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1	->''"I have an intense, burning indifference!"''
2	-->-- '''Dr. Doofenshmirtz''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
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4	Tropes about apathy, boredom, laziness, [[SelfDemonstratingArticle and other stuff]]. Eh, don't feel like explaining it. [JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere]
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6	Compare with IdlenessIndex, IgnoredIndex, DespairTropes, and BoredomTropes. Contrast with AudienceReactions & CharacterReactionIndex. Opposite of ObsessionTropes index.
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8	!!Don't feel like explaining these. Read it yourself.
9	[[index]]
10	* ApatheticCitizens: Someone's hurt and homeless... and we don't care.
11	* ApatheticClerk: I don't care about my job and don't you dare ask me to do it.
12	* ApatheticPet: I live with a human, I guess? Whatever.
13	* ApatheticStudent: I don't give a crap about school. Just let us go home, man!
14	* ApatheticTeacher: I have no desire to teach my students. Who cares about grades anyway?
15	* ApathyKilledTheCat: How things are, you ask? I don't know.
16	* AssPull: We just pull anything out of thin air just to advance the plot because we're too lazy to explain where it came from.
17	* BeigeProse: Simple prose, because I've no desire to make it more descriptive.
18	* BlahBlahBlah: Nothing but "blah." What were you expecting?
19	* BlindIdiotTranslation: How do you translate this? You know what? Forget it! Don't care anymore!
20	* BoredomMontage: I get bored as time goes on.
21	* BoringInsult: You're lame. That's all I have to tell you.
22	* BoringReturnJourney: We're back home. Now what?
23	* BorrowedCatchphrase: I'm gonna use someone else's catchphrase since I'm too lazy to come up with my own.
24	* BreadAndCircuses: As long as a government keeps the citizens satisfied, they can do whatever they want and the citizens won't care.
25	* BrilliantButLazy: I have the skills, but don't bother applying myself with them.
26	* BystanderSyndrome: Someone needs help? Not my problem.
27	* CallousnessTowardsEmergency: Someone's in danger, but I don't care, and I won't do anything about it!
28	* CapcomSequelStagnation: So, we need to make a new game. Just take the old one and tweak it a bit. I don't care.
29	* CatsAreLazy: Meeow.[[note]]I feel like doing nothing but sleeping on the tree.[[/note]]
30	* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: I don't like the show, and I won't waste time watching it to see why I don't.
31	* ConceptsAreCheap: May as well rely on the concept and buzz words for an already thin script. We're too lazy to come up with a script with more effort into it.
32	* ConductingTheCarnage: So what if the world is ending? I'm just going to stand here and move my hands like a conductor. Whatever.
33	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Uhh... I never watched that show, so I'm gonna throw information from my head to make that article more fitting.
34	* CreatorsApathy: I really don't know or care what to do with my work.
35	* JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere: Just do it. We're too lazy to describe it ourselves.
36	* DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready: Yes. Too bored to come up with any new jokes.
37	* {{Dismotivation}}: I don't want to progress in life.
38	* TheDitherer: I can't choose between two alternatives.
39	* EightDeadlyWords: I don't care about any of these people.
40	* TheElitesJumpShip: I'm upper class. I don't have to deal with your problems. I'm out of here!
41	* ExtremeDoormat: I don't have the energy to stop others from walking all over me.
42	* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: I know I lied when I said I did my research, but truth is researching is so boring!
43	* FantasticallyIndifferent: Wow. Magic. Whatever.
44	* FatSlob: I'm a fat guy who ain't cleaning up my mess.
45	* FleetingDemographicRule: Let's just do a gimmick/storyline we've already done before. It's not like everyone's going to remember.
46	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
47	* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: The character in the show/movie is hilarious! The guy who plays him.... eh, not so much.
48	* GameBreakingBug: What? There's a glitch in the game that makes it impossible to play? Cool. Don't care.
49	* GeniusSlob: I'm too smart to clean up anything.
