Camouflage

Camouflage
Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell) activating her therm-optic camouflage.
Power/Ability to:	Visually blend into surroundings.

The power to visually blend into immediate environment. Not to be confused with Invisibility.

Also Called

• Chameleon Effect
• Camouflage Mode
• Dynamic Camouflage
• Tactile Camouflage

Capabilities

The user can visually blend into surroundings by blending in with the coloration and form of their background to avoid optical perception. Some users can affect their attire by means of "static camouflage". Similar to Invisibility, camouflage sometimes involves people turning invisible but with limitations. Some animals can naturally blend into an environment thanks to their skin color. Common effects is the user as well as what they are wearing/carrying is able to stay camouflaged while moving, the user will not cast a shadow as a result of bending light. Often associated with a shimmer or ripple effect when moving that can be spotted by the trained eye. The user is also able to camouflage while staying still by changing the color and texture of there skin and/or clothing. Whether on not the user's clothing changes with them varies from user to user the user will still cast a shadow.

Aplications

• Enhanced Stealth
• Imperceptibility
• Tracking Evasion

Variations

• Body Heat Camouflage: The user can mask their body heat and other such emissions, leaving them invisible to such things as thermal imaging equipment.
• Invisibility: A more advanced form of camouflage and often confused with it.

Associations

• Advanced Technology
• Alien Physiology
• Bionic Physiology
  • Android Physiology
  • Technorganic Physiology
• Cephalopod Physiology
• Chameleon Physiology
  • Chameleonic Nature
• Color Manipulation
• Reflection Manipulation
• Shapeshifting
  • Skin Color Manipulation
    • Skin Color Shifting
• Superior Human Physiology

Limitations

• Must be able to have similar colors as the location one is at.
• Users of Enhanced Senses can detect the users.
• May be limited to visible light.
• May still cast a shadow.
• May have to stay still.

Trivia

• The difference between Camouflage and Invisibility is that invisibility is the state of being invisible to the normal eye while camouflage is a disguise or covering up, thus easier to detect. In some universes both of these powers are merged together.

Known Users

See Also: Chameleon Camouflage.

Anime/Manga

• Gekkou CLIII (Akatsuki Otokojuku)
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
• Kisuke Urahara (Bleach)
• Cyan Sung-Sun (Bleach)
• Yukio Hans Vorarlberna (Bleach)
• Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach)
• Kagerōza Inaba (Bleach)
• Sendou Ryuuichi (Code:Breaker)
• Chamelemon (Digimon)
• Nigrisshi (Dragon Ball Super)
• August (Fairy Tail)
• Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)
• Risotto Nero (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V: Vento Aureo); via Metallica
• Tsuyu Asui (My Hero Academia)
• Invisible Wall (My Hero Academia)
• Zetsu (Naruto)
• Sebastian (One Piece)
• Psycho P. (One Piece)
• Zeo (One Piece)
• Pisces Aphrodite (Saint Seiya)
• Diabound (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• E-65 Gorru-Gaooh (Sonic X)

Cartoons/Comics

• Erma Ermine (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Kevin Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)
• Merlinisapiens (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien/Ben 10: Omniverse)
  • ChamAlien
  • Prisoner 775
  • Subdora
• Martians (DC Comics)
  • Martian Manhunter
  • Miss Martian
• The Chameleon (Godzilla: The Series)
• Blendin Blandin (Gravity Falls)
• Camouflage Dragons (How To Train Your Dragon/Dragons The Nine Realms)
  • Changewings
  • Dramillions
  • Featherhides
• Daolon Wong (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• A-Bomb (Marvel Comics)
• Franklin Richards (Marvel Comics)
• Namorita (Marvel Comics)
• Anole (Marvel Comics)
• Miles Morales/Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
• Venom (Marvel Comics)
• Randall (Monsters Inc.)
• Flora (Winx Club)
• TJ Botsford (WordGirl)
• Kevin's Flashback Mutation (Ben 10: Omniverse)
• Chuluun (The Lion Guard)
• Parisa (Shimmer & Shine)

Literature

• Bug (Gone series)
• Peeta Mellark (The Hunger Games)
• Fang (Maximum Ride)
• RainWings (Wings of Fire)

Live Television/Movies

• Mari McCabe/Vixen (Arrowverse)
• Green Light Babies (Arrowverse/Black Lightning)
  • Maryam Luqman/Chameleon
• Harry/Trader (The Gifted)
• Griff (Project Power)
• Kamacuras (Godzilla Final Wars)
• Chameleon Girl (Heroes)
• Gadgetmobile (Inspector Gadget)
• Indominus Rex (Jurassic World)
• Karen (Misfits)
• Trent Fernandez (Power Rangers: Dino Thunder)
• Camille (Power Rangers: Jungle Fury)
• Yautja (Predator Series)
• Wampas (Star Wars)
• Tyler Jessop (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High)
• Corey Bryant (Teen Wolf)
• T-1000 (Terminator 2)
• Desserians (Tracker)
  • Nestov
  • Zareth
  • Logan Dunn
  • Yahir
  • Suudor
• Hammie (Uchu Sentai Kyuranger)

