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The [[Secret Identity]] pretends to be this.
They are the ones who the [[Masquerade]] is used to hide from. Who nobody (not even the heroes) mind if they get their [[Laser
They are the [[Victim of the Week]] eaten by the [[Monster of the Week]].
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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 (Literature)|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 ==
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** Played with in ''[[Gundam 00]]'', where [[La Résistance|Celestial Being]]'s Tieria Erde and [[Manipulative Bastard]] Ribbons Almarck are revealed to be Innovators, artificial humans who Ribbons claims were intended by Aeolia Schenberg to rule over humankind. {{spoiler|The classic scenario is ''[[Inverted Trope|inverted]]'', however, when Tieria discovers the truth: the "Innovators" are in fact nothing of the sort, and were meant instead to help humankind reach its potential as the ''true'' Innovators.}}
** Subverted in ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Gundam X]]'', the main character is ''not'' a Newtype yet time after time he is forced to go up against them in combat, and must contend with his [[Mysterious Waif|Girlfriend's]] increasingly disastrous predictions of the future. Yet he never gives up hope and was recognized by the [[A God Am I|First Newtype]] as living proof that one can not predict the future. Not bad for a kid who spent the first fifteen years of his life as an orphan in a [[Crapsack World]],
* Gamu of ''Kokoro'', who lacks [[Genre Blindness]], calls out the mage society on their use of "norm", as well as their championing of the [[Masquerade]] and [[Laser
* ''[[Naruto]]'' partially subverts this as non-shinobi are the ninja villages' ''customers''.
* All humans (save for the few who can actually use their chi) in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' are muggles, all with a very strong [[Weirdness Censor]].
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* In ''[[The Hollows]]'', There are no muggles. Magic came out of the closet before the books started, when 4 species weren't affected by a disease that killed 2/3 people on the planet, and scarred the rest. This removed enough humans that revealing magic became a viable option, as the levels were around equal now
* In ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'', ordinary people (i.e. non-magicians) are looked at with distaste and referred to as "commoners." A bit subverted, in that the wizards are shown to be corrupt aristocrats oppressing the commoners, and one of the main characters is an [[Anti
** Strangely there doesn't seem to be anything actually ''stopping'' commoners from learning magic, they just don't get picked for training (which makes sense, since those picked must have very high [[I Qs]] and parents willing to give up all parental rights).
*** Magicians do not try to stop commoners from learning magic because they hide their real sources of power, which are {{spoiler|spirits they summon}}. Also, any commoners who do manage to learn magic immediately become targets of other magicians, which pretty much spells their doom.
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== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', pretty much the entire population of Sunnydale aside from the main cast and the bad guys could counted as muggles. People are aware that Sunnydale is a dangerous place but [[Sunnydale Syndrome|never seem willing or able to make the leap to accept]] that it's because the town [[Weirdness Magnet|attracts all manner of supernatural beasties]]. Lampshaded in one episode where a football player tells his friend that they could go to state this year "as long as we don't have as many mysterious horrible deaths." Although some later episodes imply that people are halfway aware of Sunnydale's unusual nature, and that [[Holding Out for A Hero|Buffy helps keep them safe]]; but they [[Somebody
** Buffy's graduating high school class probably knows, considering they all fought a giant demon snake and his army of vampires on graduation day.
*** You mean that [[Running Gag|mob of]] [[Gas Leak Coverup|gangsters on PCP]]?
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*** In the [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]] game ''[[Promethean: The Created (Tabletop Game)|Promethean: The Created]]'', Prometheans (golem/Frankenstein/artificial creations) possess a life force that ... annoys Muggles. Stay in one place too long, and the Muggles get out the pitchforks and torches. So the Promethean has to hide and move a lot to keep all the normals around him from erupting into riots.
** Vampires in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' and ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' tend to refer to mortals as "kine", an archaic word meaning "cattle". ''Masquerade'' vampires sometimes used the phrase "Children of Seth" if they were feeling poetic (in that setting, vampires descended from Caine, humans from Seth).
** In ''[[Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)|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.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has special, low-powered, "NPC classes" for people who are explicitly not heroes; the weakest of these, the Commoner class, can easily be outmatched by a normal housecat. But then by the rules, [[Killer Rabbit|a lot of things can be outmatched by a housecat]].
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