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No Listening Skills

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No Listening Skills	comment	This character never listens. Either due to hearing problems, vanity, rudeness, stupidity, inattentiveness or being in a different place as everyone else, they'll barely or never get the message that someone else is trying to tell them. In the case of someone who's vain, a jerk or off in his own world this sometimes involves actively interrupting other people. Other times they'll have to be repeated to, their responses won't match what they're responding to, or they'll only be paying half-attention and have to be told things that have already been said in the conversation at a previous moment. This is a bad combination when paired with someone whose Berserk Button is having to repeat themselves. Of course, due to this person having terrible listening skills, they probably won't recognize the pattern. Husbands and boyfriends in media are often portrayed as not being able to listen to their significant others. An Absent-Minded Professor and Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! tend to be this. Compare Comically Missing the Point, since this might be the reason, and Stopped Reading Too Soon when it comes to reading something. Related to Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer and One Side of the Story. Not to be confused with Not Listening to Me, Are You?, which is a common reaction to this trope.
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No Listening Skills / int_137ec0ee	comment	Kyoko Hori from Horimiya isn't a very attentive listener, something that brings trouble in numerous occasions. After learning from Souta that Miyamura walked with another girl, she confronts him about it, refusing to listen to his explanation that Chika is Shindo's girlfriend and had twisted her leg. Every time he opens his mouth, she throws books at him before leaving in a huff. Later, during their bad boyfriend charade, she was too astonished over actually being treated harshly by him to listen to his complaints about it creating a bad impression to others.
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No Listening Skills / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: In the Distant Prologue, the only road in and out of Aksel's remote village being broken means that a man doing a supply run by boat is his only potential means to move his grandmother from a nearby city and keep her relatively safe from an upcoming epidemic. The man doing the supply run wasn't exactly planning to bring passengers back and tries to tell it to Aksel, but Aksel answers as if he had said "Yes, no problem." In the main story, Sigrun, the crew's captain, can get like this towards discordant voices, especially Mikkel's. Speechbubbles Interruption is a regular occurrence on her part. She's incidentally Aksel's great-granddaughter.
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No Listening Skills / int_31c31084	comment	In The Weekenders, "Listen Up", this becomes a problem for Carver when he and his friends sign up to be helpers to help kids get over worrying about middle school and Carver doesn't help his kid by not listening to his problems. He spends the rest of the episode learning how to listen and comes to a realization when people don't listen to his problem. He eventually makes it up to his kid by the end.
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No Listening Skills / int_3790ae45	comment	Comedically exaggerated in Double Homework with Henry, who always seems to get the wrong meaning of what people try to tell him, even when the correct meaning is obvious.
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No Listening Skills / int_3f4a104b	comment	The Pointy-Haired Boss from Dilbert is legendary in-universe for selective hearing. This can either frustrate his underlings, or in some cases, allow them to exploit this flaw.
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No Listening Skills / int_3fbd173e	comment	Middle Manager Kornada in Mark Stanley's Freefall is told by his robots that a raging hurricane necessitates an evacuation in the Friday 24 March 2000 strip. This hopeless Obstructive Bureaucrat won't budge, because "...it's not on the schedule." Florence has to trick him in order to get him to the evacuation point on the roof.
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No Listening Skills / int_490a7d52	comment	The Karma of Lies: When Marinette warns Adrien that she's on the verge of breaking due to Lila's deception successfully isolating her from the rest of their class, Adrien's response is to smile and 'reassure' her that she's strong enough to handle it. This only serves to drive home that he's not the compassionate boy she'd thought he was, as he completely ignored everything she'd just said. After Ladybug gives Chat Noir a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech during an interview gone wrong, Adrien complains to Plagg that she "never told him" how she felt before. Plagg retorts that she did. Repeatedly. Several times.
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No Listening Skills / int_4a94a5fc	comment	Christine in Maskerade is both dimwitted and self-centered, to the point where Agnes tells her that her father is the Emperor of Klatch and her mother is a small tray of raspberry pastries without any of it registering.
