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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"So you don't believe in dragons?''
''It is curiously true''
''That the dragons you disparage''
''Choose not to believe in you."''
|'''Jack Prelutsky''', ''The Dragons Are Singing Tonight''}}
Two races, or tribes, were familiar with each other's existence a long time ago but they have gone ages without contact with each other, and now each believes the other to be creatures of legend, that either never existed or died out long ago.
Until they meet each other. And they both react exactly the same way — by saying something along the lines of "They do exist!" in a tone of awe. At the same time. (Or at least one directly after the other.)
Compare [[Mutually Fictional]], where the two sides really did originate as (or still are) only stories to each other.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knidq8QClHw This Christmas M&Ms ad]. Verbatim with the trope even.
* The Russian advertisements for ''Hochland'' cheese:
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'''Father''': No, son, it's fiction!
''[Cut to an alien planet]''
'''Alien son''': Dad, do humans exist?
'''Alien father''': No, son, it's fiction! }}
== [[Film]] ==
*
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''Yeah, even Santa Claus believes in you!'' }}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]'', when Alice meets the Unicorn, it asks what she is. When told that she is a child, it replies, stunned, "I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" When Alice confesses that she always believed that ''unicorns'' were fabulous monsters, the Unicorn says, "Well, if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you," to which Alice agrees.
* In ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the
* In [[J. R. R.
** Which is true. The King and his Knights are pretty useless. The only person who can effectively deal with the Dragon is a fat, red-headed farmer who doesn't like
* There's a picture book about a little monster who cannot sleep because he thinks there are human children under his bed. His parents desperately tries to tell him human children are just made-up creatures, but what works is when he meets a real kid and learn that while they are real, they are not dangerous.
* ''[[The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo]]'' by Adam Roberts, a spoof of ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]'', is set in a world where dragons are the dominant species, and humans are a myth.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the eroge ''[[
* In ''[[Maple Story]]'', Fox Point Village is a secluded community of kitsune-like people who have never seen humans, and when Shade appears, they assume he lost his tail in some terrible accident and wonder how he can even hear without the fox-like ears they have.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Referenced in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Fern Gully]]'', humans have been away for so long that the fairies only remember them through legends and folk tales, resulting in most fairies not even believing in humans until of course [[Green Aesop|a logging company arrives in the area]].
* Pops up at the end of the sleepover episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]]''. The climax of the episode features a series of increasingly-nonsensical [[Catapult Nightmare
* Played with in ''[[Ruby Gloom]]''. The Luna Monsters believe that the Misery monster exists but only comes out once in a blue moon. The main cast (aside from Misery, [[Skeptic No Longer|at first]]) believed there was one Luna Monster. The main cast seems to be grossly misinformed about the Luna Monsters. And the Luna Monsters are probably also grossly misinformed about Misery.
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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]
[[Category:Faeries Dont Believe In Humans Either]]
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