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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 Asas Wizard Jesus]], and [[Law of Conservation of Normality]]. Compare [[Extra-Strength Masquerade]], when the Masquerade doesn't even break despite events that ''should'' break it. Compare [[Like Reality Unless Noted]], where everything sure seems like real life until someone mentions something that couldn't possibly exist in real life.
 
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* Messed around a bit with in ''[[Guyver]]''. After X-Day when [[Ancient Conspiracy|Kronos]] unveils themselves and take over the world there are major shake-ups at high levels of government and the protagonists are forced further into hiding since their pursuers no longer have to worry keeping up the [[Masquerade]]. However for the average person on the street who is not a member of [[La Résistance]] the only real difference is recruiting ads and posters and a Zoanoid Boy Band.
* Averted pretty handily in [[Cannon God Exaxxion]]. The Riofaldians integrate themselves into Earth culture and their impressive technology revolutionizes humanity... to the point that when they reveal their plans for invasion, they control almost all of the technology on the planet.
* The second variety is played straight in the manga ''[[Watashi no Messiah Sama-sama]]''. Once the protagonist is forced to do [[The Reveal]] about his powers in front of the media and military and declare that he would go against the world if he had to, things get chaotic ''very'' quickly. His school sides with him ''against the world'' and secedes from Japan, declaring independence with [[Rule of Cool|armies of tanks and ninjas]] led by a [[Scary Shiny Glasses|eerily hyper-competent teacher]], while different nations send in special ops forces to wipe the protagonist and his companions out, which results in {{spoiler|a secondary character getting shot and dying, causing her love interest (the so-far unawakened [[Big Bad]]) to perform the biggest [[Face Heel Turn]] of the series, propelling the main plot to it's finale}}.
* Most people in [[Ranma One Half|Furinkan]] know about Ranma's curse. That means they know magic exists, for one. They talk about it as if they were discussing the weather.
** You may wonder why goverment or army is not interested in group of [[One-Man Army|One Man Armies]] running around and regulary demaging buildings.
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** One of the reasons it goes calmly is that Togashi retconned that demons aren't actually prone to violent crime, and all the proof that they were was due to Enma Senior's propaganda. This despite the fact that they come form a feudal society where [[Asskicking Equals Authority]] is the only thing anyone recognizes, and a lot of them have humans as their natural diet.
** On the other hand, dispossessed political elements within the spirit world stage a terrorist coup in response and nearly blow up the world with a laser cannon. [[Unfortunate Implications|They do this wearing keffiyeh for no reason whatsoever.]]
* In ''[[Dear SDearS]]'', when the eponymous aliens arrive in Japan, they make quite a stir...but that's because they're hot. They have advanced technology, but none of it percolates out into the general public, and they smoothly integrate into society without so much as a ripple.
 
 
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*** This very explanation is how [[Flat Earth Atheist|in-universe atheists]] like Mr. Terrific justify their beliefs.
** Considering [[All Myths Are True]], how could you be expected to choose ''any'' pantheon over another? If you lived in the DCU, and there was evidence for the Greek pantheon, Egyptian pantheon, and Judeo-Christian God, why wouldn't your religious deities be expected to exist as well?
* Averted quite nicely in the fourth volume of Mirage's ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series. The series starts out with the Utroms, aliens who have appeared in the story before, coming to Earth and offering the planet a chance to join the larger galactic community. The narration describes how the world reacts to the offer and knowledge that aliens exist. Among other things, religions try to fit the aliens existence into their doctrines, several regimes are overthown, and the stock market is thrown into chaos. There're more mundane consequences, such as a vicious bidding war between toy companies for the right to produce Utrom plushies. The story resumes after the governments of the world have mostly managed to smooth things out, but the way society has changed to accommodate the aliens is a major part of the series from that point on.
 
