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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"In fact, mostly they just swerved and looked irritated, as if they had to deal with a lot of ratty teenagers carrying old hippie women across the freeway."''
|'''Percy Jackson''', ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]: The Son of Neptune''}}
An [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]] is something that is blatantly unusual, yet nobody seems to take notice of it. It could be an odd costume, [[Unusual Ears]], an [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|external monologue]], a visible weapon, or an animal that only vaguely resembles a normal one (such as a [[Furry Fandom|blue wolf wearing armor]]). For some reason, none of the bystanders take notice or comment on it. [[Police Are Useless|Or call the police.]]
When done well, this can help to establish a slightly different reality. When done badly, it can become plain creepy or ridiculous, depending on the show. In some cases this is justified with [[Invisible to Normals|not being seen by mortals]] or for some reason if it's a kid's show/book/comic/other its often stated that the weirdness is [[Invisible to Adults|unable to be seen by adults or doubters]].
While unusual hair or eye colors won't get noticed, they don't really count, as they may not actually ''be there'' in the first
Possibly an extension of [[Somebody Else's Problem]] or [[No Big Deal]], contrast with [[Mundane Made Awesome]]. Occasionally justified with a [[Weirdness Censor]]. Common in [[Magic Realism]] and [[Mundane Fantastic]]. See also [[Fantastically Indifferent]], [[Elephant in the Living Room]], [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!]] and [[Not Distracted by the Sexy]].
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== Anime
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Rei Ayanami's albinism goes unmentioned, even by Asuka. This is especially odd since the show goes for fairly normal color schemes (also rather odd given the emphasis Japanese society places on conformity when Rei sticks out like a sore thumb in any crowd scene). This can be justified, as Rei's look is arguably one of her ''least'' odd aspects. Considering her other traits, it's possible no one would pay much notice her odd appearance.
** That is odd, that Asuka doesn't mention it. [[Fan Wank|If this wasn't an uncommon mutation after the Second Impact, that would explain why Kaworu's coloring also doesn't rate remarks]], but not why Asuka would refrain from making another example of Rei's strangeness another object of her scorn. It's easier to suspend disbelief by assuming that, like noted for [[Hair Colors]], it's only visible to the audience and doesn't really exist in the setting.
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*** By the time Kaworu shows up {{spoiler|everyone's already either dead, insane, or knows he's an Angel. His odd pigmentation problems are the least of their concerns.}}
* ''[[Otogi Juushi Akazukin]]'' brings us a girl wearing an odd costume, another girl with [[Unusual Ears]], and the abovementioned blue wolf, which is apparently easily mistaken for a dog. The dog/wolf confusion seems especially common given Japanese wolves have been extinct for a while. The point remains, however. Blue. Armor. ''Talks.''
* The at-times extremely [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|elaborate and sometimes impractical outfits]] worn by the Goddesses of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' seldom prompt more than mild discussion among others
** In the TV series, the goddesses generally wear less noticeable getups among normals; in the second episode, Belldandy's outfit garners an amused reaction from a little girl. She promptly changes it via magic and freaks the kid out.
** Of course, no one ever mentions the [[Facial Markings]], either.
* ''[[Love Hina]]'': Motoko walking around with a sword is just the tip of the iceberg. Other strange phenomena are passed off with a casual
* While most of the weirdness in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is under the surface, few of the girls in Negi's class ever seem to notice or comment upon Chachamaru's very obvious robotic construction, at least at first. The magic may be under a [[Masquerade]], but that doesn't cover the many other varieties of weirdness.
** [[Lampshaded]] in one chapter (both in manga and anime) when one of the students, Chisame Hasegawa, angrily comments that she doesn't understand how anybody (Chachamaru among them) doesn't notice all the weirdness in the school. She also comments on the abnormal amount of foreigners in the class and how a 10 year-old can work as a teacher if that's against child labor laws.
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** Many think he is just a cosplayer.
* In ''[[Mamotte Shugogetten]]'', no one seems to think it is out of the ordinary for inanimate objects to come to life, giants to stand in the city street, dragons to fly into a school, or any other of the ridiculously outlandish things the spirits do.
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Zafira doesn't go to the hospital very often, but the first time the Wolkenritter are there, while Ishida notes how they're strangely dressed (Hayate notes that they're from an unspecified far off country and are dressed in costume), she doesn't notice his ears or tail. At the end of A's, Zafira starts learning how to turn into a puppy.
* The most anyone tends to find strange about the Medicine Seller in ''[[Mononoke]]'' is his exorcism tools and (in a more modern setting) clothing. Not his pale skin, blonde hair, [[Unusual Ears|pointy ears]], or [[Facial Markings]]. On the other hand, it's implied that people are just too self-interested to pay him much mind.
** In the last
* ''[[Bleach]]'' has (at least, in the beginning, when all of the action still happens on Earth) gigantic undead monsters routinely tearing gashes into buildings in downtown Tokyo. The [[Hand Wave]] is that said giant monsters are [[Invisible to Normals]] and they use memory manipulating magic to provide rational explanation for the damages, which [[Fridge Logic]] suggests is unlikely to satisfy the forensics teams or the insurance assessors.
** And why hasn't any character ever commented on Nnoitra's spoon getup? Every other character wears moderately normal clothes for the setting, but Nnoitra's outfit is downright bizarre.
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* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan|Dokuro-chan]]'' parodies this relentlessly. People sometimes laconically comment about the results of her actions as if it were normal and she had nothing to do with it, but mostly they [[Obfuscating Stupidity|don't even notice]]. On the other hand, they ''do'' pay attention to the minutiae of Sakura-kun's behavior the exact moment it becomes embarrassing. They'll notice Sakura fantasizing about Dokuro-chan, but they won't notice her ''[[Gorn|tearing him in half]] and then resurrecting him'' right in front of them.
* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' is practically an entirely series built out of this. Among the classmates there is a robot, a gorilla, a luchador who convinces everyone that he's a missing member of the cast just by telling them he is, and a mute, shirtless Freddie Mercury who rides a huge black stallion.
* ''[[To
** Although no mention of the fact of the plant or Zastin's armor warrents comment, people often comment about Lala's tail. When it is revealed that Lala (and most of the rest of the characters) are aliens, everyone seems just fine with it though. Which could explain why no one makes a comment about the plant.
* In ''[[Digimon]]'', any time there's a digimon in the real world. People are perfectly fine with the explanation that digimon are stuffed animals or people in suits, even though it would be freakishly obvious that they look way more realistic and organic than a stuffed animal. Especially because with the massive amount of time digimon exist in the real world, someone would eventually realize that the stuffed animal was warm, or that their mouth was unusually realistic and wet, or that they were, you know, breathing.
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*** The anime takes place in Japan.
*** Hilariously played straight and ''then'' subverted in one episode, where Guilmon tries to sneak into school to play with Takato. He sneaks in under a cardboard box. As he walks down the hallway, he crosses by the principal, who greets him with a cheerful "hello, cardboard box!" and continues walking, before suddenly stopping and realizing that a cardboard box should not be moving.
** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars:
* In ''[[Beck]]'': Strange Frankenstein dog? Oh, who cares.
* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', no one ever comments on the scarf-like trail of fog that hangs over Elsie's neck. It's either this trope or [[Invisible to Normals]].
** Considering she can use it, among other things, as an [[Invisibility Cloak]], the latter is not too far a stretch.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
** [[Word of God]] says that Yugi's appearance doesn't actually change, the difference in art represents how the Pharaoh has more presence than Yugi. The only person who ever thought they different people was blindfolded at the time, and only heard their voices. Oddly enough, the Paradox Brothers ''do'' react to Yugi's transformation, but never say anything other than gasping and wondering what he was doing.
*** Additionally, characters occasionally notice that Yugi looks slightly different. During the shadow game against Shadi in one of the first volumes of the manga, both Jounouchi and Anzu wonder if they only imagined that Yugi looks slightly differently. Later, during the Death-T arc, Honda asks them why Yugi looks differently. However, it has to be said that he's never shown to get taller (at least, not in the beginning).
**** Yugi's appearance change when he becomes Yami Yugi is supposed to show the great change in his personality. Yugi is more shy and innocent, hence why his voice is more soft spoken, his eyes are more childish, and why he seems short (he supposedly slouches or keeps his head down too much). Yami Yugi on the other hand is more confident and fierce, hence why his voice becomes deeper (he speaks with more confidence), his eyes become more evil looking, and he appears taller (he stands in a more confident manner). In the end they are both Yugi, just with different personalities.
* In ''[[Free Collars Kingdom]]'', many of the main characters wear clothes, and carry around weapons. The catch? They're '''''cats''''', and yet none of the humans really notice, or think this strange.
* Damn near everything Sousuke Sagara does in public barely elicits any reaction from civilians or authorities in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. From frequently talking about past military experiences, to [[Guns in Church|carrying around loaded guns that he once pulled on a guy bothering Kaname in a crowded subway station]], to interrogating that same guy with a toilet after someone posts a bunch of notes around school bad-mouthing Kaname. Oh and did I mentioned he ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|pulled on a gun on guy in a crowded subway station]]''!? In a country where it would [[Alternate History|probably]] be very difficult to even '''OWN''' a gun legally even if he weren't a minor!?
** The guy plants ''land mines'' on school grounds. Mithril must be paying the school [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a hell of a lot]] in order for him to be such a [[Karma Houdini]].
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* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' has quite a few chapters where she decides to go back to attending school. Unlike most of the people who see her [[Frankenstein's Monster]] appearance, none of the students give her a second glance in these stories, nor do they give her as much flak for her weird surgical procedures. Heck, one story had many students casually asking for weirder and weirder cosmetic changes to their bodies, and the chapter ends with her becoming one of the more normal-looking students on the campus.
* ''[[Slayers]]'' brings us Zelgadis, who is a cursed chimera consisting of 1/3 human, 1/3 golem and 1/3 blow demon. This [[Cursed with Awesome|gives him rock hard, greenish-bluish skin]], scale-like protrusions all over his body, and literal wire-y hair. In early episodes he makes a few comments about preferring to avoid towns and keeps the hood of his cape up, but in most of the later seasons he walks around just like everyone else and never gets a second glance from the innocent townspeople.
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* In ''[[One Piece]]'' there's Brook, a nine-foot tall walking, talking skeleton ''with an afro'', yet pretty much anyone who sees him comments passingly - "Oh look, a skeleton." - and then moves on with the conversation. This is even stranger in light of the fact that Franky once noted that Brook would have trouble being accepted because of his appearance, which Brook did not attempt to dispute.
** People probably thought he ate Skull-Skull fruit or some kind of devil fruit. Considering this is a world where there's giants, gigantic sea monsters, mermaids, and people of various shapes and size, a skeleton is a really uninteresting sight.
** He
*** Luffy's Devil Fruit powers are apparently fairly strange even among Devil Fruits, as when Luffy fights alongside two other pirates with Devil Fruit abilities (one related to magnetism and one that switches people's body parts around), one tells him that his is the strangest.
**** Part of what makes Luffy's power interesting is that even though it's a paramecia (common, random properties) type, it has abilities very similar to a logia (rare, can turn into, create, and manipulate an element/substance) type. The other part of why his powers are interesting comes from the inventive ways he comes up with to use them, namely using his rubber circulatory system to pump his (rubber?) blood super fast to hyper oxygenate his muscles, and inflating his rubber bones to give himself giant limbs and super strength (since it forces his muscles to stretch out in a way he can't just will them to do). This is actually completely averted later when the group gets broken up and Brook winds up kept in a cage by people who want to exhibit him in a freakshow. Turns out he is pretty interesting. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Because he only has]] [[Comically Missing the Point|one joint in his arms.]]
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** Justified by the fact that the Elric boys live in a VERY militaristic state and people assume he is a tall guy that just likes to use an impressive armor, and they immediately freak out when they notice the armor is empty.
** Played hilariously straight in an episode of ''brotherhood'', while running from the military, Ed transmutes a car because they have its description...into an armored car that looks like a chinese new years dragon...''it works'', granted, they were looking for that car in particular, but the fact they didn't even think that's odd is just mind-blowing.
** The appearances of Hohenheim, Ed, and Alphonse (when not in the armor) should qualify as this, as it's more than likely that they are the [[Last of His Kind|only three people alive]] with the distinctive Xerxian [[Eyes of Gold]] [[Curtains Match the Window|and equally golden]] [[Hair of Gold|hair]]
* In ''[[Murder Princess]]'' no one seemed to notice that the princess suddenly started hanging around with a purple Frankenstein and Skeleton man.
* In ''[[This Ugly Yet Beautiful World]]'', there is a huge and general lack of skepticism towards two girls falling from the sky as meteors, but the most notable instance is that one of these girls has a sentient levitating robotic companion that remains virtually unremarked-upon. (This is [[Lampshaded]] a couple times.)
* Only [[Only Sane Man|Lucy]] seems to notice that the people who work for the magic council in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' are humanoid frogs.
* In the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' anime, [[Creepy Child|Maria's]] facial distortions and creepy laughter go uncommented on by the others. This is in sharp contrast to the original sound novels and the manga, where people ''do'' notice and are understandably creeped out.
* Although they may just be the artist's way of conveying his personality, Hiruma's pointy ears and fangs go without mention in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''.
* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]''. Things like a submarine smashing through the floor of a gymnasium, a [[Kill Sat]] blowing up a section of the school, or the school literally being turned into a war zone over a [[Schoolgirl Rival|schoolgirl rivalry]] usually elicit mind surprise at best. Given the [[Gag Series|nature of the series]], one would think this is normal...except that [[The Masquerade|hiding the existence of mermaids]] is the idea that drives the whole plot. Even though the mermaids would be one of the less weird things that occurs.
* Averted hilariously in ''[[Buso Renkin]]'', in which various characters including man-eating monsters attempt to take advantage of this trope, only to find that people do not turn a blind eye to weirdness happening in their vicinity.
