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* In E. W. Hildick's juvenile mystery series ''Literature/GhostSquad'', ghosts always appear in the clothes they died in, but explicitly not the ''condition'' they died in. This is mostly used for opening sequences about how inappropriate the ghost's attire is for their surroundings, before [[TheReveal revealing the reason]].

* Thaddeus Binx in ''Film/HocusPocus'' as well as his sister Emily both appear as ghosts at the end of the film wearing the clothing they basically died in. Same goes for the Sanderson Sisters, though they're 'alive' until the sun comes up.

* Look up any martyred saint of the Roman Catholic tradition, you'll find them either outfitted with the instrument of their execution (St. Andrew with his X-shaped cross, St. Catherine leaning on her wheel) or perhaps holding their own body parts: St. Lucy will be holding an extra set of eyes on a plate (as will St. Agatha with a set of breasts -- look it up if you don't believe me), St. Bartholomew is sometimes shown holding his own skin, and St. Denis is always carrying around his own head. Guess Heaven doesn't come with health insurance...

* ''Film/TheSixthSense'': [[spoiler:All the clothes that Dr. Crowe wore throughout the entire movie were clothes that he wore at some point during the night he died.]]
** While the other ghosts are also wearing the same clothing from time periods that they died in, they were shown with gashes, wounds, blood, and nooses they are hanged from like the woman in a bathrobe with a black eye and scars on her wrists hence that she died from cutting herself and the vomiting girl who died from being poisoned.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Force ghosts follow this rule, looking as old or young as they did upon the time of death, and wearing the same clothes. The exception is Anakin Skywalker, who despite dying in full Darth Vader regalia, missing limbs, and with a disfigured head, reverts to what he would have looked like in more benign circumstances. He was later changed to Hayden Christiansen's Anakin, so maybe that was supposed to be his appearance when he was [[ThatManIsDead killed by Darth Vader.]] The robes are still different, though.
** One of the novels mentions that you appear how you think of yourself. Thus, the Jedi are all in their customary robes, the Sith are in their armor, and Anakin views himself as the young man before he fell.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the ghost of the dead lumberjack haunting the Northwest Mansion still has the axe that killed him lodged in his head. At the end [[spoiler:when he fades away, the axe remains and falls to the ground, showing that it was a real axe and not part of the ghostly apparition.]]

* Most of the ghosts in the ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostBusters'' that are the souls of dead people (and no, not all of them are, at least in the show) retain most of their clothing, including the zombie farmers in Ray's Farm (keep their farm attire), the ghosts of old Scotish soldiers in Ray's castle (including traditional Scotish cloth), the skeleton pirates (with pirate attire of course) and the ghost uncle in "Cry Uncle".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRickyGervaisShow'': This becomes a topic of discussion when Karl explains why this trope is the reason he doesn't want to donate his eyes after death, saying he doesn't want to spend the afterlife as a blind ghost. This eventually leads to a hypothetical, where Karl is killed in a meteor strike while having a prostate exam, forcing him to live on as a ghost with a doctor's hand up his rear end. Karl answers with "then it's best not to have your eyes" and Ricky ''loses it.''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' episode "Heavenly Puss", we see cat heaven, and there are several cats queuing for enter. Starting with one who lost a fight to a dog and still had all his bandages (and even the dog teeth on his tail), one with a CranialEruption from being hit in the head, and one completely flat due to ben run over by a train.
* [[TheParody Parodied]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Dr Orpheus travels to the seventh layer of Hell itself [[spoiler: looking for the souls of his neighbor's deceased children]]. On his quest, he meets two damned souls frozen in ice, one of them dressed up like a Roman warrior, who tells him that he once served the mighty Caesar. The other then cuts him off, calling him a liar. Turns out they both died at a costume party.

* The Malaysian urban legend of the Upside-down {{Revenant}}: A man repeatedly cheated on his fiancée before their wedding, resulting in the heartbroken fiancée eventually being DrivenToSuicide by throwing herself off a tall balcony. The man is guilty of indirectly causing her death at first, but got over it until weeks later, he's repeatedly haunted by an omen of his fiancée coming back to haunt him. Confessing to his mother about his involvement on the fiancée's death, his mother warns him of an old folk tale that the VengefulGhost of a jilted lover will come back to haunt him on the 100th day anniversary of her death. The man decides there's nowhere to run, but he will hide himself under the bed on the 100th day anniversary to avoid the ghost of his fiancée.

It doesn't work, despite hiding under his bed, his fiancée finds him and kills him anyway. Why? Because it turns out she ''landed on her head''.

* Tomoharu in ''LightNovel/AsuraCryin'' questions his ghost girl follower Misao on why this trope doesn't apply to her. Misao responds in turn that it "would be boring." While it's not entirely clear how a ghost girl can change her clothes, Misao can.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': The trope is explained as a ghost's clothes being a projection of their soul, based on their memories of their life. The witch Azusa helps the CuteGhostGirl Rosalie [[DefiedTrope defy it]] by magically reinforcing her memories of the new outfit she wants to wear until it manifests on her.

* ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' has two ghosts, [[InsistentTerminology or "kindred spirits," as they'd like to be called]], who wear {{Sailor Fuku}} uniforms that the school presumably used to have as its uniform; Sachi died 80 years ago and Megumi died 30 years ago, hence why neither one's uniform resembles the vaguely blazer-style uniform the current generation of high schoolers wear.

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