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* Decidedly averted in ''VideoGame/MetalWalker''. While the majority of the citizens don't have {{Mons}} to help, they know a lot of what's going on and freely share information with you, telling you where places are on the world map. in the very beginning of the game, a citizen even saves your character's life!
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'', to excess. The new series, being run by fans of the original series who were likely frustrated by this trope, takes great efforts to avert it, most notably having London completely evacuated for Christmas because the city was attacked by aliens the previous two Christmas.
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* There's actually far more Truth in this Trope than you might think. Contrary to the "we don't want to create a panic" cliche, most people tend to under-react to warnings of danger. Freezing is a far more common response than panic.
* Editor Maxwell Perkins once showed up at a literary party with the aim of proving that no one ever listened to each other at said parties. This he accomplished by, upon meeting the hostess, saying, "Sorry I'm late, it took longer than expected to strangle my aunt." The hostess' answer? "Oh, of course. So nice of you to come."
** A similar, probably apocryphal, story is told of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said to have started telling dignitaries in a receiving line "I strangled my grandmother this morning." In some versions of the tale, a particularly astute British diplomat responds, "I'm sure she had it coming, Mr. President."
* The case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death near her home in New York in 1964 is often treated as an example of this. The media reported that thirty-eight witnesses saw the crime, but nobody called the police. The truth is much more complicated ([[http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/mar/27/the-witnesses-that-didnt/transcript/ here]] the event is discussed in detail.) Nevertheless, it inspired the investigation of the phenomenon, called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect bystander effect]].
** It's the same reason that people with crutches have more time getting help in crowded cities than in less populated areas. People just think that someone else will help them if they don't. I noticed a similar effect in college when I had to hitchhike between towns and found that the more cars, the less chance of getting a lift. People don't feel bad about leaving you there if they think someone else will pick you up. If there's only one car on the road they figure what the hell and give you a lift.
* Eliot Aronson, an eminent psychologist cites another, lesser-known case of a woman called Eleanor Bradley in his book ''The Social Animal'' after mentioning Genovese. Bradley, while shopping on the Fifth Avenue, fell and broke her leg; she lied on the street for forty minutes, and people just passed her by until somebody finally helped. Aronson suggests that an important factor in this case was that people were able to leave the situation. He cites an experiment where someone pretended to faint in a subway car; he received help in 95% of the cases.
* In one of his routines, Australian comedian Adam Hills described being caught in a delay on the London Underground: Several tubes had to be stopped for at least three quarters of an hour, due to a possible bomb scare. not long after the 2005 bombings. The commuters' reactions? Mild annoyance at the delay.
-->'''Adam Hills:''' England is the only country that attempts to fight the war on terror using ''boredom''.
** Irish comedian Dara O'Briain tells a similar joke in regards to both the July London Bombings and the London Olympics:
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' The city reacted in a phenomenally London way; The entire place went ''Oh my God, there's a bomb on the Piccadilly Line'' [pause] ''well, I can get the Victoria line''... The two things happened one day after the other; the announcement of the Olympics and then the bombs going off; the 6th and the 7th and the reaction, essentially, from Londoners was the same: an incredible piece of news, but how am I supposed to get home!
** Of course, this sort of thing was a pretty regular occurrence until relatively recently courtesy of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, so the novelty has probably worn off for most people born before 1990 or so.
* Similarly, Israel is sometimes referred to as the only country in the world, where a group of young men with machine guns can walk into a bank and they're expected to wait in line. Subverted, in that they have to be uniformed soldiers (due to universal conscription there's quite a few of them running about the place).
** Israel has its occasional inversions of this trope. Upon seeing a situation that can be resolved with application of overwhelming force (such as say, a terrorist attack involving something other than a suicide bomber), off duty soldiers that just so happened to be in the area have been known to intervene with lethal efficiency.
** Not as true today. Certain high security areas such as the airport are a no gun zone for people other than the security personnel. Movie theaters prohibit entry with rifles. Alcohol serving locations typically prohibit entry with any weapon. Also, handgun licenses are in a steady decline as they are not renewed except for people with valid reasons. This doesn't make Israel a gun free zone, but it is a far cry from even 20 years ago,
* Colonel David Hackworth mentions in his autobiography ''About Face'' that a newspaper in the US deliberately printed the same front page article on the Korean War three days in a row. If anyone noticed, no-one bothered to write in and complain.
** One newspaper accidentally ran the same horoscopes every day for over a month before anyone noticed.
* During periods of history before the advent of the fire department, it was often said that if one so happened to be a victim of a crime in need of aid, the best course of action would not be yelling the likes of Help!, Assault!, Rape! or whatnot, but instead shout out Fire!. People could be very apathetic when it comes to the plight of others, but fire has the added chance of spreading and doing damage to someone else, making it more likely that people would come to your aid, and end up intervening because they've already spent the effort to make their way over.
** Well, as the Smothers Brothers said - "No one is going to come save you if you scream 'Chocolate!'"
** Books on self-defense for women still advised them to yell "Fire!" in the 1960s.
* People used to think of this of the people of ModernEgypt, citing [[AncientEgypt 5,000 years of precedent]]. And then came [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified 25 January]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized 2011]]...
