper does remain perfectly intact when he bursts into flames and transforms into a monster.
• Averted and played straight in the same movie, Disney's adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Ursula turning Ariel into a human means Ariel needs to go fashion a dress out of some torn sails to cover up her human lower areas (she got to keep the seashells). When Triton re-turns her into a human she's given a sparkly blue dress, which shows that Triton's magic is much more gentle than Ursula's since he wants the best for her.
  • Played straight in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, where Melody's pants disappear when Morgana turns her into a mermaid, and reappear when she later changes back into a human. Also, when Triton turns Ariel back into a mermaid so she can look for Melody, her clothes and earrings disappear instead of her having to take them off.
• In the animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens, there is a very blatant example — Susan's wedding dress. She grows from normal size to nearly fifty feet, and the dress (with minor shredding of the skirt) manages to cover as much as a one-piece bathing suit would on her giant form. Never mind that the amount of fabric in the torn wedding dress on her giant form would make maybe thirty normal-sized wedding dresses. It could be Hand Waved by the dress absorbing some of the Quantonium, but obviously the real reason is that the movie couldn't have kept its PG rating otherwise.
  • A more justified example is the alien catsuit she wears after Gallaxar abducts her, which shrinks along with her as he drains the Quantonium from her body.
• When Jack Skellington is shot down by the military in The Nightmare Before Christmas, his Sandy Claws outfit is shredded, but his tuxedo is completely unscathed. Also, at the beginning of the movie, when Jack rises out of the fountain, his bat-bow tie visibly straightens.
• Completely averted (ultimately) in Pinocchio when Lampwick turns into a donkey. He retains all his clothes at first, with no damage to them except for a donkey's tail ripping through the seat of his pants. Once he's realized what's happened to him and starts to lose all remaining vestiges of his humanity, he panics and thrashes around so much that all his clothes fly off his body, leaving him naked and completing his degeneration into an animal.
• In The Princess and the Frog, Tiana's dress doesn't change when she's turned into a frog. However, she does gain a dress when she becomes human again.
• Lampshaded by Jack Horner in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish when he eats a magic cookie to turn himself into a giant.
  Jack: I was worried for a second I'd come out naked, but my clothes grew too! Cool!
• Rock-A-Doodle first averts this where Edmund actually falls out of his clothes after being turned into a cat by the evil Duke of Owls, but later plays this straight when he changes back into a human at the end of the film; the reason why his human self now has clothes again is because as soon he was turned into a cat, he immediately discovers that unlike all the other animals in the film, who wear clothing, Edmund is actually naked and as a result he immediately puts on a large shirt, but no pants. But why is Edmund wearing pants after he got turned back into a human?
• In Shrek 2, when Shrek takes the Happily Ever After potion, his old clothes become ridiculously baggy and he has to rob a passing noble for a new outfit... yet when the potion wears off, his stolen clothes transform into the old baggy clothes that he left behind in the forest!
  • This continues a precedent from the first film, in which Fiona's dress always fits her, even when she transforms at sunrise or sunset.
• In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Evil Queen concocts a potion to turn her into an ugly old hag, which also, somehow, alters her garments. Heck, there's even a ingredient specifically for this purpose.
• The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: Mr. Krabs gets his clothes burned off by King Neptune after getting framed for the theft of Neptune's crown, but when Krabs extinguishes himself they inexplicably reappear.
• Turning Red: Mei's clothes disappear and reappear when she switches between human and giant red panda form. The same goes for the other members of her family who can transform.

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