History Main / ImagineSpotting

* ''Anime/StarDriver'': "Wako! [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/wakosfantasy.jpg That fantasy]] was ''tres bien!''"* 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.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', Spider-Man and Deadpool engage in a fourth-wall breaking ImagineSpot duel.

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* In the ''Kodomo no Jikan'' manga, Houin examines the DoubleStandard of Shirai slapping Aoki [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cit_Kodomo_no_Jikan_c39_-_Houin_imagines_a_genderflip.png by imagining]] a {{genderflip}}ped retake. Oyajima, whom she had been talking to, demands to know why he had been genderflipped, as well.
* Elsee spots Keima's grandiose imaginings in ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' all the time.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', which pulls off FourthWall gags all the time, does this.

* ''Anime/PleaseTwins'': "Miss Mina, that fantasy of yours is getting awfully close to breaching Love Alliance rule #1."

* A frequent gag of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga. "You actually have the gall to picture yourself like THAT?" "Leave me OUT of your sick fantasies!"
* In an early chapter of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', Fuyuki realizes that their mother, who doesn't like animals, is probably going to be angry about Keroro's presence, and imagines her as [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA-01]]. The next panel has Natsumi [[MediumAwareness glancing back at the last panel]] and saying "That visual might have been a bit exaggerated, but..."
* ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': In Chapter 55, "The 60-Yard Legend", Monta has another of his fantasies about helping the team that ends with Mamori fawning over him and Sena throwing confetti, and Sena comments "Why am I always the one throwing confetti?"

* ''Anime/StarDriver'': "Wako! [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/wakosfantasy.jpg That fantasy]] was ''tres bien!''"
* 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.
* In ''Manga/HayateCrossBlade''; [[{{Tsundere}} Ayana]] has a tendency to see Hayate's imagine spots; and tends to hit her for them.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** During the Thriller Bark arc, after Franky's second call for the crew to do [[AllYourPowersCombined Tactics 15]], [[DarkActionGirl Robin]] angrily declared that she would never do such a thing, and [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] agreed with her, until he imagined what she would look like in the combo attack (hint: it involved her being held upside-down while she wore her miniskirt). Robin saw inside and gave him an icy glare of death.
** During the Punk Hazard arc, it was Robin's ImagineSpot and Usopp doing the spotting, where Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Robin were debating how to get across a lake, with Luffy and Robin [[SuperDrowningSkills unable to swim]], Robin imagined Usopp and Zoro bearing them across the lake, and Usopp calling her out on it.
* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' had an episode where the titular Shin's babysitter kept launching into bizarre/perverted fantasy spots about destroying the annoying toddler or hooking up with her boyfriend, immediately followed by an inner narration about how glad she is nobody could see or hear her thoughts. Of course, her boyfriend happens to be secretly psychic and ''can'' hear and see exactly what she keeps imagining (including how embarrassed she would be if anyone could read her thoughts).
* Early in ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', Yurika remarks that when they were kids, Akito was always chasing her around. This is followed by an imagine spot of ''Yurika'' chasing ''Akito'' around, which Akito physically points to and says "''That's'' how I remember it."
* In ''Manga/LoveLab'', Riko often gets annoyed by Maki's imagine spots, as they tend to be ridiculous and share Maki's [[TerribleArtist art-style]].
* Ryuko spots her friend Mako's ImagineSpot of Ryuko's father [[spoiler:when he was revealed to be the founder of [[LaResistance Nudist Beach]]]] in ''Anime/KillLaKill''.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Juvia often pictures a LoveDodecahedron in her ImagineSpot, and characters around her comment on the absurdness of her thoughts.
* 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.
* Kimihito from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' remarks about Miia's fantasy with him. An earlier scene they had together is reinterpreted by Miia with her crush being more badass than it actually was.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Croagunk performs his [[RunningGag usual stint]] of attacking Brock while flirting with a girl, except the flirting occurred in Brock's ''daydream''. A downplayed example, where Brock could have just been saying things out loud, but still.
--->'''Brock:''' ''Imagination is against the law?!''
** When Meowth used to fantasize about their Boss Giovanni in weird and crazy situations with the MonsterOfTheWeek, the rest of Team Rocket can sometimes be fully aware of all the things that happen in the aforementioned fantasy.
* Several jokes in Chapter 99 of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' rely on most of the cast being able to see the quickly-evolving [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel romantic interpretations]] of mundane interactions in the mind of Rei Kashima, who's very uninformed about co-ed relations due to going to an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls' school]] and has more imagination than sense.
* 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 one chapter of ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', Monta has another of his fantasies about helping the team that ends with Mamori giving him a kiss and Sena throwing confetti, and Sena comments "Why am I always the one throwing confetti?"

** In "And Maggie Makes Three", TheOneWith Homer telling the kids about when Maggie was born, at one point Bart takes over and claims that Homer got so scared his head exploded. After Homer gets back to telling the story himself, Marge notices that he was imagining himself without a head and that he should have weighed a few more pounds.