** Said 5000 years were mostly ruled by people considering themselves (and by the people) God's emissaries on Earth (and if you remember, Europeans tend to have the same kind of apathy regarding people like this, until the 18th century waves of revolutions). This was just one man, aided by the Americans, in an Arab country. Completely different situation if you think about it.
* Averted in the case of Brandon Wright; the Utah motorcyclist ended up trapped beneath a burning car after a collision. A dozen strangers came over and worked together to lift the car, pull him to safety, and fetch fire extinguishers.
** Similarly, ''Rescue911'' has many aversions.
* This is sadly common in child abuse cases. Many times, a neighbor or even a relative, sometimes more than one, will report knowing that the abuse was happening and say they actually ''wanted'' to do something. This is after the child is dead.
** Creator/StephenKing invoked this early on in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''.
* Evidently, there were some RealLife ApatheticCitizens in Poland in World War II, and they were swayed to help quarter Russian or German soldiers via a FalseFlagOperation or two. (Nobody truly admits to doing this; and these could simply be cases of accusing the ''other side'' of doing it when they say their village was attacked.)
* The crime rate in the city of Oakland, California is so bad that people are shot to death each and every day. The local newspapers don't even bother to report them anymore, just because they've become an everyday occurrence.
* Photographers and journalists for the Appointed Press have to deal with this dilemma for all their careers. A natural disaster just occurred. People are trapped under rubble and will die in minutes if it isn't cleared away. Do you do your ''job'' of recording pictures and footage of the disaster and the victim's plight, or do you do what is right and help them out?
** The film crew of the show ''Cops''' deals with this frequently. On at least a few occasions, they've taken their impartial stance and threw it by the wayside to help, such as assisting a cop performing CPR.
* Derren Brown once hypnotised someone to "assassinate" Stephen Fry. The gun had blanks, and Fry had a blood pack, but the audience Fry was giving a lecture to were completely unaware. When the assassin stood up and emptied a clip "into him", the audience reacted no more than if the power had gone out. They simply stayed in their seats and murmured to each other whilst Fry was dragged offstage.
* Cities with high crime rates tend to have this trope in full force. If a person is lying in the gutter dying from their wounds inflicted from a violent crime, most people ignore the person and keep walking because they fear trying to help the dying victim will get them into trouble from the same person/group of people who tried to kill the victim.
* In most places within the United States, there's a law called the Good Samaritan law that protects any civilian from liability should they try to assist a person who is hurt or is in grave danger and wind up hurting them in the process. In some places, the Good Samaritan law does not exist, which means if you try to pull someone out from a burning car, for example, and you injure them (or worsen their injuries), the victim can attempt to sue you for worsening their situation. Because of this, people that ''would'' have helped someone who was in trouble now don't ''want'' to help just to avoid being taken to court.
* Sadly, much like the United States example above, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack of Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]] The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and left.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* There's actually far more Truth in this Trope than you might think. Contrary to the "we don't want to create a panic" cliche, most people tend to under-react to warnings of danger. Freezing is a far more common response than panic.
* Editor Maxwell Perkins once showed up at a literary party with the aim of proving that no one ever listened to each other at said parties. This he accomplished by, upon meeting the hostess, saying, "Sorry I'm late, it took longer than expected to strangle my aunt." The hostess' answer? "Oh, of course. So nice of you to come."
** A similar, probably apocryphal, story is told of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said to have started telling dignitaries in a receiving line "I strangled my grandmother this morning." In some versions of the tale, a particularly astute British diplomat responds, "I'm sure she had it coming, Mr. President."
* The case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death near her home in New York in 1964 is often treated as an example of this. The media reported that thirty-eight witnesses saw the crime, but nobody called the police. The truth is much more complicated ([[http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/mar/27/the-witnesses-that-didnt/transcript/ here]] the event is discussed in detail.) Nevertheless, it inspired the investigation of the phenomenon, called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect bystander effect]].
** It's the same reason that people with crutches have more time getting help in crowded cities than in less populated areas. People just think that someone else will help them if they don't. I noticed a similar effect in college when I had to hitchhike between towns and found that the more cars, the less chance of getting a lift. People don't feel bad about leaving you there if they think someone else will pick you up. If there's only one car on the road they figure what the hell and give you a lift.
* Eliot Aronson, an eminent psychologist cites another, lesser-known case of a woman called Eleanor Bradley in his book ''The Social Animal'' after mentioning Genovese. Bradley, while shopping on the Fifth Avenue, fell and broke her leg; she lied on the street for forty minutes, and people just passed her by until somebody finally helped. Aronson suggests that an important factor in this case was that people were able to leave the situation. He cites an experiment where someone pretended to faint in a subway car; he received help in 95% of the cases.
* In one of his routines, Australian comedian Adam Hills described being caught in a delay on the London Underground: Several tubes had to be stopped for at least three quarters of an hour, due to a possible bomb scare. not long after the 2005 bombings. The commuters' reactions? Mild annoyance at the delay.
