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{{quote|''"Hello everyone! I'm Amy's imaginary friend. But I came anyway."''|'''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]'''}}
Unlike an [[Imaginary Friend]], a Not-So-Imaginary Friend is '''real''', but due to a pile-up of coincidences, [[By the Eyes of the Blind|mystical restrictions]], an explicit or implied [[Weirdness Censor]], or deliberate evasiveness on this character's part, he remains unseen by others.
Generally, by the end of the episode, this character's existence has been proven and the person seeing it gets vindicated, but not always.
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* Maromi from [[Paranoia Agent]]. [[Mind Screw|Or is it?]]
* England and his magical friends from "[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]"- nobody else, save for Norway perhaps, can see them, so they think he's delusional when they catch him talking to or about them, but the fact that he saw a tengu and a youkai when he was at Japan's house as well proves that Flying Mint Bunny and the others have to be real as well.
* [[Our Fairies Are Different|Puck the elf]] fills this role in ''[[Berserk]]''. Since normal people who have never experienced the supernatural or who are devout followers of the Holy See religion [[Invisible to Normals|can't see supernatural creatures,]] anyone who encounters Guts often wonder who the hell he is talking to over his shoulder.
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* In ''[[Curtis]]'', there's Gunk's pet "Flyspeck Island chameleon", who's constantly breaking things and creating other types of havoc and getting Curtis in trouble with his parents, who assume he's making the creature up. It doesn't help that the chameleon has the power of invisibility.
* ''[[The Family Circus]]'' has occasional appearances by invisible, troublemaking ghosts or gremlins with names like "Not Me" and "Ida Know". While they're obviously meant to be a [[Visual Pun]] on the time-honored tendency of children to deny responsibility when confronted with their misdeeds, it seems as if the gremlins actually exist in the universe of the strip, even if the parents deny their existence.
* One ''[[Far Side]]'' cartoon involves a man being forcibly lifted by his shirt collar off the ground; the person lifting him is invisible both to him and to the reader. An angry-looking little kid explains, "Big Bob is tired of you saying he doesn't exist."
* In Richard Thompson's ''[[Cul De Sac]]'' newspaper strip, Petey has a friend/nemesis Ernesto, an overbearing, insufferably smug fellow - Petey isn't sure if he really exists or not.
* The Red Dragon in ''[[Bone]]''.
* Then-[[The Flash|Flash]] Wally West eventually learns his imaginary alien friend, Krakkl of Kwyzz, is not only real, but a speedster like himself
* [[Stanley and His Monster|Stanley's]] "imaginary" friend, The Monster.
* ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' has an [[Ascended Fangirl]]/[[Stalker with a Crush]] named She-Dragon, who had seemingly imaginary friends as a result of her initial creation as a parody of John Byrne's fourth-wall-breaking [[She Hulk]]. Eventually, however, the voices she was hearing turned out to belong to a group of demigods trapped in another dimension who had a psychic link with her.
* One ''[[Off the Mark]]'' strip showed a group of these characters gathered: [[The Flintstones|The Great Gazoo]], [[Rose Is Rose|Pasquale's guardian angel]], [[Calvin and Hobbes|Hobbes]], [[Arthur|DW's magical friend]], [[The Family Circus|Ida Know, and Not Me]], with Hobbes saying "Let's not forget... [[Sesame Street|Snuffleupagus]] started out just like us and now ''everybody'' can see him!". The caption is "Invisible Friend Support Group".
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** This gets repeated in the final episode, thanks to some [[Timey-Wimey Ball|odd circumstances]], leading to {{spoiler|him becoming real again after having been erased from reality}}, and the page quote.
** Lampshaded with the BBC America intro, which reminds viewers ''every week'' that when Amy "was a little girl, [she] had an imaginary friend, and when [she] grew up, he came back..."
** The Tenth Doctor apparently becomes this to young Reinette in "The Girl in the Fireplace" after popping out of her fireplace, saving her from a clockwork robot, and disappearing again when she was a little girl.
{{quote|'''Rose:''' Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?
'''The Doctor:''' Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat, picked a fight with a clockwork man... }}
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