** Combined with MediumAwareness in an episode set in ancient China. Phineas and the others have sought out OldMaster Perry for training so they can save Princess Isabella from Doofus Khan, and ask about Perry's backstory. While they (and the audience) don't see Perry's flashback, they do see a ripple effect spontaneously appear around him. Ferb states that this means that Perry must be having a flashback, while Phineas wonders if they should give him some privacy. When the ripple stops, they know Perry's flashback is done.

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* ''Anime/PleaseTwins'' -- "Miss Mina, that fantasy of yours is getting awfully close to breaching Love Alliance rule #1."

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* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Boss'stache", the Boss remembers [[spoiler:he made a secret formula to grow his mustache]] and that it's at the laboratory. Lamput sees the lab in the Boss's thought bubble and confirms if that's where he wants to go.
* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 52, Mr. Slowy tells the goat kids the story of how some lazy, gluttonous goats invented porridge, with his flashback to the occasion featuring goats that look exactly like Paddi. When Slowy finishes his story, Paddi angrily objects and demands to know why the goats in the flashback look like him.
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* Subverted in one example in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' when Celestia is talking about an event from the past for Twilight Sparkle and Spike. Her explanation acts as if everyone can see the associated [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spot]] and as such she leaves out details that are visible to the viewer, but Spike complains that they can't see what she's talking about and asks for clarification.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': In [[ChristmasEpisode "Duck the Halls"]], Mickey triggers a flashback about spending Christmas with his family, which fascinates Donald into wanting to stay for Christmas instead of going south. Daisy gives an "Ahem" to Mickey to alert him he's tempting Donald, so he pops the thought bubble the flashback is in, causing everything in it, including the house and snow, to drop on the floor.

* ''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 Imagine Spot]] doesn't go unnoticed.
-->'''Spongebob:''' Hey, it's Mr. Krabs! Hi, Mr. Krabs! ''(Thought Bubble!Mr. Krabs runs off crying like the real Mr. Krabs did)'' Okay! See ya later!

* In the ''Series/OddSquad'' episode "License to Science, Oona imagines Otis as a FlyingFace when taking her Lab Director's test. True to the wacky nature of the show, Odelia can see the face and tells it that there's no outside help allowed during the test, only for Oona to inform her that it's imaginary, at which point Odelia says that imaginary help is fine.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''

* In one chapter of ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', Monta has another of his fantasies about helping the team that ends with Mamori giving him a kiss and Sena throwing confetti, and Sena comments "Why am I always the one throwing confetti?"

* This happens to Ken from ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'', 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.

* Kimihito from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' remarks about Miia's fantasy with him. An earlier scene they had together is reinterpreted by Miia with her crush being more badass than it actually was.

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

* ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'', being a DeconstructiveParody of the {{Shonen}} FightingSeries, has a subversion at ''"Want to wipe the tears from that kid"'': Akihiko, an {{Otaku}} of the {{Sentai}} [[ShowWithinAShow Star Rangers]] series, is a DayDreamBeliever who CannotTellFictionFromReality, thinks of himself as the Red Ranger when he is fighting against an AngryGuardDog to protect a child. In that moment, IdiotHero Kankuro sees him as Akihiko thinks of himself, and acts very surprised:

* ''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 Imagine Spot]] doesn't go unnoticed.

* Subverted in one example in ''WesternAnimation/FriendshipIsMagic'' when Celestia is talking about an event from the past to Twilight and Spike. Her explanation acts as if everyone can see the associated imagine spot and as such she leaves out details that are visible to the viewer, but Spike complains that they can't see what she's talking about and asks for clarification.

* Rei Kashima's lively imagination seems to be projected for everyone to see in Chapter 99 of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', to general embarrassment.

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

* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2NDDimension'', where it looks like Perry is remembering Major Monogram warning him that he'll never see Phineas and Ferb again if his cover is blown, and Doofenshmirtz asks if anyone else hears someone talking. Turns out Monogram was talking through Perry's new hologram communicator. Perry had to turn it off before anyone heard.

* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossTheSecondDimension'', where it looks like Perry is remembering Major Monogram warning him that he'll never see Phineas and Ferb again if his cover is blown, and Doofenshmirtz asks if anyone else hears someone talking. Turns out Monogram was talking through Perry's new hologram communicator. Perry had to turn it off before anyone heard.

* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbAcrossTheSecondDimension'', where it looks like Perry is remembering Major Monogram warning him that he'll never see Phineas and Ferb again if his cover is blown, and Doofenshmirtz asks if anyone else hears someone talking. Turns out Monogram was talking through Perry's new hologram communicator. Perry had to turn it off before anyone heard.

* During Olaf's song "In Summer" in ''Disney/{{Frozen}},'' there's a brief moment when Anna, Kristoff, and Sven are present in his fantasy. Anna and Kristoff both look a little disconcerted to be there. It's not clear if they're actually perceiving Olaf's fantasy (and weirded out by being ''in'' it), or if their off-kilter looks are just how Olaf imagines them.

* Several jokes in Chapter 99 of ''Manga/MonthlyGilsNozakiKun'' rely on most of the cast being able to see the quickly-evolving [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel romantic interpretations]] of mundane interactions in the mind of Rei Kashima, who's very uninformed about co-ed relations due to going to an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls' school]] and has more imagination than sense.