History Main / InvisibilityInk

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* In a Season 1 episode of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Freak of the Week]] uses a specialized oil that grants invisibility to human skin when applied. He describes creating it based on a mysterious green rose he discovered, implying that it was a biproduct of the [[MassEmpoweringEvent meteor shower]] from the pilot episode.

* Used in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' to fool the last of five guards who each represent one of the five senses. The apparently empty inkwell makes Alexander invisible long enough for the guard's keen vision to tell him there's no-one present.

* This is the MacGuffin of ''Film/NowYouSeeHimNowYouDont''. Dexter Reilly attempts to create one of these and succeeds due to a lab accident. Unfortunately, a group of gangsters find out about it and steal the formula to perform a bank robbery which leads to a car chase with an invisible car.flat-footed

* One case of StupidCrooks involved a man covering himself in lemon juice to fool a bank's security cameras (after all, if lemon juice can be used for InvisibleWriting, so whatever it's on is also invisible, right?). The cameras, security guards, and employees... weren't fooled.

* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''The Vanishing Private'' has Donald discovering an experimental "invisible paint" and using to camouflage an Army cannon. He then gets it all over himself and uses his invisibility to drive Sergeant Pete crazy.

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* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'': One of Bunsen's recent Muppet Labs inventions was a rubber ducky that released an invisibility spray when squeezed; Kermit and the gang uses this as a means to sneak into the Covnet facilities to rescue Gonzo, however, Fozzie washes his hands after using the bathroom, washing the spray away from his hands, leaving them to appear as a pair of floating hands. When the spray wears off shortly afterward, we see Fozzie was picking his nose, Piggy was chowing down on a bag of potato chips, and Pepe was dancing ballet in a tutu.

* This is the MacGuffin of ''Film/NowYouSeeHimNowYouDont''. Dexter Reilly attempts to create one of these and succeeds due to a lab accident. Unfortunately, a group of gangsters find out about it and steal the formula to perform a bank robbery which leads to a car chase with an invisible car.

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* Used in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' to fool the last of five guards who each represent one of the five senses. The apparently empty inkwell makes Alexander invisible long enough for the guard's keen vision to tell him there's no one present.

* In ''Series/FraggleRock'', the Gorgs use radishes to make ''anti''-vanishing cream, which keeps them from vanishing. This only appears in one episode, then never mentioned again.

* An Al Brodax ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon has Wimpy making himself invisible with vanishing cream to escape Brutus' wrath. Popeye gets into the act to help Wimpy [[YankTheDogsChain yank Brutus' chain]].
-->'''Brutus:''' Popeye, have you seen that moocher Wimpy?\\
'''Popeye:''' Brutus, [[CannotTellALie ya knows I never tells a lie]]...[[ExactWords Nope, I hasn't seen him today.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQky19eBsU0 "Mr. Know-It-All"]] segment about how to remove a mustache, Bullwinkle puts mustache remover on. Then Rocky tells him it isn't mustache remover, it's vanishing cream! Cut to Bullwinkle's mustache, ''sans'' Bullwinkle, floating in air. "[[NowYouTellMe Now he tells me!]]"

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** "The Invisible Mouse": Jerry hides in a bottle of invisible ink to avoid Tom. Once he jumps out, he sees his lower half gone. After being initially shocked, he realizes the effects of invisible ink and goes to apply more on the rest of his body.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Pranks a Lot" Spongebob and Patrick bought an "invisible spray" from a toy store. After they fought each other over the usage of the spray, they accidentally sprayed themselves with it, making them invisible. After accidentally scaring off a random bystander, they decide to pull a prank on everyone in Bikini Bottom - a prank in a scale so big that it gets in the news.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has the Professor invent a ray that turns ink invisible in order to rid Fry of an EmbarrassingTattoo, unfortunately it's even more painful than a regular laser removal. And then it happens to hit Zoidburg, who's soaked in his own ink, making him completely invisible, convenient as he was running from the Robot Mafia at the time.

* In ''The Shadow and the Flash'' -- one of Creator/JackLondon's forays into science fiction -- the two protagonists invent two different versions of this: one is transparent paint (as in, it makes the painted object transparent); the other is "absolute black" paint that makes the painted object invisible since they no longer reflect visible light[[note]]The fact that black objects ''are'' visible receives is briefly HandWave as "ah, but those objects are not ''perfectly'' black"[[/note]]. Both paints are subtly imperfect -- transparent objects sometimes emit colored flashes by refraction, perfectly black ones cast a shadow -- and the two inventors are caught in a rivalry, each to prove that their version is the best.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQky19eBsU0 "Mr. Know-It-All"]] segment about how to remove a mustache, Bullwinkle puts mustache remover on. Then Rocky tells him it isn't mustache remover, it's vanishing cream! Cut to Bullwinkle's mustache, ''sans'' Bullwinkle, floating in air. "Now he tells me!"

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* During the episode ''I Just Don't Get It'' on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'', Henry and June give the studio a thorough Spring Cleaning, with Henry doing the pairs laundry... using an industrial-sized bottle of ''[[InvisibilityInk Disappearing Ink]]'' as detergent. June makes it off-screen just before she loses her undershirt and shorts, [[ButtMonkey Henry]]... [[NakedPeopleAreFunny gets locked out]].

A substance that grants {{Invisibility}} when applied on something. Usually it is invisible ink or vanishing cream, despite the fact these real life items do not grant invisibility at all.

* ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'': One of Bunsen's recent Muppet Labs inventions was a rubber ducky that released an invisibility spray when squeezed; Kermit and the gang uses this as a means to sneak into the Covnet facilities to rescue Gonzo, however, Fozzie washes his hands after using the bathroom, washing the spray away from his hands, leaving them to appear as a pair of floating hands. When the spray wears off shortly afterwards, we see Fozzie was picking his nose, Piggy was chowing down on a bag of potato chips, and Pepe was dancing ballet in a tutu.

* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': In "Invisible Cow", Red Guy sells what he claims to be invisible sauce to Cow, which she actually believes makes her invisible, so she frollics through town doing as she pleases, even though she's in plain sight of everyone else. In the end, Red Guy decides to sell fat sauce instead, which he uses on Chicken, and it actually works; Chicken then asks for some invisible himself so people won't see how fat he is, but Red can't find where he put it, since it's invisible.

* One episode of ""WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has the Professor invent a ray that turns ink invisible in order to rid Fry of an EmbarrassingTattoo, unfortunately it's even more painful than a regular laser removal. And then it happens to hit Zoidburg, who's soaked in his own ink, making him completely invisible, convenient as he was running from the Robot Mafia at the time.