History Main / InvisibleStreaker

* The Griff in ''Film/ProjectPower'' Griff, the bank robber in Project Power, Griff does naked to use his powers

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' franchise, Violet Parr can turn invisible. The trope is {{defied}} however, as while her powers presented a particular problem for EccentricFashionDesigner Edna Mode, she was [[ChallengeSeeker thrilled to have a challenge]] and managed to design Violet a suit which disappeared with her. Prior to recieving the suit, Violet only uses the power to hide her head, while using normal stealth to hide her still-visible civilian clothes.

* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' novel ''Pack Animals'', Ianto Jones is invisible for about half of the book. At one point he must sneak into a secret facility and is forced to do so nude, since his invisible clothes were ruined. His teammates also bar him from eating anything beforehand, as a floating blob of digesting food would be noticeable (not to mention disgusting).

%%* Rodney Skinner, the invisible man, in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. He lampshades this in one scene where he's performing recon in frozen Mongolia. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
%%-->'''Skinner:''' May I remind you, I ''am'' standing naked in the snow? I can't feel any of my extremities, and I mean ''any'' of them.

* Clara from ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' is unable to use her invisibility while she's being observed, and she uses it to steal and spy at first. When Will and Druit come to recruit her, the "no clothes" is lampshaded, and they turn on the sprinkler to find her. When completing her mission, she persuades Will to strip so she's not alone ([[{{fanservice}} he doesn't have the power of invisibility]]). She's the granddaughter of Nigel Griffin, the original invisible man, who was one of the Five who injected themselves with a vampire-derived serum. And yes, Griffin used to strip to fully use his power, such as when infiltrating German camps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' franchise, Violet Parr can turn invisible, but all her normal clothes remain visible. Her powers presented a particular problem for EccentricFashionDesigner Edna Mode, but she was [[ChallengeSeeker thrilled to have a challenge]] and managed to design Violet a suit which disappeared with her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' franchise, Violet Parr can turn invisible, but all her normal clothes remain visible.

* In an early chapter of ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', Senbei turns himself (but not his clothes) invisible, then starts undressing... but decides to leave his underwear on, just in case. This results in a pair of floating boxer shorts running around the town.

%%* Bouquet in the anime adaptation of ''VideoGame/BlueDragon'' has the same power and drawback as Kena above. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
%%* Lucy has to do this in a filler episode of ''Manga/FairyTail''. The show being what it is, a group of children run into her on accident and proceed to prod her naked butt out of fascination. When she finally gets to the guild to ask for help, Natsu, who locates her more intentionally, finds a much more [[ThanksForTheMammary standard]] area to grab her. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

%%* Misaki from ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'' has this restriction, though it oddly doesn't seem to apply to her glasses. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

Ultimately, if this trope is in play, expect the MundaneSolution to come up -- by definition, nobody can see the invisible person, so [[{{streaking}} going around naked]] is an acceptable solution to being unable to make other things invisible. This will likely be PlayedForLaughs the first time it's brought up, since [[NakedPeopleAreFunny the insinuation of nudity]] as well as the reactions to such is classic comedy -- and for the same reason, there's also an inherent [[RuleOfSexy sexiness]] to the concept.

%%* ''Literature/OneFatSummer'': When Bobby Marks told his friend Jodie about his fantasy of making an invisibility potion that let him fight crime and sneak into the girl's locker room, she asked him a question that made him realize he would be this. That was enough to kill the fantasy for the body shy Bobby. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.