-->'''Adam Hills:''' England is the only country that attempts to fight the war on terror using ''boredom''.
** Irish comedian Dara O'Briain tells a similar joke in regards to both the July London Bombings and the London Olympics:
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' The city reacted in a phenomenally London way; The entire place went ''Oh my God, there's a bomb on the Piccadilly Line'' [pause] ''well, I can get the Victoria line''... The two things happened one day after the other; the announcement of the Olympics and then the bombs going off; the 6th and the 7th and the reaction, essentially, from Londoners was the same: an incredible piece of news, but how am I supposed to get home!
** Of course, this sort of thing was a pretty regular occurrence until relatively recently courtesy of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, so the novelty has probably worn off for most people born before 1990 or so.
* Similarly, Israel is sometimes referred to as the only country in the world, where a group of young men with machine guns can walk into a bank and they're expected to wait in line. Subverted, in that they have to be uniformed soldiers (due to universal conscription there's quite a few of them running about the place).
** Israel has its occasional inversions of this trope. Upon seeing a situation that can be resolved with application of overwhelming force (such as say, a terrorist attack involving something other than a suicide bomber), off duty soldiers that just so happened to be in the area have been known to intervene with lethal efficiency.
** Not as true today. Certain high security areas such as the airport are a no gun zone for people other than the security personnel. Movie theaters prohibit entry with rifles. Alcohol serving locations typically prohibit entry with any weapon. Also, handgun licenses are in a steady decline as they are not renewed except for people with valid reasons. This doesn't make Israel a gun free zone, but it is a far cry from even 20 years ago,
* Colonel David Hackworth mentions in his autobiography ''About Face'' that a newspaper in the US deliberately printed the same front page article on the Korean War three days in a row. If anyone noticed, no-one bothered to write in and complain.
** One newspaper accidentally ran the same horoscopes every day for over a month before anyone noticed.
* During periods of history before the advent of the fire department, it was often said that if one so happened to be a victim of a crime in need of aid, the best course of action would not be yelling the likes of Help!, Assault!, Rape! or whatnot, but instead shout out Fire!. People could be very apathetic when it comes to the plight of others, but fire has the added chance of spreading and doing damage to someone else, making it more likely that people would come to your aid, and end up intervening because they've already spent the effort to make their way over.
** Well, as the Smothers Brothers said - "No one is going to come save you if you scream 'Chocolate!'"
** Books on self-defense for women still advised them to yell "Fire!" in the 1960s.
* People used to think of this of the people of ModernEgypt, citing [[AncientEgypt 5,000 years of precedent]]. And then came [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified 25 January]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized 2011]]...
** Said 5000 years were mostly ruled by people considering themselves (and by the people) God's emissaries on Earth (and if you remember, Europeans tend to have the same kind of apathy regarding people like this, until the 18th century waves of revolutions). This was just one man, aided by the Americans, in an Arab country. Completely different situation if you think about it.
* Averted in the case of Brandon Wright; the Utah motorcyclist ended up trapped beneath a burning car after a collision. A dozen strangers came over and worked together to lift the car, pull him to safety, and fetch fire extinguishers.
** Similarly, ''Rescue911'' has many aversions.
* This is sadly common in child abuse cases. Many times, a neighbor or even a relative, sometimes more than one, will report knowing that the abuse was happening and say they actually ''wanted'' to do something. This is after the child is dead.
** Creator/StephenKing invoked this early on in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''.
* Evidently, there were some RealLife ApatheticCitizens in Poland in World War II, and they were swayed to help quarter Russian or German soldiers via a FalseFlagOperation or two. (Nobody truly admits to doing this; and these could simply be cases of accusing the ''other side'' of doing it when they say their village was attacked.)
* The crime rate in the city of Oakland, California is so bad that people are shot to death each and every day. The local newspapers don't even bother to report them anymore, just because they've become an everyday occurrence.
* Photographers and journalists for the Appointed Press have to deal with this dilemma for all their careers. A natural disaster just occurred. People are trapped under rubble and will die in minutes if it isn't cleared away. Do you do your ''job'' of recording pictures and footage of the disaster and the victim's plight, or do you do what is right and help them out?
** The film crew of the show ''Cops''' deals with this frequently. On at least a few occasions, they've taken their impartial stance and threw it by the wayside to help, such as assisting a cop performing CPR.
* Derren Brown once hypnotised someone to "assassinate" Stephen Fry. The gun had blanks, and Fry had a blood pack, but the audience Fry was giving a lecture to were completely unaware. When the assassin stood up and emptied a clip "into him", the audience reacted no more than if the power had gone out. They simply stayed in their seats and murmured to each other whilst Fry was dragged offstage.
* Cities with high crime rates tend to have this trope in full force. If a person is lying in the gutter dying from their wounds inflicted from a violent crime, most people ignore the person and keep walking because they fear trying to help the dying victim will get them into trouble from the same person/group of people who tried to kill the victim.
