The featherless bird may even end up looking like a cooked chicken, though not to the same severity as Instant Roast since they survive.
A variant is where a bird has a defeathered butt when they take damage, whether they got disheveled, hurt, or shaved there.
If Fur Is Clothing is also in effect, expect the bird in question to react as if they have just been rendered naked, often resorting to Hand-or-Object Underwear. Contrast Perpetual Molt, when feathers fly, but the bird is still intact. May also come with Goofy Print Underwear if the setting is a World of Funny Animals.
Examples:
- Soar: Princess of the Sky
: This 2005 PSA made for AMC theaters, as part of its "Silence is Golden" campaign, plays like the trailer for a nonexistent Disney animated flick (Soar: Princess of the Sky
) about a bald eagle named Soar... at least until a distracting ringtone causes her to complain to the audience when she's trying to save her father from vultures, and gets them both toasted by a volcano. A scorched and completely bald Soar appears at the end of the PSA, giving the audience an affronted look.
- Asterix: In the short story "Chanticleerix", the large eagle terrorizing the chickens of the Gaulish village ends up completely bald and grounded after a mid-air collision with the Magic Potion-empowered Chanticleerix, the village rooster.
- Kulfon, co z ciebie wyrośnie?: In the episode "Nowi lokatorzy", an arrow shot from a haunted house pins the tail feathers of a raven sitting on a branch to a tree. The raven struggles to fly, tearing all of its tail feathers. After that, the raven sees its big naked bottom with horror and shame.
- O dwóch takich, co księżyc ukradli: In the episode "Jacek i Placek", Jacek, Placek and the mayor who is chasing them fall down the hill like a snowball and on the way they hit an old rooster and as a result he loses all of his feathers. The naked and ashamed rooster immediately attaches the lost feathers back.
- Mountain of Gems: In episode "Raven the Trickster", outsmarted by a human, the raven has his tail feathers frozen to ice, after dipping in the water fo fish. At the sight of the vixen he falsely accused earlier, the raven panickly jerks so hard that his tail cames off, and tailless raven runs in distress. The vixen pulls out the raven's tail along with the caught fish and leaves.
- This thread
on Tumblr speculates as to what a hypothetical crossover between Looney Tunes and The Lord of the Rings would be like, with the specific plot of Bugs Bunny being tasked with delivering the One Ring to Mount Doom in Frodo's place. The hilarity that does in fact ensue is capped off by Daffy Duck managing to steal the Ring just as Bugs reaches his destination, only for his victory dance to take him right off a cliff, the result being akin to Gollum's demise in The Return of the King. Unlike Gollum, Daffy survives, but loses all of his feathers in the process.
Bugs: “Got a good tan, doc?”
Daffy: “YOU’RE DESPICABLE!” - Vow of Nudity: In the opening scene of her second story, Haara defeathers an aggressive flying snake with a single fireball from her ranged magic attack Produce Flame.
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves: Iago's tail feathers get caught in the doors to the Cave of the Forty Thieves. He simply pulls them out of the doors and sticks them back on his butt.
- The Aristocats: Uncle Waldo the goose (black hat) has a defeathered butt. He drunkenly walks away leaning onto both his nieces, Abigail (pink hat) and Amelia (blue hat) who are escorting him.
- Balto: Boris is caught by the butcher who plucks out his tail feathers. Angry Boris immediately sticks them back on his bare butt.
- Jester Till: After Cornelius plucks one of the feathers from the crow's tail, angry bird chases him for that. Cornelius loses the chase in the clock tower mechanism, where the crow, pulled by the gears, loses all of its feathers except for the few flight feathers.
- Lisiczka: A young vixen, while trying to free herself from the chain, attacks a proud and bossy rooster, tearing off his all magnificent tail feathers.
- Melody Time: In "Pecos Bill", the vultures end up naked after getting beaten by Pecos Bill.
- Mulan: Shan-Yu's pet falcon Hayabusa suffers this fate after Mushu burns all of his feathers off (see page image). He even starts acting like a chicken afterwards, including clucking sounds.
Mushu: Now that's what I call Mongolian barbecue.
- Peter Pan (1953): Mr Smee sets up to shave Capt Hook's stubble and moustache, but a female gull lands on the towel over Hook's face to make a nest. Smee then accidentally lathers, shaves, and powders the gull's butt instead. Smee slaps some aftershave onto the seagull's bare behind. The gull then looks at her bare butt, gasps, covers her butt, and flies off squawking in distress.
