History Main / Intangibility

Run those same reasons in reverse, and it [[IncrediblyLamePun becomes clear]] that a truly intangible person would be incredibly ''boring'' as he could neither interact with the world nor even be detected by it. Fortunately, these pesky real life physics rules tend to be ignored in-story thanks to RuleOfCool or HandWaved as some kind of YourMindMakesItReal effect.

** Susuki later demonstrates that you can actually touch a phasing vampire by phasing yourself. She compares this phenomenon to magnetism: two vampires in similar phasing states will repel each other, while those in different states will harmlessly phase through.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' has The Fallen, angels with the faces of demons who fly through walls, floors and ceilings as easily as they do empty air.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', this is one of Jack-Jack's [[ComboPlatterPowers many superpowers]], first seen in the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Pixar Short]] ''Jack-Jack Attack''.

* In ''VideoGame/Nova Drift'', Apotheosis allows the player's ship to phase through enemies and other physical obstacles, rendering them harmless, but the ship can still be damaged by enemy projectiles and burning residue.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': In "Deals With Our Devils", Phil, Robbie, and Leo get trapped between dimensions because of a side effect of a science experiment. They can see, touch, and communicate with each other, ''and'' see their surroundings and people in the "real" world. However, people in the "real" world don't see them and are able to pass straight through them. This instance of the trope does have the "floor problem", which is never explained. An important plot point in this episode even involves Robbie Reyes sneaking into a vehicle driven by another character without passing through it and traveling to a different location.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Next Phase", Geordi and Ro Laren were thus afflicted by an experimental Romulan cloaking device which also served as a "phasing device". It made them invisible (but not to each other) and intangible, making them think they had died and were ghosts. The trope is played straight in a number of ways. Geordi and Ro could walk on floors, ride the turbolifts, and of course the Enterprise itself. They could see, hear, and breathe. Trope slightly averted for dramatic purposes in that they couldn't eat or drink, setting a limit on how long they could survive in that state. A Romulan enemy in the same situation was similarly unaffected by the floor, but flew out the walls when pushed. He also sat in a chair, which rocked slightly when he stood (though it is possible that this chair was phased as well). Communicators didn't work, but Geordi's visor and the Romulan's disruptor did. Eventually, they learn by overhearing Data that the matter they pass through leaves a signature, and when Geordi's hand is hit with the beam Data is using to clean the radiation, it becomes slightly "less" substantial: he feels resistance now. Geordi realizes Data's technique can undo the process, so Ro eventually overloads the disruptor, causing a massive burst of the signature. Data orders the room flooded with the radiation, and everyone is stunned to see Geordi and Ro literally rematerialize before their eyes. It's later revealed that the UFP also experimented with such a interphasic cloaking with a ship called the ''Pegasus'' (the episode's title). It can render an entire ship both invisible and intangible. [[spoiler: but a treaty forbade it and the system was GoneHorriblyWrong.]] It is heavily implied that [[spoiler: transphasic torpedoes]] work this way to get past defenses.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The Doctor can have such effect, as he's actually a [[ProjectedMan hologram]] who uses [[HardLight shaped forcefields to manipulate objects]]. The Doctor can turn off the forcefields leaving only the hologram, which produces this effect. In the episode "Revulsion", the Doctor finds himself up against a similar hologram [[AIIsACrapshoot who has gone insane]]. The hologram tries to hit the Doctor with a hammer only to have it pass through his body. The Doctor casually throws his tricorder through the hologram, folds his arms and says, "''This'' could get tedious." Unfortunately the next blow hits the Doctor's [[AchillesHeel mobile emitter]], causing his program to shut down.

* Bow's "Out of Sight" ability in ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' turns the player intangible and invisible, but you can't move while using it.
** Boos can turn intangible in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Mario (Luigi in ''DS'') can do this himself with the Vanish Cap. (Should have been called ''Intangible Cap.'')

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Kokoro becomes this after coming into contact with a strange monster. She also becomes invisible to her partner, [[VisibleInvisibility but the reader is still able to see her.]] [[spoiler: She even starts to disappear from ''reality'' after a short while, but is returned to normal after the [[BigBad main antagonist]] takes the monster for her own use.]]

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': One episode has an escaped convict who has this as a power, as well as the ability to reduce anything he passes through to ash. It's demonstrated with some {{Technobabble}} that it's electricity-based and doesn't work against insulating materials, and he's eventually done in when he tries to phase through a speeding car and gets fatally smacked by the glass windshield.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106 SCP-106]] from [[Website/SCPFoundation the SCP Foundation]] can pass through solid matter, but corrodes the material when it does.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106 SCP-106]] from [[Wiki/SCPFoundation the SCP Foundation]] can pass through solid matter, but corrodes the material when it does.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', Jareth phases through Sarah during "Within You".