* In most places within the United States, there's a law called the Good Samaritan law that protects any civilian from liability should they try to assist a person who is hurt or is in grave danger and wind up hurting them in the process. In some places, the Good Samaritan law does not exist, which means if you try to pull someone out from a burning car, for example, and you injure them (or worsen their injuries), the victim can attempt to sue you for worsening their situation. Because of this, people that ''would'' have helped someone who was in trouble now don't ''want'' to help just to avoid being taken to court.
* Sadly, much like the United States example above, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack of Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]] The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and left.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* There's actually far more Truth in this Trope than you might think. Contrary to the "we don't want to create a panic" cliche, most people tend to under-react to warnings of danger. Freezing is a far more common response than panic.
* Editor Maxwell Perkins once showed up at a literary party with the aim of proving that no one ever listened to each other at said parties. This he accomplished by, upon meeting the hostess, saying, "Sorry I'm late, it took longer than expected to strangle my aunt." The hostess' answer? "Oh, of course. So nice of you to come."
** A similar, probably apocryphal, story is told of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said to have started telling dignitaries in a receiving line "I strangled my grandmother this morning." In some versions of the tale, a particularly astute British diplomat responds, "I'm sure she had it coming, Mr. President."
* The case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death near her home in New York in 1964 is often treated as an example of this. The media reported that thirty-eight witnesses saw the crime, but nobody called the police. The truth is much more complicated ([[http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/mar/27/the-witnesses-that-didnt/transcript/ here]] the event is discussed in detail.) Nevertheless, it inspired the investigation of the phenomenon, called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect bystander effect]].
** It's the same reason that people with crutches have more time getting help in crowded cities than in less populated areas. People just think that someone else will help them if they don't. I noticed a similar effect in college when I had to hitchhike between towns and found that the more cars, the less chance of getting a lift. People don't feel bad about leaving you there if they think someone else will pick you up. If there's only one car on the road they figure what the hell and give you a lift.
* Eliot Aronson, an eminent psychologist cites another, lesser-known case of a woman called Eleanor Bradley in his book ''The Social Animal'' after mentioning Genovese. Bradley, while shopping on the Fifth Avenue, fell and broke her leg; she lied on the street for forty minutes, and people just passed her by until somebody finally helped. Aronson suggests that an important factor in this case was that people were able to leave the situation. He cites an experiment where someone pretended to faint in a subway car; he received help in 95% of the cases.
* In one of his routines, Australian comedian Adam Hills described being caught in a delay on the London Underground: Several tubes had to be stopped for at least three quarters of an hour, due to a possible bomb scare. not long after the 2005 bombings. The commuters' reactions? Mild annoyance at the delay.
-->'''Adam Hills:''' England is the only country that attempts to fight the war on terror using ''boredom''.
** Irish comedian Dara O'Briain tells a similar joke in regards to both the July London Bombings and the London Olympics:
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' The city reacted in a phenomenally London way; The entire place went ''Oh my God, there's a bomb on the Piccadilly Line'' [pause] ''well, I can get the Victoria line''... The two things happened one day after the other; the announcement of the Olympics and then the bombs going off; the 6th and the 7th and the reaction, essentially, from Londoners was the same: an incredible piece of news, but how am I supposed to get home!
** Of course, this sort of thing was a pretty regular occurrence until relatively recently courtesy of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, so the novelty has probably worn off for most people born before 1990 or so.
* Similarly, Israel is sometimes referred to as the only country in the world, where a group of young men with machine guns can walk into a bank and they're expected to wait in line. Subverted, in that they have to be uniformed soldiers (due to universal conscription there's quite a few of them running about the place).
** Israel has its occasional inversions of this trope. Upon seeing a situation that can be resolved with application of overwhelming force (such as say, a terrorist attack involving something other than a suicide bomber), off duty soldiers that just so happened to be in the area have been known to intervene with lethal efficiency.
** Not as true today. Certain high security areas such as the airport are a no gun zone for people other than the security personnel. Movie theaters prohibit entry with rifles. Alcohol serving locations typically prohibit entry with any weapon. Also, handgun licenses are in a steady decline as they are not renewed except for people with valid reasons. This doesn't make Israel a gun free zone, but it is a far cry from even 20 years ago,
* Colonel David Hackworth mentions in his autobiography ''About Face'' that a newspaper in the US deliberately printed the same front page article on the Korean War three days in a row. If anyone noticed, no-one bothered to write in and complain.
** One newspaper accidentally ran the same horoscopes every day for over a month before anyone noticed.
* During periods of history before the advent of the fire department, it was often said that if one so happened to be a victim of a crime in need of aid, the best course of action would not be yelling the likes of Help!, Assault!, Rape! or whatnot, but instead shout out Fire!. People could be very apathetic when it comes to the plight of others, but fire has the added chance of spreading and doing damage to someone else, making it more likely that people would come to your aid, and end up intervening because they've already spent the effort to make their way over.
** Well, as the Smothers Brothers said - "No one is going to come save you if you scream 'Chocolate!'"
** Books on self-defense for women still advised them to yell "Fire!" in the 1960s.
* People used to think of this of the people of ModernEgypt, citing [[AncientEgypt 5,000 years of precedent]]. And then came [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified 25 January]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized 2011]]...
