History InnocentlyInsensitive / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS1E18ArthursChickenPoxSickAsADog Sick as a Dog]]", Arthur is anxious when Pal has to go to the vet and stay there overnight after he caused Pal to get sick from eating leftover junk food. D.W. pokes fun at Arthur and says, "Now we can get a ''''good'' dog.", which upsets Arthur and gets her scolded by their parents. D.W. later goes to apologize to Arthur for her thoughtless joke and attempts to empathize with him over Pal's plight, telling him that she felt the same way he did [[Recap/ArthurS1E13SoLongSpankyBustersNewFriend when her pet bird Spanky died]]. Needless to say, this does even ''less'' to help Arthur feel better about Pal's illness.

** Marcy Wu is genuinely a very sweet girl, but her tendency to be massively oblivious to stuff around her can make her neglectful or uncaring of others' feelings. While this is well-demonstrated in the episode "The First Temple", where her hyperconcentration on the temple's puzzles nearly gets Anne and the Plantars killed several times, it becomes especially dramatic in "True Colors", [[spoiler:when it's revealed that she deliberately got the girls trapped in Amphibia because [[HatesBeingAlone she was so desperate not to be separated from her friends when she learned her family was moving out of state]] that she tricked Sasha and Anne into stealing the Calamity Box so they could all have adventures together in another world. While her decision was undeniably stupid and selfish (even she acknowledges this herself), she had absolutely no ill will towards her friends even despite their neglectfulness towards her and simply just wasn't in a good place at the time of her impulse decision.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': During the third season, Owl departs White Deer Park to find a mate for herself while the park is attacked by rats. When Owl eventually returns with her new mate, Hollow, upon meeting her old friend Adder she observes that they'll have to find Adder a mate next, only for Adder to bow her head in sorrow. Vixen explains to Owl that Adder ''did'' find a mate while Owl was away, but Sinuous was killed by the rats a while ago. Owl immediately apologises for her "foolish beak", but Adder softly assures Owl that she understands that Owl wasn't to know about Sinuous.

** Marcy Wu is genuinely a very sweet girl, but her tendency to be massively oblivious to stuff around her can make her neglectful or uncaring of others' feelings. While this is well-demonstrated in the episode "The First Temple", where her hyperconcentration on the temple's puzzles nearly gets Anne and the Plantars killed several times, it becomes especially dramatic in "True Colors", [[spoiler:when its revealed that she deliberately got the girls trapped in Amphibia because [[HatesBeingAlone she was so desperate not to be separated from her friends when she learned her family was moving out of state]] that she tricked Sasha and Anne into stealing the Calamity Box so they could all have adventures together in another world. While her decision was undeniably stupid and selfish (even she acknowledges this herself), she had absolutely no ill will towards her friends even despite their neglectfulness towards her and simply just wasn't in a good place at the time of her impulse decision.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS1E18ArthursChickenPoxSickAsADog Sick as a Dog]]", Arthur is anxious when Pal has to go to the vet and stay there overnight after he caused Pal to get sick from eating leftover junk food. D.W. pokes fun at Arthur and says that "now we can get a GOOD dog", which upsets Arthur and gets her scolded by their parents. D.W. later goes to apologize to Arthur for her mean joke and attempts to empathize with him over Pal's plight, telling him that she felt the same way he did [[Recap/ArthurS1E13SoLongSpankyBustersNewFriend when her pet bird Spanky died]]. Needless to say, this does even ''less'' to help Arthur feel better about Pal's illness.
-->'''Arthur''': (''whines fearfully, then screams:'') '''''MOOOOOOM!!'''''\\
'''D.W.''': (''genuinely confused'') What? What did I say?

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS1E18ArthursChickenPoxSickAsADog Sick as a Dog]]", Arthur is anxious when Pal has to go to the vet and stay there overnight after he caused Pal to get sick from eating leftover junk food. D.W. pokes fun at Arthur and says that "now we can get a GOOD dog", which upsets Arthur and gets her scolded by their parents. D.W. later goes to apologize to Arthur for her mean joke and attempts to emphasize with him over Pal's plight, telling him that she felt the same way he did [[Recap/ArthurS1E13SoLongSpankyBustersNewFriend when her pet bird Spanky died]]. Needless to say, this does even ''less'' to help Arthur feel better about Pal's illness.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', nonmalicious insensitivity seems to be a [[SharedFamilyQuirks shared quirk]] of the Pines family. Mabel Pines can take her friendly teasing of her brother a little too far, Grunkle Stan's attempts at ToughLove lead Dipper to mistakenly believe Stan dislikes him, and even Dipper Pine] unintentionally stomps on his sister's insecurities ''hard'' in a few episodes. [[spoiler:This turns out to be shared by [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor the Author]], as a result of his IneffectualLoner tendencies and emotional obliviousness.]] The scant few times he's shown going on dates he shows that he can be considerate, it's just that his ideas of how to make himself presentable to women are horribly outdated.

