History Main / BeingWatched

A character knows that they, and any companions with them, are being watched by someone (or someone''s'') despite no one nearby appearing to pay any attention to them. The character may credit SpiderSense, {{Telepathy}}, knowledge of an AncientConspiracy, the presence of someone in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat, or similar tropes, or they may [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] by making note of a {{Camera Trick|s}} like {{Eyedscreen}}, RackFocus, or a TrackingZoom.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover In A Quiet Town]]". At one point while she and her husband are walking around the empty town, Millie Frazier says that she has the feeling of being watched. The revelation of who's watching them is the TwilightZoneTwist.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "The Society of the Blind Eye", McGuckit invokes this trope when the group enters a room full of false eyes. It turns out that [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight he's right]].
--> '''McGuckit:''' Mmm...I feel like all these eyeballs are a'watchin' me.
--> '''Dipper:''' Wait...they ''are!''

-->'''Bugs Bunny:''' Hey, wait a minute Dracula! Have you ever had the feeling you're being watched? That the eyes of strange, eerie things are upon you? ''(whispering)'' Look, [[BreakingTheFourthWall out there in the audience]]...\\
'''Gossamer:''' '''''PEOPLE!''''' ''(runs off screaming [[ImpactSilhouette through several walls]])''
* The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". While taking Jonny and Hadji to rescue Dr. Quest and Race Bannon, the sergeant says that he has a feeling they're being watched. He's right - they're being spied upon by Dr. Zin's men.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', the entire episode "Tangled in the Web" is a "being watched" moment. (There are webcams everywhere.) The same episode starts with a close-up of Skipper saying something to the effect of "Ever get the feelings someone is watching your every move?" The camera zooms out to show the other three penguins standing very close to him in circle, all staring at him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Web". After the main characters land on the planet Teelus, Jan says that she has a feeling that they're being watched. They are, by the giant humanoid ants that infest the place.

** Also parodied and subverted in "Jellyfish Hunter"; this gag was actually initiated by the blue jellyfish stalking Spongebob, but [[TravelingSalesman two door-to-door salesmen]] are seen hiding behind a rock after Spongebob says the following:

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Beyond the Farthest Star". While the ''Enterprise'' away team is on board the alien ship, Dr. [=McCoy=] says being on the ship gives him the creeps and that he feels like something's watching them. He's right: there's an intangible alien being on the ship that's trying to return to the ''Enterprise'' with the team.

* In ''WebOriginal/TheCrawlspace'', the narrator gets this feeling a lot whenever she uses the master bathroom, which is where the door leading to the titular crawlspace is located. She feels not only that she's being watched, but that whatever it is watching her is "angry" at her. [[spoiler:Turns out, [[ProperlyParanoid she's right]]]].

->''"It feels like somebody... WANTS TO SELL ME SOMETHING!!!"''
-->-- '''[=SpongeBob=]''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''[[note]] "I told you he was onto us!"[[/note]]

%%* ''Franchise/StarWars V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
%%-->'''Luke:''' I feel like... I don't know...\\
%%'''Yoda:''' Feel like what?\\
%%'''Luke:''' ''[whirls around and whips out his blaster]'' Like we're being watched!
%%::: Somewhat justified in that the Force does grant a bit of extra awareness.

-->-- '''Sponge Bob''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''[[note]] "I told you he was onto us!"[[/note]]

* It's revealed in ''LightNovel/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's laser pointer for kicks, setting off his battlefield-honed instincts.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho''

* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'': Johann Liebert 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]].
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': A vengeful doll spirit ShowingOffTheNewBody 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.
* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', the first warning that you're about to fall victim to the Curse of Oyashiro-sama is the sensation of being watched.
-->'''Rena:''' Someone is quietly spying on you from afar. Someone is constantly shadowing you. Someone is always right behind you, looking at you. Eventually the footsteps will be a little offbeat from yours, and you'll hear one extra. And then, when you turn off the light and climb into your futon, it will stare down at you from the base of your pillow. Silently, patiently, waiting until you've accepted your sins.

