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{{quote|''"Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it... Of course, it's very hard to convict anyone because no [[Trope Namer|Muggle]] would admit their key keeps shrinking - they'll insist they just keep losing it.'' ''[[Weirdness Censor|Bless them, they'll go to any lengths to ignore magic, even if it's staring them in the face..."]]''|'''Arthur Weasley''', ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter]]''}}
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It's often convenient to remove them from the picture [[Parental Abandonment|if their kids are the heroes.]]
A few of them might actually have been [[Muggle Born of Mages|Born Of Mages]]. In fact, those might be [[Un
[[Those Two Guys]] are friendly Muggles. The [[Badass Normal]] is physically one, but their temperament and experiences set them apart. The [[Unfazed Everyman]] is functionally a muggle, but as a central character and audience surrogate has the distinction of witnessing all sorts of crazy action firsthand. [[Muggle Foster Parents]] are... well, they are [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|what it says on the can.]]
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* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5's]]'' Psi Corps uses the term "mundane" for the non-telepathic population; its usage varies from slightly offensive to virtually spat out as an insult (generally by Psi Cops). The "mundanes" themselves tend to use the term "normal," and good if not perfect way of divining a telepath's support or antipathy for the Psi Corps is knowing which term they use in conversation with other telepaths.
* [[Heroes (TV)|The Bennet family's]] dog is named Mr. Muggles, likely a reference to this and the fact that, with one exception, the family is normal. [[Badass Normal|Well, two exceptions.]]
* Normal people often referred to like this in ''[[
** Of course, a recurring theme in ''[[
** On the whole, there are far less muggles, in the sense of people with no-idea what's going on, after the masquerade officially broke. Now aliens existing is just a fact of life for planet Earth... that is, until Big Bang Two came along, which apparently rewrote all of the events that lead to the masquerade being broken as never having happened. So the Muggles are back to being Muggles.
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* ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'' has all people who aren't in the Occult Underground being this way. Use of Magick, or Avatar powers, in front of them... well, the core rulebook talks about 'waking a sleeping tiger'. Let's just say it's never, never pretty. But then, not much is in UA, so.
* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: the Ascension]]'' and ''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: the Awakening]]'', the [[Muggles]] are called "Sleepers", and actually make magic more dangerous when present ''because'' of their normality. The reason ''why'' differs between the two games:
** In ''Ascension'', belief defines reality, and Sleepers are the majority. While "coincidental magick" can be passed off as luck or accident, using "vulgar magick" -- magic that obviously defies the consensus definition of "reality" -- causes dangerous Paradox as reality tries to snap back to obeying physics. Meanwhile, in ''Awakening'', when Atlantis fell and the Abyss was formed, [[Extra
*** ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game)|Changeling: The Dreaming]]'' used a similar concept though the ''Banality'' mechanic. It is apparently not enough to just be a mundane, non-magical muggle in a [[Crapsack World]] filled with monsters that view you as commodity as best and speed bump at worst, your muggleness itself ensures nothing could ever be done to possibly make things better.
*** 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.
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* ''[[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]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40,000,]]'' has the vast majority of humanity believing that the very real threats out in the universe, the aliens, the daemons, the traitor legions, are fairy tales made up by the church.
* ''[[Continuum]]'' has the vast majority of humanity (and pre-human civilisations) made up of Levellers (as opposed to Spanners/Spinners for those with the capacity for [[Time Travel]]). No mention is made in the rulebook about the potential confusion with a [
== Video Games ==
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* 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> sane "unmagical"</s> people of another perspective as "mundanes".
* ''[[
* Even hackers use the term "Muggle". It has an [http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/muggle.html entry in The Jargon File].
* Non-[[Society for Creative Anachronism|SCA]] folks are called "mundanes" by members. Mundanes are also the clothes you wear in everyday life. (Same goes for Amtgard and (some) Renaissance Faires)
* People who do not participate in [http://www.geocaching.com Geocaching] are called Muggles by Geocachers. When a geocache disappears, it has been "muggled."
* Members of the Neopagan/Magickal community will sometimes use this term to describe non-members, replacing the earlier term "Cowan", which has the same meaning. "Mundane" is also used in this context, largely due to the high degree of crossover between the Neopagan community and the SCA.
* In the Autistic community, the terms "[
* In Russia, most youth subcultures such as punks, metalheads, goths, otaku, [[LAR Pers]] etc, use the word "tsivily" ("civilians") for people outside the subcultures.
* Non-Military, also known as "Civilians."
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