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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. City of Weirdos is a Comedy Trope when people in a city idly dismiss unusual happenings and odd-looking strangers as part of metropolitan life. This joke is almost always invoked in large urban centers, where the everyday bustle and diverse population justifies such reactions—small towns can also be hotbeds of weirdness, but for different reasons. Unlike a Weirdness Censor or a Fisher Kingdom, the Invisible to Normals effect doesn't require any magic or Applied Phlebotinum to work—the jaded residents just don't care, since they've Seen It All already. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })New York City, Los Angeles/Hollywood, San Francisco, and Tokyo are especially popular targets, but it might also happen for folks living in a City of Adventure. Several explanations might be used for the trope. One is that the weird thing is mistaken for being All Part of the Show, Some Nutty Publicity Stunt, or another weird-but-not-extranormal thing. Another is that residents in the city have an exaggerated idea of normality, so occurrences like kaiju in Tokyo are no big deal. Another is simply the whole town has simply been Conditioned to Accept Horror. A joke-specific subtrope of Weirdness Censor. Also see Apathetic Citizens, Unusually Uninteresting Sight, Bystander Syndrome, Your Costume Needs Work, and For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself. For a miniature version of this trope, see Quirky Town. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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Wonder Woman (1942): When the Adjudicator appears in DC the passersby have an argument about whether or not he's real or just some kind of movie promotion, with one woman pointing out that a humanoid that tall is scientifically impossible. None of them seem surprised nor scared to learn the threatening giant was not a staged event when told so by a guard. | |
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Fanfic about manga and anime tend to have Nerima and Minato wards as places where weird shit just happens - even if the two series that caused this are not involved, as shown in The Moon Flash Princess (a crossover between Sailor Moon and Sword Art Online, where one of the people imprisoned in Aincrad is used to everything because he's from Nerima and nobody bats a lash - and in the meantime, people from Minato have been so jaded about weird things that the best school in the ward (and one of the best in the entire country) having openly acknowledged Mad Scientists in the staff as little more than an oddity, as the Witches 5 are good as teachers (that, and nobody knows they're spearheading an Alien Invasion yet). | |
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Champions Online also has lots of random weirdos in the form of players. You can even run around as a puddle of ooze underneath people's feet, and they won't even blink when you materialize in front of them. | |
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Hercules: Thebes' mythological status as this is referenced. | |
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Lampshaded in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, when Harry, Perry and Harmony convene at a revolting Hollywood Christmas party; Harmony's working there, Harry's high on demerol after surgery, and Perry is late, leading to this exchange: | |
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In an issue of Runaways, the kids are meeting with the Kingpin at an upscale restaurant and comment on a green-skinned woman off-panel. They assume she's She-Hulk until Kingpin says otherwise. | |
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Akihabara in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger is presented this way, given the vast importance of otaku culture to that section of Tokyo. Helped by the fact that the events may potentially be a shared hallucination or pretend play that the Akibarangers are making up. | |
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Cliffton in Monstra. There's a boarding house at the edge of the city that accepts monsters and humans and the city just goes about it's business while the former mills around it with no one giving a second glance. It's revealed the mayor is made aware of it but doesn't mind long as the monsters don't cause any problems. | |
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The Simpsons: While not a large city, Springfield definitely applies. | |
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The crowd that gathers at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty seem awfully calm despite a huge mobile fortress crashed into Federal Hall as well as the body of the former President of the United States wearing an exoskeleton suit with metal tentacles and a selection of swords lying nearby. They also seem to not notice the oddly dressed and armed Snake and Raiden. However, this may not be meant to be taken literally. | |
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It takes a lot for anyone to notice anything weird in Eureka, but that's possibly because "weird" is pretty normal for a town full of mad scientists. The citizens of Eureka notice the weird stuff; they've just gotten used to crazy situations. Lampshaded in the pilot when Lupo can't get through to Henry at first, Sheriff Cob waits until they hear an explosion and try again without changing expression. They relampshade this to emphasize how Carter is fitting in by him taking Cob's place in the same scene at the end. |
