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{{quote|'''Greta''': As a Keeper, I have the gift of Sight. I can pass this into few chosen people, and you, Elena, are one of them.
'''Bombo''': Hi, Elena!
'''Elena''': Huh? Bombo, I... I can see you! The Bobaks, Bursties, Snyakutz Bu, I can see all of you!
|''[[Monster Allergy]]'', ''The Devourer''}}
A creature, or [[Invisible Aliens|entire race of creatures]], can only be seen by individuals who possess a certain trait. For anyone who does not share that trait, the creature cannot be perceived at all. Usually, losing the trait will also cause you to lose the ability to perceive them, though in some cases, once you have encountered the creature, you will always be able to perceive them.
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* Thestrals in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' can only be seen by those who have witnessed someone die. Harry joins this group in the fifth book after he comes to terms with being there at Cedric's murder. It comes as a bit of a shock when he arrives at Hogwarts and sees that the "horseless" carriages are actually pulled by skeletal, reptile-faced, winged horses.
* [[Discworld]]
** Death can be seen by animals, witches and wizards, and small children. And people about to die or who are having a near-death experience. In brief, anybody whose [[Weirdness Censor]] is off. ...And Carrot, who used him as a witness for a murder in the short story 'Theatre of Cruelty'. The book ''[[
** ''Discworld'' also brings us the expression 'First Sight' from the Tiffany Aching books. Apparently Second Sight is the ability to see things that aren't really there (most people have this), but First Sight is the ability to see things that ''are'', whether or not you're expecting them. Wizards are trained to have this ability basically as soon as they start at the Unseen University, and it's a great help to naturally have it if you're going to be a witch. Carrot's extremely straightforward nature may correlate somehow.
** Ghosts can, according to Death, be seen by close relatives, the magically-receptive, and cats.
** The Bogles (weird humanoid demon-animals that inhabit the Underworld) from ''[[
* "''The Ten O'Clock People''", by [[Stephen King]], had monsters that appeared as human but could only be identified by people who smoke a certain amount (roughly a couple a day, but not heavily).
* ''[[The Emperor's New Clothes]]'' plays with this trope. The cloth for the titular garb allegedly can only be seen by the wise, or those well suited to their jobs. [[It Was His Sled|Of course, there is no cloth, so the emperor is nude.]] The [[Fridge Logic]] is, of course, why anyone would want stupid people to see them naked.
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