Basic Trope: Nobody bothers to explain about the supernatural or paranormal, not even ask simple questions.
- Straight: A Sufficiently Advanced Alien race has appeared on earth, and no one shows any curiosity towards it.
- Exaggerated:
- Flat-Earth Atheist
- No one bothers to even explain mundane things like the laws of nature and physics.
- Downplayed: Some people do show curiosity towards something that is supernatural or paranormal but are mostly uninterested in it.
- Justified:
- They don't want to mess with a Sufficiently Advanced Alien race that appeared that might conquer them should they know directly about them.
- Not everything can be explainable and not every single being are safely explainable. They can be too inappropriate and just asking for trouble.
- Trying to explain everything of what happens in the story will bog it down to an Info Dump, so they don't do so.
- Inverted:
- Everyone shows curiosity towards something that is supernatural or paranormal.
- It's the Sufficiently Advanced Alien race that is uninterested in humans.
- Curiosity Killed the Cast
- Subverted: At first, people don't bother to ask about the Sufficiently Advanced Alien race when they arrive, but after a while, they start to ask questions.
- Double Subverted: But they're just making small talk and don't really care about the answers.
- Parodied: The aliens desperately try to explain themselves, their culture, and their technology to the public, but no one pays them any attention.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: People start asking questions right away, wanting to know if the advanced aliens can solve their worldly problems.
- Enforced: The writers don't want to bog down their story with an Exposition Dump.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Because humanity decided to ignore the Sufficiently Advanced Alien race, the aliens use humanity's ignorance to their advantage to conquer them.
- Defied: "Apathy is death, my ass! Curiosity, on the other hand, is the REAL killer!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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