History Main / ToUnmasqueTheWorld

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'': Unmasquing the world is the whole point of [[spoiler:Anko]]'s plan to "destroy the night". By [[spoiler:[[ThanatosGambit dying in such a way]] that people could not reasonably deny that something inhuman killed her and ensuring that the investigation into her parents' deaths would be reopened]], the world would realize that vampires are real and stay off the streets at night to deny them their blood, leaving all vampires to starve to death within a decade.

TheMasquerade is in place. Maybe even an ExtraStrengthMasquerade. But not everyone agrees with it, and want to expose the secret to the world.

* In ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' the HumanAliens were doing this deliberately by sending harmless drone [[FlyingSaucer UFOs]] to buzz airplanes and cities. Their goal was to avoid a complete panic when they finally revealed themselves.

--> '''Bella''': The Volturi want to be immortal, I suppose, but they don't want to share, do they?

* The ultimate goal for the protagonists in the Literature/{{Deryni}} works. People know Deryni exist, but they're [[ShroudedInMyth so feared]] (and consequently persecuted) that they must conceal themselves. Not that everyone agrees upon methods and timing. Very, very gradually, through a combination of heroic examples and royal fiat, the masks come off.
* In ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' the long-lived Howard families vote to break their masquerade. This quickly proves to be a mistake as the short-lived masses refuse to believe that their longevity is hereditary and start imprisoning Howards to try and force them to reveal their "secret".
* ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'': Getting magic out in the open and setting up a proper official system of regulating it and magical creatures is Lady Tyburn's goal. With her at the head of that system naturally. She is rather miffed when Peter starts proving an obstacle to that goal, setting up new covert arrangements and shoring up the faltering Masquerade. Ironically Peter believes in preparing for the end of the masquerade too, he just doesn't think someone as authoritarian and autocratic as Tyburn ought to be in charge of it; especially since their first interaction was Tyburn trying to mind-rape him into being her servant.
* ''Literature/TuckEverlasting'': The Man in the Yellow Coat is one of the very few people aware that the Tucks became immortal after drinking from a hidden spring. He is almost more interested in marketing the water than in immortality for himself.

* A villainous example from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. [[spoiler: Ethniu the Last Titan]], the BigBad of the ''Peace Talks''/''Battle Ground'' TwoPartEpisode wants to wage war on humanity on such a large scale that TheMasquerade will be utterly ruined so that the supernatural races can dominate the humans openly as they did in ancient times. Since the other supernatural races fear that humanity's greater numbers and technological superiority would allow them to win in the long run, they're all scared shitless by this plan and [[TheAlliance unite against her]]. [[spoiler: In the end it is stopped, barely, if only because the US Government chose to do so after the dust is settled by blaming large scale terrorist attack. The supernatural denizens are quite worried that government intervention, at least covertly, is likely in the future, and that, without official support, the people of Chicago will take the matters into their own hands.]]
* A major part of the top villains' agenda in ''Literature/TheSPIFiles'' is to rip the Masquerade to shreds, whether by unleashing monsters in New York's Times Square during the New Year's Eve festivities or executing a mass cross-dimensional kidnapping of [=VIP=]s in Vegas.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': In the flashbacks of "Social Engineering," Henry's wife, Nora, who had sent him to an asylum decades before because he told her he was immortal, shows up at the hospital Henry is now working at. Having seen his picture in the paper, she now believes in his immortality. She wants Henry to tell the world about his "miracle," and when he refuses, she tries to shoot him in public so that others will be able to see it's real.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' had an [[AncientTradition organization]] of [[TheWatcher Watchers]] whose purpose was to document the otherwise secret lives of immortals. One third-season storyline involved a Watcher who was discovered and murdered by an immortal. The Watcher's widow decided to exact revenge on both immortals and Watchers for their role in her husband's death by attempting to expose their secret world to the media.

** In Season 1, {{Conspiracy Theorist}}s Tom and Duncan attempt this when they think there's a GovernmentConspiracy involving bio-engineered MindControl parasites. Realistically, even with a live dodo it wouldn't be hard for the government to hush them up even if Tom hadn't [[spoiler:gotten infected with an ultimately-deadly parasite]].

* In ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', Network Zero is an organization of Hunters who aim to collect, analyze, and disseminate evidence of the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''' supernatural forces. One of its factions, the "Army of Truth", even [[DoNotAdjustYourSet hijacks data feeds]] and spreads viral memes to force people to pay attention, though they [[CassandraTruth don't get much traction]] with people who aren't already aware of the {{Masquerade}}.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': In ''Agartha'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:[[ArcVillain Scheherazade's]]]] plan is to use Agartha to expose mysticism to the general world. This would consequently end magecraft and the Servant summoning, [[spoiler:allowing Scheherazade to remain dead and never die as a Servant]].
* While ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' as a whole never had a Masquerade in older timelines, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' shows that Liu Kang, now Earthrealm's protector god, wishes to reveal to Earth's inhabitants the existence of other worlds and races. In Johnny Cage's ending, it is he who Kang delegates this duty to, and Johnny chooses to do so bit by bit via a multimedia franchise.