*
** For that matter, Pachira's pointy ears also apply, or Aiko's oversized steel hands.
* ''[[Sonic X]]'' has this, but it's averted in the first episode, where Sonic causes a lot of trouble in the city after being transported there by the Chaos Emeralds. This is averted until Sonic makes an appearance that NOBODY can ignore, and is treated like a hero afterwards to the point where people watch a RACE between him and a member of a special group of police.
* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is set in a world chock-full with ''normal'' hair and eye colors, yet Chrono can run around with a purple mullet, red eyes, [[Unusual Ears]] and ''fangs'' and nobody ever seems to be bothered by this. Even if we assume that Chrono's hair and eye color appears normal to the people around him, you'd think ''someone'' would comment on his ears and fangs.
** Also, in general the populous is somehow unaware that demons run around populating their world, even though battles with them often take place in public. There's some hints that the Order is constantly working with the media to keep a lot of stories about their fights with demons under wraps, but you'd think word would get out eventually.
* In the horror manga ''[[Shiki]]'', [[The Dragon]] has cat ears growing out of his head and nobody bats an eye.
* In ''[[Ultimo]]'', some passers-by notice Iruma and Jealousy's Icon form and wonder if they're shooting a movie, reacting to the spider-like creature with more disgust than fear.
* In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, Team Rocket's Meowth is one of the very few Pokemon to be able to talk. A few people find it strange, but most don't.
** Though there are a few other Pokemon that could speak normally: the Gastly in the Maiden's Peak episode, Slowking in the second movie (which subverted it, everyone was surprised it could speak). And Psychic and Legendary Pokemon can communicate telepathically.
** Supposedly Meowth taught himself to speak (and practiced walking erect) in the hope of impressing a female Meowth named Meowzie who liked all things human. The implication is there's nothing restricting most Pokemon to Pokespeech, but there's unusually little interest by Pokemon or their humans in them talking.
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*** One episode has him being dragged away by Pikachu and Piplup, both of which are around a foot high at most.
*** Don't forget that he was the Gym Leader of Pewter Gym. Sure, he left his post pretty early, but he probably stayed there for a year or two. And yet, no one seems to recognize him, not even veteran trainers. Gary probably faced him before Ash, right?
* In ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora
** In contrast, the media ''do'' extensively cover the attempts of apprentice mages to save a group of stranded dolphins.
* The Dead Moon Circus in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime are masters of this trope. Nobody seemed to notice (besides Usagi) that a
* ''[[Flying House]]
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', people are pretty shocked to discover that Piccolo, a man with green skin and antennae, is an alien. Piccolo himself is shocked to discover this. The same thing happens when they find out that Goku (who used to have a tail and would transform into a giant ape in the full moon) is an alien. Granted, given the [[Petting Zoo People|kinds of things walking around]] on Earth in this series that are native to the planet and clearly not human, Goku and Piccolo don't stand out all that much.
** Also the appearance of the giant dragon Parunga in West City. At first, the inhabitants of the city are shocked but once they realize it's at Capsule Corp, they ignore it and go on with their daily lives.
*** Presumably they're used to weird things popping up at Capsule Corp.
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[House of Mystery]]'' various people from different realities and worlds come to an inn where they pay for their drinks in stories. One patron from an alternate [[Big Applesauce|New York City]] tells the story of [[Shaggy Dog Story|that one time he was late for work and got there and found out he left his work boots at home and then went home and got them and he was still on time]]. While the people in the inn are bored to tears, the audience sees the story unfold with his dull, droning narration, and we learn that his roommate was eaten by a giant spider on the ceiling, he got attacked by flying vampiric cats on the subway, and got accosted by [[Our Zombies Are Different|undead homeless people]] begging for spare brains. Virtually every panel contains at least one [[Funny Background Event|completely insane background event]]. Thing is, he considers all this fairly normal aspects of his everyday life, so he didn't think any of it worth mentioning. Oh, and when he says he works in pest control, he really means [[Badass Normal|he spends all day killing 12-foot monster bugs in a quarantine zone with an assault rifle]].
* Played with in ''[[Peanuts]]''. Nobody in this otherwise carefully realistic neigborhood seems to find it at all odd that a beagle should be riding atop his doghouse dressed as a WWI Flying Ace, among many other things. They do however look askance at Peppermint Patty for believing he's 'a funny-looking kid with a big nose'. (Occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when they ''do'' find his behaviour odd - just in passing - then continue on their merry way. It's possible the kids just figure he has doggy ADHD.)▼
** Then there's this exchange when Snoopy finds it cold at night and they're trying various methods to keep him warm.▼
{{quote| '''Linus:''' ...couldn't he just sleep inside the doghouse instead of on top?<br />▼
''(Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Lucy all stare at him incredulously)''<br />▼
'''Linus:''' I guess it was kind of a dumb suggestion. }}▼
* Used in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Fray]]'', where Urkonn tries to convince Melaka Fray of his otherworldliness. Melaka, however, works for a large fish. Whose appearance isn't all that unusual, in a world populated by mutants.
* ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' is a huge red-skinned demon guy with filed-down horns, his colleague is a blue-skinned fish-man, yet no one ever comments on how strange or frightening he looks. His existence is not kept a secret by the government, and he often deals with cases in person. The main reason that he's not freaked out around more often in the comics is because 1) he's pretty well known, and 2) he's mostly shown interacting with people that have day-to-day experiences with either him, or things that make him and the rest of the group seem ''normal''. There have been more than a few instances where ordinary, every day citizens at least get the bug-eyed "Holy crap look at him!' reaction when he shows up.
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* In Wurr, the Hounds' cavalier attitude towards their deformities is demonstrated by Iacar's nickname for Pyramos. Pyramos has extra fingers growing out of his sides, Godzilla-like bone protrusions on his shoulders, a spearlike point of bone on the end of his tail, and a front paw so deformed it looks like a skeletal claw. What does Iacar call him? "Stripeface".
* ''[[Freaks' Squeele]]'' has Ombre, a very large [[Gentle Giant|(but very shy)]] wolf-man. He helps a mother with her stroller by lifting it over his head and no one notices him until a yappy dog attacks him and then its owner starts shouting. 'Course this is a world with ''two'' [[Super Hero Schoool]]s and Ombre's classmates include a living skeleton, a centaur-like spider-woman, and a girl with no head.
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Luminosity]]'', this is [[Justified Trope|justified]] and taken to what would otherwise be an insane degree. Allirea's vampire power is making people think of her as unimportant. This is wonderful for [[The Masquerade]], or making people not fight back as she kills them/someone near them.
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', with the exception of the Script form with [[PewDiePie]] spoiling it , few seems to notice one of the mechas, Hawk, drinking a [[Spot of Tea| cup of tea]]. Same goes with Spur's attempt of soda. Let's not forget [[Celebrity Deathmatch| Zatar the Alien]] being treating like anyone else.
