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{{quote|''"One of the few human residents, Marisa Kirisame was just an ordinary girl, [[Flight|flying]] as she normally does."''|'''Prologue''', ''[[Touhou|The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''}}

Wait, what Masquerade you ask? Where did you say you came from again? Ohhhhh, sorry, nevermind, turns out where you come from, Everyone's''Everyone AIs a Super'''. Nobody cares about boring ol' mundane superpowers when they're handed out like party favors.

In serious works, if the hero is lucky, he or she may have some [[Superpower Lottery|appropriately more epic power than most]], otherwise, the heroes may be little more than [[Action Survivor|Action Survivors]]s, even if they have superpowers. Frequently, however, it is used in comic works, where the notion of superpowers are lampooned by just giving them out to everyone until [[Special Snowflake Syndrome|everyone is so special that nobody is special]]. If the hero is very unlucky, they might have very weak powers, or even be an [[Un -Sorcerer]].

* ''[[Wind: A Breath Ofof Heart]]'' - In spite of seeming to be like a normal town, (almost) everyone in the town the story takes place has some kind of special power, often [[Mundane Utility|mundane ones]], and asking what everyone else's powers are is as common as asking what someone's name is. The reason this is so common becomes a major plot point...

* ''[[Tokyo Underground (Anime)|Tokyo Underground]]'' features an entire underground world of psychics.

* After the second season, ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' moves away from a certain [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] and [[Stay Withwith the Aliens|goes to live in Mid-Childa]] where everyone is a mage like her. All the grunts in the military are equipped with staves to help in casting spells, the Air Force doesn't use planes since [[Flight|they can fly on their own]], detectives can [[Mind Probe]] criminals to retrieve information, librarians can perform search engine-like scans on thousands of shelves worth of books, [[Emergency Services]] are protected with [[Deflector Shields]] that keep away heat and smoke and can cast the same shield on victims trapped in a burning building, doctors are equipped with the latest in medical technology and [[Healing Hands]], and students don't need to whisper to each other since they can just use [[Telepathy]].

* In ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' and its spin-offoffs, nearly all of the students from Academy City are undergoing esper training. So it is reasonable to expect unnamed street bullies to have some sort of super power. As one teacher put it, a student not having esper powers is something out of the ordinary and worth researching. The [[Superpower Lottery]] is very much in effect through (powers are ranked on a scale of 1 to 5), and mostmany of these powers are entirely useless (there is a noticeable group of "level 0" people who have powers that simply never manifest).

** The light novels present it a bit differently with Gourry being a bit smarter than he gives out...But double-subverted, in that his memory is STILL''still'' terrible.

* Apparently, this is what happens on Earth in the ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' universe, circa ''Dragon Ball Online''. Taking place two hundred years in [[The Future]] (well, the future of the DB world anyway), every layperson on Earth has discovered the benefits of [[Ki]] thanks to a book written by [[Badass Bookworm]], Son Gohan. Furthermore, Krillin, Tien, and Goten & Trunks have formed their own martial arts schools based on [[The Power of Friendship|teamwork]], [[Ki Attacks|Ki manipulation]] and [[Heroes Prefer Swords|swordsmanship]], respectively. Earthlings are so badass that when [[The Remnant|The Remnants]]s of Frieza's Planet Trade Organization came to Earth to conquer it at one point, the people of Earth ''curb-stomped them with little effort''. Oh, and did we mention that in this future humans and Saiyans are so genetically linked that humans can ''become [[Super Mode|Super Saiyans?!?]]''<ref>Although, you do need help from the magical dragon Shenron to do so, but still...</ref>

* [[Normalman|normalman]] (note no capital letter) was the only normal on a world full of supers. (Also the [[Only Sane Man]].)

** That is, until you get a load of the Monster Generation or even the new ''[[X Men|X-Men]]'', whose mutations are so freakish they're pariahs even in a world full of their own kind.

