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Stealthy Colossus
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A Stealthy Colossus is a character or machine that is ginormously huge (relative to their size category, anyway) yet somehow manages to stay undetected whenever they want, no matter how gigantic or noisy. Jabootu's glossary calls this trope "The Stealth Monster Rule". While a Barbarian Hero might still conceivably sneak up on someone, these guys go even further. If the setting is comical, they will tiptoe behind their prey. Otherwise, they will enter the scene in a fittingly dramatic fashion, possibly with a Surprisingly Sudden Death. This can either be used to establish the character as a Genius Bruiser or merely for Rule of Scary. Compare Surprise Vehicle and Suspiciously Stealthy Predator. Related to Impossibly Graceful Giant, Acrofatic, Stealth Expert, With Catlike Tread, Nobody Here but Us Statues, and possibly Offscreen Teleportation. Compare/contrast Highly-Visible Ninja. |
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Megamind has the villain in a multi-story mech at one point, sneakily hiding around corners while Tighten flies by at top speed. | |
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The Megas XLR episode "Breakout" has a large group of mecha-sized alien criminals released at one point. One of them appears to be a martial artist with a cloaking device, which he uses to move around silently and use hit and run tactics on Megas. This being Megas XLR, he is defeated when Coop fires missiles in all directions at once. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In Chapter 9, Godzilla's arrival in the Yonaguni Rainforest goes practically unnoticed by the other Titans at his destination. | |
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Subnautica has the Reaper Leviathans, which manage to qualify for this trope despite being 55-meter-long Sea Monsters that roar constantly (which is a form of echolocation - if you can hear a Reaper, it can "see" you). They tend to lurk in the murky waters around the Aurora crash zone, as well as the Mountains and the Dunes biomes, and unlike nearly everything else in the game avert the Bioluminescence Is Cool trope, making them practically invisible at night. They're also smart enough to shut up when they get within striking distance of potential prey, circle around it, and attack from behind. So even if you hear their roars coming closer, Reapers are still likely to give you a Jump Scare by lunging at you out of nowhere, grabbing your submersible in their Monstrous Mandibles, and screaming in your face before crushing your vehicle. | |
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Munchkin's "Need for Steed" expansion introduced a Ninja Giant, while the Munchkin Fu game has a mecha ninja called the "Fifty Ton Master of Stealth". | |
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Total War: Warhammer II has the "Stalk" trait (unit possessing it will not be detected until they're very close to an enemy unit) that is either ingrained or can be gained by your units (by defeating Snikch in battle for your Lord, some skills for heroes, specific items or skill for units, etc...). The Lord with his trait will always be hidden until they're practically in charge range of the enemy, even if they're on a enormous chariot (Hellbron or Volkmar), mounting a hippogryph (Bretonnian Lords), or riding one of the biggest dragons in the setting (Imrik). | |
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Fire Emblem Any Giant Mook can become this when concealed by Fog of War. God forbid the player fails to illuminate any passageways, and inadvertently places their vulnerable party members within reach of an enemy Berserker or Paladin. Fire Emblem: Awakening has the unintentionally stealthy Kellam. Kellam is a knight who wears massive armour and wields a huge shield and a lance, however his naturally quiet personality and near supernatural plain looks mean that most people never notice that he's even in the room. |
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Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars: Nod's Cloaking field can be applied to any vehicle, up to the massive Epic units. While they decloak when attacking, with Hold Fire stance it's possible to sneak on infantries and tanks before crushing them. | |
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Several of the giant carnivorous dinosaurs encountered in Prehistoric Park Reimagined, despite their considerably large size, manage to avoid getting noticed by their planned prey (or even the rescue team sent back in time to rescue them and said prey; among other animals) until they're within one or two feet of lunging out of hiding. | |
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Bloons Tower Defense: The Dark Dirigible Titan (D.D.T.) is huge, being a blimp, but is also invisible to monkeys that can't detect camo, despite being many times their size. In 6, Phayze, the Reality Warper, a boss blimp even bigger than a D.D.T., was released on version 38.0. It has camo properties to prevent towers who can't see camo from damaging it, similar to the aforementioned D.D.T. |
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In The Weaver Option the Venerable Ancient Pierre is a Dreadnought, a war walker that can stand 4 meters tall and weighs in excess of 10 tons. Despite this Pierre is still able to execute infiltration missions and in one instance was able to sneak up right behind a target without being noticed. | |