* This trope has appeared in various TV commercials, including:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LZiH5uP1K8 Levi's jeans]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu1KygfgBhs El Corte Inglés department stores]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7v0GF6-rsA Flor de Caña Extra Lite rum]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yh0bslfJ5o Johnnie Walker whiskey]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvJQjWBMDo Daylong sunscreen,]] a Turkish advert in which beachgoers are invisible except for their swimsuits

* In ''Anime/ImGonnaBeAnAngel'', Noelle's older sister Sara is invisible, and uses clothes and bandages to simulate visibility when needed. The trope in question was established in a later episode when, after everyone but protagonist Yuusuke started taking her for granted, she managed to regain visibility through sheer emotion... and flashed everyone in the area with her nudity. Fortunately, only her family were present, but her brother managed to comment how she'd grown a lot since he saw her last, before he passed out from nosebleed.
* Done in ''Manga/{{Alabaster}}'' by the father of manga, Creator/OsamuTezuka. The normally lethal invisibility ray hit Ami Ozawa while she was still in the womb, leaving her permanently invisible. Alabaster, the main villain, kidnaps her and breaks her will, and she helps him perform several jewelry heists by simply doing them naked. What finally causes her to do a full blown FaceHeelTurn, however, is the FBI agent [[MoralEventHorizon raping her]], then covering her in hideously colored paint stripes that she can't remove.
* In Creator/RumikoTakahashi's ''The Samurai'', the titular samurai descendant is stalked by his rivals, twin female ninjas who only differ in that one ReallyGetsAround and the other DoesNotLikeMen. They make use of this type of invisibility spell in order to further their goal, but the hero's perverted friend figures out what's going on when he accidentally gropes an invisible breast. Just to compound things, it's the man-hater who's invisible. Cue beatings.

* Bouquet in the anime adaptation of ''VideoGame/BlueDragon'' has the same power and drawback as Kena above.
* Lucy has to do this in a filler episode of ''Manga/FairyTail''. The show being what it is, a group of children run into her on accident and proceed to prod her naked butt out of fascination. When she finally gets to the guild to ask for help, Natsu, who locates her more intentionally, finds a much more [[ThanksForTheMammary standard]] area to grab her.

* Suehirogari's adult manga ''Moonlight Exhibition'' features a girl who can become invisible with the standard "no clothes" rule in play. Years of sneaking around nude in public to use her powers has lead to her gaining a serious exhibitionism / public nudity fetish. The plot is kicked off when one of her classmates sees her outside being "self indulgent," which confuses her to no end -- however, as established earlier dogs can see her just fine, which apparently includes... [[spoiler: werewolves.]] LesYay proceeds to occur.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. Koro-sensei uses his invisibility to avoid scaring a group of train passengers during a class trip, but his students point out that a random set of floating, disembodied clothing is just as unsettling.

* Misaki from ''Manga/BrynhildrInTheDarkness'' has this restriction, though it oddly doesn't seem to apply to her glasses.
* The 1978 Creator/GoNagai manga ''Supeope Chuugaku'' features an invisibility potion at one point in the second volume that works like this. Notably, the first thing the [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist perverted main character]] uses it for is tricking his sister into thinking she's invisible (by drinking some himself to show her that it works and then using sleight of hand to give her a fake bottle) so that she'll strip naked in front of him and his friends.

* The titular Akira from ''Anime/ToumeiShounenTanteiAkira'' can turn invisible under his clothes and strips them off to use his power. The clothes also seem to include a mask.
* [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal''. Michiru [[SuperpowerLottery develops]] ChameleonCamouflage powers when she realizes she needs to infiltrate Sylvasta's medical labs, but they don't affect her clothing. Rather than strip, however, she simply folds her arms and tail over her clothes, hiding them just enough to evade notice.

* Fully averted in ''Manga/OnePiece'', where [[InvisibleJerkass Absalom]]'s power, given to him by the Clear-Clear Fruit, explicitly extends to everything he is touching, with him even being able to control what is and isn't affected. [[spoiler:Case in point, he had a pair of bazookas strapped to his forearms and kept them invisible to make it seem as if he could make things explode just by pointing at them.]]

* Classically averted in ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''. Sue's always been able to extend her field to whatever mundane outfit she has on (and much further if she so chooses).[[note]]Although it's been mentioned that the FF's entire wardrobe has unstable molecules infused - after all, how else would Ben Grimm's clothes and shoes fit him?[[/note]] However, it's played straight a few times in the movies for {{Fanservice}}.