** Said 5000 years were mostly ruled by people considering themselves (and by the people) God's emissaries on Earth (and if you remember, Europeans tend to have the same kind of apathy regarding people like this, until the 18th century waves of revolutions). This was just one man, aided by the Americans, in an Arab country. Completely different situation if you think about it.
* Averted in the case of Brandon Wright; the Utah motorcyclist ended up trapped beneath a burning car after a collision. A dozen strangers came over and worked together to lift the car, pull him to safety, and fetch fire extinguishers.
** Similarly, ''Rescue911'' has many aversions.
* This is sadly common in child abuse cases. Many times, a neighbor or even a relative, sometimes more than one, will report knowing that the abuse was happening and say they actually ''wanted'' to do something. This is after the child is dead.
** Creator/StephenKing invoked this early on in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''.
* Evidently, there were some RealLife ApatheticCitizens in Poland in World War II, and they were swayed to help quarter Russian or German soldiers via a FalseFlagOperation or two. (Nobody truly admits to doing this; and these could simply be cases of accusing the ''other side'' of doing it when they say their village was attacked.)
* The crime rate in the city of Oakland, California is so bad that people are shot to death each and every day. The local newspapers don't even bother to report them anymore, just because they've become an everyday occurrence.
* Photographers and journalists for the Appointed Press have to deal with this dilemma for all their careers. A natural disaster just occurred. People are trapped under rubble and will die in minutes if it isn't cleared away. Do you do your ''job'' of recording pictures and footage of the disaster and the victim's plight, or do you do what is right and help them out?
** The film crew of the show ''Cops''' deals with this frequently. On at least a few occasions, they've taken their impartial stance and threw it by the wayside to help, such as assisting a cop performing CPR.
* Derren Brown once hypnotised someone to "assassinate" Stephen Fry. The gun had blanks, and Fry had a blood pack, but the audience Fry was giving a lecture to were completely unaware. When the assassin stood up and emptied a clip "into him", the audience reacted no more than if the power had gone out. They simply stayed in their seats and murmured to each other whilst Fry was dragged offstage.
* Cities with high crime rates tend to have this trope in full force. If a person is lying in the gutter dying from their wounds inflicted from a violent crime, most people ignore the person and keep walking because they fear trying to help the dying victim will get them into trouble from the same person/group of people who tried to kill the victim.
* In most places within the United States, there's a law called the Good Samaritan law that protects any civilian from liability should they try to assist a person who is hurt or is in grave danger and wind up hurting them in the process. In some places, the Good Samaritan law does not exist, which means if you try to pull someone out from a burning car, for example, and you injure them (or worsen their injuries), the victim can attempt to sue you for worsening their situation. Because of this, people that ''would'' have helped someone who was in trouble now don't ''want'' to help just to avoid being taken to court.
* Sadly, much like the United States example above, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack of Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]] The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and left.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* There's actually far more Truth in this Trope than you might think. Contrary to the "we don't want to create a panic" cliche, most people tend to under-react to warnings of danger. Freezing is a far more common response than panic.
* Editor Maxwell Perkins once showed up at a literary party with the aim of proving that no one ever listened to each other at said parties. This he accomplished by, upon meeting the hostess, saying, "Sorry I'm late, it took longer than expected to strangle my aunt." The hostess' answer? "Oh, of course. So nice of you to come."
** A similar, probably apocryphal, story is told of Franklin D. Roosevelt, said to have started telling dignitaries in a receiving line "I strangled my grandmother this morning." In some versions of the tale, a particularly astute British diplomat responds, "I'm sure she had it coming, Mr. President."
* The case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death near her home in New York in 1964 is often treated as an example of this. The media reported that thirty-eight witnesses saw the crime, but nobody called the police. The truth is much more complicated ([[http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/mar/27/the-witnesses-that-didnt/transcript/ here]] the event is discussed in detail.) Nevertheless, it inspired the investigation of the phenomenon, called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect bystander effect]].
** It's the same reason that people with crutches have more time getting help in crowded cities than in less populated areas. People just think that someone else will help them if they don't. I noticed a similar effect in college when I had to hitchhike between towns and found that the more cars, the less chance of getting a lift. People don't feel bad about leaving you there if they think someone else will pick you up. If there's only one car on the road they figure what the hell and give you a lift.
* Eliot Aronson, an eminent psychologist cites another, lesser-known case of a woman called Eleanor Bradley in his book ''The Social Animal'' after mentioning Genovese. Bradley, while shopping on the Fifth Avenue, fell and broke her leg; she lied on the street for forty minutes, and people just passed her by until somebody finally helped. Aronson suggests that an important factor in this case was that people were able to leave the situation. He cites an experiment where someone pretended to faint in a subway car; he received help in 95% of the cases.
* In one of his routines, Australian comedian Adam Hills described being caught in a delay on the London Underground: Several tubes had to be stopped for at least three quarters of an hour, due to a possible bomb scare. not long after the 2005 bombings. The commuters' reactions? Mild annoyance at the delay.
-->'''Adam Hills:''' England is the only country that attempts to fight the war on terror using ''boredom''.
