and shield when Valentyne knocks them down. After gaining magical power through his pact with the Devil, Doctor Faustus - as depicted in Christopher Marlowe's play - travels to Rome. Armed with his new powers and attended by Mephastophilis, he goes to the Pope's court, makes himself invisible, and plays a series of tricks. He disrupts the Pope's banquet by stealing food and boxing the Pope's ears . According to legend the seventh century St. Aidan protected a stag from a pack of hunting dogs by miraculously turning it invisible. Superhero fiction The supernatural ability to turn invisible has become a popular superpower in superhero media, one of the most notable users being Marvel Comics' Invisible Woman, a member of the Fantastic Four. The power of invisibility is occasionally linked to the ability to create force fields, as seen with Invisible Woman and Disney Pixar's Violet Parr. Films A Message from Mars (1913) The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Hellzapoppin' (1941) Invisible Agent (1942) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944) The Time of Their Lives (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) Forbidden Planet (1956) Invisible Invaders (1959) The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) (1962) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) Matchless (1967) Mr. Superinvisible (1970) Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972) Invisible Strangler (1976) Pete's Dragon (1977) The Man Who Wasn't There (1983) Predator (1987) Wee Sing in Sillyville (1989) The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) Predator 2 (1990) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) The Shadow (1994) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Invisible Mom (1996) Invisible Dad (1998) Mystery Men (1999) Hollow Man (2000) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and its sequels Die Another Day (2002) The Lord of the Rings (film series) (2001, 2002, and 2003) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) The Incredibles (2004) Alien vs. Predator (2004) Fantastic Four (2005) Hollow Man II (2006) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Tooth Fairy (2010) Predators (2010) Griff the Invisible (2011) Jurassic World (2015) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) The Unseen (2016) Spectral (2016) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Modest Heroes (2018) The Invisible Man (2020) Harvey (1950) Television shows The Invisible Man Danny Phantom Dynamo Duck Fantomcat Gemini Man Mutant X Simon Bellamy