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In the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, San Francisco is invaded by dragons, unicorns, strange men in fezzes (probably not the Eleventh Doctor), etc. No one thinks much of it, even when Lombard Street goes straight. (No, you're thinking of the Castro, Lombard Street is this one◊.) | |
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In the first or second episode of Heroes, Hiro teleports himself to New York City, and nobody around notices the man who appeared out of thin air. No one ever seems to notice Hiro teleporting, unless he's deliberately showing off his power to them. Maybe he has some sort of Weirdness Censor ability. |
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Similarly, the original Turtles cartoon took place in a city where giant humanoid turtles fighting an army of mooks, flying around town in a giant blimp, and regularly appearing on the local television news doesn't warrant much comment or outrage from the locals. | |
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From the Justice League episode The Brave And the Bold, as a gorilla hijacks a car, how does the driver reacts? "Stop him! My insurance doesn't cover a second driver!" Then again, with all the superpowered hijinks happening in the DCAU, maybe citizens just became absolutely blasé about it to the point nothing fazes them anymore. | |
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Additionally, in Grand Theft Auto V (both Story Mode and Online), players can dress as dowdy or Stripperific as they like, and no one will bat an eyelid. | |
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Mike Callahan of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon tells the story of waking up after an epic week-long bender naked in Central Park, fleeing on a stolen police horse. He gets all the way to Brooklyn by wrapping himself in a plaid horse blanket and yelling "Attack of the Horseclans! Coming soon from United Artists" as necessary. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the boys are at a Knicks game (hiding in the scoreboard) and Mikey drops a slice of pizza onto the court. A visiting player steps on it, wondering where the Hell it came from. The referee just shrugs and says "Hey man, welcome to New York." | |
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Happens regularly in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. The residents of Cumberland, Maryland don't particularly care when the mayor installs a citywide anti-zombie system, and a rampaging Paul Bunyan is treated by the police as ordinary policework, not worthy of exceptional notice. | |
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In the Classic Disney Short Social Lion, a lion is dropped in the middle of a big city (obviously New York, but never mentioned by name). No matter how loudly he roars, the citizens fail to notice him, even mistaking him for one of their own. A tailor even makes him a suit, and that is when everyone recognizes him as a wild animal and run away screaming. | |
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Doctor Who Magazine: In "Bus Stop" comic strip, first the Doctor, then the alien monster pursuing him, get on the same London bus, with an Innocent Bystander who just wonders why the nutters always decide to sit next to him. An earlier story, "The Curse of the Scarab", invokes this when the villain explains he has taken all the paraphernalia needed to summon up an Egyptian god to Hollywood rather than conducting the ceremony in Egypt because in Hollywood no-one's going to notice. |
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Having started its life as a GTA clone, the Saints Row series starts off this way and progressively turns it Up to Eleven as the series continues. Gang wars between teleporting rollerbladers and maniacs riding VTOLs and wielding mind-controlling squids and giant purple dildos? Just another Tuesday in Steelport. | |
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Discworld: Oddly averted in Ankh-Morpork, mainly because anything that happens in the streets of the city counts as a spectator sport, and standing around watching interesting things is the public's favorite pastime and penetrating stares the city's chief export. So they only really notice strange things in as much as it's something interesting to watch for a few minutes before going on with their day. If it's worth watching for more than a few minutes 'Cut-me-own-throat' Dibbler will show up to sell his 'sausages inna bun!'. According to the Discworld Almanac, the God of Celestial Orbs and Geometries personally visits the publishers every year with the horoscopes, while surrounded by mystic weirdness like having the rays of the sun coming from his head, the crescent moon in one hand and his feet resting on a lion and a crocodile. And the only reason Morporkians stop to look at him in the street is the comedy value of the lion moving quicker than the crocodile. |
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An entire The Powerpuff Girls episode focuses on a typical day in the life of villain Mojo Jojo. He goes to the grocery store, the park, and walks down the street without anybody giving him a second thought. In fact, there were even kids swimming in his moat. There's also an episode where this is justified. The citizens of Townsville are so used to having the girls fighting giant monsters that when one goes on a rampage through the city (with no girls in sight) they walk around as if nothing's happening. One little kid even asks if he can TAKE THE MONSTER HOME. |
