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1	Myopia is a term that involves near-focused senses and the lack of ability to comprehend exterior or additional sources. These tropes are part of that issue.
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3	For literal examples, see DisabilityTropes.
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11	!!Straight
12	* AgentMulder: A character who believes mysteries have a paranormal explanation, even if there are more mundane or scientific explanations.
13	* AgentScully: A character who believes mysteries always have a rational, scientific explanation, even if there's evidence of a paranormal explanation.
14	* AllCrimesAreEqual: Believing that everyone who commits a crime is a horrible person who deserves the most severe punishment possible.
15	* AllegedlyOptimisticEnding: The creator thinks their story's ending is happy at best or bittersweet at worst, but the audience only sees a disappointing DownerEnding.
16	* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Having a different interpretation of the work's moral than what the creators intended.
17	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Interpreting a character differently than what the creators and the general fandom suggest.
18	* AntiMentor: The one who's supposed to be guiding the youngsters is anything but a reliable source of wisdom.
19	* ApeShallNeverKillApe: A violent group draw the line only at killing one of their own.
20	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Refusing to believe in something supernatural in spite of believing in or being aware of the existence of something equally supernatural.
21	* AttackAttackAttack: The only move considered in combat is to attack the opponent non-stop.
22	* BeliefMakesYouStupid: People with religious beliefs are depicted as lacking common sense and assuming that people who don't follow their religion are in the wrong.
23	* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: A character who takes BlackAndWhiteMorality to the extreme; they believe something is either good or bad, with nothing inbetween.
24	* BlindObedience: Unquestionly obeying your superior no matter what they demand of you.
25	* BoomerangBigot: A person who is knowingly part of a group they despise (when it results from myopic perspectives).
26	* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who will instinctively attack anyone whom he feels is getting too close to his daughter.
27	* ButNotTooChallenging: A character who claims to desire a challenge gets upset at the idea of losing, not realizing that failure is an inherent part of a challenge.
28	* CaptainOblivious: A character is unrealistically unaware of something no matter how many clues to the truth they stumble upon.
29	* CategoryTraitor: The belief that doing or liking something outside a group you belong to makes you a 'traitor' to that group.
30	* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: The one person who disagrees is always depicted as being in the wrong.
31	* ConfirmationBias: Only accepting sources that prove your viewpoint.
32	* CreatorsPest: A character the creator dislikes regardless of what the audience's opinion on the character is.
33	* CreatorsPet: The creator gives a character special treatment when the audience can't stand the character.
34	* CultureBlind: A person is somehow unaware of their kind's customs.
35	* DesignatedMonkey: A character disliked by the creator is constantly subjected to misfortunes that the audience finds undeserving and too severe.
36	* DidntThinkThisThrough: A character comes up with a plan that ends up failing or becoming difficult to carry out because of a detail they failed to consider before it was too late to do anything about it.
37	* DieForOurShip: Fans bash a character just because they interfered with their preferred shipping.
38	* DisproportionateRetribution: Responding to a slight by retaliating in a way that's rather drastic in comparison to how bad the offense truly was.
39	* DisproportionateReward: Thanking someone in a much greater extent than needed.
40	* DoggedNiceGuy: A guy is in love with someone, but their object of affection refuses to reciprocate their attraction.
41	* DracoInLeatherPants: Fans portray a character as much nicer when they are canonically a horrible person.
42	* EasilySwayedPopulation: A population that is easily convinced.
43	* EpiphanicPrison: A character doesn't escape their confinement simply because they don't think it is possible or necessary.
44	* FandomHeresy: The majority of a fandom get angry over one fan having an unpopular opinion about the franchise.
45	* FanonDiscontinuity: Fans choose to ignore episodes or installments of the series that they dislike.
46	* FanMyopia: Fans assume that everyone's familiar with the works that they like.
47	* FantasyForbiddingFather: A parent strongly dislikes their child pursuing their dreams because it clashes with what they see as a path towards a successful future.
48	* FelonyMisdemeanor: Treating a minor offense as if it were an inexcusably horrid crime.
49	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Someone from the past or future ends up stuck outside of their proper time period and forced to adjust living there.
50	* FishOutOfWater: An outsider who's out of touch with how things are in where they currently reside.
