Sub Tropes include Needle in a Stack of Needles, Wax Museum Morgue, Lost in a Crowd.Ĭompare Weirdness Censor (bizarre things are not noticed because they are so outlandish that our minds block them out in the interest of sanity), Missed Him by That Much, Refuge in Audacity, Devil in Plain Sight (when a conspicuous villain does this), Infraction Distraction (where evidence is concealed by more minor evidence), and Stolen by Staying Still. Can be a sub-trope to MacGuffin Blindness.
In dictatorial political systems, it's far easier to hide something that way, because people are so accustomed to never asking questions and never wandering away from their path they would ignore the Elephant in the Living Room.Ĭan overlap with Failed a Spot Check, It Was with You All Along, Public Secret Message, Luck-Based Search Technique, or Nobody Here but Us Statues. Something even more secret, or closed, or shameful than good old Area 51, because not just what happens inside is secret, but the mere existence of the place is denied, or ridiculed, or handwaved as some silly legend. There was and still is a rather chilling Real Life version in dictatorships: an object of the size of a military base or town which is not shown at all on a map.
Something hidden is looked for in lots of secret places, and in the end turns out to have been plainly visible all the time, usually disguised as an ordinary object.
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