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* Used by ''[[RoboCop]]'' to surreptitiously pinpoint the location of a hostage-taker; after that it's just a matter of reaching through the wall and grabbing.
* Not a camera, but the monsters of ''[[Tremors|Tremors 2: Aftershocks]]'' see in infrared. And subvert the usual X-Ray properties assumed to go with it; at one point the heroes hide themselves by holding doors in front of their bodies while moving, making themselves nigh-invisible to the beasties. A character also hides in the bucket of a backhoe which, as the monsters are short, they can't look over the sides to see into while milling around.
* Generally subverted in ''[[Predator]]'' when Dutch realized the creature sees in infrared when it couldn't spot him covered in (cooler) mud which temporarily disguised his body heat. When the film shows scenes from the Predator's point of view, the body heat of the humans is blocked by cooler objects in the foreground such as vegetation, just like it really would be. However, in real life, the mud would warm up due to the body heat pretty quickly, as demonstrated by the ''[[
** In the second film, the Predator sees through walls, sadly.
** Interestingly, while the Predator Vision shots are clearly false-colored normal shots, the production did get hold of an infrared camera, initially hoping to shoot with that. Unfortunately, what came out was barely intelligible: turns out IR cameras don't work so good in steaming tropical heat.
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* ''[[NCIS]]'' to look through the walls of a house.
* This was subverted in the ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' episode, ''The Watchers'' when we find out that Hetty installed heaters in the roof of the boatshed to prevent this.
* An episode of ''[[
* A fourth season episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had the Initiative using an infrared scanner to spot the vampire Spike through the walls of a dorm. Doubly implausible in that his "room temperature" signature actually showed up as a blue spot, against the background heat of the room.
* On [[24]], CTU (Usually Chloe) regularly sends Jack a rundown of the occupants of a particular building and what their current location is, all by using infrared satellites.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Many species in 1st and 2nd Edition [[Dungeons
** Darkvision it itself unrealistic, as it apparently shows shapes just fine but lacks color information... which actually acts more like ''sonar'' than anything else! This does, however, provide an interesting explanation for Dwarves' predilection for carved runes—writing on paper is a color difference that is not visible to darkvision, while chiseled runes (which have a depth difference) ''are''.
** Alas, ''many'' [[Tabletop Games]] took their inspiration and many of their buzzwords directly from 1st edition, so it's exceedingly common to find "infravision" in any non-realistic game. The arguments continue, of course.
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