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* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' reverses this. Its main character wears special glasses that ''hide'' the "lines of death" [[Cursed with Awesome|which he is otherwise forced to see]].

* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' took this trope and applied it to a pair of eyes that the title character created and implanted in a painter. The eyes allowed him to see light and color spectra that normal humans couldn't see. Unfortunately, this caused him to see all sorts of [[Eldritch Abomination]] that are usually invisible to humans. {{spoiler|He ends up falling in love with one of them}}. It is not insignificant to note that this is one of the ''happier'' endings in the series.

* It's not quite the glasses that does it in ''[[ARAGO]]'' - it's rather the cream that Joe applies to them that gives him the ability to see the monsters and ghosts in London otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

* This is how [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Kazumi]] learned the truth about Yuuji's [[Dead to Begin With|status as a]] [[MacGuffin Girl|Torch]] in ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', after she was given an eyepiece that allowed normal humans like herself to see the waning flame of a human-turned-Torch (which, under normal circumstances, would mean that said human would soon [[Ret-Gone|retroactively vanish from existence]]).

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' adventure "The Fungi From Yuggoth". It has a pair of spectacles that allowed the wearer to see into another dimension (with the usual impossible angles and bizarre perspectives). Each time you uses them, there is a chance you could see a monster that could attack and kill you if you didn't take them off in time.

** Which is basically a man-portable version of the Tillinghast Resonator from [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s story "[[From Beyond]]".

* Much gameplay in ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' revolves around using your military-grade goggles at opportune points. Night vision is easily explained away, otherwise you'd be playing a black screen half the time. But Thermal vision that lets you see landmines? "Electromagnetic" vision that conveniently reveals only equipment that you can interact with?

** In a data stick provided by a dead/unconscious enemy, the mines are designed to be visible to thermal cameras so that allies can see the mines and avoid them. [[Makes Sense in Context]]

* ''[[Quest for Glory II]]'' has X-ray specs which can be bought at one point in the game and serve no purpose other than to [[Easter Egg|let you see]] [[Fan Service|pixelated boobies]]. And [[Karma Meter|take a bite out of your Honor]].

* One of the functions of the Demon Summoning Program in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: Strange Journey'' is to turn the electronic HUD of your Demonica armor into one of these—only [[By the Eyes of the Blind|someone with this program installed to their Demonica]] can see the demons inhabiting the Schwarzwelt—and even then, it has limitations.

* The opening of ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Animated Series'' shows a special visor that lets you see if someone is an alien in disguise.

* In the episode "Germs", [[Invader Zim]] bought a pair of goggles that allowed him to see the (normally invisibly tiny) [[Nightmare Fuel|teeming masses of bacteria covering everything and everyone]]. They even came in a [[Hard Light|holographic trial version]].

* In the first ''[[Winx Club]]'' movie, Bloom's sister Daphne gives her her mask, which allows Bloom to see her home planet Domino/Sparks as it looked before the Ancestral Witches froze it.

 

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