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In a world filled with superpowered heroes and villains constantly battling overhead, a world where property damage is common and evil minions run rampant every now and then, have you ever wondered how the normal citizens cope with all that craziness? In this trope, the story focuses solely on those citizens. Often centres on a police force trying to stop normal crimes and having to put up with death rays, or the feeling of inadequacy when the heroes catch perps before they do. Fantastic Racism is also a prevalent theme. Can be seen as a subtrope of Perspective Flip. When it's just one episode of a larger series, it's a Lower-Deck Episode. Examples |
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Damage Control is a Marvel series following the construction company of the same name, that specializes in clean-up and general rebuilding after large cataclysmic superhero fights. A slight subversion of the trope, as the company has several superpowered employees to help with heavy lifting and such. And deconstructed during Civil War when this company (now led by a Corrupt Corporate Executive) is by all means and purposes the Greater-Scope Villain of the event, because the Mutant Growth Hormone that boosted Nitro's powers to the point he could perform the Stamford Massacre was secretly peddled by said executive trying to boost the company's revenue, but the only hero who cares about finding out about this and doing something about it is Wolverine because literally everybody else in the superhero community is a little too concerned about beating each other up over the Superhuman Registration Act. | |
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Marvels is the early days of the Marvel Universe from the POV of a muggle newspaper reporter. Its sequel, Eye of the Camera, is much the same way. The four-issue mini-series Code of Honor also provides us with the New York City Police Department's perspective, showing us how all the wild anomalous events of Marvel's universe affect its everyday citizens and their institutions through the eyes of the lowly police officer Jeffrey Piper. | |
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Starting with season three, Gotham qualifies, introducing a plethora of powered individuals while Batman isn't yet Batman. Without the technology Batman uses to counter them, it's all up to James Gordon, the Badass Normal police force, and occasionally kid Bruce Wayne to save the day. | |
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The Whateley Universe story "Crime and Chaos" is a Law & Order pastiche where New York cops investigate the murder of a retired (and less than loved) superhero. | |
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The Mandalorian takes place in the Star Wars Reboot universe but completely outside of the Skywalker Saga ethos. Instead it focuses on the titular bounty hunter trying to make ends meet in the Outer Rim five years after the Galactic Civil War ended. The main character knows nothing about Jedi or the Force, being more preoccupied with the setting's economic depression. The show repeatedly hints at vast galaxy-shaping machinations going on in the background, such as the rising First Order, the reclamation of Mandalore, and the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn, and the Mandalorian himself ends up brushing shoulders with the main characters of multiple previous Star Wars sagas, but none of this has any bearing on the Mandalorian’s far smaller and far more personally important mission. He’d be the Hero of Another Story if it wasn’t his story being told. | |
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City Shrouded in Shadow has you playing as a salaryman/woman who ends up getting caught in the middle of various kaiju attacks (with a few Humongous Mecha thrown in for good measure), all the while trying to escape from the Yakuza for accidentally witnessing a confidential job. The game's tagline is even, "This is not the story of some hero. This is your story." | |
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While Kado: The Right Answer focused on the large-scale interactions with Yaha-kui ZaShuina and his gifts to mankind, the spinoff manga about two highschool students shows the audience a glimpse of how commonfolk reacted to the events of the story. | |
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Nodwick is a quasi-example of this. While the webcomic has a fully empowered team of main characters, the protagonist of the series is their lackey. Part of the fun of the comic is showing how he deals with being the Mook in a team of heroes. | |
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In PS238, written by the author of Nodwick, focuses on superhero children, but the closest thing to a protagonist is a non-empowered kid thrown into the middle of the rest and just trying to survive. This is a downplayed example in that the comic focuses predominantly on superheroics, and even the protagonist starts to develop into more of a Badass Normal than a bystander. | |
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You Are Not The Hero: As the title suggests, you are not the hero of this world. You play as a random woman in a village. The game lampshades the Kleptomaniac Hero as the game's plot revolves around trying to get your necklace back from the hero who took it from your dresser. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has a mundane example with its spin-off "We Want to Talk About Kaguya'', which focuses on two Recurring Extras from the Mass Media Club and their misinformed interpretations of Kaguya and Shirogane's Battle of Wits. | |
