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* Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' can be this. He's so content with his normal life that it's almost criminal. Granted, his family does have quirks about them that drives him nuts (Peggy's narcissism, Bobby's love of comedy and Luanne's dim-wittedness) not to mention he is friends with three of the most abnormal people around (a conspiracy nut, a lonely and depressed divorcee and a fast-talking ladies' man), but Hank's obsessions (his job of dealing in propane, mowing his lawn and having obsolete values) make ''him'' come across as the abnormal one to many.

* Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' can be this. He's so content with his normal life that it's almost criminal. Granted, his family does have quirks about them that drives him nuts (Peggy's narcissism, Bobby's lvoe of comedy and Luanne's dim-wittedness) not to mention he is friends with three of the most abnormal people around (a conspiracy nut, a lonely and depressed divorcee and a fast-talking ladies' man), but Hank's obsessions (his job of dealing in propane, mowing his lawn and having obsolete values) make ''him'' come across as the abnormal one to many.

* Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOftheHill'' can be this. He's so content with his normal life that it's almost criminal. Granted, his family does have quirks about them that drives him nuts (Peggy's narcissism, Bobby's lvoe of comedy and Luanne's dim-wittedness) not to mention he is friends with three of the abnormal people around (a conspiracy nut, a lonely and depressed divorcee and a fast-talking ladies' man), but Hank's obsessions (his job of dealing in propane, mowing his lawn and having obsolete values) make ''him'' come across as the abnormal one to many.

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* In the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', the Group of Interest SAPPHIRE (Society of Atheists for the Protection from the Perilous and Hindering Institutionalized Religions Everywhere) are in a way since they want to destroy what they don't understand

A white picket fence. A man, a woman, [[ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily their son, their daughter, their baby]] (sex does not matter) with their dog and cat in their StepfordSuburbia. The husband reads his paper in the morning, the wife fixes pancakes for the boy before he listens to [[MoralSubstitute parent-approved Christian rock]] and the girl goes on her not-date with her platonic guy friend.

Too bad the baby has to die since the lights blinked erratically when it cried that one time.

The Obsessively Normal strive to embody normalcy. Because of this, they simply dislike weird and unusual things at best, strive to stamp them out "KnightTemplar"-style at worst. They would hate [[DoesNotLikeMagic magic]], mutants, aliens, sometimes [[HeteronormativeCrusader homosexuals]], new brand products, street performers, and anything out of place in their repetitive, cookie-cutter world they call "{{Heaven}}".

Since what is "normal" is subjective to societies, communities, and everybody in general, those who fit this trope may come across as [[{{Hypocrite}} unusual themselves]] to others (especially the audience).

See also AbsoluteXenophobe, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong, FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence, and MuggleFosterParents. Not to be confused with the CreatureOfHabit, who will happily keep to their routine even if it seems patently absurd to others[[note]]and sometimes even after they themselves openly acknowledge its ridiculousness[[/note]].

Ironically, in RealLife, a family that is as normal as this trope would actually be quite special, since, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oc9tKkH7WE as Vsauce explains]], based on probability, [[ImmediateSelfContradiction it is quite abnormal to be normal]].

* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/Zombies2018'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by the only wallpaper, toiletries a and [[LimitedWardrobe clothing colors]] sold there are pastel pink and blue (sometimes green), and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig.

* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/{{Zombies|2018}}'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by the only wallpaper, toiletries a and [[LimitedWardrobe clothing colors]] sold there are pastel pink and blue (sometimes green), and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig.

* ''Series/WandaVision,'' begins with Wanda and Vision starring in a 50's sitcom in which everything is as pristinely normal as it can possibly be... mostly. Wanda is a housewife, Vision works a corporate job and has to have his boss over for dinner, HijinksEnsue. But even in the first episode, there are hints that [[spoiler: Wanda hexed an entire town into a sitcom fantasy because she wants [[IJustWantToBeNormal so desperately]] to escape the extraordinary circumstances that killed Peitro and Vision. She forces everyone to embody rigid sitcom roles so she can live out her fantasy of a "normal" domestic life.]]

