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* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' Season 6, in the episode "Nightwalker", a man is trying to follow the team when they notice him. They go down an alley and Teal'c hides behind a wall from the perspective of the camera, but in clear view of the guy following them. The guy runs down the alley, and stops next to Teal'c, who surprises and grabs the guy.

* In ''HighwayToHeaven'', this is how Johnathan the angel enters and leaves a room. Other examples include:

* In ''DeathComesToTown'', the mayor's wife comes out of her house to water her plants, remarking on what a beautiful day it is, apparently unaware that her husband had been murdered the previous night. The camera slowly pulls out to reveal his bloodied corpse propped up with his head stuffed in the mailbox at the end of the driveway. She doesn't notice him until he's revealed to the audience, despite the fact that she was walking towards him the whole time and would have seen him the moment she stepped out of the house. To add to the (dark) humour of the scene, she starts screaming, at which point two of her neighbours from just out of frame successively pop in and start screaming, making one wonder how they hadn't noticed him either.

---> '''Linkara''': Liz? Where did you come from...?
---> '''Liz''': I... don't know...

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', during the Harvest Festival, a turkey named Franklin, concerned about whether he was invited to ''have'' dinner or to ''be'' dinner, hides in different locations in your town... but always to the north of buildings. Sometimes that building is in the acre ''just south of the Wishing Well, where the festivities were being held.'' Anyone attending would have a good chance of seeing him.
** Sometimes townsfolk will want to play hide-and-seek with you when you talk to them. When this is happening, you have a set time limit to find him/her and at least one other person somewhere in the town outside of buildings. They generally hide behind buildings and trees, where the player would not be able to see very well in many cases because of the overhead view, even though the character would probably be able to see them in the first person.

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** Of course, this being Order of the Stick, it is often [[InvokedTrope intentional]]. Alternately, from the top, he could mostly only see the tortilla chips. It was only when he raised it up that Roy could properly see what he was eating them out of.

* One of the main criticisms with the Maltak arc of ''DominicDeegan'' was that despite Maltak being a largely featureless plain, people repeatedly miss obvious things like other people walking up on them, or the context of a loud argument despite being right there, or armies attacking them until they appeared in-panel. Most {{egregious}}, however, is when the mountain the orcs were next to ditched them and no one noticed.

* Webcomic/QuestionableContent's Elliot tends to [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1868 quietly loom just out of frame.]] It's a problem.
** Also seen in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2477 this strip]], when Faye comments that she hasn't seen Penelope and Cossette for a while (ie, they haven't appeared in the strip lately) only for them to point out they've been just to her left all day.

* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[PlayedWith plays with]] this trope [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=1342#comic here]].

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* Happens about once per episode in StrawberryShakeSweet.

* ''{{Film/Cloverfield}}'' has a particularly unbelievable example. The characters are in the middle of an open area of a park, but don't notice a tremendously huge monster that's almost on top of them until they (and the shoulder-mounted camera) turn around. Apparently, it's a really stealthy million ton animal.

** Whether or not the characters see [[PaperPeople Teri]] in full or as a nearly invisible line seems to be based on her visibility to the audience, even when the character is on the side and thus should see the exact opposite of what the audience sees.

* Very few of the things that are "hidden" in ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' would be hidden to Kratos. They're just hidden from the player by the camera angles. A particularly ridiculous example is in GodOfWar III, where Kratos somehow didn't notice Kronos until he picked him up, despite the titan being several hundred feet tall, shaking the ground with each step, being neither camouflaged nor concealed behind anything and generally being completely impossible to miss if Kratos had simply looked to his left.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' episode ''Nullzilla'', Bob and his friends fail to notice the giant Null monster until Mike pointed it out.

* In Red vs Blue Season 9 Sarge reveals the equipment that the Red team are going to use to save the planet from self-destructive earthquakes [[InsaneTrollLogic by drilling into the planet]] [[WaitWhat and setting off a bomb in the centre]]:

* In ToBoldlyFlee, Darth Snob fails to notice that Luke is standing next to him out of shot until told.

** Originally ''only'' Pinkie was able to do this. When other, generic, ponies do it in '''Winter Round-Up''', Rainbow Dash is definitely surprised by it.
** It's also taken to a ridiculous extreme in '''Call Of The Cutie''' as an entire party appears out of nowhere while the camera is zoomed in on Apple Bloom's face.

** In the 20th episode of season 2 "It's about time" Twilight Sparkle fails to notice the entrance to the Star Swirl the Bearded wing of the Canterlot Library until Pinkie Pie points out that it is right next to them (just behind the viewer's point of view) right next to where they entered. Twilight {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s this by wondering how she could have possibly missed that.

** The ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' games are particularly fond of hiding things behind background layers.