** [[Characters/AmphibiaMarcyWu Marcy Wu]] is genuinely a very sweet girl, but her tendency to be massively oblivious to stuff around her can make her neglectful or uncaring of others' feelings. While this is well-demonstrated in the episode "The First Temple", where her hyperconcentration on the temple's puzzles nearly gets Anne and the Plantars killed several times, it becomes especially dramatic in "True Colors", [[spoiler:when its revealed that she deliberately got the girls trapped in Amphibia because [[HatesBeingAlone she was so desperate not to be separated from her friends when she learned her family was moving out of state]] that she tricked Sasha and Anne into stealing the Calamity Box so they could all have adventures together in another world. While her decision was undeniably stupid and selfish (even she acknowledges this herself), she had absolutely no ill will towards her friends even despite their neglectfulness towards her and simply just wasn't in a good place at the time of her impulse decision.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', nonmalicious insensitivity seems to be a [[SharedFamilyQuirks shared quirk]] of the Pines family. [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] can take her friendly teasing of her brother a little too far, Grunkle Stan's attempts at ToughLove lead Dipper to mistakenly believe Stan dislikes him, and even [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] unintentionally stomps on his sister's insecurities ''hard'' in a few episodes. [[spoiler:This turns out to be shared by [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor the Author]], as a result of his IneffectualLoner tendencies and emotional obliviousness.]] The scant few times he's shown going on dates he shows that he can be considerate, it's just that his ideas of how to make himself presentable to women are horribly outdated.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', nonmalicious insensitivity seems to be a [[SharedFamilyQuirks shared quirk]] of the Pines family. [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] can take her friendly teasing of her brother a little too far, [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Grunkle Stan's]] attempts at ToughLove lead Dipper to mistakenly believe Stan dislikes him, and even [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] unintentionally stomps on his sister's insecurities ''hard'' in a few episodes. [[spoiler:This turns out to be shared by [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor the Author]], as a result of his IneffectualLoner tendencies and emotional obliviousness.]] The scant few times he's shown going on dates he shows that he can be considerate, it's just that his ideas of how to make himself presentable to women are horribly outdated.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', nonmalicious insensitivity seems to be a [[SharedFamilyQuirks shared quirk]] of the Pines family. [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] can take her friendly teasing of her brother a little too far, [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Grunkle Stan's]] attempts at ToughLove lead Dipper to mistakenly believe Stan dislikes him, and even [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] unintentionally stomps on his sister's insecurities ''hard'' in a few episodes. [[spoiler:This turns out to be shared by [[Characters/GravityFallsTheAuthor the Author]], as a result of his IneffectualLoner tendencies and emotional obliviousness.]]

*** In the episode "I'm With Stupid" Patrick convinces [=SpongeBob=] to act dumb so that his visiting parents don't think he's an idiot. Patrick's mom and dad immediately begin insulting [=SpongeBob=], and Patrick merrily joins in on verbally attacking [=SpongeBob=]. It gets to the point where [=SpongeBob=] has to plead with Patrick to drop the charade over how horrible he's being treated, with [=SpongeBob=] reassuring Patrick his parents will love him no matter what. Unfortunately, Patrick ends up [[BelievingTheirOwnLies thinking he is the more intelligent one between them]] and joins his parents as they double down on the insults.

'''Butters:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' [[BrutalHonesty But she is fat]].\\

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Bloo is an interesting case. He's ''farrrrrrrrrrrr'' from being innocent and [[SerialEscalation becomes a progressively bigger jerk to others with each passing season]] until near the end, but WordOfGod from Creator/CraigMcCracken (as seen in [[https://twitter.com/blytheandferb21/status/1328798363161153537 a series of tweets]]) is that Bloo simply doesn't always understand just how selfish or mean-spirited his actions and behavior can actually be, let alone the potential consequences of them, much like a very young or immature kid - only near the finale does he actually start to become aware of it. Additionally, Bloo was imagined by Mac when the latter was 3 years old, meaning Bloo never matured like Mac did and was still trying to entertain that little kid the only way he knew.

