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No Object Permanence
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In psychology, object permanence is the ability to recognize that an object continues to exist even when you cannot see, hear, or touch it. In Real Life, everyone eventually develops this trait in their infancy, usually between 8 and 12 months of age. In fiction, it doesn't always work like that. A good source of comedy is to have a person who should have developed this trait behave as though they never did. An object can be in plain view one second and then hidden from view the next and this person will react as though the object is no longer there, even though it hasn't actually been removed from the room. In a more serious usage, inducing this can be a kind of superpower in fantasy/sci-fi stories. Use of this trope will often show a severe failure of logic. Characters lacking object permanence will have, at the very least, a normal memory, even though the ability to remember anything depends on object permanence. If you believed that this article only existed while you were reading it, you would find yourself unable to remember it later. This is not a problem in fiction land. A common aspect of Artificial Stupidity. Compare Living Motion Detector for when object permanence depends on the motion of the object. Do not confuse it with No Ontological Inertia, which is when an object really is impermanent. See also Head-in-the-Sand Management, which is the foolish belief that if you ignore something bad it will stop being a problem and go away, Ostrich Head Hiding for the Animal Stereotype that ostriches as a species behave this way, and Safe Under Blankets (hiding under blankets), which may involve this trope. |
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Bing Bong in Inside Out is implied to suffer from this, since at one point he "hides" by just sitting on the ground and covering his eyes. If he does, it'd be justified, since Riley imagined him at an age where her own object permanence was still developing. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: In one strip, the father is playing "where's the ball?" with his child, when he replies "For the last time, DAD, I don't have object permanence!" Another strip starts with a baby adrift in a blank void, desperately philosophising about how the universe suddenly ceased to exist. Yes, he's playing peekaboo. |
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Another Good/Bad Bug invoking; the first Brute necromorph of Dead Space will forget that Issac is around when he goes down the stairs on the Ishimuras bridge. | |
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The Amazing Digital Circus: Kinger seems to have an issue with this. On several occasions, he'll be standing directly next to someone (usually Gangle), only to be shocked by their presence the next time he looks in their direction. | |
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The Gap Chasm in the Xanth series had a Forgetfulness spell on it that caused something like this: Anyone who went to the Gap Chasm would promptly forget that it existed upon leaving. | |
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Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism introduced Koshi Komeiji, who can invoke this trope in others. She's a mind-reading satori who can no longer read minds, even her own, leaving her to wander the world, acting on her own subconscious impulses, ignored by almost everyone. Koishi's presence can only be felt if she's in the center of someone's vision, and unless they knew about her beforehand, they'll forget about her as soon as she leaves. | |
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In the Wizards of Waverly Place episode "All About You-niverse", Alex attempts to hide herself from her mom after having "borrowed" money from the Sub Station to purchase a vending machine. After Alex hides, Zeke begins talking as if Alex is no longer in the room, even though all she did was cover herself with a sheet. | |
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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Zaphod and the gang encounter the Ruler of the Universe, who happily accepts a Solipsistic view of reality: | |
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In Train to Busan: The zombies forget their targets exist if they lose sight of them for even a split second, this also applies to any sort of darkness as its implied that their eye sight has been damaged in some way during their transformation. | |
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In the Real-Time Fandub Games Gag Dub of Resident Evil 2 (Remake), Claire exploits Mr. X's lack of object permanence by going in and out of the room he's in to troll him. Whenever she leaves and closes the door behind her, he immediately wonders where she went and walks away from said door to look for her. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Three Gems and a Baby", Garnet unfuses in front of Steven in order to show him that he can unfuse too (since she thinks he's a fusion). Steven, who is only a few months old at that point, looks around in distress, grabs at the air above Ruby and Sapphire, and promptly begins to cry. | |
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Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb can't recognize Perry the Platypus without his hat; if Perry takes off his hat in front of him, he assumes Perry has somehow switched places with a regular platypus. Perry uses this to his advantage all the time. | |
