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* Another manga example: ''Neko Kissa''. Omigod it has a werewolf and a vampire and a cat-demon and a skeleton and a dragoness and a giant and they're the main cast and here's a picture of them.

* Another manga example: ''Neko Kissa''. Omigod it has a werewolf and a vampire and a cat-demon and a skeleton and a dragoness and a giant and they're the main cast and [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/neko_kissa/v01/c001/7.html here's a picture of them]].

* ''Manga/HyperPolice'' is about a CatGirl and her kitsune partner (previously werewolf). TheyFightCrime in a FantasyKitchenSink [[CityOfAdventure city]] while competing with a MegaCorp for {{bount|yHunter}}ies...and it's a [[SitCom situation comedy]].

* ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'' 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.

* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}''[==]'s whole premise is this. Aside from a [[PinocchioSyndrome teenage robot]], the [[ChildProdigy 8-year-old professor]] [[GadgeteerGenius who built her]], and their [[TranslatorCollar talking cat]], the series is all about the ordinary lives of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent normal high-school freshwomen]] -- with every single happening jacked UpToEleven. It's even in the name: ''nichijou'' means "everyday, ordinary"; hence, the lesser-used English title ''My Ordinary Life''.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': There's plenty of technology and modern conveniences like cars in the world of ''Pokémon'', but technology exists right alongside [[MindOverMatter psychic powers]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[PlantPerson walking plants]], and other such powers and creatures. All of these are a completely normal part of the world that aren't out of the ordinary at all.
* ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'': He is a travelling merchant, she is a 800-year-old shapeshifter wolf harvest goddess, together they … trade goods with other people. And trade the currency market. They even spend a whole episode, episode 7, doing nothing but standing around, talking about the precious metals contents in the coinage minted by the various medieval kingdoms of the area and the political and market forces that drive up and down their values relative to each other.

* ''Comicbook/{{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.

* Most {{superhero}} comics are like this to some degree or another. Sure, if a ''new'' alien race or magic being shows up, people will pay attention, but Skrulls and the like are treated as just a part of life.
** ''[[MemeticMutation ANAL]]'' Skrulls. [[spoiler: Though they did give Earth quite the shock there.]]
** One Franchise/{{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.
** Creator/GarthEnnis 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."

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

** One story arc involved Charlie Brown's baseball-related... uh, hallucinations leading to his short-lived triumph as "Mr. Sack"

* Poking fun at this trope is more or less the entire point of ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/114049/this-is-the-life-a-tale-of-a-human-in-equestria This Is the Life: A Tale of a Human in Equestria]]''. The titular character is constantly freaked out by everything around him which some ponies make fun of because of how he overreacts.
-->'''Self-Insert''': Just today I went to the library to return a book. I spent an hour there, hanging out with a baby dragon who is the assistant to a unicorn who is the protégé of a princess who is thousands of years old, who receives letters from that protégé through the baby dragon’s magical breath.\\

* Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/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 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.
** [[{{Squick}} Except for the guy who had just gotten out of the bathroom when the reverse began]].

* In Carlo Collodi's ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' nobody seems to make a big deal about the title protagonist being a talking walking marionette, but in all fairness it's a story set in a world with talking animals, anthropomorphic animals, fairies, sea monsters and with some LiteralMetaphor figures.
* Naomi Novik's ''Literature/{{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.

* Creator/StrugatskyBrothers -- all books. You want to travel somewhere very quickly? Find the nearest phone booth... er, [[PortalNetwork Null-T]] cabin, enter the destination phone number... er, cabin address, press "Go" -- that's all you need to know. Mostly because they deeply despised {{Expospeak}} ([[Quotes/{{Expospeak}} see the quote]]). ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'' has rather "humans can get used to anything, even really weird crap" point, but the end result is exactly the same.

* The Literature/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.

* While Toad is the only animal in ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' who has extensive contact with humans none of them seem surprised at his being a bipedal, talking, clothes-wearing toad.
* In ''Literature/TheGrimnoirChronicles" by Larry Correia the existence of Actives, magic wielding mutants, is well known and many of them have jobs appropriate to their powers. Heavies, for instance, Active who control gravity often work anywhere that requires heavy lifting.

