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== Comic Books ==
* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'', in which fairy tale characters have fled from their magical homelands, which were conquered by the evil Adversary, to the mundane world, with most settling in New York. {{spoiler|Eventually played straight when the Adversary sends the witch Baba Yaga leading an army of wooden soldiers to New York to conquer Fabletown.}} The Mundies never notice, because they think they are marching young Republicans.
* [[The DCU]] villainess the Queen of Fables is the [[Wicked Stepmother]] from "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literature)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]". The twist is that in [[The DCU]], (a [[Grimmification|bloodier version of]]) the events of the fairytale [[All Myths Are True|actually happened]], but then Snow White used a magic book to [[Ret
** There is also Brother Grimm, King of Eastwind, who antagonizes [[Flash]] and lusts after Flash's wife, Linda Park West. He has similar powers to the Queen of Fables, and can somehow detect and attack someone who is using [[Super Speed]], making him a tough foe for Flash to face.
* {{spoiler|The squid}} in ''[[Watchmen]]'', or that's what {{spoiler|Ozymandias}}would have you believe.
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* [[Older Than Radio]] in that it occurs in Chapter 8 of the early [[Time Travel]] children's novel ''[[The Story of the Amulet (Literature)|The Story of the Amulet]]'' by [[E Nesbit]]: a queen from ancient Babylon (who doesn't have magical powers, though they do exist in the novel) ends up in "modern" (1900s) London.
* A lift of this occurs in the [[Narnia]] prequel, ''The Magician's Nephew'' when the wicked Jadis (a.k.a. the White Witch) invades London (of roughly the same time period as ''The Story of the Amulet''). Or at least she tries. Magic is inherent to a dimension here, and so she had no power in our world - but did have [[Super Strength]]. She threatens to invade our world in ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'', but that's a clear bluff.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s modern fantasies usually involve some version of this, with the monster usually being one of the [[The Fair Folk|Unseleighe Sidhe]] (Dark Court Elves). Most representative of this trope is ''Mad Maudlin'', in which Aerune, self-styled Lord of Death and Pain, tries to open a Nexus to [[Magical Land|Underhill]] in Central Park and a Sidhe driven mad by the presence of cold iron turns into a literal [
* The climax of ''Blood & Iron'' by Elizabeth Bear.
* [[The Fair Folk]] in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]] II: The Globe'' and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Auditors]] in ''The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch''. Both set to slow down human progress so that we can't create a colony ship before the world becomes a giant snowball again.
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