** Irish comedian Dara O'Briain tells a similar joke in regards to both the July London Bombings and the London Olympics:
-->'''Dara O'Briain:''' The city reacted in a phenomenally London way; The entire place went ''Oh my God, there's a bomb on the Piccadilly Line'' [pause] ''well, I can get the Victoria line''... The two things happened one day after the other; the announcement of the Olympics and then the bombs going off; the 6th and the 7th and the reaction, essentially, from Londoners was the same: an incredible piece of news, but how am I supposed to get home!
** Of course, this sort of thing was a pretty regular occurrence until relatively recently courtesy of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, so the novelty has probably worn off for most people born before 1990 or so.
* Similarly, Israel is sometimes referred to as the only country in the world, where a group of young men with machine guns can walk into a bank and they're expected to wait in line. Subverted, in that they have to be uniformed soldiers (due to universal conscription there's quite a few of them running about the place).
** Israel has its occasional inversions of this trope. Upon seeing a situation that can be resolved with application of overwhelming force (such as say, a terrorist attack involving something other than a suicide bomber), off duty soldiers that just so happened to be in the area have been known to intervene with lethal efficiency.
** Not as true today. Certain high security areas such as the airport are a no gun zone for people other than the security personnel. Movie theaters prohibit entry with rifles. Alcohol serving locations typically prohibit entry with any weapon. Also, handgun licenses are in a steady decline as they are not renewed except for people with valid reasons. This doesn't make Israel a gun free zone, but it is a far cry from even 20 years ago,
* Colonel David Hackworth mentions in his autobiography ''About Face'' that a newspaper in the US deliberately printed the same front page article on the Korean War three days in a row. If anyone noticed, no-one bothered to write in and complain.
** One newspaper accidentally ran the same horoscopes every day for over a month before anyone noticed.
* During periods of history before the advent of the fire department, it was often said that if one so happened to be a victim of a crime in need of aid, the best course of action would not be yelling the likes of Help!, Assault!, Rape! or whatnot, but instead shout out Fire!. People could be very apathetic when it comes to the plight of others, but fire has the added chance of spreading and doing damage to someone else, making it more likely that people would come to your aid, and end up intervening because they've already spent the effort to make their way over.
** Well, as the Smothers Brothers said - "No one is going to come save you if you scream 'Chocolate!'"
** Books on self-defense for women still advised them to yell "Fire!" in the 1960s.
* People used to think of this of the people of ModernEgypt, citing [[AncientEgypt 5,000 years of precedent]]. And then came [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified 25 January]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized 2011]]...
** Said 5000 years were mostly ruled by people considering themselves (and by the people) God's emissaries on Earth (and if you remember, Europeans tend to have the same kind of apathy regarding people like this, until the 18th century waves of revolutions). This was just one man, aided by the Americans, in an Arab country. Completely different situation if you think about it.
* Averted in the case of Brandon Wright; the Utah motorcyclist ended up trapped beneath a burning car after a collision. A dozen strangers came over and worked together to lift the car, pull him to safety, and fetch fire extinguishers.
** Similarly, ''Rescue911'' has many aversions.
* This is sadly common in child abuse cases. Many times, a neighbor or even a relative, sometimes more than one, will report knowing that the abuse was happening and say they actually ''wanted'' to do something. This is after the child is dead.
** Creator/StephenKing invoked this early on in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''.
* Evidently, there were some RealLife ApatheticCitizens in Poland in World War II, and they were swayed to help quarter Russian or German soldiers via a FalseFlagOperation or two. (Nobody truly admits to doing this; and these could simply be cases of accusing the ''other side'' of doing it when they say their village was attacked.)
* The crime rate in the city of Oakland, California is so bad that people are shot to death each and every day. The local newspapers don't even bother to report them anymore, just because they've become an everyday occurrence.
* Photographers and journalists for the Appointed Press have to deal with this dilemma for all their careers. A natural disaster just occurred. People are trapped under rubble and will die in minutes if it isn't cleared away. Do you do your ''job'' of recording pictures and footage of the disaster and the victim's plight, or do you do what is right and help them out?
** The film crew of the show ''Cops''' deals with this frequently. On at least a few occasions, they've taken their impartial stance and threw it by the wayside to help, such as assisting a cop performing CPR.
* Derren Brown once hypnotised someone to "assassinate" Stephen Fry. The gun had blanks, and Fry had a blood pack, but the audience Fry was giving a lecture to were completely unaware. When the assassin stood up and emptied a clip "into him", the audience reacted no more than if the power had gone out. They simply stayed in their seats and murmured to each other whilst Fry was dragged offstage.
* Cities with high crime rates tend to have this trope in full force. If a person is lying in the gutter dying from their wounds inflicted from a violent crime, most people ignore the person and keep walking because they fear trying to help the dying victim will get them into trouble from the same person/group of people who tried to kill the victim.