* Creator/MiloManara's ''ComicBook/{{Butterscotch}}'' is an example of pornographic use of this trope. It features, among other things, a woman giving the invisible character a blowjob while other characters, unaware of the invisible man's presence, look in bafflement at her "lewd mime act."

* Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheBod'', a short three-part miniseries in Creator/ImageComics. The story is about a rising supermodel whose body gets turned invisible due to an industrial accident shortly after she arrives at Hollywood to have her big break as an actress. She wears lots of very form-fitting clothing to show off her beautiful body as she tries to use her new, incurable condition as a gimmick to further her career. The rest of the trope -- that of the woman's invisibility not extending to her clothing, is played completely straight. Unfortunately, so are the TrueArtIsIncomprehensible and SmallNameBigEgo tropes -- the series quickly degenerates to a series of {{Take That}}s about how horrible Hollywood's culture is.

* Done repeatedly in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. Of course, Calvin isn't really invisible in any of these {{Imagine Spot}}s...

* Paul in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' and other stories. That's because he wears an illusion for clothing anyway, so he just switches his clothing illusion for invisibility.

* One of the stories in ''[[Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular Do the Gasmask Shuffle]]''–about a potion-based game of RussianRoulette–has Sheen gain this type of invisibility. His friends immediately dissuade him from taking his clothes off, but he ends up doing it at the end of the story.
* In ''Fanfic/TowardABrightFuture'', Class 1-A teaching assistant Y/N averts this for the above-mentioned [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Hagakure Toru]], as she figures that if the support department can make a [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper super-suit]] that works with an IntangibleMan like Togata Mirio, they can make one that works for an invisible girl. They eventually succeed and come up with some armor for her so she doesn't have to walk around a battlefield unprotected.
* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': After becoming permanently invisible through an experimental serum, Klar has to play this straight at first, which becomes a real problem in winter. Eventually he's able to administer the serum to some sheep and collect invisible wool from them.

* Griffin the Invisible Man of the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' franchise. He mostly goes nude except for a pair of floating EyeGlasses, and the one time he wears clothes is for the sake of a gag where he gets his pants pulled down and claims shrinkage. In ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTransformania'', he's finally made visible, confirming once and for all that he's nude, horrifying his friends Wayne and Murray. [[spoiler:Once he's made invisible once more, his friends beg him to keep his clothes on.]]
* Played straight at first, but eventually {{averted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Violet's powers don't normally affect clothing, but she gets [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper a super-suit]] rather than having to take this option.

* This trope was played straight in the campy 1940 science fiction satire ''Film/{{The Invisible Woman|1940}}'', as the title heroine, while able to turn invisible, was naked when she did so as her clothes could not turn invisible along with her, making many audiences at the time regard the film as slightly risqué.

* ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere1983'' did this as well. More [[{{Fanservice}} the female character]] than the male character, mind you.
* Ditto from 1983, ''Film/{{The Invisible Woman|1983}}''. In a SpecialEffectFailure, you can tell that Alexa Hamilton is clothed after she gets CoveredInMud.
* Similarly, in ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933'' while the character is implicitly stated to be nude, he leaves shoe prints in the snow. This is an interesting SpecialEffectsFailure.[[note]]The footprints were done by pulling footprint-shaped cutouts out of the floor of the set, letting the fake snow collapse into them; either through miscommunication or the need to get the job done quickly, simple shoe prints were done instead of more complex bare footprints.[[/note]]
* ''Film/HollowMan'', being a by-the-books use of {{invisibility}}, has this in it. Of course, the "mission" in this example is, er, rape, but... yeah. The CG of the character walking through smoke or entering water clearly shows the [[MaleFrontalNudity penis]], in case there was any doubt in your mind.
* ''Film/InvisibleMom'' does this. In the sequel, Laura's invisibility wears off while she's walking around naked.