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No Listening Skills / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: Jet isn't a very attentive listener, something that causes problems in numerous episodes. In "Mindy's Weather Report", he didn't listen to the others about the supposed storm actually being on Saturn, and drove Boxwood Terrace into a frenzy. In "What's Up With Saturn's Rings?", he didn't listen to Sean's lecture on the rings of Saturn, mistaking it for ice cream sundaes, Cincinnati, or sautéed sausages.
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No Listening Skills / int_53fdef82	comment	In Snow White with the Red Hair, Prince Raji Shenazard responds to Shirayuki returning to Tanburn and requesting the cure to the poison he used to poison someone who had helped her while she fled his attempt to force her to be his concubine by acting like she is deeply in love with him and that he is being magnanimous by letting her become his concubine instead of addressing the fact that he is giving her a Scarpia Ultimatum. She briefly wonders to herself if he's suffering auditory hallucinations, but it seems he has just never been told "no" before in his life.
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No Listening Skills / int_5af707ee	comment	Jason from Home Movies sometimes has this problem. In Season 4 "The Heart Smashers", after Brendon told him and Melissa how he's going to avoid Fenton after firing him and ending their friendship, Jason admits he wasn't listening. When Jason and Melissa are talking to Brendon about rehiring Fenton again, Jason thought they were going to hire Walter and Perry until Melissa corrects him.
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No Listening Skills / int_5c5077d4	comment	Cain: Trying to tell Katsuki anything that contradicts his beliefs is a complete waste of breath. At best, he'll take it as evidence that Izuku is somehow "tricking" and manipulating the speaker into buying his supposed Bitch in Sheep's Clothing act — because so far as Katsuki is concerned, that's the only possible reason why somebody might not agree with his twisted take on reality.
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No Listening Skills / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Black Butler: Elizabeth isn't a very attentive listener, which often causes problems, much to Ciel's annoyance. In her introductory appearance, she refuses to listen to him when he tries to object to the idea to organize a dance party and inviting him to dance, despite his aversion of dancing. When she complains about using his blue ring the party, Ciel explains it is a heirloom item, but she didn't listen until the end, claiming she was kidding and snatching the ring away. She even refused to give it back when he angrily told her to, not understanding why he would be upset about it, instead she breaks it in a fit, which provokes Ciel's ire.
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No Listening Skills / int_60f02ddb	comment	Exaggerated in the American Dad! episode "Stan Goes on the Pill", where men can only hear a faint hiss when forced to listen to a woman talk. Stan takes an experimental CIA pill that allows him to bridge the barrier and listen to Francine, but because he couldn't listen to the female scientist's advice about the dosage, he ends up turning into a woman.
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No Listening Skills / int_79ffa674	comment	Copen from Azure Striker Gunvolt Series absolutely refuses to listen from everything an Adept says to him, owing to his Fantastic Racism towards them. This is most noticeable during his fights with Gunvolt where he urges him to stand down and appeal to the goodness of Adepts, which Copen scoffs at him.
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No Listening Skills / int_846a0b73	comment	The One to Make It Stay: Alya's inability to listen when Marinette tells her that she's no longer interest in pursuing Adrien causes no end of problems, especially when she stages an intervention after Marinette scuttles one of her Zany Schemes.
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No Listening Skills / int_856d96e	comment	Juleka vs. the Forces of the Universe: Alya is so convinced that she knows what's best for Marinette that she dismisses any evidence to the contrary, especially anything Marinette herself has to say on the matter. Adrien is even worse about this, especially as Chat Noir. No matter how many times Ladybug rejects his unwanted advances, he continues insisting that they're meant to be together Because Destiny Says So. And by 'destiny', he means him. She doesn't get any say in the matter.
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No Listening Skills / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Katsuki Bakugo often tunes out anything that isn't related to his interests, something that brings trouble. He doesn't even have the slightest patience to listen until they are finished, telling anyone he comes across to STFU. When Izuku, who he demonizes, tries to have any say and/or swear he isn't anyone who wouldn't look down on there and genuinely wants to help people, he ignores it, accusing him of looking down on him and either tells him to drop dead or go away, rather than hearing him out. When he tells him he got his Quirk from All Might, he turns a deaf ear on his explanation, accusing him of mocking him. In the fifth season opened, he didn't listen to Suneater telling the drill is over, insisting he is a villain he has to defeat.
