History Main / TheUnmasquedWorld

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}. vampires and trolls may walk free and unafraid under the mid-day sun because of the miracle which is barrier cream (sunblock).

* Seeing as ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' was the TropeNamer for TheMasquerade, it's not unexpected that this would happen. Two of the proposed endgames for ''Vampire'' involve the Masquerade breaking in two right before the world goes to Hell.
** In [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition 5th Edition]], the Masquerade has been notably cracked but not completely broken by a similar situation to the proposed endgame ''The Crucible of God''. Human intelligence agencies stumbled onto information leading to the discovery of Vampires. But instead of revealing it to the public and the politicians in charge, they decided to wage a covert war with the help of the Vatican's re-canonized [[KnightTemplar Society]] [[VanHelsingHateCrimes of]] [[TheDreaded Leopold]] to form what the Vampires know as ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Second Inquisition]]''. In the first 5 years they wiped out nearly the whole of the Sabbat, as well as the Vienna Chantry, where clan founder Tremere worked.
*** The Masquerade cracking has caused the Camarilla to form a tighter knit, secondary masquerade community where they only allow membership to those they view as elite. They abandoned [=SchreckNet=] and other modern technology completely, due to that being how the intelligence agencies found them. They now use [[InstantMessengerPigeon carrier pigeon]], [[GenericGraffiti Graffiti]], and DeadDrop (sometimes in the form of a hypnotized human) to communicate.
*** Anarchs are operating more in the sense that the Camarilla formerly were, being the most open and welcoming sect still around, gathering members from all clans and walks of life. They also share some methods with the Camarilla, but vary on how they organize.
* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' had several endings that relied on getting the mortals to 'wake up' to a particular view of reality, thus allowing [Insert Faction Here] to win the day, since mages/technomages basically run on mass-scale ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve.
* One of the ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' endings had this as well.
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'''s Network Zero pursues this outcome through the power of the Internet.
* The New World of Darkness {{Sourcebook}} "Mirrors" presents options for Unmasquing the world, such as a massive [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Awakening]], the [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken Gauntlet]] partially dissolving and allowing spirits free reign, or a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem vampire]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot rock star]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking becoming famous enough to the point where people notice]] [[GlamourFailure he doesn't show up on cameras.]]
* The PDF-only "Infinite Macabre" assumes this has happened already, since the supernaturals decided that if you can literally put a star system between you and the TorchesAndPitchforks, there's really no point in hiding.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': Set AfterTheEnd, the moment the titular rifts opened and awakened the world to magic, psionics, extradimensional alien races, cosmic horrors, etc is pretty well described. The Coming of the Rifts wiped out 90% of humanity, and left the remainder too busy fighting for survival to do things like keep society going. The game takes place about 300 years AfterTheEnd when humanity has finally started clawing its way out of the chaos. The spinoff game ''Rifts: Chaos Earth'' takes place while it's happening.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'' expansion ''Armageddon'', the supernatural gets unmasked after centuries of Masquerade... right in time for TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' takes place in a multiverse of magical worlds, with only the (extremely rare) Planeswalkers having the ability to travel between them; most people thus live and die under the belief that their own world is the ''only'' world. This gets blown to hell in ''March Of The Machines'', when the Phyrexians launch a massive invasion of dozens of worlds across the multiverse simultaneously using interplanar portals called omenpaths. By the time the Phyrexians are defeated, the omenpaths are ''still active'', meaning not only is the existence of the multiverse now common knowledge, but ''ordinary people'' can travel between worlds.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', during the founding of [[TheEmpire the Imperium]], [[PhysicalGod the Emperor]] established the Imperial Truth, which founded the Imperium's official point of view as a scientific, atheistic empire. Even psychic phenomena was explained in mundane terms rather than treated as magic. Though there were a few hiccups with [[OurDemonsAreDifferent unexplained monsters]] and a cult dedicated to worshiping the Emperor as a god ([[AGodIAmNot much to his chagrin]], and largely spread by a man who was one of his sons and chosen top commanders no less), the early Imperium was a secular and reasoned place. That all shattered during the {{Literature/Horus Heresy}}, where Horus, son of the Emperor and [[ParentalFavoritism apple of his eye]], brought the legions of Chaos to Earth. Now the Imperium is a theocratic, Luddite empire where people believe in magic, gods and daemons, because they really are out there.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Played with. The Old World is already supernatural, everyone knows that magic exists as soon as they see a Bright Wizard burn down the local watering hole. That stuff and the occasional daemonic invasion is mundane for Warhammer Fantasy. The real hidden knowledge is the presence of Skaven and the Underblight, an entire empire of Chaotic ratmen underneath the Empire and other human countries. The Old World governments actively suppresses knowledge of the Skaven, even when one of their Emperors was assassinated by Skaven centuries ago. The masquerade eventually falls away when Skaven invade the Empire in force during ''TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes''.
* In ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'', early in the backstory, a centuries-long Masquerade was broken by the Bug invasion of Brazil, and the existence of Mages, Vampires, and Werewolves was revealed to the masses in the ensuing War of Gehenna. For the rest of the story, magical and non-magical humans live alongside each other and jointly battle aliens, although only the magical ones are subject to compulsory military service.
* The first edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' took place in a world that appears just like ours, where it's expected that the second war against the Titans will cause the Masquerade to be ripped in half as the children of the gods wage war against monsters. The second edition instead creates a world that isn't so much "unmasqued" as it is "flimsy disguise." While it looks just like ours, the presence of gods and monsters is there if you know where to look: The Nordic government has troll preserves, and you can order a taurobolium at the OB/GYN to make sure your baby comes out healthy. With all that, though, full knowledge of the role of the divine in everyday life isn't known to the general public... yet.