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MechWarrior: 20 to 100 ton bipedal tanks can become absurdly good at stealth when equipped with electronic counter-measures, despite the ground shaking under the force of their footsteps. One Stealth-Based Mission in MW4: Mercenaries has the player running from cover to cover (the cover being occupied enemy buildings) inside a densely patrolled enemy base; the people inside the buildings seem to not notice the walls shaking or the oddly painted and armed mech running around outside. In Living Legends, it's possible to become completely invisible to sensors by hiding inside an Angel ECM bubble with your sensors disabled. Apparently, sensors in the future cannot detect nuclear fusion reactors, seismic vibrations, or the solid wall of armor and weapons that make up a battlemech. | |
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Attack on Titan has the Colossal Titan. Possibly one of his biggest dangers is that he can appear and disappear at will, often only briefly showing up before breaking holes in a Wall for the other Titans to go through. This is because, like Eren, the Colossal Titan is a Shifter. | |
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The Indominus rex from Jurassic World is engineered to be this, as an entire Redshirt Army learns the hard way. | |
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The "Phantom mech" ability seen in the BattleTech Expanded Universe made Morgan Kell and Yorinaga Kurita's battlemechs completely invisible to any sensors when in combat; radar, infrared, and magnetic sensors wouldn't pick them up, targeting computers couldn't establish a lock, and dumbfired weapons would miss entirely. It's never made clear what the Phantom Mech ability is; destiny, or an extremely potent LosTech ECM system. | |
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Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: In the Jurassic Park pitch meeting, the T-rex manages to sneak up on the raptors at the end even though its footsteps caused mini-earthquakes earlier on in the film. The Producer asks if the T-Rex's "character arc" is about learning how to be sneaky, and the Screenwriter says yes. | |
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Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception: A mechanized example: the aerial fortress Gleipnir is enormously huge yet its cloaking system allows it to make stealth incursions into enemy territory with impunity. | |
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Ace Combat: Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War: While the Hresvelgr doesn't contain any stealth capabilities, your base didn't know of it's approach until mere moments before it starts its bombing run (in fact, they were about to send you out to go look for it before they realized that it was coming for them). In the cutscene to scramble all jets before the runway was destroyed, you're left waiting for a few minutes before you're cleared to taxi, helpless to do nothing but watch while the ship flies overhead. Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception: A mechanized example: the aerial fortress Gleipnir is enormously huge yet its cloaking system allows it to make stealth incursions into enemy territory with impunity. |
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World of Warcraft: The Devilsaurs of Un'Goro Crater are notorious for being able to sneak up on players despite being the setting's equivalent of Tyrannosaurus rex. The colossal Fel Reavers marching around Outland's Hellfire Peninsula are similarly notorious, despite the ground quaking from their footfalls. Someone who wasn't paying attention would notice the shaking, dash wildly in a direction they can't see the Reaver, and discover too late that it was approaching them from an angle and they've run right into its aggro radius. Even worse, during the beta, the Fel Reaver model was at one point accidentally switched to a much smaller black bear model. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has the Stealth ability that makes its bearer unable to be targeted until they've dealt damage. This includes the card Ogre Ninja, which is literally a very sneaky two-headed monster who is about twelve feet tall. |
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Dinotrux has the massive Ty Rux, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Excavator combined, paint himself in camouflage to sneak past enemies. Though somewhat realistically, this only seems to work because the things he is using it on aren't that bright. | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown: The Enemy Within Expansion Pack adds MEC Troopers, Cyborg soldiers that use huge mechanical suits to fight the alien threat. The same expansion adds the Ghost Grenade, an item that cloaks any units inside its effect radius, including said MEC Troopers. | |
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From The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, there's Mongo the Uberninja. He's a 7-feet-tall, colossally-muscled giant who habitually dual-wields CHAINSAWS (that is, chainsaw-chucks)... but he's still able to sneak up on ANYONE, even the main character, because... well, he's a NINJA! | |
