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Removable Animal Markings

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In fiction, an animal's natural markings, such as a tiger's or a zebra's stripes or a leopard's spots, are often depicted as being removable. They can either be pulled off, washed off like paint, or fall off, yet the rest of their fur stays the same.
Can also apply to the markings on hands and feet, whether white, lighter colored, darker colored, or black, that look like socks, gloves, boots, stockings, slippers, and mittens.
In Real Life, these markings are part of the animals' anatomy and can't be removed any more than the rest of their fur or feathers can. note It's often said that tigers have striped skin, but this is only half true. A shaved tiger would still have stripes for the same reason a shaved man still has a 'beard' — because of their dark follicles.
An unremovable animal marking that looks like an article of clothing is a Clothing Appendage.
Sister Trope to Removable Shell and Fur Is Clothing.

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Looney Tunes: The white ring marking around Daffy's neck is sometimes removable or treated as a necklace or collar.
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In one episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger loses his stripes during a bath. With his stripes gone, he is convinced he is no longer a Tigger.
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There is a Garfield strip where one of his stripes comes off while Jon is bathing him.
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Downplayed in Sesame Street with Abby Cadabby's freckles. They're mostly normal, but in one episode, she gets a disease that makes them fall off.
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During the soccer game in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, King Leonidas roars so loud it blows the spots off a cheetah.
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Downplayed with Mabari warpaints in Dragon Age: Origins: your Mabari warhound can equip different warpaints, changing patterns on its back. This does not just change the aesthetics, but gives it different stat boosts.
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In the Goofy short "Tiger Trouble", Goofy's elephant sits on the tiger. When the tiger gets up, he finds that all his stripes are gone; they are now stuck on the elephant's behind.
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The titular Ferocious Beast from Maggie and the Ferocious Beast sometimes loses his spots.
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From Tex Avery MGM Cartoons:
In the short "Slap-Happy Lion", a lion's roar scares a zebra right out of its stripes, which stay in place. Another roar and the stripes themselves run off.
In the short "Half-Pint Pygmy", the titular Living Macguffin throws a coconut at George and Junior, which also hits other animals including a zebra whose stripes fall like rings in a ring toss and a cheetah whose spots come off its body like coins.
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