51	* TheFundamentalist: A religious person who attacks everyone who doesn't follow their beliefs.
52	* GenreBlindness: A character makes every mistake done by those in stories similar to their current situation.
53	* GreyAndGrayInsanity: A character who takes GreyAndGrayMorality to the extreme; they believe everything is neutral, with nothing on either end of the spectrum.
54	* GoMadFromTheRevelation (inverse, where the "myopia" is broken into insanity)
55	* GullibleLemmings: The public are easily deceived by the bad guys.
56	* HeadInTheSandManagement: The one in charge proves to be incompetent due to refusing to acknowledge that a threat is real.
57	* HonorBeforeReason: Doing what you think is the honorable thing even if it's not the sensible thing to do in the present situation.
58	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Someone who is very bad at telling whether a person can be trusted.
59	* {{Hypocrite}}: Someone who doesn't practice what they preach.
60	* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Defending someone from other people hurting them because only ''you'' are allowed to be mean to them.
61	* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Someone drastically overestimates how smart and/or important they actually are.
62	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Saying stuff without realizing that your statements could anger or offend certain people.
63	* InspectorOblivious: A hero who doesn't know that they're stopping the bad guy.
64	* IrrationalHatred: Despising a person when there's no rational reason to dislike them.
65	* ItsACostumePartyISwear: A character mistakenly thinks a party they're invited to is a costume party.
66	* ItsAllAboutMe: A person's only concern is what they want to do and what will make things pleasant for themselves.
67	* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: Committing a misdemeanor will get you in serious trouble forever.
68	* KnightTemplar: A character thinks that noble causes justifies doing heartless and cruel deeds.
69	* KnightTemplarParent: A parent will go to ludicrous extremes to retaliate against anyone whom they assume to be causing problems for their children.
70	* LeeroyJenkins: Rushing into a fight without thinking up a strategy.
71	* LiteralMinded: A person who doesn't understand when people are using figures of speech and aren't meaning what they're saying in the literal sense.
72	* MoralMyopia: Someone defends themselves doing bad things while condemning others that do the same things (especially if they're personally on the receiving end).
73	* {{Muggles}}: Ordinary people unaffiliated or unaware of the setting's supernatural elements.
74	* MyBelovedSmother: A mother is unable to realize when their child doesn't need them.
75	* NoPeripheralVision: The only direction looked is straight ahead.
76	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: A person doesn't understand when they are invading other people's personal space.
77	* NostalgiaFilter: A person who only likes the stuff they grew up with and dismisses all modern works as being trash that isn't worth their time.
78	* NotNowKiddo: Dismissing children when they're trying to warn you about something important.
79	* ObliviousAstronomers: Objects in space go unnoticed for much longer than they realistically would.
80	* ObliviouslyEvil: A villain who doesn't know that what they're doing is wrong.
81	* ObliviouslySuperpowered: A character has powers but isn't aware of them - even while using them.
82	* OpinionMyopia: Assuming that there is no one who disagrees with your opinions and getting angry when someone dares to have a different viewpoint.
83	* OriginalPositionFallacy: Somebody supports a position/belief assuming that they'll personally benefit from it, or doesn't think that they'll suffer the consequences of it.
84	* OutsideJoke: The joke is only funny if the recipient is myopic or generally unaware of the joke's subject.
85	* PaperThinDisguise: Wearing a shoddy disguise and expecting people to be fooled by it.
86	* PaperTiger: A character builds themselves up as tough and formidable, but is in reality a weakling.
87	* ParentalFavoritism: A parent favors one of their children with no regard to how this would affect the other children.
88	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory (when the writers are unaware of temporal ValuesDissonance)
89	* ThePresentsWereNeverFromSanta: A character believes their skills and weaknesses to be from outside supernatural forces.
90	* PrinciplesZealot: Someone insists on sticking to their principles, no matter what inconvenience or problems may result from doing so.
91	* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The morality of an action is determined not by the action itself, but by whether or not the protagonist did it or by how it affects the protagonist.
92	* RashPromise: A character agrees to a promise without much thought towards whether they actually want to oblige it.
93	* RecklessSidekick: A sidekick who puts themselves in danger due to thinking they know better than their mentor.
