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This trope comes in two flavors - No global consequences, where the above happens (little to no change to a revelation that would be life changing for our universe) and full global consequences, where the above does happen, and usually all at once.
See also [[Reed Richards Is Useless]], [[No Endor Holocaust]], [[Planet Eris]], [[No Such Thing As Wizard Jesus]], and [[Law of Conservation of Normality]]. Compare [[Extra
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* [[The Hulk]] often gets the short end of this stick -- he's hunted, hated and several crazy military organizations want him as a weapon, or dead.
** And all he wants is to be left alone.
* The existence of superhumans rarely has any longterm sociological effects in comics save for [[Fantastic Racism]] agains mutants -- but ''not'' against those with any other [[Super
** The lack of wild reaction could be caused by the fact that the heroes were there all the time. Sure, there were periods that were super-light, but every "normal" remembers when the heroes were around. If they ever leave, we know they'll always come back. In the DC Universe, the first superhero was actually the first human. He invented fire. So, a paleolithic Reed Richards that actually helped people.
*** Although it should be noted that Marvel has SHIELD (and it's many spin-off agencies) to handle this, and as of [[Civil War]] the government has taken a more active stance in the superhuman world.
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