History Main / SelectiveObliviousness

* Bakugo in ''Fanfic/FriendlyForeignExchangeStudentSpiderMan'' has this issue when All Might explains his losses to him. Thanks to his perception of All Might, his [[spoiler:then previous loss to Peter]] destroying his confidence, and his aspirations to be an InvincibleHero, he completely refuses to accept that All Might is telling the truth and accuses him of lying. It's heavily implied that on some level he does believe him, but he rejects it because to accept it would mean that his dream of being a hero who could never be defeated was never possible to begin with, and if he acknowledges that, then he may as well give up on heroism enitirely.

** Mac is probably the biggest example of this trope. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that his mother couldn't care less about him, he is terrible at karate, he isn't a badass, he isn't heterosexual, his friends openly despise him, and that he isn't as devout as he believes himself to be.

** Mac is probably the biggest example of this trope. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that his mother couldn't care less about him, he is terrible at karate, he isn't a badass, his friends openly despise him, and that he isn't as devout as he believes himself to be.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Despite Bob stating many times before that he is not fond of her family, Linda seems to believe that he loves them deep down inside. To be clear, Bob has legitimate issues with her family. Her sister Gayle is a borderline psychopath who is lazy, overemotional and dependant on Linda to the point of making her go out of her way to help without any concern for inconveniencing her or her family. Her mother is even worse, as she's's very loud, controlling and [[UngratefulBastard ungrateful]] when she makes Linda do her favors or steal her daughter's cell phone while insisting it's her's. Her father, while intentionally terrible, is just consistently sick and is hard of hearing. Linda cannot at all grasp that Bob outright hates being around any of them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' soldiers who react to the display of the protagonist's {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s or explicit hostility but super-fast runs, super-high jumps, ''running up a wall'' or falling from the sky and punching a crater in the pavement will be ignored. [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Without this trope the game would be much more difficult to play.]]

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Naruto didn't realize Hinata had strong feelings for him, something many of the other ninjas were easily able to figure out. He also doesn't realize that Sasuke really doesn't want to come back to the village, [[spoiler:even after Sasuke impales him and almost kills Sakura and Kakashi]].
** Naruto's not the only one with a tendency towards this trope when it comes to Sasuke - Sakura's just as bad, always believing that eventually Sasuke will come back to them no matter how many times she is proven wrong - she still keeps her love for Sasuke even when he ''actively tried to kill her.'' [[spoiler: Eventually he does pull a HeelFaceTurn for good and they have a daughter together, but even then Sasuke chooses to WalkTheEarth to atone for his previous deeds.]]
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** The bombastic Tatewaki "Blue Thunder" Kuno refuses to believe that the hated Ranma Saotome and his beloved "Pigtailed Girl" are one and the same, even when Ranma changes ''right in his arms''. After a while, one wonders if he isn't fully aware and just forcing himself not to think about it. His sister has a similar ailment, but she isn't confronted with the evidence quite as often (and in the anime, never) and actually tried to figure out what happened before getting sidetracked. Kuno might also be purposely ignoring all of the blatant evidence that neither of his "love interests" actually even likes him, let alone lusts after him... although this may be less Selective Obliviousness and more a cocktail of CasanovaWannabe grade lechery (Kuno is debatably a HandsomeLech) and whopping ego.
** Akane Tendo is often accused of this regarding the fact that her pet pig is actually the cursed form of one of Ranma's rivals for her affections. It's got to be the biggest problem she brings to the relationship, even worse than her insecurity. That's not to say that Ranma doesn't contribute his own flaws, faults, and problems, but when she's been shown to consciously ignore Ranma's attempts to explain how a situation wasn't what it looked like, to the extent that the manga version of Akane ignored Ranma's outright telling her why he was trying to grope Hinako, coupled with ''showing'' her the ''pressure point chart'' he was using, in order to support her own belief that it's because Ranma is an uncontrollable lecher. In the anime canon, this flaw is actually the explicit reason why Akane is a LethalChef; she refuses to follow the recipe and adds extra ingredients that she ''[[CordonBleughChef believes]]'' will make it even better (and then adds the ''wrong'' wrong ingredients, due to not looking at what she's grabbing), and refuses to admit her cooking habits are ''why'' nobody will ever eat her cooking unless forced. In one episode, she spends the entire night trying to make edible cookies and continues to repeat the same mistakes over and over even though each and every batch turns out terrible. When Ranma finally allows himself to be guilted into eating her latest batch, and promptly takes to his room with severe stomach pains, Akane idly declares that the recipe must have been faulty.
** Kasumi Tendo calls people who are actively trying to murder Ranma his "friends". Often {{flanderiz|ation}}ed in FanFic into one of her defining traits.
** Mousse could be called Selectively Oblivious in regards to Shampoo. He refuses to admit that the girl he's been chasing since they were three has never shown any sign of reciprocated interest, at best ignoring him and more commonly hitting him whenever he made one of his "romantic" gestures/speeches. By the late manga, she's perfectly willing to let him die just to be rid of him. Instead, Mousse blames her lack of interest on her (willingly given and clearly backed by genuine emotion, at least in the anime) engagement to Ranma and frequently assaults the Japanese boy, accusing him of seducing Shampoo or otherwise keeping her away from Mousse.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' was interesting in that it ''didn't'' portray the girl (Shiori) practicing Selective Obliviousness in a positive light. One can also argue that Utena starts indulging in this after episode 31.

* Kyon of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' very deliberately ignores any hinting that the [[spoiler:Chessgame of Life may have a King (who decides the game) as well as a Queen (who has the power in the game)]]; he refuses to acknowledge [[spoiler:Tachibana flat out telling him that ''he'' has the power to transfer Haruhi's power]] as well as Tsuruya's telling him that he and his friends ''really'' need to work on their {{Masquerade}} better. And then there's just his ignoring Haruhi's feelings for him; over which she's ''willing to rewrite the whole of reality over.'' Even Itsuki is starting to get annoyed.
* Souichi of the [[YaoiGenre Boy's Love]] manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' doesn't seem to realize that he's making an awful lot of exceptions to his homophobia in regards to his gay companion Morinaga, not even after he says outright that he doesn't want Morinaga to leave him and that ''[[SingleTargetSexuality he can have sex with Morinaga only]]''. That must be one hell of a balancing act between "I hate ''hate'' homos!" and "I can't let Morinaga leave my side, even if he likes me ''that'' way!" in Souichi's mind.
* Nearly the entire cast of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' has this about one subject or another (Sakuya, for example, believes her destiny is to become Japan's greatest comedienne, with Nagi as her partner).
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': Tamaki persistently interprets his attraction to Haruhi as ''paternal'' affection; {{hilarity|Ensues}}, naturally, frequently [[HilarityEnsues ensues]] out of the dissonance. Aside from [[ObliviousToLove Haruhi herself]], no one else is fooled, and in later volumes the other members of the Host Club speculate that Tamaki subconsciously refuses to acknowledge his feelings for Haruhi because he doesn't want anything to break up the surrogate family he's created in the Host Club the way his parents' love caused his own family to be broken up. The funny thing is, Tamaki's "paternal love" obsession goes a bit far when he realizes he's ''romantically'' in love with Haruhi. He thinks of himself as a "perverted lech" preying upon his "daughter" and feels horrified about committing "incest".
* ''Manga/PenguinRevolution'': It takes Ayaori six manga volumes of rooming together and, finally, actually ''seeing Yukari naked'' (with his contacts in, for a change) before he realizes that Yukari is a girl pretending to be a boy instead of a boy pretending to be a girl. Sure, he's BlindWithoutEm, but Yukari pretty much stops trying to keep the act up around him before the first volume is over.
* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Ran has had suspicions about "Conan"'s identity, but not nearly as often as she should have, all things considered. [[spoiler:(In one instance, Conan was terribly ill; he reverted to his normal appearance while nobody was watching him thanks to a drink he had been given by [[TheRival Heiji]], then solved the mystery. He had a conversation with Ran, while obviously still very sick, then fell down the stairs and vanished in a puff of smoke. She heard Shinichi scream from nearby, and when she investigated, she found Conan instead.]] And somehow, she didn't figure it out.
** Satou's very much aware of Takagi's affection for her at least relatively early on, ''and'' she definitely reciprocates it. What she ''isn't'' aware of is how much nearly every other male detective in her department is crushing on her (well, except for Shiratori, but that was only because she got stuck in an omiai with him), to the point where she never seems really aware why the Absolute Defense Line keeps making things difficult for [[CosmicPlaything the hapless Takagi]]. She doesn't even realize that ''any'' ring on her left ring finger will typically symbolize engagement! [[JustifiedTrope On the other hand]], considering that the last officer she was attracted to died at a mad bomber's hands...er, explosives...she may just be subconsciously tuning out anything that could lead her into that sort of devastation again. Takagi's genuine love for her is the only thing capable of getting through that membrane.

