History Main / BeingWatched

* In the ''Lonesome Road'' {{DLC}} for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', you're being watched by Ulysses the entire time.

* In ''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]].]]

* It's implied that the elves of ''ComicBook/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.

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are strolling along a park when they realize they are being watched.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''

* [[ParanoiaFuel Ceiling]] [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Peon]] is watching you infiltrate.

%%* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' you can tell if you are being watched.

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': Conan ''always'' knows when [[{{kaitou}} Kaitou KID]] is watching him. ''Always''. Haibara always knows when she is being watched by a member of the Black Organization.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[{{ninja}} Chiho]] thought [[TheDragon Damian]] hadn't noticed her, while she was eavesdropping on him at the Jahana Research Facility. She overhears one of the the lab tech say they'd get better results for [[spoiler: Satomi's field tests]] with live data, rather than simulations. Damian doesn't even bother looking over his shoulder, he simply smirks and tells him to [[HeKnowsTooMuch start with the girl that was spying on them, from the doorway.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are strolling along a park when they realize they are being watched.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': After being arrested, Comicbook/LexLuthor and Comicbook/DoctorOctopus know they are being watched 24/7 while staying in their cells.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': Conan ''always'' knows when [[{{kaitou}} Kaitou KID]] is watching him. ''Always''. Haibara always knows when she is being watched by a member of the Black Organization.

-->'''Scherbina:''' OF COURSE I know they're listening! I want them to hear, I want them to hear it all! Do you know what we're doing here? Tell those idiots what they have done!

* When the protagonists of the 3rd volume 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=LHv1H4GDL2s connection.]]

* ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}'' Scherbina knows the KGB is watching him and everyone else, ready to silence whistleblowers, but the sheer incompetence and denial by the Soviet Union sends him into [[RageBreakingPoint not giving a fuck anymore]].
-->'''Scherbina:''' Scherbina: OF COURSE I know they're listening! I want them to hear, I want them to hear it all! Do you know what we're doing here? Tell those idiots what they have done!

* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace'', one of Taylor's [[UpgradeArtifact Charms]] gives her a jolt whenever someone is watching her.

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* ''Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie''

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

* "Somebody's Watching Me" by [[OneHitWonder Rockwell]].

* The inexplicable sensation that someone is staring at you is a real phenomenon that people experience in everyday life. The Other Wiki 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.

* [[Manga/DetectiveConan Conan]] ''always'' knows when [[{{kaitou}} Kaitou KID]] is watching him. ''Always''. Haibara always knows when she is being watched by a member of the Black Organization.

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', 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]].]]

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' Anatidaephobia - The fear, that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you...

** Patchy the pirate and Polly the parrot are arguing about [=SpongeBob=]. Cut to [=SpongeBob=] in the Krusty Krab, saying, "I just have this strange feeling that a pirate and a parrot are arguing about me... ''and the parrot is winning''!"
** Also parodied and subverted with -- [[spoiler:this gag was actually initiated by the blue jellyfish stalking him, but two door-to-door salesmen are seen hiding behind a rock after the line is said]]:
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''[while being followed]'' It feels like... someone... ''wants to sell me something!''

* ''Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros''. Franchise/Tintin 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."

* 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 ''FanFic/ATeachersGlory'' Team 7 listens to this feeling and realizes that they are being spied on by [[TheMole Kabuto]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]]. Amusingly, Kabuto never gets the same feeling when they begin counter-spying on him.
* In the Literature/{{Worm}} x Videogame/{{Dishonored}} crossover fanfic ''FanFic/AChangeOfPace'', one of Taylor's [[UpgradeArtifact Charms]] gives her a jolt whenever someone is watching her.

Use of this trope often results in other tropes like IKnowYoureWatchingMe, SpySpeak, {{Trouble Entendre}}s, TalkingThroughTechnique, and WeNeedADistraction.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' pilot in the image above, played for laughs of course.

*** Issue #57 adventure "Cloaked in Fear". If the PlayerCharacters enter the town cemetery at night, they have the feeling of being watched. They are: the main villain of the adventure, the cloaker monster Tzisactsren, is keeping a watch on them.

*** Issue #21 adventure "Jammin'". After the PlayerCharacters board the spelljammer ship ''Halcyon'', they will constantly have the felling of being watched. This is because the spectre captain of the ship is keeping them under observation continuously.
*** Issue #57 adventure "Cloaked in Fear". If the PlayerCharacters enter the town cemetery at night, they have the feeling of being watched. They are: the main villain of the adventure, the cloaker monster Tzisactsren, is keeping them under observation.

** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine #21 adventure "Jammin'". After the PlayerCharacters board the spelljammer ship ''Halcyon'', they will constantly have the felling of being watched. This is because the spectre captain of the ship is keeping them under observation continuously.

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

-->-- '''[[TheDitz SpongeBob]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''[[note]][[ProperlyParanoid "I told you he was onto us!"]][[/note]]

* Cole could sense nearby alien fugitives in ''{{Series/Tracker}}'', though lodestone and being on Earth a while dulled the sense somewhat. It’s also implied that Cirronians are drawn to other Citronians, which is why he and Mel, who was revealed as a HalfHumanHybrid, were drawn to each other when Cole first came to Earth.

* In the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' series, Immortals always know when another Immortal is nearby. They can sense each other's Quickening. They are also indicated to be able to sense the latent Quickening of pre-immortals as well. Duncan keeping Richie around before he became immortal is strongly implied to be because of this.