** Marcy Wu is genuinely a very sweet girl, but her tendency to be massively oblivious to stuff around her can make her neglectful or uncaring of others' feelings. While this is well-demonstrated in the episode "The First Temple", where her hyperconcentration on the temple's puzzles nearly gets Anne and the Plantars killed several times, it becomes especially dramatic in "True Colors", [[spoiler:when its revealed that she deliberately got the girls trapped in Amphibia because [[HatesBeingAlone she was so desperate not to be separated from her friends when she learned her family was moving out of state]] that she tricked Sasha and Anne into stealing the Calamity Box so they could all have adventures together in another world. While her decision was undeniably stupid and selfish (even she acknowledges this herself), she had absolutely no ill will towards her friends even despite their neglectfulness towards her and simply just wasn't in a good place at the time of her impulse decision.]]

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Zuko cheat his way past [[SundialWaypoint a sunlight-based lock]] to get into a temple by reflecting light from his sword onto the lock. Aang comments, "You know, Zuko, I don't care what anyone says about you; you're pretty smart." Zuko is briefly pleased to receive a compliment, only to realize what Aang means about what anyone says. Aang runs off before Zuko can say anything.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', nonmalicious insensitivity seems to be a [[SharedFamilyQuirks shared quirk]] of the Pines family. [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]] can take her friendly teasing of her brother a little too far, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Grunkle Stan's]] attempts at ToughLove lead Dipper to mistakenly believe Stan dislikes him, and even Dipper unintentionally stomps on his sister's insecurities ''hard'' in a few episodes. [[spoiler:This turns out to be shared by the Author, as a result of his IneffectualLoner tendencies and emotional obliviousness.]]

** Korra was trained for most of her life in a compound where she could be taught the four elements in safety, but as a result, when she enters the world as a teenage girl, she has NoSocialSkills and winds up greatly exacerbating a LoveTriangle she winds up in because she has no firsthand experience with romance. At one point she plants a ForcefulKiss on her crush after he admits to liking her and honestly doesn't seem to grasp that it's a problem (at first) since he's already in a relationship with someone else.

** Pinkie Pie often falls into this trope.

** [[NoSocialSkills Twilight Sparkle]] is pretty prone to this herself.

** The episode "Dragon Quest" has Rarity telling Spike that he's better than the other dragons because he has something special that they don't. Spike gleefully asks what it is, and then Rarity says he has "The cutest [[BabyTalk widdle]] chubby cheeks," unintentionally humiliating him in the process:

** Spike himself has bouts of this due to his sometimes obnoxious sense of humor and inadvertent bluntness. In "Hurricane Fluttershy", he constantly aggravates Fluttershy's low confidence concerning her poor flying skills, but just doesn't get why Twilight keeps giving him nasty glares.
** Fluttershy also falls into this at times, such as when she makes Rainbow Dash's stage fright even worse in "Sonic Rainboom", describing how ''everyone in Cloudsdale, including the Wonderbolts and Princess Celestia'' would be watching her and see any mistakes she made.
** Speaking of Rainbow Dash, this could be a reason as to why she starts off seemingly uncaring about Fluttershy's phobias in the early episodes, even willing to prank her. She has impatience in "Dragonshy", doesn't realize her spending time with Gilda is essentially alienating her friend Pinkie Pie, teases Spike for wearing an apron in "Dragon Quest" in her lust for cider, ends up making Fluttershy feel uncomfortable in "Bats", destroys the Cloudsdale weather factory to stop winter just to spend more time with her tortoise, shoves said tortoise to the side in the episode he becomes her pet, tries to get Fluttershy to fly in the tornado by pushing her against her will, (though Fluttershy goes anyway because of Rainbow Dash, she still is told to suck it up by Rainbow Dash before the pegasus quickly realizes who she was talking to and changes her tone) and even unknowingly causes Scootaloo to be afraid of the Everfree Forest by telling ghost stories.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders, when inviting Babs Seed into their club, make her painfully aware of her lack of a cutie mark, something she came there to forget about in the first place.
** Among the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle tend to do this without thinking such as leave their friend alone when she's clearly broken about being teased for being unable to fly, Sweetie unknowingly almost causes Rarity to lose her job just from changing a stitch, and Apple Bloom when she finds the toy Big Mac and her used to play with, kinda just shrugs it off leaving her big brother to be very hurt.
** Starlight Glimmer is this trope personified in both [[BigBad villainous]] and [[HeelFaceTurn heroic]] versions, as everything she has done in the series to date was based around having good intentions but messing up ''badly'' due to her lack of tact and simply [[DidntThinkThisThrough just not thinking]].