* In ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', the idea that animals taking over a human's farm is frightening to farmers at first, but by the end of the story, Animal [[spoiler: renamed Manor]] Farm's neighbors have gotten used to the idea, and enjoy a nice card game with the pigs. It is a more sinister example of this trope, because it reflects how much the pigs have abandoned the ideals of Animalism that they cavort with humanity and adopt its worst aspects, to point where [[spoiler: the other animals can't tell pig from man when the two sides argue over a the outcome of a card game]].
* Zig-zagged in ''[[Literature/DrGretaHelsing Strange Practice]]'': as a doctor to London's supernatural population, Greta thinks nothing of treating vampires' Seasonal Affective Disorder, examining fretful ghoul babies, or having her clinic door warded with a PerceptionFilter to protect the {{Masquerade}}. On the other hand, hearing stories about [[spoiler:the Devil]] from an old friend of his does throw her -- and everyone else in the room -- off a bit.

* An Irish children's show called ''Series/{{Roy}}'' and the [[Film/BadlyDrawnRoy film it is based on]] are about the life of Roy O'Brien, a two-dimensional cartoon boy with all the powers of a cartoon, living in the real world of Ballyfermot, Dublin.

* ''Series/SesameStreet''. Humans interacting with monsters on a regular basis, as well as an eight-foot talking bird, whose best friend is a talking woolly mammoth. Hell, Grouches have their own ''culture'' based on an OppositeDay mentality. And apparently, Oscar's trashcan is [[Series/DoctorWho bigger on the inside]].
* The series finale of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has the Senior Partners send [[HellOnEarth Los Angeles to hell]]. In ''After The Fall'' the people become used to it and even after the ResetButton they still remember and are not surprised by seeing anything supernatural.
* ''Series/MrYoung'': [[AlmightyJanitor Dang]] can move around at super speed, defy gravity, and be in multiple places at once, Mrs. Byrne is older than the Sun, Adam has created a sentient robot, a machine that can slow down time and discovered the Fountain of Youth, and the characters have encountered various monsters ranging from human-sized chickens, rats, and cockroaches to a corporation of Cyclopes. Despite this, it still mostly appears to be set in a crapsack version of reality.

* Everything having to do with [[Film/TheMuppetMovie the Muppets]]. In all of the films (and all the TV shows and TV specials), the fact that the main characters are all a bunch of sentient puppets rarely plays into the reactions of the human cast members (and if it does, it's usually treated as "a little odd" at the most, never "oh my god these 3-foot-tall felt monstrosities are all walking around and singing"). It became extra ridiculous when they hosted an episode of ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''. Played with 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.

* ''TabletopGame/TalesFromTheLoop'' deals with life as a child, growing up in TheEighties in a small, suburban CompanyTown... except the "company" is a shady lab which may or may not be conducting experiments on the locals, there are feral robots prowling the wilderness outside the town and huge anti-gravity freighters share the skies with more conventional aircraft. The game even states that while any KidHero may think a 50000 ton freighter flying overhead is the most amazing thing ever, it's no more exceptional in their world than a smartphone is in ours.

* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/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. And, of course, there is [[MediumAwareness you]].

* ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'' Has Monsters in the field, Mind Dungeons, Supernatural Powers and yet the only things the main party finds weird are the Soul Survivors and Entities, [[spoiler: This is subverted in the end when Alex acknowledges that none of what’s happening is supposed to happen.]]

* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/AValleyWithoutWind''. The description for the Office Tower camp improvement notes that while such a thing is mundane to modern-era humans, to those from earlier time periods, the giant shining column of concrete and glass is awe-inspiring.

* ''VisualNovel/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.

* The ''Franchise/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.

* ''Webcomic/CityOfBlank'' takes place in a world that has been invaded by identity-stealing shades for decades, and has grown accustomed to dealing with them; anti-shade mask-wearing is a societal standard, bounty hunters with wacky weapons capture shades to prevent them from stealing identities and/or spilling state secrets, and most HumanityEnsues shades are discriminated as the lowest caste instead of feared as supernatural predators. [[spoiler:Until one of them discovers how to activate their latent superpowers.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheFAN'' aims for this setting. So far, it had a rampaging robot, a witch teaching chemistry and brewing a highly potent healing elixir in a cauldron, a shape shifting Imp, and casual talks of magic and telepathy, all part of everyday life. [[spoiler: When the Bobby and his crew all develop magical powers, the most surprising part isn't the magic itself, but the fact that they apparently [[AssPull came out of nowhere]]]].
* In ''Webcomic/FlyingManAndFriends'', [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=224 cookies grow on trees]], Camembert cheese can crafted from scratch [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=272 in mere seconds]], stuffed toys come equipped with [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=266 airplane wings and rockets]] - and no one seems to notice that these things aren't ordinary.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is what happens when mad-scientists getting extradimensional knowledge beamed into their heads and using it to war against each other with their creations has been the norm for centuries.

