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This can be explained in multiple ways. Invisibility as a drug or innate ability may only affect the natural body, leaving clothing and other external objects out of luck. A person's original clothing may have turned invisible as well, but that's no guarantee that they will remain intact. A [[Literal Genie]] may make the person invisible, and ''just'' the person.
Ultimately, if this trope is in play, expect the [[Mundane Solution]] to come up -- since no one (by definition) can see the invisible person, going around naked is an acceptable solution to being unable to make other things invisible. This can make using the power downright difficult, especially in [[Exposed to
This can also be downright [[Rule of Funny|hilarious]], as [[Naked People Are Funny|the insinuation of nudity]] as well as the reactions to such is classic comedy. It can also be played equally [[Rule of Drama|dramatically]] -- a person trapped in this state would be unable to interact with the outside world directly, outside of wearing a burqa or similar clothing all the time. There's also an inherent [[Rule of Sexy|sexuality]] to the concept -- many aversions of this trope are specifically used due the producers wanting to avoid risque situations.
In short: The [[Mundane Solution]] applied to specific types of [[Invisible Main Character|Invisible Main Characters]]: 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
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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.
* ''[[Ghost in
** It actually went back toward its origin — in the original manga, the thermo-optic camouflage uniform wasn't revealing in the slightest, perhaps oddly considering Masamune Shirow's [[Author Appeal]].
* In ''[[Tenshi
* Done in ''[[Alabaster]]'' by the father of manga, [[Osamu Tezuka]]. The normally lethal invisibility ray hit Ami Ozawa while she was still in the womb, leaving her permanently invisible. Alabaster, the main villain, kidnaps her and breaks her will, and she helps him perform several jewelry heists by simply doing them naked. What finally causes her to do a full blown [[Face Heel Turn]], however, is the [[Complete Monster|FBI Agent]] [[Moral Event Horizon|raping her]], then covering her in hideously colored paint stripes that she can't remove.
* In [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s ''The Samurai'', the titular samurai descendant is stalked by his rivals, twin ninjas who only differ in that one [[Really Gets Around]] and the other [[Does Not Like Men]]. They make use of this type of invisibility spell in order to further their goal, but the hero's perverted friend figures out what's going on when he accidentally gropes an invisible breast. Just to compound things, it's the man-hater who's invisible. Cue beatings.
* In ''[[Ichiban Ushiro no
* Bouquet in the anime adaptation of ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' has the same power and drawback as Kena above.
* Lucy has to do this in a filler episode of ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. The show being what it is, a group of children run into her on accident and proceed to prod her naked butt out of fascination. When she finally gets to the guild to ask for help Natsu, who finds her more intentionally, finds a much more [[Thanks for
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== Fan Works ==
* Paul in ''[[
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* ''The Man Who Wasn't There'', a 1983 film, did this as well. More [[Fan Service|the female character]] than the male character, mind you.
* Ditto from 1983, ''The Invisible Woman''. In a [[Special Effect Failure]], you can tell that Alexa Hamilton is clothed after she gets [[Covered in Mud]].
* Similarly, in one of ''[[The Invisible Man (
* Virginia Bruce in the original ''The Invisible Woman'' from 1940 didn't have any Magic Pants, either — and getting drunk would turn her invisible, too. This was considered somewhat risqué at the time, despite [[Accidental Pun|nothing being visible]].
* ''[[Hollow Man]]'', being a by-the-books use of [[Invisibility]], has this in it. Of course, the "mission" in this example is, er, rape, but... yeah.
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* Rodney Skinner, the invisible man, in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. He [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this in one scene where he's performing recon in frozen Mongolia.
{{quote| '''Skinner:''' May I remind you, I ''am'' standing naked in the snow? I can't feel any of my extremities, and I mean ''any'' of them.}}
* In ''[[Amazon Women
* The title character of ''[[
== Literature ==
* The [[Ur Example]] would be [[
** [[Fridge Logic]] suggests that Griffin was, in fact, holding the [[Idiot Ball]] when his actions created this trope, as the original novel's invisibility-induction process also worked on ''white fabrics''. Granted, Griffin was always a bit of a nutcase, so his failure to create a suit of invisible clothes may have been a simple oversight. Later adaptations avert this problem by making the source of his invisibility a drug, hence effective only on living things.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]] hits in when you realise (as in one of the above examples) finding where you left your invisible clothes might be difficult
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* 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 [[Love Is Oblivious|recognize her previous hints]]. They find out about the other gambit when the camera crew bursts out of the closet.
