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This is actually accurate in the case of Sigvald the Magnificent, who at random times during the battle will actually become so distracted by how awesome and shiny his armour is that he will stop fighting and demand that his henchmen polish it and tell him how wonderful he is. The distract spell (3.5th Edition, Spell Compendium) can give this condition to several foes, making them fascinated by everything around them for a short moment. It inflicts serious penalties on skills such as Concentration, Spot, Listen and Search, and makes them unable to act as much as normal since they can get distracted even mid-combat.

In Fire Engine By Mistake, a fire engine driving through the countryside is such a novelty that sheep stop nibbling, cows stop chewing, and horses stop dusting each other with their tails. Hammy in Over the Hedge behaves in a hyper, caffeinated manner and exhibits Hollywood's definition of ADD. A plot point relies on giving caffeine to th— SQUIRREL!!

Whether it’s a classmate throwing paper balls, another making random loud noises, or the temptation of a cell phone within hand’s reach, students encounter distraction after distraction in class while teachers struggle to focus their attention on the materials. Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes has definite traits of this, though he's most often distracted by his own fantasies and daydreams rather than anything external.

The Kender race in the Dragonlance setting embodies this trope. They even have a racial ability to "Detect Shiny". David suffers from this problem while trying to study at the beginning of The Magic Map. Not because he has ADHD, but because his geography book is so boring that it’s legitimately more fun to watch two ants carrying a twig. The hardest part of teaching isn’t designing lesson plans, making calls home, or even the never-ending grading that has to be done. Completing preparation before class only to have an activity fail because so many of the students in class were distracted is commonplace.Johnny the Homicidal Maniac seems to have ADD trouble. On a positive note, it makes it hard for him to commit suicide because he tends to lose focus on it halfway through. It got downplayed as the series got Cerebus Syndrome, though. Jhonen Vasquez is apparently very close to a Real Life example of this. The Bandar-Log (monkeys) of The Jungle Book are this. We're told that nothing they ever do lasts more than five minutes because they're distracted by something else, and would likely have forgotten Mowgli in the snakepit after kidnapping him. In Anne Bishop's The Others Series, the Crowgard fit this behaviour to a T. Really reinforced by the revelation that the Crowgard of the Lakeside Courtyard run a shop called Sparkle and Junk. PeanutButterGamer shows shades of this during the Hardcore series or other Let's Plays. In his Super Mario 64 LP on the DS, he mentions in his first video wanting to explain why he's playing on the DS and not the Virtual Console 64 version. He forgets it during that video and has to focus multiple times to recall he hasn't explained yet in the second video. In one livestream, he mentions that both viewers and friends have suggested he may have ADHD, but hasn't really bothered to get a professional opinion on it. What many people refer to as the “Hey Look A Squirrel” syndromeis a legitimate challenge all teachers face on a regular basis, and the problem seems to be getting worse each year.

Valerie has ADHD and can't focus on her studies. She usually gets distracted by cute things or cute people. In The A.D.D Test, Matt says that he doesn't get distracted easily, and immediately gets distracted by a bird.

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If this type of character has Animal Motifs, they're often associated with dogs, squirrels, kittens, or ferrets. Many people actually think these fictional classrooms resemble something close to the reality. Any teacher with more than a day of experience can assure you this is hardly the case. Garfield was grateful for the trope when a dog that was chasing him suddenly decided to chase the mailman instead. The dog then decided to chase a squirrel instead of the mailman. The Game Grumps often put their conversations on hold when something unexpected pops up in the game they're playing. Clementine, you need to pay attention!" the art teacher said one more time. And just like the other times, I was paying attention. I was paying attention to Margaret's empty seat.

If creating fascinating lesson plans and delivering them to a highly engaged group of kids was what teaching was really like, teaching would be a whole lot easier than it actually is.

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There is a running joke among players that creatures with the Stupidity rule (which means there is a chance the unit will do nothing other than wander forward a few inches for a turn) suffer from this, in particular Dark Elf Cold Ones (dinosaur horse thingies) thinking "kill kill kill kill, ooooh shiny".