* In ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008'' game, giant demonic "living" fissures open up and swallow UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Try explaining that away. Or the various horrors that accompany it, such as swarms of demonic bats, or the fact that any water the touches the cracks becomes living darkness.

* In ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', Head Alien uses a Martian warship to attack SEMME's home city, forcing them to reveal their secret to the world.

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* ''Manga/UQHolder'', set some 80 years after the end of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', shows a picture of the world in which magic has become general knowledge. In fact, the unmasquing led to some radical changes in the balance of power across the globe, and the development of "magic apps" (basically spells you can ''buy'' rather than learn to use yourself) lead to some extreme class differences. Half of Tokyo is now seemingly a gigantic slum, with its inhabitants seen as "vermin" who need to be cleared out... by hiring mercenaries to raid the place and blow everything up, uncaring about the casualties or even deaths that result.

* In ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', the shapeshifting Zoanoids finally reveal themselves to normal humanity after millennia of hiding among us... on the day they conquer Earth.

* In ''Anime/PomPoko'', some of Tanuki go public to try plead their case to save their habitat and it turns out that after that appeal, human public opinion comes to their side and the developers bend a bit for more park land.
* The human and "demon" worlds are merged into one at the end of ''Anime/BakuenCampusGuardress'', revealing the secret to everyone in both worlds.
* ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'' plays this straight and then subverts it. During the Kowloon Shock everyone became aware that there were vampires, but then the government convinced them that they were all exterminated.
* The premise of ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' revolves around vampire queen [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Mina Tepes]] building a vampire district on an island in Tokyo Bay and announcing the existence of vampires to the whole world during its grand opening.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** For much of ''Anime/TransformersArmada'', the characters felt it necessary to conceal the Transformers from humans (for some reason). However, in the sequel series, ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', the Transformers' existence has been revealed to the people of Earth and the two races now live in harmony.
** In ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' they're back to being urban legends again. This was due to some miscommunication between the American and Japanese promoters--in the original Japanese it was supposed to be an entirely different continuity.
** ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' is an interesting case. While it's implied (though never stated) that the Transformers and their war are secret, and the general public does not know about the giant alien robots, it seems that every few episodes a random human involved with [insert plot-relevant group here] knows who [[BigGood Optimus Prime]], [[BigBad Megatron]], or at least one of said giant alien robots is and which ones are the good guys. The extent and existence of TheMasquerade seems to depend on how necessary it is for humanity to know about the Transformers.
* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' battling was common before the masquerade fell, but everything changed when people learned that Bakugan were sentient.
* In ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'''s Hundred Tales Arc, the villains' main ploy consists of announcing that the main character is part {{Youkai}}, and that he will bring disaster unless he is killed. He's cornered into transforming once the entire city starts hunting him down, and shortly afterwards the villains send monsters out of urban legends to attack people in broad daylight. Although the manga never goes into detail on how the populace reacts after the incident, it's made abundantly clear that everybody remembers what happened.
* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' focuses on various monster-folk living in human society as a cultural exchange program after revealing themselves to the world at large.
* The Shibuya Incident in ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'' resulted in the existence of cursed spirits becoming public knowledge. The damage and causalities [[TheTokyoFireball were too great to cover up]], exceeding any supernatural event in modern history. The aftermath also caused [[spoiler:millions of cursed spirits to be unleashed while huge areas across Japan became the staging ground for a DeadlyGame between sorcerers]].

