Times where somebody Failed a Spot Check in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Played for Drama in Amazing Fantasy. In her rush to meet up with Martin to participate in a raid on a Demons hideout, Melissa neglected to insert the last two screws of the electric eel cage, which allowed it to shatter and electrocute Max.
- In Contact of Races, a Race soldier shines a light right over a bush where a Delta Force member is hiding without noticing them. Justified, as the soldier is looking for Opochti who glow under UV light.
- Doofenshmirtz Hero Incorporated!: Played for Drama with Yuu Gozen, a student who shows clear signs of being abused... and of self-harm. While Dr. Doofenshmirtz notices these, Principal Nezu and Hound Dog are outraged by the fact that most of the staff at U.A. didn't notice any of the evidence that something was horribly wrong.
- In Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?, Mirabel and Hiccup manage to get all but one of the donkeys when trying to round them all up, that donkey accidentally destroys the entire stock of china in a china shop. This gives Alma an excuse to show Mirabel that she can't be relied on, treating this one misstep (including the fact that she had to use a machine to accomplish this) as though it invalidates everything else.
- In Frozen Turtles, when the guards arrive on the scene of the ball, they think the Turtles are trying to assassinate Elsa and fail to notice the dozen actual assassins lying out cold on the ground until it's pointed out to them. One of the guards lampshades it.
- In Harry Tano, Wizards and Witches may be adept at creating illusions, but it fails when an area or object is observed in Ultraviolet, Infrared, or X-Ray spectrums. as was the case when a lunar telescope manned by Werewolves saw that Stonehenge somehow moved a few feet away from its original location.
- In the Infinity Crisis spin-off Women of Wonder, the Justice League of Earth-51 are unaware that the Joker nearly robbed a museum they visited while they were tracking the latest threat; he saw them trying to recapture five heroes transformed into animals and decided it wasn’t worth trying to follow up that particular ‘act’ with a simple museum robbery.
- In Lost in Camelot, when Morgause learns that Bo assumed that she was interested in Morgana romantically, Morgause observes that Bo would have realised Morgause's regard for Morgana was sisterly if she had seen the two together, as opposed to seeing them on their own.
- Metal Gear: Green:
- Techno explains the things that have come up: The USJ Nomu being unable to be delivered to the HPSC, the revelation of the MSF having a navy that has been sinking cargo shipments to the warlords (much to Madam President's anger) a few other things, and that's that. Night Owl comes in and mentions the mass of unidentified aircraft heading towards the Japanese mainland, which Techno overlooked.
- Bakugou confronts and threatens bodily harm to Akatani as payback for losing to him in the battle trial. Akatani had a gun pointed to Bakugou's stomach the moment the explosive idiot started screaming at him and he was so Blinded by Rage that he didn't notice. Of course, this ends with him being beaten down, tied up and left to try and get out of the restraints in futility.
- Pokemon: Dark Multiverse
has a rare example of Batman doing this when Bruce Wayne finds himself in the Pokémon world and wonders why his Dark Knight counterparts are after Dawn and Serena as he can't find anything that might connect them, not asking the right questions for them to realise that Dawn and Serena have a friend in common. - Probably an excusable oversight as he doesn't spend much time with Rogue whatever side they're both on, but in Spider-X, Lance didn't realise that Rogue was now able to touch people again for over a week before he officially 'defected' to live at the mansion, and only realised things had changed when he saw Scott without his glasses (the power nullifier Peter had developed for Rogue being adapted for Scott and Jamie).
- In the World of Warcraft/My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic crossover World of Ponycraft, the guards' perception range follows the aggro rules, allowing the group to pick them off in small groups.
- In Retroactive, this is why Azula was able to infiltrate the Earth King's palace. Despite all the guards, they were unprepared for someone who had already infiltrated Ba Sing Se, observed the security routines, and loaded up on potential weapons for sale right there in the city. It's implied that this is a result of purging the Dai Li, who normally would have been spying on the populace and both detecting and diffusing those kinds of plots before they could even get to the palace. Of course, Long Feng especially would realize this, hence why he sends Azula to take advantage of that exact weakness.
- Buffy basically accuses the rest of Angel Investigations of having done this in A Letter to Riley; they spent weeks watching Angel become increasingly obsessed with Darla and never suspected there was anything 'unnatural' about it, and yet Giles deduced that Angel was under a spell after talking with him for just an hour when he hadn't even seen Angel in over a year.