** Light is utterly incapable of seeing that his actions [[HeWhoFightsMonsters make him just as bad as the criminals he kills, if not worse]]. When Ryuk point-blank tells him that once he kills all the evil people in the world, he'll be the only evil person left, Light brushes him off, remarking, "I don't know what you're talking about."

* Sousuke from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. In the beginning, it looked more like he [[FailedASpotCheck sincerely never notices]] when [[EvenTheGuysWantHim characters are in love with him]]. However, as the series goes on, it starts becoming more and more obvious (as his suitors become [[{{Anvilicious}} more and more direct]]) that he's actively turning up his obliviousness. This is no doubt due to his atypical upbringing, he probably has no idea HOW to react to such affection. His relationship with Tessa comes to mind, in particular. Numerous times, she makes incredibly aggressive advances on him, which he actually ''notices'' enough to feel nervous and scared. However, when people are later referring to her feelings for him, he's shown to react in a very oblivious manner, many times completely dismissing it. She's [[UnequalPairing his commanding officer]] so he would have a good reason to do this.

* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'': Upon learning that his daughter, Nagisa [[spoiler:is pregnant]], Akio is torn between denial [[spoiler:("A stork brought it, right?")]], joy [[spoiler:at becoming a grandfather]] and wanting to strangle Tomoya [[spoiler:for getting her pregnant]]. He does eventually (grudgingly) accept it. This is a rather extreme case, as [[spoiler:Nagisa and Tomoya have been married for several months at that point]] and to make matters worse, he himself had been ribbing Tomoya about the possibility mere ''seconds'' before.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': Yamamoto Takeshi is the poster boy for this trope. He has seen talking infants wield guns, come ''very'' close to dying at least three times, traveled forward in time to stop an OmnicidalManiac from destroying the world, and, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on your interpretation of his character]], still thinks the mafia is a role-playing game that Tsuna and Gokudera cooked up. After being specifically told this isn't a game multiple times.
** Lambo at least has basic awareness that he's in the mafia, but being a five-year-old, he is unable to grasp that the major events in the series are serious mafia business, instead believing that he is being taken along to play. This results in at least two occasions of a rude awakening after he ends up injured.
* Asuka from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' does it as part of her BelligerentSexualTension with Shinji: while she [[{{Tsundere}} never misses an opportunity to berate his perceived weaknesses]] and constantly calls him an idiot, pervert, etc., whenever he demonstrates evidence to the contrary, she makes a pointed effort to ignore it due to her severe intimacy issues. This becomes even stronger as the series goes on, eventually contributing to her mental breakdown when she realizes it's not working anymore.

* As a RunningGag in ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', Mamori continuously misses the signs that Sena is Eyeshield 21, despite Sena practically ClarkKenting. She knows Sena has the same build as Eyeshield 21, that Sena joined the football club, never saw Eyeshield 21 without his mask and Sena always seems to disappear when Eyeshield 21 shows up. She thinks "Every time Eyeshield 21 shows up... Sena never seems to be around. Maybe they... don't get along well?" The justification is that since she still sees Sena as a little kid who cannot stand up for himself, she simply ''cannot'' think of him as a successful football player. It's even lampshaded by Hiruma: "Preconceptions are harsh..."
* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'':
** Ian {{Mind Rape}}s Jeremy. Which only helps to fuel Jeremy's BrokenBird, SanitySlippage, and TraumaCongaLine syndromes.
** Sandra also falls into this trope. She '''refuses''' to believe that [[spoiler:Greg has been raping Jeremy]].
* It's possible that Angela/[[spoiler:Ash]] is this in ''Manga/BlackButler''. She/[[spoiler:he]] commits horrible and very sinful actions and yet, she/[[spoiler:he]] believes that it is for the work of the Lord. See WellIntentionedExtremist to understand this.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': One constant across the series is that [[TheHero Touma Kamijou]] never realizes that at least half the female cast [[ObliviousToLove either have a crush on him or love him]]. Later novels imply he knows this, but chooses to ignore it because (a) picking one girl would hurt the others and (b) his life is already complicated enough without the girlfriend part.
* Played for drama ''Manga/DrRamuneMysteriousDiseaseSpecialist'''s "Gyoza Ears" arc, where the patient's ears transform into gyoza to absorb any sound that she doesn't want to hear, namely [[spoiler:any mention or suggestion that her older son, Yuu--whom she is hallucinating--is actually DeadAllAlong.]]

* This trope gets lampshaded in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' by Zelos when the party seem to repeatedly fail to notice that [[spoiler: Mithos]] isn't all he seems to be despite constantly-mounting evidence, at one asking himself how they can trust him so easily.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' has three examples:
** Zim himself is completely incapable of processing any evidence that he's ''not'' a great hero of the Irken Empire. No matter how much he destroys on his own side, how blatant the Tallests' contempt for him is, or how obviously they try to get rid of him, he always bounces back just as convinced of his own greatness as before. [[spoiler: He realizes that the Tallests aren't coming for him in ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus''... for a few minutes before he rationalizes it away and is back to his old self.]]
** Dib, Zim's ArchEnemy, believes that exposing Zim as an alien will change how his family and peers think of him, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. [[spoiler:In the above-mentioned movie, at least his family shows they care about him]].
** Prof. Membrane is an expert in all fields of science, but absolutely refuses to believe that there is alien life no matter how much evidence is shown to him. Even when trapped in an alien prison, he just thinks it's a hallucination.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'':
** Professor Hamilton worked with the Cadmus project and attempted to take down the Justice League all because of Superman's invasion of Earth while he was BrainwashedAndCrazy and subsequently threatening him, referring to [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS3E12E13Legacy the events of the finale]] of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries.'' While that is true that Superman threatened him, it's only because Hamilton was being a total prick and refusing to help him save a badly wounded Supergirl because he was more concerned about saving his own ass by not consorting with someone who was considered a felon rather than helping a man he'd repeatedly given aid to in the past no matter the circumstance.
** Superman falls prey to this exact same trope in the same Cadmus storyline. Despite later giving his NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech in a different episode, at no point does Superman apologize to Hamilton or acknowledge that a human might have panicked at the reminder that his friend is an immortal alien with laser beam eyes. It later takes Green Arrow AND the Flash to point out that to most people, the difference between a Kryptonian superhero and a Kryptonian alien monster is a matter of how careful the Kryptonian is about damaging things. Like relationships, buildings, and people.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Eric Cartman is so wrapped up in his own ginormous ego that he will ignore everything that contradicts his glorified self-image, and what he cannot ignore he will twist in his own favor. The best example is, of course, claiming he's not fat, but "big boned", but there are other examples too. On one occasion he frantically strives to avoid a fight with a girl who's mad at him, because if he loses, nobody will think he's cool anymore. When he's forced to fight anyway and loses, the other kids tell him that not only did they ''never'' think he was cool, but they can't possibly think any lower of him than they did before. He thinks that they're just saying it to make him feel better, [[InsaneTrollLogic meaning they care about him, meaning they STILL think he's cool]].
** "Asspen" finds Stan spell out that he is uninterested in competing with the resident JerkJock of the ski resort, only for the latter to take every single word as a challenge.
* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck often uses selective obliviousness, especially to facts that damage his ego. Creator/ChuckJones told in an interview that when they first thought up Daffy's voice, everyone was sure that they would be fired when their producer, Leon Schlesinger, would hear it because he would probably immediately realize that Daffy's lisp was based on his own. Strangely enough, Schlesinger never noticed this and even complimented the staff on creating such a wonderfully unique voice!
* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig exhibits this at times. He refuses to believe in Daffy's imaginary friend, even when he is being carried in his invisible pouch. He will also never heed the warnings of danger from Sylvester, not even when a monster is looking him square in the eye (that tall green Martian is ''obviously'' a friendly Native American).
* ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' not only [[BlindMistake can't see past the end of his nose]], but more to the point, refuses to acknowledge that there's something wrong with his eyesight. Even when he's told he's mistaken, he either misunderstands or dismisses it, stubbornly sticking to his guns rather than admit he's wrong. Only in two cartoons ("Fuddy Duddy Buddy", where he's told that he's mistaken a walrus for his old friend Bottomley; and "Magoo's Check-up", where's he's flat out told to get his eyes checked) is he confronted with the reality of his nearsightedness, and yet both times he pulls himself up and continues on as always (he takes the walrus out again because he genuinely likes his company, and he mistakes a TV repair shop for the ophthalmologist's office and thinks he's been given a clean bill of health). WordOfGod states that even if he did wear glasses, as bullheaded as he is, he would still make the same kind of blatant mistakes.
** Interesting bit of trivia, there actually is an extremely rare condition in real life that causes people who are blind to think that they can see, called Anton–Babinski syndrome or Anton's Blindness. People with this condition can't be convinced that they are blind despite any evidence.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Marge Simpson can sometimes adopt this philosophy in addition to being a StepfordSmiler. One example is her saying that Homer used to be a fat, immature slob before they dated and now he's an entirely different person. There's also this.
-->'''Bart:''' I've got to go teach some kids a lesson.\\
'''Marge:''' I choose to take that literally.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has an entire city doing this in "The Sweaters".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': [[GiantSpider Jeff the Spider]] imprinted on Billy when he hatched and only wants Billy to love him like a son... and is completely incapable of understanding that Billy ''hates'' spiders, including Jeff himself, to the point of madness, despite the fact that Billy regularly beats him with anything he can get his hands on.