** Episode 8 had a [[Food Fight]], where [[TLC (band)|T-Boz and Chili]] seems more interested in an arm wrestling match. In an earlier episode, [[The Undertaker]] and [[Jack Nicholson]] were also having one, not paying attention to the tsunami.
* ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'': Thanks to "[[Remember the New Guy?|malleable causality]]", nobody who notices that the displaced characters are displacees seems to care who they are. Even if they're [[Sailor Moon|wearing sailor fuku]], or [[Black Lagoon|show up in a military-surplus PT boat]], or [[RWBY|are carrying bladed weapons that turn into guns]]. Or [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|all three at the same time]].
== Film ==
* The live action ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Brothers]]'' movie featured a scene in which Bowser turned a [[Jerkass]] lawyer into an ape using a devolution gun. This happens in front of a large crowd of people who all react with laughter at the chimp in a suit scratching his butt. It seems like watching a man turn into an ape should have a much more panicky reaction.
** Well, it was the secondary villain getting his comeuppance, and chimpanzees ''are'' funny. The people do start panicking when they start seeing Dinohattan replace Manhattan.
* Pretty much the whole of the film version of ''[[Uzumaki]]''. Entire neighborhoods are continuously deserted, students stand head down in the hallway for an extended period in a line for no apparent reason, and it's all treated as normal. By the end of it you want the main character to get it in the head for being so oblivious.
* The famous part in ''[[Ghostbusters]] II'' when the Titanic pulls in and the ghostly passengers walk onto the dock. One dockworker looks shocked at the happening, while another (Cheech Marin in a cameo) just shrugs and says "Well, better late than never."
** The first ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' had a brief shot of the skyscraper with the vortex cloud rotating about it, with passersby shown walking past (in front of the camera) oblivious to the scene. Of course, this was a [[Special Effects Failure]].
* Although they're walking, talking, singing chipmunks, which is apparently highly unusual in this universe given Dave's initial reaction to them, the title characters in the ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' feature films don't seem to garner any unusual attention from anybody. Even biologists aren't knocking down Dave's door to get a good look at them!
** Referenced in one of the newer movies, where one guy mentions that the success will never die down even after the chipmunks sabotaged the show because [[Dancing Bear|they're chipmunks that sing and dance]].
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** The comic tie-in has him in the midst of depression as every normal aspect of his life has gone right to hell.
* In ''[[A Hard Day's Night|A Hard Days Night]]'', three out of four [[Beatles]] note that there's "a little old man in the cupboard", in his underwear. They then proceed to sit down and read their fanmail.
** Also, in ''[[Help!]]'', no one in the Indian restaurant takes much notice of a gang of cultists strangling, kidnapping, and replacing the musicians.
{{quote|
'''Man:''' It's a rather jolly place, isn't it? }}
* Kay uses this trope to convince the newly-recruited Jay in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' that there really are aliens on Earth, by offering him a cup of coffee. In the breakroom, the five Worms are sitting on the counter by the coffeepot. Kay simply asks them if there's any cream, because he hates powdered coffee whitener.
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* The second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' film had a nice touch on this. A fight with mutants takes the heroes into a crowded nightclub. In order to stop a riot, the nightclub singer ([[Vanilla Ice]] of all people) pretends the resulting fight is a floor show. It works, until Shredder shows up to be an ass.
** The first film has the following dialogue after one of them almost gets run over by a taxi:
{{quote|
'''Cabbie''': Looked like sort of a big turtle in a trenchcoat. You're going to LaGuardia, right? }}
** Speaking of the Ninja Turtles, the infamous "Making of..." video for their "Coming Out of Our Shells" tour includes a scene of them performing on top of Radio City Music Hall. For some reason, all the people walking down below don't even seem to be paying attention to them.
* In ''[[Freddie as F.R.O.7]]'', the fact that Freddie's car is alive, has a penchant for jumping on other cars and makes frog noises is never commented on.
* In ''[[The Meteor Man]]'', there is a scene in which the title hero is, despite being in alter ego mode, telekinetically turning a man upside down and tearing out his pockets ''in the middle of a crowded sidewalk'', and ''not one single human being even NOTICES''!!
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', Indy slides under a table in the library ''on a motorcycle'', with villains in hot pursuit. The students sitting at that table get up... and stop Indiana to ask a question about the homework, then go right back to studying. Possibly justified in that, [[Indiana Jones]] being who he is, it may ''not'' be all that unusual a sight for one of his students (and who knows when they'll get another chance to ask him about assignments?).
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** They do notice, though. [[Captain Obvious|"DAT'S A DUCK!"]]
* The rapping white guys in ''[[Teen Witch]]''. You'd think ''somebody'' would notice them, [[The Nostalgia Chick|especially with how bad they are]].
* In the movie ''[[The Shadow]]'', sword wielding mongol warriors in 13th century attire don't rise anyone's eyebrows.
** The Big Bad of said movie...his power
* This is the only explanation for the [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Christmas Town]] elves not responding to Jack's presence during his initial visit. One would think a foppish skeleton prancing like a young gazelle would be pretty hard ''not'' to notice. Especially if he's singing the whole time. And looking in everyone's windows.
* In the first TV movie for ''[[The Librarian]]'', Judson contacts Carsen through a television set in the lobby of a Far Eastern hotel. The two Asian gentlemen who are watching the TV don't bat an eye when their program is pre-empted by an English-speaking talking head that can apparently see and hear Noah Wyle via the screen.
* Averted where it counts in the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' series, with characters noting Marty's odd clothing "Why are you wearing a life preserver?" and "'Nee-kay'
** However the trope plays straight in the Indians' reaction to the Delorean when Marty arrives in 1885. True, they are being chased by the US Cavalry and one of the Indians hits the Delorean with an arrow, but you would think at least a few of them would stop dead.
* In ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' nobody ever comments on the song and dance numbers nor the explosions and destruction caused by Jake's girlfriend. Not even the policemen in the exploding building find it remarkable afterwards.
* In the 1958 film version of ''[[Tom Thumb]]'', the only two people in the entire village who think that an inch-high man is at all odd or worthy of some note are the bad guys, who can think only of how they could exploit him in burglaries.
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] 2'' had a scene where a giant alien worm went straight past a Subway station full of people, who immediately looked back down to what they were reading when it passed.
* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick Ass]]'', [[The Dragon]] picks up a bazooka from one of Big Daddy's safehouses, since it's a cool weapon and he's always wanted one. He's still got it when he returns to his boss. The boss calls attention to it, there's a [[Beat]], then he's just like "ok".
* ''[[Batman: The Movie]]'': Lampshaded by Robin and ''justified'' by Batman so we can learn [[An Aesop]]:
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'''Batman:''' It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions.
'''Robin:''' [[An Aesop|Gosh, drink is sure a filthy thing, isn't it? I'd rather be dead than unable to trust my own eyes!]] }}
* [[Played With]] in ''[[Se7en]]''. Late in the film, John Doe takes a cab from one place ({{spoiler|Mills' apartment - not revealed until later}}) to a police station, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImAmM5-Fpg and follows Mills and Somerset into the main foyer while his shirt and hands are covered in blood]. Almost no one notices him or what he's doing until he stands in the middle of the foyer (and in the open for several seconds) and screams at the detectives, at which point almost every officer grabs their weapon and points it at him. If you look closely, you can see the cop at the start of the clip looking straight at him, presumably assuming he is coming in to get help. That still doesn't explain, oh, ''everyone else''.
