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It's Probably Nothing

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It's Probably Nothing	comment	... except when it's not! One of the heroes receives a broad hint that something unpleasant might happen — any kind of bad thing, from the plans of a Mole to a debilitating disease. It could come in the form of a prophecy, an important clue picked up off a defeated enemy, an inconclusive medical test... the form varies depending on the context. In a classic example of Genre Blindness, the hero carefully evaluates the hint and concludes almost immediately that it is most likely meaningless, regardless of the reliability of its source. And he will keep doing that even though additional, corroborating hints start showing up, until it is almost too late. Because if he didn't, he'd solve the mystery, foil the criminal, or seek out proper treatment in the first act of the show, and then where would we be for the next forty-five minutes? Which is why, on the rare circumstance that the hero does go after it — it proves to be a Red Herring. Many security guards (especially in video games, for gameplay reasons) are prone to this as well. Hearing a noise or seeing something out of the corner of their eye, they'll investigate for a moment, or their "more experienced" partner will tell them it's just a rat, or a stray dog, or something else innocuous, and say something along the lines of "It's probably nothing". At which point they get knocked out/captured/killed/eaten. (See The Guards Must Be Crazy.) This is an instance of someone holding the Idiot Ball, provided the event is out of the ordinary in some way. Expect The Great Detective to berate the fool for his casual dismissal of the occurrence, probably during The Reveal. Possibly the opposite of a Cat Scare. Not to be confused with Within Parameters, which is related. Also related to Convenient Decoy Cat. A case of some Truth in Television as each area has a large assortment of ambient sounds that individuals become familiar with and often ignore possibly at their detriment. Similarly, as a part of the "denial response" or "freeze response" that is just as much a reaction to danger as fight or flight, it is also Truth in Television that people tend to dismiss or ignore unusual bodily symptoms (even those of blatant heart attacks or strokes or obvious cancers), fail to call the fire department during the early stages of a potential fire, insist on ignoring tornado warnings until they can sight the tornado, often don't flee or shelter from disasters in general, and don't flee or defend against criminal attack (even to the degree of locking doors or calling police) until it's far too late. The key to not letting this trope kill you in real life is to keep in mind that if you are saying "it's probably nothing," something has made you say that, and further investigation (or in the case of a disaster, just getting the hell out of there and/or obeying the warnings) might be an inconvenience that proves it was nothing after all, or it might save your life.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma ½:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_1c631084	comment	Invisible, Inc. plays with this. If a guard leaves their patrol route to investigate a tile but finds nothing, they'll go right back to patrolling. However, if they catch one of your agents (or wake up after you knock them out), they will be permanently alerted and won't stop searching for them, making them much harder to deal with. Less obviously, this is happening constantly as your agents are moving in plain sight of random webcams not directly connected to the security net, making noise and vibration, affecting the heat regulation and air filtration systems... all of whose data are being continously scanned by security AI programmed to be paranoid and chase down any hint of intrusion. Invisible Incorporated's AI, Incognita, is simultaneously working to delay identification and confirmation of your presence by invoking this trope, but over time the residue of the deflections will themselves form a detectable pattern. This is why no matter how careful you're being security levels will still rise over time and resources will be diverted towards your location.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_1ed66ab2	comment	Harris in DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS insists there is a perfectly mundane explanation when he sees the strange woman disappear beneath the waves and not resurface. A variation in that he does go after her to investigate, but simply doesn't expect anything bad to happen.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_1f5b0fb3	comment	Heroes of the New World; Yamato starts acting strange when she stops trying to kill Kaido for two weeks and instead is seen coming and going from her room with large portions of food. One officer thinks she's up to something, but the rest of the Beast Pirates dismiss him as a creepy stalker in need of a hobby. Turns out she was plotting an escape attempt with her new friend Izuku Midoriya, and when they succeed Kaido is furious when he learns the officer's concerns were ignored.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_25455ac6	comment	In The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen, Tex trails Blackie to the meeting place of the Riders. At one point, Blackie thinks he is being followed, but then dismisses it, saying "It's probably just a coyote".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2858b08a	comment	Full House:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_29d01710	comment	The Great Escape plays this to the point of ridiculousness. Having charged through a door and straight into the arms of a patroling German soldier, you dash straight into another room leaving the poor sod gawping after you. His words?
