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* ''Webcomic/{{Defragmentation}}'': When Pink offers to let Spamton stay at their place, the latter briefly imagines stealing Pink's belongings, getting buff and pushing aside some Swatchlings, and having the Addisons bow before him in his NEO form.

* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': Neji and Tenten announce to Lee and Gai that not only are they engaged, but also that Tenten is pregnant. Lee suggests they should go celebrate. The next panel then shows an imagine spot of Lee dancing and Gai singing "[[Film/SaturdayNightFever Stayin' Alive]]" by Music/TheBeeGees.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', When Kara sees Dr. Light kneeled over Bizarrogirl, she mentally visualizes her mother kneeling over a shackled Reactron. Later she reminisces her cousin and herself hugging after the destruction of ComicBook/NewKrypton when she sees Bizarrogirl glomping Bizarro.
** At the tail end of the ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'' storyline in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #283, Linda imagines that she finally reveals her SecretIdentity to her parents and they accept her and become her secret keepers.
** ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'': During a brief bout of jealousy, Linda Danvers fantasizes briefly about stopping her boyfriend Dick Malverne from going after Lena Thorul by telling him Lena's secret (her being Lex Luthor's little sister). One second later, she completely shoots the idea down, feeling ashamed of herself for having even considered it.
** In ''ComicBook/MustThereBeASuperman'', the titular hero must prevent a pod of alien spores from reaching inhabited worlds. As preparing to intercept, Superman briefly visualizes what kind of chaos and devastation would ensue if those spores hatch in Earth.
** ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'': As observing Insect Queen's lair through a window, Kara imagines Lana Lang's face reflected in the window.
** ''ComicBook/TheSuperRevengeOfLexLuthor'': After explaining to several mooks how he plans to gaslight Superman until driving him crazy, ComicBook/LexLuthor imagines Superman turned into "a quaking, cowering wreck-- a mindless, human vegetable!"
** In ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'', Clark Kent considers flying back to his apartment despite his malfunctioning powers. Then he imagines himself free-falling from several hundreds of meters and decides to take the subway instead.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'', [[BigBad Karmang]] cheerfully imagines the consequences of someone trying to dismantle his machines: cities being destroyed by earthquakes, tsunamis, violent lightning storms...

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': In "[[Recap/TheBoysS0205WeGottaGoNow We Gotta Go Now]]" Homelander fantasizes massacring protesters using his eye beams.

* ''Film/AGuyThing'' has this happen a lot with the Jason Lee protagonist to comic effect. In the film, he is in over his head a lot and tries to imagine his way out of situations before being knocked back to reality.

* ''Film/Amsterdam'' has one in which Valerie imagines shooting her sibling. It's highly effective at misleading because it's the only one in the movie.

* In ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', Shouko has one of the TearJerker variety. [[spoiler: When she sees her grade school classroom, she starts imagining what those days would have been like if she not only had friends, but also if her entire family was together. This includes her grandma still being alive, her mother being more caring and less stressed, and her father actually being present in her life.]]

* In chapter 13 and episode 11 of ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'', it was revealed [[spoiler:Ryou's parents wanted to get Ryou a bodyguard when they went overseas, but was refused by her Grandmother]]. Kirin briefly thought about how [[SpoiledBrat Ryou would be different]] if she had a live-in bodyguard.

* Wakaba Kumura of ''Manga/OtasukeMikoMikoChan'' has these frequently.

* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'': When talking with his parents, Daikichi has frequent Flashbacks to his childhood (often accompanied by the informative caption "Showa-era child rearing!")
* Kappei and Seiichiro from ''Manga/DashKappei''. Every times their fantasies concern a romantic relathionship with Akane.
* ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'': Godai often imagines himself getting intimate with Kyoko.
* ''Manga/TheSecretRecipe'': In chapter 15, right after Wakatsuki had a brief daydream of Yuuko in a Naked Apron, one of the Cooking Club members bring up the upcoming cultural festival and asked what should their aprons be like. Cue immense blushing from Wakatsuki.

* One of the few almost totally lighthearted moments in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' happens when Dwight [=McCarthy=] imagines the recently deceased Jack Rafferty talking to him as a DeadpanSnarker. Emphasis on the dead part.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'': In a secret-agent-themed fantasy in issue 3 of ''Jughead'', Jughead shoots at Reggie, who turns out to be a robot.
-->'''Kevin:''' How did you know Reggie was a robot?\\
'''Jughead:''' Oh, I, for sure he was...a robot, 'cause, uh...
* Anya from ''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'' has one about her and Sean, as she prepares to impress him at Matt's party.
-->'''Sean:''' "Oh Anya, let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"\\
'''Anya:''' "Oh Sean, take me away!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': HookHand Arthur, complete with beard, is imagined by one of Arthur's classmates in ''Aquaman Vol 7'' #28.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'': One of the early issues showed all of May's friends (except Moose) fantasizing about being a superhero. Then Normie's fantasies/delusions of defeating Spider-Girl.
** Subverted in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', when Spider-Man believes he is just imagining he has become a SuperDeformed version of himself in a hippy costume.
** In ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', when ComicBook/JessicaJones, Ben Urich and Kat Ferrell are trying to figure out who murdered a ''Daily Bugle'' staffer and dropped her body in the water from hundreds of feet in the air, their mental images range from the highly unlikely (Iron Man, Hulk) to the probably not (Vulture) to the downright ludicrous (Stilt-Man).
* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': When Uncle Pothole and Buffalo Bill enter an abandoned building with the Daltons hiding behind a doorway for an ambush, Dalton clones suddenly spring out from elsewhere and Pothole and Bill fight them off, with Bill's hair noticably turning darker. Cut to the Daltons still standing near the doorway with dumbfounded expressions, and back in the chaos, Uncle Pothole has suddenly become ridiculously muscular, while Buffalo Bill is decorated with honors and his hair is completely black. Everything suddenly returns to normal, where it is revealed that Pothole was just writing a dime novel draft on the fly. Especially noteworthy, since it depicts Pothole writing Marty Stu versions of himself and Bill In-Universe.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* In one ''ComicStrip/FredBasset'' strip an annoyed Fred imagines leading his owner on a leash.