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No Listening Skills / int_a9a0ba0e	comment	Dodged a Beetle: Bella Stella concludes that Chat Noir is incapable of listening when he responds to one of her sarcastic quips by completely abandoning any semblance of strategy and attacks Stoneheart head-on. He doesn't exactly help his case by treating their battles as though they're nothing more than games. After Bella Stella's debut, Adrien asks Plagg if he might have been responsible for Ladybug's decision to quit. While Plagg lists off plenty of possibilities, Adrien promptly latches on the brief, passing acknowledgement that she might have decided she didn't like him, refusing to acknowledge any of the other options.
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No Listening Skills / int_b0ff5776	comment	Young Sheldon: In "A New Weather Girl and a Stay-at-Home Coddler", Sheldon asks Drs. Linkletter and Strugis why they, as his advisors, didn't warn him about graduate school being so competitive. Flashbacks show that they tried, but Sheldon arrogantly dismissed them.
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No Listening Skills / int_bccaf14c	comment	Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus has Goh have this again as he nearly died because he didn't want to listen to Chloe's warnings to not catch a Vivillon over a running river. In fact, Chloe confesses that because her problems don't involve Mew, he doesn't need to be involved in them...like how she's imagining her suicide play out with her trying to talk to Goh one last time and he hangs up on her. The real Goh immediately screams that he would've gone back to save her.
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No Listening Skills / int_be1b9b63	comment	Three's A Crowd (Naruto): Team Seven seriously struggles with this issue after its formation. Not only does Sasuke refuse to listen to anyone due to his arrogance, Uo mimics his Ineffectual Loner attitude and acts just as stuck-up and high-and-mighty. Making matters even worse is that Kakashi opts to be a Sink or Swim Mentor, blithely ignoring all of Sakura's complaints about his refusal to do anything about the boys... and when he finally starts paying attention, completely fails to understand the root of her concerns.
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No Listening Skills / int_d57d722e	comment	Amaterasu, the Sun Goddesss and the playable character in Ōkami, has a very, very short attention span and is prone to napping in the middle of other characters explaining something to her.
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No Listening Skills / int_d6b6971d	comment	In Survivor: Heroes Vs Villains, Russell Hantz. When his fellow Villains suggested getting rid of Sandra before the merge, he went after Courtney instead. When Parvati insisted Sandra would be more dangerous than Jerri in front of the jury, guess which of the two was the next one to go. Triple that for the jury itself. He specifically told Danielle (a former finalist, by the way, so she understands how the process works): "I'm not going to sit here and tell you what you want to hear, I'm going to tell you the truth." Whoops.
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No Listening Skills / int_d908efc	comment	Zenitsu Agatsuma from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Despite his enhanced hearing, he is hardly a very attentive listener. He often speaks and screams non-stop even when told to stop. In his jealous state, he completely stops listening to reason. He insists he has any say, while he refuses to let anyone who attract girls or he thinks they are flirting with someone talk, even telling them they are fantasing when he is told the true version of the story, despite being the one who is overthinking. When he saw Nezuko for first time, he didn't listen to Tanjiro trying to tell him she is his younger sister who was turned into a demon the night his family was murdered, trying to kill him, thinking she was his girlfriend. When Tengen tasked the trio to help him infiltrate the Red District, he didn't listen to Tengen telling him he sent certain people (his wives) to infiltrate there to hunt a demon, assuming he asked the trio for help to find a bride, despite being already married, even telling him he is fantasing everything when he told part of the real version of his story, much to Tengen's annoyance.
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No Listening Skills / int_e25322af	comment	In Homestar Runner, Homestar is prone to this, being both The Ditz and a Cloud Cuckoolander. For example, in "4 branches", Coach Z tries to warn Homestar about the dangers of exposing a flame "pro-tardant polymascotfoamalate" costume to a campfire. Homestar zones out and imagines a commercial for polymascotfoamalate from the 1930s, then concludes "So I should be perfectly safe!" Then merrily goes on building a campfire inside the costume.
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No Listening Skills / int_f0a86c12	comment	On How I Met Your Mother, whenever Barney claims to be Ted's best friend, Ted always corrects him that it's Marshall. Barney always bulldozes this by continuing "and as your best friend..."
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