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Rolling Girls is about four average teenagers in a world where cities are defended by superheroes. | |
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Sporadic Phantoms is about three normal people in the Animorphs universe trying to uncover the local youth club's dark secrets, and occasionally having run-ins with the Animorphs. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks follows a low rank crew on the USS Ceritos, a ship tasked with unimportant duties like making "second contact" with alien civilizations, while other ships in-universe make new discoveries and fight aliens. | |
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Powers by Brian Michael Bendis is an ongoing series focusing on regular police officers trying to solve crimes when their world is literally stuffed with crazy superpowers and mad science. Investigations often revolve around the murder of a superhero. | |
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Pound the Table's main character is Noa Schaeffer, a lawyer with very, very weak mutant and mystical powers. Despite being surrounded by super-powered individuals, note Matt Murdock works as her intern, Magneto is her godfather, she was tutored by Stephen Strange, she represents Pyro in one case and goes against Norman Osborn in another, is a shareholder in Stark Industries, gives occasional lectures at the Xavier Institute, and she winds up dating Psylocke in later chapters she is, in ever way that matters, still a civilian with no direct involvement in superheroics. As the author points out, she isn't even "street level" like Spider-Man and Daredevil, she's "civilian level." This becomes all the more apparent when Galactus arrives and her entire perspective on the event consists of passing out in her apartment, and then handling the mountain of legal paperwork that resulted from all the deaths. | |
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Since the Civil War event, Marvel have been using "Front Line" style tie-ins for all their recent crossover events, to show how those events are affecting the Innocent Bystanders of the Marvel Universe (or at least New York...). | |
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The podcasts on Violent Life, all set in the Shadowrun universe, seem to like playing with this concept, focusing more on the non-Shadowrunning side of life. Redmond Born starts as this, with the protagonist being an anonymous denizen of the Redmond Barrens just trying to get by. Ultimately averted; her eyes get forcibly replaced with Deltaware and she realizes she's had a free spirit tagging along with her since childhood. Tales from the Stuffer Shack plays this completely straight. It's an actual-play Shadowrun podcast, but the players are a pair of employees at a Stuffer Shack in the Barrens. Not that this stops catastrophic things from happening to them anyway. |
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Before Gotham Central, there was Metropolis SCU, a DC Comics miniseries about the special police squad trained to deal with supervillains in Metropolis. | |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy. The title speaks for itself. | |
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Pluto is a retelling of a famous Astro Boy story arc from the perspective of supporting characters, innocent bystanders, minor villains, other robots... pretty much anybody that isn't Atom himself. Poignantly deconstructed near the end, as almost all the viewpoint characters die or get written out, leaving Atom to save the day and get all the credit for it. Never mind that they all had lives and stories of their own, or that Atom would've never gotten the chance to save the world if not for some of them; he is the hero and they're just the supporting cast, so they all get forgotten in favor of him. He's not happy about it, either. | |
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While Astro City occasionally has stories from the perspective of superheroes, it far more often explores what life is like for the average person in a superhero universe, such as a story about a comic publisher landing in hot water with a supervillain, a rookie Amoral Attorney who saved a mob boss' son from going to prison for murder by claiming it could have been his Evil Twin (an event he could not have gotten away with if the city was not collectively still telling from a hero's Heroic Sacrifice) or one about an everyman who loses someone dear to him in one of the periodic Cosmic Retcons. | |
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Watchmen is told partly from the perspective of the normal police officers investigating the deeds of so-called superheroes and an actual superhero (Dr. Manhattan). | |
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The Re:CREATORS spinoff Re:CREATORS One More focuses on a Cosplay Otaku Girl who is absolutely stoked that her town is starting to get overrun with fictional characters, and ends up catching glimpses of the main series' plot along the way. | |
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