History YMMV / TheInvisibleMan

* MagnificentBastard: Also Griffin, particularly when taking revenge on Kemp.
* {{NarmCharm}}: The entire sequence that follows Griffin first revealing he's invisible. From the police captain's underreaction, to Griffin chasing the cops around, to him stealing a bicycle and then throwing it back at the cops, it's all hysterically campy.

!![[Series/TheInvisibleMan The TV series]]
* CrossesTheLineTwice: In "Possessed," Darien goes into Stage 5 Quicksilver Madness and decides to have a little invisible fun. One of his stops is a funeral, where he makes the body sit up and giggle around. Once everyone is scared away, Darien then steals the corpse's watch for good measure.

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Going Postal," Hobbes shoots up a post office, seemingly having snapped. It turns out to be a result of being exposed to drugs in a mail package. This was only a few months before the infamous 2001 Anthrax attacks through the mail. It was close enough to the mark that Sci-Fi pulled the episode from a scheduled rerun.
** In Season 1's "Tiresias," Claire warns Darien that getting too much Counteragent will cause him to build up an immunity to it. That's exactly what starts happening in Season 2's "Possessed."

* MagnificentBastard: Arnauld manages to get Darien to rescue him in the penultimate episode and then manages to get access to his laptop (with C4 stashed in it which he uses to blast out of his cell) and then escapes Agency custody.

* ParanoiaFuel: What Allianora tells Darien in "Ghost of a Chance."

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The villain in "Ralph" fires a pistol. There is no muzzle flash, no recoil, and the action does not cycle.

** "The Other Invisible Man" reveals one Simon Cole was the original pick for the I-MAN project--something he was reportedly very excited about. However, something went wrong, and he became permanently invisible--driving him insane [[spoiler:and getting him shot when he attacked the Official]]. Darien eventually finds pages of Simon's journal, where the handwriting becomes more erratic because he could no longer see his own hand.

* TheWoobie: Darien. He gets caught in the pilot because he can't bring himself to leave an old man to die, he is kidnapped and forcibly operated on a few times by people who want invisibility.

* CompleteMonster: Griffin after he fully succumbs to the effects of monocaine.
** He's actually more like this in the novel version. He was a cruel psychopath even before becoming invisible. To finance his experiments, he even robs his own father, who commits suicide after being robbed by his son, because the money had not been his own. In the movie he's more tragic and sympathetically and his insanity is purely a side-effect of the invisibility drug, and he was scared that he had nothing to offer his fiancee, so he made himself invisible. Also because he was a poor chemist.

* {{Narm}}: The entire sequence that follows Griffin first revealing he's invisible. From the police captain's underreaction, to Griffin chasing the cops around, to him stealing a bicycle and then throwing it back at the cops, it's all hysterically campy.

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* NightmareFuel: The central idea: a CompleteMonster has made himself invisible. You don't know he's coming until he's got his fingers around your throat. And he is ''furious''. The scene where a man who was forced to help him runs panicked into a town screaming, ''"The Invisible Man is coming!"'' is still disturbing.

* NightmareFuel:
** The care facility for insensates, people who lost most or all of their senses due to invisibility research. Particularly memorable is a man who keeps cutting himself with a shard of glass, implying that pain is the only thing he can feel anymore. When Darrien takes the glass away, the man desperately gropes around for it.
** In "Tiresias," Hobbes is attacked by a Quicksilver-mad Darien. Hobbes tries to call for help from a phone booth, as an invisible Darien smashes the glass and tips it over before trying to strangle him.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[DyingAsYourself Griffin's death.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: The Catevari

** He's actually more like this in the novel version. He was a cruel psychopath even before becoming invisible. To finance his experiments, he even robs his own father, who commits suicide after being robbed by his son, because the money had not been his own. In the movie he's more tragic and sympathetically and his insanity is purely a side-effect of the invisibility drug.

* SignatureScene: Griffin revealing his invisibility for the first time.

* NightmareFuel: The care facility for insensates, people who lost most or all of their senses due to invisibility research. Particularly memorable is a man who keeps cutting himself with a shard of glass, implying that pain is the only thing he can feel anymore. When Darrien takes the glass away, the man desperately gropes around for it.
** In "Tiresias," Hobbes is attacked by a Quicksilver mad Darien. Hobbes tries to call for help from a phone booth, as an invisible Darien smashes the glass and tips it over before trying to strangle him.

* ParanoiaFuel: The very thought that some invisible person could be watching you without you knowning it, or worse.

* {{Narm}}: The entire sequence that follows Griffin first reavealing he's invisible. From the police captain's underreaction, to Griffin chasing the cops around, to him stealing a bicycle and then throwing it back at the cops, it's all hysterically campy.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: While in Quicksilver Madness Stage 5, Darien beats up a [[AcceptableTargets mime]].
** While in the midst of Quicksilver Madness, rather than outright kill Arnaud (whose knowledge Clare needs at the time), Darien takes his anger out on his house.
--> '''"DIE CUCKOO CLOCK! DIE!"'''
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: when [[spoiler: Gloria gets reunited with her family after ten years. *sniff*]]
** Hobbes putting a flag by Kevin's grave, which he had earlier said was always done for heroes.

!!The film:

!! TV series:

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The computer-generated effects were probably very impressive in 2000. Nearly a decade later... not so much.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In an episode where Darien poses as a little girl's [[ImaginaryFriend invisible best friend]] 'Ralph', a sniper is shooting at her while she's hiding behind some rocks. Darien is on the edge of quicksilver madness when he goes invisible and beats the living piss out of the sniper.
--> '''Sniper:''' What ''are'' you?!
--> ''Darien becomes visible''
--> '''Darien:''' I'm Ralph.