1 | ->''"I have an intense, burning indifference!"'' |
2 | -->-- '''Dr. Doofenshmirtz''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' |
3 | |
4 | Tropes about apathy, boredom, laziness, [[SelfDemonstratingArticle and other stuff]]. Eh, don't feel like explaining it. [JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere] |
5 | |
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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