History Fridge / TheInvisibleMan2020

** Adrian uses Cecilia's email to send a hurtful message to her sister, thereby cutting her off from outside support. Abusers always try to isolate their victims from close friends and family.

** Cecilia actually has one big clue: no matter how you spin the story, you can't escape the fact that Adrian was the one who build the suits, and would have had to tell the police about them. However, Cecilia knew there was at least one suit who was kept at his house and the police never recovered, the one she took and hid. And we see by James' reaction at the end that he never told the police about it. Cecilia knows about it, and Adrian doesn't know that she knows, so pretends he has told everything, and that's how she knows for sure he is lying and, after giving the chance to come clean at dinner, that he will keep doing so.

** Before doing anything excessively violent, Adrian does small things to make Cecilia look crazy or mentally unwell to James and Sydney, such as turning up the heat on the stove, or drugging her to make her seem impaired. Abusers tend to make their victims look crazy so that it's more difficult to believe when the seemingly well adjusted abuser is accused of harming them.

* [[spoiler:Tom working with Adrian is actually foreshadowed from their names alone. In the original Invisible Man novel by HG Wells, titular invisible man Griffin enlists the help of a homeless man named Thomas Marvel, bullying him into helping with his schemes... and in this movie, 'Tom' and 'Griffin' were once again in on it together]]
* Some have argued that [[spoiler:Emily's death would have been captured on a security camera, therefore proving that it was not done by Cecilia.]] But that actually plays into Adrian's plan, as he ends up [[spoiler: framing his brother as being the one behind the manipulations and being the guy in the suit. If the police look at security footage and see a floating knife, then discover it was Tom in the suit, Adrian still gets off scot free in the end.]]

* Given that Tom withdrew the Trust from Cecilia after she was committed, how likely is it that she's still cut off, even after Adrian was "found" alive? Tom mentions that he doesn't look forward to telling Sydney that the account that Cecilia set up for Sydney's college fund was now gone, and we receive no indication that the Trust was reinstated after Tom's death. Once news of Tom's actions broke, the will would likely have been invalidated, as, unless Adrian said otherwise, Tom's partners may have decided that it was created under duress (as per Adrian's story). Even worse? Adrian almost certainly didn't expect that Cecilia would try to kill him, so it's possible that there ''is'' no alternate will yet, or if there is, it probably wouldn't have been under the same terms as previously.

* Crime scene photos were taken of Adrian's staged suicide. Meaning there were investigators on the scene. Which means actual police officers and investigators might have been in on Adrian's scheme. As rich as Adrian is, [[DirtyCop he may have paid a lot of them off to look the other way.]]

** Though to be fair, Cecilia may not want the money anymore. It would certainly help with childcare, but considering it's her tormentor's money...

** Cecilia actually has one big clue: no matter how you spin the story, you can't escape the fact that Adrian was the one who build the suits, and would have had to tell the police about them. However, Cecilia knew there was at least one suit who was kept at his house and the police never recovered, the one she took and hid. And we see by Jack's reaction at the end that he never told the police about it. Cecilia knows about it, and Adrian doesn't know that she knows, so pretends he has told everything, and that's how she knows for sure he is lying and, after giving the chance to come clean at dinner, that he will keep doing so.

* People have begun to wonder, how did [[spoiler: Adrian manage to wash the paint off so quickly after Cee found him in the house with it? While nothing in the movie explains it, it would be a bit of an oversight to make an invisibility suit which happens to pick up dust and lint and dirt as it goes. It's safe to assume it was designed to PREVENT stains sticking to it. It's possibly covered in something like Teflon, a non-sticky non-staining layer to avoid this very situation. This also explains why, even though Adrian is probably wearing the suit 24/7, he isn't leaving footprints anywhere. Thus, when he goes to the sink, all it takes is a very quick splash of water in the kitchen sink to wash off all of the paint right away]]

** Before doing anything excessively violent, Adrian does small things to make Cecilia look crazy or mentally unwell to James and Sydney, such as turning up the heat on the stove,or drugging her to make her seem impaired. Abusers tend to make their victims look crazy so that it’s more difficult to believe when the seemingly well adjusted abuser is accused of harming them.

* We never really hear about the specifics of Adrian’s abuse, since Cecelia leaves him at the beginning of the movie. Throughout the movie, however, Adrian uses a ton of abuse tactics that he likely used when they were together to drive her crazy, and are common tactics with abusers in general;

** Before doing anything excessively violent, Adrian does small things to make Cecelia look crazy or mentally unwell to James and Sydney, such as turning up the heat on the stove,or drugging her to make her seem impaired. Abusers tend to make their victims look crazy so that it’s more difficult to believe when the seemingly well adjusted abuser is accused of harming them.
** Sydney thinks Cecelia hit her in the face, which is the breaking point for James as he tells Cecelia to leave. It’s not uncommon for abusers to act as if they were the ones being abused, to make the victim seem insane. Of course, Adrian can’t make himself seem like a victim, so he set up a scenario where it happened to someone else.
* When Tom tells Cecelia that Adrian needs her because she doesn’t need him, it sounds like he’s just saying how much of a control freak his brother is. But it’s more poignant than that; Adrian never ''loved'' Cecelia, and the only reason he does what he does is because he wants her purely out of spite. Adrian is a rich, handsome, and physically fit man, yet his horrible personality and sociopathy make him an emotional drain on both his brother and his ex-girlfriend. In other words, Adrian genuinely seems most happy when making others miserable. Meanwhile, Cecelia, at least at first, has her sister, James and Sydney as a support net, and has the wherewithal to get a job and start a career (before Adrian ruined it, at least), and despite her trauma, moves on from Adrian quite quickly after he’s dead. For all his power, Cecelia doesn’t need him, but ''he'' needs ''her'' so he has someone to abuse.