* In an ''[[Ultimate Fantastic Four]]'' storyline, Reed went back in time and prevented the teleportation experiment by fixing the calibration of the teleporter so that Ben Grimm wouldn't have to be [[Cursed Withwith Awesome|The Thing.]] The result was an alternate world with this trope thanks to the aliens they encountered on the now successful trip with Grimm being the only normal and quite happy about it. {{spoiler|Until it turned out to be the aliens' way of killing the entire human race, and Ben had to fix it.}}

* ''[[House of M]]'' is an ''[[X -Men]]'' story with [[Reality Warper|Scarlet Witch]] changing the world so that most people were mutants leaving the [[Muggles]] as a minority treated somewhat like the disabled.

** ''[[X -Men]]'' itself is a [[Deconstruction]] since it shows how society would react to a growing population of super powered beings.

* ''[[PS 238PS238]]'' focuses on a school filled with super powered children (and faculty), and the one normal student (Tyler).

* [[Franco Belgian Comics]] series ''[[Lanfeust]]'' has the homeland/world of the titular hero, Troy, where every human has one single magic power thanks to specially-trained Sages "broadcasting" magic energy ({{spoiler|which may in fact be more accurately called psychic energy; long story}}) to the nearby citizenry like mobile power relays. Everyone's powers tend to be public knowledge, and often steer those who have them towards a career path [[Mundane Utility|where it will be a useful skill]] (Lanfeust himself's power is to heat any metal, so he was training to be a smith before the [[Call to Adventure]]). However, [[Superpower Lottery|said powers vary wildly]], so it's rather common for people to have a power with [[Crippling Overspecialisation|exceedingly narrow applications]] or even [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|a virtually useless one]] (making farts smell like flowers, anyone?). Although a staple of the series is characters [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|using what they have in novel ways to give themselves an unexpected edge]], like the leader of [[La Résistance]] (an animal entrails-reading soothsayer) using his abilities to plan and coordinate a much more formidable effort than his [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] could muster otherwise, or one of his followers, who relishes the chance to use her power to give horrible heartburns in socially and ethically acceptable ways- to incapacitate enemy [[Mooks]].

* In the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' series, ''all'' Alerans (the human civilization) possess a degree of [[Elemental Powers]] ([[Badass Normal|the protagonist]] being [[Un -Sorcerer|a notable exception]]), ranging from peasants who have limited control over one element to [[Person of Mass Destruction|godlike]] [[Authority Equals Asskicking|high nobility]]. On the nonhuman side of things, the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Marat]] all have the ability to [[Bond Creatures|telepathically bond with an animal]] (including large, vicious predators), and while only a few of the [[Wolf Man|Canim]] actually have magic, any one of them is ''still'' a seven-to-eight foot tall centuries-old anthropomorphic canine, and therefore ''plenty'' [[Badass]] enough to hold their own against all the superpowered people running around.

* Everyone in ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' has a magical talent. The power and usefulness of these talents varies wildly, from entirely pointless to world-changing.

* In season 3 of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Peter is shown a future where a superpower-bestowing serum is readily available to the public.

* ''[[Romancing Sa GaSaGa]]'' series game, ''[[SagaSaGa Frontier 2]]'' had a world where everyone has magic powers as part of their "anima", or life force. It was a major plot point because Gustav, the heir to the throne, mysteriously did not have magic powers, and was banished from the court for his freakish nature. Most of the ''[[Romancing Sa GaSaGa]]'' series will let pretty much anyone use magic, even if they are not particularly good at it, however.

* Happens in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' on all but the youngest and emptiest realms. At any given time in the capital cities, level-capped players -- manyplayers—many of them armed with epic gear -- fargear—far outnumber both NPCs and leveling characters combined. When enemy players invade the cities, [[Police Are Useless|the city guards can't put up much resistance]], but anyone can be a [[Badass Bystander]].

* An episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' centered on an entire [[Planet of Hats|Planet of Superheroes]]. There was only one "Normal" in the entire population whose job it was to be rescued by the supers. He eventually rebelled and became their [[Super Villain]] instead.

* An episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' Timmy wishing the world was inhabited by superheroes.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: the Animated Series (Animation)|Star Trek theThe Animated Series]]'' episode "The Magicks of Megas-Tu", the title characters all have magical [[Reality Warper]] abilities.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', while not ''everyone'' is super, in the sense of being able to bend the elements, a large percentage is, maybe around 30 to 60 percent. This means that bending tends to be used not only for cool fight scenes, but to build houses, heat and cool drinks, power steam-punk machines and play games.

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