History Main / InvisibilityCloak

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''Doom II'' had a Partial Invisibility power-up (which one of the creatures had as an inborn ability); this didn't make it ''impossible'' to see the character, just ''extremely'' difficult. A variant of the demon called the Spectre also has this effect, albeit permanently turned-on.

* In ''Webcomic/FarFromHome'', the pirates have a device that makes them only appear on the scanner.

* An early driving plot device of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' is Grand Admiral Thrawn's search for Palpatine's hidden cloaking tech. While it is tested on a star destroyer, it's side effect of blinding the vessels and making them unable to navigate leads Thrawn to decide it just isn't practical for military vessels. [[spoiler: So he rigs them on asteroids and drops them in orbit of Coruscant instead.]]

* The female assassins in the first ''HalfLife'' had cloaking devices when faced on the highest difficulty.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series features the [=StealthBoy=], which is established as a knock-off of Chinese technology, leading to a Chinese Stealth Suit showing up in the Operation Anchorage DLC for VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}[[hottip:*:The suit shows up in VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas as well, but it isn't an InvisibilityCloak there - [[FridgeBrilliance perhaps because its effect has degraded after lying around for 200 years]]. Both [[KungFuProofMook prevent the player from targeting an equipped enemy in VATS]].

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* The Assassins in the ''[[{{FEAR}} F.E.A.R.]]'' series have active camo. Notably, the camouflage only covers the Assassins' body, not any weapons said Assassin is carrying, which forces them to rely on hand-to-hand attacks. They get around this by having finger-mounted claws that [[ShockAndAwe channel electricity into their targets.]]

* ''[[Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows]]'' uses this with Holmes having too much time on his hands with devoloping his own urban camouflage suits.

* ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes:Game ofShadows]]''uses this with Holmes having too much time on his hands with devoloping his own urban camouflage suits.

* ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes:GameofShadows]]''uses this with Holmes having too much time on his hands with devoloping his own urban camouflage suits.

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes:GameofShadows'' uses this with Holmes having too much time on his hands with devoloping his own urban camouflage suits.

* [[strike:Helcats]] Atak Kats in the ''{{Zoids}}'' anime with their optical camouflage, though later on this is applied to just about anything...Including factories.

* Zoids has [[strike:Helcat]] Atak Kat, Liger Zero X, and Diablo Tiger.

* The geth in ''[[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]]'' appear to have access to this kind of technology. The Infiltrator class also has access to this as well, as does Kasumi.

* The Ring of Gyges from Plato's ''Literature/{{Republic}}''.

* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' - This is a Predator's main defense against the prey that it is hunting. TropeMaker.

* In what may very well be the earliest example of this on television, the "Manhunt in Space" serial of RockyJonesSpaceRanger introduces the "Cold Light" device. The device works on an inverse of the heat mirage, where sufficiently cold light beams could render an object invisible. Remember, this was written in the 50's.

* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', [[spoiler: Kyon's greatcoat, skinsuit, PDA, and weaponry]] conspire to give them one of these.
* The most useless invisibility cloak ever in ''FanFic/MyImmortal''. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint People can see it when it's in use.]]

* ''StarCraft'' has a large number of "cloaked" units, both for the Protoss and the Terrans:

*** The campaign of ''{{Starcraft 2}}'' has Spectres, "enhanced" Ghosts with a similar system. They can also be upgraded so they can cloak indefinitely.

*** A similar device is used in ''{{Starcraft 2}}'' on the Banshee gunships. The invisibility is also ''not'' handled with a HandWave; when the gunship is cloaked, the whole cockpit goes dark and a visor slides over the pilot's face, presumably connected to a small exterior sensor. The same goes for the Specters' goggles, which slide on when they cloak.

** Protoss Arbiters aren't cloaked themselves, but serve as an anchor for a reality-warping field that automatically cloaks allied units within a certain radius. This ability is carried over to the Mothership in ''{{Starcraft 2}}''.

* In an omake for the HarryPotter fic ''Make a Wish'', Harry's mad scientist friend's henchgirl gave Harry a potion that was supposed to make him turn invisible, but didn't work on his skeleton. When he asked what he was supposed to do until it wore off, she suggested pointing at people while staring at his watch.

* Infamously, ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' for the NES features a InvisibilityCloak that turns the character invisible...but only to the player. Enemies can still see you.

* A team of mercenaries in the DresdenFiles fic ''Fanfic/FairVote'' had the technological variant; surprising in a universe where magic-users are [[WalkingTechbane Walking Techbanes]].