* Pretty much the main plot point of ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead''. Almost every time something weird happens, or that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the point of view character(s) sense that they are being watched,]] someone or something will say or read "Sono me dare no me?", which roughly translates to "Whose eyes are those eyes?"
** This phrase was first used by [[TheProtagonist Nishijou Takumi,]] as he kept having paranoid delusions ([[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness among others]]) that he's being watched. Then he finds [[spoiler:a patent showing how to read minds from satelites in outer space]], and [[spoiler:the fourth New Gen case has this exact phrase written in blood, which sends the phrase into in-universe MemeticMutation]]. [[ProperlyParanoid Whose eyes indeed.]]

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': Conan ''always'' knows when Kaitou KID is watching him. ''Always''. Haibara always knows when she is being watched by a member of the Black Organization.
* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'': This is [[spoiler:Pride's]] specialty, [[spoiler:being an omnipresent EldritchAbomination with the body of an inconspicuous little child, and all]].
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': When the protagonists scry on the BigBad using a television, he immediately announces his awareness of them and points towards their viewpoint, before sending some [[PokeInTheThirdEye feedback]] through the connection.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': during one of the Allies' meetings, six of the seven members of the group get the unnerving sense that an unseen presence is watching them. Theories as to what it is ranges from it being the ghosts of one of Russia's czars to [[Film/TheRing a video tape that has a lot of static]]. [[spoiler:It's actually the seventh member, Canada, who of course [[FailedASpotCheck they failed to notice entirely]].]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' album "[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin and the Picaros]]", the main character arrives at the expensive hotel where Captain Haddock is staying and points out the [[SinisterSurveillance various hidden microphones]] in his GildedCage. He also points at the mirror and says it might be a double-sided mirror with a camera on the other side. Cue Colonel Sponsz watching Tintin on a monitor, pointing directly at him. "He's clever, that boy."

* Lampshaded in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
-->'''Hobbes:''' Am I the only one who feels like we're being watched?\\
'''Calvin:''' [[GenreSavvy You mean like in a really cheesy clichéd movie fashion?]]

* In episode 20 of the first arc of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', John Constantine prays for Supergirl's safety. Feeling pretty embarassed, he wonders if he's been seen... which he has. Supergirl was eavesdropping on him.

* In ''Fanfic/AGrowingAffection'', Hinata experiences this near the end of the story, and it creeps her out more than usual due to her all around vision.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' spy/supernatural/political/general murderous mayhem thriller ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5952595/5/Why-and-were Why and Were]]'', this happens to an Assassin who has been targeted for elimination by the political staff at an Embassy representing her homeland's deadliest enemies. Cat and mouse is played on the streets of Ankh-Morpork. [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Quite literally so]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace'', one of Taylor's [[UpgradeArtifact Charms]] gives her a jolt whenever someone is watching her. She later gets a ''Cold Breath'' charm that let's others feel when she's watching them. Unfortunately, she also forgets she's wearing it while tracking a target and gets put into an ambush for it.
* In ''[[Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}} The Bug Princess]]'', while he and Lydia are on a tour of the cemeteries in New Orleans, BJ suddenly senses that they're being watched. Since he already suffers occasional {{Past Experience Nightmare}}s thanks to the events of the previous story, he immediately goes on high alert.
* The gods in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea'' can inherently tell when they are being observed and by who. When Athena is talking with Annabeth, she notes that only the Olympians are watching their conversation because the minor gods are not impudent enough to listen in on [[LadyOfWar her]].
* ''Fanfic/FireDarkMark'': After -apparently- annihilating the Fantastic Four, as well as other heroes and villains, Doctor Doom strides around the battlefield, feeling triumphant... but for some reason he has the nagging feeling he is being watched. Unbeknownst to him, Franklin Richards and his nanny Agatha Harkness were watching the scene through a hidden camera. And Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman's little reality warper of a son is ''not'' happy.
* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': Misato and Nakajima are about to meet up with a representative of American secret intelligence, when they notice a suspicious-looking car parked across the street. They assume they are being watched by his liaison's security detail, but it turns out their secret meeting is being spied on by hostile agents.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'':
** Shinji has the feeling that he is being watched...and he cluelessly wonders whether Mayumi might tell him who is watching him, since she is constantly staring at him.
** When Toji asks Kensuke if he ever gets the feeling that they are being watched, his pal chalks that feeling up to being watched by the bodyguards monitoring their friend Shinji from a distance. Then he greets one of them, who greets back.
--->'''Touji:''' ''"Hey Ken, ya ever get the feeling yer being watched?"''\\
'''Kensuke:''' ''"Weird way to start a conversation but yeah a bit, yeah. But I'd chalk that up to living in a fortress city while going to school with the pilots of giant mechs that protect humanity. So that's probably the shadowy bodyguards watching you from a distance. Like, see there's one peeking out from the ceiling tiles right now. Hey Yamada."''

