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As Bob cringes, the pedestrians approach... and proceed to ''ignore'' him. A couple of teens [[Your Costume Needs Work|joke about his costume]], a father tells his son not to make eye contact, while a woman in passing mutters about how there are more weirdos in the city every day. Most folks simply walk by without even a second (or first) glance. After a few seconds, Bob shrugs and looks for a subway map.

 

 

[[New York City]], [[Los Angeles]]/Hollywood, and Tokyo are especially popular targets, but it might also happen for folks living in a [[City of Adventure]].

** Bit of [[Truth in Television]] there, according to the commentary they really did film on location in New York with the actors wrestling in a busy street. Passersby just ignore them.

** Possibly they noticed the film crew and lack of teleportation?

* A running gag in ''[[The Muppets Take Manhattan]]'' is Miss Piggy, spying on Kermit and enraged by what she sees, taking her frustrations out on nearby architecture. Kermit looks round in surprise (without seeing her), but whoever he's talking to just says "Eh, New York."

** In ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'', Kermit and Miss Piggy go for a bike ride in London. A surprised girl exclaims that a bear is riding a bycicle (a [[Running Gag]] has Fozzy and Kermit being identical twins), but her father just nonchalantly corrects her that Kermit is a frog because "bears wear hats."

* In ''[[Enchanted]]'', a Disney Princess (complete with singing animal friends, a big poofy ball-gown and an obsession with True Love's Kiss) is transported from her animated world of trolls and wicked stepmothers into the middle of Times Square. The reactions of Manhattanites fall into two categories: they either believe that she is some sort of performance artist or assume she is severely psychotic. This is especially evident in her first Real World interaction (for example, when a little person on the street curtly tells her to move out of the way, she mistakes him for Grumpy from Snow White; later that day she has her crown stolen by a homeless person).

** Another example of this trope is at the end of the film, when {{spoiler|Queen Narsissa}} crashes a charity benefit called the King and Queen's Ball. She {{spoiler|transforms into a dragon in from of hundreds of people and climbs to the top of the Woolworth building, then falls to her death and explodes into sparkles when she hits the ground.}} The people at the benefit comment on how the organizers "really went all-out on the floor-show this year."

* In the 1990 film adaptation of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Raphael runs into a stopped cab and rolls over the hood.

{{quote|'''Passenger:''' "What the heck was that?"

** Played straight(er) in the Ramtop Mountains, where people woken in the night by strange happenings say "Oh, it's just another bloody portent," then roll over and go back to sleep. When someone goes for a long walk without seeing anything spooky, he needs a stiff drink to settle his nerves.

* The title character of ''Mr. Spaceman'' almost avoids this--{{spoiler|rather than picking any of the abovementioned cities, he decides to make [[First Contact]] in Baton Rouge. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of doing this on January 1st, 2000, and even landing a [[Flying Saucer]] in the middle of the city is assumed to be [[All Part of the Show]]. Then again, even those who meet him after the celebrations tend to assume this blue-skinned, lipless fellow is just costumed or disfigured.}}

** Mike Callahan of ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' tells the story of waking up after an epic week-long bender naked in Central Park, fleeing on a stolen police horse. He gets all the way to Brooklyn by wrapping himself in a plaid horse blanket and yelling "Attack of the Horseclans! Coming soon from United Artists" as necessary.

* Subverted in the ''[[Enchanted Inc.]]'' series. Small town Texas girl Katie moves to NYC and thinks it's common to spot people wandering around wearing wings and the like, especially since nobody else seems fazed by it. Turns out she just is immune to magic and sees things as they really are.

 

== Web Comics ==

** No, the police just enforce the schedules. They would prefer that the undead hordes didn't invade, if only because it's less paperwork.

* Happens regularly in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. The residents of Cumberland, Maryland don't particularly care when the mayor installs a citywide anti-zombie system, and a rampaging Paul Bunyan is treated by the police as ordinary policework, not worthy of exceptional notice.