** Adrien also ignores the fact that Marinette has moved on from her crush after realizing that she was LovingAShadow, convincing himself that he can make her see that [[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo he's fallen for her]] and that they're meant to be together.

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'': When Gen. Turgidson is confronted with the refusal of president Muffley to attack Russia first with nuclear weapons (because a limited American nuclear attack is already in progress due to unauthorized orders, and would inevitably spark retaliation from the Russian), he insists that it's the smartest thing to do, because by striking first American casualties would be way smaller than otherwise. He seems to be completely unable to grasp that American casualties assessment is not really the point at stake because Muffley [[WhatYouAreInTheDark does not arguably want to kill millions of Russian citizens because of one American general who went nuts]].
-->'''Muffley:''' You're talking about mass murder, General, not war.\\
'''Turgidson:''' Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say: no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops! Uh...depended on the breaks.

* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' (at least the novels), Zaphod is ''literally'' selectively aware of his own motives, [[spoiler:due to having both of his brains surgically altered so that certain thoughts wouldn't be detectable by the brain scans he needed to undergo in order to become President of the Galaxy]].
** This is also in the movie. It's more of a HandWave of Zaphod's two heads because they don't go into specifics.
** The basis for the AppliedPhlebotinum of the S.E.P. field. Making something invisible is incredibly difficult and requires massive power; a S.E.P. field is easy to make and can be run off a single battery. People can see things under a S.E.P. field, but they don't ''notice'' them, because whatever it is, it's Somebody Else's Problem.
** ''Mostly Harmless'' features a species of bird that is oblivious to every strange thing that happens, like ignoring a fiery spaceship crash. However, they are always shocked by perfectly mundane things. For example, "...And sunrise always took them completely by surprise."
*** Their train of logic is that an unusual thing only happens once, so it's not worth noticing, as it'll probably not affect them. On the other hand, something that happens every day will affect them, so it's worth noticing.
* Clifford manages to be shocked when he finally learns that [[TheUnfairSex his wife has been having an affair with another man]] in ''Literature/LadyChatterleysLover''. His maid recognizes that he subconsciously knew about his wife's infidelity from the start, but just didn't have the courage to face it.

* In ''Literature/TheSecretHistory'', Julian knows every important part of the plot, except for the crucial fact that five of his students killed the sixth one. He wants to believe the best of them, but really, it's not a huge leap to make...
* Early on in ''Literature/QuillsWindow'', Courtney Thane's mother writes to him that she genuinely has no idea why his father cut him out of the will right before he died, and Courtney's sentiment seems to be the same. When we find out the reason for this later in the book, it becomes quite obvious that if either of them had engaged in serious self-reflection they would know the reason behind the father's IHaveNoSon moment.
* This is the cornerstone of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'''s Doublethink. Bonus points for the requirement that obliviousness must not only be selective but also instantly switchable -- you must completely and sincerely forget whatever you vehemently believed in a moment ago and, if necessary, switch back the next moment -- and recursive -- you must forget that you've just forgotten something, forget having forgotten that, ''et cetera.''
-->The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.\\
He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them.\\
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
* Johnnie Rico in ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''. While he tries hard to paint himself as "just another ape", reading between the lines shows he's pegged as leadership material almost from the start. This comes to a head when he tells his brevet Platoon Leader that he wants to enroll in Officer Candidate School. He's shocked when the man pulls out the necessary paperwork, already filled out, requiring only Johnnie's signature.
* A short story "Perfectly Adjusted" by Gordon R. Dickson has a space traveler land on a planet. He encounters a village with two populations, where persons of one population are oblivious to anyone in the other. They dress very differently, so the main character can distinguish between the two. Representatives of both populations see him because his dress is ambiguous. There is at least one hint that the obliviousness is pretended: [[spoiler:Children sometimes interact with children from the opposite population. Parents often find an excuse to spank those children]]. The main character resolves the issue [[spoiler:by turning on a ray that causes everyone's clothes to melt]].

* In the Creator/JinYong novel ''Smiling Proud Wanderer'' Linghu Chong, despite usually being quite perceptive and it becoming glaringly obvious, cannot grasp that his master is a scheming coward who doesn't care one bit for either Linghu Chong or any other of his pupil.

* In ''Literature/{{The City and the City}}'' by Creator/ChinaMieville, two European cities, Besźel and Ul Qoma, exist on the same spot at the same time, interwoven with each other. Citizens of one city are trained from a young age to "unsee" the other city and its citizens, under dire penalty from a peacekeeping force known as the Breachers.

* Dialogue in the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' implies that [[TheMentor Harry]] is aware of [[HotForTeacher Molly's]] feelings for him, but chooses to ignore them and [[UnreliableNarrator cuts out the parts of his narration that mention them.]] (This doesn't count as ObliviousToLove, by the way - he acknowledges Molly's feelings when she becomes his apprentice, attributing them to trauma, then goes on to ignore them.)
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Tywin Lannister is a frighteningly intelligent lord and Hand of the King. He's smart, relentless, brutal and utterly competent -- except when it comes to his family, especially his dwarf son Tyrion. Tywin is so appalled by Tyrion's dwarfism -- and so angry that his beloved wife died giving birth to Tyrion -- he can't recognize Tyrion's worth and the essential fact that his hated son actually has all of his father's intelligence and cunning.

* Literature/TheWheelOfTime: One of Mat Cauthon's defining characteristics.

** He feels nothing but naked contempt for the Dragon-sworn, "those fool men who blindly follow every Word their precious Lord Dragon tells them" while A) technically being ''the leader'' of a band of such men and B) Unwaveringly doing whatever his best friend Rand asks him to do (although bitching and cursing every step of the way). His best friend Rand Al'Thor -- [[TheChosenOne The Dragon Reborn]]
--> ''I'm here because Rand'' '''''needs me!''''' ''I will never understand what their excuses are!''
* In ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'', despite all the evidence that says otherwise (knowing Ye Xiu is a retired professional player, having played Glory for ten years, is exceptionally skilled and knowledgeable about the game and Ye Xiu flat out telling her who he really is), Chen Guo simply does not realize that her newest employee is the infamous Ye Qiu.
* In the Literature/HerculePoirot novel ''Literature/TheMurderOnTheLinks'', it is noted that Poirot's rival investigator, Detective Giraud, is so focused on his own perspective and ideas that he ignores certain key evidence that doesn't fit his theory. He is convinced that the murder victim was killed by his son, Jack Renauld, but Giraud's theory doesn't explain a piece of lead piping found by the body [[spoiler:(intended to disfigure the originally-planned fake corpse after death to hide its true identity)]], and also fails to properly explain why, if Jack Renauld killed his father for his inheritance, he would have bothered trying to bury the body afterwards as it would surely be to Jack's advantage for the body to be found immediately.
* The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDeathAndDiplomacy Death and Diplomacy]]'' had the Doctor respond to a blatant come-on by a female villain by saying he made a ''point'' of being entirely oblivious to such things or getting them noticeably wrong, because it saved a lot of trouble.
* Part of what makes Molly a BaseBreakingCharacter is because of this trope in the ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'' ''Farseer Trilogy'', where she constantly gets angry with Fitz and accuses him of toying with her when he tries to explain to her multiple times that the reason they have to keep their relationship secret and why he can't spend all his time with her is [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies because of his position at court]], since he's secretly an assassin for King Shrewd (something he is forbidden to tell anyone about - even [[ParentalSubstitute Burrich]] doesn't know). Molly continues to refuse to believe he is being honest about the precariousness of his position or how much danger she would be in, even when she's almost assaulted by two armed men on horseback because of her association with Fitz.

* Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac:

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3:'' On the mission to Thessia, Liara refuses to acknowledge the fact asari development was clearly influenced by the Protheans, like how the earliest visual depictions of the goddess Athame look less like an asari and more like a Prothean. And by more we mean ''exactly''. She does this even if Javik, an ''actual'' Prothean, is in the room pointing this out to her. If the player just has Javik's DLC included but hasn't brought him along, the other party member will get increasingly exasperated (or just plain irritated) by Liara's denial.

* Reiji actually does realize how Kyoko feels in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo.'' He just thinks it wouldn't be right to start a relationship with her.
* Shirou in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' seems to have a slight awareness of Sakura's interest in him, but considering he's in denial about his own attraction to ''her,'' she's made nearly no progress in over a year and a half of trying. Similar things happen with Rin and Saber, although the life-threatening situations they find themselves in during the Holy Grail War force him to confront those feelings up front during the three routes.

* Shirogane Sakuya in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' refuses to accept or understand that his brother Sakazaki Yuuya loves him and wants him to be happy, and he interprets everything Yuuya says in the most negative and insulting way he can. Partly this is because his backstab-happy aristocratic upbringing has him suspicious of good intent, partly because Yuuya is a "mongrel" half-breed and he's been taught to hate those of impure blood. Partly it's because Yuuya appears cheerfully oblivious to insults and continues to be friendly just to irritate him. [[spoiler:Late in BBL, Yuuya makes a HeroicSacrifice and [[TheReveal reveals all]], and Sakuya can no longer be oblivious.]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Amane doesn’t want to find out what Yuuji does for a living, because she senses it is something she probably not supposed to know. So she doesn’t.

* Randy, the tame fox in ''Webcomic/FauxPas'', is so naïve about sex that it's impossible to think this trope isn't going on. This alternately frustrates and amuses the wild vixen who wants to be his mate. We find out later that Randy does know about "the birds and the bees." But what he knows comes from human television, so anything that strays from Hollywood ideals of dating and romance leave him lost.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
** Melissa is so madly in love with Justin, she keeps asking him out even after it is revealed that he is gay. Justin, needless to say, finds this extremely irritating, especially since she is the one who (either directly or "indirectly") blew the secret.
** Earlier in the series (though chronologically after Justin was outed), Elliot pretended not to notice Sarah's feelings towards him, because he was afraid that a romantic relationship with her would destroy their friendship; he may have had Justin and Melissa's ruined friendship in mind, since he'd known Justin for some time at that point.
** Until Tedd directly told him, Elliot was genuinely oblivious to the fact that his anime-style martial arts, and his enthusiasm for using them to stop bullies and fight monsters (not to mention that he was [[WeirdnessMagnet always the one who encountered the monsters in the first place]]) meant the rest of the school did ''not'' see him as an average, borderline anonymous student. It's possible his lack of understanding as to whether things that happen are strange was inherited from his parents, who [[OpenMindedParent cheerfully accept just about everything]].

* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': Unity does this to just about anything that doesn't involve blowing things up, especially specific instructions not to blow things up. At one point she cheerfully admits that her idea of logic is to start with what she wants to be the case and then work backward. Sweetheart, meanwhile, has a major blind-spot regarding her own feelings for Unity, which occasionally manifests as full-on homophobia.

* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'': In the fantasy and future timelines, Arthur immediately resorts to IgnoringBySinging when the subject of Lancelot and Gwenevere's cheating comes up.
* ''Webcomic/SidekickGirl'': Superherione Illumina goes into a LustfulMelt when she [[https://sidekickgirl.net/maelstrom-ii/ meets superhero Maelstrom]], somehow missing that his secret identity is the boyfriend of her secret identity. (In all fairness, he's [[https://sidekickgirl.net/maelstrom-iv/ just as clueless as she is.]])

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue Reconstruction'', Sarge is unable to understand that Grif is now the same rank as him. Grif actually suggests that he is ''physically incapable'' of comprehending that fact. Considering that he attacks one of the Reds who was trying to kill Grif (for attacking a superior officer e.g. ''Grif''), Grif is probably right.
** Seems to have grown out of this by the Chorus Trilogy, where he just reacts with extreme annoyance when Grif tells Sarge that he now outranks him (Grif was promoted to Captain at the beginning of the Season). [[spoiler:Doesn't stop Sarge from asking the Federation of Chorus to promote him to Colonel, so that, once again, he outranks Grif.]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is extremely good at denial over things he doesn't want to admit are happening, only reacting when they're explicitly pointed out to him. His DistaffCounterpart, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick, is exactly the same.

-->'''[[TheDitz Matsuda]]:''' *''covering his ears''* [[IgnoringBySinging La la la la la I'm not listening!]]
** Also Misa refuses to acknowledge that [[TransparentCloset Light is gay.]]
-->'''Light:''' Now I need a place to stay.
-->'''Misa:''' You want to move in with me? Yay!
-->'''Ryuk:''' Ha!
-->'''Light:''' I... ''*Sighs*'' this is the worst day ever!

--->'''Ozpin''': (muffled) Hello? Can I get some assistance? This giant rose seems to have fallen on me, completely by accident!

* On ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'', Cody. [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] a bit too, though she was at least suspicious that [[{{Jerkass}} Duncan]] was cheating with [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] behind her back; when [[DoggedNiceGuy Cody]] found out he seemed completely ''shocked,'' despite the fact that in-universe it's been a common theory they liked each other going back to season two.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In one episode Lois' brother, Patrick, is revealed to be the eponymous Fat Guy Strangler. Lois refuses to believe Patrick is the killer, despite the several glaring pieces of evidence that point to Patrick, including a half dead fat guy lying in Patrick's room who outright states that Patrick tried to kill him, until Lois sees more and more damning evidence piling up and Brian screaming at her to wake up.
** The Griffins, except for the children and Brian, never seem to be aware that Stewie is highly intelligent for a baby his age. Every time he talks they never exactly react to what he says. In the episode "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", Lois meets with Stewie's preschool teacher and she shows Lois several drawings Stewie made, which show Stewie killing Lois in various horrible ways. The two women then have this exchange regarding the images:
---> '''Teacher''': Notice anything unusual in these pictures?\\
'''Lois''': You're right, his father isn't in any of them!
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter and Dee Dee's parents do not know about the lab, despite having witnessed the odd results of Dexter's experiments, as, for instance, the talking dog. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight It simply doesn't occur to them that this might be unusual]].

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Turns out Italy has this instead of being simply ObliviousToLove. [[spoiler:His anxiety is so horrible, he didn't know ''why'' Germany and Japan loved him and thought they would "wake up and leave him". Thank goodness they never did though. Not that there was any reason to. In fact, they would be horrible if they did.]]
* Kyon's mother in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' refuses to acknowledge that Kyon had to get into a fight because of Tsuruya when she is told that Kyon had to replace Tsuruya's bodyguard, and instead decides to be full ShipperOnDeck between them. And that was ''after'' scolding him for getting into fights at school (which happened because of Tsuruya too).
* In ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'', [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] is the king of this trope:
-->'''Light:''' [[[spoiler:[[TheRival Stephen]]]]]'s oddly pleasant considering the last time we met, and I swiftly come to the conclusion that L hasn't told him that he loves me and that we're just going through a rough patch which involves impacting my face with his fist.
* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', when referencing books to support her crazed conspiracy theories, the LemonyNarrator often glosses over the parts that directly contradict them, cherrypicking the parts that don't. [[PlayedForLaughs It gets worse]] when she does acknowledge them, either [[IRejectYourReality rejecting them outright by crossing them out in-text]] or finding a workaround through InsaneTrollLogic.
* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', Bell admits that he put off the possibility that [[spoiler:Rakia's riches and splendor are born from the pillaging and enslavement of other countries]] because he didn't want to confront that reality.
* In ''Fanfic/PartingWords'', [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia]] realizes that the Cutie Mark Crusaders have never received adequate help for their bullying problem because the adults are so wrapped up in their own duties and obligations that they convince themselves that the foals' problems are unimportant and not worth their time and effort.
* Fluttershy in the ''Blog/ReadingRainbowverse'' didn't seem able to get that Macintosh wanted to break up with her without hurting her feelings. Even when Macintosh considered the manner settled, she failed to get the memo. Only after coming back from vacation and seeing him with Carapace did she realize what was going on... leading to a drunken rant atop a drunken dragon.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Cultstuck}},'' most of the titular cultists are unable to see [[SirSwearsALot Karkat]] as anything other than the perfect, infallible reincarnation of [[MessianicArchetype the Sufferer]], and they interpret the slightest mundane thing he does as divine revelation. [[HumbleHero Karkat,]] on the other hand, is severely annoyed by this, as it means that none of them are really acknowledging him as a person or listening to his opinion. (He's tried to ''stop'' them being selectively oblivious, but... well, they are a cult.) This is played for laughs, but also drama: they expect/force Karkat to fit [[IncorruptiblePurePureness their image]] of the Sufferer, and have spent centuries producing propaganda and warping history to fit their beliefs.
* Similarly to the above, Lereal Belsai of ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'' refuses to believe that Karkat isn't simply testing his faith and genuinely isn't magically able to protect the ChildSoldiers of the cult. He also dismisses Gamzee out of hand as a spy, despite obvious marks of torture on him.

