Most of the oldest tropes in the index do tend to demonstrate the "narrative disregard" you're looking for: What Measure Is a Non-Human?, What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, What Measure Is a Mook?. Muggle Power, formerly What Measure Is a Non-Super?, is the exception, but it used to have a sentence at the beginning of its description that could be applied to the narration rather than specific characters. What Measure Is An Objective is just a bizarrely named snowclone.
Ah, but what are the ones that do fit “narrative disregard”, and how?
Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!To make myself more clear these tropes are the ones that involve the narrative doing the disregard
- What Measure Is an Alternate Reality? (Expendable Alternate Universe) Most entries involve the story itself disregard what happens in alternate realties
- What Measure Is Another Realm? (Up the Real Rabbit Hole) The realm that the main characters visit is treated as less real than the one that they live in
- What Measure Is a Mook? The heroes suddenly have an issue with killing when facing a named villain
- What Measure Is a Clone? (Expendable Clone) Clones being treated as expandable by the narrative, with non-expandable clones their own trope
- What Measure Is a Non-Animal? (That Poor Plant) A plant dying to show off a poison
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute? (Bambi Effect) Cute creatures and people treated as more important the ugly or scary ones
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Non-humans being treated as expendable compared to humans
This one seems like an odd-duck
- What Measure Is a Humanoid? Honestly this doesn't seem to have anything to do with expandability, rather whether a sapient-nonhumanoid can be a love interest.
Edited by randomtroper89 on Dec 18th 2024 at 12:03:53 PM
...yeah, that last one is a Bad Snowclone; if it were to fit at all it would fit better if it said non-humanoid. It also feels like a judgment on the trope itself that almost makes it come off as an audience reaction, which it may well be considering the objective trope it describes may just be Interspecies Romance (since only the last sentence of the description touches on romances with non-humanoids, although IR actually doesn't seem to touch much on relationships with Rubber-Forehead Aliens let alone Human Aliens). Probably needs a trip to TRS, but that's a tangent from talking about the index in general.
Edited by MorganWick on Dec 20th 2024 at 12:35:01 PM
What Measure Is a Humanoid? has had two
TRS threads
a long time ago, but they both clocked out.

I always believed What Measure Is an Index? is about Narrative Disregard, but with most tropes listed the disregard comes from the characters which the story portrays negatively.
The question is whether most of these below are misused or not.