* Rodney Skinner, the invisible man, in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in one scene where he's performing recon in frozen Mongolia.
-->'''Skinner:''' May I remind you, I ''am'' standing naked in the snow? I can't feel any of my extremities, and I mean ''any'' of them.
* In ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'', the "Son of the Invisible Man" thinks he's this, but he's not actually invisible, so he just ends up making everyone around him uncomfortable.

* A Japanese film whose title translates to ''Oh! Invisible Man: Invisible Girl Appeared!?'' concerns a man and his teenage daughter who become invisible after ingesting pills made from salmon roe.
* Michele in ''Film/IlRagazzoInvisibile'', at least until he gets his costume.
* The Major in ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017'' can cloak her cybernetic body, but needs to disrobe before she can actually make use of it in combat (which, since she's played by Creator/ScarlettJohansson, is definitely [[{{Fanservice}} a good thing]]). Certain full-contact actions like jumping through a window disrupt her nigh-invisibility even so.

* The Russian film ''Film/SuperBobrovs'' is inconsistent about this. This trope usually applies to the invisible woman, but sometimes only part of her body (such as her arms, her legs or her head, neck and chest) is visible along with her clothes, and sometimes her clothes become invisible with her body.

* The TropeMaker would be Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'', who hides from the rioting peasants by stripping naked. In winter. [[UnbuiltTrope One of the few examples to take into account the elements, as well as other things such as being unable to walk in a crowd (people would step on him and hit him with waving arms/purses/packages/etc.), having to avoid mud (it sticks to the feet), etc., etc.]] FridgeLogic suggests that Griffin was holding the IdiotBall when his actions created this trope, as the original novel's invisibility-induction process also worked on ''white fabrics''. Griffin was always a bit of a nutcase, so his failure to create a suit of invisible clothes may have been a simple oversight. (Later adaptations avert this problem by making the source of his invisibility a drug, effective only on living things.)
* The ultimate subversion is ''Literature/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'' (later turned into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook mediocre Chevy Chase movie]]). The accident that turns the titular man invisible affects everything in a sphere roughly 100 feet across: him, his clothes, the building structure, and a number of objects that happened to be nearby. When he eats and drinks, until it is digested fully, the food/beverage does ''not'' become invisible. His invisible clothes suffer wear and tear. His invisible gun will eventually run out of invisible bullets. And, with the government after him, it's not like he can just live at his old house or sneak into places at will. The author does quite well at thinking out the rules and limitations of the premise.

** Bobby sneaks over to the library to research his condition. In a slight subversion, a blind girl, Alicia, notices him. This is how Alicia finds out that something's not quite right with Bobby; after touching his bare arm, she finds it odd enough that he's supposedly in a short-sleeved shirt in cool weather, but when she bumps into him at one point and feels his bare chest, she gets furious at him being shirtless and starts making assumptions about what kind of person he is and what his intentions are, which ultimately leads to the quote.

* In ''Literature/TheTroubleWithMoonlight'', the heroine, Lusinda Havershaw, her skin turns invisible when exposed to moonlight, but her clothes don't become invisible with her. Works out well, since she's a [[GentlemanThief gentlewoman thief]]. Getting the loot out is kind of a complication, however, since in order to stay invisible she has to remain in the moonlight. See she needs to absorb a certain amount of moonlight in order to turn invisible in the first place, and she can remain invisible if she absorbs enough of it, but if she's away from the moonlight for too long she gradually becomes visible, leading to a few NakedPeopleAreFunny moments as her glorious body is glimpsed however briefly by the public a few times when she is cut off from the moonlight for too long.
* Mostly averted in ''Literature/InvisibleInc'': Chip fell into the magic spring while fully dressed, and has kept that set of clothes safe ever since. Of course, once he grows a bit... Played straight in the first volume, at least in the first printing. Chip's invisible clothes don't show up until the second book of the series, probably due to complaints from MoralGuardians. The RetCon is hardly noticeable because the first book was silent on the subject. Apparently it was the reaction to the implication that Chip was naked in the first book that convinced them to explicitly state he wasn't in the second.

