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Some characters are so completely insulated from the outside world that life, for them, is very different from life for others. This is extreme to the point that they literally have difficulty comprehending that life could be different for other people, and will work their everyday lives under the assumption that all people view life through the same lens that they do. They can be given a rather rude awakening when, for one reason or another, a different character acts in such a way that the guy living in a bubble realizes that the world is a very, very different place from what he thought it was. Up until that point, they will always Fail A Spot Check if anything happens that conflicts with their world-view. Often a good way to frame a Reasonable Authority Figure: The main reason they haven't acted so far is largely that they didn't realize what was going on. In terms of logic, this thinking involves the common fallacy of Confirmation Bias, sometimes with a dash of No True Scotsman. Compare Opinion Myopia. The relationship between Captain Oblivious and Captain Obvious is worth discussing. There are three obvious cases: (1) Quite a few Real Life cases of Captain Obvious happen because more than one person has been Captain Oblivious (that is, "I shouldn't need to warn people about this since it should be obvious, but we've had more than one incident, so I guess I'm going to have to anyway..."), (2) A frequent cause of Captain Obvious is Captain Oblivious finally noticing the obvious, and (3) the two can be completely disjoint (e.g., we're shown, Goofus and Gallant style, Captain Oblivious just walks over said hole while reading a newspaper, never noticing it, and Captain Obvious warning that there's a pothole to somebody trying to fix said hole). See also I Thought Everyone Could Do That. This is the supertrope to Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense. A variation on No Social Skills. When the character is only blind in one area that's Selective Obliviousness. Not to be confused with Inspector Oblivious. |
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Emma's father, Mr. Woodhouse, is like this in many ways. He's incapable of believing that other people feel or see the world differently than he himself does, so he just assumes that his own opinions are universal. His daughter sincerely loves him, but since she's about ten times as intelligent as he is, she has to resort to manipulating his worldview in order to do things like go to a neighbor's dinner party. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location: The HandUnit doesn't seem to notice things like Circus Baby's absence on the first night and the technicians' corpses hanging above the stage. | |
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The Clinic in Starfield is a space station that houses the best medical facilities in the Freestar Collective, if not the Settled Systems as a whole. What it also houses is one of the highest densities of criminal proceedings in the entire game. Half the staff are dealing in illegal drugs or selling medical supplies on the side, an entire wing is occupied by a shady company performing illegal tests on unwitting human volunteers with lethal results, and the VIP wing plays host to a wanted terrorist, yet the Clinic's leader, Dr. Darvish, is utterly oblivious to any of it. | |
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If: When General Denson gives a speech to the school on Founders Day, he does not notice smoke coming out of the floor until long after people have started coughing, and leaving the room. | |
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns can sometimes fall into this, as with the episode where a drunk Lenny comes up to the car to cheerfully thank his boss for sponsoring a night at the ballpark, unwittingly terrifying the rich old man with a thumbs-up. Plus there's the persistent Running Gag of just how behind the times Burns is in his world view, with him essentially being oblivious to anything and everything that happened past the early 1900s. Examples include him being unaware of the Great Depression, World War I, the finer details of World War II (like the fact the Nazis were the bad guys), the progress of aviation technology past primitive propeller planes, labor protection law, and generally the skills necessary to navigate modern society without his loyal manservant Smithers guiding his every step. | |
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Miss Marple: In The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, there is Mrs. Badcock, who is described as a good and kind woman, but also so satisfied with herself that she is oblivious to the effect her actions could have on others. This leads to her death. When she meets famous actress Marina Gregg, she proudly boasts that she came to meet her once before about 20 years ago, even though she had to crawl out of bed with German measles. What Mrs. Badcock didn't know was that she gave Ms. Gregg the disease while she was pregnant, causing her only child to be born severely disabled. Marina responds by poisoning her in revenge. | |
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The Hendrys in The Day After have no idea that the world is hurtling towards nuclear war. Even with their TV loudly blaring newscasts and EBS warnings they're completely oblivious to the danger — going so far as to discuss the state of the fields over the two-tone alert — until an ICBM launches in the next field. Their frantic attempts to flee come too late when they're engulfed by a fireball and incinerated. | |