* ''Series/WandaVision,'' begins with Wanda and Vision starring in a 50's sitcom in which everything is as pristinely normal as it can possibly be... mostly. Wanda is a housewife, Vision works a corporate job and has to have his boss over for dinner, HijinksEnsue. But even in the first episode, there are hints that [[spoiler: Wanda hexed an entire town into a sitcom fantasy because she wants [[IJustWantToBeNormal so desperately]] to escape the extraordinary circumstances that killed Peitro and Vision. She forces everyone to embody rigid sitcom roles so she can live out her fantasy of a "normal" domestic life.]]

* ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'': Clarissa's guidance counsellor moulds her students into meeting her standards of "normal." Funny thing is, her [[NotSoDifferent definition of normal]] is entirely her own.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Jack Drake is an interesting take, he loves rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, traveling almost all year long and having sway over politicians that can be bought but he expects his son, whom he rarely interacts with, to be the perfect example of an obedient sitcom son from the '50s, playing catch with his father and football in school. Every time Tim is not exactly what Jack expects he refuses to accept it and, at best, screams at Tim for it. Jack also tried to hide his own failing marriage and tries appear to be a normal jovial dad to outsiders, though he makes no real attempts to actually be a decent dad.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Jack Drake is an interesting take, he loves rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, traveling almost all year long and having sway over politicians that can be bought but he expects his son, whom he rarely interacts with, to be the perfect example of a young obedient sitcom son from the '50s, playing catch with his father and football in school. Every time Tim is not exactly what Jack expects he refuses to accept it and, at best, screams at Tim for it. Jack also tried to hide his own failing marriage and tries appear to be a normal jovial dad to outsiders, though he makes no real attempts to actually be a decent dad.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-"Normal as can be, that's us! Goodness, that kid in the closet is strange with his 'magic' nonsense, isn't he?!"-]]]

* Yoshikage Kira from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' wants nothing more to live a very quiet, very normal life. His lifestyle, daily routine, and overall appearance are intricately designed to be as mundane as physically possible. There’s just one problem for Kira; he happens to have a constant, overwhelming desire to [[SerialKiller murder women, cut off their hands, and take them as “girlfriends”]]. No matter what he tries, he can’t break the addiction, so instead he simply indulges it every once in a while, killing anybody who discovers his crimes or otherwise threatens to upset his “quiet life”.

* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/Zombies2018'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by the only wallpaper, toiletries a and [[LimitedWardrobe clothing colors]] sold there are pastel pink and blue (sometimes green), and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig.

* John Doe in ''Literature/{{jPod}}'' goes out of his way to be the most statistically average person in the world. Unlike some other examples, he doesn't care how other people live their lives as long as he himself is normal. This is because he was born [[{{all lowercase letters}} crow river mountain jumper]] and raised on a lesbian commune; he is desperate to escape his incredibly unusual childhood.

** In the episode ''Don't Fear The Roofer'', all of the Simpson family labels Homer as crazy and get Dr. Hibbert to [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture try to shock it out of him with electroconvulsive therapy]] simply because they refuse to believe that Homer found a contractor to help him fix the house's damaged roof and, because of a series of really weird coincidences, haven't seen the man. Hibbert himself is even worse -- he considers Homer ''still having a sense of humor after multiple sessions'' as something "bad" and worth more electrocution, and so is Homer declaring (in a test to determine that he could determine which characters in pictures were real and unreal, which he seemed to be acing so far) Robin Hood as real when (then-recent) historical research had revealed that he wasn't ([[DisproportionateRetribution again, Hibbert shocked Homer just because he wasn't up to date with medieval history]]).

-->'''Superintendent Chalmers:''' Good Lord! The rod up that man's butt must have a rod up its butt!

** In the episode ''Don't Fear The Roofer'', all of the Simpson family labels Homer as crazy and get Dr. Hibbert to [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture try to shock it out of him with electroconvulsive therapy]] simply because they refuse to believe that Homer found a contractor to help him fix the house's damaged roof and, because of a series of really weird coincidences, haven't seen the man. Hibbert himself is even worse -- he considers Homer ''still having a sense of humor after multiple sessions'' something "bad" and worth more electrocution, and so is Homer declaring (in a test to determine that he could determine which characters in pictures were real and unreal, which he seemed to be acing so far) Robin Hood as real when (then-recent) historical research had revealed that he wasn't ([[DisproportionateRetribution again, Hibbert shocked Homer just because he wasn't up to date with medieval history]]).