* In the ''[[
* [[Played With]] in one of R.L. Stine's ''[[Ghosts Of Fear Street]]'' books (''Go to Your Tomb—Right Now!'') A pair of friends get 12 hours of invisibility from a girl who knows magic; it causes whatever clothes they put on to turn invisible with them, then suddenly turn visible when they undress. Unfortunately, the luck of this is [[Double Subverted]] when {{spoiler|the two decide to take advantage of a closed community pool by going swimming in their underwear. When two of the people who run the pool show up, the friends can't find a way to escape unnoticed—and of course, ''then'' their 12 hours expire}}.
* ''[[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.
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** She's the granddaughter of Griffin, the original invisible man, who was one of the Five who injected themselves with a vampire-derived serum.
*** And yes, Griffin used to strip to fully use his power, such as when infiltrating German camps during [[World War Two]].
* ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'', a 1970s [[NBC]] series, had this come up — until the hero gained [[Magic Pants]].
* Averted in the 1958 British ''Invisible Man'' series, where Dr. Peter Brady had a set of invisible clothes from the beginning: the clothes he was wearing during the accident. Like him, they were ''permanently'' invisible.
* Averted in the 2000 ''[[The Invisible Man (TV series)|The Invisible Man]]'' TV series: The hero turns invisible by secreting a light-bending substance from his skin granted via a gland surgically implanted in his brain. Naturally, this substance also covers his clothes.
** This was revealed to be a nice side effect that the creators of the gland didn't know about. They didn't realize he could consciously secrete Quicksilver on any object.
* In the 1998 ITV drama ''Vanishing Man'' played not only this trope but also [[Just Add Water]] -- the titular character had to be wet to be invisible. [[Hilarity Ensues|This led to some funny moments]] when he dries out. ''For example'', when he's following someone in a car by clinging to the roof rack, said car overtakes a lorry, much to the lorry driver's shock he is overtaken by a car with a naked man clinging to the roof rack, thankfully it starts to rain before the car reaches it's destination.
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* In an episode of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Justin is turned invisible by Alex's careless wording of a wish to a [[Literal Genie]]. Justin strips off his pyjamas so his parents won't notice him, leaving him naked in a room with his parents and his sister. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as Alex attempts to prevent the parents from accidentally sitting on him, etc.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[The X-Files]]''. Two moronic brothers find an actual genie, and begin asking for wishes, with [[Literal Genie|typical results]]. One brother asks to become invisible. He immediately strips down and goes out to have fun with his newfound power. He has a great time for about five minutes, then gets hit by a truck. Scully has to fingerprint dust the entire body just to see it, and is completely flummoxed by being confronted by something that is clearly physically impossible.
* On an episode of ''[[Big Wolf
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Planet of the Daleks'' mainly averts this with the Spiridons but plays it straight with Wester's first appearance, or rather, the lack thereof, so to speak. Then subverted when the Doctor & Co. try to pass themselves off as Spiridons, by covering themselves with Spiridon garb, but a Dalek notices that the party's feet are clearly visible.
* Elaine Joyce plays the trope straight in an episode of ''[[Fantasy Island]]''.
* There was a Japanese TV drama series in the 1990s (does anyone know the title?) about a photojournalist who had special pills that made him briefly invisible. In one episode, the photojournalist's girlfriend takes some of the pills and becomes invisible. While nude and invisible, she pulls pranks such as pushing a couple off their bench into a swimming pool.
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Wishful Thinking", this is how the invisibility of one of the users of the magic wishing well works.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Magic:
== Video Games ==
* Even ''Princess Peach'' gets in on this one. In ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door
* In [http://www.microforuminternational.com/games_Adventure.html Microforum International's] [[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.
== Webcomics ==
* Mr. Invisible of ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma
* ''[[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!<br />
'''Roy''': [[Squick|How I wish that were true]]. }}
* In [[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]], while he isn't actually invisible, no one can SEE him... [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1795#comic link]
* No less a sex symbol than ''[[
* Can be seen... er, I mean, ''[[The
* 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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== Web Original ==
* This happens in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': Evolution, when Jay Harland's "Nocturnal Invisibility" kicks in. It then turns into [[Full-Frontal Assault]] when he attacks Ashlie Jackson.
* [[SCP Foundation
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* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[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.
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