--->'''Professor Mezzasalma''': Amazing! [...] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120824 These]] are no ''ordinary'' [[DrillTank subterranean]] mecha-narwhals!
* ''Webcomic/GroovyKinda'' Eleanor invented the Discombobulationotron, which can open up a (literal) doorway into another universe. Larry and Phyl Sampson investigated the Plateau that Time Misplaced (with dinosaurs), The Underwater Aliens, and helped build The Great Saharan Monorail. There's a maybe Venusian Cat Girl running loose, and regular humans date Neanderthals. Edison Lighthouse shares her apartment with a small, six-legged creature that she named Robespierre. All without as much as a raised eyebrow.

* ''Webcomic/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
* ''Webcomic/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.

* ''Webcomic/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.
* ''Webcomic/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.

** One should also remember LawOfConservationOfNormality, though this only seems to crop up when the webcomic starts up being mundane, and then takes a turn for the weird. {{Lampshaded}} after Faye [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3074 gets Bubbles the combat droid's backstory explained to her]]:

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' still has the alien invasion backstory from ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' firmly intact, but most of the time it's just semi-real tales out of retail with the weirdness just out of frame. Except for the talking car working in the stockroom. He doesn't fit out of the frame.

* ''Webcomic/SkinDeep'' is like this half the time with its plot of "mythical creatures [[TheMasquerade living in secret among 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 trouble getting past that fact.
* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' is about what happens when this trope is subverted, as the formerly fantastically mundane is suddenly covered by a Masquerade WeirdnessCensor as a totalitarian government conspiracy seeks to rule the world by monopolizing mad science through mass-genocide. Everything that was formerly slice-of-life for the titular Black-Ops Supernatural Welfare Agency Skin Horse is forced to take a side or flee for their lives.

* ''Webcomic/{{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]].

* [[http://amandagreensia.com/ Amanda Green, Superhuman Insurance Agent.]] She deals with the damage claims from superhero battles.
* Webcomic/UndyingHappiness would be an ordinary Japanese SliceOfLife comedy, except the main character's boyfriend has the power to [[HealingFactor regenerate any injury]], [[BloodyHilarious no matter how ridiculously gruesome]].
* Established within the prologue of ''Webcomic/TheSanityCircus'', with a teenager on the street casually asking his friend if he's had any chance to do any spells lately. And then when Posey saves Attley from being attacked by a homicidal demon shortly after, her only comment is 'Oh Attley, you should know better than to upset demons!'

* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Heaven is real and filled with the titanic, ancient corpses of the gods. Heaven is also a WretchedHive taken over by mortals, pretender gods who wield terrific but fully explicable powers and criminal empires who occupy hollowed-out divine bodies like skyscrapers, mining their veins for fossilized, opiate blood and using their bones to make healing soup. Dead angels are reanimated and used as city buses.

* 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 possessed on more than one occasion 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...
* Many characters in Jon Buck's Paradise setting go on with their normal lives as though nothing had happened after changing into funny animals with minor alterations to their routines to compensate for animal parts; subverted in that they do this simply because of the Weirdness Censor in place that would out them as "Changed" IF they reacted too much to their transformation.
* ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity'' follows a group of [[AnimalisticAbomination bestial creatures]] [[TimeAbyss older than the universe]] and their efforts to rebuild their destroyed dimension...while they're living in a perfectly normal house in the [[AliensInCardiff English suburbia]] with their [[UnfazedEveryman human host]], who's more concerned about them getting blood on the freshly mopped floors or their [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily recently shed teeth]] clogging up his vacuum cleaner than he is about where they came from or what they're doing on Earth.
* The Notting Cove series is about a OneGenderRace of fairies that can use magic. Their lives are perfectly mundane. The only one who seems surprised is the foreigner.