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Slimer does this to a point. Food he can chew, but the bottle of wine pours right through him.
* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': Inverted. During the battle in Wakanda, Thanos uses the space stone to turn the Hulkbuster intangible just before the latter attacks the former. Suddenly no longer able to hit Thanos, the Hulkbuster goes flying through him and ends up embedded in a rock wall.
* ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' features a gender-flipped version of Iron Man villain The Ghost. This version of the character has native powers after a FreakLabAccident with Quantum technology, and her supersuit merely helps her control her PowerIncontinence and eases the constant pain. Like her comic counterpart, she can become temporarily invulnerable.
* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''. While in his ghost form, David Lo Pan can pass through walls and other solid objects. He can selectively interact with solid objects when he needs to, such as when he holds the Needle of Love and Miao Yin during the wedding ceremony.
* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'': The Candyman can phase through walls as a ghost.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** The Dauthi, Soltari, and Thalakos are entire races of intangible people. Their homeplane got caught between Dominaria and Rath and ripped to shreds, leaving the inhabitants as Intangible Men who can pop in and out of reality at will. In terms of gameplay, creatures of these races all have the "shadow" keyword. In function, they can only block and be blocked by other creatures with shadow.
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=158752 Turn to Mist]] is a spell which causes a temporary version of this to an attacking creatures. The creature is exiled and returned to play on its controller's next turn.
* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' the [[MechanicalLifeforms Necrons]] have technology that allows them to phase objects in and out of the physical universe. [[SnakePerson Canoptek Wraiths]] are fitted with such technology as standard and many high ranking Necron nobles are equipped with phase shifters that allow them to briefly phase out of reality to avoid enemy attacks. The same technology allows advanced Necron melee weapons to bypass enemy armour.

* All player characters in ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema}}'' can become intangible whenever they want, instantly and at no cost.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. The Greater Demon Boak Chaos Hoof can pass through solid objects like a ghost, even while carrying a rider.
* Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters'' Volume III. The Dread is an intangible undead falcon that can fly through solid objects.
* In ''[=HeroQuest=]'', the Pass Through Rock (Earth Magic) spell allows a player to move through walls--But moving into solid rock (off the map) will eliminate them.

** The Banish spell turns a unit ethereal, which makes them entirely immune to normal attacks. However, it also makes them unable to attack, move slower, become more vulnerable to spells and the Magic DamageType (which come in two varieties: the laughable attack of each faction's casters or the extremely powerful attacks of their heavy flyers). Because of these effects, it can be used against both friend and foe.

* Akuma's float-on-one-knee trick from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' also turns him intangible so he can zoom around untouchable. If you ever see him doing this trick while tangible though, hit him or get out of the way because you're a second away from the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Raging Demon]] attack.
* Bow's "Out of Sight" ability in ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' turns the player intangible and invisible, but you can't move while using it.
** Boos can turn intangible in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Mario (Luigi in ''DS'') can do this himself with the Vanish Cap. (Should have been called ''Intangible Cap.'')
* ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}''
** Suika Ibuki has the ability to manipulate her own density at will. [[SNKBoss An ability she puts to good use as the boss of the franchise's first fighting game]]. [[InterfaceScrew During which, you cannot see either of your life bars]]. Yep.
** Reimu Hakurei has the ability to float, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway which seems rather redundant since everyone in Gensokyo can fly]]. However, it turns out that this ability includes the ability to [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower float away from reality itself]], so that she becomes completely impossible to "reach" by any power employed by any means, [[LogicalWeakness including and up to]] RealityWarping, making her nothing short of invincible. [[WordOfGod If it wasn't just for play (with time limit)]], [[CurbStompBattle no one could beat her with any method]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' famously has Intangirs, a kind of untouchable bonus mook, in addition to regular intangibility spells. The tradeoff for intangibility (which makes the subject immune to physical attacks) is dramatically increased vulnerability to magic. In a famous [[GoodBadBugs good bad bug]], it even overcomes {{Contractual Boss Immunity}}, allowing you to easily kill bosses with the combination of a Vanish spell and a Death (or it's even more effective brother X-Zone) spell.
* The DS-exclusive Violet Wisp from ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' turns Sonic into an intangible ''hedgehog'', able to pass through walls.
* ''{{VideoGame/Lusternia}}'' has Zenos, a particularly creepy example: basically, he's an [[OmnicidalManiac omnivorous]] sentient fog. Tales abound of him enveloping whole forests and cities, devouring the inhabitants and leaving only charred wasteland in his wake.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Fenris has the ability to become partly intangible as a result of having his body forcibly laced with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]. Exactly ''how'' intangible he can become is unclear; in gameplay terms, his "Lyrium Ghost" mode makes him more resistant (but not immune) to damage, and aside from that he mostly uses the ability to crush people's hearts in their chests.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'': [[spoiler:Subverted at first in Chapter 5, when Guybrush can still touch and pick up the items as a GhostPirate in the Crossroads of the afterlife; but when he returns to the living world, it becomes Double Subverted when he tries touching the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu, only to find that he can't touch it (or any other item) or even pick it up while in the living world (he needs to get back in his own body in order to do that).]]