50	* TheGodsMustBeLazy: I'm a god. I don't want to be bothered doing things for you mortals.
51	* GoodBadBugs: It's a good thing the bug in the game is fun, because we don't feel like fixing it.
52	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Can I be your bestest friend? Or your worst enemy? You choose.
53	* HandWave: I'm far too bored to give out any complex detail to explain the plot points of my work.
54	* HeadInTheSandManagement: I'm in charge, but I won't address a threat till it's too late to do anything about it.
55	* ImmortalApathy: I don't really care about the plight of you mere mortals.
56	* ImStandingRightHere: I don't care that you can hear me insulting you.
57	* InactionVideo: A music video where the singer sits or stands still and doesn't seem to care about anything that's going on around them.
58	* IncriminatingIndifference: That person's not sad or upset about their loved one's death? Then they must be the murderer!
59	* LaboriousLaziness: I'll work on this thing here for 2 hours, even if it takes me an hour.
60	* LackOfEmpathy: Someone is sad, and I don't care.
61	* LaidBackKoala: That koala hasn't moved from its tree in an hour!
62	* LazyArtist: I don't put any detail in my artwork.
63	* LazyBum: I don't want to do anything at all.
64	* LazyMexican: ¡Olvidalo, holmes! I ain't workin' for nothin', ese!
65	* LazyHusband: Meh, I'll let my wife clean up the mess.
66	* LazyNeuteredPet: Eh, they took out my gonads. Now I feel like doing nothing but eat and sleep.
67	* LethalNegligence: I don't care if people are harmed because of my laziness.
68	* LimitedAnimation: We're too lazy to make our animation more advanced.
69	* MedievalStasis: I know it's been, like, hundreds of years since our society has advanced in technology, but whatever. Let's just stay as it is.
70	* MellowFellow: My main personality trait is that I am very [[NiceGuy easygoing, affable]] and don't care about what's happening.
71	* MisplacedNamesPoster: I know the names on the poster don't match up the actors, but you couldn't ''pay'' me to fix it.
72	* MonkeyMoralityPose: What are you interpreting? That I am ignoring something I should acknowledge? Is that supposed to interest me?
73	* MuseumOfBoredom: I'm in a museum that's extremely boring.
74	* MyopicConqueror: I am TheConqueror, but the place I have conquered doesn't interest me in the slightest. Yawn...
75	* NatureIsBoring: I am so bored by nature.
76	* NeverRecycleYourSchemes: Why bother revising the same scheme? It would be too tedious to reuse something that just failed.
77	* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Here, I made this thing. What do you mean, what if something happens to it? There's no "backup."
78	* NonAnswer: [.....]
79	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: She's hot. So what?
80	* ObviousBeta: This game isn't finished, but let's release it anyway.
81	* OdeToApathy: I don't even care about it, but I'm singing about it anyway.
82	* OffendedByAnEnemysIndifference: That guy hates me cause I don't care about him? Whatever.
83	* OneProductPlanet: I have an idea—everyone on this planet should just make one thing.
84	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: I found the cure to cancer, want it? It won't be cheap.
85	* OverusedRunningGag: Too bored to come up with any other gags to fit the humor.
86	* PerpetualBeta: Instead of just fixing the game once and for all, let's just keep patching it over and over.
87	* PlanetOfHats: Everyone on this planet has something in common, because who cares?
88	* ThePowerOfApathy: Not caring about things makes me powerful. Whatever.
89	* PrimpOfContempt: I'm going to file my nails, puff my hair, and fix my makeup because I don't care about what's going on right now.
90	* ProfessionalSlacker: It's my ''job'' to sit around and do nothing all day.
91	* RecycledPremise: We're just going to use a premise that has been done before because we're too lazy to write anything original.
92	* RecycledScript: We're just going to use the same script from another show because we're lazy writers.
93	* ReputationApathy: PR is the ''last'' thing on my mind.
94	* RichBoredom: Man, opulence is so ''boring!''
