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[[File:ggmain20031231_320x200_80_580.jpg|link=Girl Genius (Webcomic)|right|Don't make it more awkward than it is.]]
More than the [[Fantastic Comedy]] (which is still predominantly normal), the complete mesh of fantastic elements into a universe nonetheless treated as mundane for the most part. It is not ruled by [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|suspension of disbelief]] since the fantastic elements are presented in a [[Magic
For a purely artistic standpoint, the [[Mundane Fantastic]] is a major reason why a show might be [[Rule of Animation Conservation|animated instead of done live]]. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the idea that if a cartoon is to be taken seriously it has to ''be'' serious and played straight. A [[Mundane Fantastic]] show may [[Jumping the Shark|Jump the Shark]] if a new writer comes on board and decides that all the fantastic elements have to be explained to death.
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See also [[Fantastic Comedy]].
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== Advertising ==
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** [[The Dragon|A vegan]] that Scott fights has [[Psychic Powers]], because he is vegan.
** One of the [[Big Bad|BigBads]] has a [[Achilles Heel|Weak point]] on {{spoiler|the back of her knees}}
** One of the enemies drops a [[Power
** When washing dishes Scott gets 500 [[Experience Points]]. And again when {{spoiler|Scott professes his love for Ramona Flowers, gains 9999 [[Experience Points|Exp.]] and gains a sword called "[[The Power of Love]]"}}.
* Most [[Superhero]] comics are like this to some degree or another. Sure, if a ''new'' alien race or magic being shows up, people will pay attention, but Skrulls and the like are treated as just a part of life.
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** In the same vein as the above, dogs can converse with humans in ''[[Pooch Cafe (Comic Strip)|Pooch Cafe]]'', and it's no big deal.
** Don't even get me started on [[Pearls Before Swine]].
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' is the King of [[Mundane Fantastic]] newspaper comic worlds. Talking animals ''that run corporations'' ([[Corrupt Corporate Executive|sadistically, of course]]), or even the U.N. for a short time, various semi-human personifications of office inhabitant types (from a moth-man attracted by meetings to a parasitic consultant that burrowed through the [[Pointy
== Theater ==
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[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.
* Like above, ''[[Sim City]]'' seems to live in a Mundane world as well. UFOs, metallic monsters, buildings can be "plopped", let alone it probably has everything that the Sims has in it...
** "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.
* ''[[Ouendan]]'' and ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' have some pretty far out situations alongside the [[What Do You Mean
* ''[[Da Capo II]]'', unlike its predecessor, has robots being openly acknowledged, but no one is really that surprised at their existence or interested. There is, however, a degree of racism against them because the story doesn't take place ''that'' far into our future.
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* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]. Technically, he's just a grouchy guy who plays awful videogames and reviews them, but also: all his light guns happen to function like real weapons, his consoles and game cartridges had been possesed in more than one ocassion by evil forces, he knows the reason the game graphics glitch is a little gremlin that fears Q-tips, characters from his videogames appear in his home, there's a musician living behind his couch for no apparent reason, he's able to summon a robotic version of Jesus, and the list goes on and on...
* Many characters in Jon Buck's Paradise setting go on with their normal lives as though nothing had happened after changing into funny animals with minor alterations to their routines to compensate animal parts, subverted in that they do this simply because of the Weirdness Censor in place that would out them as "Changed" IF they reacted too much to their transformation.
* The Notting Cove series is about a [[One
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