* An [[GoodBadBugs accidental]] example in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' (original release only) is Link after picking up an item. All of his collisions except for the one that determines if he's still on solid ground are disabled so that the animation for showing off the item he got can play out without being interrupted. How was this discovered, since Link can't be controlled during this animation, you may ask? Well. The looping idle animation for while the dialog box is displayed afterward has a slight miscalculation that makes Link shift position ever so slightly with each loop, and because his collisions are disabled, he ghosts through everything that this shifting [[AbsurdlyLongWait (eventually)]] pushes him against. Walls, doors, enemies, nothing can effect him as long as that dialog box remains open. In the speedrunning community, this is known as a "pickup slide", and more details about how it works and its practical purposes are explained here: [[https://youtu.be/v2nRW3wKnVY]]
* ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' has Pamela Ibis, a friendly ghost who makes regular use of this in cutscenes. In gameplay, this is also the source of her [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Physical Immunity]] skill and her [[NoSell Bear Shift]] defensive support.
* The ghost mooks from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'', a recurring enemy after debuting in The Graveyard, unsurprisingly. This being a Maze Game where you're in a race against time to hunt hostile monsters and destroy their spawners, more often than not ghosts will simply phase through walls to sneak upon you, or get into your way while you're busy dealing with higher-level enemies like vampires or mummies, making them close to GoddamnBats.
* A very hard to get upgrade of Cloaking in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'', for thirty seconds ships with the module cannot be hit or fire on enemies, but they are visible.

* The [[SerialKiller Void Walker]] from ''VideoGame/NexusClash'' has the power to seep through corners in walls and appear in nearby buildings, quite possible appearing in your [[ParanoiaFuel closet]] or [[ParanoiaFuel under your bed]].
* ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'': As a hologram, Alpha's intangible, and makes a lot of comments about it, such as in this Friendzoned Chat:
--> ''Alpha'': So... What does a solid person do for fun? I'm a hologram, so I can't hit a volleyball or eat a falafel.

* In ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Escaping The Prison]]'', Henry can use the Opacitator to become intangible and gently fall through his cell. However, it [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]] and he gently falls to the Earth's core.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'':
** The Banish spell turns a unit ethereal, which makes them entirely immune to normal attacks. However, it also makes them unable to attack, move slower, become more vulnerable to spells and the Magic DamageType (which come in two varieties: the laughable attack of each faction's casters or the extremely powerful attacks of their heavy flyers). Because of these effects, it can be used against both friend and foe.
** Tauren Spirit Walkers can switch between ethereal and physical form.
* Larval Stalkers from ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' cannot be touched by anything and cannot interact with Harry at all, and will quickly vanish when beamed with the flashlight. They only exist to screw with the player as they still trigger your radio's static, and to lull you into a false sense of security leaving you open to attack from regular Stalkers who look and behave similarly but can and ''will'' attack Harry.
* The Lk ship in ''VideoGame/StarControl'' ''3'' features a phasing device. However don't think you can materialize inside an enemy ship and destroy it that way.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'' features Lani-Loli, the Quantum Mask of Phase. Unlike most examples, he doesn't turn the wearer intangible, but instead allows them to turn certain crates, platforms, enemies or hazards between tangible and intangible. Of course, turning an intangible platform tangible while Crash or Coco is inside it will [[TeleFrag instantly end them]].
* In ''VideoGame/XPilot'', one powerup is a phasing device that allows the player's ship to pass through walls (and likewise makes it intangible to bullets and bombs). Its duration is sharply limited, so the player needs to ensure their ship is back in open space before the powerup expires.
* In ''VideoGame/TaskMaker'' and ''VideoGame/TheTombOfTheTaskMaker'', the Ethereal Potion makes the player temporarily intangible. He or she may phase through walls, and attacks by enemies will pass right through, but the player cannot interact with doors or switches, or pick up objects, until the effect wears off.

