# Fictional Characters Only Visible to a Chosen Few **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715 "2008-05-02T04:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/21 "2008-05-02T13:46:47Z")
resurected Jesus? Shoeless Joe Jackson et al in **Field of Dreams**. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/22 "2008-05-02T13:46:37Z")
_Ghost_? Whoopi Goldberg & Patrick Swayze? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/23 "2008-05-02T14:26:28Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] Fictional Characters Only Visible to a Chosen Few [/QUOTE] As opposed to non-fictional Characters? šŸ˜• šŸ˜ƒ My small contribution: The unicorns of the book and movie, ā€œThe Last Unicornā€ are seen as just horses by most. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/24 "2008-05-02T14:45:07Z")
In one of my favourite anime, [Kamichu!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamichu%21), the local god Yashima-sama can only be seen by the younger shrine maiden Miko Saegusa (and not by her older sister Matsuri), and not by other human beings ā€“ though the central character Yurie Hitotsubashi can see him, of course, since she is a god as well as a middle-school student. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/25 "2008-05-02T16:25:27Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] One of the Sixes on _BSG_ appears to be in Baltarā€™s head. [/QUOTE] And later on Six started hallucinating her own Baltar. And now **Baltar** is hallucinating a Baltar. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/26 "2008-05-02T17:26:00Z")
The Lectroids from Planet 10 could be seen by everyone, but not as Lectroids. Then only a few people from the Banzai Institute could see them as Lectroids once Buckaroo was zapped with the chemical formula for the antidote gas. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/27 "2008-05-02T17:35:53Z")
The ā€œfamily ghostā€ of the Remillards in the Galactic Milieu series can only be seen by Rogi Remillard. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/28 "2008-05-02T17:38:43Z")
Gary Coleman had a short-lived cartoon, _The Kid with the Broken Halo_ (based on a TV movie with the same name). In the cartoon, his character was the only one who could see the villian, Hornswoggle. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/29 "2008-05-02T17:50:58Z")
In _Lost,_ only Hurley could see his former fellow inmate Dave. Later, Hurley saw the ghost of Charlie, and apparently was the only one who could. Only Jack could see his father. Many other examples over the course of the series. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/30 "2008-05-02T20:14:47Z")
Thereā€™s also Jennifer, the ghost played by Ann Jillian in the short-lived TV show, _Jennifer Slept Here_. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/31 "2008-05-02T20:47:04Z")
In the short-lived Nickelodeon show _Space Cases_, only Catalina (played by a pre-Firefly Jewel Staite) could see her imaginary friend Suzee. Later, Suzee and Catalina switched dimensions and the reverse was true. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/32 "2008-05-02T20:49:51Z")
On Buffy, the First Evil could manifest to only certain people as it chose - it ā€˜hauntedā€™ Angel and Buffy couldnā€™t see the people talking to him, and later on it did much the same thing to Buffy, and Andrew, and Spike. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/33 "2008-05-02T21:11:07Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] The whole premise of the TV series ā€˜Randall & Hopkirk: Deceasedā€™ was that only Randall could see the ghost of his former partner, Hopkirk. [/QUOTE] Well, in a few episodes, Marty Hopkirk could be seen by psychics, people in a hypnotic trance, or (IIRC) a guy who was extremely drunk. (And, of course, other ghosts could see him ā€¦ one episode has him getting a message to the real world by talking to a guy [patient undergoing surgery] whoā€™s having a near-death experience ā€¦ ) I am, of course, referring to the original ITC series, and not the abomination that was the Reeves and Mortimer remake. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/34 "2008-05-02T21:25:07Z")
Only William Shatner could see the creature on the wing of the airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/35 "2008-05-02T21:26:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Diā€™Chi of Tricor] Only William Shatner could see the creature on the wing of the airplane. [/QUOTE] Not true. John Lithgow: The same thing happened to MMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/36 "2008-05-02T22:01:25Z")
Only Whoopie Goldberg could see Patrick Swazye in Ghost. And, damn, we was cheated outta that Whoopie/Demi make-out scene. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/37 "2008-05-02T22:20:19Z")
Ooh! Hereā€™s one! In an episode of _M_A_S_H,\* only a fevered, delirious Klinger could see the ghost of a young soldier haunting the 4077th. Most of these are going to be ghosts, arenā€™t they? Hereā€™s another. Only Andrew McCarthyā€™s character in _Mannequin_ could see his girlfriend as anything other than a mannequin. ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/38 "2008-05-03T00:18:14Z")
In the short-lived _Raines_ only Jeff Goldblumā€™s titular character could see his dead partner (wow, I never realized how common a theme that was). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/39 "2008-05-03T00:58:51Z")
On the Discworld, only cats, witches, and wizards can see Death, unless he, or some magic, allows them to. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715/40 "2008-05-03T03:57:06Z")
Don Knotts, only Mr. Chicken saw the Ghost. ā€¦and any number of scooby doo episodes. Often it was just Scooby and Shaggy who encountered the Ghost. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-characters-only-visible-to-a-chosen-few/447715.md?page=3)