History Main / JustIgnoreIt

* In ''VideoGame/SeaOfStars'', the main characters find a tavern in the Town of Lucent literally called "the [[FiveStagesOfGrief First Stage of Grief]]," as both the patrons and staff are so upset by the constant torment of losing their friends and family to the Dweller of Woe, they choose to completely deny that such tragedy is happening, to the point where they hardly believe anything the heroes say when they tell them they're going to defeat the Dweller and bring the town peace.

* In "VideoGame/SeaOfStars", the main characters find a tavern in the Town of Lucent literally called "the [[FiveStagesOfGrief First Stage of Grief]]," as both the patrons and staff are so upset by the constant torment of losing their friends and family to the Dweller of Woe, they choose to completely deny that such tragedy is happening, to the point where they hardly believe anything the heroes say when they tell them they're going to defeat the Dweller and bring the town peace.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In "The Troll", Wander and Sylvia are called to aid the warriors of Baaa-hala to protect their food sack from a troll that attacks them once a year. The troll starts out puny, but is obnoxious, and gets bigger and stronger the more the warriors get tweaked by his insults. By the time he reaches Wander, the troll is the size of a building. But when Wander doesn't react, the troll starts shrinking. This inspires the others to do likewise, and the troll shrinks back to its original harmless size.

* Maybe the responsible party is [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve powered by belief]], and [[ImNotAfraidOfYou depriving it of same will ultimately destroy it.]]

* Or, more recently, an awful truth about the protagonist came out, but the protagonist is GenreSavvy and knows damn well that [[StreisandEffect the more you hate it, the stronger it becomes]], so he "fights back" by ignoring it and pretending it's not big deal.

* In ''[[Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton After Many Dates: Danny and Kim]]'', this is Danny's reaction to the Masters' Blasters. He decides to simply let them save people. As Kim predicts, eventually the hype wears out and people begin to refuse to pay, the Blasters refuse to help people, and Danny saves them, winning his popularity back and making the Blasters look bad.

--> I think, but I'm not sure, that I'm now hopelessly in debt.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/JustIgnoreThem''. The title suggests that not acknowledging them will help, Mark's mother suggests to ignore them to make them go away and actually talking about them ''increases'' the risk of them harming you or those around you. [[spoiler: But they are manifactured beings that aim at specific people for specific reasons, so ignoring them is '''not''' an option, if you are their target or in their way]]. This shows quite well when [[spoiler: the pilot and all business class passengers around Mark got killed]], yet [[spoiler: Neason from economy and Brea who had been on the toilet]] didn't even notice anything happening.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'', [[spoiler: the Prince confronts his dark side in his mind. However, as the Dark Side is made out of the Prince's desire to fight, (and other negative/destructive emotions), fighting him only causes him to multiply. The solution is to walk past him.]]

* The beginning of ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' has the Black Sugar Gang causing a ruckus in Wario's Castle as they steal his treasure. The level is normally played by waking up and investigating. However, if you instead decide to ignore the commotion and continue sleeping, you unlock an alternate story path where [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs the sleeping Wario is carried out of the castle and must barge back in to reclaim it.]]

'''Lord Elf:''' No-one is roleplaying with the Lord of Dorkness. ''[...]'' All he wants to do is make himself the center of attention by killing everyone and eating their soul. Just ''pretend he's not there''.

--->'''Lord of Dorkness:''' ''[eats Lord Elf's soul]''\\
''[Lord Elf ignores him and goes on talking]''\\

* ''Creator/JamesRolfe'' wisely did this after he released his "no review" of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'', wherein he basically explained he was not going to watch the movie at all and why. Being such a controversial subject at the time, some people naturally went on the attack and began {{Flame Bait}}ing and throwing accusations of sexism and racism -- and he basically just ignored all of it and moved on with his reviews like nothing happened. Because he didn't care his fans didn't care, so the controversy remained among the VocalMinority who tried to stir it up and it quickly died down since it wasn't getting any kind of reaction.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Sphere}}'', in order to get rid of the destructive abilities the namesake Sphere had given them, the protagonists agree to use their power to make themselves forget about the Sphere and all of their activities involving it. In the original novel, at least, this works because the Sphere, by its own admission, didn't ''grant'' them these abilities -- they already had them, but it took the Sphere to make them aware of it so they could use them. Yeah, it's kind of a weird book.