They have their uses
Tropes that cover things that distract or divert a character's attention, whether by accident or design, as well as the characters that plan or fall for them.
For examples of things that might distract you, the reader, from something you really should be doing instead, see Wiki Walk and TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
Tropes:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
- Cacophony Cover Up
- Centipede's Dilemma
- Chasing a Butterfly
- Convenient Decoy Cat
- Conveniently Timed Distraction
- Covering for the Noise
- Crashing Through the Harem
- Decoy Convoy
- Delicious Distraction
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
- Distracted by the Sexy
- Distracted by My Own Sexy
- Distracting Disambiguation
- Draw Aggro
- Easily Distracted Referee
- Escort Distraction
- Fake-Out Make-Out
- Fakin' MacGuffin
- Freudian Slippery Slope
- Girls Stare at Scenery, Boys Stare at Girls
- Go Fetch
- Go Look at the Distraction
- Hey, Catch!
- Hitchhiker's Leg
- Inconvenient Itch
- Infraction Distraction
- Institutional Allegiance Concealment
- Kiss of Distraction
- Look Behind You
- Not Distracted by the Sexy
- Paralysis by Analysis
- Show Some Leg
- Smoke Out
- Throwing the Distraction
- We Need a Distraction
- Wild Goose Chase
Wait, what's that behind you?!
~Disappears~
