History YMMV / TheInvisibleMan

!![[Film/TheInvisibleMan The film]]
* HilariousInHindsight: The main character's name is Jack, and his love interest is played by [[Film/Titanic1997 Gloria Stuart]].
* MoralEventHorizon: Though Griffin is much more deadly in the film adaptation, it's hard to pinpoint exactly when he crosses it. If he doesn't by assaulting the publican's wife, he clearly does by the time he causes over a hundred deaths by derailing a train.
* 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.
** Much of Griffin's "Reign of Terror" is just childish pranks, like stealing money and throwing it to random people in the street. [[AxCrazy And then he starts derailing passenger trains]].
* SignatureScene: Griffin revealing his invisibility for the first time. You know, that scene where he unwraps his bandages while laughing maniacally in front of a horrified policeman and several terrified villagers.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The invisibility effects were cutting-edge in 1933 and, amazingly enough, still hold up pretty well.

* MagnificentBastard: Arnauld manages to get Darien to rescue him in the penultimate episode and then manages to get access to Darien's laptop (with C4 stashed in it, which he uses to blast out of his cell) and then escapes Agency custody.
** Also the Official is very good at manipulating everyone into doing what he wants.

* MagnificentBastard: Griffin, particularly when taking revenge on Kemp.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Several times on the show, the MadScientist of the Week has produced something with miraculous real world applications, only for it to be discarded because the scientist used unethical methods to acquire it. For instance, in the episode "It Hurts When I Do This" the doctor has come up with a way to cure incurable brain damage, he just has to replace it using a living donor. He exploited homeless people for this purpose, but then Claire uses his method to cure someone else by taking it from the doctor after he has a bad fall. In "Flowers for Hobbes," the scientist came up with a mean of giving people super intelligence, just with dangerous personality changes and suicidal acts in later stages. At the end of that episode, the heroes find a cure for it. That would still be a tremendous achievement: temporary genius to solve problems and then be given the antidote when they start exhibiting the personality changes. In "Frozen in Time," Chrysalis has developed a fool-proof way to freeze people, just that after 24 hours it becomes permanent. That would revolutionize the cryonics industry, many people with incurable diseases would want to be frozen until such time as a cure would be found for them. In all of these cases, the methods are simply forgotten about, even though they would revolutionize the world.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The invisibility effects were cutting-edge in 1933 and, amazingly enough, still hold up pretty well.

* MoralEventHorizon: Though Griffin is much more deadly in the film adaptation, it's hard to pinpoint exactly when he crosses it. If he doesn't by assaulting the boarding house owner's wife, he clearly does by the time he causes over a hundred deaths by derailing a train.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Does Griffin's undoing at the end of the first act come from his utter contempt for what he clearly considers to be his social and intellectual inferiors, or from the townspeople's small-minded provincialism? Or, for that matter, both?

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The invisibility effects were cutting-edge in 1932 and, amazingly enough, still hold up pretty well.

** Much of Griffin's "Reign of Terror" is just childish pranks, like stealing money and throwing it to random people in the street.