* Tom is a foil to Cecelia; [[spoiler: whereas Tom willingly obeys Adrian and acts as his pawn in hurting others, Cecelia refuses to submit to him and ends up his target. Fittingly, Tom’s story ends when he’s killed as a result of following his brother’s orders, whereas Cecelia is the one that kills Adrian for all he did.]]

* When Tom tells Cecelia that Adrian needs her because she doesn’t need him, it sounds like he’s just saying how much of a control freak his brother is. But it’s more poignant than that; Adrian never loved Cecelia, and the only reason he does what he does is because he wants her purely out of spite. Adrian is a rich, handsome, and physically fit man, yet his horrible personality and sociopathy make him an emotional drain on both his brother and his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, Cecelia, at least at first, has her sister, James and Sydney as a support net, and has the wherewithal to get a job and start a career (before Adrian ruined it, at least), and despite her trauma, moves on from Adrian quite quickly after he’s dead. In other words, Adrian only wants someone to torment out of a mixture of jealousy and spite.

** Tom is a foil to Cecelia; [[spoiler: whereas Tom willingly obeys Adrian and acts as his pawn in hurting others, Cecelia refuses to submit to him and ends up his target. Fittingly, Tom’s story ends when he’s killed as a result of following his brother’s orders, whereas Cecelia is the one that kills Adrian for all he did.]]

* Given that Tom withdrew the Trust from Cecilia after she was comitted, how likely is it that she's still cut off, even after Adrian was "found" alive? Tom mentions that he doesn't look forward to telling Sydney that the account that Cecilia set up for Sydney's college fund was now gone, and we receive no indication that the Trust was reinstated after Tom's death. Once news of Tom's actions broke, the will would likely have been inavlidated, as, unless Adrian said otherwise, Tom's partners may have decided that it was created under duress (as per Adrian's story). Even worse? Adrian almost certainly didn't expect that Cecilia would try to kill him, so it's possible that there ''is'' no alternate will yet, or if there is, it probably wouldn't have been under the same terms as previously.

* Crime scene photos were taken of Adrian's stage suicide. Meaning there were investigators on the scene. Which means actual police officers and investigators might have been in on Adrian's scheme. As rich as Adrian is, [[DirtyCop he may have paid a lot of them off to look the other way.]]

* Crime scene photos were taken of Adrian's stage suicide. Meaning there were investigators on the scene. Which means actual police officers and investigators might have been in on Adrian's scheme. As rich as Adrian is, [[CrookedCop he may have paid a lot of them off to look the other way.]]

** Usually people justify taking blood money by using it to benefit others like themselves.

** Though to be fair, Cecilia may not want the money anymore. It would certainly help with childcare, but considering it's her tormentor's money...

* Given that Tom withdrew the Trust from Cecilia after she was comitted, how likely is it that she's still cut off, even after Adrian was "found" alive? Tom mentions that he doesn't look forward to telling Sydney that the account that Cecilia set up for Sydney's college fund was now gone, and we receive no indication that the Trust was reinstated after Tom's death. Once news of Tom's actions broke, the will would likely have been inavlidated, as, unless Adrian said otherwise, Tom's partners may have decided that it was created under duress (as per Adrian's story). Even worse? Adrian almost certainly didn't expect that Cecilia would try to kill him, so it's possible that there ''is'' no alternate will yet, or if there is, it probably wouldn't have been under the same terms as previously.

* How did Cecilia know for a certainty that Adrian really WAS the one behind it all, and not Tom as he claimed? There are two clear signs: after Cecilia stabbed him with the pen, Adrian's suit continuously glitches druing the hospital scene, while Tom is wearing a suit that isn't glitching (and, just as importantly, doesn't appear to be even ''slightly'' wet, despite Adrian being drenched at the hospital); and Tom manages to somehow beat Cecilia back to James' house, not just by a little bit, but by a wide enough margin that he's able to attack Sydney, and then nearly beat James (who had to get from his precinct to his house after receiving Cecilia's warning call) to death, ''long'' before Cecilia arrived to [[BigDamnHeroes save them both]]. This second point would only work if Tom was actually ''already'' at James' house beforehand, likely waiting for the go-ahead from his brother to kill Sydney. Likewise, the extra time would have allowed Adrian to return to his house, stow the suit, seal himself in the basement, and tie himself up before the police arrived.

* Given that Tom withdrew the Trust from Cecilia after she was comitted, how likely is it that she's still cut off, even after Adrian was "found" alive? Tom mentions that he doesn't look forward to telling Sydney that the account that Cecilia set up for Sydney's college fund was now gone, and we receive no indication that the Trust was reinstated after Tom's death. Once news of Tom's actions broke, the will would likely have been inavlidated, as, unless Adrian said otherwise, Tom's partners would have decided that it was created under duress (as per Adrian's story). Even worse? Adrian almost certainly didn't expect that Cecilia would try to kill him, so it's possible that there ''is'' no alternate will yet, or if there is, it probably wouldn't have been under the same terms as previously.

* Given that Tom withdrew the Trust from Cecilia after she was comitted, how likely is it that she's still cut off, even after Adrian was "found" alive? Tom mentions that he doesn't look forward to telling Sydney that the account that Cecilia set up for Sydney's college fund was now gone, and we receive no indication that the Trust was reinstated after Tom's death. Once news of Tom's actions broke, the will would likely have been inavlidated, as, unless Adrian said otherwise, his partners would decided that it was created under duress (as per Adrian's story). Even worse? Adrian almost certainly didn't expect that Cecilia would try to kill him, so it's possible that there ''is'' no alternate will yet, or if there is, it probably wouldn't have been under the same terms as previously.