Mundane Fantastic: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Tentai Senshi Sunred]]''. The world is straight out of [[Sentai]] shows—evil organizations, monsters running loose, masked heroes of justice. Except all of them are just going about their daily lives with people not caring about whether someone has more arms than they ought to.

* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'': He is a travelling merchant, she is a Wolf harvest goddess, together they ... trade goods with other people.

* ''[[Patlabor]]'': It's a cop show with [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha|giant robots]].

* ''[[Kamichu!]]'''s main character is most definitely a goddess. She is worshipped and given full honors wherever she goes and even visits the realm of the gods for official god-functions. However, she has a relatively normal school life for most of the series (even a romance!) and her transition to divinity has remarkably little impact on the rest of the townspeople.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' is somewhere between this and [[Low Fantasy]], depending on the book. Elephants, turtles, space, geological pizza...it's mentioned [[Once an Episode|at the start of every book]] but seldom remarked on by characters.

** The amazing thing is not that there are giant elephants on a giant turtle, it's that there's such a thing as elephants or turtles at all.

* [[Naomi Novik]]'s [[Temeraire]] series is pretty much historical fiction in the Napoleonic era ... except there's dragons. They are mostly bred by the military for use as flying war vessels.

* The world of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is like this for a lot of people. There's a [[Masquerade]], but for those in the know, daily life is daily life. Harry advertises in the Yellow Pages under "wizard", writes pamphlets for dabblers in magic, and although we don't see this during the books most of his business seems to come from finding lost items and exorcising frightening-but-not-really-dangerous ghosts.

 

* ''[[The Sims]]''. Ye ''gods'', ''[[The Sims]]''. Between the three games and all their expansions, there's genies, Plant-Sim hybrids, werewolves, [[The Undead|various assorted undead]], android-things, Bigfoot, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, alien abductions, half-alien Sims, magic powers, meteors falling from space, time machines, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]]... the list goes on.

** "So where's the house made of broccoli?"

* In the original ''[[Zoo Tycoon]]'', use of the right [[Easter Egg]] can let you purchase and display unicorns, mermaids, Loch Ness monsters, bigfeet and yeti alongside your mundane animals.

* ''[[PvP]]'' is another good example, with Skull the Troll being treated as any other character in what is supposedly an office drama about a gaming magazine. His super-intelligent cat may or may not also count.

* ''[[So Damn Bright]]'' is a comedy about a group of cynical college drop outs. So far, so normal. The catch is, one of the characters is a fairy. As in, she has visible fairy wings growing out of her back. Fairies are entrenched enough in the culture that there are [[Red Scare]]-era educational films about their biology, and a dating service asks right after sexual preference whether someone would be comfortable with a fae/"anthro" partner. Several other fairies have also been spotted in the background doing a number of mundane activities such as drinking in a bar.

** It's specifically mentioned that most of the Shortpacked employees have ''no idea'' about the alien invasion a few years back; Robin doesn't want to spoil their little mundane fantasy world and Mike isn't talking for some reason. Again, Ultra-Car gets a free pass.

*** What they have "no idea" about is their co-workers' participation. Amber, at least, is [http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/01-this-man-this-manhattan/posthumous/ perfectly aware of the invasion].

* ''[[Terrifying Monsters]]'' is mostly about extraordinary beings doing mundane things.

* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', though it's been pretty tame for the past year or so, deals with this in the form of the character Tony. He's an evil genius who's conquered the world (and, subsequently, gave it back); he built a WarMech, a time machine, and a portal generator (mostly out of gum and old computer parts); and he spends some time as the Black Pants Samurai. How do Greg and the other characters handle this? "Meh. Business as usual."

** ''[[Scary Go Round]]'''s successor ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' continues in the same vein (and the same location). No-one seems to bat an eyelid at having [http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100811 a robot in the school].

* ''[[Skin Deep]]'' is like this half the time with it's plot of "mythical creatures [[The Masquerade|living secret from humanity]]." The characters that grew up in mythical society act as if there is nothing out of the ordinary about a town populated by mythical creatures, while humans understandably have troubles getting past that fact.

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', this is how Elliot and Ellen's parents react to all the [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-10 weirdness] happening [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-12 around them]. They get only a few [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-10 practical] concerns.

* ''[[Copper]]'' has a very large tendency to tell all its stories like this, though mostly it seems to be an excuse to draw [[Scenery Porn|fantastic settings]].

** Said cactus also went by the name Captain Thud and was single-handedly responsible for blowing up the entirety of Wichita.

* ''[[The Snail Factory]]'' has an entire cast of bizarre creatures and even inanimate objects, but these are usually more or less treated as normal employees.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' probably owes a lot of its popularity to emulating the Mundane Fantastic into [[Sitcom]] format. The actual level of weirdness and whether or not it effects the plot changes [[Depending on the Writer]].

* Same goes for ''[[Family Guy]]''. However, some of the stuff is more commonly an [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: no one sees anything too weird in the personification of Death, talking dogs, or evil babies. [[Seth MacFarlane]]'s other [[Animated Show]]s, ''[[American Dad]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', also fall under this trope.