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The Invisible Man

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The Invisible Man	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance is an 1897 novel by H. G. Wells, Trope Codifier for many Invisibility tropes. Not to be confused with the 1951 novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.The Invisible Man tells the story of an encounter the people of a sleepy English town have with a mysterious newcomer who conceals himself entirely with bandages. The townspeople grow ever curious at the secretive, dangerously short-tempered man and his experiments. Frustrated by the inquisitive nature of the locals, the man goes into a rage, tears away his bandages, and reveals to the people that he is in fact completely invisible.From this point on, the story follows the invisible man's trail of destruction and terror across the land as he attempts to either find a cure for his condition or take over the country (whichever is more likely).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Like many classic works it's been adapted into other media many times. The most famous is the film version by Universal in 1933 starring Claude Rains. The BBC did a relatively faithful adaptation as a miniseries in 1984. In 2017, Big Finish released a full-cast Audio Adaptation boasting Sir John Hurt in the title role, and it was released only a few weeks after his death. A second film adaptation, starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen in the title role, was released in 2020.
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The Invisible Man / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
The Invisible Man / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: A substantial part of Chapters 20-23 is Griffin, having just assumed that Kemp is going to act as his confederate, lecturing Kemp about how he became invisible complete with confident assertions about how 'they' are going to change the world or dismissive claims how whatever horrible thing Griffin did was in fact totally justified. Kemp's usual response to this can pretty much be summed up as "Uh-hmm, uh-hmmm, yep, yep, sure, absolutely, that totally sounds like a sane and rational thing to do, yep," to keep Griffin talking and distracted until the policemen that Kemp has summoned show up. Needless to say, as the things Griffin casually describes himself doing become increasingly horrible, Kemp's efforts to keep the pretence that he's totally on Griffin's side become increasingly strained.
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The Invisible Man / int_1183175e	type	This Was His True Form
The Invisible Man / int_1183175e	comment	This Was His True Form: Griffin becomes visible upon his death.
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The Invisible Man / int_122e956a	type	One Bullet Left
The Invisible Man / int_122e956a	comment	One Bullet Left
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The Invisible Man / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Invisible Man / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Kemp, at least according to one of the constables assigned to protect him. When he runs away while they're fighting Griffin, "the second policeman's opinion of Kemp was terse and vivid." To be entirely fair to Kemp, he's actually trying to lure Griffin away into a trap (and besides which, the policeman might feel differently if he was the special target of a crazed invisible assassin).
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The Invisible Man / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Invisible Man / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Griffin gets far more focus than any other character in the novel, while Dr. Kemp is ultimately the one to foil him. From Griffin's perspective, Kemp is a traitor and a villain, but to everyone else, their roles are obviously switched.
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The Invisible Man / int_16d14f03	type	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks
The Invisible Man / int_16d14f03	comment	Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Griffins orders a crap ton of lab equipment to fill his room at the inn with, in a chapter appropriately titled "The Thousand and One Bottles", wherein Griffin drives Mr. and Mrs. Hall nuts with how much chemistry equipment he sees fit to fill his room at their inn with. And apparently he had to get a lot of his stuff on the fly, since, aside from a rack of test tubes and a laboratory-grade scale, most of the stuff he's using is repurposed from more conventional household items including salad oil bottles.
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The Invisible Man / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
The Invisible Man / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: Thomas Marvel.
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The Invisible Man / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Invisible Man / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Griffin is chillingly unconcerned about anyone but himself even before he goes invisible (i.e. he robs his father, who kills himself in response. Griffin doesn't especially care). Not to mention his erratic temper and his grandiose belief in his own plans.
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The Invisible Man / int_1cda48c5	type	Invisible Jerkass
The Invisible Man / int_1cda48c5	comment	Invisible Jerkass: And Jerkass is a very charitable way to describe Griffin.
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The Invisible Man / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The Invisible Man / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Griffin may not have been all that stable before the invisibility experiments, but their effects on him pushed him over the edge.
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The Invisible Man / int_21eb1793	type	Muggles Do It Better
The Invisible Man / int_21eb1793	comment	Muggles Do It Better: Griffin's "reign of terror" is pretty short-lived, once the locals get to hunting him down.
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The Invisible Man / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Invisible Man / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The novel never does confirm whether Adye dies from the gunshot or not. Even Kemp himself who witnesses the shooting is unsure of whether he lived or not, and the epilogue is maddeningly vague about whether Adye's questioning of Marvel about the notebooks happened before or after the shooting.
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The Invisible Man / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Invisible Man / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Griffin can become murderously psychotic when agitated...which doesn't take much.
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The Invisible Man / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Invisible Man / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Griffin dies like this.
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The Invisible Man / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Invisible Man / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Although he really flips out when he turns invisible, Griffin's brain was clearly being consumed by his project long before that. When he returns to his hometown for his father's funeral, he wanders around in what would be now called a dissociative state.
