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{{quote|''"I'm the invisible man''<br />
''I'm the invisible man''<br />
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Some coping mechanisms for permanent invisibility:
* The 1958 series hero could do no better than to bandage his face.
* In the 1975 series, McCallum's character was rendered visible via a [[Latex Perfection]] mask that was created by literally painting latex onto his skin.
* The ''[[Gemini Man]]'' had a small, fragile device which held his invisibility -- and the certain death it brought with overuse -- at bay.
* Alexa Hamilton used flesh-colored [[Body Paint]], a brunet wig and contact lenses.
* The hero of the Sci-Fi Channel series wasn't permanently invisible, but the artificial gland implanted in his brain that allowed him to become invisible also caused him to go insane if he wasn't regularly injected with a special "counteragent". This was due to the gland being sabotaged during its creation by a traitorous scientist planning to sell it and make the buyers dependent on him to provide the counter agent. Ironically, said scientist {{spoiler|ended up becoming permanently invisible later on (though he got better)}}.
* The invisible man of the film of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' uses [[
It is also interesting to note that the overwhelming majority of shows with [[Invisibility]] use the same setup: The person is the product of a government experiment, usually military, and becomes an agent for a top secret government anti-crime task force. While this setup is not limited to this power, the fact that the two are so often coincident probably leads to a lot of [[Recycled Script|Recycled Scripts]]. Expect newly invisible characters to make a point out of realizing that [[I Can't See Myself|they can't see themselves]].
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* [[A Wizard Did It|Magic.]]
[[Invisible Streaker|Implied nudity]] is another recurring element: Regardless of the invisible character's sex, clothing is seldom affected. Indeed, [[Rule
It may be interesting to note that whatever the parameters of the invisibility -- permanent or non-permanent, affecting clothes or only the body, voluntary or involuntary, these will usually be taken as the "obvious" properties of invisibility, without any need to explain why they should work according to those rules instead of one of the other permutations. (Note for example the opening monologue to the Sci Fi Channel's ''[[The Invisible Man (TV)|The Invisible Man]]'', which cites [[The Invisible Man (Literature)|the H.G. Wells story]], but implies that character's invisibility was non-permanent and voluntarily controlled.)
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