* In ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'', Mutsumi is intent on [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy getting Keitaro and Naru back together]]... while completely ignoring that Keitaro broke off the relationship and doesn't ''want'' it fixed. She only acknowledges this little detail insofar as telling herself that he's been 'brainwashed' by his new friends, and insists that he'll eventually thank her once she saves him. This includes working with two [[BitchInSheepsClothing bullies]] out to use her to get to Keitaro, something she ''also'' ignores all evidence of. It isn't until the ''very last chapter'' that Mutsumi finally gets the hint
* ''Fanfic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'': Arial Kuyumaya takes it UpToEleven. Throughout all of Act V and the first third or so of Act VI, Arial is infatuated with Dark and, no matter how many times it's explicitly pointed out to her that he doesn't love her that way, blindly refuses to accept it until Act VI chapter 27, in which her actions cause Dark to have a mental breakdown that nearly leads to his death; in Ruby's words, not even she and the other members of Tsukune's UnwantedHarem were nearly as stupid and blind over Tsukune as Arial was over Dark.
* Every member of the [[Literature/HarryPotter Order of the Phoenix]] refuses to believe anything negative about Dumbledore in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8914586/1/Harry-Potter-Junior-Inquisitor Harry Potter: Junior Inquisitor]]''. Nearly all of them have been helped out of a tight spot by Dumbledore and have been "Dumbledore's man/woman" ever since. This includes Tonks who's grateful to Dumbledore for giving her a job after she was fired from the Ministry of Magic, despite the fact it was obeying his illegal orders that got her fired in the first place.
** [[spoiler:Though after their various covered up crimes are aired in court, and it's revealed that Dumbledore was functionally blackmailing all of them, most come to their senses.]]
* A distinct problem with several Order of the Phoenix members in the ''Fanfic/PrincessOfTheBlacks'' series is their refusal to believe the extremely damning evidence of Dumbledore's rather serious crimes. Furthermore, Dumbledore is of the opinion that anyone not blindly following his leadership is in the wrong and actively working against him.
** James simply refuses to acknowledge that Jen wants nothing to do with the Potters and gets extremely defensive when anyone brings it up.
** Dumbledore always focuses on anything "wrong" that Jen does (such as hospitalizing several students) while ignoring any extenuating circumstances (said students trying to kill her).
** The Order of the Phoenix distrusts Sirius because he spent over a decade in Azkaban and "proved to be just like his family", completely ignoring that not only was he later declared innocent, but that he fought alongside them in the previous war.
** Hermione easily ignores the revelation that Jen was abused by the Dursleys as a child and instead focuses on the idea Jen might have murdered them (Which, to be fair, she did, though Hermione has no proof of this).
** The various Light families refuse to believe that the perpetual chaos that Hogwarts is in is valid grounds to have Dumbledore sacked.
** The Order of the Phoenix focuses on Dumbledore's disapproval of Stan Shunpike's arrest and trial to the point of never considering the idea that Stan ''might actually be connected to the Death Eaters''. [[spoiler:He is, and sets off a bomb in Diagon Alley which earns him full membership into the Death Eaters]].
** Several members of the Order worry about having to fight a three-way war with Voldemort and the Ministry if their relations with the Ministry continue to deteriorate but ignore that they're the ones antagonizing the Department of Magical Law Enforcement by interfering with their operations.

* Hermione in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11689576/1/Raptor Raptor]]'' spends years in denial over the fact that Harry's pet Talon is a dinosaur. Even when Film/JurassicPark is being built and advertising about recreating dinosaurs, she fails to make the connection and whenever someone brings dinosaurs up, Hermione insists that "dinosaurs are extinct and thus irrelevant".
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5390962/1/AU-A-Saiyan-Warrior A Saiyan Warrior]]'' Videl outright refuses to comprehend that not only is her father not the strongest in the world but that there are people out there millions of times stronger than she'll ever be. Even once she does realize it, she fails to understand the sheer magnitude of how much stronger Bardock (Kakarot named his son after his father instead of Gohan) is until Master Roshi points out that she'll likely never catch up to him as Bardock's been training since he could walk and is unlikely to ever stop training to become stronger.

* Hermione Granger focuses heavily on anything she thinks Xander Harris does wrong in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28590-11/Greywizard+Dealing+With+The+Aftermath.htm Dealing with the Aftermath]]'' while completely ignoring the circumstances. Xander drew a gun on [=McGonnagall=]? Hermione ignores that she drew a wand on him first, which is also a deadly weapon. She also condemns Xander for killing Fenrir Greyback, despite the man being an unrepentant mass murderer. Probably the biggest though is that Xander shot (and ultimately killed) Dumbledore because the man just attacked Xander's partner with an unknown spell.



* In the ''Frozen'' fic ''Fanfic/TheAlphabetStory'', Elsa is clearly in love with Kyra however she denies her feelings both to herself and her sister. Same-gender romances are illegal in Arendelle and, even if they weren't, such feelings would be abnormal for a queen.


* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15215117/chapters/42002117 Balance]]'', Pepper Potts takes her Rescue armor and heads to space with Kraglin and Quill to find Tony and Friday[[note]]who in this story has been given an organic body and is biologically Tony and Pepper's daughter[[/note]]. Steve can't understand how Pepper could "abandon her post" when she has an Iron-man suit, even after Rhodey and Pepper both explain that not only does her suit lack the firepower of War Machine, Iron-Man, or Lady Iron (Friday's armor), but she has no combat training and isn't an Avenger anyway. Meanwhile, Steve disparages Jim Paxton who's present as Yellow Jacket, claiming the man has no training and has no business fighting Thanos's forces, ignoring that Jim is a police officer and has more training than Scott, whom Steve has no problem with being in the coming battle.
* When Professor (Ale)Xander Harris refers to Professor [=McGonaggall=] by her first name in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-23251-7/BarefootXO+Time+and+Again.htm Time and Again]]'', Hermione wants to reprimand him but "decides to let it pass this once". She has apparently forgotten that not only do colleagues often refer to each other by their first names but Xander and Minerva are ''married''; of course he's going to call his wife by her first name.
* In ''Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow'': Quentin and Dinah blame Oliver for inviting Sara on the ''Gambit'' and Laurel for dating Oliver in the first place. Neither one seem to realize that Sara ''chose'' to get on the boat. Dinah does blame herself for letting Sara go (though she never acknowledges letting Sara sleep with Laurel's boyfriend was wrong), but Quentin doesn't seem to realize yet the role his parenting played in the situation. On top of that, Sara fully acknowledges and accepts her fault in the situation, and has the appropriate guilt to show for it, which makes her parents' obliviousness all the more damning in comparison.
* In ''Fanfic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'', Adrien continues to insist to Marinette that Lila isn't hurting anyone with her lies... while ''also'' telling her that it's her own fault that Lila has turned most of their class against her. [[MaliciousSlander By lying]]. He also doesn't think anything of asserting this right in front of her GirlPosse, unintentionally [[InternalReveal revealing to them]] that he's known all along what Lila was doing and chose to stand by and let it happen. Because ruining Marinette's reputation 'wasn't hurting anyone', you see.
* ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-chronicles-of-tanya-the-holy-youjo-senki-warcraft.780787/ The Chronicles of Tanya the Holy]]'':
** Fandral Staghelm dismisses the Horde as savages for not being Night Elves, even though they were the ones who sought to open negotiations and peace talks after their initial violent meeting. Later, the Night Elves [[PrideBeforeAFall refuse to see they need help fighting the Horde even when they're blatantly losing the war]].
** Tanya never quite realizes just how powerful she is politically nor how much she means to Arthas. Even during the campaign in Northrend, Tanya believes she's working towards securing a comfortable job in Arthas' court once they return to Lordaeron. In reality, not only is Tanya revered as the in-universe equivalent to the Pope (one of her titles is "Her Holiness") and referred to as a living saint, Arthas is actually head over heels in love with her. It's not until he gives her an implied proposal in the final chapter that she finally realizes.



