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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.
They're the "normal" for those [[I Just Want to Be Normal|who crave it]] and those who would hate it [[Brought Down to Normal|if it happened]]. Ironically, Muggles often treat these extraordinary people like crap, because Muggles are [[All of the Other Reindeer]]
The [[Secret Identity]] pretends to be this.
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Muggles are to be protected, avoided, manipulated, or abused by the characters or the plot—often all four, one way or another.
Expect the [[Red Shirt]]s to be muggles since non-muggles are usually too plot-valuable to waste. Even muggles with characterization need to watch it: they could be [[Mauve Shirt]]s. More rarely, [[Muggles Do It Better]] comes in to play: mundane people with mundane technology have a real fighting chance in works featuring this trope (often the reason ''why'' the [[
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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== 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 <s>
* ''[[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].
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