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* TheBadGuyWins: A horrifying early example for this franchise.[[spoiler:Mirror-Lefty completely replaces his human counterpart, destroys the invisibility mirror, trapping the real Lefty permanently. And poor Max is the only one who knows the truth, so the doppelganger is free to do whatever he wants unopposed.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: A horrifying early example for this franchise. [[spoiler:Mirror-Lefty completely replaces his human counterpart, destroys the invisibility mirror, trapping the real Lefty permanently. And poor Max is the only one who knows the truth, so the doppelganger is free to do whatever he wants unopposed.]]
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* DownerEnding:[[spoiler:The mirror is shattered and the doppelgangers seemingly vanquished...until Max realizes Lefty is using his ''right hand'', because he's been replaced with a mirror double. His brother is in a hellish dimension while this evil duplicate is living his life. And now that the mirror's been destroyed, there is ''nothing'' he can do about it.]]
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* DownerEnding:[[spoiler:The mirror is shattered and the doppelgangers seemingly vanquished...until Max realizes Lefty is using his ''right hand'', because he's been replaced with a mirror double. His brother is in a hellish dimension while this evil duplicate is living his life. And now that the mirror's been destroyed, there is ''nothing'' he can do about it.]]it]]. When the book was adapted for television, [[spoiler: the mirror re-assembles itself]], which reduces the bleakness of the ending by giving [[spoiler: Lefty some hope that he would be rescued one day]].
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It was [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E13LetsGetInvisible adapted into the 13th episode of season 2]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 11 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.
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It was [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E13LetsGetInvisible [[Recap/Goosebumps1995S2E13LetsGetInvisible adapted into the 13th episode of season 2]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} [[Series/Goosebumps1995 the 1995 TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 11 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.
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* CassandraTruth: A rare example of this happening to an adult side-character. The Thompsons' neighbor sees some floating tomatoes juggled by an invisible Zack. He runs to tell his wife, but Zack stops juggling and she just thinks the poor man's delusional. [[spoiler:And since the mirror is destroyed by the end, he'll never know for sure if he wasn't.]]
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It was [[Recap/GoosebumpsS2E13LetsGetInvisible adapted into the 13th episode of season 2 2]] of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 11 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.
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* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this episode. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they take some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
** Additionally, the Thompson family dog Whitey, their grandparents, and their neighbors the Evander's are all absent.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Max notices that Noah threw his father his cup right-handed, even though he's supposed to be left-handed. Max asks him about this, but the (fake) Noah ignores him, instead staring directly at the camera and giving off a PsychoticSmirk]].
* GilliganCut: When planning on showing Zack the mirror in the attic, Max tells him he is about to see "the coolest thing in the entire universe." Zack responds with a scoff. But then it cuts to him in the attic, staring wide-eyed at an invisible Max playing catch with a baseball, saying it's the coolest thing in the entire universe.
* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface. Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she's Chinese and black-haired.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Lefty is swapped with his mirror counterpart but the mirror itself is repaired so there's a chance that he'll be rescued one day.]]
!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this episode. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they take some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
** Additionally, the Thompson family dog Whitey, their grandparents, and their neighbors the Evander's are all absent.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Max notices that Noah threw his father his cup right-handed, even though he's supposed to be left-handed. Max asks him about this, but the (fake) Noah ignores him, instead staring directly at the camera and giving off a PsychoticSmirk]].
* GilliganCut: When planning on showing Zack the mirror in the attic, Max tells him he is about to see "the coolest thing in the entire universe." Zack responds with a scoff. But then it cuts to him in the attic, staring wide-eyed at an invisible Max playing catch with a baseball, saying it's the coolest thing in the entire universe.
* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface. Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she's Chinese and black-haired.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Lefty is swapped with his mirror counterpart but the mirror itself is repaired so there's a chance that he'll be rescued one day.]]
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!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this episode. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they take some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
** Additionally, the Thompson family dog Whitey, their grandparents, and their neighbors the Evander's are all absent.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Max notices that Noah threw his father his cup right-handed, even though he's supposed to be left-handed. Max asks him about this, but the (fake) Noah ignores him, instead staring directly at the camera and giving off a PsychoticSmirk]].
* GilliganCut: When planning on showing Zack the mirror in the attic, Max tells him he is about to see "the coolest thing in the entire universe." Zack responds with a scoff. But then it cuts to him in the attic, staring wide-eyed at an invisible Max playing catch with a baseball, saying it's the coolest thing in the entire universe.
* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface. Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she's Chinese and black-haired.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Lefty is swapped with his mirror counterpart but the mirror itself is repaired so there's a chance that he'll be rescued one day.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: A horrifying early example for this franchise.[[spoiler:Mirror-Lefty completely replaces his human counterpart, destroys the invisibility mirror, trapping the real Lefty permanently. And poor Max is the only one who knows the truth, so the doppelganger is free to do whatever he wants unopposed.]]
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* DownerEnding:[[spoiler:The mirror is shattered and the doppelgangers seemingly vanquished...until Max realizes Lefty is using his ''right hand'', because he's been replaced with a mirror double. His brother is in a hellish dimension while this evil duplicate is living his life. And now that the mirror's been destroyed, there is ''nothing'' he can do about it.]]
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Max goes invisble again, and tells April that the mirror made him do it, she scornfully replies, "Yeah. Right. And I'm going to fly to Mars in a flying saucer tonight after dinner."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Max goes invisble invisible again, and tells April that the mirror made him do it, she scornfully replies, "Yeah. Right. And I'm going to fly to Mars in a flying saucer tonight after dinner."
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* ExactWords: When Max's mother is looking at Zack's new haircut, which is buzzed off on one side, she states that it looks "interesting". Max notes to himself that she is only using that word to be polite and she disapproves of it, and thinks that if ''he'' got a haircut like that, she would kill him.
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* ExactWords: When Max's mother is looking at Zack's new haircut, which is buzzed off on one side, she states that it looks "interesting". Max notes to himself that she is only using that word to be polite and she disapproves of it, and he thinks that if ''he'' got a haircut like that, she would kill him.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Max goes invisble again,a nd tells April that the mirror made him do it, she scornfully replies, "Yeah. Right. And I'm going to fly to Mars in a flying saucer tonight after dinner."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Max goes invisble again,a nd again, and tells April that the mirror made him do it, she scornfully replies, "Yeah. Right. And I'm going to fly to Mars in a flying saucer tonight after dinner."
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Max notices that Noah threw his father his cup right-handed, even though he's supposed to be left-handed. Max asks him about this, but the (fake) Noah ignores him, instead staring directly at the camera and giving off a PsychoticSmirk]].
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* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface, Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
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* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface, surface. Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
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It was later reissued in the ''Classic Goosebumps'' line in 2015 as a companion to the [[Film/{{Goosebumps}} first movie]].
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It is the longest ''Goosebumps'' book in the original series at 139 pages.
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* AdultFear: Your kids discover something real cool, something that gives you an otherworldly high and "makes you invisible", but even if your kid wants to eventually stop his friends keep pressuring him to continue and they all keep doing it and doing it until [[spoiler: they're sucked into a lifeless world and seemingly replaced with a cold zombie-like counterpart]]… it's easy to see the story as a metaphor for adolescent drug addiction.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Your kids discover something real cool, something that gives you an otherworldly high and "makes you invisible", but even if your kid wants to eventually stop his friends keep pressuring him to continue and they all keep doing it and doing it until [[spoiler: they're sucked into a lifeless world and seemingly replaced with a cold zombie-like counterpart]]… it's easy to see the story as a metaphor for adolescent drug addiction.
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* TrapDoor: Zack sees Max seemingly disappear into thin air, and somehow wonders if he used a trap door for thsi as a trick, and looks under the floor to try and find one. But Max continues his antics which convinces Zack that he's actually invisible.
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* TrapDoor: Zack sees Max seemingly disappear into thin air, and somehow wonders if he used a trap door for thsi this as a trick, and looks under the floor to try and find one. But Max continues his antics which convinces Zack that he's actually invisible.
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* NoHonorAmongThieves:[[spoiler:Mirror!Lefty destroys the mirror, banishing his fellow Doppelgangers forever, so he can take the real Lefty's place on Earth.]]
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Max goes invisble again,a nd tells April that the mirror made him do it, she scornfully replies, "Yeah. Right. And I'm going to fly to Mars in a flying saucer tonight after dinner."
* ArtifactCollectionAgency: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. When Max calls Erin over the phone about the mirror, she suggests that they bring it to the science fair at school to amaze the audience and win first prize. But Max counters that if they do that, the government would easily find out, and take it away to study it.
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* ExactWords: When Max's mother is looking at Zack's new haircut, which is buzzed off on one side, she notes that it looks "interesting". Max notes to himself that she is only using that word to be polite and she disapproves of it, and thinks that if ''he'' got a haircut like that, she would kill him.
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* CountingSheep: After getting invisible for the first time, Max is in bed a few nights later and is trying to get to sleep. He even tries the trope name technique, but to no avail. So he decides to sneak around and investigate the mirror.
* ExactWords: When Max's mother is looking at Zack's new haircut, which is buzzed off on one side, shenotes states that it looks "interesting". Max notes to himself that she is only using that word to be polite and she disapproves of it, and thinks that if ''he'' got a haircut like that, she would kill him.