* Clint and Steve in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11087601/chapters/24733785 Desire Written in Olive]]'' constantly do their best to "protect" Wanda after she marries Tony, ignoring everything she tells them about how first she and Tony are avoiding each other and then later actually get along. What offends her the most is when either of them implies Tony's molesting her and she doesn't know enough to realize it's wrong, since at that point not only have they never been intimate, but she and Tony are actually starting to fall in love.

* Willow in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12425636/14/Dragon-Knight Dragon Knight]]'' has a lot of trouble realizing that her "Xander-shaped friend" isn't the slacker she knew back in school, but is now Alexander, a married man who led an army in war and was functionally a king. Notably, she continues to call him Xander after the others call him Alexander and gets upset when he does something contrary to her thoughts on what "Xander" should be (such as not wanting him to grow back his beard).



* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Fanfic/EnoughRope'' when Clint wonders how he never realized what was going on with the Avengers until an outside source spelled it out. In particular, when Steve threw his shield at Tony's head because Wanda claimed he was making another Ultron, Steve committed attempted murder on the word of a terrorist.
* The inhabitants of Little Whinging in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13157026/9/Eternal-Fantasy Eternal Fantasy]]'' have spent roughly a decade since the world was turned into an {{Expy}} of Franchise/FinalFantasy doing their damnedest to pretend nothing has changed. Besides discouraging Adventurers and non-humans from visiting, they take great pains to make every house identical and change absolutely nothing about the village. When visiting for the first time in two years, Harry and Dudley are disturbed to realize that everything looks exactly the same, including the decorations in store windows.
** Later chapters show the Wizarding World is exactly the same, doing their best to ignore how things have irrevocably changed. Perhaps the most ludicrous example is that they continue teaching classes the same way as before "The Transition" even though they know for a fact that wands have a limited amount of magic before they become worthless sticks. Hermione lampshades that they're wasting a non-renewable resource on parlor tricks like turning beetles into buttons.


* In ''Fanfic/FadedBlue'', as a tactician, Rose ''really'' should've been able to pick up on the clues that Greg was less-than-trustworthy, but was having too much fun with him to notice.




* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'':
** At first, Goh simply doesn't get that the argument he had with Chloe before [[TheRunaway she ran away]] didn't come out of nowhere, but was the culmination of years spent [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang drifting apart]], as he completely ignored his ChildhoodFriend in favor of [[GoalInLife chasing after Mew]]. Over time, this transitions to deliberate denial: once Chloe herself makes clear that [[WeUsedToBeFriends she wants nothing more to do with him]], he promptly [[NeverMyFault pins all the blame on her]], insisting that ''she'' should have worked harder to maintain their friendship. While he, of course, never needed to do ''anything''. If she wanted to stay friends, [[AllTakeAndNoGive she should have done everything she could and let him kept doing as he pleased]].
** Sara and Yeardley [[DrivenByEnvy envied Chloe]] for seemingly having a better life than theirs. Any evidence that things weren't as picture-perfect as they projected was duly ignored, even when they exploited it... such as when they figured out that she disliked Pokémon despite (and because) being the daughter of a Professor. In other words, they exploited any cracks in the facade while ignoring any implications that her life wasn't as wonderful as they'd assumed.
* ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'':
** Despite having both as her students for ''years'', Mme Bustier claims not to know what Ms. Mendeleiev is talking about when the [[SternTeacher tougher teacher]] bluntly points out that [[RichBitch Chloé]] constantly caused trouble for [[NiceGirl Marinette]]. She outright ''refuses'' to acknowledge the effect Chloé's bullying has had not just on Mari, but on the rest of her class, blatantly favoring the troublemaker by expecting her ''other'' students to 'lead by example' and TurnTheOtherCheek... letting Chloé [[KarmaHoudini get away with everything]] without so much as a slap on the wrist.
** Along similar lines, Adrien is ChildhoodFriends with Chloé and thusly knows just how awful she can be. Yet he acts confused at how others reject the notion that somebody [[ItsAllAboutMe so self-absorbed]] could ever be a hero like Ladybug, and gets ''very'' upset with Marinette and Nino for being happy when one of her schemes [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blew up in her own face]].
** Adrien acts ObliviousToLove when it comes to Chloé, Aurore, and his other fangirls. But when he briefly believes that Chloé is actually Ladybug thanks to Lady Wifi revealing her secret cosplay, he's suddenly far more receptive to the notion of her crushing on him. He also gets deeply upset upon learning that Marinette ''doesn't'' [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond harbor a secret crush on him]], partly because he expects ''everybody'' to like him.
** Kim knew that the way Chloé treated Marinette was wrong, but did his best to ignore it because [[LoveMakesYouDumb he was crushing on the blonde]]. After his LoveConfession gets rejected and he's akumatized, Kim realizes [[JerkassRealization just how cruel it was]] to ignore what was happening because it didn't line up with what he wanted, and he vows to become a better person.
* In ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32609-4/Nycorson%2BLove%2Byou%2Bto%2Bthe%2BMoon%2Band%2BBack.htm Love you to the Moon and Back]]'', Safira is understandably confused that all of the Scoobies except Faith seem to think Xander is some fragile child pretending to be a superhero. Xander admits to making things worse by never admitting that he's the one pulling off various heroic deeds in his reports but only does so because they'll simply refuse to believe it. In his words, if they see him do something amazing, in a week they'll believe it to be a fluke and in a month they'll think someone else did it.
** Later chapters reveal their obliviousness is due to magic from when Willow tried to destroy the world forcing Xander's friends to think of him as the Zeppo. While Willow and Buffy are by far the worst, the longer anyone spends with them, the more they'll be affected.

* When Professor (Ale)Xander Harris refers to Professor [=McGonaggall=] by her first name in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-23251-7/BarefootXO+Time+and+Again.htm Time and Again]]'', Hermione wants to reprimand him but "decides to let it pass this once". She has apparently forgotten that not only do colleagues often refer to each other by their first names but Xander and Minerva are ''married''; of course he's going to call his wife by her first name.

* In ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32609-4/Nycorson%2BLove%2Byou%2Bto%2Bthe%2BMoon%2Band%2BBack.htm Love you to the Moon and Back]]'', Safira is understandably confused that all of the Scoobies except Faith seem to think Xander is some fragile child pretending to be a superhero. Xander admits to making things worse by never admitting that he's the one pulling off various heroic deeds in his reports but only does so because they'll simply refuse to believe it. In his words, if they see him do something amazing, in a week they'll believe it to be a fluke and in a month they'll think someone else did it.
** Later chapters reveal their obliviousness is due to magic from when Willow tried to destroy the world forcing Xander's friends to think of him as the Zeppo. While Willow and Buffy are by far the worst, the longer anyone spends with them, the more they'll be affected.
* Willow in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12425636/14/Dragon-Knight Dragon Knight]]'' has a lot of trouble realizing that her "Xander-shaped friend" isn't the slacker she knew back in school, but is now Alexander, a married man who led an army in war and was functionally a king. Notably, she continues to call him Xander after the others call him Alexander and gets upset when he does something contrary to her thoughts on what "Xander" should be (such as not wanting him to grow back his beard).
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12327523/1/Ranma-Happenstance-Gone-Right Ranma: Happenstance Gone Right]]'', Akane insists she's both as skilled and as serious a martial artist as the rest of the Nerima Wrecking Crew (Ranma, Shampoo, and Ukyou in particular); she just doesn't spend all her time practicing because she "has a life", blatantly ignoring that she almost never practices and the others consider martial arts a way of life while Akane treats it as a hobby.
* In ''Fanfic/FadedBlue'', as a tactician, Rose ''really'' should've been able to pick up on the clues that Greg was less-than-trustworthy, but was having too much fun with him to notice.
* Clint and Steve in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11087601/chapters/24733785 Desire Written in Olive]]'' constantly do their best to "protect" Wanda after she marries Tony, ignoring everything she tells them about how first she and Tony are avoiding each other and then later actually get along. What offends her the most is when either of them implies Tony's molesting her and she doesn't know enough to realize it's wrong, since at that point not only have they never been intimate, but she and Tony are actually starting to fall in love.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWarIsFarFromOverNow'', many of the Avengers that would eventually make up "Team Captain America" (Natasha and Steve in particular) remain completely oblivious to both how much Tony Stark contributes to the group and how incredibly busy he is. Unlike Clint, Natasha, Steve, and Wanda, Tony has a day job: running a Fiction500 which any CEO could tell you is not a simple 9 to 5. Though he's since made Pepper CEO, Tony still invents most of their products when he's not improving the Iron-Man suit, organizing relief efforts for areas caught in Avenger business, dealing with the other Avengers' various screw-ups, and building a planetary defense system for the inevitable alien invasions.
** Natasha's first impression of Tony Stark was formed when he was dying of palladium poisoning, causing her to view everything he does through the lens of a showboating, irresponsible playboy. For example, she gets upset at Tony's "narcissism" making Sam and Wanda's recruitment into the Avengers a mere footnote in the paper, never considering that as a former member of HYDRA, Wanda should be kept out of the spotlight.
** Tony's self-esteem issues keep him from realizing that for all intents and purposes, he's the leader of the Avengers. Even though he houses them, handles public relations, and supplies all their gear, Tony only views himself as a "consultant". As a result, he's baffled that everyone from news reporters to the World Security Council contact him for anything regarding the Avengers.
* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Fanfic/EnoughRope'' when Clint wonders how he never realized what was going on with the Avengers until an outside source spelled it out. In particular, when Steve threw his shield at Tony's head because Wanda claimed he was making another Ultron, Steve committed attempted murder on the word of a terrorist.

