Invisibility Flicker: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Shadow]]'' in the film of the same name.

* [[Star Trek]]'s Klingon and Romulan combat starships have cloaking fields that must be turned off in order to attack. The Klingons managing to overcome this technical difficulty is a major plot point of ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country]]''.

 

 

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has these for a couple of the main characters. Cyborg Ninja, being a [[Conservation of Ninjitsu|lone ninja out for blood]], seems to blink back into view whenever he does anything more exciting than strolling down a hallway. And sometimes even then.

** Solid Snake not only disrupts his cloaking device, but outright wrecks it during the opening sequence of the second game. He casually tossed his rain jacket aside, lept off a bridge, and made a 10 point landing on the boat below; the cloak completely dies in flurry of discharged electricity. This entrance also made it into ''[[Super Smash Bros]]. Brawl''.

* In ''[[Civilization]] III'', certain units are invisible--primarily submarines. On the relatively barren ocean-type tiles, the shortest path usually goes around them, and it's not a problem. But when the game inserted invisible land-based units, such as assassins, it quickly became clear that trying to move onto a space with an assassin would automatically start a fight, even declaring a war when there was none! (Normally in such cases you're given the option not to attack.)

** Another, worse, problem: The AI doesn't seem to mind declaring war in order to get a unit to wherever it wants as long as the AI SEES no one there. As a result, the AI can declare war because a submarine of his was where the AI decided to move a ship.