![]() Lovecraft: Abdul Alhazred, the author of Necronomicon, was devoured alive by an invisible monster. Bridge of Birds: The Hand That No One Sees.They only seem to be enemies at first, but just want Lucy to undo the spell that made them invisible. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Dufflepuds are a subversion.Evolution: 500 million years in the future, a species of amphibians has a chance to produce a mutant that replaces most of the body's biochemicals with transparent substances, making it almost invisible and extremely difficult to detect, looking like little more than big bags of water sitting in the desert of New Pangaea.Fiend Without a Face: The titular creatures are invisible for most of the film, until they absorb enough radiation to become visible.Invisibility is the main weapon of the extraterrestials and big part of the plot consists in finding how to make them visible to the humans. Supergirl: The Girl of Steel fights an invisible demon summoned by her enemy Selena.Considering all of the Special Effects Failure monsters that appear, it's rather startling. Captain Sinbad has the title character face an invisible monster that leaves dinosaur-like tracks in the ground (that form from an explosion as its feet land).It also has a rather embarrassing weakness of water. The titular alien hunter uses a Visible Invisibility cloaking device, which is a cool special effect and obviously not a budget-saving shortcut. Jurassic World: The Indominus Rex can alter its skin color to become effectively invisible.Forbidden Planet: The “Monster from the Id” could only be seen when caught in the ship’s forcefield, and outlined in their laser fire.The Blade Master: Not seen (but present), since visible monsters would've strained the budget.The Stand users, being mostly normal people (or animals) aside from their abilities, can usually be seen and harmed just as usual, however. As a rule, Stands cannot be seen by normal people and cannot be harmed by anything other than other Stands. Most Stands are this to non-Stand users. ![]() It also resurrects nearby corpses (such as a recently-dead crocodile) that relentlessly attack living things in search for brains. In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, the Stand Limp Bizkit revives the user right after death as an Invisible Zombie. ![]() Until Sakura challenges it to a battle, it is only seen by the craters it leaves behind. Cardcaptor Sakura: The "Power" card is depicted as this.Even Ichigo couldn't see them until the start of the series, and he had trouble telling the dead from the living when he was younger. Even those who can see dead people have trouble seeing them you need to have a lot of dead person energy built up. Only the footprints and scenery destruction following them. This lead to the first few episodes having these.things chasing people that nobody could see. Bleach: The Hollows could not be seen by anyone who could not see dead people.In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S, we learn that an invisible Gadget Drone was what nearly killed Nanoha during the Snow Means Death incident after another one of them stabs Vita through her chest during the final mission.This is also Truth in Television in a sense, as many "monsters" are microscopic, such as bacteria and viruses, and are invisible to the naked eye. Take note that Nothing Is Scarier, which is why this can work at all. See the Super-Trope, Invisibility, or the sister trope Invisibility with Drawbacks. Not to be confused with the Palahniuk book. Done poorly they can be laughable, done right, terrifying. Often, they are accompanied by creepy noises or music that alerts the Audience to their presence. In other media, especially Television, an Invisible Monster is used to save budgets for more outlandish monsters. Sometimes, they become visible when doing specific things, like attacking, dying or moving. ![]() In Video Games, these tend to be Stealthy Mooks and frequently overlap with Goddamn Bats or Demonic Spiders. Or their true forms are never revealed at all. Many invisible enemies are just variants of ordinary monsters. You can't see them, but they can probably hurt you. Joel Robinson on invisible enemies, Mystery Science Theater 3000 ![]()
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