Extra-Strength Masquerade: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|We are assured as children that monsters don’t exist. So even when someone sees a monster, he still doesn’t remember seeing a monster. In his mind’s eye he sees a “big dog” or a “large man” or a “blur at the edge of vision”—[[Weirdness Censor|anything except a creature that he “knows” doesn’t exist]]. A magic fireball is remembered a gas leak. A werewolf becomes a howling drunkard. The easy answer completely papers over what really happened, and the world continues on, blissfully ordinary.~~|[[D20 Modern]], Urban Arcana Campaign Setting}}~~

{{quote|We are assured as children that monsters don’t exist. So even when someone sees a monster, he still doesn’t remember seeing a monster. In his mind’s eye he sees a “big dog” or a “large man” or a “blur at the edge of vision”—[[Weirdness Censor|anything except a creature that he “knows” doesn’t exist]]. A magic fireball is remembered a gas leak. A werewolf becomes a howling drunkard. The easy answer completely papers over what really happened, and the world continues on, blissfully ordinary.

|[[D20 Modern]], Urban Arcana Campaign Setting}}

This is when a story has a [[Masquerade]] in place that, based on the events of the plot, should have been [[Broken Masquerade|broken]], but somehow [[Status Quo Is God|isn't]]. Maybe a dragon terrorized the populace of Manhattan. Maybe aliens landed in London and had [[Spot of Tea|tea with]] the Queen. Or maybe the Sphinx came to life and led a mummy army against Cairo. Whatever the specifics may be, it seems like the world of the story should have become [[The Unmasqued World|unmasqued]], yet the general public seems as ignorant as ever.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' had digital monsters terrorizing [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe|Japan]] and, later, the rest of the world, for approximately 3 days. People could look up in the sky and see another world going on. Yet not only does [[Digimon Adventure 02|the world return to normalcy within the next three years]], ''nobody'' remembers any details about the events. They seem to recall that the events happened, but nobody seems to know exactly what. Either that, or their [[Weirdness Censor]]s are set too high.

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== ~~Fanfic~~ ==

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[Stargate SG-1|SG1]]''/''[[X-COM]]'' crossover ''XSGCOM'' plays with this. After battle of Antarctica (with humanity having two 303's and two Ha'Taks, plus a shitload of satelite weapons) and finaly having drone weapons launched X-COM decide to pull so unbelievable excuse, that it must be true: essentially they are claiming that [[Alien Invasion]] is a cover up for military-exercise-nearly-turned-WWIII. They also lie that governments have been breaching the disarmament of space. To normal journalist, governments trying to cover up major screw up by alien invasion sounds more possible than the other way around.

** Note that this actually happened, sorta. The whole Roswell incident was actually a cover up for a top-secret early warning system for nuclear weapons.