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* ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]''
* ''Ghost Dad''
* Chevy Chase in ''Memoirs of an Invisible Man'', particularly when he was the only character onscreen. Other scenes had him completely invisible when needed.
** When he's made invisible, it applies only to him and the clothes he's wearing at the time. He can don clothes to make himself visible, and quickly strips out of them in some instances when he needs to escape pursuers.
** He's invisible to everyone ''including himself.'' He can see through his eyelids; he can see through the back of his head. Consequently, he doesn't sleep well.
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== Distortion ==
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'s'' Thermoptic camouflage.
** Averted in the movie, and occasionally in the series. In the movie you can only see the disturbances that a cloaked character causes, like footprints, falling objects, etc. In the series you can see distortion sometimes, but not always — usually when the audience shares the perspective with the invisible character. There's always distortions for a few seconds when a character turns invisible, though.
* Latios and Latias in ''[[Pokémon Heroes]]''
* Espio the Chameleon in ''[[Sonic X]]''.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Champions Online]]'', if a player has sufficient Intelligence or a Utility to aid his ability to detect Stealthed characters, they show up this way.
* The stealth tanks in the first ''[[Command
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' has spectres (and players using "partial invisibility") appear as a darkened silhouette.
* ''[[Dystopia (video game)|Dystopia]]'''s stealthers are rendered as a watery distortion while they're moving, but invisible while they're still. TAC scans show a snapshot of their IFF boxes, and the Sound Wave Triangulator shows [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spinning triangles]] for their footsteps and gunshots.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]]'', the "Chameleon" magic effect is a partial subversion: as Chameleon strength increases, the distortion effect gradually gives way to full invisibility, and 100% Chameleon makes you both completely invisible and [[Game Breaker|untargetable]] by the AI.
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* Enemy cloaked units in ''[[Starcraft]]'' have a slight distortion: it's ''very'' difficult to make out a Dark Templar who looks like a smoke trail. And even if you can see where he is, you can't shoot at him anyway. Once you know where the unit is though, you can move a detector there.
** 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.
* Used in ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' for the "Stealth Module" ground skill. Only teammates can see the distortion, to enemies it's totally invisible. Accompanied with an [[Invisibility Flicker]] when attacking.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' uses this, when the character uses a movement to guide the player to know where it is; otherwise the character is completely invisible.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]],'' the cloaked Spy is visible as a distortion to his own team, but completely invisible (unless he's shot/bumped into) to the other team.
** Unless he's using the Cloak and Dagger. That works normally when charged or when standing still. If the charge runs out and he moves, the same visibility effect happens as when he is shot.
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* ''[[Bioshock]]'': While you're standing still with the Natural Camouflage tonic equipped, your hands and guns are transparent.
* All characters with [[Flash Step|Flash Steps]] in the DS ''[[Bleach]]'' fighters are shown as turning transparent and dashing to the specified direction to the user of the said character, but disappearing entirely and appearing elsewhere to the opposing player. Does not apply to actual teleports, which a few characters possess.
* All stealth units in ''[[Command
* [[Ecco the Dolphin (series)|Ecco the Dolphin]], in ''Defender of the Future,'' is see-through with stealth, but the enemies can't see him, even if he bumps into them.
* The Specters of ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]] I and II'' are just Demons with the transparency turned up. On lower-end systems (I'm looking at you, 32X), they were closer to fuzzy background distortions.
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** Though averted with villains occasionally. They will be completely invisible to the audience if we aren't supposed to see them.
** From the same creator: In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode "Timvisible", when Timmy wishes for invisibility, a magic pencil's eraser tip rubs out all of his colors, leaving only an outline that, for some reason, only the audience is able to see.
* ''[[Space Ghost]]'': Jan and Jayce all were drawn in white outline.
* Komodo of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' is drawn in white outline.
* Ditto for [[Wonder Woman]]'s [[Superfriends|invisible jet.]]
