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* ''Manga/{{Karin}}'': She's a vampire! And it's a... [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire love story]]? [[SarcasmMode You could say]] that ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is the GenderFlip version of this…

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* No one ever shows surprise at talking Duke the Dog, who's forever trying to sell the secret recipes for Bush's Baked Beans.
** It was surprising at first. [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Initially the dude in the ads was like "the only one who knows the secret is Duke,]] [[TemptingFate and he can't talk."]]

* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, and StudioGhibli in general do this a lot.
** In ''{{Ponyo}}'', Lisa's only reaction to discovering a young girl out at sea and her son swearing this girl is the goldfish he had earlier is saying "The world is a mysterious place". For that matter, when Ponyo was a "goldfish" she more or less resembled a toddler head on a dress, not a fish, but nobody took notice of that either.

** Does anyone in ''KikisDeliveryService'' ever wonder what was up with real-life witches? No, they mainly expressed wonder and amazement, not shock.
** The humans in ''PrincessMononoke'' do not fear nature and spirits, in fact they are trying their best to actively destroy both.
** Nobody seems to find it odd that ''PorcoRosso'''s main character was ''turned into a pig''.
*** That one could be because ''[[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe]]'' he didn't really, and it's just a reflection of his own self-loathing.
* In ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' all virgins have [[{{Nekomimi}} cat ears and a tail]] [[VirginityFlag until they lose said virginity.]] No one considers this weird, and it doesn't really have much to do with the main story, which is about a secret world of TrueName spell battles.
* ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'': despite all of the things which are spoiled by just being on this page, the narrative focuses mostly on the S.O.S. members' normal lives.
* ''GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas'' has it in full. Alchemy has a strong presence in the universe, but the lives of the people of the town it's set in take precedence over it in the story.
* ''{{Karin}}'': She's a vampire! And it's a... [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire love story]]?
** [[SarcasmMode You could say]] that ''Twilight'' is the GenderFlip version of this...
* ''Hakobune Hakusho'': A young girl who enrolls in a school full of youkai [[RosarioToVampire (ahem)]] and makes friendships with the students there. The ''entire'' rest of the series deals with everything you'd find in a normal school, to the point where the ninja club asks its recruits to ''gather information and spy on others''.

* ''SpiceAndWolf'': He is a travelling merchant, she is a Wolf harvest goddess, together they ... trade goods with other people.
* ''ItoshiNoKana'' is about a young man moving in a haunted house, which is haunted by the ghost of a young girl. Within a few pages, they're a couple. The reader is then presented with such exquisite scenes as the girl touching beer to cool it, entering a wall when they have a fight, entering a [[http://everyday.3yen.com/2005-12-14/ufo-catchers/ UFO catcher]] to assist her boyfriend with the catch and so forth.
* ''{{Patlabor}}'': It's a cop show with [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha giant robots]].
* ''{{Kamichu}}'''s main character is most definitely a goddess. She is worshipped and given full honors wherever she goes and even visits the realm of the gods for official god-functions. However, she has a relatively normal school life for most of the series (even a romance!) and her transition to divinity has remarkably little impact on the rest of the townspeople.
* ''LoveHina'' is an UnwantedHarem RomanticComedy series about a manager of a girl's dorm studying to get into Tokyo University. This doesn't stop flying turtles, KiAttacks, HumongousMecha, and {{Magical Girl}}s from showing up.
* ''HyperPolice'' is about a CatGirl and her kitsune partner (previously werewolf). TheyFightCrime in a FantasyKitchenSink [[CityOfAdventure city]] while competing with a MegaCorp for [[BountyHunter bounties]]...and it's a [[SitCom situation comedy]].
* There are a few instances in the ''DragonBall'' series when it's shown that the general public isn't as desensitized to superhuman powers as our heroes. Krillin doesn't understand why bystanders freak out when he falls out of the sky during the Androids Saga.

* ''{{Horndog}}'', set on a FunnyAnimal planet, the comic has both Fantastic elements like zombies and aliens, but also more serious subject matter, particularly in the main storyline's deconstruction of open relationships, racism and interracial relationships, to start; as a result of this combination of storylines, Mundane Fantastic applies.

