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[[caption-width-right:304:They have their uses.]]

Tropes that cover things that distract or divert a character's attention, whether by accident or design, as well as the characters that plan or fall for them.

For examples of things that might distract you, the reader, from something you really should be doing instead, see WikiWalk and JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife.
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!!Tropes:
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: A character is easily distracted by the most trivial of things.
* BackseatChangingRoom: Changing in the backseat.
* CacophonyCoverUp: Covering up a loud noise with an equally or greater loud noise.
* CatsLoveLaserPointers: If your facing a giant feline beast it’s best to give them a red dot to chase.
* CaughtMonologuing: Taking action while your opponent is busy talking.
* CentipedesDilemma: When asked how they are able to do something, the character loses their ability due to being too focused on figuring out how it is so.
* ChasingAButterfly
* ConvenientDecoyCat
* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: A distraction that wasn't planned happens at a critical moment.
* CoveringForTheNoise
* CrashingThroughTheHarem
* CutenessProximity: When a person sees someone or something adorable, their first instinct is to stop whatever they're doing and gush about how cute the cute person or thing is.
* DecoyConvoy
* DeliciousDistraction: Distracting someone with food (often a BigEater).
* DerailedTrainOfThought: Forgetting what you were talking about in favor of an unrelated topic.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu
* DistractedByTheLuxury: Using luxuries, like jewelry, to distract ladies.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Someone gets distracted by an attractive person.
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Someone gets distracted by their own reflection.
* DistractingDisambiguation
* DrawAggro
* EasilyDistractedReferee
* EscortDistraction
* FakeOutMakeOut: Two people kiss to divert attention from others.
* FakinMacGuffin
* FlashMobCoverUp: Characters stage a flash mob as a distraction.
* FreudianSlipperySlope
* GirlsStareAtSceneryBoysStareAtGirls
* GoFetch: Distracting a dog by playing fetch with it.
* HeyCatch
* HitchhikersLeg
* InconvenientItch: Being distract by an itch at an inappropriate moment.
* InfractionDistraction
* InstitutionalAllegianceConcealment
* KissOfDistraction: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kissing someone to distract them.]]
* LookBehindYou: You escape someone pursuing you by lying that something they'd be interested in seeing is behind them so that they'd temporarily turn away from you.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Someone is showing a lot of skin, but no one notices or cares.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Someone tries talking to a distracted person.
* OutfitDecoy
* ParalysisByAnalysis
* PrimpOfContempt: Being distracted from what’s going on in front of you because your nails need filing and your hair needs some fixing.
* PrivacyByDistraction: Distracting someone so you can have some privacy.
* PushedAtTheMonster: Someone deliberately trips up another to distract someone, usually a monster, chasing them.
* ShowSomeLeg
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Someone gets distracted [[LiteralMinded thinking of the literal sense of an anology.]]
* SmokeOut: Someone activates a smoke bomb as a distraction to escape.
* SmokescreenCrime: Someone commits or stages a crime to obscure another one.
* ThrowingTheDistraction: Throwing something to distract a person.
* ATruceWhileWeGawk: A fight grinds to a halt as something catches the combatants' attention.
* WeNeedADistraction
* WildGooseChase: Sending someone on a fake mission to distract them.
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[-Wait, [[LookBehindYou what's that behind you]]?!-]

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