Video Games

• Stealthed Units/Structures (Command & Conquer series)
• Sting Chameleon (Mega Man X)
• Lizafos (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
• Eric Kirby (LEGO Jurassic World)
• Owen Grady (LEGO Jurassic World)
• Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
• Laughing Octopus (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
• Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
• Parasite Unit (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
• Various Pokémon (Pokémon)
• Nilin Cartier-Wells (Remember Me)
• Espio the Chameleon (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Leon (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Web Series

• Ilia Amitola (RWBY)
• Neopolitan (RWBY); Via Semblance
• SCP-165 - The Creeping, Hungry Sands of Tule (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-408 - Illusory Butterflies (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3456 - The Orcadian Horsemen (SCP Foundation)

Other

• Squidstrictor (Ben 10: Power of the Omnitrix)
• Great Kanohi Volitak (Bionicle)
  • Toa Chiara
  • Toa Nidhiki
  • Toa Nuparu
• Makuta (Bionicle)
• Rahkshi of Chameleon (Bionicle)
• Roporak (Bionicle)
• Train Eater (Leovincible)

Known Items

• Cam Foil (Artemis Fowl)
• Mirror Ship (Dragon Ball Z)
• Camouflage Suit (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra); via mirror camera paneling
• OctoCamo (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)
• Vortex Armor (Terraria)
• Iro Iro no Mi/Color-Color Fruit (One Piece)

Gallery

Terry McGinnis' (Batman Beyond) Batsuit comes equipped with stealth camo.

Ryūichi Sendō (Code: Breaker) using Black Out to change the color of his skin to act as camouflage.

Mari McCabe/Vixen (Arrowverse/DC Comics)

Miss Martian (DC Comics/Young Justice) can change the appearance of her form, to bend the light waves around her to become near-invisible.

A-Bomb (Marvel Comics)

Tsuyu Asui (My Hero Academia)

August (Fairy Tail) is known as the Magic King among his fellow Spriggan 12 members which he is able to camouflage himself and his allies from radar and detection.

The 'Chameleon Girl' (Heroes) blends in with her environment but to no avail.

With the right disguise, Agent 47 (Hitman) can blend into any environment almost perfectly.

Due his time frosting cakes at the bakery, Peeta (The Hunger Games) knows how to paint himself to disappear into his surroundings.

Daolon Wong (Jackie Chan Adventures)

Risotto Nero's Stand, Metallica (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo) can stick fine particles of iron onto his body, causing him to reflect light and blend into the background.

Because she has cuttlefish DNA, the Indominus Rex (Jurassic World) is able to camouflage.

Venom (Marvel Comics) blends into a brick wall.

Laughing Octopus (Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots)

Gray Fox's (Metal Gear) exoskeleton is equipped with stealth camo.

Karen (Misfits)

Randall (Monsters Inc.) can change his skin to camouflage the surroundings.

Stunfisk (Pokémon) using Camouflage.

Kecleon (Pokémon)

Sobble (Pokémon)

Espio the Chameleon (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Leon (Sonic the Hedgehog)

E-65 Gorru-Gaooh (Sonic X)

Erma Ermine (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)

The T-1000 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) takes on the appearance of a checker tile floor to hide.

As a chameleon Faunus, Ilia Amitola (RWBY) is capable of altering her skin color for camouflage.

As a Desserian, Nestov (Tracker), has the ability to camouflage himself very effectively.

Diabound (Yu-Gi-Oh!) using "Dark Camouflage" to hide in the darkness, but is ineffective in the light.

Kevin's Flashback Mutation (Ben 10: Omniverse)

Chuluun (The Lion Guard)

Chameleonmon (Digimon)

Sting Chameleon (Mega Man X)

Anole (Marvel Comics)

Neopolitan (RWBY) with her Semblance Neo can make a full body camouflage

Hank (Finding Nemo/Dory)

Changewings (How To Train Your Dragon) truly lives up to its name to change the color and texture of their scales to match that of their surroundings, thus literally blend in any environment they are in and making them almost invisible. However they can't camouflaged their eyes because they use it for hypnotizing.

Being a distant relative to the Changewings, Dramillions (How To Train Your Dragon) can camouflage like them but only once they reach their Titan Wing stage.

Miles Morales/Spider-Man (Ultimate Marvel Comics)

Videos

Camouflage - PUBG Logic (its amazing what you can hide in a bush) - Viva La Dirt League (VLDL)