** One of the [[BigBad BigBads]] has a [[AchillesHeel Weak point]] on [[spoiler: the back of her knees]]

** One {{Superman}} comic lampshaded this hilariously when a cabbie yells at someone in front of him about traffic. The person says Supes is fighting a monster. The cabbie retorts that that happens every day.
** Garth Ennis tends to touch on this with his DC stuff. Mainly it's 'Yes, that monster crossing the street is weird but at least he isn't eating people like popcorn. Count your blessings'.
* ''TopTen'' is a PoliceProcedural in a city where everyone from bums to schoolkids, tycoons to hookers has a superpower, or is an alien, a god, a cyborg, an enhanced animal or some other kind of superhero/villain, and they're all just getting on with their lives.

** It became extra ridiculous when they hosted an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

* Piers Anthony's ''IncarnationsOfImmortality'' universe is a successful blending of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''-like magic elements and modern science, to the point at which people aren't fazed by the Incarnation of Death materialising to take their loved ones to the great beyond - unless, of course, he turns his attention to ''them''. At one point, Chronos (the Incarnation of Time) causes the entire world to run backwards for several hours - the general public are aware that this is happening, but they treat it as more of a temporary inconvenience than anything out of the ordinary.

* ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' features a magician who is able to raise the dead and trick the entire French navy into hiding at port yet turns any conversation about magic into an extremely dull history lesson. Government and military officials complain that magic is just as full of setbacks and disappointments as any other field. At times it reaches MagicRealism focusing on the two title magicians' daily life rather than on their magical powers.
* NaomiNovik's {{Temeraire}} series is pretty much historical fiction in the Napoleonic era ... except there are dragons. They are mostly bred by the military for use as flying war vessels.

* ''LonelyWerewolfGirl'' ducks into these plot threads half the time. In between politicking between the high clans of werewolves and the plotting of the queen of the fire elementals, you've got college students trying to get cable, a businesswoman trying to get her layabout musician cousins to actually do something, and an overworked sorceress and fashion designer trying to come up with suitable styles for said queen of the fire elementals.
* The WaysideSchool books have a lot of weird things going on, like dead rats that show up in raincoats posed as school children. Amusingly enough, the final chapter of the first book features the characters learning about an ordinary school and they find ''that'' to be strange.

* ''TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' play with this. The existance of vampires is known but other magical creatures like shapeshifters are still in hiding.

* ''NoHeroics'': This is the main idea behind this sitcom.

* ''SesameStreet''. Humans interacting with monsters on a regular basis, and eight foot talking bird, whateverthehell Snuffleupagas is. Hell, Grouches have their own ''culture'' based on an OppositeDay mentality.

* This is JonathanCoulton's shtick.

* ''{{Peanuts}}'' (both comic and animated versions) incorporates fantastic elements which don't really seem to faze the characters, such as the never-seen but apparently [[BiggerOnTheInside TARDIS-like interior]] of Snoopy's doghouse -- or Snoopy's ''sapience,'' for that matter. In an ironic twist, everyone found it ''less'' bizarre that Snoopy was playing on Charlie Brown's baseball team than that Peppermint Patty thought he was just a weird kid with a big nose. (At one point in the comic strip, Marcie finally spells out that Snoopy is a ''dog'', and Patty suffers a HeroicBSOD, spending the next strip repeating "A ''beagle?!''" over and over again.)

* ''GetFuzzy'' is set in a world where dogs, cats, and various other pets are ''not quite'' as intelligent as humans. Occasionally the strip actually addresses this.

** Don't even get me started on PearlsBeforeSwine.

* ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' operates by the same principle as ''Franchise/TheMuppets.'' There's nothing in the slightest weird about puppets walking around with apparently invisible operators, and interacting with humans, though the spin-off show, ''[[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof Avenue Jew,]]'' took it a bit further.
** "Monster" (as in "cookie monster") is considered a race in the Avenue Q universe.