* In the short story ''Literature/HersheysKisses'' by Ron Goulart (contained in ''The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II'' by Michael Ashley et al.), a young man in trouble with his (young, hot, female, hates him) new boss runs into a wizard. He ends up trying to save his career by doing this, breaking & entering, and kissing the magic tattoo on her butt [[RuleOfThree three times]] as she sleeps. It wears off prematurely: It turns out she'd hired the wizard in a gambit to get him to her apartment, naked, as he failed to [[ObliviousToLove recognize her previous hints]]. They find out about the other gambit when the camera crew bursts out of the closet.

* {{Averted}} in the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''My Best Friend Is Invisible'': the protagonist awkwardly asks the invisible boy if he's wearing any clothes. He is.
** Also {{Averted}} in the unrelated ''Slappyworld'' book ''Revenge of the Invisible Boy,'' though [[CoversAlwaysLie the cover]] [[https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Invisible_Boy?file=Revenge_of_the_Invisible_Boy.jpg shows the title character wearing visible clothes]]. Then again, if his clothes were invisible you wouldn't realize that he was there, would you?
* DoubleSubverted in one of Creator/RLStine's ''Literature/GhostsOfFearStreet'' books (''Go to Your Tomb — Right Now!'') Magic allows two friends to turn invisible for twelve hours; it causes whatever clothes they put on to turn invisible with them, then turn visible when they undress. Unfortunately, the two decide to sneak into the community pool when it's closed and go swimming in their underwear. Two people who run the pool show up, the friends can't find a way to escape unnoticed...and of course, ''that's'' when their times expires.
* PlayedWith in Neal Shusterman's ''Literature/TheSchwaWasHere:'' Calvin Schwa is TheNondescript, where you basically won't notice him unless you're trying to. Once he goes through two and a half periods of the school day before anyone notices he is present and only wearing a speedo.

** The series also features an inversion similar to the ''Vanishing Man'' example listed below -- Chrysalis, a Joker whose invisibility is always on and only applies to her skin and hair.
* In one of ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' novels, the book's protagonist finds a LostColony whose settlers have gained strange powers after landing. One of these groups calls themselves Shadows and have invisibility powers, along with empathy and healing. While averted with the inhabitants of the City, who ''don't'' walk around naked and generally avoid turning invisible if they can help it, many colonists went mad after the mutation and live in the wild. The wild Shadows almost never become visible and run around naked.
* Averted/Lampshaded in the fifth book in the ''Literature/FlatStanley'' series, ''Invisible Stanley,'' where Stanley's clothes explicitly disappear when he puts them on and reappear as soon as he takes them off. His family tries handing him a balloon, and the string disappears when he touches it, but not the balloon itself. (He touches various other things without them turning invisible, though.)

* In ''Literature/TheAccidentalSuperheroine'', this seems to be the first stage of Mira's and Giancarlo's powers. They become completely invisible (including things that they've eaten, but not clothing) and unable to turn it off. The government forces trying to capture them utilize spray-cans and hoses of blue paint to place them. It's later hinted that their transformation also removes any smell to them unless they remember to do things like sweat.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings:'' This actually applies to the Ringwraiths -- Gandalf notes that ''they're'' invisible because they mostly inhabit the spirit world, and their dark cloaks are just there so that they can interact [[InvisibleToNormals with normal people]]. The One Ring affects clothes and weapons, though, so presumably the Ringwraiths' original clothes and ornaments went to the spirit world with them.
* ''Literature/OneFatSummer'': When Bobby Marks told his friend Jodie about his fantasy of making an invisibility potion that let him fight crime and sneak into the girl's locker room, she asked him a question that made him realize he would be this. That was enough to kill the fantasy for the body shy Bobby.

* Averted in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' in the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E11Gone Gone]]". Buffy is shot by an invisibility ray which also turns her clothes invisible too because it was within the blast radius.
-->'''Buffy:''' Don't strain yourself looking, Xander. I'm invisible girl.\\
''[Xander holds his hands out]''\\
'''Buffy:''' Uh, Xander?\\
''[Xander quickly pulls his hands back]''\\
'''Xander:''' Sorry! Her clothes are... invisible... too.

