History SkewedPriorities / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/FeralnetteAUBigFatBreak'':
** PlayedForDrama with Marinette; [[ForWantOfANail the AU begins]] when she decides that her responsibilities as Ladybug and the new Guardian take priority over maintaining her health, happiness and well-being, spurring her to [[StoppedCaring stop caring]] about her social life, appearance, and other such matters.

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* ''[[Fanfic/RecommencerMiraculousLadybug Recommencer]]'':

* ''Fanfic/SinsOfThePast'': When Adrien learns that Lila has been threatening and bullying Marinette ever since her return, and has just [[WoundedGazelleGambit framed her for supposedly attacking her]], he's far more upset and [[DisappointedInYou disappointed]] that Marinette is still trying to expose her. After all, if Lila gets revealed as a liar, she'll get akumatized again... and to his mind, preventing that is much more important than letting anyone know they're dealing with a [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] BitchInSheepsClothing. Thus, he accuses ''Marinette'' of [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming being a bully]], causing things to go even further downhill.

** This builds up to the revelation that [[spoiler:Future!Alix is a ShipperWithAnAgenda who's been abusing the Rabbit Miraculous to try and ensure Marinette and Adrien get together and ''stay'' together... despite having repeatedly seen their relationship fall apart in numerous {{Bad Future}}s due to their incompatibility. She considers this ''FAR'' more important than dealing with any of the various villains]].
* ''[[Fanfic/WhatGoesAroundComesAroundMiraculousLadybug What Goes Around Comes Around]]'': Adrien's life is turned upside down when his father is exposed as Hawk/Shadow Moth and arrested, with the police also discovering evidence of Nathalie's involvement and arresting her as well for her crimes as Mayura. Yet Adrien fixates on the 'upside': Ladybug was ''also'' revealed to be none other than Marinette, meaning he ''finally'' knows who 'his lady' is and can get that RelationshipUpgrade he's been gunning for--!

'''Otto:''' ''[muttering]'' Lemme guess. There's no more juice boxes left?\\

'''Olive:''' ''[gasps]'' Which could endanger all the rare plant and animal specimens we house! They won't be able to survive without their climate-controlled rooms to live in!\\

'''Otto:''' And don't forget the food rooms! ''[as Olive and Oprah stare at him]'' What? We all need to eat. And we can't eat if all the food is melted or frozen or rotting into compost!

* ''FanFic/ThisBites'':
** Nami's miserable as they leave Alabasta, not because [[spoiler:Vivi is forced to come with them after being assigned a bounty,]] but because they didn't get the solid-gold Crocodile statues from Rain Dinners.
** When Yasopp finds out that Usopp has become a Straw Hat Pirate [[spoiler:from Cross' SBS broadcast,]] he and Shanks instantly get into a brawl. Yasopp is pissed because Shanks's protégé dragged his son away from his quiet, safe life, Shanks is pissed because Yasopp's SpitTake caused him to waste good booze.

* ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': Shan Yu discovers the hard way that it's not the best idea to pause the confrontation with the person who's currently kidnapping/freeing your slave to correct his {{Malapropism}}.

* ''FanFic/TheOneToMakeItStay'':

* ''FanFic/OfPatienceAndPettiness'':

* ''FanFic/SinsOfThePast'': When Adrien learns that Lila has been threatening and bullying Marinette ever since her return, and has just [[WoundedGazelleGambit framed her for supposedly attacking her]], he's far more upset and [[DisappointedInYou disappointed]] that Marinette is still trying to expose her. After all, if Lila gets revealed as a liar, she'll get akumatized again... and to his mind, preventing that is much more important than letting anyone know they're dealing with a [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] BitchInSheepsClothing. Thus, he accuses ''Marinette'' of [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming being a bully]], causing things to go even further downhill.

* ''Fanfic/AHeroRises'': While fighting Stain, Izuku asks him [[spoiler:for permission to marry Himiko, since he's the closest thing she has to a father-figure]]. While this was partially to throw him off, Shouto still bluntly comments that "There's a time and place, this is neither."

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41938833 Think Before You Speak]]'': While being interviewed following his brother's injury in a training accident, Tensei unintentionally gives the impression that he's more concerned about how Tenya won't be able to participate in U.A.'s Sports Festival.

* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeason1'': In "Fright Night Fight", when Hak Foo demands that the Guardians hand over the Squidkhan mask, Hay Lin says that since he's already orange (as he's a Dark Chi Warrior), it won't work with his skin tone. Jade dryly notes that shouldn't be the main reason they're not giving him the mask.

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* {{Parodied}} in ''FanFic/ADanceOnTheMats''. The Rainbooms consider going to class as less important than helping Rainbow deal with [[BelligerentSexualTension her feelings toward Anon]]. It even takes precedent over their discovery that their [[PowerOfFriendship friendship magic]] can give them [[HealingFactor healing powers]].

* ''Fanfic/ASliceOfLife'': In order to gain a private army to raid the Royal Kitchens, Celestia agrees to sign many legislative bills for the ponies' support. She eventually stops skimming the titles and just starts signing the dotted lines, so she could have just signed Equestria over to her secretary for all she noticed.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5001646/1/Nothing-but-Trouble Nothing but Trouble]]'', Manga/{{Naruto}} correctly predicts that his fiance Anko would be more freaked out that he's been married before than the fact that he's really the [[EldritchAbomination Kyuubi]] and Naruto's been dead for years. Though her reasoning does make an odd bit of sense: she barely knew Naruto but she's fully aware that she's rather crazy and is worried that Naruto/Kyuubi will divorce her if he wasn't willing to work things out with his previous wives (Naruto/Kyuubi quickly reassures her that he did work things out with them; he just outlived them).

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30584753/chapters/75445781 In the Rain]]'' features Alya furiously confronting Marinette after she reunites with her class after being separated from them during a supervillain attack. This isn't AngerBornOfWorry, though. She's more concerned with berating her for not immediately [[LoveConfession confessing her feelings]] to Adrien, insisting she just let the ''perfect'' opportunity to deepen their relationship slip through her fingers. [[WhatTheHellHero Marinette is less than thrilled]].

* In the AU ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12848001/chapters/29338929 To Hench or Not to Hench]]'', where Chat Noir has been fighting alone for years, Marinette is so set on having that internship at ''Gabriel'' she ends up accepting to work as Hawk Moth's henchwoman in exchange. At least she used the situation to turn it into a ''paid'' internship (plus lavish pay as a henchwoman)...

* PlayedWith in ''FanFic/DekuIThinkHesSomePro'' during the League's debut. While Shigaraki ''is'' specifically targeting Izuku as a 'side quest', that doesn't factor into All Might's decision to prioritize saving him. No, he's purely driven by his own biases there: [[ForWantOfANail Midoriya is Quirkless]], and in All Might's mind, that naturally translates to being completely helpless. He also completely dismisses the threat that the League poses to all of the ''other'' students, and has to be forcibly reminded that yes, [[WouldHurtAChild villains are perfectly capable of hurting children]], Quirked or not.

* ''Fanfic/BlackenedSkies'': The 'Death Row Delights' menu is filled with dishes that reference the various executions the participants faced, including one [[spoiler:based off the first execution of ''this'' game]]. Korekiyo observes that Teruteru seems more upset by how the 'Deep-fried Teruteru with Fries' offering is greasy carnival fare.

** Bulma is outraged that Krillin destroyed the remote she created not because it means Cell can absorb 18 but because it took her twenty hours to make. Later when Vegeta agrees to let Cell absorb 18, Bulma is delighted that she won her bet on who would screw things up.

** Nami's misery as they leave Alabasta, not because [[spoiler:Vivi is forced to come with them after being assigned a bounty,]] but because they didn't get the solid-gold Crocodile statues from Rain Dinners.

* In ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'', Omar sees that ComicBook/LoisLane and [[Franchise/Superman Lana Lang]] are waging battle against each other, and decides to leave in order to get a souvenir before the Mobile Unit leaves Metropolis.

* In ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'', Omar sees that ComicBook/LoisLane and [[Franchise/{{Superman Lana Lang]] are waging battle against each other, and decides to leave in order to get a souvenir before the Mobile Unit leaves Metropolis.

* ''FanFic/AnAlternateKeitaroUrashima'': [[BitchInSheepsClothing Granny Hina]] considers it more important to defend and excuse the often-inexcusable behavior of her tenets. She takes this so far that when Mokoto gets arrested, she's more concerned with figuring out some way to get the charges dropped than acknowledging the fact that Mokoto ''threatened her grandson with a deadly weapon in public''.

* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'':

* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeason1'': In "Fright Night Fight", when Hak Foo demands that the Guardians hand over the Squidkhan mask, Hay Lin says that since he's already orange (as he's a Dark Chi Warrior), it won't work with his skin tone. Jade dryly notes that shouldn't be the main reason they're not giving him the mask.
* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/413761/the-power-of-freedom The Power of Freedom]]'', Ganondorf notes that Link has always gone through life at his own pace and with a mindset that only makes sense to him. On one occasion, he delayed one of their clashes for the fate of Hyrule just to go fishing.

* ''FanFic/AnAlternateKeitaroUrashima'': [[BitchInSheepsClothing Granny Hina]]'s top priority no matter what is to come up with all manner of ways to excuse the often-inexcusable behavior of the girls at her dorm. It's to the extent that when Motoko gets herself arrested for trying to challenge Keitaro to a duel, Hina is more concerned with defending her than the fact that Motoko ''threatened her grandson with a deadly weapon in public''.

* ''Fanfic/CheshireMiraculousLadybug'': While Master Fu and Adrien try defeat Cheshire because they, wrongly but sincerely, believe that she is a dangerous VillainWithGoodPublicity, Kim as King Monkey fights her to give the Horse Miraculous back to Max (to the point that he ''ignores'' the Akumas), while Chloe as Queen Bee is only interested in the fame and see Cheshire as a competitor for it.

* In ''[[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]],'' The Equinus Republic demonstrates this by placing great priority not on the starving population, or the increase in aggressive monster raids, but in the action of [[spoiler:banishing all of its political critics to Tartarus, the Pit of Monsters]]. The LemonyNarrator shows off her own Skewed Priorities by justifying their actions by stating that they couldn't allow [[spoiler:the critics to stay, or they would lower national pride. And then what would become of all the money they poured into the Equestrian Games?]]

--> '''Olive:''' You wanted to see us, Ms. O?
--> '''Oprah:''' Yes, I did. Something very odd has happened. Well, no, not odd. More like disastrous. Here, at Odd Squad Headquarters.
--> '''Otto:''' ''[muttering]'' Lemme guess. There's no more juice boxes left?
--> '''Olive:''' Shush!

--> '''Oprah:''' If that thing completely shuts off the main pipe, Odd Squad Headquarters won't have any more heating or cooling.
--> '''Olive:''' ''[gasps]'' Which could endanger all the rare plant and animal specimens we house! They won't be able to survive without their climate-controlled rooms to live in!
--> '''Oprah:''' Not to mention all of the Odd Squad agents. It's important that we take care of every agent accordingly.
--> '''Otto:''' And don't forget the food rooms! ''[as Olive and Oprah stare at him]'' What? We all need to eat. And we can't eat if all the food is melted or frozen or rotting into compost!

** Further driven home when he pays her a visit as Chat Noir and barely makes a token apology for missing the FinalBattle before diving straight into discussing their 'relationship', [[EntitledToHaveYou taking it completely for grante]] that she'll agree to hook up with him.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5001646/1/Nothing-but-Trouble Nothing but Trouble]]'', Manga/{{Naruto}} correctly predicts that his fiance Anko would be more freaked out that he's been married before than the fact that he's really the [[EldritchAbomination Kyuubi]] and Naruto's been dead for years. Though her reasoning does make an odd bit of sense: she barely knew Naruto but she's fully aware that she's rather crazy and is worried that Naruto/Kyuubi will divorce her if he wasn't willing to work things out with his previous wives (Naruto/Kyuubi quickly reassures her that he did work things out with them; he just outlived them).lam

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5001646/1/Nothing-but-Trouble Nothing but Trouble]]'', Manga/{{Naruto}} correctly predicts that his fiance Anko would be more freaked out that he's been married before than the fact that he's really the [[EldritchAbomination Kyuubi]] and Naruto's been dead for years. Though her reasoning does make an odd bit of sense: she barely knew Naruto but she's fully aware that she's rather crazy and is worried that Naruto/Kyuubi will divorce her if he wasn't willing to work things out with his previous wives (Naruto/Kyuubi quickly reassures her that he did work things out with them; he just outlived them).