* ''TheSims''. Between the three games and all their expansions, there's genies, Plant-Sim hybrids, werewolves, [[TheUndead various assorted undead]], android-things, {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}}, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, alien abductions, half-alien Sims, magic powers, meteors falling from space, time machines, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]], and so on.

* ''{{Ouendan}}'' and ''EliteBeatAgents'' have some pretty far out situations alongside the [[MundaneMadeAwesome awesomely mundane]] ones. A werewolf trying to score a date! A salaryman trying to save his daughter by growing 50 feet tall! A Renaissance artist who's not-quite LeonardoDaVinci romancing a look-alike of the Mona Lisa! A washed-up baseball player who makes his comeback by fighting a ''lava golem''! And nobody finds any problem with an elderly Momotaro turning Oni Island into an amusement park.
* The AceAttorney series primarily focuses on courtroom drama and [[CourtroomAntic antics.]] It also heavily features a family of spirit channelers.
** The fact that Phoenix's assistant is regularly possessed by the spirit of her older sister, causing her to grow at least a foot and gain a spontaneous boob job also never seems to faze anyone. One person mentions it in passing as if it were no more interesting than the character's voice changing.

* ''DaCapoII'', unlike its predecessor, has robots being openly acknowledged, but no one is really that surprised at their existence or interested. There is, however, a degree of racism against them because the story doesn't take place ''that'' far into our future.

* ''QuestionableContent'' is a good example: they have sentient robots, minor superheroes, and one character claims to have been raised on a space station. (The space station actually exists: there was a month-long arc where some of the characters visited it.)

* ''PessimisticSenseOfInadequacy'' has magic as normal, but normally weak, with magic users registered, people crossing over from other worlds, strange characters, characters who know they're characters, ancient artifacts, etc, all in a world with malls, shopping, just an "ordinary day" (name of a story arc), etc.
* ''PvP'' is another good example, with Skull the Troll being treated as any other character in what is supposedly an office drama about a gaming magazine. His super-intelligent cat may or may not also count.
* ''SoDamnBright'' is a comedy about a group of cynical college drop outs. So far, so normal. The catch is, one of the characters is a fairy. As in, she has visible fairy wings growing out of her back. Fairies are entrenched enough in the culture that there are RedScare-era educational films about their biology, and a dating service asks right after sexual preference whether someone would be comfortable with a fae/"anthro" partner. Several other fairies have also been spotted in the background doing a number of mundane activities such as drinking in a bar.

* ''DaisyOwl'' has anthropomorphic bears and owls (among others) living in normal society, wizards that need to listen to death metal to cast spells, baby factories and professional uncooperative service at the DMV. Everyone seems fine with this.
* ''MegaTokyo'' has perfect AIs used as dating sim accessories, and a not-so-secret organization that deals with rogue magical girls and Godzilla... Nobody really notices that as strange. Though it seems most people don't notice weird stuff like giant robots and zombie hordes, so it might be part of the WeirdnessCensor
* ''FriendlyHostility'' had this in spades: The Fridge Demon? Worked as a nurse. The Crawling Chaos? Picked up floozies in bars. Satanists? Just your wacky, sex-crazed uncle.
* ''TerrifyingMonsters'' is mostly about extraordinary beings doing mundane things.

* ''ScaryGoRound'' featured a pleasant town somewhere in England that happened to be home to (or drew in) devil-worshippers, {{Mad Scientist}}s, ghosts, zombies, sentient robots and the like, while the characters included an inventor who made a time machine from a teapot, a [[SpyCatsuit sexy spy]] and a sometime-journalist prone to [[BackFromTheDead temporary bouts of gruesome death]].
** ''ScaryGoRound'''s successor ''BadMachinery'' continues in the same vein (and the same location). No-one seems to bat an eyelid at having [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20100811 a robot in the school]].
* ''SkinDeep'' is like this half the time with it's plot of "mythical creatures [[TheMasquerade living secret from humanity]]." The characters that grew up in mythical society act as if there is nothing out of the ordinary about a town populated by mythical creatures, while humans understandably have troubles getting past that fact.