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Gray Ghost in Manehattan's Lone Guardian acts cat-like in most situations, up to and including giving other ponies accidental jump-scares just by doing what she does normally. She tends to be largely oblivious to this, being confused at best as to why they're freaking out at her while she's trying to sleep. | |
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Some of the drivers in Canada's Worst Driver seemed to have no clue what they were doing or what was going on. Case in point: Kevin. | |
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The Gargatuas in Half-Life tend to have very poor eyesight and other senses, as they wont notice you unless get right up in their face or shoot them. This is mainly so you can sneak past them (either to find some dangerous thing in the area to kill them, or just sneak by in one case.) | |
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Defied with Amy in Double Homework. Although she grew up socially isolated as a princess, she has a pretty good idea of how everyday people have it in the world, and she made it clear to her parents that she wants to be treated as normally as possible. | |
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With This Ring: OL didn't realize the store where he went to buy clothes was a mob-front... despite the presence of guns and cocaine. It isn't until after he leaves the Amazonian temple of Hera that he realizes that the sobbing woman, inconsolable over the discovery that Zeus had been once again lying about remaining faithful, and whom he had just convinced that Hera should probably divorce Zeus was, in fact, Hera herself, and not just a very passionate priestess. OL never notices women hitting on him. This is mostly because he had the ring reduce his testosterone production in order to prevent himself from desiring a woman enough to misuse his power. |
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Elliot in Scrubs throughout the first six seasons is completely oblivious to how weird the Almighty Janitor is. She constantly thinks to herself how sweet he is, completely unaware of the torture he inflicts on J.D. | |
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Dale Gribble from King of the Hill is a nutball Conspiracy Theorist who sees corruption and deceit everywhere... and is also so woefully oblivious that he's totally unaware of the actual conspiracy that's right in front of him; his wife has been cheating on him for over a decade with her massage therapist John Redcorn, and his son Joseph is obviously really John Redcorn's. Dale even catches them in the act multiple times and still doesn't put two and two together, causing John Redcorn to complain that he's kind of sucking the fun out of the affair. Peggy Hill was the last person other than Dale and Joseph to catch on to the affair. |
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Lord Rust from Discworld is so self-assured that he cannot comprehend the possibility that things are not exactly as he thinks they are. He doesn't even get a rude awakening — any information that conflicts with the way he sees things gets stopped at the door and sent on its way without ever making it to his brain. It's sort of hybrid of this trope with Weirdness Censor. This has been noted in-universe to have minor Reality Warper effects; in combat he's so certain that he's invincible from sheer entitlement that arrows visibly curve in the air to miss him and hit someone else. | |
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Oliver Twisted: Charley Bates is evidently clueless of keeping Fagin's plans for Oliver under wraps when the latter arrives at Fagin's den with Dodge. He complains about why they had to wait for a random boy while Fagin was supplying the impression that Oliver and Dodge met by chance. | |
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Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics: When Silly Seal is facing a line of Doombots who've raised their hands in preparation to open fire, he concludes that they all want high-fives and starts planning which end to start from. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Ivan, Hilgya Firehelm's husband, is oblivious to an extreme degree. As seen in flashbacks, he clearly had no clue that Hilgya was forced to marry him at crossbow-point against her wishes, that she obviously hates his guts and repeatedly tried to poison him. When she escapes from home and comes back after months of adventuring while heavily pregnant to boot, he believes she just spent an unusually long time in the bathroom. Hilgya theorizes an undiagnosed brain injury. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: The Knave is the living embodiment of the trope with regards to Lizard's feelings towards him, even though she does everything but throw herself at him. Alice also seems to be oblivious of The Knave's apparent attraction to her. | |
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Exalted: The nature of the Primordials is such that they are completely encased in their own legend and not, in honest sense, capable of comprehending how people can live in ways different than their own. Ebon Dragon is completely oblivious of heroism while Autochthon is completely oblivious to the logical consequences of his tools. By the end of the First Age, the Solars have become oblivious that there are people not as larger-than-life as they are, leading to The Usurpation. |
