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Line 6: Originally a 1987 [[Science Fiction]] novel by H. F. Saint, it was adapted to a 1992 movie starring [[Chevy Chase]] and Daryl Hannah. The book analyzed what effects invisibility would have on an average person who kept his morality, and the movie tried to do the same. The book was a small success; the movie was considerably less well-received. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes used in the novel: ===~~ * [[Attempted Rape]]: Richard, a friend of Nick's friend George, forces himself on Nick's [[Romantic Interest]], Alice, at one point. Nick, present but unknown to either party at the time, throws Richard off. * [[Blessed with Suck]]: Nick desperately wants to find a way to become visible again, although he gives up {{spoiler\|when the scientist who might be able to figure out how to make that happen gets assassinated}}. * [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Nick eventually figures out a way to make his lack of the usual ~~invisiblity~~invisibility [[Required Secondary Powers]] work for him. {{spoiler\|When Jenkins corners him at a construction site, Jenkins sees where Nick brushed against some dust. When the view goes to where Nick really is, Nick is holding his jacket to the side, and throws it off the building to fake suicide.}} * [[Despair Event Horizon]]: At the end, Nick reaches this, tired of being unable to live normally and of being hunted by the CIA, and he jumps to his death from a construction site. {{spoiler\|Except he faked it, figuring that nobody would bother to look for him if they thought he was dead.}} * [[I Just Want to Be Normal]] Line 22: === Tropes used only in the movie: === * [[The Film of the Book]] * [[Tom Hanks Syndrome]]: Attempted by Chevy Chase here, who only gets a couple of wan one-liners, no more than any other actor would expect. Didn't work so well for him, though. * [[Visible Invisibility]]: Switches between types 1 and 5, though mirrors and camera footage always work as type 5. Additionally, in one scene where Nick is invisible on screen he gets rained on, and we see the shimmery outline of raindrops on him. Line 30 ⟶ 29: [[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] [[Category:Memoirs of an Invisible Man]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] [[Category:Film]]