History PlayingWith / ItsProbablyNothing

** [[SmugSnake Self-professed]] phantom thief [[StupidCrooks Charlie]] sneaks into a museum WithCatlikeTread, accidentally knocking over a marble bust and its pedestal, scaring a guard dog, who then smashes apart a PricelessMingVase, tears up a silk tapestry, and destroys the conspicuous cubic zirconia atop the ill-protected glass and marble panopticon in the middle of the central hall. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Alice and Bob]] dismiss it as nothing.

* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice wake up to find their house ransacked. When questioned by Alice if he knew anything, his response is "Just the house settling.".

** [[SmugSnake Self-professed]] phantom thief [[StupidCrooks Charlie]] sneaks into a museum WithCatlikeTread, accidentally knocking over a marble bust and it's associated pedestal, scaring a guard dog, who then smashes apart a PricelessMingVase, tears up a silk tapestry, and destroys the conspicuous cubic zirconia atop the ill-protected glass and marble panopticon in the middle of the central hall. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Alice and Bob]] dismiss it as nothing.

** [[SmugSnake Self-professed]] phantom thief [[StupidCrooks Charlie]] sneaks into a museum WithCatLikeTread, accidentally knocking over a marble bust and it's associated pedestal, scaring a guard dog, who then smashes apart a PricelessMingVase, tears up a silk tapestry, and destroys the conspicuous cubic zirconia atop the ill-protected glass and marble panopticon in the middle of the central hall. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Alice and Bob]] dismiss it as nothing.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob gets up to go get a midnight snack, actually ''sees'' the burglars, and pays no attention to them.

* '''Implied''': Bob and Alice wake up to find their house ransacked. When questioned by Alice if he knew anything, his response is "Just the house settling.".

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* '''Lampshaded''': ItsProbablyNothing. Go back to sleep, honey.

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* '''Basic Trope''': Dismissing something as just one's imagination, no big deal, etc.
* '''Played Straight''': Alice and Bob hear a noise one night, and Bob just writes it off as the house settling, and they go back to sleep. In the morning, they find out they've been robbed.

* '''Subverted''': The noise they heard really was just the house settling
* '''Double Subverted''': But then the burglar sneaks in
* '''Exploited''': The burglar makes a lot of noise that could be written off as normal noises (house settling, wind, animal outside, etc.) so that he can get into the house more easily.
* '''Deconstructed''': After hearing the noise, taking no action, and getting robbed, Bob gets mad at himself for not doing anything about it and suffers a HeroicBSOD.
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Alice and Bob get worked up about things that go bump in the night, other times they don't.

* '''Lampshaded''': ItsProbablyNothing. Go back to sleep, honey.

* '''Enforced''':
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob get out of bed, grab weapons, and head downstairs to investigate.

Wait, was that [[ItsProbablyNothing the main page]] I just heard? ({{Beat}}) ...Nah, couldn't be.

* '''Justified''': Old houses really are quite noisy sometimes.