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* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho''
-->'''Mayor of Who-Ville:''' Hey, hon, did you ever get the feeling that you were being watched, and that maybe that thing watching you is... ehhh, a giant elephant?
[[/folder]]

* ''Franchise/StarWars V: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
-->'''Luke:''' I feel like... I don't know...\\
'''Yoda:''' Feel like what?\\
'''Luke:''' ''[whirls around and whips out his blaster]'' Like we're being watched!
::: Somewhat justified in that the Force does grant a bit of extra awareness.
* ''Film/BlueCollarComedyTourTheMovie''
-->'''Bill:''' You ever get that feeling when you know you're being watched?
* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', Muldoon notices that there's a velociraptor waiting for him and Ellie in the bushes near the shed. What he doesn't spot, though, is the ''other'' velociraptor... until it's too late.
* ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'': Impressive for making an entire sequence based around this, with Jason Bourne able to see the line of sight for at least a dozen cameras and avoid them all himself while instructing a journalist on how to avoid them.

* ''Film/TheConspiracy'': Characters are shadowed by a man on a bike and a blacked-out truck at various points after they catch onto [[HeKnowsTooMuch things they shouldn't.]]
* ''Film/{{Predator}}''. While Dutch and his team head for the rendezvous point, the MagicalNativeAmerican Billy senses the title opponent watching them from the trees.
* ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'': While Nick and Javi share a MushroomSamba, they consider writing a paranoid thriller together, before ''they'' become paranoid that some onlookers are spying on them.

* ''Literature/{{Phantoms}}''

%%* ''Series/TheRockfordFiles''
%%-->'''Karen Hall:''' That's why I had that horrible feeling I was being watched.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Xena always knows when a god is watching her. Usually Ares.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Lyta Alexander can tell if someone is watching her through a security camera after her [[TouchedByVorlons psychic upgrade]].
-->'''Dr. Trent:''' She knows she's being watched.\\
'''Sheridan:''' The security cameras are carefully hidden.\\
'''Dr. Trent:''' Yes, but she knows where the camera is, and she knows we're watching her. Just look at her. Is there another camera in there?\\
'''Sheridan:''' Yes, but...\\
'''Dr. Trent:''' Humor me.\\
'''Sheridan:''' ...Switch to the alternate view.\\
''[Lyta's head snaps around to look at the viewer]''\\
'''Ivanova:''' Well, '''that's''' a neat trick.
* Rule number one of ''Series/TheXFiles'': Someone is ''always'' watching.
* At one point in the original-series ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode "Devil In The Dark", Spock is able to tell when the Horta is watching him and Kirk.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In “Skeleton Crew”, Commander Alison Krennick, while investigating the murder of a female officer, is lost in the corridors aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Seahawk''. She suddenly feels that she’s being watched, the lights go out and when she desperately reaches for the hatch to an upper level it’s stuck. Then it suddenly opens and a Marine guard is on the other side and he goes down to see if there is anyone there, but he finds nothing. It is implied by the camera angles that someone actually was following her, but we never get to see who it was.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E150StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover In A Quiet Town]]". At one point while she and her husband are walking around the empty town, Millie Frazier says that she has the feeling of being watched. The revelation of who's watching them is the TwilightZoneTwist.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' includes the ability to detect this trope as a Mega-Perception enhancement named "That Creepy Feeling". Being extranormal, this sense can be fooled by the Quantum power "Blank" (which also negates such unnatural senses as ESP and telepathic scanning).

* ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'': Ceiling Peon is watching you infiltrate.

* At one point in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', Quilt attempts to scry for Stunt. He screws it up and ends up looking straight up someone's skirt... Cue Pamela asking, "Does anyone else feel like they're being watched?"

* In ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' the sense everyone gets that there's something out in the dark watching them helps make an already tense situation (Sun's recent HairTriggerTemper and ThousandYardStare, Jupiter's increasing lack of subtlety in his plans to take over the solar system, Earth HearingVoices that no one else does) worse. The fact that something really ''is'' watching them doesn't make it any better.

* For most of Season 1 of ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'', Jon is a clear AgentScully - he claims that nearly every statement he reads is bogus, even when he's presented with undeniable evidence to the contrary. In the season 1 finale, Martin confronts him, asking why he insists all the stories are fake when they're obviously real... and Jon confesses that he actually believes all of them. He's just been feigning skepticism because he feels like ''something'' has been watching him read statements, and that whatever is watching him will get very angry if he admits that the statements are credible. [[spoiler:He's completely right. The Magnus Institute is a cult that serves [[EldritchAbomination the physical manifestation of the fear of being watched]], and by reading statements, Jon has actually been feeding it]].
* In ''WebOriginal/TheCrawlspace'', the narrator gets this feeling a lot whenever she uses the master bathroom, which is where the door leading to the titular crawlspace is located. She feels not only that she's being watched, but that whatever it is watching her is "angry" at her. [[spoiler:Turns out, [[ProperlyParanoid she's right]]]].

* Everyone in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''. This is generally the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man's]] shtick.

* Franz Hopper of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' felt this while creating Lyoko.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare'', Bugs manages to pull this on Gossamer the big, hairy monster.

** Bugs repeats his initial question to us at the beginning just before he's about to turn in for the night.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' the entire episode "Tangled in the Web" is a "being watched" moment. (There are webcams everywhere.) The same episode starts with a close-up of Skipper saying something to the effect of "Ever get the feelings someone is watching your every move?" The camera zooms out to show the other three penguins standing very close to him in circle, all staring at him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/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.
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". While taking Jonny and Hadji to rescue Dr. Quest and Race Bannon, the sergeant says that he has a feeling they're being watched. He's right - they're being spied upon by Dr. Zin's men.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', episode "Fa, La, La, La, Ed":
-->'''Edd:''' Ed, please! [[BreakingTheFourthWall Someone may be watching...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "The Web". After the main characters land on the planet Teelus, Jan says that she has a feeling that they're being watched. They are, by the giant humanoid ants that infest the place.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Beyond the Farthest Star". While the ''Enterprise'' away team is on board the alien ship, Dr. [=McCoy=] says being on the ship gives him the creeps and that he feels like something's watching them. He's right: there's an intangible alien being on the ship that's trying to return to the ''Enterprise'' with the team.

* Based on RealLife events, [[http://humoncomics.com/i-spy-with-my-little-eye This]] ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' comic.
* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/ Megaman's reaction to the audience.]]

* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'' [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara]] suspects she is being watched after sending a message to the rebels, hoping reach [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} her sister]] out. Of course, she's being watched by ComicBook/LexLuthor's chief enforcer.

* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}''/''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace'', one of Taylor's [[UpgradeArtifact Charms]] gives her a jolt whenever someone is watching her.
** She later gets a ''Cold Breath'' charm that let's others feel when she's watching them. Unfortunately, she also forgets she's wearing it while tracking a target and gets put into an ambush for it.

A character knows that they are, and any companions with them are, being watched by someone (or someone''s'') despite no one nearby appearing to pay any attention to them. The character may credit SpiderSense, {{Telepathy}}, knowledge of an AncientConspiracy, the presence of someone in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat, or similar tropes, or they may [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] by making note of a {{Camera Trick|s}} like {{Eyedscreen}}, RackFocus, or a TrackingZoom.