** ComicBook/TheFlash can do this for about a few seconds, by "rapidly vibrating his molecules". He hasn't done this trick much since ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', though.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': An unscrupulous reporter named Ian Peek stole a device that gave him this power so he could spy on anyone he pleased and make a fortune as a celebrity gossip columnist. In the end, he subverted the trend and ''did'' suffer the KarmicDeath (he not only stole the device, but killed the inventor with a fire he set to cover his tracks) of becoming permanently intangible and falling first through each individual floor of the building he's in, then falling through the ''basement'' into the ground, and then, presumably, the Earth's crust all the way to the core. Depending on whether or not heat/gravity has any effect on him, and how long he can survive in an intangible state, it may be a horrific AndIMustScream ending of the kind ''Beyond'' loved to spring on the audience.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Baby Cakes", Pinkie Pie traps Pumpkin Cake under a wastebasket, but because Pumpkin's magic had just blossomed, she crawls right through it.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic:

* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** This is ComicBook/KittyPryde's mutant ability. Her ability to not fall through the floor, while not explained well, has nothing to do with the actual, physical floor (which she can pass through if she chooses) and, as such, can be used ''without'' a floor. She often walks on air by visualizing an invisible staircase. Later works have treated it as slow flight. This tends not to show up in adaptations.
** In ''Astonishing X-Men'', Cassandra Nova mindscrewed with Shadowcat and caused her to phase deep into the Earth. riter Whedon also had Kitty accidentally lose control enough to phase through the floor when she and Peter Rasputin first did the deed, in an amusing display of PowerPerversionPotential.
** The villain Shinobi Shaw has the same power. Being a villain, he uses the 'heart squeezing' as his trademark killing move. He also openly admits it can be used for peeping on girls (not that he needs it with his cash)
* Negative Man from the ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' can leave his body as an energy-form that can control its tangibility.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** All natives of the planet Bgztl have voluntary intangibility powers. This is the home planet of Phantom Girl, from the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes. In the Threeboot version it's explained as Bgztl being a planet in another dimension which exists in the same space as Earth and her shifting her mass between our dimension and that one as a unique power. She's visible in both worlds (which gets awkward in the one she's not paying attention to) and is solid and can sense in only one at a time. This solves the floor problem (and causes a new one when someone has to go to the core of a planet) when you realize that she can't avoid the planet by shifting to a dimension with an identical planet in the same place.
* Johnny Sorrow, usually a Justice Society villain, is intangible as long as he is wearing his golden mask. When it is removed, he becomes tangible... but his face kills anyone who sees it. He can take it off himself even though he's intangible.
* This is one of the powers of ComicBook/TheSpectre. In ''ComicBook/WarWorld'', Franchise/{{Superman}} tries to punch him and his fist goes right through The Spectre.
* ComicBook/IronMan enemy and ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} member The Ghost is an industrial terrorist who uses his own technology to become intangible, invisible, and fly at will.
** He once tricked fellow ComicBook/IronMan foe Spymaster into accepting one of his intangibility devices, only to take it from him halfway through a wall, killing Spymaster instantly.
* In Dark Horse Comics' ''ComicBook/{{Ghost|DarkHorseComics}}'', the title character can make herself intangible (and fly, thus avoiding the floor problem). She has a particularly nasty attack where she would reach into an opponent's chest while intangible, grab his heart, and then become corporeal again. (Why [[RequiredSecondaryPowers her hand isn't hurt in the process]] is not explained.)
* ComicBook/MartianManhunter has this power, also having flight powers so he doesn't have to worry about falling through the floor.
* Marvel Comics' ComicBook/DoctorStrange can [[AstralProjection split into an 'ectoplasmic' self]] and his physical body. The former is intangible, and even could go right through the core of the planet Earth as a shortcut around the surface.
* Marvel Comics' ComicBook/TheVision was a flying android who could shift his molecular density, from intangible to denser-than-diamond. He made frequent use of this power to reach into other beings and dodge attacks.
** This includes phasing while someone is kicking at him... like Franchise/{{Batman}}.
* ComicBook/TheFlash can do this for about a few seconds, by "rapidly vibrating his molecules". He hasn't done this trick much since ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, though.
* Moonstone in ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' (later the Dark Avengers version of Ms. Marvel) can turn intangible. She has outright flight to deal with the falling-through-the-ground aspect. She doesn't use it much, already being an energy-blasting FlyingBrick - in fact, she deliberately never used it while masquerading as the heroic Meteorite, on the grounds it was too distinctive a clue to her real identity.
* ''Hero Hotline'' featured Fred, the invisible, intangible man. The problem being that he can't interact with his surroundings at all. It's speculated that Fred isn't real and is just a ploy by super-ventriloquist Voice-Over to pick up two paychecks, but V/O talks to Fred when nobody else is around, so maybe not.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' villain Death-Stalker was trapped in a dimension partially connected to Earth's dimension, and while naturally invisible and immaterial, could become visible and intangible, invisible and tangible, or visible and tangible for a few hours at a time. He also wore gloves that used microwaves to give him a "death grip". He died when he shifted to full tangibility to grasp Daredevil with the gloves, but was halfway through a tombstone; the trauma and shock killed him instantly.
* ''Wham Comics'': Blue Fire can become intangible and is [[WreathedInFlames covered in blue flames]]. It was explained that his intangibility was related to force he or another used, the gentler he touched something it could be solid, but a punch would pass through.