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Also in the revived series, Cardiff firmly becomes this. By season 2 of Torchwood, an anthropomorphic alien fish high on cocaine and driving a stolen sports car, being followed by an all-black SUV with the word 'Torchwood' stencilled into it, the latter of which stops for directions, elicits no further comment other than "Bloody Torchwood." | |
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In Thor: The Dark World, Thor gets into a London subway carriage in full warrior regala and asks for directions to Greenwich. No one bats an eye. | |
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In Freakazoid!, the creepy, giggling Weylon Jeepers and Vorn the Unspeakable are able to blend in perfectly in Venice Beach. | |
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In Static Shock, the townsfolk don't seem too fussed with the vast number of meta-humans running around, unless their superpowered antics seem to put civilians in danger. Given how the "Big Bang" that created these meta-humans was made public, this is all justified in that everyone in town is well aware that there are super-human people running around. | |
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A minor example occurs in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where most people are willing to accept the slightly out-of-touch Spock as a harmless stoner, even as he does weird things like jump into the whale tank... until he says some things about the whales that he shouldn't be able to know. | |
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In Kamen Rider Ryuki EPISODE FINAL Miho is dead and lying in a bush in the middle of the street. Everyone just walks past and assumes she's drunk! | |
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In the Grand Theft Auto series, you can generally walk around brandishing any weapon you want without drawing attention to yourself. In Grand Theft Auto IV this continues to be true with the exception of strip clubs and restaurants. Pull a gun there and the place goes nuts. Also, you can indulge in any amount of destruction and carnage, but people will walk past the wreckage without a curious glance. Blow up something and they'll flee in terror... for a few hundred yards, then they forget all about it. Even one of the official trailers for GTA4 has this where two cops walk past Niko and Packie ignoring the fact that both of them are wearing balaclavas and carrying AK-47s, all while another cop talks about fighting terrorism. Additionally, in Grand Theft Auto V (both Story Mode and Online), players can dress as dowdy or Stripperific as they like, and no one will bat an eyelid. |
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Sumaru City. Dear God, Sumaru City. It does not get any worse than a city where rumors become reality. | |
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In Stravaganza, Rodolfo (and other Stravagante) travel to 21st century London to drop off talismans and are regarded as nutjobs in period costume, rather than being noticed for being out of place. | |
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In Spider-Man 2, Spidey rides down an elevator with another passenger, who simply compliments his costume. It is awkward. | |
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In keeping with the source material, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse portrays New York as being almost totally inured to strange and weird events, especially those involving superheroes. Spider-Man is treated as nothing more than a well-liked local celebrity who’s regularly seen swinging around the city. Objects from other realities spontaneously appearing in the street lead to bystanders asking if Banksy made them. Miles and Peter swinging through a busy street, crashing into everything around them, barely even earns a passing glance. | |
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The Disney comedy Jungle 2 Jungle (a remake of the French film Un indien dans la ville) has a Wall Street stockbroker (Tim Allen) learn that his ex-wife and a son he never knew he had have been living in Venezuela with an Amazonian Indian tribe - and when he gets there, he learns that the boy's name is Mimi-Siku (Indian for "cat pee") and that he wears a loincloth, uses a blowgun to hunt, and speaks broken English. Upon arriving back in New York with his son, the stockbroker meets up with his colleague (Martin Short) in the airport - and the colleague at first does not notice the long-haired white boy in a loincloth standing next to his friend. Determined to get the colleague's attention, Mimi-Siku leaps over the railing of the moving walkway (unseen by either his father or the colleague), slips up behind the colleague, and grabs his arm. The colleague finally notices Mimi-Siku, but still doesn't seem to understand: he assumes that the kid is an environmental activist in costume, collecting donations to save the rain forest. | |
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Subverted in the Enchanted, Inc. series. Small town Texas girl Katie moves to NYC and thinks it's common to spot people wandering around wearing wings and the like, especially since nobody else seems fazed by it. Turns out she just is immune to magic and sees things as they really are. | |