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The Invisible Man / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Invisible Man / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Wells makes it as clear as he could at the time that Griffin has an absolutely filthy mouth. Take a drink every time we hear about his "imprecations."
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The Invisible Man / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Invisible Man / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: The people trying to catch Griffin try setting a trap by putting glass powder on the ground, because they know he is barefoot.
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The Invisible Man / int_387e2071	type	Dancing Pants
The Invisible Man / int_387e2071	comment	Dancing Pants: May be the Ur-Example.
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The Invisible Man / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Invisible Man / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Griffin quickly discovers invisibility ain't all its cracked up to be.
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The Invisible Man / int_3e823033	type	Invisible Streaker
The Invisible Man / int_3e823033	comment	Invisible Streaker
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The Invisible Man / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
The Invisible Man / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: Justified, since he's trying to hide the fact that his eyes are invisible.
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The Invisible Man / int_442e3d95	type	Professor Guinea Pig
The Invisible Man / int_442e3d95	comment	Professor Guinea Pig: Griffin takes his invisibility treatment after previously only trying it out on a cat. Granted, since he'd removed himself from the science world and needed an albino subject, his options were pretty limited, plus he was trying to escape his suspicious landlord.
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The Invisible Man / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Invisible Man / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Many of the characters' accents are written phonetically. One example being that Mrs. Hall calls her husband "Gearge" (George).
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The Invisible Man / int_494a4104	type	Naked People Trapped Outside
The Invisible Man / int_494a4104	comment	Naked People Trapped Outside: Although, granted, it isn't much of a problem for Griffin. This also befalls Reverend Bunting after Griffin steals his and Cuss' clothes. At first he manages to salvage his dignity since he's inside the parlor at the Coach and Horses, but after the Invisible Man doubles back to the inn in a rage, the Reverend is forced to escape out a window with naught but the hearth rug and a newspaper to cover his nudity.
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The Invisible Man / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
The Invisible Man / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad
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The Invisible Man / int_4bdb06f5	type	Culturally Sensitive Adaptation
The Invisible Man / int_4bdb06f5	comment	Culturally Sensitive Adaptation: The 1984 Soviet film adaptation completely turns the tables compared to the original, making Griffin a humble Tragic Hero and Kemp a greedy villain.
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The Invisible Man / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Invisible Man / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Throughout the book, Griffin and his enemies all frequently make use of whatever is to hand in order to defend themselves or to attack.
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The Invisible Man / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Invisible Man / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I robbed the old man—robbed my father. The money was not his, and he shot himself." Before this point, it is not impossible for the reader to sympathize with Griffin, despite his being a Jerkass, because he seems driven to his worse actions by the suspicion and mistreatment of the rural provincials and the stresses of his unusual situation. This is where Griffin's true personality really starts becoming apparent.
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The Invisible Man / int_54adb6a3	type	Staircase Tumble
The Invisible Man / int_54adb6a3	comment	Staircase Tumble: While escaping from Kemp's house, the invisible Griffin violently knocks Colonel Adye down the stairs.
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The Invisible Man / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Invisible Man / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. Jaffers the village constable in Iping is rather quick on the uptake, and Port Burdock's Colonel Adye is a pretty brave (if reckless) policeman as well, able to deduce that Griffin stole the money he gave to Mrs. Hall. His two subordinate constables are also pretty badass, fending Griffin (who has a gun and an axe) off with fireplace pokers. They're not wholly successful, but only for the same reasons that anyone would have difficulties against an opponent who was invisible.
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The Invisible Man / int_61f452ca	type	Sinister Shades
The Invisible Man / int_61f452ca	comment	Sinister Shades
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The Invisible Man / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Invisible Man / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Griffin. Lampshaded by Kemp after he finds that Griffin has overturned his nightstand:
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The Invisible Man / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Invisible Man / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Griffin's invisibility came about not only through chemistry, but also through experiments with light and optics. Wells himself studied optics at some point in his life; the subject later comes up in The Time Machine.
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The Invisible Man / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Invisible Man / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Griffin's father, after Griffin stole money from him to fund his work.
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The Invisible Man / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Invisible Man / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Griffin casually drops the N word in one scene and makes antisemitic comments about his Jewish landlord. Hard to say how much of this is Values Dissonance and how much is a deliberate effort to make him unlikable by the relatively-progressive Wells, but it definitely comes across as this trope to modern readers.
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The Invisible Man / int_7a17d1ca	type	Eagleland
The Invisible Man / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: Somewhat interestingly, the only customer in the Jolly Cricketers who carries a personal firearm is a visiting American.
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The Invisible Man / int_7ffc688	type	No Face Under the Mask
The Invisible Man / int_7ffc688	comment	No Face Under the Mask: The iconic scene in which the title character removes the bandages from his face.