* The inhabitants of Little Whinging in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13157026/9/Eternal-Fantasy Eternal Fantasy]]'' have spent roughly a decade since the world was turned into an {{Expy}} of Franchise/FinalFantasy doing their damnedest to pretend nothing has changed. Besides discouraging Adventurers and non-humans from visiting, they take great pains to make every house identical and change absolutely nothing about the village. When visiting for the first time in two years, Harry and Dudley are disturbed to realize that everything looks exactly the same, including the decorations in store windows.
** Later chapters show the Wizarding World is exactly the same, doing their best to ignore how things have irrevocably changed. Perhaps the most ludicrous example is that they continue teaching classes the same way as before "The Transition" even though they know for a fact that wands have a limited amount of magic before they become worthless sticks. Hermione lampshades that they're wasting a non-renewable resource on parlor tricks like turning beetles into buttons.
* Alya and Adrien both exhibit this in ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'':
** Firstly, Alya refuses to acknowledge that Marinette has any valid reasons to distrust Lila. Even after being presented with proof that she lied about knowing Prince Ali, she [[MovingTheGoalposts declares that doesn't actually mean anything without proof that she's lying about]] ''everything''. So far as she's concerned, the only reason Marinette has to dislike Lila is because [[YoureJustJealous they're both interested in Adrien]]... even though Marinette's given up on him and has moved on.
** Speaking of that, Alya also does her best to strongarm Marinette into {{Zany Scheme}}s she's concocted to help her hook up with Adrien, over Marinette's protests. When she outright refuses to cooperate, Alya chalks it up to her being nervous and fretting about things not working out, blaming ''her'' for those issues -- she's just not ''driven'' enough! Even when she spells out for her that she's already dating Luka, Alya tries to blow that off as an OperationJealousy rather than a ''real'' relationship.
** Alya also fails to grasp that there was anything suspect about her decision to secretly film Chat Noir [[LoveConfession confessing to Ladybug]], then [[ManipulativeEditing cutting up and splicing the footage to make it look like she reciprocated]]. Even when confronted directly by Ladybug, she dismisses her anger and hurt as no big deal, failing to acknowledge that she crossed any lines.
** Chat Noir, meanwhile, elects to ignore Ladybug's insistence that she just doesn't feel the same way about him. Save for when he's sulking about how ''unfair'' she's being, and that she's not treating him like her equal partner... while ignoring that there's nothing 'equal' about him refusing to listen to anything she says that he doesn't like.
** Of note: Alya eventually acknowledges, during her [[ADayInTheLimelight her spotlight story]] ''[[SympatheticPOV I Owe You Every Joy of Love]]'' and afterwards, that her stubbornness stems from a reluctance to face the idea that [[JerkassRealization she was wrong]] and that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone her actions have had dire consequences]]. Adrien's POV sequences, meanwhile, [[IgnoredEpiphany show no signs of self-doubt]], as he continues to [[NeverMyFault blame everyone else]]. This ultimately leads to [[spoiler:Alya realizing her mistakes and [[TheAtoner working to redeem herself]], while Adrien's bull-headedness costs him the ring and his SecretIdentity]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10522150/1/Science-Knows-No-Bounds Science Knows No Bounds]]'', Professor Membrane took in Almighty Tallest Miyuki when she crash-landed in his back yard years ago, and eventually fell in love with her as they worked together - unfortunately, he happened to realise this on the same day she died of old age. In his grief, Membrane chose to forget that aliens existed and refused to think of her as anything other than a human.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17309054/chapters/40714583 Ranma 3/2]]'', Ranma's parents insist that their only child is a boy when she's actually a {{hermaphrodite}} who has both sets of genitals but is predominantly (and identifies as) female. Notably, Genma's diary remarks on Ranma being out of shape due to her "flabby chest" rather than acknowledging she's grown a sizeable bust since hitting puberty.
* In ''Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow'': Quentin and Dinah blame Oliver for inviting Sara on the ''Gambit'' and Laurel for dating Oliver in the first place. Neither one seem to realize that Sara ''chose'' to get on the boat. Dinah does blame herself for letting Sara go (though she never acknowledges letting Sara sleep with Laurel's boyfriend was wrong), but Quentin doesn't seem to realize yet the role his parenting played in the situation. On top of that, Sara fully acknowledges and accepts her fault in the situation, and has the appropriate guilt to show for it, which makes her parents' obliviousness all the more damning in comparison.
* ''Fanfic/OfPatienceAndPettiness'':
** Alya ''refuses'' to acknowledge that she and Marinette have had a falling-out. Never mind that she publicly disowned her, claiming on the Ladyblog that ''[[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila]]'' was her bestie and spending a full week ignoring and dismissing Marinette's feelings and warnings. Never mind how many times she gets [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech called out]], or how often Marinette stresses that they aren't friends anymore. At most, she only acknowledges her former friend's anger in order to claim that she's blowing things out of proportion, or that she's faking the extent of her outrage in order to punish her.
** When Chloe and several other classmates explain to Adrien just ''why'' Chat Noir's [[DoggedNiceGuy persistent pursuit]] of Ladybug is wrong, he dismisses it as them not really ''understanding'' the situation like he does.

* ''Webcomic/ScarletLady'':
** In "Reflekta", [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] acts as though she has absolutely no idea what the concept of shame even ''is''... when it comes to being ashamed by her own actions. Adrien's criticism of her behavior draws a completely blank look from her, as if she truly can't fathom what on earth he's talking about. Despite this, she clearly understands the concept of shame when applied to ''others'' -- as in, how to humiliate the targets of her bullying, ''and'' that their emotions could be exploited by Hawkmoth... something she also sees as a good thing, as that 'gives her a chance to show off' as the titular Scarlet Lady.
** More generally speaking, Chloé's also oblivious to the fact that 'her' Adrikins has been getting increasingly annoyed with her selfish, spoiled and clingy behavior. "Reflekta" also features him being reaching the point that he shoves her off of him when she won't let go of his arm, disrupting the class picture even further. Yet despite said photo capturing the moment of him shoving her away, Chloé dreamily refers to it as 'my picture with Adrien' and is desperate to ensure there's no retake, treating it as evidence of their bond rather than proof of it splintering.
* In ''Fanfic/WatashitachiWaRogerKaizokuDesuWeStillStandProud'', the other former Roger Pirates are shown to be incredibly oblivious when it comes to Shanks, Buggy, and Ace. First, they don't understand why Shanks and Buggy don't seem invested in the fact Ace is Roger's son, ignoring that none of them ever told the two Roger even had a child. Second, the Roger Pirates don't grasp why Buggy (and Shanks) has a grudge against them rather than being happy to see them for the first time in 22 years, apparently forgetting that they abandoned Buggy and Shanks in the New World when they were barely teenagers and now targets for Roger's various enemies. Third, when Ace shows more interest in being Luffy's brother than Roger's son, Crocus can't fathom why that matters, even though Ace never met Roger while Luffy is his FamilyOfChoice. Not to mention that the people treating Ace as Luffy's brother are actually treating him like a person rather than just "The son of Gol D. Roger".
** Later chapters show Crocus thinks of Buggy as a crybaby who's too cowardly to fight anyone even slightly stronger than a civilian, blatantly ignoring that Buggy was a ''ten year old in the New World'', a place where even hardened Grand Line pirates are {{Mooks}} at best.
* {{Invoked}} in ''Fanfic/NewBeginningsSmallville''. Even after Lois gathers a mass of evidence proving Lex's criminal activities, Tess continues to insist that everything Lois found could have been planted by Lex's enemies rather than just accept that Lex is guilty.

