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** Alternatively, Bob is invisible to the viewers as well as the characters, and the viewers aren't in on it until something gets lifted.

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** Alternatively, Bob is invisible to the viewers as well as the characters, and the viewers aren't in on it until something gets lifted.
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** Bob has turned transparent monochrome red. While humans can still see him, his foes only see in blue/green and thus can't.
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** Bob becomes transparent, but with a different refractive index to the air around him. The "outline" represents the barely-visible distortion.

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** Bob becomes transparent, but with a different refractive index to the air around him. The "outline" represents is a stylized representation of the barely-visible distortion.

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* '''Justified''': Due to an imperfection in the invisibility machine, Bob is fully invisible only from a certain angle.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Due to an imperfection in the invisibility machine, Bob is fully invisible only from a certain angle.angle.
** Bob becomes transparent, but with a different refractive index to the air around him. The "outline" represents the barely-visible distortion.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob's outline walks on screen, but it turns out that he just [[BreakingTheFourthWall painted himself "invisible"]] for the sake of a gag.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob's outline walks on screen, but it turns out that he just [[BreakingTheFourthWall painted himself "invisible"]] for the sake of a gag.gag.
** Bob turns into an outline...then he fades entirely.



* '''Implied''': After drinking a potion, Bob turns into an outline, and no one talks to him. He might be invisible, but everyone might just be ignoring him.



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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???A GenreSavvy Fourth Wall-breaking character makes a living tracking down invisible assassins, spies, and thieves.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob is completely invisible to the audience, although we can still see his footprints and a ''very faint'' shadow.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???



* '''Exploited''': ???



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* '''Parodied''': Bob drinks the invisibility potion and begins to glow. Alice pays no attention to this.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Bob drinks the invisibility potion and begins to glow. Alice pays no attention to this.



* '''Averted''': There is no clue that Bob is invisible, except for his being ignored by other characters.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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There is no clue that Bob is invisible, except for his being ignored by other characters.
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* '''Straight''': Bob, an animated character, drinks the invisibility potion and becomes transparent, save for his outline. Alice doesn't seem to recognize this.

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* '''Straight''': Bob, an animated character, drinks the invisibility potion and becomes transparent, save for his outline. Alice doesn't seem to recognize this.Bob when he's in a room.
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Not a deconstruction and not a reconstruction. I'm not good enough to think of real examples.


* '''Deconstructed''': In a SurrealHumor show, Bob's painting himself "invisible" actually rendered him invisible, and he uses this to molest women in the locker room unawares.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's painting himself "invisible" actually rendered him invisible, and he uses this to molest women in the locker room unawares, But he still leaves fingerprints and other [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean evidence]] of his misdeeds, and is punished accordingly.

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* '''Deconstructed''': In a SurrealHumor show, Bob's painting himself "invisible" actually rendered him invisible, and he uses this to molest women in the locker room unawares.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's painting himself "invisible" actually rendered him invisible, and he uses this to molest women in the locker room unawares, But he still leaves fingerprints and other [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean evidence]] of his misdeeds, and is punished accordingly.???
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* '''Straight''': Bob, an animated character, drinks the invisibility potion becomes transparent, save for his outline. Alice doesn't seem to recognize this.

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* '''Straight''': Bob, an animated character, drinks the invisibility potion and becomes transparent, save for his outline. Alice doesn't seem to recognize this.



* '''Justified''': Due to an imperfection in the invisibility machine, Bob is only fully invisible from a certain angle.

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* '''Justified''': Due to an imperfection in the invisibility machine, Bob is only fully invisible only from a certain angle.
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* '''Defied''': When Bob turns invisible, there's no clues to his position at all.

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* '''Defied''': When Bob turns invisible, there's no clues "I knew that invisibility devices usually have some sort of visual cue that lets you spot them, so I tested this one carefully to his position at all.make sure it didn't."
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* '''Justified''': ViewersAreMorons.

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* '''Justified''': ViewersAreMorons.Due to an imperfection in the invisibility machine, Bob is only fully invisible from a certain angle.

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