Visible Invisibility: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|'''Kevin''': It's some kind of invisible barrier.

 

{{quote|''Enter ARIEL, invisible''|Stage direction to [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]]''}}

* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series, when a character is using stealth camo. The amount of distortion differs between NPC's and the player characters—a stealthed boss will be completely transparent aside from the distortion around the outline, while Snake or Raiden in stealth mode will also have a distinct green tint so you can at least see yourself. In ''Metal Gear Online'', a sharp eye for these can help in stealth team battles.

* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' has the Cloaking Device, which leaves a faint distortion when the user moves around.

** However, note that the ''attacks'' of a cloaked unit remain perfectly visible, which is a bit of a giveaway to a human player. Said human player will probably drop a Psionic Storm, ComSat Sweep, or Ensnare on the offending units.

*** The Ghost's attack is ''very'' hard to spot though, as it only gives off a small muzzle flash.

 

=== Western Animation ===

* Thrust in ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' is seen as a mirage-esque distortion of the background when he's invisible.

* ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'': The Blackbird's cloaking device is, when active, a blue-white outline of the plane's entire shape that phases into visibility for a second, then vanishes, strobing like that.

 

=== Real Life ===

* This is probably what a real-life [[Invisibility Cloak]] will look like in 5 or 10 years.

 

 

* ''[[EVE Online]]'' ships with cloaking devices are semitransparent to the player controlling the ship and completely invisible to everyone else, including teammates.

* Your [[Player Character]] looks like this when under the Invisible [[Status Buff]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]''.

** And an enemy's cloaked units once they're within range of a unit with the Detector property, such as the Terran Missile Turret or the Protoss Observer.

* Mario using the Vanish cap in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.

** A few stealth powers, like Cloak of Darkness and Shadowfall, make you look more like a cloud of smoke to yourself and your allies.

* Espio the Chameleon in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]''.

* The active camo in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. The user's transparency decreases when they move.

 

* ''[[Bob and George]]'' has [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010112c Megaman's ghost]

 

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', when invisible, is still inked in blackline but is given an airbrushed glow effect and filled in with slight white. Also, his eyes are drawn normally even when he's invisible to make it easier for the viewer to spot him.

** Though averted with villains occasionally. They will be completely invisible to the audience if we aren't supposed to see them.

* ''[[Space Ghost]]'': Jan and Jayce all were drawn in white outline.

* Komodo of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' is drawn in white outline.

* ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]''. The footprint method is used in the third movie when Harry wears the cloak outside while it's snowing.

** However in any shot where he's putting on or taking off the cloak, it falls into the category of [[Special Effects Failure|distortion]] due to the use of the [[Chroma Key|green-screen technique]] to make the cloak appear invisible.

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy, with Frodo. The only way we could tell where he was in the last part was by his footprints.

** Bilbo was invisible to the audience while wearing the ring. However, when Frodo wore the ring, we saw a distorted version of reality with him in it.

 

=== Western Animation ===

** Due to budget constraints, however, Invisibo appears for most of their first fight as a rod clearly dangling from a piece of rope. Yes, in a cartoon. Fortunately, due to how bad that looked, the producers let them have a higher budget about halfway through the fight.

* "The Invisible Monster" in ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' left burning... er... ''blob''-prints where it "stepped" and blew up anything it touched, so there was a clear delineation of where it had been. How Dr. Quest and Race were able to make it visible by [[Fridge Logic|dropping paint balloons]] onto it is never explained.

* Phantom Limb's arms and legs in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' are like this, which is occasionally [[Played for Laughs]] when other characters can't quite decipher his vague motions.

{{quote|'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' ...what the hell are you doing?

'''Dr. Girlfriend:''' Yeah, well nobody can see that! }}

* In the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Pranks a lot," Patrick and Spongebob paint themselves with invisible spray, making them completely invisible to the viewer. This does not interfere with the camera panning between them and zooming in dramatically on the characters' faces.

 

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