History Main / BeingWatched

* In Babylon5, Lyta Alexander can tell if someone is watching her through a security camera after her [[TouchedByVorlons psychic upgrade]].

* The goup suspects they are being watched by "Zero" in [[{{Ptitleswfyluia}} Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]] and thus decide to give themselves aliases, lest he/she find out and come after their families.. [[spoiler: Zero is one of the group, and knows their names..]]

->''I always feel like\\
Somebody's watching me\\
And I have no privacy''
-->-- '''Rockwell''', "Somebody's Watching Me"

->"Hey... did ya ever get da feelin' you was [[TropeCodifier bein' watched]]?"
-->-- '''Characters/BugsBunny''', ''Hair-Raising Hare''

* In DanAbnett's ''{{Warhammer 40000}}: [[GauntsGhosts Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''Sabbat Martyr'', Baen says this to Varl. He's right, because [[spoiler:Pater Sin and his psyker-{{Creepy Child}}ren are walking between them while psyk-cloaked]].

* It's revealed in ''FullMetalPanic TSR'' that this was actually a reason for a good number of Sōsuke's more paranoid moments while undercover at school. Apparently his "backup" from the Intelligence Division would aim at him with a sniper rifle for kicks, setting off his battlefield-honed instincts.
* In the director's cut of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Kaworu can see or sense Misato spying on him several miles away with binoculars.

* In ''{{Monster}}'', Johann Liebert himself is very good at knowing when he's being watched. Case in point is when he made it clear to Tenma that he knew he was sniping him by making eye contact -- from hundreds of yards away, mind you -- and giving one of his trademark [[DissonantSerenity panic-inducing smiles]].

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* Based on RealLife events, [[http://humoncomics.com/i-spy-with-my-little-eye This]] ''ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' comic.
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* Everyone in ''MarbleHornets''. [[ParanoiaFuel All the time]].

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* Come on, ''everyone'' has experience this from both sides of the stare!
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->''"Hey...did ya ever get da feelin' you was [[TropeCodifier bein' watched]]?"''
-->-- ''Characters/BugsBunny'', "Hair-Raising Hare"

Guy behind us. Behind us, right? Right behind y-''don't'' look!

How do I know? I'm a {{Badass}} swordsman who knows GunKata, the camera went {{Eyedscreen}}, and my SpiderSense is tingling. {{Telepathy}}. Is that what you want to hear? Now get moving before [[AncientConspiracy They]] realize we're onto them.

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* A vengeful doll spirit ShowingOffTheNewBody in ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' picks up a stick to bash Ranma with. He grabs the stick, but not because he's on to her intentions: he thinks she's giving him a stick to hit his dad who's hiding in the bushes watching.

* This is [[spoiler:Pride]]'s specialty in the FullMetalAlchemist manga, [[spoiler:being an omnipresent EldritchAbomination and all.]]

* It's implied that the elves of ''ElfQuest'' can sense whenever they're being watched, which comes in useful when they're trying to avoid enemies. Also when someone finds them attractive.

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** [[spoiler: Unfortunately for Muldoon, he fails to spot the ''other'' velciraptor (until it's too late)]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Muldoon:''' Clever girl....]]

* In ''TheLordOfTheRings'', Gandalf calls Sam out for eavesdropping on him when he is explaining the properties of the [[ArtifactOfDoom One Ring]] to Frodo.
* In ''{{Warbreaker}}'', Breath gives you this ability, called "lifesense." With only one Breath (which everyone is born with), it manifests as this trope.
* In {{Shibumi}}, the protagonist Nikolai Hel is capable of sensing when someone is watching him. It is not really telepathy and he isn't wholly sure how he gained that ability but he speculates it is a result of his senses being sharpened to cope with the lack of external stimulus after spending several years in solitary confinement. Considering he has several other {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}s, it's probably not as strange for him.

* Ziva David of ''NCIS'' can always tell when someone is watching her. Tony lampshades this in most instances, calling her on her "spidey-sense".

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* ''{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'', [[{{Troperiffic}} surprisingly]], omitted it... until DarkSun {{sourcebook}} ''The Will and the Way'' introduced "Sensitivity to Observation" [[PsychicPowers power]].

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Now, time to [[PokeInTheThirdEye give them a good poke in the eye]].

** Only not quite. It turns out that [[spoiler:the footsteps they hear are in fact real. The problem is that they ''hear'' someone following them, but can't ''see'' them. The paranoia from the brain dysfunction (which was caused by parasites) that allows them to hear it is, in fact, caused by extreme stress. The "shadow" in question? Never intended any harm.]]

* In ''[{{Monster}}'', Johann Liebert himself is very good at knowing when he's being watched. Case in point is when he made it clear to Tenma that he knew he was sniping him by making eye contact -- from hundreds of yards away, mind you -- and giving one of his trademark [[DissonantSerenity panic-inducing smiles]].

* In ''{{The Penguins of Madagascar}}'' the entire episode "Tangled in the Web" is a "beging watched" moment. (There are webcams everywhere.)

* [=GLaDOS=]'s Cameras are everywhere in ''{{Portal}}'', and the walls in the some of the [[RoomFullOfCrazy hidden rooms]] have crude drawings of said Cameras with "SHE'S WATHCING YOU" scribbled on the wall.

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* In TheSimpsons episode "In Marge We Trust", Bart, having discovered a Japanese advertising mascot in Homer's likeness, suggests that the family is being spied on. Marge insists that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "no one is watching us"]], and the family resume eating dinner, glancing around uneasily as they do.