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* In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Milo Thatch reads ancient Atlantean underwater inscriptions ''with glasses on''. [[hottip:*:Potentially partially TruthInTelevision: The Wikipedia article mentions that extremely shortsighted people can see more or less normal underwater, due to their eye's skewed refraction.]]

** ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' has water that you can only see a few feet out from you in while swimming, but that's only a fog that represents mud, pollution and other particles in the water. The underwater view is otherwise completely clear. However, Episode Two subverts this trope by adding a blur effect while underwater. And of course, see ''Half-Life'''s entry [[HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic on this page]] for the debate about how much of a JustifiedTrope this might or might not be.

** ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' has water that you can only see a few feet out from you in while swimming.
*** Despite this, that is only a fog that represents mud, pollution and other particles in the water. The underwater view is otherwise completely clear. However, Episode Two subverts this trope by adding a blur effect while underwater.

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* Wavedancer elves in ''{{ElfQuest}}'' can see (and breathe) fine in air or water, as can Winnowill when she shapeshifts to aquatic form.

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''Marineman.'' The title character can see underwater without goggles, and when asked about it he explains that he has a transparent second eyelid.

** In ''[[TheElderScrolls Morrowind]]'', unless you [[GoodBadBugs swim at exactly the right height]], you can't see far.

* In ''WarriorCats'', [[spoiler: Flametail]] is able to see clearly underwater as he drowns.

* Galen in ''{{Dragonslayer}}'' is able to determine [[spoiler:Valerian's [[SamusIsAGirl real sex]] underwater, in a fairly murky pond, from about 5 feet away.]]

* In ''[=~Atlantis: The Lost Empire~=]'', Milo Thatch reads ancient Atlantean underwater inscriptions ''with glasses on''. [[hottip:*:Potentially partially TruthInTelevision: The Wikipedia article mentions that extremely shortsighted people can see more or less normal underwater, due to their eye's skewed refraction.]]

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* At the end of ''((Mindhunters}}'', the heroine and killer wind up in an underwater gunfight, in which they can clearly see one another's actions from a few yards apart. The heroine even ''mouths insults'' at her opponent, who gives her dirty looks in response.

** In ''[[TheElderScrolls Morrowind]]'', unless you [[GoodBadBugs swim at exactly the right height]], is trope is averted. If you do swim at the right height, this trope is played straight.

* In ''[=~Atlantis: The Lost Empire~=]'', Milo Thatch reads ancient Atlantean underwater inscriptions ''with glasses on''.
** Potentially partially TruthInTelevision: The Wikipedia article mentions that extremely shortsighted people can see more or less normal underwater, due to their eye's skewed refraction. It happens to this troper.

* In ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Milo Thatch reads ancient Atlantean underwater inscriptions ''with glasses on''.

** ''HalfLife 2'' has water that you can only see a few feet out from you in while swimming.

*In ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Milo Thatch reads ancient Atlantean underwater inscriptions ''with glasses on''.
*Inversion with Abe Sapien in the ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' films: He requires goggles (or in the second film, contact lenses) to put ''water'' around his eyes to see clearly through ''air''.

*Inversion with Abe Sapien in the ''{{Hellboy}}'' films: He requires goggles to put ''water'' around his eyes to see clearly through ''air''.