* ExactWords: When Max's mother is looking at Zack's new haircut, which is buzzed off on one side, she
* IMeantToDoThat: When walking through the attic, Lefty accidentally drops the softball he was holding and it rolls across the floor, which he trips over and does a FacePlant. He gets back up, and says this trope word for word.
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Max goes invisible for the first time, and is mostly unaware at first, only seeing the looks of horror on his friends and Lefty. They tell him he's gone invisible and they can only hear his voice, but he thinks it's a stupid joke they're playing, and he tells them to stop. But he sees how frightened they are, which slowly convinces him that they're telling him the truth. It's only when he becomes fully visible again, wakes up nights later, and tries it out again, is what ''fully'' convinces him.
* TickleTorture: While showing Zack he's invisible, Max tickles him as he's in the process. This naturally freaks him out.
** And when Lefty tricks the two into thinking ''he's'' invisible, the two boys angrily wrestle him which includes this technique.
* TrapDoor: Zack sees Max seemingly disappear into thin air, and somehow wonders if he used a trap door for thsi as a trick, and looks under the floor to try and find one. But Max continues his antics which convinces Zack that he's actually invisible.
** And when Lefty tricks the two into thinking ''he's'' invisible, the two boys angrily wrestle him which includes this technique.
* TrapDoor: Zack sees Max seemingly disappear into thin air, and somehow wonders if he used a trap door for thsi as a trick, and looks under the floor to try and find one. But Max continues his antics which convinces Zack that he's actually invisible.
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* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she’s Chinese and black-haired.
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** Additionally, the Thompson family dog Whitey, their grandparents, and their neighbors the Evander's are all absent.
* GilliganCut: When planning on showing Zack the mirror in the attic, Max tells him he is about to see "the coolest thing in the entire universe." Zack responds with a scoff. But then it cuts to him in the attic, staring wide-eyed at an invisible Max playing catch with a baseball, saying it's the coolest thing in the entire universe.
* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface, Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here,she’s she's Chinese and black-haired.
* GilliganCut: When planning on showing Zack the mirror in the attic, Max tells him he is about to see "the coolest thing in the entire universe." Zack responds with a scoff. But then it cuts to him in the attic, staring wide-eyed at an invisible Max playing catch with a baseball, saying it's the coolest thing in the entire universe.
* MatchCut: After Max uses the mirror to become invisible and back again, he, his brother, and his friends leave the attic. It then cuts to the mirror with rippling effects on it's surface, Cut to Max in the bathroom, gargling mouthwash, with a similar rippling view.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here,
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Max discovers the magic mirror on his birthday while hanging out with his invited friends in the attic.
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* LyingFingerCross: When Max makes the others promise not to use the mirror again, he catches a fleeting glance of Lefty doing this, much to his unease. And after he recovers an invisible Lefty from pulling a prank and scolds him, he tries to bring this up as an excuse, but Max is having none of it.
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* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she’s Chinese and black-haired.
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* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she’s Chinese and black-haired.black-haired.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Lefty is swapped with his mirror counterpart but the mirror itself is repaired so there's a chance that he'll be rescued one day.]]
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Lefty is swapped with his mirror counterpart but the mirror itself is repaired so there's a chance that he'll be rescued one day.]]
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It was adapted into the 13th episode of season 2 of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].
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It was adapted into the 13th episode of season 2 of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].
series]], with a novelization based on the episode being released as book 11 of the ''Goosebumps Presents'' series.
It was later reissued in the ''Classic Goosebumps'' line in 2015 as a companion to the [[Film/{{Goosebumps}} first movie]].
It was later reissued in the ''Classic Goosebumps'' line in 2015 as a companion to the [[Film/{{Goosebumps}} first movie]].
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* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this movie. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they combine some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this movie. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they combine some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
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* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this
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* WhamLine: The final line of the book. [[spoiler:"[Lefty] was throwing right-handed."]]
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* WhamLine: The final line of the book. [[spoiler:"[Lefty] was throwing right-handed."]]"]]
!! Tropes From The Episode
* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this movie. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they combine some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she’s Chinese and black-haired.
!! Tropes From The Episode
* AdaptedOut: April is left out of this movie. Could be a case of CompositeCharacter, as they combine some of the physical characteristics and personality of April and combine them with Erin.
* RaceLift: Erin in the book is Caucasian with blonde hair. Here, she’s Chinese and black-haired.
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* SealedEvilInACan: The mirror is hidden behind a false wall in the attic, and rightfully so.
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: those who use the invisibility mirror too much are phased into another dimension forever while their counterparts take over their life.]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: those Those who use the invisibility mirror too much are phased into another dimension forever while their counterparts take over their life.]]