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This happens to the Projectonist in Bendy and the Ink Machine, as the moment you hide inside a Little Miracle Station, he stops looking for you. This might perfectly be a case of Artificial Stupidity, but it could also show how truly mentally gone he is. | |
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In Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love, autistic toddler Raun struggles with this. When Barry waves a cookie in front of him, he follows it with his face and tries to grab it, but when Barry places it behind a napkin, Raun completely forgets about it. | |
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The Rugrats (2021) episode "The Bubbe and Zayde Show" revolves around Tommy not comprehending that the maternal grandparents he has video chats with don't live inside his tablet. | |
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The Onion report: 10% of U.S. high school students graduate without basic object permanence skills. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders", a poorly executed magic spell causes Mike to sort of revert to being a baby.note He has the mental processes of a baby, but keeps the body and speech abilities of an adult. | |
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Badman has this problem, first with Two-Face (thinking that he'd done something to Harvey and "Scary-Face"), and later when making fun of Clark Kenting, as Commissioner Gordon takes off his glasses and utterly fools Batman. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: Inverted with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, which is such a stupid animal that it thinks if you can't see it, it can't see you. In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Zaphod and the gang encounter the Ruler of the Universe, who happily accepts a Solipsistic view of reality: |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch, "Dense and Densibility" (a mash-up of Sense and Sensibility and Dumb and Dumber) features two sisters who are so stupid that, among other things, whenever someone leaves the room they say, "Oh dear, X is dead." In "The Californians: Karina Returns", Brad takes off his fake mustache, revealing him to be Karina in disguise. Devin then asks where Brad went. When Terri Hatcher was the host during the height of the popularity of her show, Lois & Clark, in her opening monologue, several cast members came out and put on glasses, and suddenly, she couldn't recognize them. |
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Doctor Who: The Silence are a race of aliens with the power to make people forget their existence the moment they aren't being observed. | |
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Home on the Range: Slim's idiotic minions are unable to recognize him when he is in his disguise and think that he has suddenly vanished and been replaced by somebody else when he puts it on. He tries putting the disguise on one piece at a time while they are watching him and they still think he has vanished as soon as he puts the glasses on. | |
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Peep and the Big Wide World: | |
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Jojos Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind: Notorious B.I.G. is a massive, utterly indestructible monster, but it isn't impossible to stop. This trope is one of its biggest weaknesses; it can only sense movement, and once it senses a new source of movement, it immediately targets it and completely forgets about whatever it was pursuing before. During her fight with it aboard an airplane, Trish uses this to her advantage by hitting the chairs; Notorious B.I.G. lunged at the wobbling chairs and ignored her entirely until the next time she moved. | |
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When Terri Hatcher was the host during the height of the popularity of her show, Lois & Clark, in her opening monologue, several cast members came out and put on glasses, and suddenly, she couldn't recognize them. | |
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The "Forgettable God" in American Gods invokes this in whoever interacts with him. Any information about him is instantly forgotten, although the advice he gives that is not related to him is remembered as some hunch out of nowhere. | |
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In season five of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Big Bad Glory's magic causes anyone who sees her transform into Ben immediately forget that such a thing happened - except Spike, for some reason, who is extremely annoyed that he has to keep explaining this to everyone else. Justified since A Wizard Did It. | |
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An episode of Family Guy has the usually hyper-intelligent Stewie playing peak-a-boo with Peter. Whenever Peter puts his hands over his eyes, Stewie thinks his father has disappeared. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Unforgettable", an alien race called the Ramuran give off pheromones that interfere with long-term memories. Once a Ramuran leaves another creature's presence, the other creature will have completely forgotten about ever meeting the Ramuran after a few hours. | |
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In the Dawn Of The Dead remake, zombies will cease to attack if eyesight is broken even for a second, only attacking again when they hear noise or regain eyesight of their target; in the original this is Averted as the dead can not only remember where you are after they stop seeing you but they can even remember where you were hiding, before they even became zombies. | |
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