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2a4482ad	comment	In The Secret of Monkey Island, Guybrush has infiltrated the ghost-pirate LeChuck's ship, using a magic eyeball necklace that makes him invisible. The player has to get a key off of LeChuck's cabin wall, but every time Guybrush approaches, LeChuck turns and makes a comment about how someone must be behind him. When he sees that no one is there, he turns back around while invoking some version of this trope.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In Looney Tunes, when Bugs Bunny knocks on the floorboards of the house that's been built over his hole, Yosemite Sam first attributes it to mice before returning to his singing.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2de2da9	comment	Scavenger Hunt (1979): This is Sam's reaction when her hears Dummitz breaking into the bidal boutique via the air vent. It is only when Dummitz tries to sneak past him disguised as a mannequin that he decides he should investigate.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2e87f53b	comment	Star Wars: Bounty Hunter: A cutscene has Jango Fett sneak onto the asteroid housing the Oovo IV Correctional Facility by flying his ship close enough to one of the prison's cargo ships in order to get past the energy field. One of the crewman takes notice. Said bio-signature turns out to be stowaway Zam Wesell, meaning the same ship's crew missed not one but two intruders thanks to this trope.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_2e9ef429	comment	In the Batman: Arkham Series, This is Averted at low fear levels and Inverted at high fear levels. At the beginning of a stealth segment, the guards know that Batman is around somewhere, so they have the presence of mind to check anything out of the ordinary. Once they get panicky enough, they'll start freaking out at the slightest noise in fear that it might be Batman, whether or not it is.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_33dd1d8f	comment	Half-Life is probably the trope namer for this one. "Uh... it's probably not a problem... probably... but I'm showing a small discrepancy in the— well, no, it's well within acceptable bounds again. Sustaining sequence." For those who have never played the game, this is about 20 seconds before things hit the fan. Beautifully averted at one point when Gordon is climbing through some vents and making noise. Soldiers down below hear him and, rather than dismiss the noise as a headcrab or something, shoot the hell out of it and cause it to fall off the ceiling. Another time a soldier hears Freeman climbing through a pipe, and responds by tossing a satchel charge into it. A refreshing case of the enemies not being total morons. In Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Dr. Magnusson dispatches Freeman to the secondary silo where "damn crows have been nesting in the tracks all day", therefore setting off the silo alarms. Apparently no one thought to check on the non-responsive secondary silo staff until Gordon heads over there and finds a Combine invasion in-progress.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Dr. Magnusson dispatches Freeman to the secondary silo where "damn crows have been nesting in the tracks all day", therefore setting off the silo alarms. Apparently no one thought to check on the non-responsive secondary silo staff until Gordon heads over there and finds a Combine invasion in-progress.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_3abf6f91	comment	The Dark Tower (2004): While in "Joe Collins"'s house, Susannah hears a noise which she tells herself must be the raging storm outside, even when she is also very convinced must be Mordred. Then, soon after, she realizes the noise is coming from inside the house...
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It's Probably Nothing / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Oblivion has major issues with this trope, even beyond simply making noise or being seen while sneaking. It's entirely possible to be sneaking, fire an arrow, strike an enemy NPC, have them fail to detect you, and then hear them dismiss the arrow stuck in their back as "the wind". NPCs often fail to react to the corpses of their friends you've already killed. It's even possible for a stealthy enough character to sneak up on two NPCs chatting away with each other, cut the conversation short by stabbing one in the back, and the other NPC won't so much as react to their friend being Killed Mid-Sentence. One particular quest has you infiltrate a monastery full of blind NPCs, with the goal of sneaking past them to steal a particular object. If you do something that alerts them, such as making noise, but they fail to actually detect you, they may dismiss it as their "eyes playing tricks on them"...
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It's Probably Nothing / int_46eeed8d	comment	In Remnants, the programmer of a computer-based perimeter security system puts in a backdoor — the program assumes that any intruder emitting a certain high-pitched tone is a wild pig. This is very useful when he needs to sneak onto a Space Shuttle.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_474a2c24	comment	In The Darkness Series, a Harry Potter AU where Harry is being corrupted by the Dark Side, Hermione notices Harry is changing but just thinks it's stress brought on by the Tri-Wizard Tournament.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_4751764	comment	In Killdozer!, Kelly asks mechanic Chub to examine the bulldozer to determine why it went berserk. Chub reports back that he can't find anything mechanically wrong with the dozer, but there is mysterious humming emanating from the blade which he can't locate a source for. Kelly listens to the hum, then dismisses it as "probably nothing important".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, when your character is bitten by a Worgen, you dismiss it as just a scratch and nothing to be worried about. The end result of this is being taken by the transformation during a last stand, killing the allies unfortunate enough to not also be infected, and causing your final defenses to fall. When you first get the bite, the debuff even says something along the lines of "It's probably nothing". If you check back on that debuff every so often, you'll see that the bite is slowly getting worse.... This is also a very odd case, where the player actually WANTS it to happen. Because it occurs in the starting zone, after specifically choosing Worgen as a race. Your character starts out human and becomes a Worgen during the starting zone.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_4b05e333	comment	Played with in Red Fire, Red Planet. In the first two chapters the crew of Starfleet Listening Post 204RT picks up subspace anomalies, and Crewman Yasmin Sherazi is insistent that there's something going on despite the fact the others think there's just a problem with the warp drive on the USS DeWitt, a ship which was not on the schedule.note The joke being that the DeWitt is really a KDF Bird-of-Prey generating an oversize warp field and broadcasting the DeWitt's entry codes. OS1. Bikog gets really hyper when he insists there's nothing there. But then OS2. Kybok spots a tachyon burst in the logs and Lt. ch'Kreem decides to take the listening post's shuttle out for a look-see.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_4c213722	comment	Splinter Cell has guards as thorough as (if not more so than) the ones in Metal Gear Solid. Worse, they have far too many ways to remove the shadows you rely on. The guards early in the game have flashlights and flares. The Chinese soldiers have headband-mounted lights. Not to be outdone, the Georgian Special Forces have night-vision goggles. By Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, enemies with thermal-vision start showing up, complete with x-ray vision. Of course, there are still mooks who have no special way of seeing in the dark, and they fit the trope perfectly. There is a co-op level in Chaos Theory where you can enter a room with two guards watching a sports game on TV. Shooting out the TV then quickly leaving the room results in them wandering around for a bit, then going back to the couch with a 'probably the wind' comment and watching their shot out TV. Good job guards. This is actually lampshaded by the enemies: if the player makes a loud enough noise without being seen, there's a randomly-occurring exchange where one guard says "It's probably—" but is then abruptly cut off by his partner, who tells him that it's never "just nothing". In Chaos Theory, messing with a guard enough will cause them to avert this trope entirely, making them paranoid enough to start shooting at any suspicious noises.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_4e483062	comment	Humourously referenced in Family Guy: Blue Harvest. "Wait, hold your fire, there are no life forms aboard that vessel", "Wait, hold your fire? What, are we paying by the laser now?" "Hey Terry, you don't do the budget but I DO."
