History Sandbox / SeeThruSpecsWickCheck

# VideoGame.ColdWar: Carter's Camera is capable of this, allowing the player to see through walls to check for Guards.

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# YMMV.JamesAndMikeMondays: The "Sonic the Hedgehog Rom Hack" episode opens with what appears to be a pleasant game of the first Sonic game...only for the screen to be filled with static and change the backdrop to a hellish landscape, replacing Sonic with Sonic.exe. It gets worse from there... I AM GOD While playing Layers of Fear, James recounts a nightmare he had where he found a pair of X-ray goggles and used them to peer through the walls of his house. He found a dead, rotting corpse. The (acted by miniature) car accident at the end of "Wii Car Adapter and Travel Pack" can be this for some.
# Film.Thir13enGhosts: Both movies used special glasses to see the ghosts, but in the original the audience got them, while in the remake the characters got them.

# Creator.RobertSheckley: The binoculars in "Is THAT What People Do?".

# ImageSource.TheFairlyOddParents: See-Thru Specs ("That Old Black Magic")
# Laconic.SeeThruSpecs: Edit Page
# WesternAnimation.PuffTheMagicDragon: Puff's smoke rings have this effect. Looking through them allows Puff and Jackie to see that Very Long John secretly wants to be a baker.
# Characters.GuiltyGearXX: One of his XX win quotes reveals that his eyes can see through people's clothing. Unfortunately, he uses it on Bridget. Robo-Ky: YOU'RE A BOY, HUH!? YOU CAN'T TRICK ME! I HAVE X-RAY EYES AN—UH...FORGET I SAID THAT. He later uses it in -REVELATOR- when 2cave and two Assassin's Guild members put a bag over his head while talking to Venom. Robo-Ky analyzes them and discovers their terrified heartbeats, which makes him realize they had been sent by Zato-1 to secretly test Venom's resolve.
# VideoGame.{{Wishbringer}}: A pair of apparent joke glasses that allow one to tell whether something is magic. (They can also switch someone from their Dark World personality back to their regular one, but only if the person is actually wearing them.)
# VideoGame.{{Aground}}: Spirit Goggles are an early-game Magic item that allow you to see and interact with elemental spirits and spirit structures.
# VideoGame.PokemonRedAndBlue: The Silph Scope works in this fashion, allowing the wearer to see the true form of Ghost Pokémon.

# WebVideo.JoueurDuGrenier: The sunglasses always dangling from JdG's shirt are described as allowing to see the state of someone's soul (which ends up damaged after really awful games and big videos).

# Awesome.TheOrderOfTheStick: First is him revealing he knew Elan, Haley, and Vaarsuvius were in cahoots with Roy, Belkar and Durkon all along, but put the band back together for his own benefit...but not for catching Nale, since there is no chance he has left the city yet, or even the palace. How does Tarquin know this? As the strip's title says, parental insight...and because he got a Ring of True Seeing for his birthday. Cue an invisible Nale shitting himself as Tarquin smiles at him. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny too.
# Fanfic.StealTheTruthReachOutForYourHeart: Nanako's Compendium (formerly Yu's) has one that keeps people from wondering why she's lugging around a heavy tome all the time. Nanako herself can't even read the pages without Yu's Investigation Team glasses.
# VideoGame.TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants: Bart uses a pair of x-ray glasses to identify aliens disguised as humans.
# Characters.AcademyOfMerlinGraduatedLucian: Rowan's glasses enable him to See, an ability he was born without. They run on moonlight.
# Recap.StarTrekVoyagerS4E7ScientificMethod: {{Foreshadowing}}: Janeway complains that her Headache of Doom is like needles drilling into her skull. When Seven looks at her through SeeThruSpecs, the Borg is horrified to see aliens doing exactly that.
# DarthWiki.{{Gravedreams}}: The spyglass some of the dreamers and dream creatures were searching for is this. It's why they were interrupted, as it would show that most of the dreamers were being possessed by nightmares and possibly revealed who Knack was.

