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In short: The [[Mundane Solution]] applied to specific types of [[Invisible Main Character]]s: those who, due to [[Rule of Funny]], [[Rule of Drama|Drama]], or [[Rule of Sexy|Sexy]], don't have invisible [[Magic Pants]] and consequently have to strip to make use of their power. A specific type of [[Naked People Are Funny|nudity as humor]]. Of course, expect the whole thing to wear off just a little bit too early. Depending on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]], expect [[Exposed to the Elements]] (and other side effects of being naked and unseen outside) to come into play, or [[Bellisario's Maxim|be outright ignored]]. This may also serve as a way of averting [[Right Through His Pants]] without showing anything the target audience may dislike.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Translucent]]'', Okouchi's embarrassing book of poetry is accidentally taken home by the main male character. She begs Shizuka to sneak into his house to steal it before he notices.
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== Fan Works ==
* Paul in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' etc. That's because he wears an illusion for clothing anyway, so he just switches his clothing illusion for invisibility.
* Klar from ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'' is forced to deploy on missions like this, at least until he manages to reproduce his invisibility in several sheep, from which invisible wool clothing (and booties) can be made.
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* Mostly averted in ''Invisible Inc.'': Chip fell into the magic spring while fully dressed, and has kept that set of clothes safe ever since. Of course, once he grows a bit...
* In ''Smoke'' by Donald Westlake, a small-time crook accidentally gets turned invisible after getting turned into a guinea pig by two [[Camp Gay]] (yes, it becomes relevant) skin cancer researchers. Westlake obviously did his research, as the titular character has to deal with all of the troubles of invisibility including exposure to the elements, having to fast to avoid having half-digested food showing, and being noticed at one point by a blind man.
* In the short story ''Hershey's Kisses'' by Ron Goulart (contained in ''The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II'' by Michael Ashley et al.), a young man in trouble with his (young, hot, female, hates him) new boss runs into a wizard. He ends up trying to save his career by doing this, breaking & entering, and kissing the magic tattoo on her butt [[Rule of Three|three times]] as she sleeps. It wears off prematurely: It turns out she'd hired the wizard in a gambit to get him to her apartment, naked, as he failed to [[
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' novel ''Pack Animals'', Ianto Jones is invisible for about half of the book. At one point he must sneak into a secret facility and is forced to do so nude, since his invisible clothes were ruined. His teammates also bar him from eating anything beforehand, as a floating blob of digesting food would be noticeable (not to mention disgusting).
* [[Played With]] in one of R.L. Stine's ''[[Ghosts Of Fear Street]]'' books,
* ''[[Wild Cards]]'' plays with it with Wraith, a [[Classy Cat Burglar]] who turns semi-transparent and intangible. However, as she can only do so while holding on to a certain amount of mass and she'd actually like to get away with some of her stolen goods, she performs most of her heists in a mask and bikini.
** The series also features an inversion similar to the ''Vanishing Man'' example listed below—Chrysalis, a Joker whose invisibility is always on and only applies to her skin and hair.
* In one of ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' novels, the book's protagonist finds a [[Lost Colony]] whose settlers have gained strange powers after landing. One of these groups calls themselves Shadows and has
== Live Action TV ==
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Done repeatedly in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''. Of course, Calvin isn't really invisible in any of these [[Imagine Spot]]s...
* The comic strip ''[[Yenny]]'' had an arc in October and November 2005, starting [
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== Video Games ==
* Even ''Princess Peach'' gets in on this one. In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', she has to sneak into the X-Naut leader's office by using an invisibility potion. Of course, she doesn't realize until it's too late that her clothing won't be affected.
* In [http://www.microforuminternational.com/games_Adventure.html Microforum International's]{{Dead link}} [[Mobile Phone Game|mobile phone games]] ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The Invisible Lady'', the player character is nude and invisible, and must collect clothing and four antidote ingredients to become visible again.
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* Mr. Invisible of ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma-Man]]'' reluctantly admits that he is in fact naked.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' turns this trope on its head: In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html this] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|strip]], the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Elan learns that [[RPG Mechanics Verse|wearing less armor makes a person harder to notice]].
{{quote|'''Elan''': Wooooo! I'm invisible!! You can't see me!
'''Roy''': [[Squick|How I wish that were true]]. }}
* In [[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]], while he isn't actually invisible, no one can
* No less a sex symbol than ''[[The Easy Breather]]'' [http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20080623.html plays it straight]. The trope is revisited in the chapter "[http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20100111.html Invisible Again]" and in "[http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20111102.html Memoirs of an Invisible Woman]".
* Can be seen... er, I mean, ''[[The KAMics]]'' used it [https://web.archive.org/web/20130305063652/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4833549/ here] and the next page.
* Averted in ''[[Enjuhneer]]''—Kaji, the invisible roommate, gets offended early in the series when someone assumes she's walking around nude (she later wears a Santa cap to show where she is). Possibly averted, however, as later she insists that she "even bothered to put on pants" when she was forced out into public.
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* ''[[South Park]]'': The episode "Good Times with Weapons" has [[Squick|Cartman]] trying to do this. [[Hilarity Ensues|Which turns out badly]], since he was only pretending to have invisibility powers.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': The cloaking device on the Megadoomer made the vehicle invisible but the pilot was seen floating in the air as the transparent mecha stomped down the street. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Actually, the only hilarity that ensues is when Dib and Zim comment on how stupid a design flaw that is--[[Too Dumb to Live|the average IZ-world civilian]] doesn't seem to think much of the strange green person floating through the air.
* On ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob and Patrick buy an invisibility spray and take off their clothes before using it because the spray stains clothes. Of course, being the imbeciles they are, they end up spraying their clothes anyway.
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'': The villain in "Evil Boyfriend" does this after consuming the invisibility potion.
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': Violet Parr has this problem. Unless she's in her special costume, she and only she turns invisible. As Violet's 15 and this is a Disney-Pixar film, she doesn't actually strip all the way down to get invisible.
** This is actually used as a [[Funny Background Event]] in the second movie, where Violet - visible due to her clothes - raids the refrigerator for ice cream while her dad is talking on the phone.
* ''[[The Big Knights]]'': The Knights use magic invisibility hats to go spying in a neighbouring kingdom, and have to remove their armour and underwear to remain invisible. It's not terribly effective, as they [[Dumb Muscle|aren't the brightest pair]] and still stomp around bellowing and waving their swords, even doffing their hats to a group of shocked [[Nuns Are Funny|nuns]].
* [[Courage the Cowardly Dog|Eustace]] is forced to strip when he has to turn invisible to save his wife from the [[Government Conspiracy|government.]] He keeps wearing his hat and glasses though and [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|the guards]] [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|don't think anything is strange.]] Strangely enough, when Eustace [[It Makes Sense in Context|gets turned into a gold statue]] he's wearing boxers.
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