- In Taaroko's Season 8, it takes Willow 'recognising' one of the girls as Kennedy for Xander to realise that the thirty six-year-old girls running around Summers Academy in nothing but adult blouses are actually the de-aged Slayers, Giles explicitly noting that the correlation should have been obvious.
- Danganronpa Class Swap 2 - Jabberwock Island: While taking over the school trip and converting it into a Killing Game, Monokuma overlooks adding one of his rules — the one prohibiting any violence against the Headmaster. As a result, Mukuro is able to grab him by the neck while interrogating him about the Despair Disease.
- Danganronpa: Resort of Mutual Killing: Jack wanted to conceal his real name and talent from the other students. Unfortunately, not only is he a Bad Liar who can't remember his own cover story, he failed to notice that their Electro-IDs had all that information already.
- Mortified: Several characters, including her owner Wes Weston, completely fail to realize that Inky the Cat is both dead and a ghost. When Danny realizes this, he finds it absolutely hilarious.
- Irreversible Damage: Chirag's father mistakes post-Gender Bender Greg for his mother, despite his still being at middle school age.
- Until he runs right into him, Mike Evens is too deep in thought to notice the large and rather muscular henchman in his way as he leaves for home after stealing important documents from his boss in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series fanfic Aliens.
- Light of the Moon: Despite Rapunzel standing right next to a mural depicting the lost princess as a baby (with the exact same eyes and hair color as her), Varian is the only one who can immediately tell it's her.
- Fate: Sword Order: Mysterious Heroine X kidnaps Shirou and holds him in her spaceship. While everyone else tries to open the door, Jeanne Alter calls them idiots for not noticing the gaping hole in the ship and enters through it.
- In Lady In White, after Anna is captured during an escape, Elsa evades her allies long enough to go back and try to rescue Anna because she claimed she was going to get water in the forest, even though they were currently next to a burning cabin and it would take little effort for Elsa to just melt some ice over that to get water.
- In Kimberly T's Gargoyles, when gargoyles of the New Orleans clan initially invite the Manhattan Clan for a holiday, Elisa and Fox initially assume that the New Orleans gargoyles consider the entire clan unmated because they aren't acknowledging her bond with Goliath, but Goliath soon clarifies that the New Orleans gargoyles just hadn't registered his scent marker yet. At this point, the only members of the New Orleans clan to have met the Manhattan Clan were Adam and Rebecca, and Adam's half-human status means he has a poor sense of smell while Rebecca had been fawning over Brooklyn so much that Goliath observed he wasn't sure Rebecca had even noticed his color, never mind his scent. Goliath later admits that he fell victim to a similar oversight when he met the Avalon clan, reflecting that in hindsight he was already subconsciously aware of his feelings for Elisa by the time he met this clan and so didn't pay attention to their scents as he wasn't looking for another mate.
- In The Boy Who Died A Lot, Madam Hooch refuses to entertain the notion that the bludgers have been sabotaged, insisting that nothing can get past her wands.
- The Chosen Six:
- Because the Ministry only monitors people magically entering the United Kingdom, Fenrir Greyback and his pack are able to sneak into the country by taking a fishing trawler from the French coast after killing the crew. Likewise, they're later able to break into Hogwarts by using the hidden passageway connecting the Shrieking Shack and the Whomping Willow, which nobody thought to block off.
- When Umbridge tries to arrest Remus for not informing the Ministry of his lycanthropy, Frank Longbottom informs her that Remus had registered his condition with the Ministry back in 1980 and that she can't arrest Remus simply because no one at the Ministry bothered to check his files.
- In Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived, Daphne notes that Dumbledore missed quite a few obvious potential clues by never questioning Moaning Myrtle about her death after she came back as a ghost during the last time the Chamber opened.
- The Rigel Black Chronicles: Blaise Zabini wins two sickles by betting that as soon as someone actually tells Rigel about their study group, he'll be happy to join in. Theodore Nott took the bet because he couldn't believe that Rigel hadn't already noticed them meeting in the common room every school night for the past month and a half.