# VideoGame.Bayonetta2: Luka gets another pair of glasses that let him see into Purgatorio from Rodin in exchange for some genuine sake. However, he unfortunately forgets that being able to see things in Purgatorio is not the same as being able to touch them.
# Literature.SecretCity: sold as "distinguishing glass", very common artifact.
# VideoGame.StrangeHorticulture: A strange hermit gives you a device that can be used as a lens for invisible magic, which turns out to be critical for some important secrets.
# WebVideo.DrGlaucomflecken: In "How to Ace Your Radiology Residency Interview", the applicant tells the program director about how disappointed he was when the x-ray glasses he got as a child didn't actually work, so he tried to make the world's first working pair of x-ray glasses. The program director smiles and calls it a "fun little kid project." The applicant then chuckles and says "Nice pacemaker, by the way," and the program director looks at his own chest in surprise.
# Characters.RedDragonInn: Omni-sight goggles. One of Wizgille's inventions that she can use to cheat during a round of gambling...if they work. In fact, if her omni-sight goggles are "offline" she may not bother to ante at all.
# ComicBook.SecretInvasion2008: 3-D Man's 3-D glasses let him see through the Skrulls' disguises, being one of the very few things that could tell Skrull impostors apart. The explanation is because they're "old school" and somehow immune to the ritual the Skrulls were using that allowed them to evade detection.
# VideoGame.LinksQuestForTheHookshot2Quest: The Manhandleye.
# Literature.MerkabahRider: The Rider's blue spectacles are inscribed with Solomonic sigils which allow him to see spirits, see through illusions, and protect him from magical and demonic Mind Control.
# Characters.GenshinImpactMondstadt: Venti's Story Quest deals with this topic. With a special monocle borrowed from Lisa that allows wearers to discover invisible beings, he, the Traveler, and Paimon find out that children are more likely to have them, while adults tend to stop having such innocent imaginations once they grow up.
# Film.TheyLive: The sunglasses allow anyone wearing them to see the aliens and subliminal messages. "Put the glasses on! PUT 'EM ON!"

# QuoteSource.LiveActionTV: Would I Lie to You? Appeal to Audacity SeeThruSpecs
# Film.TheWorldIsNotEnough: Bond's tinted lenses gave him quasi-X-Ray vision. He used them to see concealed weapons and lingerie.

# Recap.VictorAndValentinoPilot: The luchador mask Victor bought in the maze allows the two to see the spirits roaming Monte Macabre, along with the spiritual form of their grandmother.
# Film.AViewToAKill: Bond has a pair of glasses with adjustable polarization, which allow him to see through one-way mirrors.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrime2Echoes: The Dark Visor allows Samus to see objects and elements that are either invisible, or cross-dimensional (between the Light and Dark Worlds).
# Literature.DishonoredTheReturnofDaud: Norcross possess a monocle with an ivory stem and lens made from a ground crystal from the Pandyssian continent. It allows him to see magical artifacts and the like, including the Mark of the Outsider.
# Anime.{{Fractale}}: Without relying on the Fractale System and the Fractale Terminals, members of Lost Millennium can only see Doppels through special eye monitors.
# Memes.LiveActionFilms: Altering scenes where the SeeThruSpecs are donned, or adding them to original photos. By the way, Roddy Piper has come here to Chew Bubblegum. And kick ass. And he's all outta bubblegum.Explanation The ad-libbed one-liner became so widely reused (most famously in Duke Nukem 3D) and parodied that it became a trope.
# Characters.JupiterMen: Lavani's goggles let her see the starstruck that is invisible unless it's exposed to a certain frequency of light while it's attacking Nathan's base.
# Manga.TheAncientMagusBride: The stone that Elias gave Chise can be used like this when peered through, granting her an even stronger form of True Sight than she already has.
# VideoGame.TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask: The Stone Mask makes Link effectively invisible to minor enemies by rendering him "as boring as a stone." You obtain it from an unfortunate soldier who put it on and then collapsed from exhaustion—but couldn't get anyone to help him because of the mask's effects. Link himself can only perceive the soldier using the Lens of Truth.

# Literature.TheHauntingOfTramCar015: Spectral Goggles, specialized eyewear that allows ministry agents to perceive the supernatural. He reached into his coat to pull out the small leather case where he kept his spectral goggles. The copper-plated instruments were standard Ministry issue. They fit like eyeglasses, though the pronounced round green lenses were far wider. Onsi had removed his spectacles to slip on his own pair. Eyesight mattered little when it came to the spectral world—which appeared the same to everyone in a haze of startlingly vivid, luminescent jade.