* In ''[[Black Caesar|Hell Up In Harlem]]'', Tommy Gibbs is shot by a Mafia gunman in broad daylight in the middle of the street. No one stops to see what's going on, nor does anyone bother to remark upon someone brandishing a gun in a crowd of people. Tommy makes a run for it, and manages to make his way to Times Square, where (upon seeing the gunman trying to escape) uses a belt to strangle him in the middle of the square. Several people (including a father and daughter who stare straight at Tommy) don't react at all to what's going on.
* In ''[[The Prince of Egypt]],'' everybody is so busy cheering for the Egyptian priests when they match Moses' miracle that they don't seem to notice Moses' snake [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fvr589x9s eating the two that they conjured]. Possibly [[Justified]]: [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|if one interprets the whole thing as a trick]], then the theatrics are presumably ''meant'' to keep people from paying attention.
== Literature ==
* The character of Rosa in ''The House of the Spirits'' is a mermaid. Other than the narrator, this goes unremarked.
** It's at least partially a [[Magic Realism]] novel, so that's par for the course.
* The Cullens and Hales in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. For the most part they don't claim to be related by blood, but they're all very pale, young-looking, hot (specifically, they are all breathtakingly beautiful and literally snow white, with
** To be fair, they ''do'' find them strange. They simply have stopped caring way before Bella came to the town.
** In the first book, Edward stopped a runaway van in the school parking lot from hitting Bella, using his bare hands. The book specifically says that a "sea of faces" in the parking lot turned to look. But nobody except Bella noticed anything unusual, including the van driver.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' has the Librarian of Unseen University, who has been an orang-utan since the second book. It's gotten to the point that if someone were to tell the faculty about the 300-pound ape wandering around the campus, they would ask the Librarian if he'd seen it.
* In ''[[
** Possibly a truthful reaction, then. It was a close game.
** Also, this is the Discworld; weird manifestations of gods really do happen all the time. In ''The Discworld Almanak'' we're told that the God of Astrology regularly visits the publishers with the rays of the sun coming out of his head, a belt of stars, one foot resting on a lion and the other on a crocodile, and carrying nine daggers in one hand and the crescent moon in the other. The only reason he turns heads when walking through Ankh-Morpork is that the lion moves faster than the crocodile.
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* Justified in the [[Nightside]] series, where overtly gawking at the bizarre sights and extraordinary characters on the streets only marks you out as a tourist.
* In the [[Earthsea Trilogy]] Roke Island is home to the [[Wizarding School|School of Magic]] which results in all sorts of bizarre occurrences such as flying houses, people transforming into an animal (or vice versa), etc. The locals are used to this and barely give a second glance.
* Inverted in ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Stilton Jarlsberg. One of the frame story characters [[Comically Missing the Point|ignores the "fable" conceit]] and guesses that the Lilliputians and talking rats must have come from a "genetic experiment gone wrong".
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The Reapers in ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' often carry on conversations with the newly deceased and can calmly walk away from the scene of death without anyone noticing that it's a little bit strange. Reapers are only partly [[Invisible to Normals]], the rest is probably just a [[Weirdness Censor]].
** Popular [[Fan Wank|fan theory]] is that Reapers disappear when dealing with the dead.
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'', both the TARDIS and the Torchwood hub's "invisible" lift entrance have a "Perception Filter", both of which prevent people from ''noticing'' certain goings on. The perception filter on the location of the Torchwood lift is an after-effect of the TARDIS having been parked in that spot.
** In some of the costumes he's worn, the Doctor himself has been an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
** While sometimes the Doctor and his companions will don period clothes before exiting the TARDIS, often they don't. Unless it's a plot point, it might only be mentioned in passing. This includes eras where modern women's fashions would be likely to get his companion arrested for being too revealing. [[Handwaved]] in "Tooth and Claw", where [[Queen
** While not a sight, only once did one of the Doctor's companions in the original series ever made mention of people speaking English wherever they go. When it was mentioned by Sarah Jane, it clued in the Doctor that she'd been brainwashed because she wasn't supposed to notice.
** There is also the tendency of humans to ignore unusual things, as mentioned by the Ninth Doctor to Mickey in "Boom Town".
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'''The Doctor''': Ricky, let me tell you something about the human race. You put a mysterious blue box slap-bang in the middle of town, what do they do? Walk past it. Now stop your nagging. Let's go and explore. }}
* ''[[Charmed]]'' had a lot of those. The most common occurences are when Piper freezes the scene, and leaves while the place is still frozen. No one seems to be alarmed by the fact that a woman just disappeared in thin air.
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** Lampshaded later on in the season, when Shirley goes into labor during class and Abed offers to deliver the baby for her, saying he's done it before. Troy expresses surprise and then dismay that Abed "has adventures without [him]."
* This happens once in a while in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'', though not as often as people noticing weird stuff and rationalizing it or pretending they didn't.
** In the ''Angel'' episode "Five by Five," Faith walks up to Angel with a crossbow, shoots a bolt at his back from
** In the ''Angel'' episode "Judgment," Angel and some sort of demon in full armor have a jousting duel to the death on horseback in an LA street with cars and people in the street. Nobody is shown to notice.
** You see a couple of figures watching at one stage, but you'd think a few cars would stop.
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* In the UK children's show ''Brum'', the citizens of Birmingham- sorry, ''the Big City'' seem rather nonplussed that there's a small, talking/anthropomorphic, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|yellow]] car driving merrily around. However it could be argued that they're all just used to the sight, as Brum is often recognised and known known by name to them.
* Something of a meta-example from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. The show is filmed in the real French castle of Pierrefonds, which features a bizarre stone statue of a pelican with exposed breasts on the balustrade of the castle's exterior staircase. Often it appears in the background of certain shots, but so far none of the characters have commented on it.
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* Parodied in a [[Mariah Carey]] video (Boy - I Need You). It takes place in Tokyo with several giant monsters and mechs running amok, and the locals just go about their businss.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Played with in ''[[Peanuts]]''. Nobody in this otherwise carefully realistic neigborhood seems to find it at all odd that a beagle should be riding atop his doghouse dressed as a WWI Flying Ace, among many other things. They do however look askance at Peppermint Patty for believing he's 'a funny-looking kid with a big nose'. (Occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when they ''do'' find his behaviour odd - just in passing - then continue on their merry way. It's possible the kids just figure he has doggy ADHD.)
▲** Then there's this exchange when Snoopy finds it cold at night and they're trying various methods to keep him warm.
▲'''Linus:''' I guess it was kind of a dumb suggestion. }}
== Video Games ==
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** And in the second expansion, ''Storm of Zehir,'' the yuan-ti-hating Samarachans ''don't notice'' if you have a yuan-ti in your party, with one exception on the Overland Map.
