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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it... Of course, it's very hard to convict anyone because no [[Trope Namer|Muggle]] would admit their key keeps shrinking - they'll insist they just keep losing it.'' ''[[Weirdness Censor|Bless them, they'll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it's staring them in the face..."]]''|'''Arthur Weasley''', ''[[
Ordinary People. Those who are not special, like the favored of the plot. Mundane folk who are only aware of their own small section of reality. The source from which most characters spring.
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Not to be confused with [[Final Fantasy|Moogles]]. And ''certainly'' not to be confused with ''[[The Legend of Rah and the Muggles]]''. (It also has nothing to do with marijuana unless you're reading vintage crime fiction.)
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In UC Continuity ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', regular humans are sometimes referred to as "Oldtypes", as distinct from the "Newtypes" that represent [[Evolutionary Levels|the next stage of humanity's evolution]]. Rather to the point, some people who believe Newtypes ''are'' the next stage of evolution will use "Oldtype" as a [[Fantastic Racism|Fantastic Slur]] against those who would get in the way of that evolution.
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* Played with in Margaret Weis ''[[Death Gate Cycle]]'' series. [[Yiddish as a Second Language|Mensch]] is a derogatory term used by the two demigod races to refer to humans, elves and dwarves who used to live on Earth before it was [[The Sundering|sundered]] into its four classical elements. Played straight on the worlds of fire and water where they're tormented and slaughtered by ancient monstrosities, averted on the world of air where humans regularly charm dragons into doing their bidding. The demigods themselves look down on them for being lessers and are in turn scorned for being tyrants and jerkasses.
* The trope name (with a capital M) comes from the name for non-magical people in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' universe. Amusingly, this is also a slang term for marijuana, used by Louis Armstrong. See [[The Other Wiki]] for details. It's not known if there is any deliberate connection; Rowling says she took it from the word "mug" meaning "fool", which is possibly derived from the Irish ''mug'', "slave".
* [[The Dresden Files]] takes an approach almost opposite the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' universe's: while most people are either unwilling or unaware of magic, a surprising number of them have actually dealt with it (werewolves running amok, hiring a wizard, cops shooting vampires). And many of the Muggles (or "straights" or "vanillas" as Harry calls them) are almost as formidable as the supernaturals. Marcone, Murphy and Hendricks are among the Muggles who nevertheless are smart, savvy, and can hold their own among wizards and other such. In fact, one of the reasons there's a masquerade going on is because any conflict between generic humans and supernaturals favoured the humans, if only because of sheer numbers, though nowadays the numbers are supplemented by guns and other nasty weapons.
** An excellent example of muggles seriously kicking ass in this series comes at the end of ''White Night'', where {{spoiler|John Marcone and a small squad of human mercenaries take on a horde of uber-ghouls with nothing but assault rifles and discipline, and ''more'' than hold their own.}}
*** Harry compares bringing mortal authorities into a supernatural conflict to dropping a nuke; it's something you don't do, because it fucks up life for everyone no matter what side you're on. Torch and pitchfork wielding mobs were dangerous to supernaturals even in the past—with modern technology, it only makes humans more dangerous.
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** In ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'', "mortals" are often the bane of [[Mad Scientist|Geniuses]], as they can cause [[Weird Science|Wonders]] to [[Phlebotinum Breakdown|go horribly wrong]] by trying to use them. For Geniuses, [[The Masquerade]] is enforced by the circumstances of their powers rather than an organisation, since the things they make generally [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup|can't be recreated]] and [[Magic-Powered Pseudoscience|don't quite run on scientific principles]].
*** It's gotten a bit better for Geniuses. It used to be that Havoc could be caused simply by 'mere mortals' ''looking at them''. Now it mortals have to touch or analyse the Wonder to cause Havoc. Geniuses are now free to walk in broad daylight with a death ray and start zapping the crap out of people. The Masquerade is still up though because a large-scale revelation of just the mere existance of Genii would cause widespread Inspiration and since none of the Genii organisations would be able to deal with that number, it would lead to massive amounts of Unmada and Illuminated walking the earth. And that would almost certainly mean the end of the human race as a whole.
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* ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[Continuum]]'' has the vast majority of humanity (and pre-human civilisations) made up of Levellers (as opposed to Spanners/Spinners for those with the capacity for [[Time Travel]]). No mention is made in the rulebook about the potential confusion with a [[wikipedia:Levellers|17th century English political movement]], or a [[wikipedia:Levellers (band)|late Capricorn-era folk-punk band]], although they do discuss the implications of their own name as used as an insult.
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* ''[[The Saga of Tuck]]'': At one point Tuck refers to a group of female underclassmen as "Homo Mundanus." Tuck and his (male) friends are extremely contemptuous of most of the people that surround them at school.
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], those who are not mutants are 'baselines' (or 'normals'). The baselines have far more creative names for the mutants.
* ''[[Fenspace]]'' has "'Dane" (short for "mundane"), which it inherited from the [[Science Fiction]] fandom which spawned off-earth culture. It also has the derogatory slang term "Dursley", defined as "those 'Danes who are ''aggressively'' mundane and reject/attack anything ... that does not fit into their narrow (and often reactionary) definition of 'normal'." (It should come as no surprise that the latter term originated within the Fen subculture/faction based on the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books.)
== Western Animation ==
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== Real Life ==
* Sociopaths see themselves as much better and important than everyone else who they see as useless pawns, and might refer to as Empaths.
* Otherkin, Otakukin, and other similar groups tend to refer to
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans refer to non-fans as 'the Not We', a reference to the 1982 serial ''Kinda''.
* Even hackers use the term "Muggle". It has an [http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/muggle.html entry] in The [[Jargon File]].
* Non-[[Society for Creative Anachronism|SCA]] folks are called "mundanes" by members. Mundanes are also the clothes you wear in everyday life. (Same goes for Amtgard and (some) Renaissance Faires)
* People who do not participate in [
* Members of the Neopagan/Magickal community will sometimes use this term to describe non-members, replacing the earlier term "Cowan", which has the same meaning. "Mundane" is also used in this context, largely due to the high degree of crossover between the Neopagan community and the SCA.
* In the Autistic community, the terms "[[wikipedia:Neurotypical|neurotypical]]" and/or allism are used to refer to the dominant brain type, due to the negative implications of calling nonautists "normal", as that would imply there being something wrong with autism in general. Said terms are sometimes used in a [http://www.fysh.org/~zefram/allism/allism_intro.txt joking] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309001527/http://isnt.autistics.org/ fashion] in order to demonstrate the silliness of much of the pathologization of autism.
* In Russia, most youth subcultures such as punks, metalheads, goths, otaku, [[
* Non-Military, also known as "Civilians."
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fans will sometimes call ''[[Harry Potter]]'' haters Muggles.
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