* The ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1754_if-every-urban-legend-was-true/ If Every Urban Legend Was True]] is based on this: Chupacabras are a registered AKC breed, signs warn not to pick up hitchhikers in "Vengeful Ghost Areas", and the Supreme Court recently ruled that human/mermaid marriages are legal.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' no one seems to think twice about Billy and Mandy having TheGrimReaper as their constant companion, Irwin's mother being a literal mummy, etc. On very rare occasions, some new weirdness will be brought to attention... by ''[[TheDitz Billy]]'', who will instantly have his question be shot down by other characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': It's a world where imaginary friends are real. As in, any creature that children can imagine springs into existence if they dwell on the thought hard enough. Despite this, the world is largely the same as our own, and most of the plots are quite mundane, if odd.

** The Area 51 episode was particularly weird about this--yeah, they've seen some weird stuff before, but at no point does ''anyone'' seem the least bit surprised that this challenge involves finding alien artifacts or act surprised when real, living aliens show up and attack them.

** UpToEleven with the various {{crossover}}s that ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' had with this show, ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. Granted, all these shows being within the same universe would go a long way at explaining the more...out-there events in the latter two cartoons.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' goes beyond "mundane" to the point of being vaguely bleak. While Dr. Venture's life is filled with murderers 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', who keep the mad scientists and the regular adventurers from being too much of a bother to everyday society. Their main weapon is murder and they're damn good at it.

* This is the defining characteristic of ''WesternAnimation/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? Distressing obstacles for sure, but once they'd dealt with, just forget about it and ''get back to work''.

* ''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''. "Slice of Life" shows that monsters attack Ponyville so often that it's treated as a mild inconvenience at best, like road construction holding up traffic. This even extends to non-ponies: since they'd spent many years living underwater while hiding from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the Storm King,]] hippogriffs like Silverstream are fascinated by mundane things like ''stairs'', since they have no need for them underwater ''or'' on land, since they have wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', which aside from the [[FurryDenial staunchly-denied]] [[FunnyAnimal 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is about a talking, bipedal blue cat and his adopted brother, a goldfish who grew legs and can breathe air. His father and sister are talking, bipedal pink rabbits. He goes to a school where his teacher is a primate whose actual species seems to vary and has been around since the Stone Age. His girlfriend is a yellow shape-shifting fairy who used to hide in a peanut shell with limbs and eyes and mouth that somehow also had expressions. The school bully is a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the 2010's. Other students include a girl who was born a ghost (no one knows how exactly that works), a spider who was originally a video game character, and a purple-furred giant whose mother is a witch. Nearly everyone in Elmore is a FunnyAnimal or CartoonCreature of some form or another, with the exception of Santa Claus and the Richwood High students. If Richard gets a job, the Universe will be destroyed. Every single thing in Elmore is sentient and can come to life at any moment. Nobody finds any of this particularly strange.\\\
However, the show dabbles into UrbanFantasy in the third season, hinting at aspects of [[WorldOfWeirdness Elmore]] considered bizarre even by the people who live there. "The Void" has the main characters making a discovery ([[spoiler:the universe sends things and people it believes are mistakes [[RetGone to another dimension and erases all traces of their existence]]]]) which they point out would have changed the world if they hadn't [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had their memory of it erased]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' is generally LikeRealityUnlessNoted, but this doesn't stop Medusa, Bigfoot, Nessie, Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, etc. from fighting alongside RealLife celebrities. Even the real celebrities are still often given genuine supernatural attributes, for instance Music/MichaelJackson is a shapeshifter, Creator/MelissaJoanHart and Creator/AlyssaMilano are [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch genuine]] [[Series/Charmed1998 witches]], Music/{{Beyonce}} is a {{cyborg}}, and so forth, to say nothing of the various celebrities brought back to life via time travel. Even fights between non-paranormal characters can still sometimes take place in fantastical settings, like Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/JohnMalkovich fighting shrunken down in someone else's brain, or Creator/BradPitt and Creator/KeanuReeves fighting inside ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. In the 31st Century, aliens and robots walking the streets is no big deal, and interplanetary travel is as casual as a Sunday drive. The only one to find any of this unusual is Fry, a FishOutOfTemporalWater (and not a particularly bright one, at that), and even he gets used to it all after a while. When he sees a flying saucer hanging over his head...he advises them that they can't park there, and treats his abduction with annoyance.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. The citizens of Beach City aren't too perturbed by the fact that a group of MagicalGirl HumanoidAliens have taken residence in a BiggerOnTheInside temple on the beach. The occasional monster attack and local [[MagicalGirl magical boy]] manifesting a new power are inconveniences at most. Justified in that the Gems have been there for [[TimeAbyss thousands of years]], before there even was a Beach City.