** It also adds the option to have a freaking ''[[Rule of Cool|velociraptor]]'' as an animal companion. Nobody comments on it. Ever.
** Likewise, in the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, most people seem not to notice or comment on the fact that you have Viconia the Dark Elf tagging along in your party, despite Dark Elves still being considered an [[
*** In the Crooked Crane tavern, there is a lich hidden behind a secret door. If you lure it out into the main room, no-one will pay any attention, even if it ''summons a demon''. The innkeeper won't even ask you to refrain from having devastating fights with undead mages in his bar.
* In the first [[Neverwinter Nights]] game NPC's would sometime notice if you ran around with a weapon out or weren't wearing any clothes.
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*** Justified in that, from the perspective of everybody who's not a time traveler, the Black Omen has ''always'' been there. If something that looks like a huge black [[Star Wars|Star Destroyer]] suddenly appeared in the sky, everyone would find it odd, to say the least. But if it had been there for ''all of recorded history'', it would just be taken for granted. And when the Black Omen is eliminated by the heroes...that probably wouldn't seem odd to anybody either, because it wasn't destroyed. It was [[Ret-Gone|erased from time]].
* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'' has a weird combination of this and [[Mundane Made Awesome]]. You have an angel, a demon, a wizard, and a bunch of other weird-looking people walk down the street and nobody bats an eye. You have a gateway to a dimension of nothingness open, nobody cares (of course, they could just be [[Apathetic Citizens]]). But then you have the hero get angry and they [[Mundane Made Awesome|start playing epic horror music]].
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', no one bats an eyelid at friendly Super Mutant Fawkes tagging along with you, despite Super Mutants being in the game setting an incredibly feared race of [[
** Some [[NPC
** Also somewhat averted in ''[[Fallout 2]]''. Non-human party members are forbidden from entering the highly xenophobic Vault City, and the Deathclaw party member has to wear an all-concealing cloak to avoid being shot on sight. Elsewhere in the game there are towns in which humans, ghouls and non-violent super mutants coexist - nevertheless, humans outside Vault City still seem remarkably blase about you walking around with a ghoul, a super mutant and even a robot dog tagging along.
** Oddly in ''[[Fallout]] 3'' people will shout at you for kicking clutter around ("Be more careful!") and even if you pick thing up and move them around ("You're easily amused aren't you?")
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* In the ''[[Geneforge]]'' series, certain types of creations are Barred for being too willful, dangerous, or intelligent. Nobody cares if the player character shapes them, even in the middle of a Shaper stronghold.
* In the PS2 game ''[[Okami]]'', Amaterasu is in the form of a wolf for the entirety of the game. Most people see Amaterasu merely as a wolf, but some spiritually sensitive individuals (such as a particular little girl) can see her colorful markings and hovering holy weapons. But even then, most of the population finds nothing odd about a white wolf wandering the city, buying items from shops, and offering rides on magically created lily pads to passersby. This is partly [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by the town's shrine implying white wolves are seen as special, but a few especially thick peasants think she's just a strange dog.
* An especially [[Egregious]] example, courtesy of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'': after beating the boss Blizzeta and before you can collect your Heart Container, Yeto (who, keep in mind, is a twenty-foot-tall hulking yeti and the boss's husband) bursts through the door to the burst room, and, with a ''loud'' roar, ''shoves'' Link out of the way to get at Yeta's fallen
** Making this even more jarring is the fact that the game mostly averts this - the townspeople panic and run from you when you're running through town as a wolf.
*** As well as not allowing you to transform into a wolf where people can see you, as it would freak them out.
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* Random people suffering from a [[The Heartless|monster]]-[[Eldritch Abomination|induced]] illness? A seemingly innocent afterschool curricular club, consisting of the [[Mafia Princess|daughter]] of school's main benefactor, that seems to be on an invitation only basis and [[The Masquerade|don't appear]] [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|to do anything]]? A group of teens that represent three separate subcultures and stand out like a sore thumb in the middle of a normal Japanese city? [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Three transfer students being integrated into one class?]] Anyone outside of S.E.E.S. {{spoiler|The Kirijo Group, Strega and Ryoji}} in [[Persona 3]] is mostly oblivious to what is really going on in Port Island.
* [[Mysterious Waif]] Fina's [[Woman in White|white dress and veil]], as shown in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]].'' Her outfit, unique to her, does get commented on, mostly in the beginning when Vyse and Aika rescue her, but not frequently.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', someone in the Dark World comments, "Did you come from the surface...? No, that's impossible." Come
* In the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, no-one from any of the worlds seems to worry about how different the main characters are, which is especially weird in the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' world, which is the closest to 'the real world' the game gets. One would expect Will or Elizabeth to be a little surprised to see a talking wizard duck, but no one seems to care. And the main characters are also so brightly colored in comparison with the rest of the world! Interestingly Sora and his friends ''do'' comment that this world is weird for some reason they can't quite put their finger on. The only possible justification is that once Will and Elizabeth got into the whole zombie pirates thing, accepting a talking wizard duck wasn't so bad in comparison, but it still doesn't account for the flatout difference in art styles.
** Which is interesting because some worlds have Sora, Donald and Goofy wear different costumes to fit in ([[Lion King]], Atlantica, Halloween Town), but most of them don't. It could be explained by the [[Rule of Cool]], but how cool would it be if Sora dressed as a pirate?
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*** The only bit of lampshading that is done at ''all'' on this in the game, in fact, is Mami excusing Fou-lu's [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|odd speech]] and general lack of familiarity with the village or anything modern as being essentially the result of a head injury. This is even after Fou-lu dispatches a purported ''volcano god''.
*** The manga doesn't even bother with the "head injury" lampshading, but does imply that people in Sonne ''do'' cotton on that Fou-lu [[Physical God|isn't quite a normal feller.]]
** What happens with ''Ryu'' when he enters Sonne actually manages to make the above look completely plausible in comparison. He's called "Ryong", is greeted as if he's actively returning, and otherwise treated as if he were in fact his other half...despite the fact ''Ryu and Fou-lu [https://web.archive.org/web/20161020205104/http://www.onemanga.com/Utsurowazarumono_-_Breath_of_Fire_IV/1/02/ look noticeably different.]'' You'd think the fact that Ryu [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|has blue hair]] rather than white, has a distinct lack of horns, and doesn't speak in [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]] would be a clue. The only plausible explanation is that the backwater farming village of Sonne is secretly a village full of psychics {{spoiler|who can all see that Ryu and Fou-lu are part of the same [[Literal Split Personality]].}}
* In [[Brutal Legend]], Eddie doesn't bat an eye at ''anything'' in the age of metal.
* Generally averted in ''[[The Darkness]]'', where everybody reacts properly when you manifest The Darkness (civilians panic and flee, and ([[Suicidal Overconfidence]] aside) Mooks scream out loud about being attacked by monsters). However, Captain Shrote doesn't seem at all fazed by The Darkness and even mocks you about it when you confront him and Uncle Paulie face-to-face at the end of Chapter 1. He even works out how to neutralize your powers in the finale of Chapter 4.