* ''{{Copper}}'' has a very large tendency to tell all its stories like this, though mostly it seems to be an excuse to draw [[SceneryPorn fantastic settings]].
* In ''VoodooWalrus'' this is a common theme. Cars regularly enter a setting by [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=1729 falling right out of the sky]], [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=699 explosions are often comprised of cats]], and a talking cactus was once responsible for driving a Hummer/pirate ship hybrid vehicle.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has the standard talking animals that no one bats an eyelash at, but it's also well-known that dolphins are [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] and it doesn't take much for people to believe that individual dogs and cats have more powerful abilities.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' is a great offender. It is perfectly normal that everyone stores their things in a HyperspaceArsenal that can only be accessed in weird ways, item cards have captcha codes that serve strange purposes, and everyone can only use one particular kind of weapon unless they obtain additional equipment slots. The proper response when encountering your loved one is to engage in a brutal but bloodless battle, and a program that can remodel your room over an Internet connection is met with no surprise at all. Rose is also rather unfazed by gaining actual magic powers. And Dave takes everything in [[IncrediblyLamePun stride]].

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd. Technically, he's just a grouchy guy who plays awful videogames and reviews them, but also: all his light guns happen to function like real weapons, his consoles and game cartridges had been possesed in more than one ocassion by evil forces, he knows the reason the game graphics glitch is a little gremlin that fears Q-tips, characters from his videogames appear in his home, there's a musician living behind his couch for no apparent reason, he's able to summon a robotic version of Jesus, and the list goes on and on...

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' no one seems to think twice about Billy and Mandy having the GrimReaper as their constant companion or Irwin's mother being a literal mummy, etc.

* Same goes for ''FamilyGuy''. However, some of the stuff is more commonly an UnusuallyUninterestingSight: no one sees anything too weird in the personification of Death, talking dogs, or evil babies. SethMacFarlane's other {{Animated Show}}s, ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' and ''TheClevelandShow'', also fall under this trope, though less so with ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''.
* ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': it's in a world where imaginary friends are real, as in any creature that children imagine springs into existence. Despite this, the world is largely the same as our own, and most of the plots are quite mundane, if odd.
* Possibly ''TotalDramaIsland'': it's supposed to be a parody of reality shows, but there are things that wouldn't exist in the real world: animals that are clearly too intelligent/have superpowers, a living Sasquatch-like monster, and just lots of challenges which only cartoon characters could possibly survive. Chris has also demonstrated having some weird technology to run the show, such as a remote-controlled hail cloud and possibly some method of controlling the weather.

* The world of ''KimPossible'' has a subculture of EasilyForgiven {{supervillain}} with {{Mad Scientist}}s knocking out robot armies or gene-mashed creatures in a day and trying to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over]] or destroy the world, superheroes, monsters, kids launching spacecraft in the backyard and juvenile crimefighters skipping school to SaveTheWorld as a hobby, but seems to take it all in its stride.
* This appears to be the entire purpose of ''UglyAmericans,'' where demons, zombies and much weirder creatures like in New York as if they were just typical minorities.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' goes beyond "mundane" to the point of being vaguely bleak. While Dr. Venture's life is filled with murders dressed like butterflies, dog-Hitler-clones, and exotic death traps, it's all treated by the cast as standard and tiresome. In spite of all the enormous scientific leaps apparently made in the show's universe, [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the world at large doesn't seem any more futuristic then our own save for the occasional bad guy in a flying car.]] This might be the point- the creators say that the theme of the show is failure, and single out the fact that in the 60s, science was going to usher in a utopia that still has yet to arrive.
** Several arcs involve the 'Guild', which keep the mad scientists and the regular adventurers from being too much of a bother on every day society. Their main weapon is murder and they're damn good at it.
* ''MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': The protagonist is a human who attends a school for [[TalkingAnimal Talking Zoo Animals]]. No one seems to find this strange.
* This is the defining characteristic of ''RegularShow''. 100 ties in rock paper scissors summons an Eldritch Abomination, microwaving clocks sends you to an alternate dimension, getting prank-called transports you to the 1980s, and nobody ever thinks anything of it.
* ''RockosModernLife'', where the things you see on an acid trip are normal.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does this well and has a lot of fun with it. Two ''ridiculously'' overpowered wizards are dueling? Cool, let's go watch! Did that pony just use ToonPhysics to pass through a solid wall? Yeah, she's just being [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]]. A minotaur is giving a self-help seminar? Is it Tuesday already? Yet things like a bunny stampede, a zebra (Initially), and running out of cider ''terrify the ponies''.
** They also see [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows manually clearing out winter and changing it to spring]] to be a normal and fun yearly tradition, yet the [[EldritchLocation Everfree Forest]] scares the life out of them ''because clouds move on their own and nature operates without the help of the ponies''.

