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.
Categories:
Straight
- Agent Mulder
- Agent Scully
- All Crimes Are Equal
- Alternate Aesop Interpretation
- Alternative Character Interpretation
- Anti-Mentor
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
- Arbitrary Skepticism
- Attack! Attack! Attack!
- Belief Makes You Stupid
- Black and White Insanity
- Blind Obedience
- Boomerang Bigot (when it results from myopic perspectives)
- Captain Oblivious
- Category Traitor
- The Complainer Is Always Wrong
- Confirmation Bias
- Creator's Pet
- Culture Blind
- Deaf Composer (a literal "myopia")
- Designated Monkey
- Didn't Think This Through
- Die for Our Ship
- Disproportionate Retribution
- Dogged Nice Guy
- Draco in Leather Pants
- Epiphanic Prison
- Fandom Heresy
- Fanon Discontinuity
- Fan Myopia
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father
- Felony Misdemeanor
- Fish out of Temporal Water
- Fish out of Water
- The Fundamentalist
- 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
- Horrible Judge of Character
- Hypocrite
- Hypocritical Heartwarming
- Innocently Insensitive
- Inspector Oblivious
- Irrational Hatred
- It's a Costume Party, I Swear!
- It's All About Me
- Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
- Knight Templar
- Knight Templar Parent
- Leeroy Jenkins
- Literal-Minded
- Moral Dissonance
- Moral Myopia
- Muggles
- My Beloved Smother
- No Peripheral Vision
- No Sense of Personal Space
- Nostalgia Filter
- Not Now, Kiddo
- Obliviously Evil
- Opinion Myopia
- Outside Joke (the joke is only funny if the recipient is myopic or generally unaware of the joke's subject)
- Overprotective Dad
- Paper-Thin Disguise
- Paper Tiger
- Parental Favoritism
- Politically Correct History (when the writers are unaware of temporal Values Dissonance)
- The Presents Were Never from Santa
- Principles Zealot
- Protagonist-Centered Morality
- Reckless Sidekick
- Revenge Myopia
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
- Ron the Death Eater
- Selective Enforcement
- Selective Obliviousness
- 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
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- Viewers Are Goldfish
- Viewers Are Morons
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
- Windmill Crusader
- Windmill Political
- With Us or Against Us
- Wrong Genre Savvy
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
Inverted (everyone is myopic except for one or a few)
- All of the Other Reindeer
- All Therapists Are Muggles
- By the Eyes of the Blind
- Cassandra Truth
- Convicted by Public Opinion
- Invisible to Normals
- The Last DJ
- Made Out to Be a Jerkass
- Mistaken for Misogynist
- Mistaken for Racist
- Nobody Ever Complained Before
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood
- Only Sane Man (when it involves viewpoint ranges)
- Surrounded by Idiots
- Weirdness Censor
