
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan uses it against two stormtroopers on the Death Star to cover his escape. In the Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic Decks Fall Everyone Dies, Joey ignores the fact that he is coughing up blood while thinking this.The Doctor opts to barrel through anyway. 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.They keep assuming it is the rain even when the good guys talk at normal volume and even yell "You people are.IDIOTS!" The bad guys finally notice the good guys because one of them SNEEZES.

In a chapter of Pokémists: Pocket Alchemists, a Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic, the four main characters stumble into an enemy meeting by breaking through the wall, and the bad guys in the meeting assume it was the rain.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.Let's not forget when Edward asked do you think the Führer could be a Homunculus, he and his brother busted out laughing at how ridiculous that sounded.Played straight in Fullmetal Alchemist when anytime the plot calls on Alphonse to rescue Ed, you are almost guaranteed a scene with a giant suit of armor sneaking around.Tails continues screaming for Sonic, and he finally yells at him to shut up. Sonic, who just wants to relax, dismisses it as "probably nothing". 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. Played with in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.

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Which is why, on the rare circumstance that the hero does go after it - it proves to be a Red Herring. And he will keep doing that even though additional, corroborating hints start showing up, until it is almost too late.īecause 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? 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. the form varies depending on the context. It could come in the form of a prophecy, an important clue picked up off a defeated enemy, an inconclusive medical test. 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.