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It's Probably Nothing / int_512e3ea0	comment	Shackleton: After the Endurance is trapped in the Antarctic ice, the crew hears an ominous grinding sound and feels the ship move. Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) insists that it's the result of a whale mistaking the ship for a hole in the ice. It isn't.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_52501bd0	comment	In Scared Shrekless, Donkey appears to hear the voice of Lord Farquaad's ghost. It turned out to be Fiona and the kids playing a prank.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Purple Testament", three wounded soldiers conclude that the "explosion" sound must just be thunder.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Padawan Lost", Ahsoka, approaching the back wall of a Separatist outpost with a squad of clones, senses something in the surrounding forest, but eventually decides that it was just an animal. Moments later, when she's alone after all of the troopers have ascended the wall, she's ambushed by a Trandoshan hunter and dragged away, with no one realizing she's missing until after the battle is over.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_560f6c1e	comment	Averted in Death to Spies. While the enemy will brush off strange noises, (such as the sound of someone being punched in the head if they find nothing or thrown distractions.) if any enemy even spots a body, sees the player for too long, hears any noise (except the silenced pistol), or if the player has any visible Soviet gear on at all — even after changing uniform —, has a weapon out (unless dressed as a patrolman, and then only a weapon that the others have, usually an MP-40), is doing something that doesn't match the disguise's purpose or rank (stealing a truck without being in an officer or driver's uniform) or is a patrolman/officer who can recognize if you are not one of them, they will almost immediately upon entering their "sight confirmation" begin to fire, alerting any other nearby guards, and giving chase, usually for half of the map. In many cases, they will run to hit the alarm, which will effectively end the mission because every guard in the area will be alerted to you (often well over 20-30 people), and quickly open fire if they spot you as well as give chase, often killing you very quickly if there are any sharpshooters in the area, even faster if you are headshot. Oh, and don't try hiding: they'll stay on full alert, just waiting for the chance to find you, even on lower difficulties where alerts eventually stop, it takes much longer than other stealth games, an alarm is very hard to survive unless the player happens to get caught next to some hiding spot that lets them quickly lose their pursers, take alerted enemies out before a full scale alert happens or get lucky with the challenging combat.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_58c15fb0	comment	Hurog: In Dragon Bones, the heroes notice that an alleged runaway slave doesn't behave like a slave, for example she hides her pain, which Ward (who had an abusive father) and Oreg (who has been a slave for the last few hundreds of years) know is strange because hiding your pain only provokes the one who caused it to beat you more. They talk about it but dismiss it as unimportant for the moment. It comes back to bite them when that person turns out to be ... actually a slave, though not at all escaped, but on a mission for her evil master. And she's a sadist herself. Possibly also a masochist, which would explain the pain thing.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_5908ee91	comment	This trope persists in Skyrim as well, though Bethesda seems to be making some progress. The AI reacts to sneak attacks from a warrior or a mage fairly competently: it's fairly hard to maintain the element of surprise or stay concealed when clanking around in heavy armor or throwing lightning bolts around. That said, there is still plenty of examples like NPCs dismissing arrows and not reacting to their buddies getting backstabbed in the same room as them. If they come across a corpse they'll pause for a moment, solemnly vow revenge, and... get back to patrolling, acting like nothing's happened. It's an improvement from previous games, but still.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_59151283	comment	Averted in Metal Gear, where guards would always check to make sure it's actually "nothing". The ones in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty would actually search every nook and cranny of the room you were seen disappearing into, and even if they don't find you, extra guards would be sent to patrol that sector. Though the entire series pretty much encompasses this trope with a catchphrase. Despite a random box just appearing in their patrol route that was clear 30 seconds prior... "Just a box." The guards in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater play this straight sometimes. If they get a glimpse of you from a distance, they'll pull out a pair of binoculars to get a closer look. If you hide yourself quickly enough, they'll think it was "just their imagination".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_5b11cab1	comment	Averted in Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. Guards always check every noise, explore every inch of the room, will free anyone who was tied up, and will report corpses that they haven't already seen to their captain.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_5c844cd	comment	In the Solomon Kane story "Footfalls Within", by Robert E. Howard, the titular footfalls are blithely dismissed as "nothing" by a bunch of slavers, with foreseeable consequences.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_5d4da198	comment	Spider-Man 3, when Marko's presence in the test chamber is immediately dismissed as just a bird.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_5e839978	comment	Subverted in late chapters of Water Margin. When Zhang Shun, one of the main characters, is scouting under the walls of Hangzhou, held by rebels under Fang La, he tests the guards' alertness by tossing a lump of clay over the wall. The guards respond by talking aloud that it is probably nothing but are in fact fully alerted, waiting for something out of ordinary to emerge. When Zhang Shun emerges from his hiding place thinking he is safe, he is struck by a hail of arrows.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: When Haley tries to sneak in past curfew in "Bush Comes to Dinner":