** This is Pandora's long-term goal, which she starts by [[spoiler:appearing on the evening news in her CreepyChild form]]. She then proceeds to [[spoiler:empower random people with magic]], so as to cause as much chaos as possible in a way the {{Masquerade}} cannot cover up. While the former only brings weirdness hunters to town, the latter proves effective, especially when the superheroes started showing up to save people. [[spoiler:In fact, it was so effective that the head of the local MIB office essentially ''gave up'', admitting on live television that it was all real]]. Pandora's reasons for doing all this are simple: Her son, [[spoiler:Raven]], is an elf, a half-immortal who is not allowed to interfere in situations that do not directly involve magic. Therefore, she is creating a world where ''everything'' directly involves magic. That, and [[PrescienceIsPredictable she's bored]].

** It turns out that neither of these have any chance of working. [[spoiler:[[SentientCosmicForce Magic itself is intelligent]] and wants to be used--but not by ''everyone''. If too many people learn how to obtain magic, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem magic will change the way that it works]] for humans to render all that moot. Pandora's plan got close enough to working that magic came within a hair's breadth of changing things but did send an avatar to inform Pandora ([[ComplexityAddiction in the most convoluted way possible]]) of what was going on. Pandora agreed to fix things, but not before yelling about "no good cheating magic" and insisting that Tedd had the right idea]].

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* This is the goal of ''WebVideo/TheMinervaAlliance'' according to [[https://youtu.be/J3eaec1NJWQ its mission statement]]. Its universe is full of supernatural anomalies, such as {{sand worm}}s known as Burrower Worms, videos that [[IKnewIt successfully predicted future disasters]], and ElectronicTelepathy devices made to create a HiveMind.

This is usually more complicated than it sounds. There are government organizations, if not worse, dedicated to keeping the masquerade, and who aren't above taking drastic measures to deal with people who [[HeKnowsTooMuch learn too much]] about the secret world. It usually takes more than just a few werewolves on [=YouTube=] to get people to believe. Poking the problem too much can easily get you killed. And that's assuming the person is one of the good guys. Many plots revolve around trying to keep the villain from murdering people as part of their plan to unmasque the world.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': In the flashbacks of "Social Engineering, Henry's wife, Nora, who had sent him to an asylum decades before because he told her he was immortal, shows up at the hospital Henry is now working at. Having seen his picture in the paper, she now believes in his immortality. She wants Henry to tell the world about his "miracle," and when he refuses, she tries to shoot him in public so that others will be able to see it's real.

* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' had an [[AncientTradition organization]] of [[TheWatcher Watchers]] whose purpose was to document the otherwise secret lives of immortals. One third-season storyline involved a Watcher who was discovered and murdered by an immortal. The Watcher's widow decided to exact revenge on both immortals and Watchers for their role in her husband's death by attempting to expose their secret world to the media.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': One of the main goals of [[AnimalWrongsGroup The Serpent's Hand]] outside of freeing supernatural entities from the SCP Foundation's custody is to make the existence of the anomalous a public and accepted phenomenon. They believe that the rise of the supernatural should be accepted by humanity and [[MenInBlack the Foundation's insistence on hiding the anomalous]] for the sake of "normalcy" is a pointless endeavor.

* ''Literature/JuniperSawfeather'': June wants to show the world that mermaids are real because if she can prove that there are sentient beings in the ocean, people will care more about protecting the environment. For that very reason, [[ToxicInc Affron Oil]] has been trying to capture mermaids before anyone else sees them.

* A major part of the top villains' agenda in ''[[Creator/LisaShearin The SPI Files]]'' is to rip the Masquerade to shreds, whether by unleashing monsters in New York's Times Square during the New Year's Eve festivities or executing a mass cross-dimensional kidnapping of [=VIP=]s in Vegas.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16211390/chapters/48898709#workskin Honoka's Bizarre Adventure]]'': The Yoshida Conglomerate's ultimate plan is to expose [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stands]] to the public. [[spoiler:Using Hayato Kawajiri's Stand [Violent Pornography] and the various Stand-weilding idols during the ''Franchise/LoveLive'' event, they plan to make Stands visible through electronic media for both Stand users and non-Stand users]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': One of the main goals of [[AnimalWrongsGroup The Serpent's Hand]] outside of freeing supernatural entities from the SCP Foundation's custody is to make the existence of the anomalous a public and accepted phenomenon. They believe that the rise of the supernatural should be accepted by humanity and [[MenInBlack the Foundation's insistence on hiding the anomalous]] for the sake of "normalcy" is a pointless endeavor.