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New York in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. Nobody at all gives a damn about this giant, hulking behemoth who looks like a sword-wielding goalie, calmly walking the streets as if he were running errands... while carrying a machete. Jason even UNMASKS (he's absolutely, inhumanly hideous underneath his signature hockey mask) to scare off a bunch of goons. No one, except the mooks themselves, reacts. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe examples: Duckburg, due to the everything that happens there (to the point that in the story where Killmotor Hill collapsed the mayor was more worried about the loss in tourism and where to move the Money Bin than the people trapped in it when it went underground. Also, it wasn't the first time the Money Bin was swallowed by the ground), with the inhabitants being fazed only by the occasional Alien Invasion or the visits from Italian witch Magica de Spell (that always makes things weirder than usual). Naples has a small magical community living in its outskirts, of which Magica (who lives on the volcano) and Roberta the Technical Witch are the most important members-and they interact with normals so often that there are magic shops in the open in the city, and Magica's home is in the tourist routes for the most foolhardy visitors (as she's prone to turn them into frogs anyone who annoys her too much, and the locals don't care). |
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Sigil, the City of Doors, from the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Planescape. To paraphrase and misquote one of the creators, it is the sort of city where cannibal halflings can open a tavern and hire a drow as bartender while an angel and a demon fight each other on the floor. No matter what strange people you encounter, you can always find stranger ones. | |
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In The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Miss Piggy go for a bike ride in London. A surprised girl exclaims that a bear is riding a bicycle (a Running Gag has Fozzy and Kermit being identical twins), but her father just nonchalantly corrects her that Kermit is a frog because "bears wear hats." | |
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In the Quantum Leap/Beauty and the Beast crossover Fan Fic "Quantum Beast" (written by Peter David, no less), Sam leaps into Vincent's bestial body and has to travel across New York to rescue Catherine. After refusing Al's suggestion to cling onto the top of a subway train, Sam goes to the nearest station and boards a car like everyone else. He is ignored by the other riders, except for a tattooed young man with a pink mohawk, red fishnet stockings, and an exposed leather vest who calls him a "freak". | |
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In An American Werewolf in London, David tries to get himself locked up so he won't kill more people at moonrise, but is merely told to move along when he starts shouting insults about the royals and Britain's cultural icons in public. This, after his running around the park naked is greeted with a mere sniff of disdain by an older lady. | |
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There was a The Flash comic book where he was transported into 'our' universe, but no one really noticed except for a fanboy and his mom. | |
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In [PROTOTYPE], the reaction many Marines (and not a few Blackwatch) will have to the sight of wanted fugitive Alex Mercer effortlessly sprinting up vertical walls and smashing holes in the pavement with every landing is "Fuckin' New York!" and nothing else. | |
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In Ninja High School, Quagmire is one of the acknowledged weirdness capitals of the world, despite its small size. It's full of ninja, witches, mad scientists (teaching at the public school openly!), superheroes, rat exterminators, and assorted other unusual individuals that make up a sizable minority of the populace. | |
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In Astonishing X-Men, the team are helping the SFPD investigate a corpse who was burned by a pyrokinetic: | |
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Definite evidence of this in Voodoo Walrus. There's a local finance manager who's a coffee powered cyberpunk/steampunk cyborg in a suit, three mute and odd looking brothers who run a variety of stores and shops, and the devil himself manages to work at the art store and the coffee shop simultaneously. Not to mention the mad scientists, superheroes, possibly demonic comic publishers, and the magic girl who might be from a completely different dimension who thinks lobsters are baby humans. |
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Batman's Gotham City. When you're under attack by not only regular, vanilla criminals but evil psychotic clowns, guys with half their faces burned by acid, and half-plant women, nothing fazes you anymore. | |
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Star Trek: A minor example occurs in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where most people are willing to accept the slightly out-of-touch Spock as a harmless stoner, even as he does weird things like jump into the whale tank... until he says some things about the whales that he shouldn't be able to know. During the early stages of filming, the filmmakers were concerned that people would see the actors wandering through San Francisco and interfere with filming. As a test, they sent extras out in Starfleet uniforms to tour the city. Nobody noticed. This is lampshaded in the Voyager episode "Future's End": as an away team observe the wide variety of clothing styles in 1990s Los Angeles, Tuvok remarks, "We could've worn our Starfleet uniforms. I doubt if anyone would've noticed." |
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Ponyville in the story A Dream. Current residents include demons, cyborgs, shapeshifters, creatures from another world, and that's not even including stuff from the show that was weird. It says something about the town that alicorn princess Twilight Sparkle barely even registers on the weirdness scale. | |