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It's Probably Nothing / int_62164fb7	comment	Shadows over Meridian: When the Shadowkhan are infiltrating the Infinite City's dungeons, one guard catches the sound of another one screaming as he's dragged into his own shadow through an Ankle Drag. His fellows, tired and eager for the change of shift, tell him he's probably hearing things either out of tiredness or from the numerous prisoners. They all end up being stealthily snatched away by the Shadowkhan one by one.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6a57777a	comment	The Quarry: On multiple occasions, a character will see something suspicious, comment about it, and reassure themselves with it probably being fine.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6ae1d164	comment	Quite common in Galaxy of Fear, even a few books into the series when you'd think, after constant hazards and all the times it was not nothing, people would be paying attention. Later they learn, a bit, but that just leads to more Red Herring moments.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Usually averted in Fallout 3. If hostile guards hear you, they investigate and raise the alarm if they see you. If you're well hidden, though, the other guards will berate the first for crying wolf. With high enough sneak and a stealth boy or Chinese Stealth armor, guards will react in this fashion even after being stabbed. Repeatedly. Because of bad programming, if you get into a fight while you're a kid, your character will keep saying "I guess it was nothing." in between grunts of pain while being slowly killed & then continue saying it in dramatic slow motion while dead.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Enemies in Fallout 4 actually act fairly sensibly when targeted by sneak attacks (assuming they survived of course). Opening fire from a distance, even if the gun is suppressed, invites suppressive fire in your general direction even if the bad guys haven't fully detected you yet, and they'll usually try their best to get out of your line of fire. Alerted enemies in large areas will occasionally run off to alert more distant buddies to your presence. More intelligent enemies are also extremely paranoid and may go on a very long search for you, to the point that some never return to their normal routines until you leave the area for a while. That said, it's still hilariously easy to hide from them, often even in plain sight while clad in Powered Armor, once your sneak skill gets high enough.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6dbe6646	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): In Sonic and Sally, this trope is used, bizarrely, between two SWAT-bots — who you'd think would have no business having separate thoughts. The two bots are in a hoverpod which happens to detect Bunnie with a built in heat sensor. The pilot is about to open fire when the co-pilot mentions that substation electricity interferes with the heat sensors. They opt to ignore her heat signature and move on.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_6e94492	comment	Defied in How It Should Have Ended when the Freak Lab Accident caused by scientists saying readings are Within Parameters are averted by a highly sensible black scientist character imploring them to make sure everything's actually fine before proceeding. This character would go on to become a running gag, appearing to avert plots easily avoided by basic precaution and safety measures.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_7357234c	comment	Likewise, in Beyond Good & Evil you can hit a guard in his air tank — and the other guards will just fix the tank and declare "false alarm".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_74795739	comment	The Pirates of Penzance, by the same team, has the song "With Catlike Tread". The titular pirates, while sneaking into Major-General Stanley's estate, sing at the top of their lungs about how they're being silent. The very next song starts with the Major-General mentioning that he "thought I heard a noise", and concluding that "it must have been the sighing of the breeze." (Pirates was, at the time of its release, criticized for having the same plot as Pinafore.) Better yet, the Pirates and Policemen are making loud comments in the background "He thought he heard a noise. HA HA!" and then join in his song "Sighing Softly To The River" without him catching on right up until the finale kicks in.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_747d9a6f	comment	The military in [PROTOTYPE]. There's a shape-shifter on the loose with extraordinary powers. Your commanding officer just ran straight up a building, and then started gliding through the air. If your response is "He may be around here", congratulations, you're apparently qualified for the military. Oh, but it's far worse than that. Entering said building, said officer develops a nasty habit of sneaking up on people, following them behind boxes (out from behind which only one person leaves, and it's not an officer) and moving said boxes and cars. Probably for privacy. Not only that but after said officer enters the building, you can guarantee that shape-shifter is inside as well. After all, surely a "legit" soldier pointing his finger at a not-so-legit soldier and claiming that This is the creep! cannot be wrong... By this point the entire building is almost empty. Oddly enough, this one guy keeps walking around and sneaking up behind people, kinda like that officer... Nah, it's just my imaginati-CRUNCH. Nom-nom-nom. Letting him sneak around is probably more cost effective. Just let him take what he wants or he'll kill everyone and then take it.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look: The "Everything is Fine" sketch has a mayor of a flooded town releasing a statement on how everything is alright at the moment, except for all the water, which he says will probably "go away after a bit".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_76376304	comment	Similarly to the Fallout example, making noise around hostile guards in Metro2033 and Metro: Last Light will result in them investigating (even switching on their headlamps to search better in dark environments) and raising an alarm if they spot you, either verbally or by ringing a bell. However, if you manage to hide from sight and stay perfectly still long enough, they'll decide it's "the damn drafts again" or "just the rats" and calm down. If you do something blatantly obvious though, like killing someone in view of their comrades or breaking a gas lamp and starting a fire, the best you can hope to do is stay out of sight while the guards go into hyper-aggressive "Search everywhere!" mode.