** We have the title character himself. Although [=SpongeBob=] means well, he unintentionally ruins other peoples' lives. Just ask [[ButtMonkey Squidward]] or his boating school teacher Mrs. Puff. It was taken at its worst in "Demolition Doofus" when after his driving caused Mrs. Puff to pop her inflation sac, [=SpongeBob=], who is clueless about what's going on, makes very insensitive comments about her serious condition by saying she should be now called Mrs. Pop, and that he actually likes her that way. It was so bad that this drove Mrs. Puff into attempting to murder the sponge.
** Due to Patrick's intelligence [[TheDitz (or lack thereof)]], he doesn't realize when he's being insulting.

** A common trait with Pearl is that she doesn't pick up much on what Steven or other humans say or think until she steps over the line, and was unable to realize how upset Amethyst was about her origins.

** Rose Quartz was also not immune to this back when she and Greg had started dating. Rose laughs at Greg's attempts to fuse with her in order to get intimate in the same way she can with Pearl, and she says that she loves ''[[LovingAShadow humans]]'' because they're all so funny. When Greg asks in complete seriousness if she respects him, Rose still thinks he's trying to be funny. She wasn't ''trying'' to be insulting, and in fact by her species' standards was being remarkably loving (as most Homeworld Gems view humans as pests to be exterminated at best), she just genuinely didn't realize she was being such. However, she seems to have largely outgrown this by the time she was pregnant with Steven, if her speech in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E35Lion3StraightToVideo Lion 3: Straight to Video]]" is any indication. With that said, she disregarded how people would feel when she gave up her form to have Steven; [[spoiler: Pearl knew and was sobbing about it in private because she didn't want to lose Rose]].
** In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E24TooFar "Too Far"]], when Peridot discovers that Amethyst enjoys her sense of humor, she takes enjoyment in cracking jokes about everyone, including Amethyst, until she unintentionally takes it too far by describing her as defective. When Steven explains that she hurt Amethyst's feelings, Peridot cannot understand what she was saying is wrong and offensive. Peridot has similar issues with Lapis Lazuli. While she understands that Lapis has genuine grievances against her, her attempts to make amends consist of apologies like "Sorry, but you were just ''so'' useful at the time."

** Steven has also had his moments of unwitting insensitivity. First, how he pressured Sadie (along with Barb) into competing in a competition she hardly wanted to do in the first place. Second, he gave Lapis a minor guilt trip for not wanting to be Peridot's friend -- the same Gem who previously imprisoned Lapis (with Jasper), something that Steven was aware of.
** After [[spoiler:returning from giving himself up to the Diamonds]] Steven initially acts like it was no big deal, despite his actions having painful and long-lasting consequences for his loved ones and most of the town. [[spoiler:He does eventually have a JerkassRealization about his behavior, but Connie [[EvenTheDogIsAshamed and Lion]] are so angry with him brushing off the emotional anguish his sacrifice caused everyone to go through that they refuse to interact with him for the next few episodes.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'', Ben's cousin Lucy is a member of a race of BlobMonster aliens known as the Leopans, who the older [[SpacePolice Plumbers]] had a history of conflict with and referred to as "sludge puppies". In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' Ben uses the term in conversation with another Leopan, who takes offense and says [[FantasticRacism it's actually a racial slur]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': During an essay contest where the participants have to write about their biggest dream, Kaeloo writes an essay about how her ideal world would be, which includes calm and peace for everyone. Since Kaeloo and her best friend Mr. Cat spend most of their time [[VitriolicBestBuds bonding over fights with each other]], Mr. Cat takes it to mean that Kaeloo doesn't want him in her ideal world and gets upset about his best friend supposedly not caring about him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' has Andrea Davenport, the popular rich girl at Molly's school. Outside her debut episode, where she's deliberately antagonistic towards Molly over [[BerserkButton the mispronunciation of her name]], every other appearance has her be an oblivious obstacle to Molly's day -- either because she's too self-centered to realize the consequences of her actions or she inadvertently got involved in supernatural hijinks and is none-the-wiser. This causes Molly to see Andrea as a SitcomArchnemesis and go out of her way to interact with the girl whenever she feels slighted... which results in Andrea believing that they're VitriolicBestBuds, much to Molly's shock at the end of the first season.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' has Andrea Davenport, the popular rich girl at Molly's school. Outside her debut episode, where she's deliberately antagonistic towards Molly over [[BeserkButton the mispronunciation of her name]], every other appearance has her be an oblivious obstacle to Molly's day -- either because she's too self-centered to realize the consequences of her actions or she inadvertently got involved in supernatural hijinks and is none-the-wiser. This causes Molly to see Andrea as a SitcomArchnemesis and go out of her way to interact with the girl whenever she feels slighted... which results in Andrea believing that they're VitriolicBestBuds, much to Molly's shock at the end of the first season.