* When you read people's minds in ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', you might come across that one person who thinks,
-->"Hey! You there! Peeping at my thoughts, huh? I know you are! Well, if you think you can mind-control me or something, you're sorely mistaken!"
* [=GLaDOS=]'s cameras are everywhere in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', and the walls in some of the [[RoomFullOfCrazy hidden rooms]] have crude drawings of said cameras with "SHE'S WATCHING YOU" scribbled on the wall.
* The surveillance in ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' is extensive, however, the protagonist specializes in escaping the authorities ''despite'' them knowing exactly where she is.
* In the web game ''Dragonstone'', the genre-savvy innkeeper uses this phrase to warn you about the upcoming new enemy type.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'': Ceiling Peon is watching you infiltrate.
* Apparently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5DdD2dTDBo Gabe Newell is watching you!!]]

* In ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'' (both 1 and 2), you can click on patrons, which brings up a window with a camera trained on them and tabs to see their likes, dislikes, thoughts, etc. If you keep that window open for about 10 minutes, one of the thoughts the patron starts to have is "I have a feeling someone is watching me...".
* Happens in pretty much every game based on ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}''. Even more so in ''Arrival'', especially during the prologue, when Slender Man may be outside the house but doesn't come in. The fact that he's just lurking outside makes it ''even creepier''.
* One can't help but feel this reaction in ''[[VideoGame/SilentHills P.T]]''. It's heavily implied that as you progress through the hallways, Lisa is watching you.

* Doctor Arcana, in ''VideoGame/TheCabinetsOfDoctorArcana'', makes it very obvious that he's watching the protagonist throughout the entire game and occasionally comments on things they do. The trope comes in because the protagonist is ''completely alone'' in the manor, and the doctor's involvement is supernatural.

* The inexplicable sensation that someone is staring at you is a real phenomenon that people experience in everyday life. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_staring_effect this article]] on the "psychic staring effect", which talks about the various studies done on the subject concluding that the feeling is not actually as reliable as people might think.

* In ''Anime/{{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]].
* A vengeful doll spirit ShowingOffTheNewBody in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 2005 storyline]]'' "Girl Power", Kara realizes she is being spied via satellite when she flies back to Earth.

** This phrase was first used by [[TheProtagonist Nishijou Takumi,]] as he kept having paranoid delusions ([[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness among others]]) that he's being watched. Then he finds [[a patent showing how to read minds from satelites in outer space]], and [[spoiler:the fourth New Gen case has this exact phrase written in blood, which sends the phrase into in-universe MemeticMutation]]. [[ProperlyParanoid Whose eyes indeed.]]

* Pretty much the main plot point of ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead''. Almost every time something weird happens, someone or something will say or read "Sono me dare no me?", which roughly translates to "Whose eyes are those eyes?"

A character knows that he is, and any companions with him are, being watched by someone (or someone''s'') despite no one nearby appearing to pay any attention to them. The character may credit SpiderSense, {{Telepathy}}, knowledge of an AncientConspiracy, the presence of someone in a ConspicuousTrenchcoat, or similar tropes, or they may [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] by making note of a {{Camera Trick|s}} like {{Eyedscreen}}, RackFocus, or a TrackingZoom.

* This is [[spoiler:Pride's]] specialty in ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:being an omnipresent EldritchAbomination with the body of an inconspicuous little child, and all]].
* When the protagonists of part 3 of ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' scry on the BigBad using a television, he immediately announces his awareness of them and points towards their viewpoint, before sending some [[PokeInTheThirdEye feedback]] through the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znv1UYviB2c connection.]]

* Channon Yarrow in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' can tell people are watching when her neck itches.
* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' comic defines the AbsurdPhobia "Anatidaephobia - The fear, that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you," and shows a man in an office with a look of concern while [[FeatheredFiend a duck ominously watches him from a building in the background]].

* ''Fanfic/{{FIRE}}'': After -apparently- annihilating the Fantastic Four, as well as other heroes and villains, Doctor Doom strides around the battlefield, feeling triumphant... but for some reason he has the nagging feeling he is being watched. Unbeknownst to him, Franklin Richards and his nanny Agatha Harkness were watching the scene through a hidden camera. And Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman's little reality warper of a son is ''not'' happy.