History Main / ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction

** Invoked with the 5e attribute "Cast-Off", introduced in ''Xanathar's Guide to Everything'', which makes it so a player's armor can be removed with a single action instead of a few minutes (putting it back on is still going to take the full amount of time, though).

Compare FlungClothing and ConvenientColorChange. See also TalkingIsAFreeAction for another action that can't be bothered to be restrained realistically by time. Closely related to TransformationIsAFreeAction, as well as the HyperspaceWardrobe. Can overlap with ToTheBatpole but not a GilliganCut.

* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', at first it seems like this trope would be subverted by Destroyman, who has to ask Travis to turn around so he can change. However, this is only so [[{{Jerkass}} Destroyman]] [[CombatPragmatist can get a cheap shot at him]], as he has somehow managed to change from a mailman uniform to head-to-toe spandex in about the space of a second.

** Nanase of has a spell that [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-06-23 allows her]] [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-06-25 to do this]]

* ComicBook/MsMarvel's powers include, [[MostCommonSuperPower amongst other things]], clothes changing, usually with a single panel showing a line of energy between half-civies half-costume.

* Franchise/SpiderMan, during a time when he was wanted by the police ([[ContinuityLockout long story]]) and had set up four different alter egos (All with different "Superpowers" and known collectively as "The [[PunnyName Slingers]]"), once did this while fighting Bloodscream and Roughhouse (two of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s rogues), changing costumes so fast the two bad guys actually ''thought'' they were fighting four different guys!

* Similar to the OoT example above, Link in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' can change into his myriad of outfits instantaneously from theh pause menu. This can lead to situations like changing Link's clothes while he's clinging to a sheer cliff hundreds of feet up, or most egregiously, changing into his female disguise right in front of the guards to Gerudo Town.

* The largely-ignored Capcom game ''VideoGame/{{Beatdown}}: Fists of Vengeance'' for the UsefulNotes/{{P|layStation2}}S2 actually requires you to change clothes in order to lower the levels of the "enemy detection meters", one for gang members and one for police (they usually run independently of each other). Of course, buying clothes costs money, but changing clothes (either at the clothing store or in the closet of your home-base bar) is free. Ironically, simply changing to a different COLOR of the same outfit will still lower your detection meters despite looking almost exactly the same as the outfit you just changed out of.

** Justified in the case of Barry and other speedsters, as they can easily change clothes with their super speed. However, one episode has Cisco needing to go and help Ralph when the latter gets into trouble. In one scene, he is wearing his normal clothes, in the next, he jumps through [[ThinkingUpPortals one of his portals]] fully suited up with no explanation as to how he was able to do so that fast, and Barry is in prison at the time, so it couldn't have been him. At least the scene after that still has him in the suit without the jacket, but the sudden change in clothes in the previous scene is still jarring.

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* Subverted in [[http://www.whompcomic.com/2014/02/17/guitarred-and-fettered/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Whomp}}'' strip.

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* In-between ''VideoGame/GoldenSun2001'' and ''[[VideoGame/GoldenSunTheLostAge The Lost Age]]'', Felix manages to change his cape and pants. [[spoiler:IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN.]]

* ''VideoGame/CocoppaDolls'': Everyone would do the Fashion Check anywhere and anytime when there’s a CocoDoll nearby. Justified, since they need the Tokimeki that bad.

* Franchise/SpiderMan, during a time when he was wanted by the police ([[ContinuityLockout long story]]) and had set up four different alter egos (All with different "Superpowers" and known collectively as "The [[PunnyName Slingers]]"), once did this while fighting [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Bloodscream and Roughhouse]] (two of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s rogues), changing costumes so fast the two bad guys actually ''thought'' they were fighting four different guys!

* In ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' some characters have changed outfits in a few seconds by simply turning their Icons upside down or double clicking them (depending on the season). In games they instantly change outfits when they [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull Re]][[TitleDrop Boot]]. Since the show is InsideAComputerSystem, [[MST3KMantra nobody cares about this.]]

* In ''Videogame/LANoire'' you can change clothes from the pause menu at any time, even right in the middle of a shootout or fistfight, or while driving. Since [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman some of the suits give you buffs]] (shoot more accurately, carry more ammunition, punch harder, take more damage before getting knocked down), this comes in handy.