- Rio: In the climax plane propeller flies at Nigel, seemingly killing him. Sometime later, Nigel is revealed to have survived, but not without losing most of his feathers and getting humiliated by a "photo finish" by Mauro as payback for his abuse against him and the other marmosets earlier.
- Space Jam: During the basketball game, Foghorn Leghorn is incinerated by Monstar Bang's fire breath, leaving him as a pile of ashes with eyes and a beak that speaks the Non Sequitur, *Thud* "Did you order original recipe, or extra crispy?" Later, Foghorn is seen on the team bench as a plucked and cooked chicken on a platter, receiving an IV drip.
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: Burger-Beard scares off most of the seagulls by making them believe he had cooked Kyle, who comes out of a porta-potty shortly after. Burger-Beard then says "Boo!" to him through a megaphone and scares his feathers off, so he has to call a cab.
- In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, the Pig family stop at a gas station to use the bathroom on their way to HappyWorldLand. Plucky Duck, who has tagged along with them, is thirsty, and sees a dripping water fountain. However, his sweat gets him stuck to the seat of the Pig family's car, and when he finally gets unstuck from it, he loses the feathers on his rear end. He nervously says to the viewers that it's nice to feel a draft again, and just before he can finally get a drink from the water fountain, Winnie stops him, saying if he drinks that much water, they'll be making another pit stop very soon.
- Arabian Nights: Evil wizard Mustappa swears by his pet raven Hector's feathers, that Aladdin will not see his wedding day if he betrays Mustappa. After Aladdin has married, Hector lose all feathers sans head.
- In Piotr Gulak's Jak Dziad Borowy ze zbójami urządzał popas. Zmagania z Dusiołem, the obnoxious cuckoo is captured by bears who are having a bone to pick with her. First, she loses her tail feathers in her first escape attempt. Tailless cuckoo is captured again and then plucked of all feathers by bears. Naked cuckoo is banished out of the forest, much to the amusement of the owl irritated by her constant screeching.
- In Mikhail Prishvin’s short story Vyskochka
, Vyushka the dog seeing the magpie, titular Vyskochka, trying to steal a bone grabs magpie by the tail feathers with his teeth. As a result, the Vyskochka became tailless. The narrator concludes that a magpie without a tail is unrecognizable as species and losing tail feathers is the greatest shame in a magpies community.
- Aladdin (Virgin Games): Besides being a boss in the second last stage, Iago is also encountered as a regular enemy in several other stages. Here, one hit from Aladdin's sword or apples is enough to render him bald, and defeated.
- Cuphead: One of the bosses in the game, Wally Warbles, is a gigantic bird in a birdhouse that he wears as armor. After you defeat his first phase, he ends up losing all his feathers and falls out of his birdhouse. That still doesn't stop him from fighting you, as, after you defeat his son, he returns for the final phase being carried by two paramedic songbirds. And only after you defeat him in this phase, the fight will be over as he'll be knocked out while his own paramedics decide to start spinkling him with salt and pepper.
- Donkey Kong Country Returns: The third boss, Stu, is giant bird who fights the Kongs while using a giant cauldron as body armor. Upon his defeat, he crashes to the ground and loses not only the cauldron but all of his feathers as well, causing the Kongs to shield their eyes at the sight of his naked body.
- The Lion King: One of the enemies encountered in the third stage, Elephant Graveyard, are vultures. Simba can defeat them with a Goomba Stomp, after which they lose all of their feathers and fall offscreen.
- Taken to the extreme with Mighty Goose, with you playing as the titular goose. Losing a life turns you into an oven roaster in a second!
- Parodius games feature an American eagle who loses all his feathers once his health runs out, complete with Instant Bandages.
- The Smurfs (1994) has some birds that "die" naked when stomped or hit with a thrown cake.
- In the Amphibia episode Truck Stop Polly, Polly defeats the giant baby Roc attacking the Plantars via Static Electricity and zapping off all its feathers. Oddly, the Roc is still able to fly away without any difficulty.
- Classic Disney Shorts:
- In The Skeleton Dance: a skeleton throws his skull at an owl, instantly rendering the bird completely bald (except for the head).