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The Zaibach Stealth Guymelefs in The Vision of Escaflowne are Humongous Mecha with equally humongous Magitek Invisibility Cloaks. Since they tend to be quite noisy when moving and leave huge footprints behind them, once you know they're there they're not hard to keep track of, although in the heat of battle they can still often get behind you while you're focused on fighting the one you can see. Amusingly, several Mooks act as though their imperfect stealth were an invincible trump card. | |
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Minority Report: A particularly egregious case. When the Precops move to arrest Marks in the park, their hover vehicle is audibly making siren and engine noises as it takes off, but in the shot of its arrival, a kid on the playground somehow completely fails to notice it until the camera pans up to show the Precops landing, and only then does it resume making noise. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles has a series tradition where one of the first Unique Monsters you'll encounter is a giant red Gogol who roams around the starting area. Each game gives them a different name (Territorial Rotbart in Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Hayreddin the Territorial in Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Jingoistic Giganticus in Xenoblade Chronicles 3), but they're all basically the same archetype. While they're not exactly trying to hide, they move incredibly fast for their size and have a wide territory (hence the sobriquet), so it's frighteningly common to have the local Rotbart drop in on you in the middle of fighting other enemies and proceed to pound your party flat, which is something of a rite of passage among fans. | |
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On the topic of dragons, part of the reason purple dragons (hailing from Dragon magazine issues) are feared is because their inky indigo coloration makes them all but invisible when flying through the night sky, negating their size penalty and even granting them a bonus on their Hide checks. What's worse than a dragon swooping down to blast you with a cone of blinding, searing Pure Energy? Not seeing that dragon coming. | |
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Pathfinder: Wood giants are fourteen feet tall and weigh well over 1,000 pounds, but can move through thick vegetation with unnerving speed and near-absolute quiet. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Anyone attempting to use the Hide skill receives a bonus or penalty based on their size category, which can be offset by sinking enough points into it. Oddly enough (or not, see Real Life below) the Move Silently skill has no such size-based penalties, meaning you can have a red great wyrm (Klauth in Forgotten Realms), that despite a Colossal size has a very respectable bonus there — and this without factoring magic in. Though it's technically Huge instead of Colossal, the fog giant gets a respectable Hide bonus in sufficiently foggy conditions. Hide is also considered a class skill for certain types of dragons, and even if it isn't, as natural sorcerers they have access to spells to make up for it — this is probably how the Gold Dragon depicted in the 3rd Edition Monster Manual is sneaking up on two tiptoeing Orcs. On the topic of dragons, part of the reason purple dragons (hailing from Dragon magazine issues) are feared is because their inky indigo coloration makes them all but invisible when flying through the night sky, negating their size penalty and even granting them a bonus on their Hide checks. What's worse than a dragon swooping down to blast you with a cone of blinding, searing Pure Energy? Not seeing that dragon coming. When a treant stays still, its legs join together to resemble a single trunk and its facial features become indistinguishable from normal whorls and lines of tree bark. As long as it doesn't move, even people walking right across its feet will find it impossible to tell it apart from a normal tree. Bugbears have a natural affinity for moving quietly, despite being the bulkiest of the goblinoids and bigger than most humans. In 5th Edition, whether or not a character can hide is based on Stealth, a sub-form of the Dexterity ability score (Commonly rendered as "Dexterity (Stealth)"), which is independent of the individual abilities of a character's race or class. Meaning that a 7'10", 440lb Goliath Barbarian with full plate armor, a Greatsword, and a tower shield can potentially vanish if their player aces their stealth check, while a 2'9", 37lb Lightfoot Halfling Rogue with no armor, weapon, or shield sticks out like a sore thumb because their player tanked the check. And because of the way the rules are written, the above can happen even if they're standing right next to each other. |
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Pacific Rim has the kaiju Leatherback being completely undetected until it makes its Dynamic Entry from underwater. | |
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Prehistoric Planet Season 2 has a pair of hunting scenes showing large predators managing to target prey without being seen or sensed: "Swamps"- a pair of Tyrannosaurus Rex set an ambush for a herd of Edmontosaurus. Thanks to fleshy pads on their feet, the T. Rex sneak into place undetected and only reveal their location to unsettle the herbivores before launching their attack. "Oceans"- a Mosasaurus waits in the shelter of a reef for a pod of Turarangisaurus to swim by before launching itself at the elasmosaurs. The first attack misses, but the Mosasaurus is able to safely reset without scaring off the Turarangisaurus for a much more successful second try. |