- For the Glory of Irk: Lard Nar somehow confuses Vero and Xia for Red and Purple despite the fact that they're wearing completely differently colored clothes. Also, Xia is female, while both Tallest are male.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim does this a few times:
- Season 1:
- Dib does this twice in the first chapter — first, when he overlooks the Big Red Button on the Spittle Runner's console, and later when he's trying to escape Norlock's castle and doesn't see a nearby window right away.
- In Episode 2, Dib is keeping an eye out for Zim at the Parent Teacher conference, and yet Zim's whole group sneaks up behind him.
- At the start of Episode 4, Zim and Skoodge somehow fail to notice Phil in the same room as them, despite his size.
- In Episode 7, when Dib and Steve are hiking through the woods to reach the unburied Meekrob ship, they completely miss a dirt road leading right there. Though Dib comments it wasn't on the map, so it's not entirely their fault.
- Also in Episode 7, Zim fails to notice Dib and Steve's presence in the Children of the Bright and Shining Saucer camp, until they speak up.
- In Episode 16, Team Save Earth fail to notice the monster army attacking the city until Mortos points it out to them.
- At the start of Season 2 Episode 12, Zim's team somehow missed that they were within eyesight of Tak's base while trying to enact their newest plan, ruining any attempt at doing it in secret.
- Season 1:
- Ruby Pair: The Membranes and Irkens do this at one point in "Gaols & Ghouls", leaving them surrounded by the Knights Who Say Icki-Icki. Gaz name-drops the trope, with Tenn exasperatedly questioning what it even means.
- On two occasions in Metal Gear Solid: Fight of Metal Gears, Jake Snake fails to notice enemies until Otacon calls him and tells him that they're behind him.
- In the art of living lies and letting go, Marinette and Adrien's identities are exposed early on. After a few months of the city freaking out, everything largely goes back to normal, except sometimes Marinette and Adrien get out of tests by pointing out that they were too busy saving the city to study. However, Lila still pretends to be Ladybug's best friend."I have pictures to prove it," Lila says and proudly shows off several photoshopped selfies of the two of them.
Marinette pinches the bridge of her nose and turns to look at Adrien who can only laugh. Alya nearly spits out her soda trying to keep the inhumane noise she makes from being too loud. Nino pats Alya on the back sympathetically.
"That's another lie, Li—"
"—and how would you know I'm lying?" Lila says, scowl on her face and hands on her hips.
"Wow," Marinette says. "I wonder how I could possibly know that you are lying about Ladybug." - In Blessed, Lila decides that the best way to deal with her critics Marinette and Nathaniel is to slander them both by claiming she witnessed Nathaniel threatening Marinette, forcing her to stay in a romantic relationship with him. This causes everyone to realize she's a liar — because here, the two aren't just siblings but fraternal twins. Yet she failed to pick up on the fact they had the same last name.
- This bites Chat Noir in the backside in Burning Bridges, Building Confidence. When Cole sees him sitting on the sidelines and watching Ladybug fight alone, he blithely informs her that he's not going to help...not until Ladybug agrees to start dating him. He fails to notice that Master Fu is in the same alleyway, and is less than pleased by his Betrayal by Inaction.
- Cheshire: When returning from Alix's birthday party, Marinette fails to register just how many Miraculi she's wearing. Namely, that she wound up with four: Plagg, Kaalki, Lirii and Pollen.
- A moment of this kicks off Crumbling Down, as Lila attempts to kill Ladybug by pushing a wall onto her and then gloats about it, unaware that Alya saw and filmed the whole thing.
- Feralnette AU: During the denouncement of Even a Worm Will Turn, Adrien fails to notice the Death Glare his father is giving him as he embraces Felix. Gabriel himself fails to notice that his conference call with Amelie is still running, meaning she witnesses and calls him out on giving both boys such a withering look.
- Throughout The Karma of Lies, Adrien plays The Charmer, fully expecting others to be swayed by his smile and reassuring claims. He's so used to glossing over and dismissing the negative feelings of others — especially Marinette/Ladybug — that he fails to pick up on how badly his usual tactics are failing. A perfect example of this is during the live interview, where he doesn't notice how unwelcome he is or how his behavior is turning the crowd against him until they start calling him out.