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': As of ''Literature/BattleGround'' TheMasquerade is still nominally in place, but now the information any vanilla mortal needs to understand the basics of the fair folk and others walking amongst them are available on the Internet. Following the near genocidal battle in Chicago between wizards, faries, giants, vampires, werewolves, old gods and others it's more that people are playing along with TheMasquerade during daylight but most know better behind closed doors and are working to figure out how to defend and protect themselves from supernatural threats.

** The Masquerade was broken entirely at the end of 8th edition, when the Great Rift opened and daemonic invasions occured ''en masse'' across the entire galaxy, thus revealing their existence to the entire Imperium; granted, to what extent the average Imperial citizen ''understands'' what's happening varies, and knowledge of the Horus Heresy and Traitor Primarchs still seems to be hidden from most people, but the existence of Chaos as a whole is now impossible to hide.

* In ''Film/UnderworldAwakening'', [[ActionGirl Selene]] wakes up InAWorld where the humans have discovered the existence of immortals and are systematically hunting them down, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycan]] alike.

* ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'' established from the beginning that the Statute of Secrecy was on borrowed time, as exposure to Shipgirls and Abyssals made it impossible for the Memory Charm to work. Eventually, a series of events saw the Statute fall.

* ''TbaletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' takes place in a multiverse of magical worlds, with only the (extremely rare) Planeswalkers having the ability to travel between them; most people thus live and die under the belief that their own world is the ''only'' world. This gets blown to hell in ''March Of The Machines'', when the PHyrexians launch a massive invasion of dozens of worlds across the multiverse simultaneously using interplanar portals called omenpaths. By the time the Phyrexians are defeated, the omenpaths are ''still active'', meaning not only is the existence of the multiverse now common knowledge, but ''ordinary people'' can travel between worlds.

* ''Film/TheIsland'' does it very literally: the technology that displays an illusionary world around the inhabitants (clones bred for organs) of the shelter is broken and the masquerade is broken.

* While ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' had the masquerade blown up at the end of Season 2, this is mostly ignored in Season 3, with the masquerade apparently being restored by the time of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015''. In [[Fanfic/TransformersPrimeSeason3 Luis JM's version of the third season]], though, the masquerade is irrepairably damaged when Megatron sends a broadcast regarding his intentions to the entire world, with Optimus later offering a similar one to make sure mankind does not lose hope.

* The first edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' took place in a world that appears just like ours, where it's expected that the second war against the Titans will cause the Masquerade will be ripped in half as the children of the gods wage war against monsters. The second edition instead creates a world that isn't so much "unmasqued" as it is "flimsy disguise." While it looks just like ours, the presence of gods and monsters is there if you know where to look: The Nordic government has troll preserves, and you can order a taurobolium at the OB/GYN to make sure your baby comes out healthy. With all that, though, full knowledge of the role of the divine in everyday life isn't known to the general public... yet.

* The first edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' took place in a world that appears just like ours, where it's expected that the second war against the Titans will cause the Masquerade will be ripped in half as the children of the gods wage war against monsters. The second edition instead creates a world that isn't so much "unmasqued" as it is "flimsy disguise." While it looks just like ours, the presence of gods and monsters is there if you know where to look: The Nordic government has troll preserves, and you can order a taurobolium at the OB/GYN to make sure your baby comes out healthy.

* The first edition of ''[[TabletopGame/{{Scion}}]]'' took place in a world that appears just like ours, where it's expected that the second war against the Titans will cause the Masquerade will be ripped in half as the children of the gods wage war against monsters. The second edition instead creates a world that isn't so much "unmasqued" as it is "flimsy disguise." While it looks just like ours, the presence of gods and monsters is there if you know where to look: The Nordic government has troll preserves, and you can order a taurobolium at the OB/GYN to make sure your baby comes out healthy.

* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' it is increasingly fraying and by the time of ''The Annihilation Score'' it has become public knowledge that people are appearing with superpowers, though it's still kept secret ''why'' this is happening.

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Then... something happens. Something so big, something so visible, that [[WeirdnessCensor plausible deniability]] just won't cut it anymore. Maybe some young vampire walked into the sunlight in full view of a camera crew[[note]]Assuming, of course, that [[OurVampiresAreDifferent this vampire shows up on video]][[/note]]. Maybe two wizards got in a [[WizardDuel duel]] on Main Street. Maybe everyone's just decided to "come out of the coffin", or maybe the spread of technology made it notoriously difficult to keep things under wraps in a world where every interesting sight inevitably ends up on Website/YouTube. Either way, the masquerade has been {{broken|Masquerade}}, and it will '''stay''' broken.

* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': [[spoiler: When Bigby Wolf is resurrected as a monster, his magical monster form is so unstable that his presence causes magical side effects, including undoing the spells that hid Fabletown from the rest of the world. Since the Fables are heading back to the Homelands anyway, they decide to leave it for the humans to figure out. Epilogue issues reveal that humans have since discovered magic and portals to other worlds and are branching out.]]

** In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', Toyman and Prankster announce [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman's]] identity to the public after torturing it out of Pete Ross. By the end, Superman has [[DePower De-Powered]] himself and faked his own death then marrying Lois Lane with a new identity.

* In the ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'' universe, one of the major subplots is the human world eventually getting wise to the existence of magic and Equestria itself. The various magical battles that have taken place have been written off as fancy special effects, but Sunset realizes that people will put 2 and 2 together, and so they must prepare a controlled first contact. [[spoiler: With the Humane 7 starting to gain magical powers of their own, and a criminal syndicate gaining interest in magic itself, the window of controlled first contact only gets smaller and smaller by the day]].

* Neo claimed this as his mission at the end of ''Film/TheMatrix'' and it eventually came to pass at the end of the third movie, with [[spoiler: anyone who realizes the illusionary nature of the world offered a conscious choice to continue living in the Matrix or join Zion in the real world]] In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixOnline'' continuity, this was snapped back to the Machines no longer ''reinforcing'' the Masquerade (beyond basic damage control), and limiting their jurisdiction within the Matrix. Sheer inertia seems to keep a lot of the populace (maybe willfully) in the dark. This goes along with what Morpheus said in the first movie, where he said that adults pulled from the Matrix have trouble letting go.

* Subverted at the end of ''Film/TheHowling'', when the werewolf-bitten news reporter [[spoiler: engineers her own transformation and silver-bullet demise]] live on national television. It's a subversion because everyone not already in on the werewolves' Masquerade dismissed it as a hoax. PlayedStraight in the sequels, especially the third one, even The Vatican declares that the werewolves are humans.
* At the end of ''Film/TheyLive'', after the hero [[spoiler: sacrifices himself to unmask the alien invaders]].

** In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', the Fallen decides to reveal their existence to the entire human race, breaking the government cover-up. By ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', the Autobots are subjects of news coverage, [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]] is able to contact the UN to order them to [[spoiler: kick the Autobots off Earth]], and Simmons debates with Creator/BillOReilly on whether or not the US should support the Autobots (poll results show that the US would feel safer without them).

* In Creator/ElizabethBear's ''[[Literature/ThePrometheanAge Blood and Iron]]'', [[spoiler: a dragon reveals itself to humanity and the existence of the fey can not be denied.]]

* ''Series/LabRats'': [[spoiler: Starting mid season three the Lab Rats are exposed to the world by Victor Krane.]]

** In "The Road Not Taken", a [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse disposable alternate universe]] in which Anubis' attack on Earth caused TheReveal of aliens and the Stargate Program. The United States and the world became a rough place under plebiscite-powered President Landry. This alternate universe is TheUnmasquedWorld.
** The episode "2010" takes place in NextSundayAD, depicting an Earth that has made peaceful contact with an alien race after years of covering up the existence of hostile aliens. The aliens have shared their technology with us, and turned Earth into a peaceful paradise. [[spoiler: It turns out at the end of the first act of the episode that the aliens have sterilized over 90% of the population so they could turn us into docile, backwards yeoman farmers to feed their empire.]]

