Not Now, Kiddo: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Detective Conan]]'': Initially, Conan, stuck in the body of a kid, has to overcome the problem that nobody ever ''listens'' to kids. Early on, he has to use Professor Agasa's voice-changing necktie just to tell the police to look under a table. Averted as time goes by in that most of the police inspectors eventually learn to pay attention to Conan's observations. <ref>Inspector Sato and Inspector Takagi have actually started to bring him along when trying to solve cases; ditto for the FBI.</ref>

* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', Ahiru--aAhiru—a duck that can turn into a girl--accidentallygirl—accidentally changes into her duck form when she's startled to see Mytho with a girl that's not his girlfriend. When she sees Mytho's girlfriend, Rue, walking in his direction, Ahiru is afraid she'll be upset by seeing what looks like Mytho cheating and desperately tries to tell Rue to stop by squawking and flailing. Rue responds simply by laughing and continuing down the path. Ahiru then rushes to water (the key to change back into a human) to become a girl again then attempts to tell her to stop, only this time the other girl and Mytho are standing right behind her. However, Rue ''doesn't'' react--shereact—she knows that Mytho does [[Extreme Doormat|whatever anyone tells him to do]] because he's [[Heart Trauma|missing his heart]].

* Terry Brooks example, ''[[Shannara|The Elfstones of Shannara]]'': although Wil Ohmsford doesn't say the trope name, he does pretty much ignore [[The Woobie|poor little Wisp]], who keeps trying to tell him something--butsomething—but he's so set on getting the Elfstones back from Mallenroh so he can prove himself Amberle's protector that he doesn't even pay attention to the hysterical shrieking. Cue Eretria finally grabbing his arm and jerking him back, revealing that the box the Elfstones were in was trapped with a deadly viper inside:

** In "The Pandorica Opens", while the Doctor is rambling on about how he's missing the obvious that's right in front of his nose, he pulls a [[Not Now, Kiddo]] by name on {{spoiler|Rory. Who had previously died and been erased from existence}}. {{spoiler|Rory}} simply waited relatively patiently for the Doctor's mind and memory to catch up with his mouth.