- Oh, You Don’t Have to Do That. (Communication): An akumatized Lila disguises herself as Marinette as part of a plan to ruin her reputation; however, she gets exposed as an imposter, knocked out, and cured. Upon reawakening, she doesn't notice that she's back to her normal form and attempts to continue the plan, unintentionally revealing her true nature to everyone else, since she's no longer able to claim that she's Brainwashed and Crazy.
- In Rate This (Trust Is Hard to Come By), Lila does see the dark red -51 floating over her head while checking her vanity. But she dismisses this as just another oddity caused by some random akuma, without considering what it might mean. She also fails to notice everybody she passes by on her way to school reacting with shock and disgust, blissfully unaware that the number indicates just how much Ladybug despises her self-declared "best friend". By the time she finally learns what's going on, it's far too late.
- In Unmasker Unleashed, there are various hints that Marinette is actually Ladybug, but Cat Noir never connects the dots. The red domino mask and ribbons in her pigtails when she becomes Unmasker, which has an effect on him. How natural Unmasker is able to swing around with her vines. Being able to anticipate his moves. Her flirtatious and playful behavior, and use of calling him Kitty. Luka’s vagueness on Ladybug needing to stay hidden. Unmasker/Marinette’s several near Freudian Slips. To be fair Cat Noir is very focused on trying to get through to Marinette and Ladybug did a good job in fooling him back in Kwamibuster by making him see Ladybug and Marinette as separate people.
- The Wolves in the Woods: After Strikeback is dealt with, Ladybug is in such shock over how the akuma was taken down that she fails to notice her room isn't unoccupied when she returns. As a result, Ms. Diamandis learns her secret identity.
- Dekiru: The Fusion Hero!:
- Since Izuku and Katsuki are so tight-knit, neither notices that the Mental Fusion aspect of Izuku's Quirk includes sharing memories. They only find out about it when Ochako learns about All-Might and One for All this way.
- During their Heroes vs. Villains exercise, Katsuki is able to distract the other team so well that they completely miss Ochako floating through a window and making her way toward the bomb.
- A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing: After hitting Izuku hard enough to severely injure his spine, accidentally crippling him, All Might chides Katsuki for giving away his position by sending up a distress flare, failing to notice his successor is currently sprawled right next to Katsuki in a growing puddle of his own blood. He then attacks Katsuki, only stopping when he finally notices Izuku and realizes what happened.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In About Last Night, Pinkie Pie, who knows all the details about all her friends, doesn't recognize Rarity's double is not her.Pinkie: Ooh! A wall!
- Dash's New Mom: Twilight Sparkle fails to realize that the stallion she's dating, Blue Streak, is Rainbow Dash's daddy. Since the daughter◊ is almost a dead ringer for her father◊, Twilight is very sheepish when Rainbow points out how obvious at least some relation would be.
- In Diaries of a Madman, Rainbow Dash and Navarone are completely oblivious to the fact that they've entered a restaurant for couples until they get inside and bump into Rarity, somehow failing to be tipped off by the name of The Loveboat.
- A Diplomatic Visit:
- It's been over a year since Princess Luna's return; Moondancer's known something was off about the night sky, but didn't realize that the image of the Mare in the Moon was gone from its usual spot until Princess Celestia pointed it out. Moondancer herself is surprised she didn't realize this sooner and chalks it up to being preoccupied with wallowing in her own misery.
- As seen in chapter 6 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling, Starlight Glimmer's so out of touch that she completely missed the war going on the year before. The same goes for the citizens of her village.
- In the same chapter, it's noted that Neighsay's captors missed his teleportation pendant and that it still has magic. He intends to use this to his advantage.
- In The Great Slave King, Captain Sing Sing orders his guards to escort prisoners who had escaped in a jailbreak back to the cells before the princesses find out, only to find a bemused Celestia looking straight down at him.
- This happens to Limestone in the Harmony's Warriors side-story "Trottingham Pink", when she doesn't realize the pink mare she was facing was her sister.
- I Guess It Doesn't Matter Any More: Long Haul misses the fact that Ruby is glowing so brightly that she lights up the abandoned gas station, thinking that the power must be on.
- Spike in Past Sins MST, who somehow didn't see Twilight carrying Nyx when she returned from the Everfree Forest.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: While exploring the Questioning Order’s vault, Rex finds the Crystal Heart hidden in a small hidden area of the wall. Thinking it’s only a replica, he puts it back, unaware it was the real thing, or that (per Word Of God) Sombra was the one who hid it there, with the Questioning Order having never found it.
