History Main / InvisibilityInk

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Alphablocks}}'' has a variant where things get turned invisible on contact. It also averts Invisible Streaker, despite being a substance rather than a spell.

* "Alphablocks" has a variant where things get turned invisible on contact. It also averts Invisible Streaker, despite being a substance rather than a spell.

* "WesternAnimation/Alphablocks" has a variant where things get turned invisible on contact. It also averts Invisible Streaker, despite being a substance rather than a spell.

Alternatively, a character applies the substance on himself/herself yet remains visible, but thinks he/she is invisible.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''

** In an earlier ''Popeye'' short, "Ghosks Is the Bunk" (1939), Popeye covers himself and Olive Oyl with invisibility paint after discovering that Bluto is "haunting" the abandoned hotel.

* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': Invisible ink can be applied to the Botania mod's Cloaks of Balance, Sin, and Virtue to make the bulky cloak invisible, but not the wearer.

* One case of StupidCrooks involved a man covering himself in lemon juice to fool a bank's security cameras (after all, if lemon juice can be used for InvisibleWriting, so whatever it's on is also invisible, right?). The cameras, security guards, and employees... weren't fooled. A couple of social scientists took notice, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect developed a hypothesis]] around this case.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* An episode of ''Series/MopatopsShop'' featured an invisibility machine that sprays an unidentified substance onto objects to make them invisible.

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* In ''Series/FraggleRock'', the Gorgs use radishes to make ''anti''-vanishing cream, which keeps them from vanishing. This only appears in one episode, then never mentioned again.
* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'': One of Bunsen's recent Muppet Labs inventions was a rubber ducky that released an invisibility spray when squeezed; Kermit and the gang uses this as a means to sneak into the Covnet facilities to rescue Gonzo, however, Fozzie washes his hands after using the bathroom, washing the spray away from his hands, leaving them to appear as a pair of floating hands. When the spray wears off shortly afterward, we see Fozzie was picking his nose, Piggy was chowing down on a bag of potato chips, and Pepe was dancing ballet in a tutu.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* ''Website/{{Subeta}}'' has the "Vanishing Cream" wearable item, which renders anything worn in the avatar layers underneath it invisible. And yes, this does have its uses.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''
** "WesternAnimation/TheInvisibleMouse": Jerry hides in a bottle of invisible ink to avoid Tom. Once he jumps out, he sees his lower half gone. After being initially shocked, he realizes the effects of invisible ink and goes to apply more on the rest of his body.
** "The Vanishing Duck": the aforementioned duck, along with Jerry, apply vanishing cream, making themselves invisible for most of the short. It ends with Tom having used that same cream on himself, making himself invisible so he can pursue them.

* During the episode ''I Just Don't Get It'' on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', Henry and June give the studio a thorough Spring Cleaning, with Henry doing the pair's laundry... using an industrial-sized bottle of ''Disappearing Ink'' as detergent. June makes it off-screen just before she loses her undershirt and shorts, [[ButtMonkey Henry]]... [[NakedPeopleAreFunny gets locked out]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In a "Mr. Know-It-All" segment about how to remove a mustache, Bullwinkle puts mustache remover on. Then Rocky tells him it isn't mustache remover, it's vanishing cream! Cut to Bullwinkle's mustache, ''sans'' Bullwinkle, floating in air. "[[NowYouTellMe Now he tells me!]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': In "Invisible Cow", Red Guy sells what he claims to be invisible sauce to Cow, which she actually believes makes her invisible, so she frolics through town doing as she pleases, even though she's in plain sight of everyone else. In the end, Red Guy decides to sell fat sauce instead, which he uses on Chicken, and it actually works; Chicken then asks for some invisible himself so people won't see how fat he is, but Red can't find where he put it, since it's invisible.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Pranks a Lot", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick bought an "invisible spray" from a toy store. After they fought each other over the usage of the spray, they accidentally sprayed themselves with it, making them invisible. After accidentally scaring off a random bystander, they decide to pull a prank on everyone in Bikini Bottom - a prank in a scale so big that it gets in the news.

* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''WesternAnimation/TheVanishingPrivate'' has Donald discovering an experimental "invisible paint" and using to camouflage an Army cannon. He then gets it all over himself and uses his invisibility to drive Sergeant Pete crazy.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has the Professor invent a ray that turns ink invisible in order to rid Fry of an EmbarrassingTattoo. Unfortunately, it's even more painful than a regular laser removal. And then it happens to hit Zoidberg, who's soaked in his own ink, making him completely invisible, convenient as he was running from the Robot Mafia at the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'':
** An Al Brodax cartoon has Wimpy making himself invisible with vanishing cream to escape Brutus' wrath. Popeye gets into the act to help Wimpy [[YankTheDogsChain yank Brutus' chain]].
--->'''Brutus:''' Popeye, have you seen that moocher Wimpy?\\
'''Popeye:''' Brutus, [[CannotTellALie ya knows I never tells a lie]]... [[ExactWords Nope, I hasn't seen him today.]]
** In an earlier ''Popeye'' short, "Ghosks Is the Bunk" (1939), Popeye covers himself and Olive Oyl with invisibility paint after discovering that Bluto is "haunting" the abandoned hotel.

* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': Invisible ink can be applied to the Botania mod's bulky Cloaks of Balance, Sin, and Virtue to make the cloak invisible, but not the wearer.

[[folder:Webcomics]]