* In most places within the United States, there's a law called the Good Samaritan law that protects any civilian from liability should they try to assist a person who is hurt or is in grave danger and wind up hurting them in the process. In some places, the Good Samaritan law does not exist, which means if you try to pull someone out from a burning car, for example, and you injure them (or worsen their injuries), the victim can attempt to sue you for worsening their situation. Because of this, people that ''would'' have helped someone who was in trouble now don't ''want'' to help just to avoid being taken to court.
* Sadly, much like the United States example above, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack of Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]] The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and left.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': The Lanplatians. Even when a tower falls on their friends right in front of them, they just stand there drooling in confusion. [[spoiler: Marder's grand plan is actually to make them forget this and care about *something* again.]]
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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and leaves.left.]]
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* The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* Sadly, much like the United States example above, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack of Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]] The latest case in point is the death of Wang Yue, a two-year-old Chinese girl, who wandered away from her home and was hit by a van on a busy street. 18 people passed her by, before somebody stopped to help. The event was recorded on closed-circuit television (warning: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvmT9SKgrQ shocking and somewhat graphic footage]]) Previously, there have been incidents in China where "Good Samaritans" who helped people injured in accidents were accused of having injured the victim themselves.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and leaves.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and leaves.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and leaves.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* Sadly, many people in China are unwilling to help others in life-or-death situations, thanks to such actions being discouraged by the country's lack to Good Samaritan laws.[[http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/23/chinas-tragic-good-samaritan-laws/]]
* [[http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047 Happened in 2010 in New York.]] The worst part was that the man died [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished because he had stopped a mugger from attacking a woman]], which gave her a chance to flee. Over 20 people passed by his bloody body without doing anything. Except for the one guy who [[WhatTheHellHero took a picture and leaves.]]
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
* The example in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' above may very well have been based on a [[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=477835 real incident that occurred in Osaka in 2012 when a madman stabbed two people to death on a busy street]]. One of the victims was a music producer from Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, which is also the same company that [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Psycho-Pass's writer]] works for.
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* Done for horror in ''SoylentGreen''. When at the end of the movie the hero is calling out the truth that Soylent Green is [[spoiler: people]], everyone ''totally ignores him''.
** Actually, they appeared to have been staring in shock and surprise.
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* This is the reason Rorschach became a costume vigilante in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
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* In ''Film/TheWarGame'', a 1965 docudrama about a nuclear attack on Britain, blame for this is put on the authorities and the media who've failed to educate or even address the populace on the subject of nuclear war. Sure enough, the BBC prevented the film from being aired on the grounds that it was too disturbing for television.
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* Some politicians attempt ''enforce'' this trope in TheNewsfleshTrilogy, and even without laws, its probably a good way to stay alive. You see, in this world, ''anyone'' dying can, within minutes, zombify. Thus quite a few people (and laws) are concerned that attempts to help people killed in car-crashes or heart-attacks will just lead to further outbreaks.
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** The film crew of the show ''Cops''' deals with this frequently. On at least a few occasions, they've taken their impartial stance and threw it by the wayside to help, such as assisting a cop performing CPR.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Dgeneration}}'', while some of the people you rescue may give you advise, most just wait for you to lead them to the exit.
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* In the Lemony Snicket series ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', most of society is unwilling and/or unable to fight injustice, and many would prefer to gawk at violence for entertainment than attempt to stop it, unless it actually threatens them.
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* Played as hilariously straight as it is horrifying, in the GONE series, residents of the FAYZ are used to several people dropping dead on the street every week, and have genuinely stopped reacting fully to it, unless they were personally involved with the poor smuck.
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* Decidedly averted in ''MetalWalker''. While the majority of the citizens don't have {{Mons}} to help, they know a lot of what's going on and freely share information with you, telling you where places are on the world map. in the very beginning of the game, a citizen even saves your character's life!
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* Decidedly averted in ''MetalWalker''.''VideoGame/MetalWalker''. While the majority of the citizens don't have {{Mons}} to help, they know a lot of what's going on and freely share information with you, telling you where places are on the world map. in the very beginning of the game, a citizen even saves your character's life!
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** Creator/StephenKing invoked this early on in ''{{Literature/Carrie}}''.
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** Books on self-defense for women still advised them to yell "Fire!" in the 1960s.
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* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', this is argubably the entire Federation in a nutshell. We never get any indication that the citizens have any problem with Starfleet seeming to go out of its way to seek out new life and new civilisations and ''piss them off''. With how often Trek villains state their end goal is to destroy the Federation (Earth in particular), you'd think there would be ''some'' opposition from the people on Federation worlds that will be razed due to Starfleet's actions? Do the people have any say in things?
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* The citizens of [=OsTown=] and Mean Street in ''EpicMickey''. [[CrapsackWorld The world is nothing but a dangerous, toxic, dark, forsaken wasteland]], Death machines and murderous predators made of ink waiting around just for a chance to slit their throats or taking their souls, the world is ruled by Cthulhu's long lost cousin and a MadScientist with an amputation fetish, [[OswaldTheLuckyRabbit their former king]] is [[SanitySlippage losing his grip of reality due to bitterness, jealousy, grief and loneliness]], and [[MickeyMouse the most famous star in animation history]] is running around either trying to save the world or playing VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto Disney-style on them and they all walk around with big smiles and happy faces and says they've no problems in the world and just ask you to deliver their mails or bring them flowers or something.