- Much like in "Fall Weather Friends", Twilight fails to notice the large crowd of spectators in A Pony Out of Place until Pinkie points them out to her.Pinkie: All right everypony! Let's all give a hoof to our two competitors!
Twilight: Pinkie? Who the hay are you talking to?
Pinkie: (pointing) Them.
Twilight: One of these days... I'm going to learn not to ask. - There was a brief period where Bonbon of the Reading Rainbowverse was actually in a tumblr dashboard. Both Lyra and Fluttershy tried to get her attention... but the relevant posts always moved out of view right before she turned to look.
- In Stroll, the bandits who originally kidnapped Octavia don't seem to notice when the cargo they stole - and the pony who came with it - have fallen out of the back of their wagon.
- In Chapter 2 of The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments, Applejack misses all of the apple-related food at the meal during her initial look at the table.
- After consummating his relationship with Celestia in TD the Alicorn Princess, TD somehow fails to notice her lying in his bed when waking up the morning after. After eventually noticing, he ends up wondering what she's doing there before the memories come back.
- In Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure, Twilight doesn't notice that Celestia is evil until it is pointed out to her, despite its extreme obviousness based on the description immediately following said pointing-out.
- Ultra Fast Pony. Fluttershy is supposed to wait for the snow to be cleared away before she wakes up the animals. She fails to notice that the ground is still covered in snow, even when she's standing in it.Fluttershy: I thought it was dandruff!
- The Echo Remains, But The Song Is Not The Same: While Team Eight is helping an elderly couple move, one of their clients remarks that they've chosen a smaller apartment since their children don't live with them anymore. Sakura is about to ask what happened before Chouji stops her, silently drawing her attention to a memorial altar that she hadn't noticed.
- I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!: Tsunade is so hammered that it takes three full chapters for her to realize she'd arrived back in Konoha.
- Orochimama: Orochitama's fair features a number of "reverse pickpockets" who hand out coupons by sneaking them into the possession of visitors. Naruto loudly proclaims that he'd never fall for such a thing while one of them is slipping a coupon into his pocket.
- Your Heart a Haven of Thorns: This gets Played for Drama when Ino and her teammates come across Team Seven for the first time after the Forest of Death. As Sakura is partially hidden behind Naruto and Sasuke, Ino fails to notice that her former friend is missing her left arm... but she does notice that she's cut her hair and immediately insults it. The stressed-out Sakura immediately bursts into tears, and Ino keeps giving her grief... right up until she finally notices her missing arm and snaps into a Tranquil Fury.
- your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue): Played for Laughs when Itachi appears right beside Kiba, startling him and his teammates, while blandly observing that they need to work on their observational skills.
- Rise of the Minisukas: Neither Shinji, Asuka, Kotone, nor Leader really stare at "Mat" or notice anything peculiar about him until Rei points out that their so-called classmate is a giant eldritch spider.
- Spooky: Count Von Roo attempts to feed upon Komo and Claw, addressing them as "mortals", yet fails to notice that Claw the Ghost Draik is floating and glowing. When the Count swoops down, he passes harmlessly through Claw and hits his head on a rock. Claw and Komo comment that "you'd think a vampire would know better."
- In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, Oscar is teleported from the Shower Room of Precinct 13579 to the Lab and doesn't notice because he's too busy talking to Oswald. Likewise, Oren and Owen are also unaware they're teleported to the Lab. Oswald averts the trope because he's the only one who is aware of where he is and begins having a Naked Freak-Out.
- This Bites!:
- During the Alubarna banquet in Chapter 22, Cross is so exuberant out of successfully tying Luffy's tongue around his own head that he neglects to check what he's eating: biscuits.
- After Eneru is defeated, Conis is so distraught over losing her island, her father, and contemplating her decision to join the Straw Hats, that she doesn't notice her father standing behind her comforting her.
- While in the Florian Triangle, the Straw Hats sing "Binks' Sake" in order to keep the dread of the Triangle from getting to them. They ended up getting so caught up in it that they didn't notice that Brook's ship had sailed up to the Sunny until Cross realizes he had joined the party.
- Mystery Dungeon with Critical Chaos: Lee the Shuppet is apparently completely unaware that they're adopted, despite the fact that their parents are Slaying Mantises and Lee is a Bedsheet Ghost.