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Overlord Zenon. Unless told directly, he has no idea what's happening in the world he's ruling, or even in the tournament he organized. So, after the location of his castle is broadcast on the news, his reaction to the constant onslaught of rival Overlords and would-be heroes is, "How does everyone know where I live?!" The same applies to Zenon's daughter (actually, the real Zenon; the guy in the previous point was an impostor), Rozalin, whom Zenon deliberately kept isolated, until a botched (only not really) summon forced Rozalin out. |
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Fallout 4: Your character survives the Nuclear Apocalypse by taking refuge in Vault 111. Soon after emerging, you run into your old Robot Butler, who cheerfully informs you that you're two centuries late for dinner. It's then subverted after you talk to him some more and get him to admit he is well aware of the true state of the world, but keeps putting up a cheerful facade because it's his job to keep his master's mood up as best he can. | |
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The Earth King in Avatar: The Last Airbender. So much so that he didn't realize his country had been at war for an entire century. Justified in this case, as his Treacherous Advisor intentionally kept him in the dark about this. | |
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Steven Universe: Padparadscha, introduced in Season 5, is an off-colour Sapphire whose future vision doesn't work properly, letting her see only the very recent past. While this has applications on rare occasions, most of the time it serves as a Superpower Disability that gives her a Delayed Reaction to everything, and makes her strongly come across as genuinely unaware of what's going on in the present. | |
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Linda from Phineas and Ferb constantly remains oblivious to her sons' activities, even though her daughter is always trying to inform her and her husband is frequently involved. In a few cases this has involved public performances they put on which she was present for; she always walks away for the bizarre or dangerous part. By the end of the series she's clearly the only person in the city, quite possibly the entire planet (and at least two other planets and an asteroid), who doesn't know. It helps that whenever her daughter tries to show her what the boys have done, something always happens to make it disappear without a trace before she can see it, which was actually weaponized by her daughter at least once in order to get rid of something genuinely dangerous. | |
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In Daughter for Dessert, Lainie, having grown up in a wealthy family where her every move had been scripted, knew nothing about either the hardships people face in the world or about ulterior motives people might have. | |
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Kaeloo: Kaeloo is completely oblivious to everything that happens around her. For example in one episode, she throws a party and decides to see how her guests are doing and sees that Stumpy is attacking Pretty, Quack Quack and Eugly are in an argument and Mr. cat is trying to kill a random sheep with a bazooka for no apparent reason. Rather than realize how badly things are going, she thinks everybody is having fun. | |
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The Caliph from Iznogoud. A well-meaning and debonair ruler, he never suspects that Iznogoud is continually trying to overthrow his regime. | |
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In one episode of 30 Rock, Liz discovers that her incredibly attractive boyfriend is oblivious to how far his attractiveness has got him in life. He can order ridiculous items like roast duck soaked in Fanta at restaurants, is under the hilariously inaccurate impression that he's a tennis prodigy, and most alarmingly, somehow became a medical doctor in spite of not even knowing what the Heimlich maneuver is. | |
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In Alfred's Playhouse, Dictator Pickles states that the Playhouse was created so that one part of Alfred's mind would remain in happy, ignorant bliss while the other half would live in knowledge of and reliving his torment. | |
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Bertie from Jeeves and Wooster. | |
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Tintin: Professor Calculus, due to being hard of hearing, is blissfully unaware of most events going on around him and continually interprets them wrong. | |
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Mace Windu, in Darths & Droids. A Running Gag is he is never aware of what is going on, despite his position of power. Eventually the reason for his forgetfulness is revealed: He's a sleeper agent for Nute Gunray. | |
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The Knowledge: While on the road studying for the legendarily difficult exam that London taxi drivers have to take, Ted relates how he completely failed to notice a woman jogging — who was stark nude. | |
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Eustace and Muriel of Courage the Cowardly Dog. In just about every episode, when the villains arrive, no matter how evil or monstrous they appear, or how bizarre or obvious their disguises are, they will absently go along with it no matter what, even if said villain is one they have been threatened or scammed by before (Katz, LeQuack, etc.). | |
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An early episode of Robot Chicken gives us "Randy the Oblivious Pizza Delivery Guy", who utterly ignored the customer's blatant seduction attempt. (The character was played by the episode's guest star, Conan O'Brien.) | |