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* MirrorMonster: The mirror not only turns you invisible, [[spoiler: if you stay invisible too long, your reflection -- the Mirror Monster in question -- forces you to switch places with it.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Lefty's baseball. Early on he is tossing it around and he is warned that he'll break a mirror with it. [[spoiler: In the end, this is exactly what he does to defeat the mirror people.]]
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* WhamLife: The final line of the book. [[spoiler:"[Lefty] was throwing right-handed."]]
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The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book in which {{invisibility}} comes at a price.
At his birthday party, Max finds a floor-length mirror in his attic. Pulling the light switch makes him invisible; pulling it again makes him reappear. He and his friends know this means one thing - time to play pranks on people! Oh, and they also time how long each can stay invisible.
But things start to get out of control. First, they don't reappear quite immediately. Each time they become invisible, it takes longer and longer to return. There's something in the mirror that wants to keep them hidden. Forever.
It was adapted into the 13th episode of season 2 of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].
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!! It provides examples of:
* AdultFear: Your kids discover something real cool, something that gives you an otherworldly high and "makes you invisible", but even if your kid wants to eventually stop his friends keep pressuring him to continue and they all keep doing it and doing it until [[spoiler: they're sucked into a lifeless world and seemingly replaced with a cold zombie-like counterpart]]… it's easy to see the story as a metaphor for adolescent drug addiction.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: those who use the invisibility mirror too much are phased into another dimension forever while their counterparts take over their life.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Lefty, as is traditional in ''Goosebumps'', largely lives to annoy Max.
* CompetitionFreak: It's Zack who wants to see who can stay invisible the longest, which leads to the horror of the book.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Trapped in the mirror realm forever while your reversed doppelganger takes over your life]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: The mirror and its connected lightbulb at first just seems to pull off a supernatural trick of turning people who turn on the light invisible [[spoiler: that in fact turns out to be a portal to a parallel universe where one is usurped by their cold-hearted doppleganger if they stay invisible too long and get sucked into the mirror]].
* {{Invisibility}}: Courtesy of the mirror.
* MagicMirror: It makes you invisible.
* PuppyLove: Max and Erin, though more the former is the one rather open (not publicly) about his crush on the latter and it's not quite known if the feelings are mutual, though their relationship is much more flirtatious than the series usual boy-girl pairings in the book and him wanting to impress her does figure prominently in moving the supernatural side of the story forward as well.
* WhamLife: The final line of the book. [[spoiler:"[Lefty] was throwing right-handed."]]
The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book in which {{invisibility}} comes at a price.
At his birthday party, Max finds a floor-length mirror in his attic. Pulling the light switch makes him invisible; pulling it again makes him reappear. He and his friends know this means one thing - time to play pranks on people! Oh, and they also time how long each can stay invisible.
But things start to get out of control. First, they don't reappear quite immediately. Each time they become invisible, it takes longer and longer to return. There's something in the mirror that wants to keep them hidden. Forever.
It was adapted into the 13th episode of season 2 of [[Series/{{Goosebumps}} the TV series]].
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!! It provides examples of:
* AdultFear: Your kids discover something real cool, something that gives you an otherworldly high and "makes you invisible", but even if your kid wants to eventually stop his friends keep pressuring him to continue and they all keep doing it and doing it until [[spoiler: they're sucked into a lifeless world and seemingly replaced with a cold zombie-like counterpart]]… it's easy to see the story as a metaphor for adolescent drug addiction.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: those who use the invisibility mirror too much are phased into another dimension forever while their counterparts take over their life.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Lefty, as is traditional in ''Goosebumps'', largely lives to annoy Max.
* CompetitionFreak: It's Zack who wants to see who can stay invisible the longest, which leads to the horror of the book.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Trapped in the mirror realm forever while your reversed doppelganger takes over your life]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: The mirror and its connected lightbulb at first just seems to pull off a supernatural trick of turning people who turn on the light invisible [[spoiler: that in fact turns out to be a portal to a parallel universe where one is usurped by their cold-hearted doppleganger if they stay invisible too long and get sucked into the mirror]].
* {{Invisibility}}: Courtesy of the mirror.
* MagicMirror: It makes you invisible.
* PuppyLove: Max and Erin, though more the former is the one rather open (not publicly) about his crush on the latter and it's not quite known if the feelings are mutual, though their relationship is much more flirtatious than the series usual boy-girl pairings in the book and him wanting to impress her does figure prominently in moving the supernatural side of the story forward as well.
* WhamLife: The final line of the book. [[spoiler:"[Lefty] was throwing right-handed."]]