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: At the beginning of "Catch and Release", Steven is saying goodnight to his stuffed animals before going to sleep, including an ominous Peridot-shaped triangle at the foot of his bed. When it disappears, he says, "Whatever," and closes his eyes. Two seconds later, he gets kidnapped by Peridot.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_792239e5	comment	Taken to the point of utter farce in Tales of Symphonia. Repeated quite ridiculously in a later game of the series, Tales of the Abyss. Jade(by far the worst offender), Tear, Guy, Ion and even Luke himself all gasp or draw attention to themselves only to say "No, it's nothing." It's always something. Always. Here are some things in Abyss that are considered "nothing": Luke being a replica. Ion also being a replica. Largo being Natalia's father. Guy's desire to assassinate the fon Fabre family, including Luke. ("What do you have to live for?" "Revenge." "What?" "Just kidding!") Anise betraying the party and causing Ion's death. Jade realizing that the only way to stop the miasma is to sacrifice either Luke or Asch. Luke having a very limited time left to live after destroying the miasma. And...whatever Jade did to Dist in this scene.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: When Akira tests his forth set of Powered Armor and its Invisibility Cloak in the Higaraka Residence Ruins, the hunters there say things like this when he passes within range of them, since their Everything Sensor is set to pick up large monsters, and Akira's cloak is on the cheaper end. He never uses that suits cloak function again due to this. Occasionally, when Sheryl wakes up in bed after having slept (chastely) with Akira, she seems to overhear Akira accidentally speaking out loud to his Virtual Sidekick Alpha, when he normally uses Telepathy, and Sheryl dismisses it as her imagination. With Sheryl having been spoken to by Alpha in a dream, it's an Ambiguous Situation as to whether Akira really spoke out loud or she overheard the telepathy.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The first time this happens in A New Hope, it's an Inversion. Obi-Wan uses a Jedi Mind Trick against two stormtroopers on the Death Star, and they do what competent guards should do, they investigate. Though in that case it really was nothing; Obi-Wan did it to cover his escape in the other direction.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_8ba4613a	comment	In the Yotsuba Arc of Death Note, Memoryless!Light considers the possibility that he may be Kira, finds it a bit too likely for comfort and so dismisses it.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: "If there's nothing out there, then what was that noise?"
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9068877a	comment	Agent Wyoming's introduction in Red vs. Blue is full of this trope:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_93d6ffd3	comment	Assassin's Creed Origins: A note can be found with the writer saying how his friend is worried about rustling in the bushes nearby, with the writer telling him it's no biggie. You find the note surrounded by several very angry crocodiles, and no sign of the writer, with that previous statement being the first and only entry.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_942349dc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: The team has been chased around the world by characters with mysterious powers that manifest in all sorts of crazy ways, they end up in a strangely lifeless town covered in fog in India, and after being rudely brushed off by a store owner, Joseph notices roaches crawling on the man's neck. The natural reaction? "I must've been imagining things."
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It's Probably Nothing / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000, episode 904, "Werewolf":
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It's Probably Nothing / int_986e857e	comment	Used for a plot point in Ben 10's "Perfect Day": Max says this about the Omnitrix acting up, but let's just say that he's not as he seems.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_98cdc08e	comment	I Want To Go Home!: At the beginning of the book Mr. Warden gets a letter from camper Rudy Miller's parents describing how he's a rebellious loner whose being forced to come to the camp by his guidance counselor and might care trouble. Warden throws away the letter, saying that everyone loves camp and the Millers' are over-reacting. After two weeks of putting up with Rudy's hijinks, head counselor Frank is not happy to find this out.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9a8607cc	comment	In Kenobi, Orrin hears a sound from his office, but dismisses it as a "sand-mouse". The readers have already found out that Ben is snooping around, finding evidence of his embezzling.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9be55134	comment	Bones (2001): In a flashback, Pearl reads Jimmy's palm and senses that he's in danger if he goes to the meeting with Eddie Mack, but he ignores her concerns.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9c3ad747	comment	The Phantoms in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass: Once Link enters a safe-zone, he becomes invisible to them. No matter how clearly in their sight he was before that and how long they've been chasing him before he escaped, afterwards, after looking around for barely two seconds in a "Where'd he go?" fashion, they apparently dismiss it as "It was probably nothing" and turn around to start patrolling their regular route again, without even considering to keep an eye on the spot where he disappeared.