History Main / InvisibleToNormals

* The premise of ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'' is that angels and demons exist all around us, hidden in a spirit dimension which normal people cannot see - and that protagonist Drew Carter gains the ability to look across that evil to see the spiritual war going on everywhere.

* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' by Jason Pargin (a.k.a. David Wong) the majority of the monsters John and David battle are invisible to most humans. This is because [[spoiler:the monsters are from another dimension and their existence extends to this one by varying degrees. ]]Those that can see them are either psychic, not human, really drunk and stoned with an open mind, or in John's and Dave's cases have [[spoiler:taken the drug "Soy Sauce", which tunes your brain into the different "frequency" these monsters exist in]].

* In ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'', the Overtakers can't be seen by anyone other than [[FiveManBand the DHIs]] at first. They eventually can be seen as [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve more people believe in them]].
* "Plateau Eyes" is the name of a mutation/psychic power in Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' setting. It keeps people from noticing/remembering you, and is explained as causing the muscles in someone else's eyes to contract, narrowing the pupil. When people are really interested in something their pupils get larger; the Plateau Eyes phenomenon inverts this twice: the widening is postulated to be the ''cause'' rather than the effect (or at least some kind of feedback loop), so naturally narrowing the pupils would make whatever the person is looking at seem singularly uninteresting. The first character known to have it (in ''Literature/AGiftFromEarth'') has been doing it subconsciously his entire life, often to his frustration (he'll be hitting it off with a woman, get nervous because he starts to think he might ''finally'' get to have sex, and then she stops talking to him and wanders away distractedly).
* The 200 million horsemen army in the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Assassins'' is invisible to everybody but believers in Christ, but are nonetheless dangerous to those who aren't believers, as they have been unleashed to slay a third of the remaining world's population around the time of the Sixth Trumpet Judgment (believers not included).

* ''Anime/ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna can only see and interact with Yasha, the deity-possessed Shiro, and other gods while the divine ''magatama'' bracelet her mom had is activated.

* In ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire and the Brotherhood of Shambalha'', Athena and Desmond both go into the temple of the Brotherhood of Shambalha, but only Athena sees anything there (and doesn't realise that Desmond ''isn't'' seeing anything — she only finds out later). Exactly why this is isn't stated, but it's probably a choice of the Brotherhood.

** The paragons themselves are also like this, although they can suppress the effect if they wish to do so — or reinforce it if the need arises. This is in addition to and separate from their ability to easily modify memories so no one remembers encountering them.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{ParaNorman}}'', no one believed that ghosts and Norman's power to see ghosts are real because ghosts are invisible to humans, except for Norman.

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* ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' explains the lack of noticing Others by normal people as a result of the Standard of Suleiman bin Daoud (the Biblical King Solomon), an agreement that most Others, over the course of the past several thousand years, have been forced to sign by various practitioners that bound or negotiated with them. The Standard means that Others can't interfere with the uninitiated without some excuse — failing the test of a sphinx, or wandering where a goblin might find them instead of staying home.

* In the ''WebOriginal/{{Paradise}}'' setting, human characters are randomly, permanently changed into {{Funny Animal}}s (and some are [[GenderBending gender-swapped]] as well). After they Change, characters have an illusory full-body disguise of their old human selves where normal human beings are concerned (whether they like it or not), especially early on when the [[WeirdnessCensor "Reality Distortion Field"]] is stronger. A man who turned into a female bear might look much like his old masculine self, just a little overweight—which means he will need to [[WholesomeCrossdresser continue to dress like a man]]. Normals literally cannot tell anything has changed; only other Changed can see them as they are.

* ''ChildOfKamiariMonth'': Kanna can only see and interact with Yasha, the deity-possessed Shiro, and other gods while the divine ''magatama'' bracelet her mom had is activated.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' mentions that [[TheHeartless Dementors]] cannot be seen by Muggles, though they still feel the EmotionEater aura. It's unknown if anything else is like this. Played with a bit in regards to most magical locations. To keep Muggles from discovering magic, most wizarding locales use some sort of enchantment to keep Muggles from wandering into them, which includes spells to make them look like something else entirely (for instance Hogwarts, which will look like withered ruins to any Muggles that find it), repel them from the areas in question (the Quidditch World Cup's stadium), or to [[PerceptionFilter keep them from noticing the spot at all]] (The Leaky Cauldron). There are also things that even most wizards can't see, such as thestrals (horse-like reptilian beings that are invisible unless you've seen someone die) and any location protected by the Fidelius Charm (which keeps you from seeing a particular location unless you've been told the address by the Secret Keeper).

* One [[FlipFlopOfGod possible interpretation]] of Hobbes from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E16TheHitchHiker The Hitch-Hiker]]", Nan Adams is the only one who can see the title character.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E33MrBevis Mr. Bevis]]", Mr. James B.W. Bevis is the only person who can see his GuardianAngel J. Hardy Hempstead.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E55MrDingleTheStrong Mr. Dingle, the Strong]]", neither the two-headed Martian nor the two Venusians can be seen by humans. However, they can see each other.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E81NothingInTheDark Nothing in the Dark]]", [[spoiler:the revelation that the contractor can't see Harold Beldon leads Wanda Dunn to realize that he is Death.]]

** In "Personal Demons", Rockne O'Bannon is the only person who can see the strange, hooded creatures that have been following him everywhere he goes and destroyed his car and apartment.
** In "The Crossing", Father Mark Cassidy repeatedly sees a car driving away from St. Timothy's Church and crashing over a cliff. When he tries to get help, he realizes that he is the only one who could see it.
** In "Rendezvous in a Dark Place", [[TheGrimReaper Death]] can typically only be seen by the person who is about to die. However, Barbara [=LeMay=] can see him because her [[DeathSeeker obsession with him]] means that the two of them spend so much time together.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Distillum}}'', both Rob and Kavitha hear the anomaly in chapter 2, but Jamie doesn't. He's concerned about it.