Distraction Tropes
Tropes that cover things that distract or divert a character's attention, whether by accident or design, as well as the characters that plan or fall for them.
For examples of things that might distract you, the reader, from something you really should be doing instead, see Wiki Walk and Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
- Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
- Cacophony Cover Up
- Centipede's Dilemma
- Convenient Decoy Cat
- Delicious Distraction
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
- Distracted By the Sexy
- Distracting Disambiguation
- Easily Distracted Referee
- Fake Out Make Out
- Fakin' MacGuffin
- Go Fetch
- Go Look At the Distraction
- Hey Catch
- Inconvenient Itch
- Infraction Distraction
- Kiss of Distraction
- Look Behind You
- Show Some Leg
- Smoke Out
- Throwing the Distraction
- We Need a Distraction
- Wild Goose Chase
Wait, what's that behind you?!
~Disappears~