* ThomasTheTankEngine is set in a world where, somehow, vehicles are alive. That this is strange has been commented on exactly once, in the FanonDiscontinuity movie ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad.''

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* ''TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' happens to take place in an average suburb which hosts a superhero, ecstasy-inducing slushies, hands driers that can suck people up, an International Adult Conspiracy, and football-obsessed aliens. Oh, and all those weird things you suspected were true, took too seriously, thought were unfair or confused the heck out of you as a kid? Totally SeriousBusiness. No one bats an eye at any of it.

* While Toad is the only animal in ''Literature/ThwWindInTheWillows'' who has extensive contact with humans none of them seem surprised at his being a bipedal, talking, clothes wearing toad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' noone seems to think twice about Billy and Mandy having the GrimReaper as their constant companion or Irwin's mother being a literal mummy, etc.

** Eventually explained by the fact that [[spoiler: the universe was created by internet trolls playing a video game]].
*** Though that's still no excuse for why [[spoiler:the Troll universe follows the same mechanics.]]
**** That's because [[spoiler:the Troll universe would have been created by 48 players from a previous game, following the pattern that the game has. The Trolls created the Kids' universe, where there are only 4 players. It's a big confusing loop.]]

* Original light novel ''TheLongingOfShiinaRyo'' has strong elements of this.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' is somewhere between this and LowFantasy, depending on the book. Elephants, turtles, space, geological pizza...it's mentioned [[OnceAnEpisode at the start of every book]] but seldom remarked on by characters.
** The amazing thing is not that there are giant elephants on a giant turtle; it's that there's such a thing as elephants or turtles at all.

* NaomiNovik's {{Temeraire}} series is pretty much historical fiction in the Napoleonic era ... except there's dragons. They are mostly bred by the military for use as flying war vessels.

* The world of ''TheDresdenFiles'' is like this for a lot of people. There's a {{Masquerade}}, but for those in the know, daily life is daily life. Harry advertises in the Yellow Pages under "wizard", writes pamphlets for dabblers in magic, and although we don't see this during the books most of his business seems to come from finding lost items and exorcising frightening-but-not-really-dangerous ghosts.
** To be fair, a lot of people still doubt Harry's sanity, if only at first.

* More of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' magic is of this flavor than not. Most apparent from the day-to-day BoardingSchool goings-on; elixirs, spells, and werewolves become a good bit more mundane when you have to write three essays on them by Monday.

* Some of the works of Creator/FranzKafka. In ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', for example, the characters have a fairly dull reaction to Gregor's inexplicable transformation into a giant bug. It's treated as a burden rather than a horrific and traumatizing sight that forces them to question reality. Gregor himself is not at all surprised by it, and never thinks about why it happened.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's "Magic Inc".
* Laurell K. Hamilton's ''AnitaBlake'' and ''MerryGentry'' series.

* ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' operates by the same principle as ''TheMuppets.'' There's nothing in the slightest weird about puppets walking around with apparently invisible operators, and interacting with humans, though the spin-off show, ''[[FiddlerOnTheRoof Avenue Jew,]]'' took it a bit further.

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', which aside from the [[FurryDenial staunchly-denied]] [[PettingZooPeople purely aesthetic species]] of the characters, is a perfectly ordinary sitcom about families and friends... until it starts bringing in the fantastic elements such as sapient horns, an evil magic hat that is capable of hexing people, ghosts, a real imaginary friend from outer space, fire-breathing dinosaurs, trucks and bullets with faces, two {{Muck Monster}}s, multiple {{Bigfoot}}s, FrankensteinsMonster, a zombie, and a character turning into a fly. ''None'' of this is ''ever'' explained and the characters [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight just roll with it]]. It's to the point where the episode with the evil magic hat was primarily an AcquiredSituationalNarcissism FeudEpisode, the horns were about dealing with [[FreudianExcuse a traumatic experience the antagonist went through]], the fire-breathing dinosaur could have as easily been a real wild animal, the zombie was just a FunnyBackgroundEvent, etc.

