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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The episode "Like Water for Murder" opens with a couple happily frolicking and stripping on the beach until the man trips over a dead shark (with a dead woman next to it). The shark was lying on a flat stretch of sand with absolutely ''nothing'' obstructing the couple's view of it. Perhaps they were both DistractedByTheSexy?

** The idea behind the trope, that nothing happens if it's off-screen, is lampshaded in one episode. When Homer leaves Moe's, Moe comments to the rest of the barflies that "Alright, Homer is gone, let's all go back to being perfectly still until he's back".

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders''' DCI Barnaby manages to pull off this trope from time to time. One notable instance occurs in the Series 7 episode "Sins of Comission".

* In ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', the group arrives at the deserted beach to find a lone man in a suit calling out for them with a megaphone. There's no boats, no parachute, nothing to indicate where he came from. The beach, the sea, and the sky are all perfectly vacant. They run at him to make him stop, and all of a sudden an entire landing force, complete with several amphibious vehicles and helicopters, appears spontaneously on the beach.
** Earlier in the film, the characters somehow don't notice the Spinosaurus, which is quite large and standing in plain sight of at least half the party, until a satellite phone in its belly rings and gets their attention. Also strange because they could apparently hear the phone from quite a ways off, but somehow couldn't hear the sound of the twenty-something-ton dinosaur coming at them.
** In [[Film/JurassicPark the first movie]], the T-Rex miraculously manages to come inside the Jurassic Park center, even though earlier T-Rex caused BadVibrations in a glass of water. Admittedly, they were a bit distracted by the Velociraptors that were trying to kill them.
*** Also, during the famous first scene when they first see the Brachiosaurus, they look around and see massive herds of dinosaurs that were roaming through areas that they had just driven through on the Jeep. How they didn't see them is unknown.

* ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' had several passages to small bonus rooms that were hidden from view by the status bar at the top of the screen. Scrooge could have simply looked up.

* Used in ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' for an "{{invisibil|ity}}e" character whose Alpha ability is [[spoiler:hiding in people's blind spots]].

** Also, it was a recurring joke for Denny and Alan to talk about Denny's midget girlfriend Bethany, with Denny saying something wildly inappropriate only to be told by Alan to look down, to find she's been standing just below the shot the whole time.

** In the UsefulNotes/{{P|layStation4}}S4 game, the dwarves Brok and Sindri have the unique ability to disappear, to step between the realm between realms, and become invisible to the naked eye. They do this by getting out of view of the camera and thus are invisible to Kratos and Atreus