* Spoofed in an episode of ''[[Rugrats]]''. The group becomes childhood [[Expy|expies]] of a [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] expy. While it's implied that the adult in the [[Show Within a Show|cartoon they were watching]] becomes fully invisible, Lil, being a baby, does not understand the reason for the outline and becomes "Dotted Line Girl" who unfortunately can be seen because:
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* The third boss in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]'' - you have to shoot it in the eye to make it visible again. Conveniently, the top screen shows the boss' first-person view of the fight.
* Using the Invisible ability in ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur IV]]'' renders your character invisible, even to you the player- all you can see is the effects when swinging a weapon. Of course, this is because it's usable in Special Versus, too, and human players aren't so easy to fool as the AI.
* The Illwrath ships in ''[[Star Control]] 2'' have this as their special ability. However, since the "camera" is always aimed at the point directly between the two fighting ships, you can get a pretty good idea of where one is hiding.
* Some NPCs in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' have an ability that makes them invisible. The only way to see them is to wait until they attack (when the spell breaks) or use a detect invisibility spell. Mages also learn an invisibility spell, that causes them to turn progressively transparent until they disappear completely (it last for a very limited time, though).
* If a ninja does this in [[Samurai Shodown]], you may see flickers of him when he performs a manoeuvre. Less useful for Galford, since his dog Poppy always stays nearby.
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* Invisibo, from ''[[Freakazoid]]'', was invisible except for the scepter he always carried. Freakazoid still had trouble finding him, mostly because he's, well, Freakazoid.
** 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.
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Don't Even Blink", objects and people hit with the Invisinator are completely invisible to the audience, except when Perry and Doofenshmirtz are hit off-center and rendered only half-invisible—''vertically''.
** Some fans say this is due to the disbursal of the beam. it's highly concentrated when up close and spreads into less visible beams the farther it gets from the source.
* There's a ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon, "Of Feline Bondage", where Jerry drinks an invisibility potion and becomes invisible, seen only by his shadow or when he held things. Of course, this episode may or may not have been thought up to save money on animating.
* Mirage in ''[[Transformers]] (G1)''. He turns invisible with an effect that looks like he's being surrounded with a laser cube, then the viewer only sees footsteps or items he's carrying.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', there's a red glow where Raz's eyes would be in order to show you where he is. This is supposed to represent his goggles, but in the real world, where he doesn't wear them, it looks a little strange.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'', when Link uses the Magic Cloak to turn invisible, he's completely so, but [[Fridge Logic|somehow]] [[The Shadow Knows|still has a shadow under him]].
* Princess Peach still casts a shadow in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', after she drinks the invisibility potion and (presumably) [[Invisible Streaker|gets naked]].
* Hector the Reflector, a ''[[Yoshi's Island|Yoshi's Island DS]]'' boss enemy, is invisible, but fights in an arena with a mirror in which you can see the boss reflected. He also smashes the mirror more and more as the battle goes on.
* In ''[[Command
* In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', you can see your clothes and shadow when invisible. You can see most invisible enemies' shadows as well.
* King Boo in ''[[Super Mario 64]] DS'' sometimes becomes kind of invisible in the boss battle; you can see him, however, via both his appearance in the mirror reflection and a shadow on the floor marking his location.
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* The shading method was also used once with Jade (using the Snake Talisman) in the ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.
* [[Bugs Bunny]] subverts it in "Water, Water Every Hare" when he becomes invisible; the only giveaway besides flying items is the munched-up carrot that he eats.
* Dexter in the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' episode "Surprise!" is shown as an outline when invisible. However, near the end, we see him from the viewpoint of a couple of kids and then he is completely invisible on-screen.
* In an episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Barney accidentally gets turned invisible. He puts on a green hat so Fred can see where Barney is standing at any given moment.
* In the episode "Mad Dogs and Aliens" of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim gets a stealth upgrade for her battle suit, which uses the distortion effect. However, it should be pointed out that when she actually sneaks into Drakken's lair she's completely invisible until she makes her appearance behind [[Harmless Villain|Doctor Drakken]]. It's zig-zagged between completely invisible and a distortion, depending on what's going on. Of course, it's stealth ability is only shown in [[One-Scene Wonder|one episode]].
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