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.
For literal examples, see Disability Tropes.
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- Agent Mulder: A character who believes mysteries have a paranormal explanation, even if there are more mundane or scientific explanations.
- Agent Scully: A character who believes mysteries always have a rational, scientific explanation, even if there's evidence of a paranormal explanation.
- All Crimes Are Equal: Believing that everyone who commits a crime is a horrible person who deserves the most severe punishment possible.
- Alternate Aesop Interpretation
- Alternative Character Interpretation
- Anti-Mentor
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Refusing to believe in something supernatural in spite of believing in or being aware of the existence of something equally supernatural.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Belief Makes You Stupid: People with religious beliefs are depicted as lacking common sense and assuming that people who don't follow their religion are in the wrong.
- Black and White Insanity: A character who takes Black-and-White Morality to the extreme; they believe something is either good or bad, with nothing inbetween.
- Blind Obedience: Unquestionly obeying your superior no matter what they demand of you.
- Boomerang Bigot: A person who is knowingly part of a group they despise (when it results from myopic perspectives)
- Captain Oblivious
- Category Traitor: The belief that doing or liking something outside a group you belong to makes you a 'traitor' to that group.
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong: The one person who disagrees is always depicted as being in the wrong.
- Confirmation Bias: Only accepting sources that prove your viewpoint.
- Creator's Pest: A character the creator dislikes regardless of what the audience's opinion on the character is.
- Creator's Pet: The creator gives a character special treatment when the audience can't stand the character.
- Culture Blind
- Designated Monkey: A character disliked by the creator is constantly subjected to misfortunes that the audience finds undeserving and too severe.
- Didn't Think This Through: 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.
- Die for Our Ship: Fans bash a character just because they interfered with their preferred shipping.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Responding to a slight by retaliating in a way that's rather drastic in comparison to how bad the offense truly was.
- Disproportionate Reward: Thanking someone in a much greater extent than needed.
- Dogged Nice Guy
- Draco in Leather Pants: Fans portray a character as much nicer when they are canonically a horrible person.
- Epiphanic Prison
- Esoteric Happy Ending: The creator thinks their story's ending is happy, but the audience only sees a disappointing Downer Ending.
- Fandom Heresy: The majority of a fandom get angry over one fan having an unpopular opinion about the franchise.
- Fanon Discontinuity: Fans choose to ignore episodes or installments of the series that they dislike.
- Fan Myopia: Fans assume that everyone's familiar with the works that they like.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: A parent strongly dislikes their child pursuing their dreams because it clashes with what they see as a path towards a successful future.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Treating a minor offense as if it were an inexcusably horrid crime.
- Fish out of Temporal Water
- Fish out of Water
- The Fundamentalist: A religious person who attacks everyone who doesn't follow their beliefs.
- Genre Blind
- Go Mad from the Revelation (inverse, where the "myopia" is broken into insanity)
- Gullible Lemmings
- Head-in-the-Sand Management
- Honor Before Reason: Doing what you think is the honorable thing even if it's not the sensible thing to do in the present situation.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Someone who is very bad at telling whether a person can be trusted.
- Hypocrite: Someone who doesn't practice what they preach.
- Hypocritical Heartwarming: Defending someone from other people hurting them because only you are allowed to be mean to them.
- Innocently Insensitive: Saying stuff without realizing that your statements could anger or offend certain people.
- Inspector Oblivious
- Irrational Hatred: Despising a person when there's no rational reason to dislike them.
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear!
- It's All About Me: A person's only concern is what they want to do and what will make things pleasant for themselves.
- Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
- Knight Templar
- Knight Templar Parent: A parent will go to ludicrous extremes to retaliate against anyone whom they assume to be causing problems for their children.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Rushing into a fight without thinking up a strategy.
- Literal-Minded: 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.
- Moral Dissonance: The hero does something that contradicts their stated moral code and no one comments on it in-universe.
- Moral Myopia: Someone defends themselves doing bad things while condemning others that do them (especially if they're personally on the receiving end).
- Muggles
- My Beloved Smother
- No Peripheral Vision
- No Sense of Personal Space
- Nostalgia Filter: 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.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Dismissing children when they're trying to warn you about something important.
- Obliviously Evil: A villain who doesn't know that what they're doing is wrong.
- Opinion Myopia: Assuming that there is no one who disagrees with your opinions and getting angry when someone dares to have a different viewpoint.
- Outside Joke (the joke is only funny if the recipient is myopic or generally unaware of the joke's subject)
- Overprotective Dad: A father who will instinctively attack anyone whom he feels is getting too close to his daughter.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Wearing a shoddy disguise and expecting people to be fooled by it.
- Paper Tiger
- Parental Favoritism
- Politically Correct History (when the writers are unaware of temporal Values Dissonance)
- The Presents Were Never from Santa
- Principles Zealot: Someone insists on sticking to their principles, no matter what inconvenience or problems may result from doing so.
- Protagonist-Centered Morality: 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.
- Reckless Sidekick
- Revenge Myopia: Someone seeks revenge on a person who didn't actually hurt them or their loved ones out of malice (e.g. it was accident or self-defense).
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: A wealthy person lacks common sense because of their sheltered and pampered lifestyle.
- Ron the Death Eater: Fans portray a character as being a bad person when they are nicer in canon.
- Selective Enforcement
- Selective Obliviousness: Deliberately choosing to remain ignorant of something in spite of witnessing evidence of it on more than one occasion.
- Shipping Goggles
- Strawman Emotional
- Strawman Has a Point (when unclear description from creator myopia or overall bad writing causes the audience to agree with the strawman)
- Straw Vulcan
- Tautological Templar
- Theory Tunnelvision
- Too Dumb to Live
- Totalitarian Utilitarian (ideological farsightedness)
- Twisting the Words
- Unwitting Pawn: Someone doesn't realize that they're being manipulated into facilitating the villain's agenda.
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- Viewers Are Goldfish: Reminding the audience of stuff that was explained a short time earlier as if the audience has very poor memory.
- Viewers Are Morons: Explaining everything as if the audience is too dumb to figure it out themselves.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Your optimism blinds you from how the real world isn't completely pleasant and perfect.
- Windmill Crusader: Someone fights against a threat that only exists in their head.
- Windmill Political
- With Us or Against Us: A person or group is hostile to anyone who disagrees with their agenda in any way.
- Wrong Genre Savvy
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Terrorists see themselves as fighting for noble goals.
Inverted (everyone is myopic except for one or a few)
- All of the Other Reindeer: A person whom everyone else dislikes for being different.
- All Therapists Are Muggles
- By the Eyes of the Blind
- Cassandra Truth
- Convicted by Public Opinion: Someone gets accused of a crime and everyone assumes the person is guilty just because they don't like the person.
- Invisible to Normals: A being who can only be seen by unusual people.
- The Last DJ
- Made Out to Be a Jerkass: Someone is assumed to be a jerk just because they rightly lashed out on someone who was bugging them.
- Mistaken for Misogynist: Everyone assumes that a man has said or done something sexist.
- Mistaken for Racist: Everyone assumes a person has said or done something racist.
- Nobody Ever Complained Before
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
- Only Sane Man (when it involves viewpoint ranges)
- Surrounded by Idiots: Someone has a rather dim view on their subordinates' intelligence and competence.
- Weirdness Censor: Something appears to be preventing people from noticing or caring about the bizarre people, things, and events around them.