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Girl Genius: Mechanicsburg. Lampshaded when one of the inhabitants is asked if growing up there made them weird. Played for Laughs in Revenge of the Weasel Queen. The town of Zoggletonk is apparently infested with "zombie warriors, giant insects, [and] hideous extra-terrestrial intelligences from Herr Klopman's Well" and no-one thinks this is unusual. |
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This becomes a problem in 30 Rock when Liz tries to get out of jury duty. Before her voting registration was updated, she could easily get dismissed by showing up dressed as Princess Leia and acting like a delusional cosplayer. When she tries the same act in New York, it doesn't work at all because the other jurors are just as strange or worse. | |
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O'Grady has this as the premise. The titular American midwestern town being hit by some new form of the "The Weirdness" every week, an unexplained phenomena that causes everything from people suddenly having clones of themselves appear when enraged, teleport when yawning, hear background music punctuating every action, etc. At worst, it's just an annoyance that they just have to cope with for a short period of time, though they occasionally end up with helpful instances like invisibility and super strength. | |
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Jumper. During the jumper duel, nobody really notices the two men that appeared out of nowhere, and are wrestling in the street. | |
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A rare rural example: in The Rocketeer, Cliff fails to control his rocket pack properly and ends up plowing through a field at high speed, leaving a wake of soil. The response of the farmers who watched him go by? "Big gopher." "Yup." | |
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In Peter Is the Wolf, Jean, a werewolf, is caught out in public partially transformed. Passers-by just think she's a furry and ignore her. | |
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Definiely applies to Harvest, from Harvester. Everyone in town is a weirdo, ranging from being relatively harmless but with peculiar behaviors and beliefs to being disturbingly, when not dangerously, bizarre. Everyone's reactions to brutal murders occurring on an almost daily basis is basically "just another day in Harvest", including a sheriff who dismisses someone's spinal cord being torn off as death by natural causes. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, L.A. is so full of superheroes and supervillains that when Lucyfar, Bad Penny and Reviled start a supervillain fight in the middle of downtown, people just walk around them. Also, no one makes any comment about the Inscrutable Machine riding a subway in full supervillain costume. And Penny manages to stumble across an evil ancient artifact completely by accident. | |
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In Regular Show, the city where the characters live are filled with people who possess supernatural powers over mundane things. Such as a shop keeper of a board game store, or a guy who makes prank calls. | |
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The Nightside is crawling with a Fantasy Kitchen Sink full of weirdos, but only newcomers actually let themselves get distracted by the bizarre passersby because staring at people (or whatever) makes you look like an easy mark. | |
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The Coming Out of Our Shells video, featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a musical group, has a scene where the Turtles are performing atop the marquee of the Radio City Music Hall in New York. The crowds of people passing below weren't even looking up. | |
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On Lucifer (2016), Lucifer outright tells people in Los Angeles that he is Lucifer Morningstar, aka The Devil. Almost everyone assumes that it is just a persona he adopted to promote his nightclub. He regularly uses his powers to have people reveal their deepest desires, but witnesses assume that he is a hypnotist. | |
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In Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series, the immortals live by this trope in New Orleans. Any odd, nonhuman features just get handwaved as being costumes. One group of demons are shown to regularly go out among humans with no attempt to hide their horns, and they get away with it because one of them wears a shirt claiming that they're a special effects company. | |
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In Enchanted, a Disney Princess (complete with singing animal friends, a big poofy ball-gown and an obsession with True Love's Kiss) is transported from her animated world of trolls and wicked stepmothers into the middle of Times Square. The reactions of Manhattanites fall into two categories: they either believe that she is some sort of performance artist or assume she is severely psychotic. This is especially evident in her first Real World interaction (for example, when a little person on the street curtly tells her to move out of the way, she mistakes him for Grumpy from Snow White; later that day she has her crown stolen by a homeless person). Another example of this trope is at the end of the film, when Queen Narsissa crashes a charity benefit called the King and Queen's Ball. She transforms into a dragon in front of hundreds of people and climbs to the top of the Woolworth building, then falls to her death and explodes into sparkles when she hits the ground. The people at the benefit comment on how the organizers "really went all-out on the floor-show this year." |