* The Duke of Darkness, from ''Triple Threat Comics'', uses this power to battle villains such as Mr. Slumber.

* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' has minor villain Brahl, who can turn intangible at will to keep from being hurt. Subverted when he's decked anyway by a hero who's ''also'' intangible.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'', Kara faces down a mutant super-villain who has multiple powers, included the ability to become intangible.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} reveals The Flash taught her how to vibrate at Superspeed to slip her molecules between those of solid objects in order to deal with enemies that try to freeze you by coating you in ice. Kara uses his lessons to escape when Bizarrogirl tries to encase her in stone. However it’s a last resort because she is usually not fast enough.
--->'''The Flash:''' Mr. Freeze, Captain Cold, Minister Blizzard — All of them will try to freeze you dead in your tracks, coat you in ice. You gotta know how to counter. If you vibrate at Super Speed, your molecules will be able to slip between the molecules of whatever's freezing you.
** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'', Supergirl is flying over the countryside when she runs into a mysterious, spectral giant hand. When Kara charges at the mysterious thing menacing her, she flies through it.
** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', villain Protector can change the molecular density of his body to turn itself intangible.
--->'''Protector:''' Not so long as I can change the molecular density of my body, Superman! Now you can't touch me... or harm me... But I can harm you!
** ''ComicBook/New52'' introduces a new Superman villain named Anguish, a woman with this power. Anguish explains that her power comes from altering her body's density, meaning she can also increase it to the point that she's strong and fast enough to kick Superman around. She complains that her power [[PowerIncontinence activates automatically]], which is useful against sneak-attacks, but not so great when [[CantHaveSexEver she actually wants someone to touch her]]. Superman only manages to hit her once, by breaking the ground that she's standing on. In the end, Superman resorts to fixing and returning her beloved mother's locket, at which point she leaves.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman'', villain Xviar uses an alien device to phase through the wall connecting his apartment with Clark Kent's while the owner is away.
** In ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', the cover of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #471 shows Superman's fist going through Faora's spectral form.
* The ComicBook/SilverSurfer can do this due to his manipulation of molecules but doesn't do it often. His [[Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer movie counterpart]] did this quite a bit, particularly in his introductory scene where he phases through buildings, cars, the Human Torch, and even his own board.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has Dr. Manhattan, a being who can control his own molecules as well as those around him. He typically phases through walls [[ThereWasADoor without bothering to open doors.]]
* Sublime of ''[[ComicBook/{{Gen 13}} DV8]]'' has control over her density -- she can walk through walls or be tougher than diamonds. She mostly goes for the latter choice, being a very talented and skilled hand-to-hand fighter and all.
* ''ComicBook/DungeonTheEarlyYears'': Stapanelle is an herb that temporarily allows intangibility while being smoked.

* The ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain Ivan Kragoff/The Red Ghost has this ability. Like Shadowcat, he can float to avoid the falling through the floor problem. While he is intangible, he doesn't have to eat or breathe for a very long time. He can make parts of his body be intangible, so he can carry objects while staying relatively safe.

* ''Film/{{Ghost}}'' goes out of its way to show how much effort it takes newly dead Creator/PatrickSwayze to move a penny, but he never has the floor problem, nor does he have a problem riding in elevators.

* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': Voluntary intangibility is an inherent ability of the Tangean people, including ranger Mira Nova. It's more often used to walk through walls and even phase through floors (in-universe it's called "ghosting"), but on a handful of occasions, it's been shown to allow projectiles to pass right through Mira without harming her. [[spoiler:On one occasion, she ghosts into Buzz's body. Ew.]]