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Line 1: {{Analysis}}{{trope}} == ~~'''~~Why the Masquerade Endures~~'''~~ == The masquerade is one of the biggest stretches of [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]], leading to uncomfortable questions such as "[[Harry Potter\|how can a corrupt, inefficient bureaucracy hide countless magical species?]]" and "[[Blade\|why doesn't anyone notice the dozens of murders every night?]]". Superpowered secret societies never seem to consider conquering a country, nor does the renegade vampire hunter ever consider collecting a ton of evidence and spreading it to the whole world. One begins to wonder if the masquerade is less a necessity and more a cultural anxiety disorder. There are almost as many [[Hand Wave~~\|Hand Waves~~]]s as there are protests. The hidden world is too dangerous, or the human world is too dangerous. Humans vastly outnumber the hidden species and are completely intolerant. They're monsters that would dissect anything they capture. God told them not to. Despite all of these solutions and the further problems they bring up, there is a simple [[Watsonian Versus Doylist\|Doylist]] answer to it all: '''Writers use the masquerade because it makes the audience feel special.'''

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