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A running gag in The Muppets Take Manhattan is Miss Piggy, spying on Kermit and enraged by what she sees, taking her frustrations out on nearby architecture. Kermit looks round in surprise (without seeing her), but whoever he's talking to just says "Eh, New York." In The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Miss Piggy go for a bike ride in London. A surprised girl exclaims that a bear is riding a bicycle (a Running Gag has Fozzy and Kermit being identical twins), but her father just nonchalantly corrects her that Kermit is a frog because "bears wear hats." |
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Al Amarja. Not only is the place wall-to-wall spies and cultists, but it's also the first stop on the itinerary for alien invaders, transdimensional horrors, and ancient secret races. The only people who do attract general interest are innocent tourists, who stick out like wounded mackerel in a shark tank (and for much the same reasons). | |
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Men in Black II had a scene where J can't clear a subway car he just crashed into through the end window of because of this trope. They look up for a moment to see what it was, then go back to what they were doing. To be fair, they do get moving when a giant worm starts eating the car... | |
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All the residents of Night Vale have seen so many bizarre paranormal happenings that nobody bats an eyelash anymore when the high school's quarterback grows a second head or a glowing cloud rains animal carcasses upon the city, among other things. | |
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In New Chroma, the setting of Colour Wheel, the extraordinary is ordinary and the once-in-a-lifetime happens once a day. The populace has become somewhat immune... those who aren't part of the problem, at least. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Trixcord, Discord picks up a newspaper from a Manehattan newspaper stand to read about the chaos he has sown. The stand owner tells Discord that if he wants to read the newspaper, he's got to pay for it. Discord is perplexed at how nonchalant this guy is about the fact that he's standing next to the pony equivalent of Cthulhu. On a more meta note, a number of fanfics that feature greater Equestria will make reference to Ponyville's reputation as odd. It's next to the Everfree forest, home to Princess Celestia's personal student, and tends to suffer calamity on a weekly basis. And that's before season two... |
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Doctor Who: In the revived series, London steadily develops this reputation — for instance, in "Voyage of the Damned", everyone's left London for the holidays, having realised that every Christmas it gets attacked by aliens. Also in the revived series, Cardiff firmly becomes this. By season 2 of Torchwood, an anthropomorphic alien fish high on cocaine and driving a stolen sports car, being followed by an all-black SUV with the word 'Torchwood' stencilled into it, the latter of which stops for directions, elicits no further comment other than "Bloody Torchwood." Referenced in "The Fires of Pompeii". Donna's worried about whether her modern clothing will attract attention in what they initially think is the city of Rome, but the Doctor dispels her fear: In "The Angels Take Manhattan", at least two Weeping Angels seen in the episode jump off their pedestals and run off unnoticed, despite being surrounded by commuting New Yorkers in broad daylight. Unfortunately, as the Doctor points out, this trope also makes New York City the perfect feeding ground for the Angels. "The Woman Who Fell to Earth": Police officer Yaz asks her boss if anyone's seen anything out of the ordinary, and he snarks that in Sheffield at night, everything is out of the ordinary. |
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In the second film, during Tokka and Rahzar's rampage. | |
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Happens on occasion in Biker Mice from Mars, set in Chicago. In one instance while the titular Mice are fighting a villain in the street, we see a civilian calmly check his watch and wander off as though there weren't a bunch of humanoid rat aliens on motorbikes brawling in front of his eyes. | |
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The City of Reality is one of the best examples of City of Weirdos. The city is crime-, inconsideration-, and worry-free. The citizens regularly take part in city-wide role-playing events such as defending against animatronic zombies,with no fear whatsoever for their safety. It is only once the city borders are opened that people begin to realize how different their city is. | |
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The setting of Nate Is Late is filled with rather odd beings such as a haunted house, mermaids, goblins in the sewers, leprechauns, monsters, etc that the duo constantly keep running into while trying to get to school. | |
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The nameless isolated town in Pathologic has some pretty quirky and secretive inhabitants. This counts even without that whole, well, you know... minor distraction in the form of that mysterious apocalyptic plague crisis that's going on. | |