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** Jack is a wanted criminal on Ilium, complete with an unreasonably large billboard announcing it, yet no one makes any attempts to arrest her. This may have something to do with the fact that she's hanging around the aforementioned heavily-armed undead Commander Shepard, and Ilium has legalized just about everything but murder.
* Usually played straight in the [[Sam and Max]] franchise, with characters only making passing references to the eponymous characters being animals. Sometimes averted for laughs.
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"Apparently a bunch of temp workers who have never seen a six-foot-tall dog looking through their window before." }}
** Nobody also cares when a spaceship crewed by alien gorillas lands on their street or when Max starts teleporting all over the place.
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** Averted in [[The Elder Scrolls|Morrowind]], where wearing certain types of armor, for example the holy armor of the Ordinators, ''will'' get you butchered by angry fanatics.
* Averted in ''[[Custom Robo]] Arena''. At first the protagonist and his friends are dismissed as they bunch of kids they honestly are, but as your fame grows people start to recognize you on sight. By the [[Playable Epilogue]] you're a household name and nearly everyone is in awe of you.
* Played completely straight on [[Dwarf Fortress]] community forums, where [[Eat the Dog|butchering kittens for food]] is both normal and commonplace, discussion abounds on how to abuse "dwarven physics" in the interest of a [[Alien Geometries|neat-looking fort]], magma superweapons are regularly employed against [[Screw You, Elves|elven traders]] and [[
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'''Another Commenter:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|This is the point where I'd normally call bullshit]], but having (un)successfully ground no less than ten forts into destruction and abandoning three more to boredom after guaranteeing success I 100% believe that this happened in your game. }}
** Taken to the extreme when a spammer started posting some gruesome pictures. The discussions simply went on.
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'''Another Commenter:''' This from the woman who just explained in another thread how she drops her children into a glass enclosed splatting chamber in her dining room.
Well, not her children, her dwarves' children. But still, she's terrified by us? }}
* In ''[[The Saboteur]]'', you can climb to the tallest chimney you can find which has a group of nazi soldiers nearby, and then just stand there having a smoke like a boss. Nobody gives a royal damn. Now walk a step or two so you jump down and grab the ledge where you were just standing, while the soldiers keep looking at you. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Lampshaded in ''[[Shadow Hearts|Shadow Hearts: From the New World]]''. Relatively normal Johnny is generally surprised and unnerved by all the bizarre things everyone else seems to shrug off. When he meets a giant, anthropomorphic, talking cat who also happens to be a Chicago mob boss, it becomes too much. Mao, the cat, asks, "what's so unusual about a talking cat these days, anyway," but Johnny protests that it ''is'' unusual and looks to the party for confirmation. When they don't back him up, he finally comes to a different conclusion:
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* In the original [[PS 1]] [[Resident Evil 1]] Barry will a one point walk into a room after Jill has just killed a giant snake, and its melting remains are still a smear on the floor and ask "Jill, have you found anything interesting?"
* In ''Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4'', you can utilize a cauldron of Polyjuice Potion to turn into any character that you've unlocked so far. Nobody at Hogwarts seems to react any differently if you've suddenly turned into Lord Voldemort.
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* Subverted in [[Street Fighter IV]]'s prologue t Shalsim's rival fight with Rufus. Dhalsim floats around an East Asian market quietly and nobody lifts an eyebrow... until Rufus appears and is FLABBERGASTED. [[Street Fighter IV/Funny|And concludes that Dhalsim is an alien]]
** Played straight in [[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'s Rufus vs. Bob's trailer, when [[Ry And Ken]] eat ramen together and don't seem to even notice Rufus flying past them.
* ''[[Monster Girl Quest Paradox]]'':
** Nobody notices that Alice and Ilias look like shrunken-down versions of the Monster Lord and the Goddess of light, respectively. Though to be fair, most people in-universe wouldn't consider it possible for such powerful beings to be weakened in this manner.
** More generally, no one seems to pay attention to your party even if it includes Apoptosis monsters, which are generally perceived as [[Always Chaotic Evil]] and otherwise never leave the Tartarus.
** Subverted and parodied with Nero, whose red-and-black, fashionably-ripped outfit is commented on by more than one person. And yet he apparently thought it was perfectly normal.
== Webcomics ==
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* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Zimmy's [[Hidden Eyes]] (which look more like holes where her eyes should be) go without comment from anyone. Or the just as obvious fact that she has [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]].
** Inversely, "Two Strange Girls" (Zimmy's introduction) sees Kat being offended that [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=71 her anti-gravity device] is getting more attention than the real purpose of her research: {{spoiler|to see how protein crystals grow in zero-g.}}
** Then again, it's the Court. One of four [[Boarding School|Houses]] is composed entirely of magical
* In ''[[Misfile]]'', Rumi and Vash's angel ears. They are long and pointy, but no one comments on them. It is implied to be a sort of passive ability in the Ask Ash collum, but is otherwise unaddressed.
* In ''[[Killroy And Tina]]'', nobody except Tina pays much attention to the fact that Killroy is solid blue.
* Addresed in [http://tcow.comicgenesis.com/d/20010921.html this comic] of ''[[The Call of Whatever]]''.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has this when it comes to [[Talking Animal
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Bob was greatly concerned about Molly the furry pink monster's safety when she was first introduced to the strip—and indeed, newcomers do occasionally have a Herman Munster-like reaction to her—but for the most part, the neighbors seem oblivious to her. General concensus around town is that she is deformed, but nice.
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'''Heywood''': Well we all ''try'' not to stare... }}
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' when the sylph Celia is on a date with Roy in Azure City, gossamer wings and all, no one seems to take notice. Even when they are making out ''while flying in the air over the city''. Then again, that was a holiday in a highly magical setting.
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* The webcomic ''[[Ashen Blade]]'' loves to [[Playing with a Trope|play]] [http://griffvaldez.deviantart.com/art/Ashen-Blade-Page-1-178260344 with] [http://griffvaldez.deviantart.com/art/Ashen-Blade-Page-4-178329930 this] [http://griffvaldez.deviantart.com/art/Ashen-Blade-Page-5-179631791 trope]
* In [[Homestuck]], Jane Crocker is perfectly used to and exasperated with an omnipotent cat dicking around with her life.
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* Used deliberately by... ''[[The Conspiracy|someone]]'' in ''[[Power Nap]]'' by way of surprise 3D ads for [[Incendiary Exponent|explosion-filled]] action movies to disguise the actual attacks of... ''[[Cosmic Horror|something]]'' {{spoiler|that might have something to do with the fact that no one sleeps or dreams}}.
* ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' illustrates the dynamic effect of an exotic sight: An UFO in the sky? "[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/03/30/0046-close-encounters-of-the-boring-kind/ Ohmygawd, ohmygawd!]" UFO just hangs there and does absolutely nothing? Well...