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In Myth Adventures, Skeeve has Chumley sneak up on and kidnap his apprentices, to teach them about judging people prematurely. | |
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Anyone attempting to use the Hide skill receives a bonus or penalty based on their size category, which can be offset by sinking enough points into it. Oddly enough (or not, see Real Life below) the Move Silently skill has no such size-based penalties, meaning you can have a red great wyrm (Klauth in Forgotten Realms), that despite a Colossal size has a very respectable bonus there — and this without factoring magic in. | |
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The Spoils go to combat evasion ability is called "Covert." The flavor is that a Covert character knows how to get secret access to the enemy Faction, and thus a fully Covert party can only be stopped by another party of Covert characters. Of course, some Covert characters get very large. This being The Spoils, lampshades are hung on the increasingly unlikely size of Covert characters, culminating in the 12/12/3 Sneaky Mansion, a literal house that can kill most players in two hits. | |
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A Keychain of Creation fan comic had the Kukla sneaking up on someone. The Kukla is a dragon the size of a mountain range. The character in question had fallen for the Look Behind You trick with regard to the Kukla multiple times, and probably chocked this under Crying Wolf. | |
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Aliens: The enormous Queen deserves some credit for sneaking in a not too big dropship and remaining undetected for the entire flight back to the Sulaco. However this is because she's hiding in the bay used for retracting the undercarriage. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie: Unicron, despite being the size of a planet, manages to sneak up on unsuspecting targets without being noticed until he's within planet-chomping distance three times over the course of the film: once at the beginning, once when he finds Megatron (who takes a while to realize where the thing that's talking to him is, and who could at least be justified as being barely functional and probably thinking whoever was talking to him was on the planet and not the planet itself), and once when he attacks Moon Base One. Given that he's a robot God of Evil, maybe it's a power of his? | |
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Fallout has the Nightkin, a Stealthy Mook variant of the hulking Super Mutants who are surprisingly sneaky, even accounting for their Stealth Boys. Unfortunately they've also become addicted to those Stealth Boys, hate being looked at, and most have developed schizophrenia. So they're not just sneaky brutes who can ambush you with swords fashioned from helicopter props, they're crazy, sneaky brutes who can ambush you with swords fashioned from helicopter props. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has Deathscythe, which has the ability to cloak. When used in deep space, it fades Predator-style and blends seamlessly with the surrounding field of stars, effectively becoming invisible. | |
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Poppy Playtime: Huggy Wuggy has to be at least ten feet tall, yet he somehow moves out of the player's line of sight after they get the power back on without being heard and spends the rest of chapter one mostly out of sight until the Make-a-Friend section. | |
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The Horus Heresy novels describe Curze and Corax's ability to appear out of nowhere, despite being to Space Marines what Space Marines are to normal humans. Corax in particular manages to suprise a Night Lord, a Legion renowned for their own stealth, by appearing from a shadow far too small to have plausibly hidden him until then. | |
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MonsterVerse: Godzilla (2014): The 399-foot Godzilla pulls this twice; the second time is how he finally kills the female MUTO. Meanwhile, the MUTOs pull this off at least three themselves, once when the male is eating the submarine, once when the female left a hole in the side of a mountain and was marching on Vegas in broad daylight and no one noticed until looking from the inside of the mountain, and once when the female sneaks up on the train, although this time she did do so under cover of darkness- her legs looked like tree trunks or part of the bridge trellis until she moved. Kong: Skull Island: Happens continuously, from the smaller monsters all the way up to Kong himself. |
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Gundam examples: In Mobile Suit Gundam, this is initially the whole point of building mobile suits, as they have reactors whose byproducts mess with radars so they can sneak on battleships and hit them with nuclear weapons (this is how Zeon won in the Battle of Loum in spite of the enemy fleet outnumbering them three-to-one and having more powerful warships to boot: Zeon's mobile suits snuck on them during the battleships' shootout and let loose with nukes). In theory this could be applied to normal Space Fighters, but in practice Zeon's experiments found that a humanoid vehicle is better in the necessary close range manouvers. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has Deathscythe, which has the ability to cloak. When used in deep space, it fades Predator-style and blends seamlessly with the surrounding field of stars, effectively becoming invisible. |
