History Main / ImagineSpotting

* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': In "Rules for a Happy Marriage," the various people who work at ''The Manhattanite'' present brief cutaways of recent fictional and non-fictional discussions with their wives. Their co-workers act as if they can see them and react accordingly.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Dying For Pie", upon hearing that the last thing on [=SpongeBob=]'s list is watching the sunset, Squidward recalls Mr. Krabs saying that's when the bomb hits his lower intestine and kills him. His ImagineSpot doesn't go unnoticed.

* Chapter 8 of ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' has several girls looking up at the Imagine Spot depicting Saito's sexy dream of Louise. In the next panel Louise frantically waves her arms to dissipate it.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', when May Chang goes into an ImagineSpot about Edward Elric (Whom she assumes is tall, suave, handsome), Yoki (Who met Ed in the first volume) looks at her thought balloon and wonders who ''that'' is supposed to be.

** At one point in the manga, Konoka has a brief thought of how bishonen Negi will be when he's 18. Negi looks up and is shocked, asking who ''that'' is.

* Occasionally occurs in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', usually with characters commenting on Tamaki's day-dreams about Haruhi.

* This happens to Ken from ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'', who follows the same rules in life [[WrongGenreSavvy that he does in an H-game]]. At one point he visualises a conversation with Kurimu as a selection of options, and wonders how each will effect the "ending" he gets. Kurimu not only cuts it short by taking out a floppy disk, but pulls it off the screen, and wonders how it has any relation to reality.

* Invoked and exploited to cross the language barrier in ''ComicBook/{{Marsupilami}}''. Backalive realizes that Tapamilastiko don't understand what he is saying, so he choose to go for something more visual and imagine what he would do once the Marsupilami is captured: bringing it to a museum. Tapamilastiko see the ImagineSpot, but disagree and use the same method to show what he want to do: bring the marsu to his tribe to eat it. They start a fight over it.
* In the ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2019/07/24 comic for 24th of July 2019]], an applicant is asked by the King where the applicant might see himself in five years time. The applicant has a thought bubble of himself as the king on the throne, which the King sees and is shocked by. The applicant is then seen in the dungeon in irons muttering, "Stupid thought bubble."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsMagicalMovieNight'': In the "Dance Magic" segment, during each of the {{Imagine Spot}}s, the girls other than the one narrating seem to be perfectly able to see what's going on and react accordingly. Notably, Rarity being aghast at her clothes in Applejack's scene, all of them panicking from the danger in Rainbow Dash's romp, or looking around in confusion from Pinkie Pie's rambling.

* In ''Film/HowHigh'', Jamal is participating in the rowing meet when he has a marijuana induced hallucination of his mother yelling at him from a large projection in the sky. For absolutely no explicable reason, eveyone else at the meet can see her too.

* ''TabletopGame/ChuubosMarvelousWishGrantingEngine'': there is a power quite early along the Reality Syndrome arc that allows you to let people see your day-dreams, or whatever Experience you choose for the Arc.

** Subverted in "Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2". Marge starts a flashback sequence during a conversation with Homer but when she finishes, Homer is clueless to what she was thinking, meaning she was only thinking it and not explaining it.

** In "Highway to Well", Bart break up Homer's thought cloud before his ImagineSpot about working at a liquor store could properly start, wanting Homer to focus on the conversation about Marge becoming a marijuana saleswoman.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' adores this trope -- it is not at all unusual for characters to have a good idea of what happened in a character's fantasy sequence or imagine spot, even though there surely wasn't enough time for the character to have described it in that much detail. In one example, when Arthur isn't getting enough sleep because D.W. keeps crying and screaming at night, he fantasizes a show called ''Temper Tantrum 911'' and Binky walks by and comments how cool such a show would be.

* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', Spider-Man and Deadpool engage in a fourth-wall breaking ImagineSpot duel.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Cheer Up, Star", Marco is having a flash-back to how he got Star and himself into the mess they're in. When it gets to the part where Star meets [[DreadfulMusician Oskar Greason]] and starts crushing on him, the flashback suddenly turns into a wacky romantic fantasy. Marco then admonishes Star with "Can you ''please'' keep your fantasies out of my flashback?"

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': In "Seasons Change", K.O. insists that nothing out of the ordinary happened to him over the summer, and has a flashback to some of the things he did with his mom. Enid and Rad are able to see his flashback, and point out that Mr. Gar was in all of K.O.'s flashbacks. K.O. doesn't get that [[ParentWithNewParamour Carol and Mr. Gar are dating]] until he sees the two kiss.

* In a Bommerang short featuring ''WesternAnimation/WallyGator'', after a AnimalWrongsGroup 'liberates' him from the zoo and take him to a swamp, Wally thinks about how luxurious his life at the zoo was. This doesn't go unnoticed by a couple of swamp-dwelling gators, who decided to go back to zoo with Wally while leaving the activists in the swamp.

* In the forty-first chapter of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Ao notices Mira having an ImagineSpot of launching herself into the space a la HumanCannonball and tells her that's not possible.

* In the first episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', Excel is in an ambulance after being hit by a truck. We see scenes from her life, and one of the [=EMTs=] in the ambulance says something like, "Uh oh. Her life is flashing before her eyes. That's a bad sign." The Japanese dub was something along the lines of "You've got so much more to live for, like love- oh wait, you've already done that. Never mind." after he notices the flashback.

* Chapter 8 of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' has several girls looking up at the Imagine Spot depicting Saito's sexy dream of Louise. In the next panel Louise frantically waves her arms to dissipate it.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Justified example due to Akira being connected to his VirtualSidekick Alpha via BioAugmentation wireless BrainComputerInterface. Akira imagines running around fighting GunsAkimbo with two assault rifles, leading to Alpha scolding him that it'd break his arms without the strength of PoweredArmor as RequiredSecondaryPowers. This foreshadows a later scene when Akira has armor and it's down for reprogramming mid-battle, making him resort to doing so and it causing him excruciating pain.

* This happens to Ken from ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'', who follows the same rules in life [[WrongGenreSavvy that he does in an H-game]]. At one point he visualises a conversation with Kurimu as a selection of options, and wonders how each will effect the "ending" he gets. Kurimu not only cuts it short by taking out a floppy disk, but pulls it off the screen, and wonders how it has any relation to reality.