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Pixie and Brutus: Pixie tends to miss the harsher aspects of life due to her naivete. | |
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Catarina in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! is so amazingly dense that she has a huge bisexual harem that constantly fawns over or flirts with her, but she never gets it because she's focused on trying to avoid her (presumed) fate as the villainess and assumes they're all in love with each other instead. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob and Patrick often suffer from this. Most notably, they're firmly convinced that Squidward is their best friend, when in reality, Squidward hates them to the point of madness and wants nothing more than to be rid of them. In "A Pal for Gary", SpongeBob is completely oblivious to the fact that the monster is Puffy Fluffy at first. Even after he realizes Puffy Fluffy is the monster, he's still oblivious to the fact that it tried to eat him. | |
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Zoolander: Ben Stiller's character lives within the bubble of being "really really ridiculously good-looking". It's to the point where he and another male model are unable to figure out how to use a computer. They wind up recreating the monolith scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, complete with banging on the sides of the monitor like apes and Also sprach Zarathustra playing on the soundtrack. | |
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Blackadder Goes Forth: General Melchett, who really is General Oblivious; not only sending the troops "Over the Top" for the eighteenth time but also sending his second-in-command Captain Darling to join them because he "wouldn't want him to miss the fun"... facepalm... | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic album It's a Pony Kind of Christmas features a rendition of "Jingle Bells" sung by Rainbow Dash, who decides to take her friends for a Christmas Eve sled ride. While she notices certain things (such as the townsponies running for cover and Applejack trying to hide in the barn), she remains cheerfully oblivious that she's terrifying everypony with the wildness of the ride. | |
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Lucky, the older brother of the titular character of Queer Duck, is apparently unaware of his younger brother being gay. | |
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Chris Fogle in The Pale King, during his wasteoid years. Even his life-changing event was the result of him going to the wrong classroom and experiencing something completely different from his own world view. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club!: The player character (who, despite being an Audience Surrogate, still has his own personality, interests and opinions) takes this to ridiculous, even meta extremes. On the second cycle through the game, the game begins glitching frequently, characters begin acting strangely, having violent or creepy outbursts, or mysteriously forgetting a heated argument they had only yesterday, to the point that even the other girls take notice that something strange is happening to them even if they can't pinpoint what it is. The player character doesn't acknowledge any of this; in fact, by the end of the cycle he stops reacting to anything at all and basically ceases to exist as the character, as the only surviving character (who also possesses Medium Awareness) finally drops all pretenses and begins addressing the player directly. | |
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Adrien in Leave for Mendeleiev. Not only is he completely oblivious to Aurore's crush on him, he blithely ignores all evidence that Ladybug isn't interested in being partners beyond fighting crime together. Even when she tells him outright that she doesn't love him, he just tries to convince her that they're "destined to be together" and that she should stop denying it. | |
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In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Nozaki pretty much calls Seo this. Seo has zero ability to read situations for what they are, and thus often ends up ruining the mood. She also never seems to understand (or even notice) when people get mad at her when she says things that are Innocently Insensitive. | |
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In Family Guy, Lois was completely oblivious to the fact that Quagmire was a pervert and had the hots for her until she caught him spying on her in the ladies' room. In early episodes she seemed unaware of Stewie's plans to destroy her, although she would always foil them anyway. | |
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The Marcus Didius Falco novel Three Hands in the Fountain has a Reasonable Authority Figure trying to get some sense out of an Obstructive Bureaucrat, and mentioning that neither person can believe that the other trope exists. | |
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Luke in Tales of the Abyss. He eventually gets kicked out of his bubble very, very harshly. | |
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The title character from The Tick is... slow to recognize ninja with swords pointed at him. | |
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Kousaka in Genshiken floats through life on a cloud of good feelings. It's not clear he knows what a "social cue" even is. He has a tendency to blurt out comments that nail the Elephant in the Living Room dead-on. | |
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