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Tyranny has Kills-in-Shadow, a massive beastwoman who towers over humans and treats the game's massive two-handed blades as one-handed weapons. She's also a natural ambush predator who is called "Kills-in-Shadow" for a good reason. | |
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Season 11 of Red vs. Blue has a moment where Agent Washington is startled by the sudden appearance of Freckles. He's more astonished that such a large mech was able to sneak up on him than concerned for his safety. | |
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BattleTech: Various powerful ECM systems exist, most of which are LosTech. The Chameleon Light Polarization Shield and the Null Signature System make a BattleMech completely invisible to visual detection and sensors, respectively. The Word of Blake combined the two (otherwise mutually exclusive) systems in their Void Signature System and put it to good use in their Raptor II battlemech, which could fade in and out of combat. However, excessive production costs, heat and accuracy penalties made the Void system very rare. The "Phantom mech" ability seen in the BattleTech Expanded Universe made Morgan Kell and Yorinaga Kurita's battlemechs completely invisible to any sensors when in combat; radar, infrared, and magnetic sensors wouldn't pick them up, targeting computers couldn't establish a lock, and dumbfired weapons would miss entirely. It's never made clear what the Phantom Mech ability is; destiny, or an extremely potent LosTech ECM system. |
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In The Wheel of Time, one of the characters that travels with Mat for a while is Chel Vanin, an exceptional former horse thief and poacher who also happens to also be particularly fat. Mat notes multiple times just how remarkable he is, given his fatness. Indeed, Mat judges him to be so good at what he does, he makes him the head scout in the Band of the Red Hand - that's right, a balding, fat head scout. | |
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World of Tanks: Quirks of the game engine, and the camouflage skill, means that some particularly large tanks can be surprisingly sneaky. This also means that the barn-sized KV-2 can be invisible to you if it's outside the maximum view range of your vehicle (which is not the same as the maximum render range). This can allow for some unrealistically sneaky tanks, such as the 80-ton TOG II* making its way undetected through cities despite being the size of a modest coastal patrol vessel. | |
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The Meg: As befits an aquatic ambush predator, the Megalodon is quite capable of sneaking up on people despite being the size of a large whale. | |
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Age of Wonders: The Treeman unit has concealment, which means that, if this wall-crushing behemoth stands in a forest, foes will not see it until it's one step away. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: This is a surprisingly easy build to pull off, as heavy armor only hurts your sneaking ability by slowing your movement rate and increasing how noisy your footfalls are, and the latter can be greatly if not completely mitigated with enchantments (or perks in Skyrim). There's even a Daedric artifact called the Ebony Mail which encourages this build, as it's a Heavy Armor chestpiece with a built-in Muffle effect and a poisonous cloaking effect that activates when sneaking. | |
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One Piece: The biggest character in the series is named Colossal Battleship and was somehow able to hide from a gigantic battle without anyone noticing him until he was pointed out. The Yeti Cool Brothers are two giant yetis who manage to sneak around undetected in the arctic half of Punk Hazard, partly because of their white coloration and their knowledge of the environment. Their stealthiness is represented by them appearing to Flash Step around the environment. In fact, they're so stealthy, the audience never gets a clear look at their faces. |
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Godzilla: 'Zilla from the 1998 Godzilla is somehow able to sneak around and hide in the middle of New York City without anyone noticing him, for the most part. See below for MonsterVerse examples. |
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Magic: The Gathering has Elephant Ambush, a card about an elephant somehow sneaking up on its victim. | |
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Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War: While the Hresvelgr doesn't contain any stealth capabilities, your base didn't know of it's approach until mere moments before it starts its bombing run (in fact, they were about to send you out to go look for it before they realized that it was coming for them). In the cutscene to scramble all jets before the runway was destroyed, you're left waiting for a few minutes before you're cleared to taxi, helpless to do nothing but watch while the ship flies overhead. | |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: For a dragon the size of a large plane, Smaug can be real quiet and stealthy when he is not shaking the earth with his rage. At one point, he is even able to go unnoticed by the dwarves while climbing above them until a loose coin falls off his scales, drawing their notice. | |
