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** Subverted in Star Trek VI (see "Film") when General Chang develops a bird of prey that can fire while cloaked... proving over the course of the movie that it's good for more than just taking out enemies.
*** Even here, we get a partial blink when Chang fires torpedoes and briefly lights up part of the hull.
** Subverted also in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' with the ''Scimitar'', which can fire while cloaked; there's a whole scene devoted to Picard figuring out how to counteract this.
*** The ''Countdown'' comic (prequel to the ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film) shows that this ''Scimitar'' was only the first of many. Apparently, the Remans have made at least two more. It is unknown if all of them are equipped with impenetrable cloaks that allow a ship to fire, engage shields, and enter warp without becoming visible. It can be assumed they lack the thalaron weapon, though.
** This becomes the plot point of an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|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}}.
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* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]: Oblivion'' there were two types of invisibility spells. One was called "invisibility" and made you invisible until you interacted with an object (Like a door), got in a fight, or the spell wore off. The other, called chameleon, made you translucent and refractive in what was probably the most badass effect in the game. However, chameleon worked as a percentage, so it was still possible for enemies to see you even at 99% chameleon. [[Game Breaker|If you got 100% chameleon, however...]]
** 100% chameleon also had the effect of making you completely transparent. Much fun is to be had in cloaking to 100%, riding a horse around, and convincing friends that you had turned yourself into a horse.
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* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Two Thrones'', there is an enemy who is invisible (but makes a very obvious metallic sound) until you hit them. This is unbalanced somewhat by the combat lock on system still working even if the Prince can't see his enemy, so you can swipe your sword around randomly until you hit them.
** And this is different from what you could do if you couldn't detect them at all how?
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