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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Several characters like Index and the members of Necessarius urge [[TheHero Touma Kamijou]] to ignore situations that have nothing to do with him, including the sweet and innocent Orsola Aquinas being arrested by the Roman Catholic Church and scheduled for execution. Touma always ignores them to do what is right.

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* ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': There's a version with Brains, an Autobot captured by humans and forced to reverse engineer cybertronian technology to create transformers for the humans. He noticed [[spoiler: Megatron exerting his influence over the Galvatron project, and eventually taking over it]] and he chooses to do nothing about it as the humans imprisoned him, tortured him, and melted his friends down in front of him. When the problem manifests itself as a threat to Humanity, Brains just dismisses it under this trope.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': When the party witnesses Alice being arrested and scheduled for execution, Sora wants to help, but Donald sternly tells him [[AlienNonInterferenceClause they are not supposed to meddle in other world's affairs except for fighting the Heartless]]. Sora ignores him and helps her.

* This becomes a major conflict in the first chapter of ''VideoGame/CorpseParty2DeadPatient''. When Ayame's group gets a DistressSignal from another isolated group of survivors, Ritsuko doesn't want to leave their barricaded room to try and help them. She's so determined to stick to this that she [[spoiler:throws Chiyomi out for arguing and locks the door]], with Ayame being left to decide who to side with.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' bucks the usual series trend of having the protagonist always be the one to fight the villains. Instead, the older members of the cast logically point out that you and your rival are kids and it's not fair to dump such problems on you. Indeed, things stay mostly under control until the climax, at which point you're forced to intervene.

* A lot of the government-sponsored superheroes in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' have this attitude in regards to problems or crimes that have happened in other countries, as long as those problems or crimes haven't spilled over into their own country. Some of these government heroes actually get hostile to "invading" foreign heroes who pursue criminals across national borders. Note that this is not entirely irrational. What one nation or group considers a crime, another may not, and the policy at least has the advantage that it tends to keep local problems from sucking in ''everyone''. 'Good fences make good neighbors' is sometimes good policy.

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* This becomes a major conflict in the first chapter of ''VisualNovel/CorpseParty2DeadPatient''. When Ayame's group gets a DistressSignal from another isolated group of survivors, Ritsuko doesn't want to leave their barricaded room to try and help them. She's so determined to stick to this that she [[spoiler:throws Chiyomi out for arguing and locks the door]], with Ayame being left to decide who to side with.
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* In ''Anime/SailorMoon S'', Haruka and Michiru constantly tell the Inner Senshi to back off and leave everything to them. The Inner Senshi, [[JumpedAtTheCall being who they are]], never listen.

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* Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction: There's a version with Brains, an Autobot captured by humans and forced to reverse engineer cybertronian technology to create transformers for the humans. He noticed [[spoiler: Megatron exerting his influence over the Galvatron project, and eventually taking over it]] and he chooses to do nothing about it as the humans imprisoned him, tortured him, and melted his friends down in front of him. When the problem manifests itself as a threat to Humanity, Brains just dismisses it under this trope.

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* The story ''The Frogs and the Lobsters'' in ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Mr Horatio Hornblower]]'' has Hornblower, with a detatchment of the British Army, fighting with the royalist French army against Republican forces, and told several times that it is not their fight. Hornblower later hears the same thing in ''Lieutenant Hormblower'' while assualting a Spanish fort in Haiti during a Haitian rebellion.

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* The Crusade in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Cormyrean king and his supporters wanted to go out and meet Tuigan Horde's forces head-on. Many others who weren't affected, didn't want this. Even Dalesmen who were closer to the Horde wanted to wait and watch or try to solve the trouble in any way not involving their southwestern "friends" -- whom they tend to distrust, and for good reasons. Not that Cormyr itself was united about the issue: [[CourtMage the Royal Magician]] and guilds claimed that until proven otherwise, the political development ''half a continent away'' from their borders is neither their business nor a valid cause for expenses a large military campaign would need.

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* In ''Theatre/{{Alcestis}}'', [[TheGrimReaper Thanatos]] says this to Apollo about [[CharacterTitle Alcestis]]' death.

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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' some of Warden's more pragmatic companions present this attitude. Morrigan gets annoyed if you insist on saving Redcliffe and Sten asks why are you chasing after "the charred remnants of a dead woman" (Urn of Andraste), when you should be focusing on defeating the archdemon.

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* A lot of the government-sponsored superheroes in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' have this attitude in regards to problems or crimes that have happened in other countries, as long as those problems or crimes haven't spilled over into their own country. Some of these government heroes actually get hostile to "invading" foreign heroes who pursue criminals across national borders.
** Note that this is not entirely irrational. What one nation or group considers a crime, another may not, and the policy at least has the advantage that it tends to keep local problems from sucking in ''everyone''. 'Good fences make good neighbors' is sometimes good policy.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This is Sokka's attitude regarding any side quest that doesn't involve their main mission, like for example Katara's trying to help the Fire Nation village in "The Painted Lady", unless it's extremely personal.

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* The story ''The Frogs and the Lobsters'' in ''[[HoratioHornblower Mr Horatio Hornblower]]'' has Hornblower, with a detatchment of the British Army, fighting with the royalist French army against Republican forces, and told several times that it is not their fight. Hornblower later hears the same thing in ''Lieutenant Hormblower'' while assualting a Spanish fort in Haiti during a Haitian rebellion.

* The Crusade in ''ForgottenRealms''. Cormyrean king and his supporters wanted to go out and meet Tuigan Horde's forces head-on. Many others who weren't affected, didn't want this. Even Dalesmen who were closer to the Horde wanted to wait and watch or try to solve the trouble in any way not involving their southwestern "friends" -- whom they tend to distrust, and for good reasons. Not that Cormyr itself was united about the issue: [[CourtMage the Royal Magician]] and guilds claimed that until proven otherwise, the political development ''half a continent away'' from their borders is neither their business nor a valid cause for expenses a large military campaign would need.

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* Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction: There's a version with Brains, an Autobot captured by humans and forced to reverse engineer cybertronian technology to create transformers for the humans. He noticed [[spoiler: Megatron exerting his influence over the Galvatron project, and eventually taking over it]] and he chooses to do nothing about it as the humans imprisoned him, tortured him, and melted his friends down in front of him. When the problem manifests itself as a threat to Humanity, Brains just dismisses it under this trope.

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