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* In Literature/NineteenEightyFour, [[spoiler:O'Brien]] goes on lengths to describe how the proletariat are this, they won't care about all the sheer misery and destruction the Party is perpetuating, thus destroying Winston's hope that "if there is hope it lies in the proles".
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* In Literature/NineteenEightyFour, [[spoiler:O'Brien]] goes on lengths to describe how the proletariat [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons proletariat]] are this, they're so entrenched in BreadAndCircuses that they won't would never care about all the sheer misery misery, lies and destruction the Party is perpetuating, perpetuating in plain sight, thus destroying Winston's hope that "if there is hope it lies in the proles".
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TheEmpire [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]]? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Giant meteor in the sky?]] Evil vampire slaughtering people? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Clownish madman destroying the world?]] They don't care. It's [[BystanderSyndrome somebody else's problem]]. It doesn't even seem to faze them beyond the occasional "[[DullSurprise Wow, that's a big rock in the sky.]]" Sure, occasionally the mayor will ask you to save their town, but that's as much concern as they express. The shopkeepers might sell you the supplies you need to rescue them, but they'll charge full price, because there's NoHeroDiscount. ItsUpToYou.
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TheEmpire [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]]? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Giant meteor in the sky?]] Evil vampire slaughtering people? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Clownish madman destroying the world?]] EldritchAbomination awakening? They don't care. It's [[BystanderSyndrome somebody else's problem]]. It doesn't even seem to faze them beyond the occasional "[[DullSurprise Wow, that's a big rock in the sky.]]" Sure, occasionally the mayor will ask you to save their town, but that's as much concern as they express. The shopkeepers might sell you the supplies you need to rescue them, but they'll charge full price, because there's NoHeroDiscount. ItsUpToYou.
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Expect these to be one of the everyday inhabitants of a {{Dystopia}} or CrapsackWorld, to highlight a psychologically miserable atmosphere. Often justified in these kinds of settings, since the sheer unremovable misery might have made them experience the in-universe equivalent of DarknessInducedAudienceApathy.
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Expect these to be one of the everyday inhabitants of a {{Dystopia}} or CrapsackWorld, to highlight a psychologically miserable atmosphere. Often justified the psychological despair of the setting. Justified in these kinds of settings, since the sheer unremovable immutability of their misery might have made them experience the in-universe equivalent of DarknessInducedAudienceApathy.
DarknessInducedAudienceApathy. Dystopian governments also prefer ApatheticCitizens because they gave up rebelling, and might try to deliberately invoke this trope through BreadAndCircuses.
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-->-- '''Music/PhilOchs''', "Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends"
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Hawkeye, in attempting to demonstrate the apathy of the camp, makes a bet with Trapper that he could walk into lunch stark naked and no one would notice. He was only foiled because a soldier did notice and dropped his tray loudly enough to get people's attention.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', ''Series/{{Mash}}'', Hawkeye, in attempting to demonstrate the apathy of the camp, makes a bet with Trapper that he could walk into lunch stark naked and no one would notice. He was only foiled because a soldier did notice and dropped his tray loudly enough to get people's attention.
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* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' was particularly guilty of this trope, especially during the Buu Saga. When Goku and Vegeta attempted to get the Earth to donate energy to the Spirit Bomb, the people (besides their friends and family) outright refused, even mocking them. Mr. Satan was legitimately angered at this, as the planet was giving the middle finger at their one and only chance to destroy Majin Buu once and for all, and ended up calling them out for it. Ironically, its him calling them out that got them to do it. Many people said (though possibly only the dub) that it might have just been some trick by Buu, or something to that effect. It was the fact that Mr. Satan is THE MOST FAMOUS HEROIC CHAMPION FIGHTER ON EARTH (since the Z warriors all shun fame and let him take credit for the Cell Games) that they got on board... Though oddly nobody questioned if HIS voice was a trick, probably because the one thing Mr. Satan shares with his namesake other than the name is epic bullshitting.
* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' was particularly guilty of this trope, especially during the Buu Saga. When Goku and Vegeta attempted to get the Earth to donate energy to the Spirit Bomb, the people (besides their friends and family) outright refused, even mocking them. Mr. Satan was legitimately angered at this, as the planet was giving the middle finger at their one and only chance to destroy Majin Buu once and for all, and ended up calling them out for it. Ironically, its him calling them out that got them to do it. Many people said (though possibly only the dub) that it might have just been some trick by Buu, or something to that effect. It was the fact that Mr. Satan is THE MOST FAMOUS HEROIC CHAMPION FIGHTER ON EARTH (since the Z warriors all shun fame and let him take credit for the Cell Games) that they got on board... Though oddly nobody questioned if HIS voice was a trick, probably because the one thing Mr. Satan shares with his namesake other than the name is epic bullshitting.
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* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', most people in the streets have no standard reaction in [[StuffBlowingUp many unusual situations]]. It's because their minds are part of [[AIIsACrapshoot the Matrix]], which programs their minds to ignore these types of things.