** Despite having both as her students for ''years'', Mme Bustier claims not to know what Ms. Mendeleiev is talking about when the [[SternTeacher tougher teacher]] bluntly points out that [[RichBitch Chloe]] constantly caused trouble for [[NiceGirl Marinette]]. She outright ''refuses'' to acknowledge the effect Chloe's bullying has had not just on Mari, but on the rest of her class, blatantly favoring the troublemaker by expecting her ''other'' students to 'lead by example' and TurnTheOtherCheek... letting Chloe [[KarmaHoudini get away with everything]] without so much as a slap on the wrist.
** Along similar lines, Adrien is ChildhoodFriends with Chloe and thusly knows just how awful she can be. Yet he acts confused at how others reject the notion that somebody [[ItsAllAboutMe so self-absorbed]] could ever be a hero like Ladybug, and gets ''very'' upset with Marinette and Nino for being happy when one of her schemes [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blew up in her own face]].

-->The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.

-->He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions -- 'the Party says the earth is flat', 'the party says that ice is heavier than water' -- and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them.

-->Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's [[AdultsAreUseless parents]], while already [[TheDitz pretty unintelligent]], can ''never'' comprehend that Vicky is a BabysitterFromHell, even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. It gets worse in later episodes where Vicky [[CardCarryingVillain doesn't even make any attempt to hide her evilness]]. Taking the worse factor a step further, in "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy shows his parents incriminating evidence of Vicky torturing him, but they don't even bat an eye. In fact, they only get upset at Vicky and fire her because [[SkewedPriorities she erased their reality show tape]]. Even Timmy, their own son, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

** Don't bother to ask the Gauls about the location of Alesia, the place where Julius Caesar defeated Vercingetorix and annexed the Galia into the Roman Empire ([[ArtisticLicenseHistory with the exception of a small village that resists, then and ever, the invader]]). The Gauls will react with a mixture of [[BerserkButton berserk screams]] and aggressive denial. (The HistoricalInjoke being that, at the time the books were written, people really didn't know where Alesia was. These days archeologists are pretty sure it's Alise-Sainte-Reine.)

-->'''Eric:''' Charlie, did you ever notice your kids have sort of a... year-round tan?
-->'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my great-grandmother's half-Italian, so...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's [[AdultsAreUseless parents]], while already pretty unintelligent, can ''never'' comprehend that Vicky is a BabysitterFromHell, even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. It gets worse in later episodes where Vicky [[CardCarryingVillain doesn't even make any attempt to hide her evilness]]. Taking the worse factor a step further, in "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy shows his parents incriminating evidence of Vicky torturing him, but they don't even bat an eye. In fact, they only get upset at Vicky and fire her because [[SkewedPriorities she erased their reality show tape]]. Even Timmy, their own son, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

** Naruto's not the only one with a tendency towards this trope when it comes to Sasuke - Sakura's just as bad, always believing that eventually Sasuke will come back to them no matter how many times she is proven wrong - she still keeps her love for Sasuke even when he ''actively tried to kill her.'' [[spoiler: Eventually he does pull a FaceHeelTurn for good and they have a daughter together, but even then Sasuke chooses to WalkTheEarth to atone for his previous deeds.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', despite being an extremely paranoid ConspiracyTheorist, Dale Gribble is completely unaware that his wife is having an affair, even though it should be glaringly obvious to anyone who meets [[ChocolateBaby "his" son Joseph]] and isn't blind. The only people other than him who don't know are Joseph and Peggy (who had to be told by Hank). [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Nobody has the heart to tell him about it.]]

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': [[AdultsAreUseless Walter and Audrey]] will ''always'' believe that [[DevilInPlainSight Megan]] is a saint and will take her side over [[TheCassandra Drake and Josh's]] when they try to explain her actions to them, even when the evidence is right in front of them and there being absolutely no proof that they were behind the shenanigans to begin with. This is {{exploited|Trope}} by Megan, who takes advantage of their stupidity by pulling {{Wounded Gazelle Gambit}}s on them.

* Charlie in ''Film/MyMyselfAndIrene'' is very willfully blind to the fact that his three sons are [[ChocolateBaby very obviously not his]], even after his wife left him for her lover. The scene where they're born implies he realized something was amiss as soon as the first was born, but then aggressively chose not to accept it.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Walter and Audrey will ''always'' believe that [[DevilInPlainSight Megan]] is a saint and will take her side over Drake and Josh's when they try to explain her actions to them, even when the evidence is right in front of them and there being absolutely no proof that they were behind the shenanigans to begin with. Considering that they are [[AdultsAreUseless parents in a Dan Schneider show]], this is actually rather natural for them.

** Chowder himself in [[ChristmasEpisode "Hey Hey It's Knishmas"]]. He honestly believed Gazpacho is Knish Krinkle, despite everyone telling him [[MallSanta he's just in costume]]. When Gazpacho has a meltdown and takes off the costume in front of him, Chowder frames it as "Knish Krinkle threw up Gazpacho and is now dead". Panini lampshades how he isn't even listening to her spelling it out to him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's [[AdultsAreUseless parents]], while already pretty unintelligent, can ''never'' comprehend that Vicky is a BabysitterFromHell, even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. It gets worse in later episodes where Vicky [[CardCarryingVillain doesn't even make any attempt to hide her evilness]]. Taking the worse factor a step further, in "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy shows his parents incriminating evidence of Vicky torturing him, but they don't even bat an eye. In fact, they only get upset at Vicky and fire her because she erased their reality show tape. Even Timmy, their own son, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

-->'''Charlie:''' Uh, yeah, well, my grandmother's half-Italian, so...

** [=SpongeBob=] not only completely ignores the words of warning a gypsy woman gives him about the ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''-like creatures she sells, but also ignores when it turns into a massive killer eel in favor of chastising Gary for "bullying" it even when ''he is in its mouth and about to be eaten''.

** Mac is probably the biggest example of this trope. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that his mother couldn't care less about him, he is terrible at karate, he isn't a badass, his friends openly despise him, and that he isn't as devote as he believes himself to be.

** Akane Tendo is often accused of this regarding the fact that her pet pig is actually the cursed form of one of Ranma's rivals for her affections. It's got to be the biggest problem she brings to the relationship, even worse than her insecurity. That's not to say that Ranma doesn't contribute his own flaws, faults, and problems, but when she's been shown to consciously ignore Ranma's attempts to explain how a situation wasn't what it looked like, to the extent that the manga version of Akane ignored Ranma's outright telling her why he was trying to grope Hinako, coupled with ''showing'' her the ''pressure point chart'' he was using, in order to support her own belief that it's because Ranma is an uncontrollable lecher. In the anime canon, this flaw is actually the explicit reason why Akane is a LethalChef; she refuses to follow the recipe and [[CordonBleughChef adds extra ingredients that she ''believes'' will make it even better]] (and then adds the ''wrong'' wrong ingredients, due to not looking at what she's grabbing), and refuses to admit her cooking habits are ''why'' nobody will ever eat her cooking unless forced. In one episode, she spends the entire night trying to make edible cookies and continues to repeat the same mistakes over and over even though each and every batch turns out terrible. When Ranma finally allows himself to be guilted into eating her latest batch, and promptly takes to his room with severe stomach pains, Akane idly declares that the recipe must have been faulty.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's [[AdultsAreUseless parents]], while already [[TooDumbToLive pretty unintelligent]], can ''never'' comprehend that Vicky is a BabysitterFromHell, even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. It gets worse in later episodes where Vicky [[CardCarryingVillain doesn't even make any attempt to hide her evilness]]. Taking the worse factor a step further, in "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy shows his parents incriminating evidence of Vicky torturing him, but they don't even bat an eye. In fact, they only get upset at Vicky and fire her because she erased their reality show tape. Even Timmy, their own son, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.

* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck often uses selective obliviousness, especially to facts that damage his ego. Creator/ChuckJones told in an interview that when they first thought up Daffy's voice everyone was sure that they would be fired when their producer Leon Schlesinger would hear it because he would probably immediately realize that Daffy's lisp was based on his own. Strange enough Schlesinger never noticed this and even complimented the staff on creating such a wonderfully unique voice!

** Interesting bit of trivia, there actually is an extremely rare condition in real life that causes people who are blind to think that they can see. Is called Anton–Babinski syndrome or Anton's Blindness. People with this condition can't be convinced that they are blind despite any evidence.

-->'''Bart:''' I've got to go teach some kids a lesson.
-->'''Marge:''' I choose to take that literally.

** Prof. Membrane is an expert in all fields of science, but absolutely refuses to believe that there is alien life no matter how much evidence is shown to him. Even when trapped in an alien prison he just thinks it's a hallucination.