History Main / StealthHiBye

* Agent Washington in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Reconstruction'' Chapter 5. From Church's comment, "I hate when they do that." It's a common Freelancer habit.

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* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': [[BearsAreBadNews Monokuma]] can appear and disappear at random, spontaneous times.

* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', the Confessor, who's something of a Batman {{Expy}}, loves to pull this. [[spoiler:He even sneaks up behind his sidekick when he's looking at a mirror, which [[GlamourFailure turns out to be a clue]]...]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''
** A shopkeeper does this to Link, then admits that it's a hobby of his. He doesn't like it much when Link manages to pull this on him.
** Tetra likes this one as well. She pulls it once on Link and once on Ganondorf.
* [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]] pulls one of these, played for laughs, after the final battle with him in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'':

* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore: VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Yuffie has a habit of popping in at the end of certain missions.

* [[SecretCharacter Stefan]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' consistently joins the party by sneaking onto the battlefield out of nowhere from a space he should have theoretically been visible from (i.e. one that was near but not an edge space). Additionally, in his first info conversation in ''Path of Radiance'', Ike asks him "What the...? Um...who are you? How long have you been a member of my troop?."

* Shadow the Hedgehog, of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fame, pulls off an absolutely ''awesome'' subversion in "The Fall" stage of [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog his titular game]]. [[spoiler: The GUN Commander gives him a (completely unjustified) [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed Maria]] rant with a gun between Shadow's eyes, then pulls the trigger while the camera is on his face. Cue the camera cutting to behind the Commander -- revealing ''Shadow is gone''. And then panning down to reveal Shadow is standing ''behind the Commander'', arms crossed]].

* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Fallout series]]'', The Mysterious Stranger appears out of nowhere to help you in [=VATS=], killing an enemy or two for you, before disappearing. The only person to comment on this is [[HardboiledDetective Nick Valentine]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': DW occasionally does this to Arthur.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': The day after Simba's nightmare, Kovu spots Simba at the watering hole and prepares to attack him and kill him, but he is interrupted by Kiara asking him for her first hunting lesson. When Kovu looks back prior to leaving with her, Simba had gone.

* 2012's ''Radio/TheShadow'' comic from Dynamite does it, no doubt due to the character being the main source of inspiration for Batman.

* Penny pulls this off in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', causing Ruby to ask where she came from. At [[spoiler:a memorial to Pyrrha]], a middle-aged redhaired woman with Pyrrha's VA ends a conversation with Jaune this way.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}''. Although the title hero doesn't normally do this, he does at the end of "Versus the Speed Demon" while the prison warden is telling him what will happen to the re-captured villain.

* There's a neat little trick in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' where you can get an early peek at at a villain who will come in next scene. You can only see him by looking in first-person mode while unarmed (and his face will be partially obscured), and the second time you try it, he'll be gone(cue creepy fanfare).

* Government agent Mike Toreno does this to C.J. throughout his missions in ''GTA: San Andreas''. C.J. eventually admits "that guy's like the devil".

* Faith does this in ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' when speaking to a detective. The detective looks away briefly when he hears sounds, turns back toward Faith and she is gone. It turns out the sounds he heard were Faith's footsteps as she was vanishing while he was looking at her.
* A ''Gmod'' addon called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAVaeb70z_0 The Harmless Companion Cube]] remains still in plain sight and rewards players who look away [[spoiler: with cold, unyielding steel between the shoulders]].

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Animals & Plants'' episode 1, Wolffy surprises the goats by showing up out of nowhere and taking the encyclopedia.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' Robin is fond of this in season 1, but it's {{deconstructed}} a bit. Like Batman, he is confident in his skills and used to going it alone. However, he's ''not'' alone. A member of a team who vanishes to go do his own thing when out of the others' sight for a moment instead of sticking to the plan (or sometimes even sticking around to ''hear'' the plan) is a liability. He had to break the habit and become a team player.

* Creator/SamWitwer and Sam Huntington of ''Series/BeingHumanUS'' seem to enjoy pulling this on each other when one of them is being interviewed.
* Sir Anthony Hopkins was said to have pranked several people during the filming of ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' via quietly approaching them from behind and suddenly saying "good morning" when they didn't expect it.
* A well-known moment during the town hall-style U.S. Presidential debate of 2000: While answering an audience member's question, George W. Bush turned his head and was surprised to see that his opponent Al Gore had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUcyfKESts very suddenly appeared]] standing close to his face. Bush smiled, nodded at Gore, and continued talking, eliciting laughter from the crowd. Even Gore appeared to find the incident ActuallyPrettyFunny.

-->'''Gordon:''' [[TemptingFate I am the fastest]].\\

-->'''Hannah:''' Hi, Toby!\\

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* The Rangers in ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' are well known for this. Halt in particular likes appearing apparently out of nowhere. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome when Horace, wearing a Ranger cloak, tries to pull this off... and it's pointed out that he's ''[[PlayedForLaughs a tall man wearing a cloak too small for him and riding a one-ton warhorse]]''.

** Jedi and Sith (or, heck, any force user) also has a tendency to do this as well.
** [[Literature/XWingSeries General Melvar]] does a bit of this. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it turns out he A) has a talent for moving quietly, and B) has installed special hydraulics throughout the ship to allow him to open doors silently, for the explicit purpose of pulling these. His boss finds it annoying but tolerable.