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** Also from TGWTG, in [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[My Pet Monster]]'', he criticizes the characters for acting nonchalant about how the protagonist keeps turning into a monster. The Critic then walks off, and comes across [[Real Life Relative|The Other Guy]] reading [[The Far Side]]... and is a [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|velociraptor]]. Both the Critic and The Other Guy act calmly about it. "I'm a dinosaur", indeed.
* Sometimes, you've got to love the page pictures that go with [[wikipedia:Lego Minifigure|some Wikipedia]] articles. Apparently, this is run-of-the-mill for Lego minifigures.
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** Played with in ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'', where giant transforming robots are actually an urban legend like Bigfoot. One wonders how that happened.
*** It is explained later in the series that their was a tribe of Decepticons imprisoned beneath a glacier who were the basis of all Earth's myths. Also, the series followed on from two others where the Transformers' existence was kept hushed up, although big mechanical men from outer space were never going to stay completely secret, so naturally something leaked out.
** Lampshaded in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]'', with one unlucky woman convinced she was going crazy because she kept hearing talking cars.
** The [[Transformers (film)|2007 live-action movie]] lampshades this and plays it for laughs. Optimus is confident enough in the Autobots' Earth disguises to assume that no one will question the sudden appearance of a fleet of expensive vehicles in the Witwickys' lawn. The denseness of civilians is also highlighted in the sequel but in both movies people (rightfully) start screaming when stuff starts blowing up.
* Another aspect of the Transformers franchise that people should probably think is odd is the peculiar vehicle forms some of them choose; for example, one of the Combaticons is perfectly able to hide in Earth orbit without anyone commenting on a green space shuttle the same size as a tank. This was lampshaded in an episode of Animated, when Sentinel Prime and Ultra Magnus come to Earth; Sentinel claims he's scanned some Earth forms so they'll blend in, and Prowl remarks "Yes, no one will notice that" when Sentinel becomes a giant snow-plow (oddly similar to the one from the "Mr. Plow" episode of The Simpsons) and Ultra Magnus becomes a giant rolling missile platform.
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** In one episode, Homer obtains the Auto-Dialer. When Prof. Frink (it's creator) finds out who has it, he presses a button on a remote control. Meanwhile, at the Simpson's house, the Auto-Dialer mechanically sprouts wheels and trys to escape from Homer, who just goes, "Oh, no you don't!" and removes the wheels.
** In "You Only Move Twice" Homer is telling boss Hank Scorpio that he has to resign.....While ignoring the MASSIVE GUNFIGHT occurring around him, complete with explosions, acid vats, a soldier getting his neck snapped by a half naked chick (Which Homer notices but does not comment on) and finally Scorpio pulling out a Flamethrower and going to town on the government forces.
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* '' [[I Got a Rocket]]''s about a boy who is accompanied by a talking rocket - with eyes and a mouth. Nobody ever seems to think there's anything strange about a talking rocket casually floating around on the street.
* A great number of people in ''[[We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story]]'', do not seem to be impressed or curious about the ''talking dinosaurs that dropped from the sky''!!!
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* The ''[[Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3]]'' episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" has Mario and Luigi get turned into babies, but still have their mustaches, right before they visit the woman whose bathtub they're supposed to unclog. When they arrive at her doorstep, she doesn't seem to notice that these babies have mustaches.
** He did say that the woman was "a little daffy", and she failed to see anything weird about Bowser and Ludwig as "Koopa & Kid Costume Plumbers".
* On ''[[Lilo
** Oh it goes even further, some of the townspeople who do manage to pull their heads out of their asses and notice them compare them to animals that in no way resemble the experiments (or any real-world animal for that matter). In two instances a pair of tourists thought Yaarp, a blue four armed ring-tailed experiment with a giant megaphone-like antenna on its head was a Hawaiian sheep and in another episode, mistook Kixx, a bulky purple experiment with four oversized arms for a wild pig.
* The town of [[Egopolis|Danville]] from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has a local [[Mad Scientist]] community, an organization of [[Cool Hat]] wearing secret agent animals and two young supergeniuses with short attention spans, so naturally, all sorts of bizarre things seem to happen, almost always crisscrossing with ''other'' bizarre things as well. When the boys' new pet lizard suddenly grows fifty feet or their latest invention turns to broccoli, however, no one bats an eye, except for Candace, an [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]] who seems to be going crazy as a result. (And of course Linda somehow never sees ''any'' of it...)
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* In part 1 of the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode ''Grape Expectations'', Roy goes to the supermarket in order to by one grape to replace the missing one in the stash, and there are actually humans there. '''Nobody''' batted an eyelash about the fact that there was ''a talking rooster'' in the store.
== Other ==
* One cartoon in the sailor series by Jan Sanders features a gorilla in zoo wearing [[The Napoleon|short Captain]]'s hat and trying to pull the rest of him into the cage (a [[A Taste of the Lash|Cat'o'Nine Tails]] may have something to do with this). There's a barking dog, a freaked out mom carrying her kids away, First Mate trying to play tug-o-war, while screaming for help at the sailors... who just stand with backs to him and seem to be fascinated with exotic birds in the next cage. If you have seen other pictures in the series, it's clear this guy [[Bad Boss|can't be very popular with his crew]]. [http://477768.livejournal.com/2166066.html]<sup>NSFW</sup>
== Real Life ==
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** The same thing happened prior to the filming of ''Star Trek IV''. Paramount had people walking around San Francisco in full Starfleet uniform, or dressed as Vulcans, prior to location shooting. No one noticed.
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/74542573@N00/sets/72157619004094598/ This] series of images with Bowser doing political protests.
* "Open carry" is the law in several US states, meaning that unconcealed firearms are legal in public. Notably averted recently by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI media coverage] of protesters outside a presidential event. A [https://web.archive.org/web/20120926231410/http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-17/politics/obama.protest.rifle_1_protesters-weapons-assault-rifle?_s=PM:POLITICS Secret Service] spokesman noted that the individuals would never have gotten in close proximity to the president, regardless of any state laws on openly carrying weapons. A venue is considered a federal site when the Secret Service is protecting the president and weapons are not allowed on a federal site, he added.
* [[Truth in Television]]: In big cities, you get a lot of strange people to the point where it becomes regular, and many people accept extroverted behavior to not cause a fuss or offend someone for being different. It isn't so much that they don't notice things like strangely-dressed people as that they think it's [[Somebody Else's Problem]].
** Also weird is relative, the natives of major con sites tend to not really notice cosplayers after they get use to seeing them. To them it's no different than a man dressed as Santa in the mall at Christmas.
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* College towns. There's nothing at all unusual about seeing a bunch of people outside up past midnight in the middle of January wearing who knows what.
** Colleges themselves are full of this.
***This is especially the case when there is a convention going on and can extend even to public transportation passing colleges.
* With the way science and technology has progressed over the last 300 years, this trope has repeated itself time and again as people are at first amazed when they see new sights like cars, mobile phones or TV sets but then come to accept them as normal.
* There are (or were) some pictures on Facebook of somebody dressed as [[Doctor Who|a Silent in a shopping centre]], that no one noticed.
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