History Main / SeeTheInvisible

* In ''Film/ShinUltraman'' the kaiju Neronga perpetually suffers this to the point that the characters outright ask what the point of its invisibility is. Justified as Neronga's invisibility was never meant to hide it, it was intended as a defense against light and energy-based weapons.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Pokémon Hunter J has special infrared goggles to detect invisible Pokémon, as demonstrated on a Gardevoir she was tasked to find for her clients in "Mutiny in the Bounty!" when it used Teleport.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's Invisible Boatmobile can [[InvisibilityFlicker temporarily flicker]] if its car alarm is used. [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick also start painting it black once while they're trying to be helpful to the super duo. Mermaid Man was already frustrated with them and is now furious since that negates its purpose.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Pokémon Hunter J has special infrared goggles to detect invisible Pokémon, as demonstrated on a Gardevoir she was tasked to find for her clients in "Mutiny in the Bounty!".

-->-- '''Jack Griffin''', ''Film/{{The Invisible Man|1933}}''

* ''Series/TheBoys''. While being beaten up by Translucent, Billy Butcher does a SpitefulSpit, and his BloodFromTheMouth reveals enough of Translucent for him to hit back.

-->'''Wash:''' ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Hi]]''.

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* In the Wiki/SCPFoundation short film ''WebVideo/SCPOverlord'', the team find a camera that enables them to see the various invisible monsters that the cultists have been turned into. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the team escapes from the house only for the soldier holding the camera to realise they're surrounded by the tentacles of a giant InvisibleMonster.]]

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': it's well-established that thermoptic camouflage is foiled by water. So how does the Major deal with the cloaked Umibozu troops? [[spoiler: She turns on the fire sprinklers.]]

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': While Frodo's wearing the One Ring on Mount Doom he leaves visible footprints in the volcanic ash. [[spoiler: Which allows Gollum to jump on top of him and bite his finger off.]]

** In an episode of , the humans are fighting an invisible enemy called the Reetou, but are given devices from the Tok'ra (Transphase Eradication Rods, or [=TERs=]) that can render them visible.
** These rods show up again when Nirrti develops a personal cloaking device based on natural Reetou ability. They also sweep the base several time throughout the series using [=TERs=].

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', Samus faces off against the invisible Shadow Pirates. She can see them by using the infrared visor, allowing her to see their body heat. The Omega Pirate however is equipped with a Chameleon Manta, which makes him invisible to even this. The only way to see him when the Manta is activated is to wait for him to absorb radioactive phazon into his body, which will temporarily light up his insides with radiation, which Samus can see with her X-Ray visor. There's also the Cloaked Drone in the Phazon Mines that guards the Power Bomb, which cannot be scanned or seen in Thermal Mode (you also don't have X-Ray Mode at this point) and cannot be locked onto, but you can see the exhaust from its engines and the flash of its weapons to give you an idea of where to shoot. [[spoiler: The Wavebuster beam combo can lock onto the Cloaked Drone regardless of its cloak.]]

* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' season 13, Washington is fighting a mercenary with a cloaking device in close quarters combat, but manages to turn things around by [[DeliberateInjuryGambit slashing his own palm with a knife]] and splashing his enemy with a handful of blood.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' season 13, Washington is fighting a mercenary with a cloaking device in close quarters combat, but manages to turn things around by [[DeliberateInjuryGambit slashing his own palm with a knife]] and splashing his enemy with a handful of blood.

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and its sequel, a number of spells can be used to reveal invisible enemies. The earliest ones are the second level wizard spell ''detect invisible'' and the third level cleric spell ''invisibility purge''.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' and ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' both feature {{Invisible Block}}s in their single-player campaigns, as well as one multiplayer stage in the latter. Such surfaces can be revealed by covering them with ink.

* In the FanWorks/SCPFoundation short film ''WebVideo/SCPOverlord'', the team find a camera that enables them to see the various invisible monsters that the cultists have been turned into. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the team escapes from the house only for the soldier holding the camera to realise they're surrounded by the tentacles of a giant InvisibleMonster.]]

* ''WebVideo/SCPOverlord'': The video camera Kolinski finds is the only way to see [[spoiler: the invisible cultists]], at least until they use smoke grenades.

