Basic Trope: A cartoon animal (or other non-human) that wears an accessory instead of a whole outfit.
- Straight: Paula the Platypus doesn't wear any clothes, but she wears a scarf.
- Exaggerated:
- Paula wears a whole bunch of accessories, including a hat, scarf, gloves, and some shoes, but never any proper clothes.
- Paula's outfit goes to Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal territory.
- Downplayed: Paula wears a collar and/or identification tag, two accessories that Real Life animals are very prone to wearing.
- Justified:
- Paula has no reason to wear a full outfit - for instance, if Animals Lack Attributes is in effect.
- Paula just likes wearing a scarf.
- Paula doesn't fit in clothing due to her unusual body shape, but wants to wear something anyway.
- Inverted: Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Subverted: Although Paula is introduced as seemingly only wearing a scarf, she has Nude-Colored Clothes on.
- Double Subverted: She only wears the Nude-Colored Clothes sometimes.
- Parodied: Paula loses her scarf, and her neck is blurred out while everyone starts commenting on how she's naked now.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Paula wears more of an outfit, but sometimes she doesn't.
- Averted:
- There are no non-humans in the setting.
- Any non-human characters wear regular outfits, or nothing at all.
- Enforced:
- The character designers couldn't imagine what Paula would look like in proper clothing (for instance, her tail would get in the way of pants), but felt that making her a Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal wouldn't look right either.
- Paula is given an accessory to tell her apart from other platypus characters in the work.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Paula, Please Put Some Clothes On."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I always wonder why fictional animals rarely wear any clothing aside from some accessories."
- Implied:
- It's not entirely clear if Paula is wearing other clothes due to the show's fairly simplistic art style, but she is wearing a scarf.
- Paula is The Ghost, but other characters mention how she only wears a scarf.
- Played for Laughs:
- Paula loses her scarf and it's treated as Naked People Are Funny.
- Paula tries to put on clothing and has an Epic Fail.
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