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The Invisible Man / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Invisible Man / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Several of these are prone to teasing Griffin during his infrequent walks around town. They run away giggling and singing annoying songs whenever he wheels upon them angrily.
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The Invisible Man / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Invisible Man / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In universe, Kemp wonders what happened to the invisible cat and the costume shop owner Griffin assaulted and left tied up. Griffin couldn't care less about either. As noted above, we also never entirely learn the fate of Adye.
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The Invisible Man / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
The Invisible Man / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead
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The Invisible Man / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Invisible Man / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Kemp isn't introduced until about halfway through and for most of the story Griffin is basically the main character.
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The Invisible Man / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Invisible Man / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Griffin worked so hard to achieve invisibility, he never bothered to plan for the downsides of it.
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The Invisible Man / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
The Invisible Man / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: One early sign of the bandage-wrapped stranger's villainy is his frequent unspecified cursing. One character's encounter with invisible Griffin consists of him overhearing somebody swearing in an apparently-empty road.
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The Invisible Man / int_9633f14b	type	Badass Bystander
The Invisible Man / int_9633f14b	comment	Badass Bystander: Several supporting characters actually prove to be quite resourceful, brave and dependable throughout the novel. The bartender and customers at the Jolly Cricketers, who shelter a fleeing Marvel and save him from Griffin's wrath. Two constables manage to go toe to toe with Griffin and successfully drive him off (despite him being armed with a gun and an axe!). An entire Angry Mob of Badass Bystanders assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.
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The Invisible Man / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Invisible Man / int_98576799	comment	The narrator even throws Griffin a bone by pointing out that he was possibly walking around with the iron bar simply for self-defense, not intending to actually hurt anyone with it.
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The Invisible Man / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
The Invisible Man / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility
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The Invisible Man / int_9adeadc	type	Bandaged Face
The Invisible Man / int_9adeadc	comment	Bandaged Face: Trope Codifier, if not Maker
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The Invisible Man / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
The Invisible Man / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Zig-Zagged. Thomas Marvel keeps the money that Griffin stole and uses it to open his own inn. On his days off, he locks himself in his study and reads the notebooks which are still in his possession, with the intent of one day replicating Griffin's work. However, several pages have been washed and Marvel has no understanding of advanced scientific formulas or Latin, so it is unlikely anything will come from this.
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The Invisible Man / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Invisible Man / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In something of an in-story Alternate Character Interpretation, the narrator raises this trope as a possibility for why Griffin seemingly abandons his weapon and disappears for several hours after he kills Mr. Wicksteed, the first (and possibly only) victim of his short-lived Reign: The narrator even throws Griffin a bone by pointing out that he was possibly walking around with the iron bar simply for self-defense, not intending to actually hurt anyone with it.
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The Invisible Man / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The Invisible Man / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Griffin steals the clothes of Cuss and Reverend Bunting. The former only has his pants taken, while the poor Reverend loses "every single stitch" of his clothes. He is described as making a "memorable flight" through the village in order to escape the Invisible Man's wrath, barely concealing his nakedness using a rug and newspaper.
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The Invisible Man / int_a91f6284	type	AngryMob
The Invisible Man / int_a91f6284	comment	An entire Angry Mob of Badass Bystanders assists Kemp in killing Griffin at the end.
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The Invisible Man / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Invisible Man / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning
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The Invisible Man / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Invisible Man / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In one scene, Marvel is told by two strangers about the Invisible Man and his exploits...unaware that Marvel has been indeed forced into servitude by the man, who is standing beside him.
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The Invisible Man / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
The Invisible Man / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: Gloves, together with the bandages, are the most conspicuous parts of Griffin's disguise.
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The Invisible Man / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
The Invisible Man / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: Griffin's first experience sneaking around invisibly occurs because, having prepared to ignite his apartment and destroy all clues to what he's been up to, he realizes he has no matches and needs to swipe some from downstairs.
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The Invisible Man / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Invisible Man / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Griffin is a classic sociopath in that he doesn't give a damn about anyone but himself. Over the course of the book he commits multiple counts of theft, arson, and at least one murder (with several others attempted and one possible: he didn't bother to check if the man survived) and all the while the main theme of his conversation with Kemp is about how unfair the world is to him.
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The Invisible Man / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Invisible Man / int_c145f69b	comment	Perhaps those clothes would simply make someone appear to be naked?
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The Invisible Man / int_c25f7913	type	By the Lights of Their Eyes
The Invisible Man / int_c25f7913	comment	By the Lights of Their Eyes: A variant: when Griffin makes a cat invisible, the process doesn't work on the tapetum lucidum, so the cat appears to be a pair of glowing eyes floating around.
