Being a Literal Metaphor for this is no fun at all.
Don't bother looking at these tropes...they're not all that important.
See also Apathy Index, Rejection Index, More Than Meets the Eye, Obvious Index, The Secret Index, and WOW! are those Distraction Tropes!?
Isn't there something better to do?
- Belated Injury Realization: An injury, often major, goes unnoticed.
- Beneath Notice
- Beneath Suspicion
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: A bizarre scene not relevant to the story's plot that is never brought up again after it occurs.
- Bystander Syndrome
- Cassandra Truth
- Devil in Plain Sight: Everyone ignores the obvious signs that this bad person can't be trusted.
- Elephant in the Living Room: An obvious problem that everyone is going out of their way to avoid acknowledging.
- Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game
- Failed a Spot Check: Someone fails to notice something they should've before it is too late.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Fans choose to ignore episodes or installments of the series that they dislike.
- Handshake Refusal
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- High-Five Left Hanging: A character tries to get another person to high five them, but the other person just leaves them hanging.
- Ignored Raised Hand
- Ignore the Disability
- Ignore the Fanservice
- Ignored Confession: Someone makes a confession, but no one cares to pay any attention to them or to take the claim seriously.
- Ignored Enemy
- Ignored Epiphany: The villain considers redeeming themselves, but brushes off the thought and continues being bad.
- Ignored Expert
- Ignored Vital News Reports
- Ignoring by Singing: A character covers their ears and sings to try and ignore a statement they don't like or don't want to hear.
- I Have No Son!: Parents disown their child because they are ashamed of them or do not approve of the decisions they've made.
- I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
- In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: Devastated character copes by convincing themselves it is/was just a bad dream.
- Invisible to Normals
- It Seemed Trivial
- It's Probably Nothing
- I Warned You
- I Was Never Here
- Jedi Mind Trick
- Just Ignore It
- Kansas City Shuffle
- MacGuffin Blindness
- Metallicar Syndrome
- Move Along, Nothing to See Here
- The Nondescript
- Not Now, Kiddo: Ignoring children when they're trying to warn you about something important.
- Perception Filter
- Play the Game, Skip the Story
- Refusal of the Call
- Refusal of the Second Call
- Right Under Their Noses
- Selective Obliviousness
- Silent Treatment
- Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him
- That Didn't Happen
- Theory Tunnelvision
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
- Unknown Rival
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Characters fail to notice or care about something that should be seen as unusual or weird.
- Visible to Believers
- Weirdness Censor: There's a whole bunch of strange stuff going around, but no one seems to notice.
- Within Parameters
- You Didn't See That
What, expecting a witty stinger or something? There's nothing to see here. Scram!
