Those who have been Conditioned to Accept Horror in Live-Action TV series.
- Andor: One night a man in Cassian's cellblock commits suicide after lights-out by stepping onto the electrified floor. The other prisoners have become so complacent with their situations that they mostly complain about having to smell his corpse for the rest of the night, another complains about being shorthanded for work the next day, and one even comments that he has no sympathy for anyone who commits suicide in the sleeping quarters.
- Connor from season 4 of Angel grew up on a demon world, so he's used to all the horrors. Specifically, when Jasmine showed up everybody saw her as beautiful, until they were exposed to her blood at which point they saw her true form
(NOTE: Squicky in an OK for TV sort of way), which Connor still described as beautiful. Mind you, that may be because he considers her to be his daughter (it's complicated) rather than because he actually likes her appearance. - The jadedness with which Dr. Brennan and her team respond to extreme gore and decomp gets thrown into sharp relief on Bones, each time someone unaccustomed to such things, like Sweets or a guest star, walks in on a forensic examination in progress. Early on, Brennan's own clinical detachment when discussing violent murder occasionally invoked this trope even for her own colleagues.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The episode "The Therapist" reveals that officer Jake Peralta has never been to therapy despite working murder cases for years. Dr. Tate calls him out on using his sense of humor to hide the deep pain he's holding in, and for a moment, the entire premise of a comedy about police work feels horrific in hindsight.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sunnydale, California is a town where the valedictorian(ish) can declare, "I am proud to announce that the class of '99 has the lowest mortality rate in Sunnydale history!" and get unironic cheers. Buffy also lampshades this as it becomes more and more absurd over the years.
- The Chosen: People walk past active crucifixions of multiple people by Roman authorities at the gates of Jerusalem and watch public beatings, with little more than an uncomfortable glance.
- The characters in Criminal Minds are as conditioned to the horrifying depths of a depraved individual's mind as any character in a forensic show is to blood and gore... although they have to deal with that as well.
- There was an episode in which a murder took place on a Native American reservation and the Sheriff was initially a suspect. Gideon ruled him out after watching him give his own take on the crime scene. Like the killer, the sheriff was unfazed by the gruesome scene, but if he were the killer, he would have feigned disgust.
- The episode "The Uncanny Valley" delves into this trope. The UnSub of the week is a Psychopathic Womanchild who is kidnapping adult women to turn them into life-sized dolls for a tea party, perpetually frozen in place but still completely aware of their surroundings. When the team investigates, they discover that her father, a psychiatrist, molested her and used electroshock therapy when she got out of line, to the point where even decades later, the merest suggestion that he might be doing something wrong prompts her to robotically recite a mantra that he's a good father who never hurt her (which he clearly taught her to say if anyone ever asked her questions about him). This turns out to be the woman's Freudian Excuse: she became so used to living a hellish life with her father that she saw the dolls he gave her as rewards for good behavior as the only escape from her nightmarish existence, and so desperately tried to recreate them once her father took them from her and gave them to other little girls (who it's all but stated he's continued to sexually abuse).
- Doctor Who:
- "Army of Ghosts": By the time the Doctor learns about them, the people of Earth have gotten used to the "ghosts" that appear at regular intervals every day, and have done so for months. How used to them? There are ads for ghost polish on TV, ghosts on daytime talk shows, and even on EastEnders.
- "World Enough and Time": When Bill ends up stuck in the hospital on the bottom floor of the colony ship for a decade thanks to Time Dilation, this happens to her, as well as the residents of the city. People undergo a mysterious treatment to withstand the horrible pollution, but everyone slowly grows used to it as being necessary for survival. Bill, being an outsider, is initially upset, but becomes resigned to the special patients as time goes on.
- Played for Laughs somewhat in Friends, when Chandler goes to Joey's tailor, who he's been going to his entire life. The tailor feels him up while measuring him, and when Chandler tells Joey, Joey claims that that's how tailors get the correct measurements. It never occurred to him that tailors weren't supposed to borderline molest you when they took your measurements.