->''"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."''

* John Doe in ''Literature/{{jPod}}'' goes out of his way to be the most statistically average person in the world. Unlike some other examples, he doesn't care how other people live their lives as long as he himself is normal. This is because he was born [[{{all lowercase letters}} crow river mountain jumper]] and raised on a lesbian commune; he is desperate to escape his incredibly ''un''usual childhood.

* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': One of the [=NPCs=] of the ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'' setting is an Expy of Samantha Stephens of ''Bewitched'' that had this happening to her UpToEleven on her backstory -- her Darren Expy was so driven to not have magic in his life that he managed to cajole her Aunt Clara Expy into ''committing suicide'' and mistreated her. One thing led to another, and well... she now has more in similarity with ''ComicBook/NickFury'' than Samantha Stephens.
* In older editions of ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'', the [[spoiler: Throckmorton]] Device was a weird science mass mind control machine that spread this trope by force. Anyone affected by it would become obsessed with enforcing conformity by any means, up to and including murder. [[spoiler: The Device hasn't even been invented yet, but its effects ripple backwards through time.]]

* The Covenant in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is a walled-off city that consists of normal people doing normal[[note]]However, the Fallout universe got stuck on the '50s up until the bombs dropped in 2077[[/note]] activities in normal houses... 200 years after everything was eradicated by a nuclear war. Heck, their houses are the only ones in the entire commonwealth that are still in perfect condition! They do interview everyone who wishes to enter, although [[EverythingTryingToKillYou even it is justified given the situation]]. [[spoiler: You find out that they use the test to determine if you're a human or not, and everyone they deem suspicious is sent in a hideaway for testing (read: tortured). Not agreeing with their methods results in the entire town trying to gun you down, and once it's emptied you can build your own settlement inside the walls. Alternatively, you can side with them and use their settlement.]]

* In the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', the Group of Interest SAPPHIRE (Society of Atheists for the Protection from the Perilous and Hindering Institutionalized Religions Everywhere) they are in a way since they want to destroy what they don't understand

** DependingOnTheWriter, this is one of the central reasons why Principal Seymour Skinner is an antagonist: he does his absolute damnedest to destroy the dreams, hopes, and personal tastes of the children that attend Springfield Elementary in an attempt to mould them to a level of generic mediocrity so he won't have to deal with having to put an effort ([[CuttingCorners and expense]]) in their education. Skinner himself shows in many episodes to be such a milquetoast that he actively enjoys bland, trivial mundanities that most people wouldn't care about, to the point where Superintendent Chalmers had this to say upon learning of Skinner's morning routine:
-->'''Superintendent Chalmers:''' Good lord! The rod up that man's butt must have a rod up its butt!

* Chisame Hasegawa in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' wants nothing to do with the magic, mad science, and other assorted weirdness around her. At least, according to her. When she learns that [[spoiler:she's immune to a LotusEaterMachine that target's a person's insecurities]] because she's perfectly content with her current abnormal life, she loudly protests this.

* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/Zombies2018'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by [[LimitedWardrobe the only clothing colors sold there are pastel pink and blue]], and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig.

** DependingOnTheWriter, this is one of the central reasons why Principal Seymour Skinner is an antagonist: he does his absolute damnedest to destroy the dreams, hopes, and personal tastes of the children that attend Springfield Elementary in an attempt to mould them to a level of generic mediocrity so he won't have to deal with having to put an effort ([[CuttingCorners and expense]]) in their education.

See also AbsoluteXenophobe, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong, FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence, and MuggleFosterParents, and IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual. Not to be confused with the CreatureOfHabit, who will happily keep to their routine even if it seems patently absurd to others[[note]]and sometimes even after they themselves openly acknowledge its ridiculousness[[/note]].

See also AbsoluteXenophobe, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong, FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence, and MuggleFosterParents. Not to be confused with the CreatureOfHabit, who will happily keep to their routine even if it seems patently absurd to others[[note]]and sometimes even after they themselves openly acknowledge its ridiculousness[[/note]].