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls The series in general crosses this over with heaps of Artificial Stupidity when it comes to NPCs. As the AI has improved and gotten more sophisticated over the course of the series, this trope in particular has started to become downplayed, but it still extant. Oblivion: Oblivion has major issues with this trope, even beyond simply making noise or being seen while sneaking. It's entirely possible to be sneaking, fire an arrow, strike an enemy NPC, have them fail to detect you, and then hear them dismiss the arrow stuck in their back as "the wind". NPCs often fail to react to the corpses of their friends you've already killed. It's even possible for a stealthy enough character to sneak up on two NPCs chatting away with each other, cut the conversation short by stabbing one in the back, and the other NPC won't so much as react to their friend being Killed Mid-Sentence. One particular quest has you infiltrate a monastery full of blind NPCs, with the goal of sneaking past them to steal a particular object. If you do something that alerts them, such as making noise, but they fail to actually detect you, they may dismiss it as their "eyes playing tricks on them"... This trope persists in Skyrim as well, though Bethesda seems to be making some progress. The AI reacts to sneak attacks from a warrior or a mage fairly competently: it's fairly hard to maintain the element of surprise or stay concealed when clanking around in heavy armor or throwing lightning bolts around. That said, there is still plenty of examples like NPCs dismissing arrows and not reacting to their buddies getting backstabbed in the same room as them. If they come across a corpse they'll pause for a moment, solemnly vow revenge, and... get back to patrolling, acting like nothing's happened. It's an improvement from previous games, but still.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_9f3ed456	comment	Happens twice in Nebula. Both times, people almost end up dead. Everyone's reaction to Earth raising concerns about a meteor heading straight for her is to tell her to quit panicking, it's just some thing, no big deal. And later, Sun brushes off the planets' concern about the thing that keeps watching them, saying that it's probably just some drifter like Pluto.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a0b025d2	comment	Notably averted by the 2009 Ghostbusters game. Even when the PKE meter shows nothing, the Ghostbusters never assume that It's Probably Nothing. They always investigate. Of course, blowing up the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for the second time early in the game probably has them on their toes for the rest.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama In the episode "The Honking":
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a2dee471	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, there is an optional sequence in which you follow Mila as she goes to rob Zunari's safe. It is possible to get her attention and still be all right... if you are still hidden and make a cat noise. Earlier, the first time through the Forsaken Fortress, there are places where you can move about, as long as you're in a barrel. (If you're seen by a Moblin or shone on by a light, or if your barrel is seen moving, you're thrown in a cell, even if you could have run away.) However, the Moblins have no particular sense that there's something wrong when a barrel was over there, but now it's over here, and there's no one around who could have moved it... Somewhat justified in that Moblins are extremely stupid.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a33fdeb	comment	A famous operatic example is the scene in Hansel and Gretel (1893) where the children are busily taking pieces off the Gingerbread House and eating them. Twice, a voice from inside demands to know who's been nibbling at her house, the children think for a moment, and they declare it was the wind, the heavenly child.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a57cf54d	comment	Also referenced and subverted in Darths & Droids:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a6084750	comment	In the first episode of The Crown (2016), King George VI coughs up an alarming amount of blood into his toilet, as an early foreshadowing of the lung cancer that will kill him. When he discusses it with his courtiers later, they assure him that it's probably just the cold. Although in their defence, the King downplayed the extent of the situation when discussing it with them, either out of stoicism or denial.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a632be2c	comment	The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: In Scars of Mirrodin, we get Steady Progress' flavor text, invoking the trope by name in reference to Phyrexian oil, which is slowly spreading The Corruption throughout Mirrodin: In Innistrad, plane filled with horror tropes, we get Bump in the Night and Feeling of Dread. And with the return to Innistrad, we get Just the Wind, asserting that There's nothing to worry about.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: The team has been chased around the world by characters with mysterious powers that manifest in all sorts of crazy ways, they end up in a strangely lifeless town covered in fog in India, and after being rudely brushed off by a store owner, Joseph notices roaches crawling on the man's neck. The natural reaction? "I must've been imagining things." Diamond is Unbreakable: In the middle of a rainstorm, Josuke, Okuyasu, and Hayato are having a very loud confrontation with Kira that involves screaming and explosions. Standing just around the corner, Jotaro hears something but writes it off as the rain just sounding like Josuke.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_b0bb89d8	comment	Subject of a brief gag in Superman, when a guy working in his skyscraper office catches a glimpse of Superman, or at least his red boots standing sideways on the guy's window, and dismisses it as his imagination.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_b2b8158	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: In the middle of a rainstorm, Josuke, Okuyasu, and Hayato are having a very loud confrontation with Kira that involves screaming and explosions. Standing just around the corner, Jotaro hears something but writes it off as the rain just sounding like Josuke.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	Subverted in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Ezio had been told earlier that the men of Monteriggioni would be practising with the cannons at dawn, so his first thought when he hears cannon fire is that it is a training exercise. Then a cannonball goes through his room. A version of this can also be seen throughout the game with the guards as long as you're not in a restricted area or actually on the roof/in sight of a roof guard.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ba666650	comment	The guards in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater play this straight sometimes. If they get a glimpse of you from a distance, they'll pull out a pair of binoculars to get a closer look. If you hide yourself quickly enough, they'll think it was "just their imagination".