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Despite being as tall as a house, Sentinels from X-Men: The Animated Series would occasionally manage to be stealthy when tracking their targets. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Invader Zim with the Megadoomer, an impractically large robot with a "stealth" mode. It turns invisible, but it trails its visible cord behind it, leaves enormous footprints, and doesn't cloak the rider. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: After scaring Pixie, Randal discovers that Brutus can move very quietly, despite his size. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines are power armored super soldiers with a foot or two on normal humans, but several chapters such as the Raven Guard, Night Lords or Alpha Legion also manage to be quite stealthy as well, much to their enemies' dismay. The Horus Heresy novels describe Curze and Corax's ability to appear out of nowhere, despite being to Space Marines what Space Marines are to normal humans. Corax in particular manages to suprise a Night Lord, a Legion renowned for their own stealth, by appearing from a shadow far too small to have plausibly hidden him until then. Imperial Guard special character General Ursakar E. Creed had the ability to give units the Scouts rule, allowing them to move onto the table from reserve and outflank the enemy. Even if these reserves are Baneblade super-heavy battle tanks, or Reaver Titans. Memetic Mutation has taken this to◊ hilarious◊ extremes,◊ as evidence of Creed's incredible "Tactical Genius." Grey Knights special character Kaldor Draigo had a similar ability, though his only applies to infantry squads. In this case, psychic powers help explain how three units of Space Marine Terminators suddenly appeared on the enemy's flank. Orks are hulking green brutes who for the most part love loud noises and headlong charges, which is why some Imperial commanders refuse to believe that Ork "Kommandos" exist. The Tau's Stealth Suits are pretty bulky compared to their standard infantry, but have advanced camouflage systems that allow them to infiltrate ahead of the rest of their force. |
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Warhammer has a model, if not rules, for an Ogre Ninja. Yes, really. For an even larger example, All Beastmen: from the typically larger & stronger than humans goatheaded Gors, the bloodthirsty Minitours, and even the building sized Cygors & Ghorgons, are noted to be be natural ambushers, able to appear and vanish from out of their dark woods with disturbing prowess. The only beings usually able to ambush the ambushers are the Wood Elves, and even then only within their woods. |
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Team Fortress 2: The Heavy is a Mighty Glacier Husky Russkie with a 300-pound minigun that has to spin-up with a distinct whirring sound before it can fire, but some of his weapon options can help him surprise his opponents. The Tomislav machine gun is completely silent when readied, allowing a Heavy to bushwhack foes rounding a blind corner, while the Gloves of Running Urgently give the Heavy a tremendous speed boost at the cost of draining health, allowing him to quickly reposition or even out-flank opponents. And some veteran Heavy players use their knowledge of maps to find back routes to sneak up on enemies and even hit them with the Holiday Punch, mittens that make victims laugh uncontrollably, leaving them helpless as the Heavy readies his minigun. | |
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Jurassic Park: The T. rex from the original Jurassic Park somehow pulls this off at the film's climax, sneaking into a building and attacking before either the humans or the raptors notice its presence, though the sheer level of commotion and danger abound in the scene could have helped on some level. Sort of unusual considering its footsteps were shown to cause Bad Vibrations beforehand but then again, how else would it catch its prey? The Indominus rex from Jurassic World is engineered to be this, as an entire Redshirt Army learns the hard way. In the opening scene of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the now-enormous Mosasaurus manages to creep up on the small submarine and close her jaws on it without the men inside noticing her. |
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The Doctor Who episode "The Angels Take Manhattan" reveals that the Statue of Liberty itself is a Weeping Angel, and for all the millions of people living in New York city, all the people working or out and about even at night, all those keeping a watch on the Statue of Liberty as part of their jobs, it found one brief moment where nobody was looking at it, giving it the chance to move off Liberty Island and right up to the hotel located across the street from Battery Park. | |
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In the spy novel Slow Horses and its sequels, former field agent Jackson Lamb is overweight, seemingly out of shape and practically silent. Sometimes lethally so. | |
