Invisible Main Character: Difference between revisions

** Daniel goes out of phase in "Crystal Skull"; the only person who can see him is his grandfather, who's spent the last few decades in an insane asylum.

*** Daniel is not only invisible and intangible. He also doesn't experience hunger, thirst, or the need to relieve himself. When he realizes this, he assumes it's because he's dead. Of course, this is never brought up again.

* Done in an episode of ''[[Round the Twist]]'', titled "Linda Godiva". The title is in reference to the way the [[Invisible Streaker]] heroine helps another character win a horse race--after all, Linda is invisible, but her clothing isn't. In the end, the rider accidentally turns her visible again, just in time for her to ride off (nude, hence the episode's title) into the sunset as the credits start.

** In a two-part story in 2004, a magic ukulele makes Snuffy invisible, but he drops the ukulele while invisible and it breaks. He doesn't become visible again until the ukulele is repaired and brought back to Sesame Street.

* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Gone", Buffy wreaked havoc and had invisible sex with Spike. In "Fear Itself", Xander experienced the visible-to-the-audience variation due to a demon exploiting his fear of being ignored.

* "Gillian of the Spirits" is an example where the out-of-phase character is perceived by another character.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the ''[[Peanuts]]'' special ''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'', Snoopy turns Charlie Brown invisible during his magic act. At first Charlie laments becoming a "lost soul", but then he discovers that he can kick the football off Lucy's hand before she pulls it away, which he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|takes advantage of.]] Naturally, he becomes visible again just as he is attempting the kick a second time.

* In the [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''Water, Water Every Hare'', Bugs douses himself in vanishing fluid to attempt escape from a [[Mad Scientist]]. It backfires when said scientist subsequently uses "Hare Restorer" to render him visible again.

* ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]'': Jimmy did this, in a way, by creating shoes that make him run so fast that nobody can see him. He abuses this ability to play mean tricks on all his friends.

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': Timmy once wishes to make himself invisible to keep from being beat up by the school bully. He uses this opportunity to scare the entire student body.

* An odd variation happens in two episodes of ''[[South Park]]'', In one Cartman believes he is invisible/dead because everybody is intentionally ignoring him, and another has him use a fake superpower of invisibility. In both episodes, everyone but him knows that he is not invisible.