== Film ==
* Quietly touched on in the ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (Film)|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'' trilogy. In the final scene of the first film, the family gathers around the table to partake of an enlarged turkey dinner, and there is talk of eliminating world hunger. However, the second film shows the attempt to perfect an enlargement ray, although Wayne is now part of an official lab. The direct-to-video third film may hold the key to this apparent [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: Wayne was forbidden to use the shrink ray again, under orders from a committee of the FDA and his wife Diane, despite now being president of Szalinski Labs. Let's apply some [[Fridge Logic]]: either the calorie count of enlarged food remains identical, or some other side effect of using the shrink ray as an enlarger showed up in a way that threatened the food supply and somehow ruined that dinner.
 
== Literature ==
* Averted in ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]''. The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|considers vampires legally people]] (read: it's illegal to [[Van Helsing Hate Crime|hunt them down and kill them]] -- though that doesn't stop people from doing so and using vamp blood as a potent drug). The first book mention that the citizens of Afghanistan ripped their vampire spokeswoman into bloody shreds. And there's The Brotherhood of the Sun -- an anti-vamp Christian sect. This may have something to do with the fact that they ''[[I'm a Humanitarian|eat people]]''.
* Both averted and played straight in ''[[PandorasPandora's Star (Literature)|Pandoras Star]]''. Humanity has changed irretrievably by the time the main story begins, and the general population is aware of this. The ''alien antagonists'', however, are taken over by a single alien mind, which nukes the competing aliens and is oblivious or indifferent to the fact it has caused a nuclear winter on its home world, carrying out plans for an invasion as if nothing has changed.
* Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] in the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series, where the hand of God reaching down to spare Israel from the entire military might of both Russia and Ethiopia before the series begins, changes nobody's mind about religion, leaving most of the world to be Left Behind when the rapture comes. When a third of the world's population disappears (including all the children), everybody who's been Left Behind continues on as if everything were normal. All the massive changes that later follow to the world's economy, religions, and spiritual structure come about as a result of the Antichrist's manipulations, which have no earthly cause/effect relationship to the Rapture event. Yeah, there are people who don't like this series very much.
** Similar criticisms can be leveled against [[Jack Chick]]'s versions of the Rapture and Tribulation.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' and the accompanying ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]]'', [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] argues that a [[Real Life]] case of this was when most of humanity ignored the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter, apparently not making the logical leap that it could happen just as easily here.
** What's he talking about? [[Disaster Movies]] show humanity being wiped out by a comet all the time.
** And anyone who cared to know knew it could happen long before Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', Bob & Jean were afraid for Molly the Monster's safety after she was born in a lab accident, so they [[Put Onon a Bus|sent her to live with Jean's Uncle]] on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When they realized she was unhappy there, they let her come back home, darn the consequences... and there don't seem to have ''been'' many consequences. Most of the townsfolk concluded she's a relative of Bob's who is deformed and hairy, but otherwise harmless. Well, they ''did'' form a small angry mob to hunt her down once, but that was [[Evil Twin|Galatea's]] fault.
* If you start reading ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]!'' without reading the previous works set in the same [[Walkyverse|shared universe]], you'd completely miss out on the fact that Shortpacked! takes place in a world where aliens have been publicly revealed to exist, it's public knowledge that the US government has reversed engineered alien technology including giant robots and spaceships, and where just a short time before Shortpacked! starts, Earth fought a war against the Martians who wanted to [[Kill All Humans]].
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'', there are aliens -- especially Ben's -- all over the news, but besides the established [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]], The Plumbers, and one task force, humanity seems to not care that there are other sentient lifeforms out there. The only scientist to ever go near Ben is the [[Mad Scientist|crazy one]] who wants the [[MacGuffin|Omnitrix]]. As does every alien and their grandmothers -- but no humans.
** There was exactly one instance of a group of humans after Ben's aliens (without the excuse of belonging to a cult of medieval cosplayers). They never appeared again, though.
* Averted in ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]: The Goliath Chronicles''. After the [[Masquerade]] is nuked, a [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[Expy]] forms against them, and lawmakers try to figure out just where a Gargoyle stands in regard to the law (including a memorable case where Goliath is arrested and brought to trial and his lawyer asks him to try to get off on the grounds that he's not human).
 
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