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It's Probably Nothing / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Grace is explicitly hunted by a super orc right up until the Stealth-Based Game mechanic kicks in and the orc dismisses her presence as having been nothing since she hid for long enough.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_bddc4ebe	comment	Power Rangers: Dino Thunder: In the first episode, the three soon-to-be-Rangers hear the Mooks of the year coming for them. Kira suggests (without much hope) that it's the wind, and Ethan disagrees.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_bf0f252d	comment	Spriggan: When Yu Ominae assumes this trope while in the Forest of No Return, Yoshino Somei fires at his feet to make him go and look! Then she's snatched up When Trees Attack while Yu is away.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Series 1 had the Arc Words "Bad Wolf" turning up constantly — Once an Episode, the words are slipped in somewherenote excluding the first episode, and the characters don't notice for ten episodes. When they do notice it, the Doctor claims the words are following them wherever they go... and then he immediately dismisses it as a coincidence.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Adding to when the original show had Tristan sneak up on a guard while wearing a full suit of plate armor, the abridged series incorporates a Rule of Funny excuse to say why the guard didn't notice a clanking suit of armor in the same room.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_c692db8d	comment	The Last Days of Krypton: Downplayed when Jor-El first tells the Kryptonian Council of his concerns that their sun may go supernova. Most of the Councilors doubt that the sun is in danger of exploding in their lifetimes. Still, several of them acknowledge it's a problem future generations should have a leg up in studying.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex downplays this. Guards will first investigate, then wonder where you are, before deciding you aren't around — but it takes all of ten seconds. Often they can be heard to utter "He's miles away by now" when J.C. hides behind a box in a dead end. If you shoot a guard in the face with a tranquilizer dart and hide, he'll run around for a moment, then (because the drug in one dart isn't enough to knock them out) return to his patrol with the arrow sticking out of his face.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Subverted in the "Art Attack" short:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_cb6abea3	comment	In the Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic Decks Fall Everyone Dies, Joey ignores the fact that he is coughing up blood while thinking this.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_cd3c1e	comment	A common response used by Steven Glass in Shattered Glass when he's trying to keep his fellow journalists and anyone else interested from catching on to what he's up to.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ce245fca	comment	In Duck Soup, spy Pinky thinks he's opening a wall safe, but instead turns on a radio that plays loud brass band music, leading to this exchange:
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It's Probably Nothing / int_d38fe19f	comment	Star Wars: Clone Wars plays this one for laughs, with Palpatine dismissing Grievous' clanking footsteps drawing nearer and then suddenly stopping, to the dismay of his Jedi protectors. Of course, the droid general's head appears in the window behind him even as he's delivering the line, hanging upside down on the outside of the building. One gets the impression that the scheming dark lord, who actually wants to be captured, plays the classic part with some glee. Then again, the Ham is Large with this one.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	The guards in Thief do this a lot. Torch that's been clearly doused with a water arrow, presumably leaving puddles of water all over the place? "Must've been the wind." Large metal object falling down, making a stupid amount of noise? "Hmm... must be my imagination." Et cetera. A Running Gag in the series is everyone blaming mysterious noises on rats. There are exceptions, though. Make the slightest noise on a metal surface, or shoot an arrow at a wall, and most of the time everyone in the immediate vicinity will be on full alert looking for you. If there's an alarm button nearby, they'll most likely be running for it as well.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Occurs when the Ulysses picks up the Leviathan on sonar. Commander Rourke wonders if it could be a pod of whales, but it soon stops, leading Helga to say it's gone now. Seconds later the Leviathan attacks.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_da02c1ef	comment	In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, your partner says something while you're listening to Grubba while in the air vent. He gets suspicious and you have a choice of sounds to make in an attempt to fool him.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_db30cf92	comment	In the Warrior Cats novel The Forgotten Warrior, Tigerheart warns Dovewing that Dawnpelt believes that Jayfeather killed Flametail, but she brushes it off as nothing several times. Near the climax of the book, Dawnpelt accuses Jayfeather of the murder at a gathering, causing an uproar and making many clan cats hate Jayfeather.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_df76da7e	comment	Referenced to in Mirror's Edge. During one of the vent sequences, you can hear someone complaining about rats infesting the ventilation system. Justified, as one Easter Egg involves triggering a rat as big as a truck to run down a street. Something like that would HAVE to make some noise.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e26a4546	comment	In the game Tenchu, fighting a guard automatically raises the alarm. Guards who were, just a moment ago, attacked with katanas will dismiss the incident as being caused by a dog! This is one of the more common and ridiculous occurrences in the Tenchu series. In Wrath of Heaven you can drop down on one guard's head, snap his neck with a sickening sound in front of another guard, then as the guard pursues, jump up on a roof and hide, only to hear the guard pause and say "Ah forget it." An alternative interpretation for Tenchu guard apathy could be that the guards are Punch-Clock Villains who aren't interested in chasing trained assassins too closely.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Doomed", Giles dismisses an earthquake as "shifting landmasses". On the one hand, he is in Southern California. On the other hand, as Buffy points out, the last time they had a decent earthquake in Sunnydale, she died. Buffy is proven right, as it turns out to be a portent of the apocalypse.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e2c285f	comment	In The Towering Inferno, a temperature sensor actually picks up the fire as it starts, but this is dismissed as a glitch in the system. As a result, the fire grows unchecked in a room full of flammable materials for hours until someone opens the door to the room.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e2fa7287	comment	Touhou character Koishi Komeiji, as a satori with the power to read the conscious mind and heart of others. She disabled herself in order to escape the contempt she and her sister earned only to find that she suddenly gained powers over the subconscious mind that effectively made her impossible to recognize or notice. On the off chance that anyone does see her, they will immediately forget about her once she leaves. Her power doesn't work on children, though, and she'll sometimes play with them, making her a Not-So-Imaginary Friend until they grow up and forget she existed in the first place. This power is also used in a strange way by the oni Suika, whose ability of "gathering" lets her divide herself into mini-Suikas so small they are a functional mist and give suggestions to others as subtle mind control to form gatherings (as well as send out mini-Suikas that steal food and alcohol for her gatherings). Almost nobody could figure out why they kept meeting and dismissed the idea as simple whims of many people to do the same thing at once, although a few had the ability to recognize the mist for what sort of thing it was, if not the perpetrator or her motives.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Quite common in Galaxy of Fear, even a few books into the series when you'd think, after constant hazards and all the times it was not nothing, people would be paying attention. Later they learn, a bit, but that just leads to more Red Herring moments. In Kenobi, Orrin hears a sound from his office, but dismisses it as a "sand-mouse". The readers have already found out that Ben is snooping around, finding evidence of his embezzling.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e66220af	comment	Played with in Pan's Labyrinth. Early in the movie, Ofelia hears some creepy noises coming from the walls of the house at night, and her mother explains it as the sounds of the house settling. Later, Ofelia narrowly escapes the Pale Man's lair with the Pale Man chasing after her; and once she gets back into the house, the Pale Man pounding on the door behind her makes the exact same "house-settling" noises Ofelia heard earlier.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e75c6d45	comment	Happens in a rather surreal way in Goblins, when an alternate-universe Minmax falls into a rift in reality and is erased from existence. His friends panic at first, but as he's also erased from their memories, they calm down and reassure themselves that they're both safe and no one fell in.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly / Doctor Who crossover fanfic The Man with No Name, while some of the Serenity crew is hunting Reavers in some woods, they all suddenly stop, thinking they heard something. The Doctor opts to barrel through anyway. Guess what he walks right into?
