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%% * The ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' characters in ''Anime/SonicX''

* The ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' worldbuilding project includes every possible kind of being in a science fiction setting (genetically modified humans, uplifted animals, robots, cyborgs, sentient vehicles, etc.) co-existing in the same interstellar civilization.

A [[SpeculativeFiction sci-fi / fantasy]] trope.

Let's say, for instance, that you are a perfectly normal human being living in a perfectly normal house in a perfectly normal urban community. Every day you wake up, you go to work or to school, you come home and have dinner. You have perfectly normal friends and family you enjoy doing perfectly normal things with. Also, your neighbor is, say, a robot. And your robot neighbor lives in the perfectly normal house right next to yours. He also gets up every morning and goes on with his robot affairs. And as the both of you walk down the street, side by side, you meet other humans just like yourself, sure, but the robot community is there as well, minding their own business just like you do. And nobody thinks it's weird because, you see, [[TitleDrop they walk among you.]]

Not to be confused with VideoGame/AmongUs.

* Mutants in ''ComicBook/XMen''. Even Nightcrawler can walk around undisguised and few people seem to care. (One issue has him and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} walking around in public and 'Crawler worried about it... only for a pretty girl to slip him her phone number.)

* Costumed Heroes in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.
* [[FunnyAnimal Funny]] [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy animals]] in ''Midnite, the Rebel Skunk''
* The titular characters in ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}''-- HalfHumanHybrid[=s=] of hippos, elephants, and various other African megafauna.

* Essentially describes the Doctor’s final plan to deal with the T-Virus in ''Fanfic/DangerousTenant''; having determined the nature of the T-Virus, he intends to modify it into a new form that he calls ‘the D-Virus’, which will infect humanity and preserve the virus’s existence without actually causing any kind of mutation to the subject and rendering them immune to infection from other strains of the virus.

* A central conceit of the Franchise/MenInBlack franchise is that aliens have been resettled on Earth, usually in a manner that makes them indistinguishable from most terrestrial natives.

* ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' blatantly plays with the FantasyKitchenSink. The first of its two main "gimmicks" is that genetic engineering has allowed humans to resurrect several extinct animals, and as a result, mammoths migrate through Swindon, dodo birds are the popular pet of choice, and Neanderthals [[FantasticRacism fight discrimination]] from humans and live in their own separate, politically anarchic (but peaceful) communities. The second gimmicks involves [[DirectLineToTheAuthor living literary characters.]] It's complicated.
* In ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit?'' [[RogerRabbitEffect humans and toons coexist]].

* Robots in Creator/IsaacAsimov's science-fiction. They're never treated as equivalent to humans, but the human response to them frequently echoes something from actual human history. Earth society resents them for displacing human labor (similar to the way many societies treat immigrants), while Spacer society treats them like slaves, generally ignoring them unless there's something they want a robot to do.
* Literature/{{Discworld}}. Particularly in Ankh-Morpork, which is inhabited by humans of many ethnicities, trolls, dwarves, gnomes, vampires, golems, small gods, the occasional talking dog ...
* Vampires in Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries and later [[spoiler:weres.]]
* In ''Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet'' by Kirk Scroggs, Danvers can't remember if the entire cast of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' always lived in his home town, or if it just happened after his transfromation. No-one else seems to find it odd.

* Humanoid Cylons in the last season of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.

%% * ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', especially in the newer games.

* The Gurhal System in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStar Universe'' really doesn't care if you're human, newman, beast, or CAST, because they're all on equal standing. Though the four races have planets (or a space station) to themselves, other races can and do live there with equality (excepting those bigots that no amount of time will erase).

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': People in Europa (which is run, badly, by [[MadScientist Sparks]]) live alongside robots ("clanks") and various "abominations of science," to varying degrees of acceptance. Under Baron Wulfenbach's Empire, "constructs" (often, but not limited to, [[FleshGolem patchwork reanimated people]] a la Frankenstein's Monster) are granted equal rights to people, though it's noted that in smaller towns, FantasticRacism is in full effect.

* Due to the MegaCrossover nature of the [[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC]], it is not exactly uncommon to see a [[VideoGame/StarCraft protoss]], an [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic earth pony]], and a [[RealLife World-1 human]] walking the same halls.

* Aliens, robots, and other [[SciFi science-fictiony]] things in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.

Fantasy beings Walking Among Us is often a component of a MagicRealism setting. For beings who Walk Among Us ''without'' our knowledge, see TheMasquerade.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' bounces between this and TheMasquerade depending on the incarnation, where they are in the timeline, [[DependingOnTheWriter and what's more convenient for the plot]]. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' completely threw it out the window and everyone knows of their existence from the first episode.

* In Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Supers go through most of their lives just like everyone else.

* Vampires and Lycans in ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans''. The first two had TheMasquerade, complete with shadowy corporate intermediaries and both in-house and third-party [[TheMenInBlack cleaner squads]].

* The world of ''Series/SpecialUnit2'': All sorts of supernatural creatures still live among the humans. There is no organized [[TheMasquerade Masquerade]]; most people don't realize they're there but the Chicago Police Department has established SU 2 to deal with them.

* Stories set in the ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy''-verse past the MythArc are like this. TheMasquerade has been well and truly broken, and at this point the sight of werewolves, robots, vampires and a dinosaur with a monocle has become normal to the average citizen, and Jess the shapeshifting slug monster has no problems getting Tinder dates while proudly displaying her species on her page (some FantasticRacism is to be expected, but nothing systemic).

* According to Yuki, Data Interfaces, time travelers and members of the Organization have completely infiltrated North High because of the titular character, LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya. Proven in the eight novel, [[spoiler:where the Student Council President is a representative from the Organization, and the secretary is a Data Interface named Emiri Kimidori.]]

%%* Vampires in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood''.

* [[{{Toon}} Toons]] (living cartoon characters) in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Ditto ''Film/CoolWorld'' (but there they're called "Doodles").