94	* RevengeMyopia: Someone seeks revenge on a person who didn't actually hurt them or their loved ones out of malice (e.g. it was on accident or self-defense).
95	* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: A wealthy person lacks common sense because of their sheltered and pampered lifestyle.
96	* RonTheDeathEater: Fans portray a character as being a bad person when they are nicer in canon.
97	* SelectiveEnforcement: Two (or more) people do the same wrong thing, [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin but only one is immediately punished over it]].
98	* SelectiveObliviousness: Deliberately choosing to remain ignorant of something in spite of witnessing evidence of it on more than one occasion.
99	* ShallowCannotComprehendTrueLove: A shallow person can't see that not everyone else is shallow.
100	* ShippingGoggles: Audiences see romantic subtext where none was intended.
101	* StartXToStopX: The only solution to a problem is believed to be creating more of the problem.
102	* StrawmanEmotional: Emotional people are depicted as irrational.
103	* StrawmanHasAPoint (when unclear description from creator myopia or overall bad writing causes the audience to agree with the strawman)
104	* StrawVulcan: A person who sees emotions as being more trouble than they are worth.
105	* TautologicalTemplar: A person thinks they're the good guy and that therefore everything they do is in the right.
106	* TheoryTunnelVision: A person filters the information given to them to suit their view of the world.
107	* ThinkOfTheChildren: An activist demands that the media be sanitized and toned down for the sake of the children, frequently disregarding that the censorship may risk ruining the media for the people who enjoy it, that the children's parents should bear responsibility for what kind of content they let their children watch or that the media in question wasn't intended for children in the first place.
108	* TooDumbToLive: A character is too stupid to know when certain actions they take are hazardous or lethal.
109	* TotalitarianUtilitarian (ideological farsightedness)
110	* TwistingTheWords: A person gets in trouble because of someone else using a twisted interpretation of what they just said.
111	* UnderestimatingIntelligence: A character who's trying to manipulate someone underestimates the one they are trying to manipulate.
112	* UnwittingPawn: Someone doesn't realize that they're being manipulated into facilitating the villain's agenda.
113	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Not bothering to explain something to the audience under the assumption that they can figure it out themselves.
114	* ViewersAreGoldfish: Reminding the audience of stuff that was explained a short time earlier as if the audience has very poor memory.
115	* ViewersAreMorons: Explaining everything as if the audience is too dumb to figure it out themselves.
116	* WideEyedIdealist: Your optimism blinds you from how the real world isn't completely pleasant and perfect.
117	* WindmillCrusader: Someone fights against a threat that only exists in their head.
118	* WindmillPolitical: Activists rail against a non-existent political threat.
119	* WithUsOrAgainstUs: A person or group is hostile to anyone who disagrees with their agenda in any way.
120	* WrongGenreSavvy: A character thinks they know what needs to be done from their familiarity with works of fiction similar to the kind of situation they are currently in, but are foiled due to having the wrong interpretation of what kind of story they're in.
121	* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Terrorists see themselves as fighting for noble goals.
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123	!!Inverted (everyone is myopic except for one or a few)
124	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A person whom everyone else dislikes for being different.
125	* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: A super-powered being can't get the professional help they need because they can only find therapists who are normal people.
126	* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: A specific entity can only be seen by a certain someone.
127	* CassandraTruth
128	* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Someone gets accused of a crime and everyone assumes the person is guilty just because they don't like the person.
129	* TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight
130	* InvisibleToNormals: A being who can only be seen by unusual people.
131	* TheLastDJ
132	* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: Someone is assumed to be a jerk just because they rightly lashed out on someone who was bugging them.
133	* MentallyUnwellSpecialSenses: People with mental problems can see or sense things that others cannot.
134	* MistakenForMisogynist: Everyone assumes that a man has said or done something sexist.
135	* MistakenForRacist: Everyone assumes a person has said or done something racist.
136	* NobodyEverComplainedBefore
137	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood
138	* OnlySaneMan (when it involves viewpoint ranges)
139	* SurroundedByIdiots: Someone has a rather dim view on their subordinates' intelligence and competence.
140	* WeirdnessCensor: Something appears to be preventing people from noticing or caring about the bizarre people, things, and events around them.
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142	!!Subverted
143	* ObfuscatingStupidity

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