* You are currently reading something written by people who span the globe, on a box that also allows you to talk with someone on the other side of the world, watch events that happened in the past on [=YouTube=], translate any language (with [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels mixed results]]) and allow you to play a game where you shoot Hitler with guns. All of this can be also be done using a simple phone that you carry in your pocket. Our every day use of fantastical technology would definitely appear as Mundane Fantastic to anyone from the past- or many people currently in third world countries.

* ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad''.

* An Irish children's show called ''Series/{{Roy}}'' and the [[Film/BadlyDrawnRoy the film it is based on]] is about the life of Roy O'Brien, a two-dimensional cartoon boy with all the powers of a cartoon, living in the real world of Ballyfermot, Dublin.
* ''Series/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.
* ''Series/SesameStreet''. Humans interacting with monsters on a regular basis, as well as an eight foot talking bird, whose best friend is a talking woolly mammoth. Hell, Grouches have their own ''culture'' based on an OppositeDay mentality. And apparently, Oscar's trashcan is [[Series/DoctorWho bigger on the inside]].

* This was the most immediately visible distinction between [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] and it's upstart rival W*ING, the latter having such {{exp|y}}ies as [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare Freddy]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Super Leather]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason The Terrible]], [[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Super Raton]], [[WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies Tasmaniac]](Wrestling/{{Tazz}}), as well [[TheGimmick gimmicks]] like the Iceman, Fishman, The Crypt Keeper and [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Goliath El Gigante]]. These more elaborate gimmicks would resurface in IWA Japan and then in FMW itself after it absorbed most of the W*ING roster.

* Everything having to do with [[Film/TheMuppetMovie the Muppets]]. In all of the films (and all the TV Shows and TV specials), the fact that the main characters are all a bunch of sentient puppets rarely plays into the reactions of the human cast members (and if it does, it's usually treated as "a little odd" at the most, never "oh my god these 3 feet tall felt monstrosities are all walking around and singing"). It became extra ridiculous when they hosted an episode of ''Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''. Played with 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.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', this is how Elliot and Ellen's parents react to all the [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-10 weirdness]] happening [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-12 around them]]. They get only a few [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-10 practical]] concerns.

* ''Webcomic/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.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': There's plenty of technology and modern conveniences like cars in the world of ''Pokémon'', but technology exists right alongside [[MindOverMatter psychic powers]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[PlantPerson walking plants]], and other such powers and creatures. All of these are a completely normal part of the world that aren't out of the ordinary at all.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' is a good example: they have sentient robots, minor superheroes, a main character was raised on a space station and at one point ''TheSingularity happens'' and yet it's brushed off by nearly everyone.
** One should also remember LawOfConservationOfNormality, though this only seems to crop up when the webcomic starts up being mundane, and then takes a turn for the weird. {{Lampshaded}} after Faye [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3074 gets Bubbles the combat droid's backstory explained to her]]:
--->'''Faye''': It's weird how there's all this crazy AI shit going on and nobody is really paying any attention to it.

* ''Webcomic/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.

* ''Webcomic/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.
* ''Webcomic/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
* ''Webcomic/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.
* ''Webcomic/WooHoo'' contains a large number of absurd, magical elements (atomic burgers, cave-dwelling mutant creatures, fictional creatures, superheroes, etc.), but is rooted in realistic problems of friendship and relationships in the big city.
* ''Webcomic/TerrifyingMonsters'' is mostly about extraordinary beings doing mundane things.
* ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'', though it can be pretty tame, deals with this in the form of the character Tony. He's an evil genius who's conquered the world (and, subsequently, gave it back); he built a [=WarMech=], a time machine, and a portal generator (mostly out of gum and old computer parts); and he spends some time as the Black Pants Samurai. How do Greg and the other characters handle this? "Meh. Business as usual."
* In ''Webcomic/FlyingManAndFriends'', [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=224 cookies grow on trees]], Camembert cheese can crafted from scratch [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=272 in mere seconds]], stuffed toys come equipped with [[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=266 airplane wings and rockets]] - and no one seems to notice that these things aren't ordinary.
* ''Webcomic/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]]. Its successor ''Webcomic/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]].

