Basic Trope: A character who is impressed by mundane things.
- Straight: Bob has the tendency to be impressed by things such as basic household appliances.
- Exaggerated: Bob could spend hours learning about anything mundane at all, such as breathing.
- Downplayed: Bob often finds more mildly interesting things a lot more interesting than he should.
- Justified:
- Bob is a small child, who are typically known for being impressed by anything, or a manchild.
- The one doing the mundane thing is Alice, who Bob admires for some reason.
- Bob is a Fish out of Temporal Water who discovered an item that doesn't exist in his time period.
- Bob is a Country Mouse… they may be mundane for New York, but not for his hometown in Arkansas.
- Inverted:
- Bob is bored by even the most exciting things.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks.
- Subverted: Bob seems to be impressed with a bunch of mundane activities but later reveals he was just pretending to make others feel better.
- Double Subverted: Bob seems impressed with Alice's art dull art but then reveals to her he was just pretending to mess with her. Then later Bob walks up to a sad Alice making more paintings...and then surprises her by bursting into tears and admitting he loved her art all along which! He was just too proud to admit it earlier.
- Parodied: Alice chuckles at how silly the idea of a man that can be impressed by anything is. Then Bob, who states he also goes by the name "Mr. Impressed", bursts into the office and immediately shows glee and awe at everything in sight.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob gets impressed by some mundane things early on only to eventually find them uninteresting. But then his friends show him some new stuff which almost make him faint in awe. And then 10 seconds later god appears before him and he just shrugs it off. Determined to get his attention, God tells Bob what his 10th birthday wish was and Bob's mind is literally blown by this "feat".
- Averted: Nobody gets impressed by mundane actions.
- Enforced: Bob has to be easily impressed with all the products shown in a commericial to help his company sell them.
- Lampshaded: Bob gets his mind blown by an action show for kids. His partner Carl questions why he's so enamoured with it when they both are top agents for an organization that fights off alien invasions.
- Invoked: This Is My Boomstick.
- Exploited: Alice knows Bob is easily impressed by insect stuff so she plays a video of a guy caring for a simple ant farm while she sneaks by him.
- Defied: Bob knows he gets easily impressed by card tricks but uses his Heroic Resolve to not allow the evil magician to capture his imagination and fool him.
- Discussed: Alice and Carl discuss how Bob lately has been getting impressed by the most mundane and silly of things.
- Conversed:
- Bob: "Yo Alice, have ya ever noticed how some characters in fiction seem SO easy to impress?"
- Alice: "What do you mean?"
- Bob: "Well often, works seem to have particular characters that get blown away by things just about all other characters aren't all that amazed by. Like when you see that one kid at school in a show that gets awestruck by everything their boring teacher says while everyone else groans."
- Alice: "OH RIGHT! Ya now I know what ya mean. Ya done well, it often makes for a pretty funny and endearing way of presenting a character as more whimsical and naive than their peers."
- Bob: "Yep! Done wrong, too many characters getting easily impressed can make the story seemed too contrived. But done well, it can really help a character stand out and even lead to fun antics or even Character Development!"
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