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See also [[Visible Invisibility]]. This is another method to [[See the Invisible]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' has an episode where [[Beware the Nice Ones|Kiriko shows her stuff]]. She changes into a skintight battlesuit with a cloaking device, which seems to do the traveling blink right after every pirate she kills. This very nicely shows how much blood she's managed to get herself covered in, and just how damn scary her scowling face looks.
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** This becomes the plot point of an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', where Worf is on trial for destroying a Klingon transport ship. Worf was waiting for a Klingon Bird-of-Prey to do an Invisibility Flicker before raiding the convoy and fired at it as soon as he saw the blink, which turned out to be the transport decloaking. Of course, {{spoiler|the Klingons set up an empty transport ship in order to set up Worf for murder, expecting his kneejerk reaction}}.
* The {{spoiler|Nox}} in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "The Nox" turned invisible, but then would reappear when {{spoiler|healing or resurrecting someone.}}
* Shadow battleships from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' were not invisible but they phased in from hyperspace in a very blink-like manner (every other type of ship needs to open a
== Tabletop Games ==
* In most varieties of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', "attacking" cancels out invisibility spells or items affecting a character. But not bashing inanimate objects with a club, or stabbing a willing target, or opening a cage with dangerous things in it. It's apparently a very intelligent spell...though really, how hard is it to detect "directly inflicting harm on an unwilling target"? Anyway, it is the literal truth (in most cases) that [[A Wizard Did It]].
** Then there's ''greater invisibility'', which subverts the trope - ''nothing'' makes it blink until its duration runs out. One gets the feeling a very bruised wizard looked at the ''invisibility'' spell in his spellbook, muttered, "Sod this!" and began to touch it up with a pencil. Of course, this version has a much shorter duration, but it's frequently worth it.
** Which is why some of the Fairy-type monsters are such godawful bastards to fight. Pixies have ungodly dexterity, NPC ones usually carry ''memory-erasing crossbow bolts'', and they can use greater invisibility ''whenever they damn well feel like it.'' In fact, the 2nd edition "Book of humanoids" explained that a pixie was ''naturally invisible''. It actually used magic to make itself visible when it needed to.
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