** The series also lightly touches on (but often veers away from) how much the other supernatural communities ''don't'' want this to happen to them, because they don't necessarily have the media empire and spin engine of vampires. The Season 5 finale briefly looks like it's going to go into this when [[spoiler: Luna's shapeshifting gives out on live television while she's impersonating Steve Newman]], but the most that comes of it is a pan human-supernatural advocacy group trying to muster up support for a public push [[spoiler: and swiftly getting torn apart by Alcide's pack]].

** The world of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' also becomes de facto unmasqued as the game nears its conclusion. Officially, the governments admit to nothing beyond the existence of Apathy Syndrome (and likely really don't know anything), but unofficially, a cult devoted to an EldritchAbomination and praising its impending arrival and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt quickly comes to dominate society and the media. Thankfully, [[spoiler: there's a ResetButton available for the [[HeroicSacrifice right price...]]]]

* In the sapphic werewolf interactive novel ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}'', two factions fight over the question of {{Masquerade}}. The Masquerade faction wants to maintain the AncientConspiracy. The new Rogue faction, however, works towards ending it. [[spoiler: Depending on the player's choices, Masquerade can be broken permenantly.]]

* The ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'' DLC "We All Fall Down" revolves around this. After being forcibly detoxed, Victoria Byng realizes that Wellington Wells isn't as bright and shiny as she thought. Plague is spreading, people are starving, and nobody notices. Victoria swears off Joy and decides it's time to stop the flow of it into the city. When she succeeds [[spoiler: in destroying Haworth Labs, she finds that not only has most of the town murdered itself from withdrawal symptoms, but the few survivors resent her for what she's done and tell her to stay away from them. (Considering she was a huge factor in the city's downfall to start with, it's not unjustified.)]]

* In ''[[http://www.applevalleycomic.com Apple Valley]]'' some 10 years before the start of the comic the normal "human" world was merged with a "fantasy" world full of elves, goblins and magical humans. In the time since, the two worlds have successfully integrated [[spoiler: mainly due to the fact that they were originally one world, split into multiple parts by an ancient spell]], and now Kentucky Fried Unicorn is a popular, if incredibly disturbing, fast food chain.

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': a bit of a ZigZaggedTrope, as the revelations about the existence of superhumans - and of the Archon unit - was a key factor in the series' first major StoryArc. On the one hand, evidence of superhumans had been documented publicly since the 1980s, though up until the 2000s most people dismissed them as hoaxes. On the other hand, few were aware of how many there were, and even ARC Light were caught off-guard by the number of villains which attacked the team after the Archon announcement. They initially tried to keep the existence of aliens a secret after this, with [[SuccubiAndIncubi Dabbler]] using illusions to disguise herself as human, but this was quickly scuppered when [[spoiler: an [[HumanAliens Alari]] refugee ship landed in the African country owned by [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Deus]] and publicly requesting assistance from the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations.]] Whether the [[{{Masquerade}} Veil of the Supernatural]] (which was created by a coalition of [[FunctionalMagic wizards]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent were-folk]], TheFairFolk, and other magical beings, and probably helped hide supers and aliens as well) will hold up in the face of all of this remains to be seen.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4991 SCP-4991]] is a series of social media posts from an AlternateUniverse where the Foundation and the other groups of interest either stepped out of the shadows a long time ago or were never a secret to begin with; the Foundation's O5 Council are all public figures, Deer College has a Twitter account, and Marshall, Carter, & Dark offer their products to the general public. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this also means the public knows exactly who to blame when said universe is being torn apart by man-eating anomalous insects.]]

** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001 SCP-6001]] is effectively a foil to 5000, being an alternate universe where, after a cold war esque scenario, the Foundation and several major G.O.I.s have formed the Compendium, effectively breaking the masquerade themselves to help anomalies (or phenoms as they are called in their universe) to integrate into society where they can, and have effectively turned Earth into a near utopia. [[spoiler: The compendium is actually voting on whether to make FirstContact with our universe, called [=A6K=], which would presumably result in Unmasquing our universe as well. The initiative fails by one vote, but it's implied they leave the breach open, thinking that [=A6K=] will reach the same results as their universe on their own.]]