* Averted in the 1958 British ''Invisible Man'' series, where Dr. Peter Brady had a set of invisible clothes from the beginning: the clothes he was wearing during the accident (and since the show averted NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup, he could make more if needed). Like him, they were ''permanently'' invisible.
* The 1970s Creator/{{NBC}} series ''The Invisible Man'' has this come up -- until the hero gains MagicPants.
* The 2000 ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'' TV series:
** Averted for the hero, who turns invisible by secreting a light-bending substance from his skin granted via a gland surgically implanted in his brain. Naturally, this substance also covers his clothes. This was revealed to be a nice side effect that the creators of the gland didn't know about. They didn't realize he could consciously secrete Quicksilver on any object.
** Recurring villain Arnaud plays it straight when he implants himself with his own version of the quicksilver gland. He altered the gland to remove [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the rather unpleasant side effect of "quicksilver madness"]] (easy enough, since Arnaud had ''created'' that side effect in the first place), but accidentally made it so that his body is permanently invisible in the process.
* The 1998 ITV drama ''Vanishing Man'' played not only this trope but also JustAddWater -- the title character has to be wet to be invisible. [[HilarityEnsues This led to some funny moments]] when he dries out. ''For example'', when he's following someone in a car by clinging to the roof rack, said car overtakes a lorry, much to the lorry driver's shock he is overtaken by a car with a naked man clinging to the roof rack; thankfully it starts to rain before the car reaches its destination.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Played with in the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E21JeSouhaite Je Souhaite]]". Two moronic brothers find an actual genie, and begin asking for wishes, with [[LiteralGenie typical results]]. One brother asks to become invisible. He immediately strips down and goes out to have fun with his newfound power. He has a great time for about five minutes, then gets hit by a truck. Scully has to fingerprint-dust the entire body just to see it, and is completely flummoxed by being confronted by something that is clearly physically impossible.
* On an episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'', a longtime rival of Merton develops abilities for sorcery and uses them against him by (no surprise) gradually turning him invisible. Merton is reduced to a "floating" head hiding inside Tommy's backpack and, to Tommy's disgust, admits his nakedness. [[HoYay Shippers swoon.]]
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]" mainly averts this with the Spiridons but plays it straight with Wester's first appearance, or rather, the lack thereof, so to speak. Then subverted when the Doctor and company try to pass themselves off as Spiridons by covering themselves with Spiridon garb, but a Dalek notices that the party's feet are clearly visible.
%%* Elaine Joyce plays the trope straight in an episode of ''Series/FantasyIsland''.
* There was a Japanese TV drama series in the 1990s (does anyone know the title?) about a photojournalist who had special pills that made him briefly invisible. In one episode, the photojournalist's girlfriend takes some of the pills and becomes invisible. While nude and invisible, she pulls pranks such as pushing a couple off their bench into a swimming pool.
%%* ''Series/ToumeiShoujoEa'': This trope was the premise of the show.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E08WishfulThinking Wishful Thinking]]", this is how the invisibility of one of the users of the magic wishing well works.

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', this is how the Earth-2 version of Linda Park/Dr. Light escapes her capture by the heroes. Her cell seems empty except for her helmet and suit, and then she escapes when people investigate.
* Invisibility not affecting clothes is played straight with Translucent in ''Series/TheBoys2019''.

* The French band Neïmo use this trope in the video for their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWMPWi8A4w "Hot Girl"]].
* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNA_VWJx07U video]] of ''[[Music/TheBonzoDogBand I'm The Urban Spaceman]]'' from ''The Innes Book of Records'', the singer is invisible but his clothes aren't. He's never seen (or unseen) completely nude, but when he gets out of bed he's clearly not wearing anything below the waist.

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* In ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'', [[spoiler:Hannah]] suggests doing this in the monster world since she's an invisible woman. The others shoot it down.