- In Pokémon Journeys: Hisui Legend, it's noted that Ash still doesn't know that Sammy was the young Professor Oak, despite seeing Sammy's journal at Oak's lab.
- In Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse, Megumi locks all the doors and windows to avoid being infected by the Glitter Force. Unfortunately, she forgot to secure the ventilation system, leading to her and her team getting infected anyway.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness:
- In Act II, after fighting off a vampire agent in Ashton City, Moka fails to realize several obvious things (the agent's fighting style, personal knowledge of Moka, and voice over the radio) that prove the agent's identity as her sister Akua, even dismissing the odd coincidence that Akua and Kahlua just happened to show up at Yokai Academy right after the gang returned there from Ashton City. It isn't until Act III chapter 42, where the group discovers from Hokuto that Akua and Kahlua lied and Fairy Tale is not only still active but coming to Yokai Academy for a full-scale attack, that Moka puts it together; she promptly lampshades how blind she was to not have put it together beforehand.
- In Act III chapter 46, when Kou returns to Yokai Academy and reveals to the headmaster that Fairy Tale stole the Chrono Displacement spell from Issa Shuzen's archives, he somehow doesn't take into account the fact that the archive in question was a family secret that only Issa and his daughters knew about, and thus the only way Fairy Tale could have known about the archive, let alone the spell, is if Akua and Kahlua had been in league with them, until he actually says it out loud.
- In Act IV chapter 17, Falla mistakes a bottle of Yukari's love-struck potion for perfume, completely failing to notice the warning note Ruby left next to it.
- Throughout Act IV, Tsukune and co. expect Hokuto to pull off a full-scale attack on Yokai Academy to capture Moka, as per what happened in an Alternate Timeline. However, they fail to consider the fact that Luna and Falla, two Time Masters, were not present in said Alternate Timeline, and are completely unprepared when Hokuto, who did take Luna and Falla's presence into account, goes with a Divide and Conquer tactic instead by having Jovian and Jacqueline hold Tsukune's mother and cousin hostage.
- In Teaching Darkness, this happens to Iblis when the sun sets, giving Dark the advantage.
- In the first two chapters of I've Got Your Back, Pearl fails to notice that Marina is an Octoling, which lines up with Splatoon 2-era Inklings being unable to tell the difference, thinking that they're just Inklings with a unique hairdo.
- Played for Drama in Steven Universe: Gone Wrong. After racing to the beach house, Greg's relieved to see his son seemingly none the worse for wear, other than seeming pinker than usual. He fails to notice his son's body lying on the couch, leading to mounting tension as it gradually dawns upon him that something's wrong.
- Super Mario Galaxy Rebirth Saga: Luigi and Toad get so absorbed in their card game that they fail to notice Peach's Castle being lifted into outer space... with both of them still inside.
- First in the second Chapter 14 of Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God with the entire British Military coming "outta nowere". Despite behaving as they did in American Revolution with marching in straight rows and having drummer boys keeping them in rhythm. Later, in Chapter 16, Mao Zedong shows up riding FREAKIN GODZILLA despite Sara not seeing anything seconds earlier and being on "hi alurt".
- Average Joe In Bullet Hell: During Marisa's battle against Cirno, she begins shooting off repeated Master Sparks. She stops firing after a while to take a breather but finds out that the one tree that wasn't blown up was where Cirno was hiding.
- In Black Crayons, Laserbeak transforms into a smaller, pink version of Bumblebee in an effort to get Annabelle's trust. However, he neglected to change his eyes, and Annabelle quickly figures out that he's a Decepticon.
- In a fan film, while Nathan is being beaten while handcuffed to a chair, one of the mooks watching notices that the compass they took from him is missing its southern hand. He brings it up but it's too late. Nathan has already used it to get free of the handcuffs and starts a brawl with those in the room.
- Averted in Better Angels when Shane immediately spots the herd of Walkers bearing down on Hershel's farm, whereas Rick didn't notice them in canon. This alludes to Shane's survival instincts being much stronger than Rick's.
- P*R*I*M*A*R*C*H*S lampshades this concept, in one of its many homages to Final Fantasy, when the Primarchs have a "random encounter" with some daemons on their way to meet Abbadon.
