History Main / ItsProbablyNothing

* ''Anime/{{Spriggan}}'' When Yu Ominae assumes this trope while in the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Forest of No Return]], Yoshino Somei ''[[BulletDancing fires at his feet]]'' to make him go and look! [[LaserGuidedKarma Then she's snatched up]] WhenTreesAttack [[NeverSplitTheParty while Yu is away]].

* ''Anime/{{Spriggan}}'' When Yu Ominae assumes this trope while in the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Forest of No Return]], Yoshino Somei ''[[BulletDancing fires at his feet]]'' to make him go and look! Then she's snatched up WhenTreesAttack [[NeverSplitTheParty while Yu is away]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', "The Purple Testament", three wounded soldiers conclude that the "explosion" sound must just be thunder.

** Occasionally when Sheryl wakes up in bed after having [[ChasteHero slept (chastely) with Akira]], she overhears Akira’s {{Telepathy}} with his VirtualSidekick Alpha and dismisses it as her imagination. Alpha is supposed to be InvisibleToNormals, let alone having her telepathy overheard, rendering this an AmbiguousSituation with regard to how Sheryl can.

* In both ''Anime/YuGiOh'' and [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries the abridged series]] example, Tristan somehow manages to sneak up on a guard while wearing a ''full suit of plate armor''. The abridged series has RuleOfFunny as an excuse, the original has no such excuse.

** ''[[Manga/* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': In the middle of a rainstorm, Josuke, Okuyasu, and Hayato are having a very loud confrontation with Kira that involves screaming and explosions. Standing just around the corner, Jotaro hears something but writes it off as the rain just sounding like Josuke.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders:'' The team has been chased around the world by characters with mysterious powers that manifest in all sorts of crazy ways, they end up in a strangely lifeless town covered in fog in India, and after being rudely brushed off by a store owner, Joseph notices roaches crawling on the man's neck. The natural reaction? "I must've been imagining things."
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': In the middle of a rainstorm, Josuke, Okuyasu, and Hayato are having a very loud confrontation with Kira that involves screaming and explosions. Standing just around the corner, Jotaro hears something but writes it off as the rain just sounding like Josuke.

* ''Literature/IWantToGoHome:'' At the beginning of the book Mr. Warden gets a letter from camper Rudy Miller's parents describing how he's a rebellious loner whose being forced to come to the camp by his guidance counselor and might care trouble. Warden throws away the letter, saying that everyone loves camp and the Milleer's are over-reacting. After two weeks of putting up with Rudy's hijinks, head counselor Frank is ''not'' happy to find this out.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E21PadawanLost "Padawan Lost"]], Ahsoka, approaching the back wall of a Separatist outpost with a squad of clones, senses something in the surrounding forest, but eventually decides that it was just an animal. Moments later, when she's alone after all of the troopers have ascended the wall, she's ambushed by a [[TheReptilians Trandoshan]] hunter and dragged away, with no one realizing she's missing until after the battle is over.

* In the mini-series ''Shackleton'', after the ''Endurance'' is trapped in the Antarctic ice, the crew hears an ominous grinding sound and feels the ship move. Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) insists that it's the result of a whale mistaking the ship for a hole in the ice. It isn't.

** When you first get the bite, the debuff even ''says'' something along the lines of "It's probably nothing". If you check back on that debuff every so often, you'll see that the bite is slowly getting worse....'

%% * Used, bizarrely, between two [=SWATbots=] -- who you would think would have no business having separate thoughts -- in an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''.

%% * Used, bizarrely, between two [=SWATbots=] -- who you would think would have no business having separate thoughts -- in an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' cartoon.

[[spoiler:Said bio-signature turns out to be stowaway Zam Wessel, meaning the same ship's crew missed not one but ''two'' intruders thanks to this trope.]]

* Referenced to in ''Mirror's Edge''. During one of the vent sequences, you can hear someone complaining about rats infesting the ventilation system.
** Justified, as one Easter Egg involves triggering a rat as big as a truck to run down a street. Something like that would HAVE to make some noise.

* ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Occurs when the ''Ulysses'' picks up the Leviathan on sonar. Commander Rourke wonders if it could be a pod of whales, but it soon stops, leading Sinclair to say it's gone now. Seconds later the Leviathan attacks.

** After the characters watch ''Franchise/StarWars'' 4-6 in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'', Tim declares that entire plot wouldn't have happened if the Imperial gunner in ''A New Hope'' hadn't dismissed the escape pod carrying [=R2D2=] and [=C3PO=] down to Tatooine as nothing to worry about.

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-->''[Sabine is sneaking around an Imperial base as a Stormtrooper hears her spraypaint cans]''\\

* Subverted in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]]'' when the hero is hiding with her pet bird in a hole. The bird chirps and the guard notice. She lets the bird go as they are about to investigate and it flies out of the hole. The guards shrug, saying it was just a bird and our hero sighs a sigh of relief. Then the guards capture her and go "you didn't think we'd really fall for that, did you?" Of course, another hero shows up to save our first hero.

* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' has guards as thorough as (if not more so than) the ones in ''Metal Gear Solid''. Worse, they have far too many ways to remove the shadows you rely on. The guards early in the game have flashlights and flares. The Chinese soldiers have headband-mounted lights. Not to be outdone, the Georgian Special Forces have ''night-vision goggles''. By ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory Chaos Theory]]'', enemies with ''thermal-vision'' start showing up, complete with x-ray vision.