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* This happens in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': Evolution, when Jay Harland's "Nocturnal Invisibility" kicks in. It then turns into FullFrontalAssault when he attacks Ashlie Jackson.
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* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', Innistrad's [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220041 Invisible Stalker]], if the flavor text is any indication.
* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': one of the powers available to Prometheans, Cameleon Skin, allows them to [[ChameleonCamouflage change the texture of their skin so they will better blend in with the environment]]. For obvious reasons, clothes make this ability considerably less effective, forcing the ones using it to strip naked.
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* Even ''Princess Peach'' gets in on this one. In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', she has to sneak into the X-Naut leader's office by using an invisibility potion. Of course, she doesn't realize until it's too late that her clothing won't be affected. She does remember to dress back up before she drinks the potion that will make her visible again; it ''is'' an E-rated game, after all.

* [[StatusEffects Invisibility]] in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' is useless if the player insists on wearing their armor. While undressing from armor may not be a problem for a player, some mobs have [[http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/File:Invisible_sheep.png natural "armor"]] that makes them visible whether they are inflicted with the status effect or not.

* The residents of Raincliff in the ''VideoGame/MysteryTrackers'' installment ''Raincliff's Phantoms'' are all afflicted in this way, and cover themselves from head to toe in order to conceal their invisibility.
** This carries over into ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'', a CrisisCrossover spinoff, in which one of the eponymous detectives is Agent Brown. He's a native of Raincliff and has been invisible since childhood. The series doesn't call much attention to the streaking aspect, but it's there.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' turns this trope on its head: In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0025.html "Armor Begone"]], the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Elan learns that [[RPGMechanicsVerse wearing less armor makes a person harder to notice]].

%%* No less a sex symbol than ''Webcomic/TheEasyBreather'' [[http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20080623.html plays it straight]]. The trope is revisited in the chapter "[[http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20100111.html Invisible Again]]" and in "[[http://easybreather.comicgenesis.com/d/20111102.html Memoirs of an Invisible Woman]]".
%%* Can be seen... ahem... ''Webcomic/TheKamics'' used it [[http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/4833549/ here]] and the next page.
* Averted in ''Webcomic/{{Enjuhneer}}'': Kaji, the invisible roommate, gets offended early in the series when someone assumes she's walking around nude (she later wears a Santa cap to show where she is). Possibly averted, however, as later she insists that she "even bothered to put on pants" when she was forced out into public.
* Played with in ''Webcomic/AlienLovesPredator'', where Preston's cloaking device doesn't affect his clothes or glasses, but he doesn't notice, and can't understand why people can see him.
* ''Webcomic/TheYoungProtectors'' plays this completely straight. While Kyle is on a date in Hong Kong with Duncan, two vigilante heroes crash the restaurant to take out Duncan [[spoiler: or pretend to do so, on Duncan's orders]]; Kyle is instructed by Duncan to leave and promptly gets a bag of invisibility powder tossed on him. Unfortunately, his clothing is still visible, prompting him to frantically strip as he (blue and naked for our viewing convenience) runs through the streets of Hong Kong. When it wears off, naturally, he's standing in front of Duncan.
* We only see the aftermath, but [[http://static.nichtlustig.de/toondb/080812.html this strip]] of German webcomic ''[[Webcomic/{{Nichtlustig}} Notfunny Cartoons]]'' (mildly NSFW) shows two old scientists [[NakedPeopleAreFunny waiting at a bus stop stark naked]], with their dialogue implying that they were field-testing some kind of invisibility experiment this way when it ran out on them. Here's a rough translation:

* In ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', [[DirtyKid Manny's]] first thoughts after learning about his invisibility powers is to do this, even though he can turn his clothes invisible along with himself.
* The Invisible Naked Man in ''Webcomic/BasicInstructions'' [[https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2019/4/9/how-to-reinvent-a-classic-character-for-modern-audiences uses this to his advantage]].