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The Invisible Man / int_d0dd22a7	type	The Adjectival Man
The Invisible Man / int_d0dd22a7	comment	The Adjectival Man
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The Invisible Man / int_d1e3023	type	Reign of Terror
The Invisible Man / int_d1e3023	comment	Reign of Terror: Griffin says that's what he'll try to achieve in England (and the world, eventually) with those exact words.
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The Invisible Man / int_d60d12e4	type	Harbinger of Impending Doom
The Invisible Man / int_d60d12e4	comment	Harbinger of Impending Doom: Dr. Kemp at first ignores a terrified local who runs around yelling, "'Visible Man a-coming!" but soon learns better.
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The Invisible Man / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Invisible Man / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Constable Jaffers sure is laid back upon discovering that the man he's come to arrest is invisible. At first he tries to convince himself that Griffin is merely difficult to see in the dimly-lit room, but soon can't ignore the truth. Despite this, he's described as being so practical-minded that he not only doesn't flip out and panic but proceeds with his duties (or tries to) as if an invisible thief is the most normal thing in the world.
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The Invisible Man / int_e66e9bfb	type	New Era Speech
The Invisible Man / int_e66e9bfb	comment	New Era Speech: It's a warning letter, not a speech, but the spirit is the same.
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The Invisible Man / int_eaa8a7d8	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
The Invisible Man / int_eaa8a7d8	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!
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The Invisible Man / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Invisible Man / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: When fleeing Kemp's house, Griffin gives Colonel Adye a good kick to the nuts (while simultaneously choking him and knocking him down the stairs!).
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The Invisible Man / int_ec0bf4a1	type	Take Over the World
The Invisible Man / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: The reign of Invisible Man the First.
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The Invisible Man / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Invisible Man / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Unique variant; while Griffin never actually vomits, and the fact that his food remains visible until fully digested is a plot point, no actual description of what it looks like is given (the closest is a suggestion that it looks vague and indistinct as it's gradually being digested into his system). Even Kemp, who witnesses Griffin eating and does describe how it appears when the man smokes, doesn't say a word about being grossed out by watching food being chewed, swallowed, or liquefied in mid-air.
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The Invisible Man / int_ee3efdfe	type	Chemistry Can Do Anything
The Invisible Man / int_ee3efdfe	comment	Chemistry Can Do Anything
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The Invisible Man / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Invisible Man / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Along with being the one of the first novels to have a invisible person, the novel is also one of the first to explore the numerous problems and disadvantages that would come with being invisible. Such as the fact, he can't eat and drink as they would render him visble to people along with various things such as dirt and mud. Also the fact he can't stay completely invisible in the England weather as he is naked and is forced to make people help him.
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The Invisible Man / int_f3cbaf48	type	Misapplied Phlebotinum
The Invisible Man / int_f3cbaf48	comment	Misapplied Phlebotinum: Though Griffin does state that he can turn cloth invisible, he never makes himself invisible clothes. Perhaps those clothes would simply make someone appear to be naked?
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The Invisible Man / int_f8035cdd	type	An Axe to Grind
The Invisible Man / int_f8035cdd	comment	An Axe to Grind: At one point, Griffin fights a pair of constables with an axe.
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The Invisible Man / int_f98c36d1	type	Invisible Stomach, Visible Food
The Invisible Man / int_f98c36d1	comment	Invisible Stomach, Visible Food: the Trope Codifier. Food eaten by someone invisible is visible until it is digested. A bit eerie. And useful for seeing said people. Griffin smokes a cigar at one point, and Kemp can see the smoke swirling around inside his mouth and nasal passages.
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The Invisible Man / int_f9a5eaa5	type	Inhuman Eye Concealers
The Invisible Man / int_f9a5eaa5	comment	Inhuman Eye Concealers: Griffin usually augments his Bandaged Face with dark glasses in order to conceal his invisible eyes - either so he can hide his true nature while in public or so he can make himself easier to talk to in private conversations. This is usually the case in adaptations of the story as well.
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The Invisible Man / int_fa686f29	type	Weird Moon
The Invisible Man / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: The third paragraph of Chapter 17 tells us that "The moon in its first quarter hung over the westward hill". Yet the first paragraph of Chapter 18, one to three hours after the above, says "Outside the night was very quiet and still, and the new moon was setting over the down." Apart from the fact that a new moon rises and sets with the sun — so if one is setting, it can't yet be night — there's simply no way that the moon can go from first-quarter to new in only a few hours.
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The Invisible Man / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
The Invisible Man / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The original subtitle "A Grotesque Romance." "Romance" in this sense referred to the fact the story was going to be unrealistic. Wells, after all, was known for calling his science fiction work "scientific romances." Iping is also described as "gay with bunting" for Whit-Monday.
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The Invisible Man / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
The Invisible Man / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: When Griffin's packages arrive at the Coach and Horses, the cart driver's dog bites Griffin.
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The Invisible Man	hasFeature	Films of the 2020s / int_5a2f53d1
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