Basic Trope: Muggles can't see certain things that non-muggles can.
- Straight: Fairies can only be seen by mages.
- Exaggerated: Literally anything magical, from fairies to the effects of magical spells, cannot be perceived by non-mages in any of their senses.
- Downplayed: Non-mages can see fairies but only as vague vapor wisps. Only mages can see their true form.
- Justified:
- Fairies are Made of Magic, and thus are only visible to other magical beings or magic casters.
- Fairies put up a Perception Filter that works on regular people but fails on mages.
- Inverted: Fairies are invisible to mages while visible to non-mages.
- Subverted: Mages assume that non-mages can't see fairies, but find out that they're visible to them too.
- Double Subverted: Turns out those non-mages were mages unaware of their magical status, and genuinely unmagical people can't see fairies.
- Parodied: Fairies deface an entire building with garishly colourful graffiti, yet non-mages can't see a single speck of it and think it's untouched to the bafflement of mages.
- Zig-Zagged: Some non-mages can see fairies, others can't.
- Averted: Fairies are visible to both mages and non-mages.
- Lampshaded: "That's what separates mages from ordinary humans; we can see what they can't."
- Exploited:
- A mage works as an Occult Detective to solve mysteries and crime cases caused by fairies, knowing that any strange phenomena reported by non-mages is likely a fairy's doing.
- The fairies take advantage of their invisibility to non-mages to play pranks and manipulate them without getting caught.
- Defied: The mages cast a spell that makes the fairies visible to non-mages.
- Discussed: "I wouldn't be surprised if we can see some crazy invisible monsters, considering we're magical and all."
- Conversed: "It just isn't a secret magical society without those selectively visible creatures."
- Implied: While never stated that they're only visible to mages, non-mages never comment on the presence of fairies even when right next to them.
- Played for Laughs: A mage is talking to her Muggle Best Friend and is struggling to hold back her laughter as a fairy makes silly faces and gestures behind her friend.
- Played for Drama: A boy grows up unaware of his mage status and seeing things that everyone else can't takes a toll on his sanity as he wonders if he's going crazy and hallucinating as well as believing that no one will believe him if he told them of what he saw.
- Played for Horror: A fairy Serial Killer targets non-mages, making them confused and deathly afraid at the inexplicable murders and deaths happening through bizarre means and without any clear perpetrators.
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