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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-347 SCP-347, the Invisible Woman]].
* [[http://www.creativeintelligencesolutions.com/Creative_Intelligence_Solutions/Wanna_be_INVISIBLE.html Creative Intelligence Solutions]] offers novelty costumes that create the illusion of an invisible wearer. The costumes include not only a generic invisible man and invisible woman, but also a cowboy and Music/LadyGaga.
* ''[[http://vipondweb.byethost3.com/fanwork/mmi00.html Mr. & Mrs. Invisible]]'' is an illustrated sci-fi/comedy story about a couple who become invisible after they drink an exotic herbal tea.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The episode "Good Times with Weapons" has [[{{Squick}} Cartman]] trying to do this. [[HilarityEnsues Which turns out badly]] -- he got so caught up in the mission that he forgot he and his friends were only ''pretending'' to be ninjas with superpowers.
* ''Skinner Boys'': In "The Curse of Invisibility" the magical artifact the kids find is a bracelet that allows the user to turn invisible, insert ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' joke here. Except the person who uses it has to be naked to be at their most effective. Did they mention that this person is a [[{{Squick}} child]]?
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Inverted, much like the case of Wonder Woman's infamous invisible jet, when the cloaking device on the Megadoomer makes the ''vehicle'' invisible but the ''pilot'' can be seen floating in the air as the transparent mecha stomps down the street. HilarityEnsues.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': The villain in "Evil Boyfriend" does this after consuming an invisibility formula. However, for some reason, he is clothed when he turns visible again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' had Todd become one in the episode ''Todd Busters'', when he used Agent K's invisibility hat. For unexplained reasons the hat itself does turn invisible along with the wearer, but the rest of his clothes don't, so he has to take them off. In the end, [[NakedPeopleAreFunny he loses the hat and is exposed naked to an audience.]]
* Sid the Invisible Kid from ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' apparently doesn't wear pants, as all the rest of his clothes are visible.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Rollo is told he's invisible and spends the rest of the episode running around naked, trying to play pranks on people. It's unclear whether he thinks he has to take off his clothes to remain unseen or whether he just wants to do it, given that supposedly no one can see him.
* The writers totally screwed this up in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' where George is turned invisible by one of Mr. Spacely's inventions and needs to fix it to turn visible. At first, it doesn't work on his clothes, and he has to take them off to sneak around invisible. However, at certain times in the cartoon the effect wears off, and in a couple of scenes, he's naked (only the top half of his body visible, of course) while in others he's fully clothed, wearing his usual outfit.

* Both averted and inverted in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode ''[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E43AllDucksOnDeck All Ducks on Deck]]''. The navy is planning on unveiling a new fighter jet that can turn invisible. Admiral Grimitz explains as the plane lands that the engineers knew that the pilot would be visible like Wonder Woman's invisible jet and so they had designed a special flight suit that made the pilot invisible too. Later on, Scrooge and Launchpad steal the jet back from the Phantom Blot and are on their way back to Donald's carrier when Launchpad accidentally activates the invisibility function, and since neither Scrooge nor Launchpad are wearing the flight suit they look like two ducks flying through the air in a sitting position.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' have a gadget which makes Nobita invisible, sans clothing, which he used to pick on Gian and Suneo for picking on him. It works, but because NakedPeopleAreFunny, the gadget then lose it's effects when Nobita is in front of Shizuka and two other girls.

* In ''Literature/DemonKingDaimao'', Kena Soga can turn invisible, (not that anyone knows that she can). However, since it's just her that turns invisible, it requires a lot of stripping or being caught naked after she materializes.

* ''Film/FantasticFour2005'': In Susan Storm's first attempt to use her invisibility to sneak past a crowd, she finds her clothes don't cloak with her and reluctantly starts stripping down. Unfortunately, she's not yet in full control of her powers and they wear off while she's down to her underwear... and still in said crowd. A later gag has her being chased by reporters, who round the corner and find only a pile of shed clothing. Luckily for her and the other three, her blue bodysuit she was wearing during the shuttle flight where she gained her powers underwent the same reaction and so changes along with her.