# VideoGame.MetroidPrime3Corruption: The X-Ray Visor returns, now allowing Samus to see the symbols and characters of special keyboards she must use to write codes in Pirate Homeworld. She can also use the visor to see through Phazite plates and activate certain gizmos when using the Nova Beam.
# Manga.AyakashiTriangle: SpitTake: Matsuri spits out his drink when Seigen calls Suzu his "idol". Much later, he does this again (right in Shirogane's face) when Suzu and Mei appear nude because of a SeeThruSpecs iyo the latter covertly possessed him with.
# TabletopGame.CallOfCthulhu: The Fungi from Yuggoth campaign, adventure "The Thing in the Well". A pair of spectacles allows the wearer to see into another dimension. Each time you use them, you could see a monster that could attack and kill you if you don't take them off in time.
# VideoGame.{{Bayonetta}}: Luka can see the angels if he uses Cereza's glasses. Cereza herself says "The glasses aren't magic silly, I can see the monsters without them". When handing them to him though, she does tap the lenses with her finger doing "Something" magical to them, if the brief flash of light that results is anything to go by.
# Literature.ANetOfDawnAndBones: A few varieties.Some, like Church, are born with the Second Sight which helps to see through some illusions and greater ease in detecting minor details. Those who have died and come back to life see the world differently, being able to perceive souls through human flesh and magic. Additionally, they can see through vampiric glamours and hear their true voices. Specialized lenses can be made to assist seeing through illusions with having access to either of the above, but tend to be specialized to see through different phases.
# Anime.HelloWorld: Younger Naomi is provided with a pair of sunglasses that he initially needs to see homeostatic system programmes.
# Literature.NightmaresAndDreamscapes: "The Ten O'Clock People" has the Weirdness Censor become broken by, of all things, moderate smoking. For some reason the chemicals in cigarettes let people see through the monsters' disguises, but only if you ingest them at a rate somewhere between 'smoke occasionally' and 'chain smoking'.
# YMMV.{{Exalted}}: The Twilight Caste ability was widely noted to be far and away the best anima power around in 2nd Edition, since it granted heavy Damage Reduction—intended primarily to avoid a caste of Squishy Wizards—for free. In comparison, the caste actually meant to be warriors, Dawn, received a far weaker defense boost that only worked on relatively weak creatures. It was nerfed, and of 2.5, removed completely. Whether or not the new SeeThruSpecs version is a bit too weak...
# Literature.GauntsGhosts: Larkin's scope.
# EyeScream.{{Webcomics}}: In chapter 24 of Ava's Demon Odin Arrow tries on Ava Ire's damaged SeeThruSpecs, only to get a tiny piece in his eye. This allows him to partially see some of the demons possessing the main characters.

# Funny.YuYuHakusho: To help Yusuke find the youkai that stole the Three Treasures, Botan gives him a lens that allows him to see through things. Yusuke immediately points it at her, and gets smacked just in time to prevent him from seeing her naked.
# VideoGame.{{Draconus}}: See True Sight entry below.
# Film.ParanormalActivity: The family finds an old camera in the basement that can allow them to see spirits.
# VideoGame.Prey2017: The primary ability of the Psychoscope is to analyze Typhon organisms and give a detailed breakdown of them, which unlocks various Typhon abilities that you can then mod onto yourself. It can be upgraded with various chipset modifications, two of which allow the user to identify disguised mimics. Nastiness ensues because the first chipset can only see standard mimics — "greater" mimics are only visible with an enhanced chipset which isn't always found on every playthrough.
# Recap.BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE38HeartOfSteelPart1: The Randa Duane duplicant uses these to locate Wayne's backup files—and then she spots the hidden staircase to the Batcave behind the bookshelf.
# VideoGame.AliceIsDead: There is a lens that's used to reveal hidden text on the four walls, showing a sequence of numbers.
# Literature.TheSpiderwickChronicles: Looking through the Seeing Stone allows one to see the fairy world. Hobgoblin spit on the eyes acts as a permanent version.

# WMG.GravityFallsObjects: The magnifying glass part seems incredibly likely; if you're paying attention, the writing in the jacket of the book ("Property of") is clearly visible through the "gem" part of the charm/pendant/whatever. As to what it does, well, there is a trope for that.
# VideoGame.MetroidPrime: The X-Ray Visor lets Samus see through fake and destructible objects, and reveals invisible things. It is the only way to keep Chozo Ghosts visible.
# VideoGame.{{Faria}}: Invisible enemies make Random Encounters annoying and towers treacherous long before you get the Magic Glasses that let you see them.
# Creator.RobertBloch: "The Cheaters" features glasses that let you read people's minds.

# Characters.JujutsuKaisenTokyoPrefecturalJujutsuHighSchool: Because Maki has extremely low cursed energy, she can't see curses without a pair of special glasses. Ironically, after losing her cursed energy entirely and becoming fully Heavenly Restricted this is no longer true, as her senses have evolved to superhuman levels such that they can detect curses anyway. After fully realizing this with the help of Rokujushi Miyo, she has a Power High leaping between buildings to dodge Naoya's supersonic ramming attacks as she realizes she'd been living with perpetually foggy glasses compared to what she can really feel and see.