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In Superman comics, the citizens of Smallville (Superman's hometown), Midvale (Supergirl's hometown), Metropolis, National City... tend to get pretty jaded about the constant supervillain attacks and what-not. In Metropolis folks get their supervillain activity reports between the weather and the sports. | |
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Fallen London takes it further than most. A body-swapping Serial Killer is seen more as "interesting" than "terrifying", because life in the Neath is so weird that having your throat slashed clean open is not considered a particularly dangerous wound. | |
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Played with in Astro City, where the residents treat the various super-heroics as part of the appeal of the city. Even when a gigantic Thunder God threatens to level the town, most folks get outside, pull up lawn chairs, and watch the show. Except for the kids who needed to finish their homework. And there are some Astro City residents with real superpowers who work as special effects consultants for an in-universe soap opera... about superheroes. And one of the soap's side characters is secretly a superhero because otherwise it wouldn't be realistic. | |
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In MegaTokyo, invading hordes, Humongous Mecha, and Rent-A-Zillas are common in Tokyo to the point where no one is surprised any more. | |
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In Doctor Strange stories, Doc can wander the streets of New York openly, in costume, because everyone takes him for a harmless quack. But when things get out of hand, characters will comment that they need to stop the [magical whatsit] soon, because even Greenwich Village is going to notice the [flaming headed monster/enormous dragon/giant rabbit]. | |
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In Ms. Marvel (2014), several residents of Jersey City decide Loki must be a Hipster from Williamsburg. "They all dress like Martians." | |
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Per the page quote in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy aliens visiting Earth are advised to land in New York as it requires little to no disguise in order to fit in. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Multiple: In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Raphael runs into a stopped cab and rolls over the hood. In the second film, during Tokka and Rahzar's rampage. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the boys are at a Knicks game (hiding in the scoreboard) and Mikey drops a slice of pizza onto the court. A visiting player steps on it, wondering where the Hell it came from. The referee just shrugs and says "Hey man, welcome to New York." |
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In Turtles Forever, this trope is both played straight and subverted. The 1987 Turtles, transferred to the universe of their 2003 counterparts, walk around New York like they're a common sight, unaware of the pains the 2003 Turtles take to conceal themselves. People are surprised by this as would be expected. The trope is, however, played straight when the teams end up in the 1987 universe, where rampaging living bananas fighting mutant turtles don't even get a glance from residents. Similarly, the original Turtles cartoon took place in a city where giant humanoid turtles fighting an army of mooks, flying around town in a giant blimp, and regularly appearing on the local television news doesn't warrant much comment or outrage from the locals. This quote from the first series should sum it up well; |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Lampshaded by Tuvok in the episode Future's End (where the crew ends up sent back in time to 1996). They carefully prepare contemporary clothing so as to not attract too much attention. Then, upon arriving in Los Angeles and seeing the people there, Tuvok says "We could have worn our Starfleet uniforms. I doubt anybody would have noticed." Demonstrated in the second part when the Doctor actually does wander around San Francisco in a Starfleet uniform and a local just assumes it's a leisure suit. |
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Implied in one episode of Sanctuary when Henry and more importantly for this trope, the Big Guy were unavailable. They were at Comic-con. | |
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This exchange from Fantastic Four describes Marvel Universe' New York perfectly: | |
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Referenced in Charmed when a knight from the Middle Ages is accidentally transported to the present day: | |
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In MSF High, this is rather obviously in effect. Even moreso with the forum game, where a few students fighting to the death during the middle of the class can, at times, be completely ignored. Sometimes averted, however. At which point, it becomes a group activity. | |
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In Artemis Fowl it is mentioned several times that faeries often go to Disneyland on vacation, with no reaction from the human occupants. | |
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In The Mad Scientist Wars, Xyon City. Not surprising when 60% of the citizens are mad scientists, and a good chunk of the rest are latents, henchmen, constructs and normal people from Mad families. Weird sights are so commonplace as to be more annoying than interesting. | |
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City of Heroes and its Evil Counterpart, City of Villains, are pretty good examples of this trope, but most MMORPGs are jam-packed with weirdoes of all kinds. | |
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