* Calvin has a few in ''Fanfic/CalvinAtCamp''. Since it's directly based on ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', this is to be expected.

* The entirety of ''Film/{{Next}}'' can fall under this due to its premise.

* In Lawrence Block's ''The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza'' a woman from the Museum of the Baltimore Historical Society tells Bernie that they traded a 1913 V-nickel to the Gallery of American and International Numismatics in exchange for a portrait of Charles Carroll.

* L. P. Davies' ''Give Me Back Myself'':

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* "Do not think about pink elephants."
* At times a blessing or a curse for those who are "visual learners". Visualizing things can be reflex and incredibly hard to filter out - a predictably exploitable trait.
** If you can be selective about it you can suggest [[BrainBleach disturbing mental images]] to others while blissfully incapable of seeing it yourself. AndThatWouldBeWrong.
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* An early Website/{{Vat19}} ad for a tabletop VideoGame/{{Frogger}} LCD game features a man hallucinating that his boss is in a frog suit and is able to control him with the Frogger game.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* Isaac and Miria of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' have a ''joint'' one (fitting, considering their [[TheDitz ditzy duo]] status) complete with ArtShift when they speculate with horror on Jacuzzi's fate at the hands of the mythical Rail Tracer. Which, by the way, they visualize as a giant green worm with fangs.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' has a short scene in the second volume where a Rhea scout is caught out during his promotion exam by Guild Girl for helping himself to the treasure that by rights belonged to the rest of his party, with not even Goblin Slayer having any pity for the guy because he is an adventurer too. Following his demotion and banishment, the scout has a brief Imagine Spot about pulling his knife and attacking Guild Girl only to be smashed down by Goblin Slayer, resulting in him backing down. It definitely didn't help that his thoughts during the imagine spot were very, ''very'' goblin-like. [[spoiler:When the scout finally does decide to attack them in revenge for this humiliation in the third volume, his death at Goblin Slayer's hands is [[GuttedLikeAFish anything but pretty]].]]

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', Ayumu constantly imagines [[TheVoiceless Eucliwood]] talking to him, usually praising him and acting sexy. In each imagine spot, she is voiced by a different actress.

* Misaki in ''LightNovel/OurHomesFoxDeity'' is prone to sudden and overthought fantasy sequences about Noboru, her crush. Usually these fantasy sequences involve Kuugen or Kou, his family's resident PrettyFreeloaders.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Gru has two, both involving the girls and a EurekaMoment.

* In Episode 2 of the {{Hentai}} ''Kimihagu'', Emily imagines herself surrounded by guys during ADateWithRosiePalms.

* Vanilla Bear of the ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'' has a habit of doing this. It's PlayedForLaughs, since we never get to see what he's imagining and the emphasis is instead put on how this looks from the outside: Vanilla stops (often in the middle of a conversation), stares off into space for a few minutes, and then [[WakingNonSequiter says something that does not appear to make any sense]].

* Michael, the narrator of ''Literature/TheRepublicOfTrees'' is established as a notorious daydreamer in the first chapter. His visions in the book get quite bizarre (such as Liberty from Delacroix' "Liberty leading the People" [[spoiler: giving him a handjob)]].

* This is a recurring theme in ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] these along with [[FramingDevice Framing Devices]] in [[spoiler: "Ruthie". After a particularly bad day, Princess Carolyn reveals to [=BoJack=] that she likes to pretend she has a great-great-great granddaughter who tells stories about her for school. This also happens to be the framing device for the entire episode, and because it's revealed Carolyn's had another miscarriage, Ruthie (the great-great-great granddaughter in question) doesn't necessarily exist. This all suggests that Carolyn will never be pregnant.]]

* In the ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Can't Buy Love", Princess Morbucks has a few about her crush and her having a romantic time. After she thinks he's dating Blossom, she imagines the red powerpuff as a siren hypnotising the crush.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

A brief cut to a FantasySequence and back, usually no more than a few seconds long, and commonly [[BookEnds bookended]] by a FadeToWhite. {{Alice|AndBob}} yells at Bob, "What ''am'' I, your maid?!". Cut to Alice cleaning the house in a FrenchMaidOutfit. Cut to Bob's face -- he's clearly just imagined the role, and Alice has just [[ArmorPiercingSlap slapped him]] to wake him up back to reality.

'''Alvin:''' ''(to See-Through Blouse Girl)'' God, you've got great tits! ''(ArmorPiercingSlap)''