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* Happens early in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', right before {{spoiler|Botan reveals herself to Yusuke the second time.}} Yusuke caught the little demon bare-handed, and this was his general reaction.
* In ''[[Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!|Fight Ippatsu Juuden Chan]]'', Charger Girls use a cloaking system to hide themselves from the populace of Earth (normally, they're transparent, but can still be seen). This system also makes them intangible. However, for some reason, this cloaking system has absolutely no effect on Sento. Which Plug discovers via a baseball bat to the head when she assumes Sento can't possibly be referring to her. Alastar makes the same discovery in a similar manner.
* The way Cain and [[Battle Butler|Riff]] first met in ''[[Godchild]]''. Cain wasn't actually
* Also applies to the overall reaction Sayo has when someone sees her in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Especially the first time.
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* In ''[[Ghost Town (film)|Ghost Town]]'', this is the ghosts' initial reaction to Pincus.
* In ''[[Erik the Viking]]'', Erik charges into battle with a rag on his head, which he had previously used to make himself invisible to his lover's father. What he doesn't realise is that the rag only makes him invisible to ''that one guy''. So instead of an invisible warrior, he's actually an unnervingly confident guy with a dishcloth on his head. After winning the battle single-handedly he discovers he was visible the whole time, and promptly faints.
* A female troll says this to [[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] et al. when they see through her glamor using magical lenses. However, the audience can also only see her as nonhuman when someone's looking through the
* Averted in ''[[Just Like Heaven]]''. Elizabeth discovers David can see her before discovering no one else can.
* In ''Susie Q'', only Zach can see Susie, {{spoiler|a ghost who died forty years earlier, because he's in possession of the bracelet she wore when she died.}}
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* In ''Things Not Seen'' by Andrew Clements, the main character Bobby does one of these towards the end of the book
* In ''[[Clever Polly and The Stupid Wolf]]'', the Wolf thinks he's made himself invisible and has tested it by acting outrageously in public. Naturally, people have been shocked by the mysterious sounds coming from nowhere... right? Polly eventually persuades him he is visible, and he sneaks away in shame without eating her.
* The Unicorn in [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'' goes almost unrecognized in her travels, as decades of unbelief cause people to see her as a horse. Only a handful of marginalized people can truly see
* Also, in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' EU novel ''Dark Apprentice'', when Luke is turned into an invisible Force Ghost, only his (toddler) niece and nephew can see him.
* In the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, Kahlan's first encounter with the pristinely ungifted after she was hidden by the Chainfire spell. She may not have said it, but she was certainly surprised. In a curious inversion in the same series, Adie sees using magic, so the first time she encounters a pristinely ungifted person, she is confused because she is unable to see them.
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