* Agatha in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' once was rightfully [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031231 chastised]] for being surprised at something as [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070516 relatively normal]] as a talking cat.
** One line, which illustrates a lot:
--->'''Professor Mezzasalma''': Amazing! [...] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120824 These]] are no ''ordinary'' [[DrillTank subterranean]] mecha-narwhals!
* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' documents the everyday lives of a group of housemates. Said housemates include a normal guy, a cat girl, a squirrel girl, and an anthropomorphic penguin. We see in a flashback that said cat girl and a bunny girl attended school with normal kids, and both girls have regular jobs that involve a lot of interaction with the public. Another cat girl is a published author. No-one finds any of that the least bit strange.
* ''Webcomic/TheFAN'' aims for this setting. So far, it had a rampaging robot, a witch teaching chemistry and brewing a highly potent healing elixir in a cauldron, a shape shifting Imp, and casual talks of magic and telepathy, all part of everyday life. [[spoiler: When the Bobby and his crew all develop magical powers, the most surprising part isn't the magic itself, but the fact that they apparently [[AssPull came out of nowhere]]]].
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', this is how Elliot and Ellen's parents react to all the [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-10 weirdness]] happening [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-03-12 around them]]. They get only a few [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-10 practical]] concerns.
* ''Webcomic/{{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 ''Webcomic/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.
** Said cactus also went by the name Captain Thud and was single-handedly responsible for blowing up the entirety of Wichita.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has the standard talking animals that no one bats an eyelash at, but it's also well-known that dolphins are {{telepath|y}}ic and it doesn't take much for people to believe that individual dogs and cats have more powerful abilities.
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' contains several of these. Among the things that nobody is ever surprised by include giant robots, talking dolls and animals, Santa Claus and Christmas magic, and even a parallel world [[LevelAte made entirely out of food]] that's just treated like any other foreign country.

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

* ''VideoGame/YIIK:APost-ModernRPG'' Has Monsters in the field, Mind Dungeons, Supernatural Powers and yet the only things the main party finds weird are the Soul Survivors and Entities, [[spoiler: This is subverted in the end when Alex acknowledges that none of what’s happening is supposed to happen.]]

* Played with in ''[[Anime/{{Doraemon}} Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld]]'': magic is treated as a lost lore in the world where science's been accepted, but Nobita wants to experience the former, so he uses Doraemon's "what if" telephone booth to turns his world into a magician's world. His wish is granted: everybody [[FishOutOfTemporalWater except him and Doraemon]] can now cast magic, fly on bloomsticks and do other fantastic stuff while science is treated as a complete ridicule. Nobody accepts Doraemon's scientific gadgets as something ''not'' magic due to how powerful they are even by their standards.

* In Franz Kafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning and finds himself transformed into a giant insect. He and his family treat this event as bothersome and disgusting, but not as unnatural. Gregor himself is not at all surprised by it, and never thinks about why it happened

* ''Hakobune Hakusho'': A young girl who enrolls in a school full of youkai [[Manga/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''.

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' began to swing towards this as Steve Urkel's inventions became more outlandish and fantastical in what was otherwise a fairly realistic DomCom. By the end of the series, Steve had created a machine that can splice DNA with the DNA of others, a matter transporter, a time machine, and a gravity-device (the last of which gets the attention of NASA).

* ''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.

** UpToEleven with the various {{crossover}}s that ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' had with this show, ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'. Granted, all these shows being within the same universe would go a long way at explaining the more... out-there events in the latter two cartoons.

See also CityOfWeirdos, ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems, FantasticallyIndifferent, FantasticComedy and WorldOfWeirdness. Compare MundaneMadeAwesome for the rational/scientific equivalent.

* In Carlo Collodi's ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' nobody seems to make a big deal about the title protagonist being a talking walking marionette, but in all fairness it's a story set in a world with talking animals, anthropomorphic animals, fairies, sea monsters and with some [[LiteralMetaphor]] figures.

* ''Manga/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.

* ''VideoGame/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.
** And, of course, there is [[MediumAwareness you]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. In the 31st Century, aliens and robots walking the streets is no big deal, and interplanetary travel is as casual as a Sunday drive. The only one to find any of this unusual is Fry, a FishOutOfTemporalWater (and not a particularly bright one, at that), and even he gets used to it all after a while.