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It's Probably Nothing / int_e9cb2780	comment	Lampshaded and subverted in Gears of War, where Dom does not brush off the strange sound so easily. He's right.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda: A note found in the ruins of the failed colony on Eos has one of the colonists saying this, before admitting that it's not the wind. "Wind doesn't roar like it's hungry." It turns out to be a Fiend.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ef265688	comment	In the first Predator stage of the original Alien vs. Predator PC game, after gibbing a guard in the opening cutscene, you can hear the base's Mission Control: "Unit Two, report in... Report in, Unit Two... Unit Two, do you copy?! Damn, his comm must be down." You're doing these idiots a favor when you kill them.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ef445f2b	comment	Played with in Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. Sonic is relaxing on the beach and Tails goes out to the ocean to try his new machine, it goes out of control and he begins screaming for Sonic to help him. Sonic, who just wants to relax, dismisses it as "probably nothing". Tails continues screaming for Sonic, and he finally yells at him to shut up.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In Revenge of the Sith, two Super Battle Droids are investigating the crashed Jedi starfighters in the hangar bay. When one hears Artoo lurking in a corner, the other stops him, saying it's nothing.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_f10619d8	comment	Repeated quite ridiculously in a later game of the series, Tales of the Abyss. Jade(by far the worst offender), Tear, Guy, Ion and even Luke himself all gasp or draw attention to themselves only to say "No, it's nothing." It's always something. Always.
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It's Probably Nothing / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Subverted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn when the hero is hiding with her pet bird in a hole. The bird chirps and the guard notice. She lets the bird go as they are about to investigate and it flies out of the hole. The guards shrug, saying it was just a bird and our hero sighs a sigh of relief. Then the guards capture her and go "you didn't think we'd really fall for that, did you?" Of course, another hero shows up to save our first hero.
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It's Probably Nothing	processingCategory2	Escape Tropes
It's Probably Nothing	processingCategory2	Ignored Index
It's Probably Nothing	processingCategory2	Insecurity System
It's Probably Nothing	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
Higurashi: When They Cry â€“ Gou / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Keep Beach City Weird (Blog) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Captain America (Comic Book) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Hercules (2015) / Comicbook / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Ancienverse / Fan Fic / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Boy Who Died A Lot (Fanfic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
What it Means to Be a Hero (Fanfic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Back to the Future Part II / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Captain Phillips / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Duck Soup / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Escape Plan / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Gravity / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
It! The Terror from Beyond Space / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Killdozer! / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Manon des Sources / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Pearl Harbor / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Pontypool / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Scavenger Hunt (1979) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Shackleton / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Spider-Man: Far From Home / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Terrified / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Death of Stalin / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Hairy Bird / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Legend of Boggy Creek / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Towering Inferno / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Vampire Doll / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Titanic (1997) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Vabank / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Werewolf / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Werewolf (1996) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Batman: Arkham Series (Franchise) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Rebuild World / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Even More Tales to Give You Goosebumps / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Halo: Evolutions / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Halo: First Strike / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Heretical Edge / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Make Your Own Magic – The Starswirl Do-Over / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Rebuild World / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Solomon Kane / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Star Wars: Kenobi / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Chadbourne Episode / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Dark Tower (2004) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Erl-King / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Hound (1924) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Last Days of Krypton / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Raven / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Water Margin / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Watership Down / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
EvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	It's Probably Nothing
Ptitle97h4eweh	seeAlso	It's Probably Nothing
TheLongingRibbon	seeAlso	It's Probably Nothing
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Air Crash Investigation / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Les Filles d'Ã cÃ´tÃ© / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Mayday / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Seconds from Disaster / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Mole / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Titanic (1996) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
H.M.S. Pinafore (Theatre) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Hansel and Gretel (1893) (Theatre) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
A Plague Tale: Innocence (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Bounty Hunter (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Chernobylite (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Death to Spies (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Dishonored 2 (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Fragile (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Half-Life 2 (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.² (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Hitman 3 (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Invisible, Inc. (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Rule of Rose (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Shivers (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Shivers (1995) (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Siege of Avalon (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Styx: Master of Shadows (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Thief (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
World of Assassination Trilogy (Video Game) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Double Cast (Visual Novel) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Fantasy Kaleidoscope (Web Animation) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Inanimate Insanity (Web Animation) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
ShockHat734 (Web Animation) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The Sanity Circus (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Chubbyemu (Web Video) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Magic Gum Civilization Experiments (Web Video) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Secret Life SMP (Web Video) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
The GREYLOCK Tapes (Web Video) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Beyond the Western Deep (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Dragon Ball Reboot (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Nebula (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Negative One (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Code Lyoko / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Scared Shrekless / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Sonic SatAM / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing
Star Wars: Clone Wars / int_a0efb4e7	type	It's Probably Nothing

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