- Implied to be the case with most of the main cast of Fringe, to the point that it's been lampshaded by the characters at least twice.
- Game of Thrones:
- This is such an integral part of the Unsullied's Training from Hell that their final test is to murder an infant in front of its mother.
- Missandei also shows signs of being conditioned to the horrors of slavery when she hardly bats an eye at her master mutilating an Unsullied to make a point.
- For that matter, years later, she faces her own impending beheading at the hands of Sir Gregor ("The Mountain") with a near total absence lack of fear.
- Grimm: seeing the Game Face of the Wesen - especially the nastier ones like Blutbaden or Hexen/Zauberbiests - tends to drive normal humans insane. But one can build up a tolerance to it, as testified by Hank, Juliet, and Wu. Similarly, Wesen in Game Face looking at Grimms are almost always scared shitless but working alongside Nick and other reasonable Grimms (that is, Grimms whose first reaction to Wesen is not Off with His Head!) tends to alleviate this.
- The detectives on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit occasionally encounter victims who have become this due to prolonged abuse.
- The most heartbreaking is probably a young mother who was brutally sexually abused by her stepfather. She represses the specific memories, but they've clearly shaped her world view; she refuses to leave her own daughter (who's about the same age she was when the abuse started) alone with an adult male, even when the alternative is leaving the eight-year-old home alone for multiple days straight, because she's convinced any man will rape her daughter if given the chance — in her mind, that's just the way things are, and the only way to protect said daughter is to never put her in that situation. She's also been through a string of abusive relationships, which she sees as normal.
- In the episode based on the Ariel Castro case, the first girl he kidnapped has become this, to the point where she doesn't immediately see anything wrong with his actions towards her or the other girls.
- A few other episodes involve situations where predators groom children or young adolescents into believing that sexual abuse is an expression of love. In some cases, the victim even sees themselves as being in a relationship with the abuser. One former victim, abused at 15 and now pushing 40, is devastated to find that the older man she believed was the love of her life no longer cares about her because she's too old.
- The entire populace of Camden County on My Name Is Earl are this. Earl's reaction to a suicidal man jumping into a pool is simply "I'll get the hook." No one is concerned that both the richest and most powerful man in town and his successor are total maniacs. The whole reason that Ernie the owner of the Crab Shack went missing was because nobody thought a doorstop that looked like a nose was unusual, so nobody realized it belonged to Ernie's dead body buried under the cement.
- The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Future War" reveals Tom Servo as this. During a drug test, his point of view looks like a Disney Acid Sequence with Mike and Crow as monsters. Servo chuckles and explains it's not a hallucination, but what he sees every day.
- This is one of the major themes of Spartacus: Blood and Sand. The protagonist is made a slave in the first episode, and is slowly conditioned to accept his situation, to the point where he doesn't even bat an eye when used as a Sex Slave in a later episode. When he is finally able to break the conditioning, he then has the difficult task of breaking it on the rest of the slaves to get them to rebel. It remains a factor he has to deal with through the rest of the series, as even after freeing themselves, the ex-slaves mostly have no drive other than to kill all Romans, and getting them to see any other goal is monumentally difficult. Even one of Spartacus' closest friends, Agron, admits privately that he has been a soldier and slave for so long that he cannot imagine a life outside of blood and battle.
- In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", the entire planets of Eminiar VII and Vendikar are like this. To wit: The planets have been at war with each other for over five hundred years using computers to calculate supposed attacks on each other. The people calculated to have "died" in these attacks are given twenty-four hours to report to what are essentially Suicide Booths, leading to thousands of people all the time willfully committing suicide en masse! Even worse? When Kirk tells them this is wrong, the leader of Eminar VII says he's the barbarian, offering the argument that a real war would kill more people and destroy civilization generally. Kirk's reply is basically "Yup, and that kind of destruction usually forces people to END a war before it goes on for 500 years".
- Word of Honor: As a child Wen Kexing lost his parents, ended up in the Ghost Valley, and was personally trained by the former Master of Ghost Valley. Because of this he's indifferent to violence and bloodshed.