** And then in the season three premiere, [[spoiler: Rick ends up toppling the Intergalactic Government along with damaging the Government of Ricks. This causes virtually all alien activity to cease on the planet as they all proceed to leave. Despite this, humanity continues on and is not as fazed by stuff.]] A later episode had a psychologist unfazed by the fact Rick turned himself into a pickle (though also had a clandestine foreign government group be initially skeptical on Rick) and the President called on Rick and Morty to help with some "X-Files shenanigans" as seen in the Season 3 finale.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has slowly become this after "Society of the Blind Eye", as the titular society is no longer acting as a MemoryWipingCrew; In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", Dipper's encounter with a giant bat makes newspaper front pages, leading him to be hired by Pacifica to exorcise a ghost. The final episode hints that [[spoiler: after Bill Cipher is destroyed and Weirdmageddon stopped]], the citizens have learned to integrate the abnormal into their daily lives; Farmer Sprott is seen chasing eyeball bats out of his barn, ("Git outta there, you ornery critters!") and zombies slowly rise from their graves outside the Valentino funeral home, which Robbie's parents take in stride, even casually asking Robbie to "Fetch us the sawed-off shotgun". Granted, this is still contained with the titular town due to a metaphysical barrier of weirdness, and in the final episode, Mayor Cutebiker passes the [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain "Never Mind All That" Act]] that forbids town citizens from discussing the events of the finale with the outside world.

->''Things are never gonna be the same now. I mean, look at this. You got aliens. You got big green guys tearing down buildings. When I was a kid, I used to draw cowboys and Indians...''

** And then in the season three premiere, [[spoiler: Rick ends up toppling the Intergalactic Government along with damaging the Government of Ricks. This causes virtually all alien activity to cease on the planet as they all proceed to leave. Despite this, humanity continues on and not as phased by stuff.]] A later episode had a psychologist unphased by the fact Rick turned himself into a pickle (though also had a clandestine foreign government group be initially skeptical on Rick) and the President called on Rick and Morty to help with some "X-Files shenanigans" as seen in the Season 3 finale.

* In the ''Literature/ErianaKwai'' trilogy, everyone in the world knows about mermaids, although most humans rarely interact with them, and undersea monarchs sign treaties with human governments. The reason the U.S. hasn't intervened in King Adaro's attacks on Eriana Kwai is because it would violate their treaty with him.

* In Tim Lebbon's ''Literature/{{Relic}}'' trilogy, the militant nephilim Mallian and his supporters amongst the Kin (surviving supernatural beings in the modern world) have anticipated "the Ascent", a time when they put the fairy, Grace under their control and exploiting her RealityWarper powers - they'll show themselves in public and take over the world. It didn't quite work out, but "the Ascent" did happen to a lesser degree. The militants slaughter a contingent of the U.S army and murder a trio of Internet celebrities as well as deliberately rip a policeman in half in front of his partner's body cam. These events break into mainstream tv news and now the world knows there are supernatural beings out there.

* In Tim Lebbon's ''Relic'' trilogy, the militant nephilim Mallian and his supporters amongst the Kin (surviving supernatural beings in the modern world) have anticipated "the Ascent", a time when they put the fairy, Grace under their control and exploiting her RealityWarper powers - they'll show themselves in public and take over the world. It didn't quite work out, but "the Ascent" did happen to a lesser degree. The militants slaughter a contingent of the U.S army and murder a trio of Internet celebrities as well as deliberately rip a policeman in half in front of his partner's body cam. These events break into mainstream tv news and now the world knows there are supernatural beings out there.
* Downplayed in R.S. Belcher's ''King of the Road''. The police and other law enforcement know that there's unexplainable weird stuff out there but no real details. Meanwhile the public just got their first taste of what dark things lay out there and now know exactly one thing - murderous clown cults exist. Hundreds of clown cultists gathered dozens of victims for a human sacrifice, but were stopped by police and FBI. That part made the news, what neither the public nor law enforcement know is that the clowns were working for a centuries old alchemist and the public does not know about the other serial killer cults out there such as the Zodiac Lodge (law enforcement does but its restricted knowledge). Only the Brotherhood of the Wheel knows and even they don't have a complete picture.

* Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/OperationOtherworld'' series is set on an Earth where Einstein's Theory of Relativity and at least one other scientific theory from the same time period were put together and used to negate the effects of Cold Iron on supernatural beings and magic. This results in brooms and flying carpets instead of cars, photo flashes specifically designed to mimic the light of a full moon so were-creatures can transform outside of a full moon, and unicorns as cavalry mounts, among other things.