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[[File:weirdness-censor buffy 145.png|link=Buffy the Vampire Slayer|frame| "This is our year. If we can focus, keep discipline, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|not have quite as many mysterious deaths,]] Sunnydale is gonna rule!" ]]
{{quote|''"Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves|when trying to destroy itself]]."''
|'''The Seventh Doctor''', ''[[Doctor Who]]''}}
In some universes, ignoring the antics of the main characters goes beyond [[Somebody Else's Problem]]. It seems that with your average person, their attention span is wholly taken up with the gray mundanity of their everyday lives. They simply ''refuse'' to see anything too strange.
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* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'': No matter how pyrotechnic the magic, the antics of the goddesses and demons never draw the police (or possibly the Army). Not even [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|humongous monsters]] like Garm. This was explained in the manga as the townspeople being desensitized to weirdness due to the neighborhood kids pulling off epic level pranks on a regular basis, or some similar [[Hand Wave]].
** They ''do'' live in the same town as a technical engineering college. If those people get bored enough, they can disassemble your car and then reassemble it. Inside your living room.
** Amazingly enough, the fire brigade actually turned up in one
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' [[lampshade]]s this in the first episode. She introduces herself to the class as an angel (after turning a classmate into a monkey and making another one completely vanish) despite Sakura's insistence that she keep it a secret, but they just nod and accept it fully. In fact, Sakura is the only one who seems the slightest bit weirded out by the situation. "This should really bother you! Say 'Ahh! Angels exist?!' or something!"
* The citizens of the ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' universe seem to quickly get over the fact that several towns and cities suddenly explode when a [[Monster of the Week]] comes by. In one episode, Nappa is seen destroying a naval fleet sent out to stop him, but after that, the military is never seen retaliating against future villains other than against Perfect Cell.
** Perhaps the most blatant example of this was how the entire world became convinced that Cell was just a monster and chi attacks were just special effects. This despite the fact that not two decades earlier one of those special effects ''blew up the moon on global television''.
** The military also goes up again Majin Buu, before sending in [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]].
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* Nobody seems to notice their friends strange behavior and obvious paranoia, or at least do anything about it, in the answer arcs of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
** {{spoiler|This trope is subverted in Tatarigoroshi-hen, or actually ''any'' arc where they try to save Satoko. In Tataragiroshi-hen in particular, Rena and Mion notice Keiichi's paranoia, unlike Onikakushi-hen, and try to cover his actions up.}}
** And in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' Battler uses it to deny that the Beato/Virgilia battle happened {{spoiler|even better example in ep 5, after being defeated by Battler on the gameboard Erika suddenly stands up in her chair during the meal and starts talking in blue truth and exclaims to her master [[Complete Monster|Bernkastel]] that she has won and has to be acknowledged. Then she suddenly sits down in her chair eating. The family collectively thinks they were hallucinating}}
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has this is spades early on when it seems like the even with [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]s abound within the [[Elaborate University High|Academy]], no one with the exception of Chisame could care to notice the blatantly odd things surrounding them. It was later revealed that mages keep their [[Masquerade]] protected by spells put in place to heighten people's ability to dis-believe information they intake (they also rely on people's inherent ability to doubt). This naturally makes for interesting situations whenever the very odd is shown.
{{quote|''[[Muggle]] 1: I see, if it''s a robot, it all makes sense [nod nod].''
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== Comic Books ==
* The plot of the comic ''[[Black Hole]]'' centers around a sexually transmitted disease that horribly mutates high school students, yet none of their parents, teachers or, indeed, any adults in the town seem to realize or do anything about it.
* In ''[[The Invisibles]]'', it is revealed that babies are capable of seeing all kinds of strange beings and concepts but lose the ability once they learn [[Newspeak|language]], which makes it impossible for them to express these concepts and thus impossible for them to register them in their heads.
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* In ''[[His Wife Is a Hen]]'', the husband is completely unaware his wife is a hen, despite the fact that she makes no effort whatsoever to hide it.
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* The villain uses a actual device to keep up the [[Masquerade]] at his hideout in ''[[The Man with No Name (fanfic)|The Man With No Name]]'', similar to what the [[Doctor Who|TARDIS]] has.
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