95	* RidiculousProcrastinator: I should probably do something... nah, I'm too lazy right now. I'll do it later... maybe...
96	* SafetyInIndifference: Not caring protects me from getting hurt.
97	* SameStoryDifferentNames: Okay, so I need to make a new story, but here's what I'm gonna do—I'll just do the same thing again and tweak the title. No one will notice.
98	* SeenItAll: We already saw it, and that makes it boring.
99	* ShallowParody: Let's [[TakeThat make fun]] of this other project/production that we only have a partial and generic knowledge of!
100	* ShapedLikeItself: Literally no one cares about analogies. It is what it is.
101	* ShrugOfGod: I know you have a question about a story I wrote but... eh, I don't know.
102	* SingleBiomePlanet: Isn't one biome on the planet enough?
103	* TheSlacker: I just sit around doing nothing all day.
104	* SluggishSeal: We're seals who aren't interested in physical activities. So please quit bothering us and let us rest on these rocks.
105	* SmallReferencePools: Look, if it's not popular, I'm not going to acknowledge it.
106	* SmallTownBoredom: This shabby place is so boring.
107	* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: I know this is super important, but... food.
108	* SoOkayItsAverage: It's just plain mediocre. Nothing interesting about it.
109	* SpaceAgeStasis: There's a TimeSkip and technology hasn't changed at all. So what?
110	* StockFootage: Let's just use this clip over and over.
111	* StoppedCaring: Ah, forget it.
112	* StrawNihilist: Life is meaningless anyway, so who cares what happens to everybody?
113	* StupidNeutral: Who cares about common sense? I'm simply uninterested in using my head anyway.
114	* SurveillanceStationSlacker: I don't have time to stare at surveillance cameras to keep an eye on anyone there. I am too busy slacking off.
115	* SymbolicSereneSubmersion: I'm floating limply underwater, symbolizing my apathy/helplessness, because I simply stopped caring.
116	* TandemParasite: You can do the work on this two-person bike, I'll just kick back and relax...
117	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: There's nothing in this work that amuses us, much less anyone worth liking. So bored.
118	* TooBrokenToBreak: I'm so (mentally or physically) broken that anything you can do to me is "meh."
119	* TranslationYes: That answer is too long. So a simple "yes" will do.
120	* TrappedByMountainLions: There's so many characters and subplots introduced yet none are relevant to the plot. Ergo they don't interest me.
121	* TrueLoveIsBoring: This OTP is a snoozefest.
122	* TrueNeutral (some examples): I don't care about the battle between [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good vs. evil]] or [[OrderVersusChaos order vs. chaos.]]
123	* TyopOnTheCover: Yeah, I know the cover of the work has a typo. What's your point?
124	* UnfazedEveryman: I know this stuff is super weird, but I couldn't care less.
125	* UnfortunateImplications: (YMMV) Yeah, I'll just put this in the story. Whatev—Wait, what do you mean someone's offended by it?
126	* TheUnfettered: Morals are cheap, piss me off? You're dead, simple.
127	* TheUnReveal: It takes time to detail exactly what you want to see. Not revealing it to you saves us time.
128	* TheUntwist: I don't care if it was super obvious. I'm still treating this like TheReveal.
129	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Something awesome just happened. Meh.
130	* VanillaEdition: We don't care about adding "extra features" to a DVD release so you can get your so-called money's worth. [[MoneyDearBoy Just buy it!]]
131	* VictoryIsBoring: I won! But I got nothing to do now.
132	* WhileRomeBurns: Something horrible is happening... Time to chill.
133	* WildCard: Bah, who cares about choosing a side?
134	* WhiteVoidRoom: I have decorated this room with literally nothing.
135	* AWinnerIsYou: You've won the video game. Here's your reward: "Good job."
136	* AWizardDidIt: What, you want me to explain something that doesn't make sense? Fine. The answer is "magic."
137	* WrongfullyAttributed: Wait, I don't know who actually did this thing... Ah, whatever. It was this guy.
138	[[/index]]
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