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Brütal Legend: The roadies haul enormous piles of amps on their backs to battle... but are completely invisible unless they attack. Why? Because they're roadies and nobody ever notices roadies. Eddie, being a roadie himself, can also become invisible by jumping on top of said amps. | |
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The T. rex from the original Jurassic Park somehow pulls this off at the film's climax, sneaking into a building and attacking before either the humans or the raptors notice its presence, though the sheer level of commotion and danger abound in the scene could have helped on some level. Sort of unusual considering its footsteps were shown to cause Bad Vibrations beforehand but then again, how else would it catch its prey? | |
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Dota 2: Rooftrellen the Treant Protector is huge, fairly tanky, has the game's highest base attack damage, and his steps are accompanied by a very loud thumping sound... yet one of his skills makes him completely invisible and somewhat faster as long as he stands near trees. Somewhat justified by the skill representing a tree-man blending in with trees (and the game map has a lot of trees), but it goes back to being improbable when it works while standing next to one solitary tree. | |
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XCOM 2 has the SPARK Troopers added in the Shen's Last Gift DLC. They're the same size as MEC Troopers from the previous game, but just as capable of starting a mission in Concealment as the rest of your squad. Though at least they have the benefit of a minor stealth field to help blur their profile. | |
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The Leviathan from Atlantis: The Lost Empire is somehow undetectable by the 'Ulysses'' infinitely more-advanced scanning equipment despite being a war machine almost 2 miles long. Like it wasn't scary enough already. | |
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'Zilla from the 1998 Godzilla is somehow able to sneak around and hide in the middle of New York City without anyone noticing him, for the most part. | |
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Godzilla (2014): The 399-foot Godzilla pulls this twice; the second time is how he finally kills the female MUTO. Meanwhile, the MUTOs pull this off at least three themselves, once when the male is eating the submarine, once when the female left a hole in the side of a mountain and was marching on Vegas in broad daylight and no one noticed until looking from the inside of the mountain, and once when the female sneaks up on the train, although this time she did do so under cover of darkness- her legs looked like tree trunks or part of the bridge trellis until she moved. | |
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Shiraa of The Dinosaur Lords, an honest-to-god Allosaurus, routinely manages to out-sneak and out-stealth people right in the open. | |
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In the opening scene of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the now-enormous Mosasaurus manages to creep up on the small submarine and close her jaws on it without the men inside noticing her. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam, this is initially the whole point of building mobile suits, as they have reactors whose byproducts mess with radars so they can sneak on battleships and hit them with nuclear weapons (this is how Zeon won in the Battle of Loum in spite of the enemy fleet outnumbering them three-to-one and having more powerful warships to boot: Zeon's mobile suits snuck on them during the battleships' shootout and let loose with nukes). In theory this could be applied to normal Space Fighters, but in practice Zeon's experiments found that a humanoid vehicle is better in the necessary close range manouvers. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening has the unintentionally stealthy Kellam. Kellam is a knight who wears massive armour and wields a huge shield and a lance, however his naturally quiet personality and near supernatural plain looks mean that most people never notice that he's even in the room. | |
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Transformers (almost) makes a joke of how easily massive robots can hide. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Shelob is terrifyingly quiet when sneaking up on her prey; no small feat when you're a Giant Spider the size of a small bus. | |
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In Cloverfield, the eponymous multi-ton, many-legged, several stories-high monster sneaks up on the protagonists and bites the cameraman in half. | |
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has the Stealth ability that makes its bearer unable to be targeted until they've dealt damage. This includes the card Ogre Ninja, which is literally a very sneaky two-headed monster who is about twelve feet tall. | |
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Kong: Skull Island: Happens continuously, from the smaller monsters all the way up to Kong himself. | |
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In a Gravity Falls short, the Hide Behind is the size of a small tree,◊ yet is able to quickly hide when people turn to look in its direction. | |
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