# VideoGame.SpyroAttackOfTheRhynocs: The Phoenix Shades, a pair of ruby-tinted heart-shaped glasses that allow Spyro to see invisible teleporters.
# WebVideo.WitchCraftSMP: Pris obtains one from the guardian of the Spirit Realm in her 11th episode. The spyglass can be used to detect people who are possessed by spirits and ghosts, as they glow when seen through its crystal lens.
# Recap.CharmedS4E2CharmedAgainPart2: OhCrap: Phoebe when she uses the SeeThruSpecs to see the Source of All Evil. Phoebe: [trying to give the glasses to Piper] That's the... that's the... that's the... l-l-look! Piper: I know who that is.
# Headscratchers.DCUniverseOnline: The Joker? He's not got powers, sure, but he's not really gadget-oriented. Maybe a little...I'd personally replace him with Lex.The mentors seem to be counterparts of each other. Supes, Lex. Batman, Joker. But I agree, the mentor titles should be a little different to suit the mentor or the mentor's should be changed. Acid-squirting flowers, bombs, razor-edged playing cards, Electric Joybuzzer, "Bang!" Flag Gun, Extendo Boxing Glove, exploding chatter teeth, SeeThruSpecs, Jokermobile and Joker-copter, knives, guns, Joker Venom, big hammers, crowbars...
# Characters.DemonLordDante: He says the sunglasses he’s giving away reveal the demons living among us but that’s just an illusion he cast on the glasses.
# Funny.SpyHard: Woo-hoo, oh, not again! (falls out a high window screaming). The fact that Michael just randomly happened to be there at an intelligence agency...for some reason(?).
# Sandbox.WickCheckProject: Check example scope.

# Webcomic.{{Tripp}}: Proxy has a pair that allows her to see Poe.
# VideoGame.{{Carrier}}: The only way to know if a human is infected or not is to look at them with the BEM-T3 Scope.
# Characters.NijisanjiENTTT: Her mask lets her see others' heartbeats, even through walls.
# OvershadowedByAwesome.VideoGames: In Resident Evil 2 (Remake), Ada Wong of all people gets overshadowed by the rest of the cast. Despite being a Femme Fatale Spy with a cool introduction, her gameplay segment is a far less splashy affair compared to Leon, Claire, or even Sherry (who's 12) as all Ada does is use her gizmo the EMF Visualizer to scan through walls and hack electronics before getting unceremoniously overpowered twice by Annette Birkin (whom she was trying take down). After that, she's only there to pass Leon a RPG to kill Mr. X during the climax.
# ComicStrip.FoxTrot: Played with in one strip where Jason orders X-ray glasses from a comic book and uses them in front of Peter to say that he can see Paige's leopard print underwear. She protests loudly to refute this point which causes Andy to think Paige has something to hide. Peter: Those things don't really work, do they? Jason: I think they work extremely well.

# Literature.TheInkworldTrilogy: Orpheus claims this about his own glasses to intimidate the people of the Inkworld, who have never seen spectacles before.
# Literature.{{Midnighters}}: The Seer power. Rex is mostly blind without his glasses, but things touched by Midnight (including Midnighters) appear in sharp focus. When he wears his glasses, "normal" things are clear, but stuff involving Midnight gets blurry (or outright invisible in the case of runes and lore).
# Characters.MegaManStarForce: His dad's Visualizer can see some electromagnetic waves; it's not until Omega-Xis accidentally crashes into his face and activates it that Geo can fully see the Wave World. It turns into the Visualize Visor when Geo becomes Mega Man.
# Pantheon.{{Phrases}}: Wears special shades that lets him see the reality of his world being invaded by aliens, able to take sheer amounts of damage but gets really injured later on, very hammy while talking courtesy of Roddy Piper, extremely paranoid for good reason, from a regular civilian to a gunslinger in a few moments, decides to blow the aliens' masking equipment and expose them all at the cost of his own life, all in an explosion
# Recap.SupernaturalS02E18HollywoodBabylon: The cell phone camera serves this purpose.
# Characters.AyakashiTriangleAyakashi: Causes whoever it's in contact with to see through the clothing of those it's paying attention to.
# IThoughtItMeant.SToT: See-Thru Specs do not give you X-Ray Vision. Nor are they simply specs you can see through.
# TabletopGame.AchtungCthulhu: An Andersseher-Helm allows the viewer to see creatures and beings that the human eye is normally incapable of seeing, including star vampires and flying polyps.
# Characters.{{Fractale}}: Having removed their Fractale Terminals, Lost Millennium members are unable to see doppels unless they wear special eye monitors.
# VideoGame.TheGooniesII: The glasses are not only useful for revealing certain plot-important items, but frequently a source for finding capacity increases to your keys, bombs, and Molotov cocktails.