- In the 1930 short Night, an owl flirts with a female and gives her a smooch, resulting in her socking him and knocking his feathers off.
- In the 1931 short The Cat's Out, the titular cat tries to hunt a songbird, but only manages to rip out its long tail feathers. Then, being unconscious from the fall, he has a nightmare in which the the same songbird, still having a defeathered butt, terrorizes him.
- In the end 1933 short Birds in the Spring, furious father songbird spanks his reckless son, after previously peeling feathers from son's butt (equivalent to pulling down pants and underwear for a human).
- Darkwing Duck: In "Darkly Dawns the Duck (Part 2)", Taras Bulba's pet condor Tantalus is defeated by Gosalyn and Launchpad in the Thunderquack, which rips out his tail feathers during aerial combat leaving his butt naked.
- Garfield and Friends: In the U.S. Acres segment, "Temp Trouble", Roy attempts to scare Wade with a Jackenstein-in-the-box, guaranteed to scare the feathers off any bird. When he tests it out on Wade, out pops a harmless clown who gives him a tasty mint. When Roy wonders how his trick could have gone wrong, the Jackenstein pops out and scares his feathers off. Aloysius, Orson's cousin whom Orson left in charge of the farm while he went on vacation, sees this and is disgusted, giving Roy 20 demerits for indecency. While Wade confronts Aloysius, Roy goes into his coop to put on some spare feathers.
- House of Mouse: In the short "Shell Shots", Donald tries getting Baby Shelby out of his shell by pouring pepper down it, causing the turtle to sneeze and blow Donald's feathers (and clothes) off.
- Kid vs. Kat: In the short Sky High Dive, when Coop prepares to make a cannonball in the swimming pool he and his friends are hanging out at, Cat quickly creates a highly elastic liquid and sprays it on the diving board. Because of this, Coop is launched high into the air, where he collides with two wild geese, instantly defeathering both of them. They promptly plummet to the ground.
- Looney Tunes: In the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon "Little Boy Boo", Foghorn Leghorn shakes up a test tube full of chemicals, resulting in an explosion that strips all of his feathers clean off.
- Daffy Duck, as "China Jones," also gets this treatment by asking why someone would be nicknamed Dragon Lady.
- The closing gag from Duck! Rabbit, Duck! has Daffy Duck admit to Bugs Bunny that "everybody knows it's really duck season." A moment later, a dozen hunters break cover and rain bullets upon Daffy. He's left with denuded pink skin with sparse patches of feathers as he crawls back to Bugs Bunny to deliver the famous line: "You're despicable."
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the season 2 episode May the Best Pet Win!, this happens to the owl when the falcon takes off at the speed test. Fortunately for the owl, Unexplained Recovery kicks in soon after.
- Pixar Shorts: In For the Birds, the mean smaller birds are slingshot from the telephone wire after trying to push off the big bird. Their feathers are all slung off their bodies in the process, and they drop back to earth completely plucked.
- Quack Pack: Played With with regards to Huey and his uncle Donald. There is a glaring Furry Confusion regarding Huey's humanlike butt and pants and Donald's classic defeathered duck butt and pantslessness when each got their butts singed in the episode, Feats of Clay.
- TaleSpin: In "Destiny Rides Again", Baloo is tasked with keeping the Idol of Doom out of the hands of El Gato. Near the end of the episode, to get El Gato and his giant condor out of his fur, Baloo chants "Idol of Doom, storm and fire, come on, little llama, grant my desire, pluck that chicken!" and the idol zaps the condor, stripping it of its feathers. The now-featherless condor covers its now-featherless body with its wings, causing it and El Gato to fall out of the sky and land in a muddy lake below.
- Tiny Toon Adventures: In the short, "Born to Be Riled" from "The Buster Bunny Bunch", when Babs Bunny does an accurate but unflattering impression of Plucky Duck, Plucky throws a tantrum that causes him to lose all of his feathers. In a later scene, where he is complaining about Babs to Fifi La Fume and Shirley the Loon over the phone, he can be seen gluing his feathers back on.
- Randy Johnson infamously nailed a passing dove with a fastball
in a freak accident, causing it to instantly explode into a cloud of feathers and killing the unfortunate bird (you can see its defeathered corpse landing behind the foul line
).
- Anyone who's had a bird lucklessly fly directly across the front of their speeding car will likely see the same result bouncing down the road behind them.