* In the FanWorks/SCPFoundation short film ''SCP: Overlord'', the team find a camera that enables them to see the various invisible monsters that the cultists have been turned into. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the team escapes from the house only for the soldier holding the camera to realise they're surrounded by the tentacles of a giant InvisibleMonster.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': In "Kid Cosmic and the Best Day Ever", Clever usage of the Goo Stone causes a troublemaking InvincibleMonster to be revealed to the audience: [[spoiler:It's a dog that swallowed an Invisibility Stone.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has numerous ways to get around invisible beings. Any sort of extra sense, such as tremorsense or blindvision, make invisibility a moot point to any creature that has them or any character that's temporarily acquired them through a spell or magic item, as does ''true seeing'' and ''see invisibility''. For those who want to remove the invisibility altogether rather than simply allow themselves to see it, ''dispel magic'' and ''invisibility purge'' both work, as do ''antimagic field'' and ''mage's disjunction'' for those [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with no restraint]]. But for those who enjoy the classics, the 1st level spell ''glitterdust'' covers the invisible creature (and everything else nearby) in shiny gold dust that makes it easy to see.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': When Josuke and Joseph find a baby that is invisible due to her Stand, they put makeup and clothes on her to keep track of where she is.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''
** The Lens of Truth in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' allows Link to see invisible things, as well as see through illusionary things like fake walls or floors.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': When in wolf form, Link can use his senses to find invisible objects, including trails of scents used to find plot-related people. It's also the only way to defeat Poes, who are otherwise intangible.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': the Zerg Queen's Ensnare ability shoots a big gob of mucus in an area, slowing down everything caught in it. As a happy side effect, it also reveals invisible units (or rather the person-shaped glob of zerg snot just standing there). The defiler's Plague and several other abilities have a similar effect. In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' abilities such as the infestor's Fungal Scourge mimic this effect.

* In ''Videogame/PlanetSide 2'', the infiltrator armor has a cloaking device whose invisibility ranges from almost completely invisible (crouching, stationary) to a highly visible shimmer (sprinting). Damaging an infiltrator causes their shields to flare up momentarily, and infiltrators running through shallow water create incredibly obvious splashes, making them particularly ineffective in the wide open flats of the Hossin swamps.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd invents a glove to store magic energy. When it's fed back into him, [[spoiler:he gains the ability to perceive an invisible, intangible whale-like creature that's hanging out and eating excess magic in the area. And once he can perceive the whale-thing, the whale-thing initiates communications...]]

* One episode of ''ComicBook/KaputAndZosky'' features the duo landing on a planet where everyone is invisible. They make the aliens visible by catching them in a butterfly net and spray-painting them red.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyote once uses a mail-order chemistry set to become invisible to try and catch the Road Runner... unfortunately, although his prey can't see him, neither can the driver of an oncoming truck. After he's struck, his footprints in the sand become noticeably staggered, and he falls off a cliff, [[ImpactSilhouette making Coyote-shaped holes in several clouds on the way down]].

* Zig-zagged to the hilt in the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros. cartoon]] "Cheese It, The Cat!" In order to sneak to the refrigerator to get a cupcake for a birthday party, Ralph Crumden covers Ed Morton in "invisible ink". It doesn't make Morton invisible, but as long as he thinks he is, he does not fear the cat. Morton gets the cupcake and eventually eats it, leaving no recourse but for Ralph to get another, but not before he has Morton cover ''him'' with "invisible ink". Ralph can still be seen and when he goes out, the cat attacks him. Yet it's Ralph who calls Morton "a mental case"!

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' part 4, ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', when Josuke and Joseph find a baby that is invisible due to her Stand, they put makeup and clothes on her to keep track of where she is.

* Though played with, this trope is used in ''Film/{{Daredevil}}''. The blind Daredevil is in a final confrontation with the Kingpin, and can't track him as normal to fight. In a moment of inspiration, Daredevil triggers the room's sprinkler system, [[SuperSenses his enhanced hearing]] catches the sound of the water on Kingpin's body which creates a "visible" form for him to fight.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': during the Thriller Bark arc, Sanji counter's Absalom's first attempt to use invisibility to get away by tossing salt pellets around himself, the impact showing where Absalom was.