* ''TheSims''. Between the three games and all their expansions, there's genies, Plant-Sim hybrids, werewolves, [[TheUndead various assorted undead]], android-things, Bigfoot, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, alien abductions, half-alien Sims, magic powers, meteors falling from space, time machines, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]], and so on.

For a purely artistic standpoint, the MundaneFantastic is a major reason why a show might be [[RuleOfAnimationConservation animated instead of done live]]. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the idea that if a cartoon is to be taken seriously it has to ''be'' serious and played straight. A MundaneFantastic show may [[JumpingTheShark Jump the Shark]] if a new writer comes on board and decides that all the fantastic elements have to be explained to death.

* ''{{Horndog}}'', set on a FunnyAnimal planet, the comic has both Fantastic elements like zombies and aliens, but also more serious subject matter, particularly in the main storyline's deconstruction of open relationships, racism and interracial relationships, to start; as a result of this combination of storylines, MundaneFantastic applies.
* ''ScottPilgrim''. The setting is a VideoGame version of Toronto, and is the trope is in full swing. Examples Include;

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' is the King of MundaneFantastic newspaper comic worlds. Talking animals ''that run corporations'' ([[CorruptCorporateExecutive sadistically, of course]]), or even the U.N. for a short time, various semi-human personifications of office inhabitant types (from a moth-man attracted by meetings to a parasitic consultant that burrowed through the PointyHairedBoss to get to his wallet to an evil Youthful Executive who was killed and [[DemonicPossession possessed]]), a garbage man who invents time travel and species-changing rays because he hates to see it done wrong, and dinosaurs hiding behind couches instead of going extinct. And [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nobody bats an eye]] while the world remains roughly the same as ours, [[MundaneFantastic for a given value of "same"]]. According to Adams himself, people keep writing to him to tell him how realistic the strip is. He figures it's because it's impossible to exaggerate selfishness so much it's unrealistic.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' probably owes a lot of its popularity to emulating the MundaneFantastic into {{sitcom}} format. The actual level of weirdness and whether or not it effects the plot changes DependingOnTheWriter.

* HayaoMiyazaki, and StudioGhibli in general do this a lot.

* ''TheSims''. Ye ''gods'', ''TheSims''. Between the three games and all their expansions, there's genies, Plant-Sim hybrids, werewolves, [[TheUndead various assorted undead]], android-things, Bigfoot, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, alien abductions, half-alien Sims, magic powers, meteors falling from space, time machines, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]]... the list goes on.
* Like above, ''VideoGame/SimCity'' seems to live in a Mundane world as well. [=UFOs=], metallic monsters, buildings can be "plopped", let alone it probably has everything that the Sims has in it...
** "So where's the house made of broccoli?"

* PessimisticSenseOfInadequacy has magic as normal, but normally weak, with magic users registered, people crossing over from other worlds, strange characters, characters who know they're characters, ancient artifacts, etc, all in a world with malls, shopping, just an "ordinary day" (name of a story arc), etc.

* In the original ''ZooTycoon'', use of the right EasterEgg can let you purchase and display unicorns, mermaids, Loch Ness monsters, bigfeet and yeti alongside your mundane animals.

* Most comic strips exhibit this to a small degree when you realize how many of them are basically stuck in she kind of time warp where the characters never age.

** Partly subverted in ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'', where [[spoiler:Gonzo]] is captured by a secret government agency because they think he's an alien ([[spoiler:he is]]). This is done by a guy whose assistant is a talking bear.

See also FantasticComedy and WorldOfWeirdness.

* The people on ''ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' normally live in mundane settings. There are still things like satanic teddy bears, magic guns, and appearances by characters from the things in which they review.