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If your world is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink where the heroes spend every week battling vampires, aliens, ghosts and fairies, one easy way to mix things up a little is to scrap the supernatural element altogether for a chapter and have the heroes fight something relatively mundane, be it a serial killer, a robber or even just a murderously grumpy animal. Of course, since the heroes spend most of their time putting down creatures that are generally more dangerous and powerful than human beings, it's common to make these villains even more of a threat — expect to see your heroes knocked about (physically or mentally) more than usual. Cannibals are a common choice, largely because they border on monster-level weirdness anyway and aren't quite as played out as the Serial Killer. To help make the threat even more convincing, you can expect the writers to make these episodes darker than the usual fare, possibly through gruesome horror or psychological tension. The latter is particularly useful, since it can lead to the characters inflicting nasty violence on humans rather than monsters for once. If the heroes can't kill humans then expect a Karmic Death. And if the show is given to platitudes you can expect some "the real monster is man" philosophising at the end — even though the werewolves, zombies and demons that appear in all the other episodes make it clear that man is only one among the other real monsters. The Mundanger may be part of a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax — though with deadlier consequences than Scooby-Doo would often encounter. Contrast How Unscientific!, where a show set in an ordinary world features a seemingly real supernatural event in one episode. Compare They Look Just Like Everyone Else! and sister trope Mundangerous for superpowered beings being taken out by similarly low threat objects. If at all interested, the trope name is a portmanteau of "mundane" and "danger" and not some Super Robot Genre series you just about remember but turns out never existed. Also has nothing to do with a certain moon of Kerbal Space Program. Contrast Paranormal Episode. In the audience, this may instill Realism-Induced Horror. |
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King wrote Cujo with the declared goal of creating an entirely mundane horror story where the supernatural was absent.note Because of several continuity nods, there is a general consensus that all of King's novels do take place in the same universe, making Cujo a straight example of this trope. The horror of the story comes from being trapped in a car during a heatwave with a large, rabid St. Bernard outside. | |
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Hunters in particular are likely to run into mundane serial killers. Of course, this being the World of Darkness, not all those serial killers stay mundane... | |
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A Certain Magical Index: Touma Kamijou's Imagine Breaker makes him the perfect guy to deal with supernatural threats like espers and magicians, even the ones that have won the Superpower Lottery. However, it is utterly useless against non-supernatural attacks, meaning that he can struggle just as much against a bunch of unpowered Skill-Out Mooks, if not moreso. While most of his (seen) fights are supernatural based, there's a handful that aren't: In Light Novel version of the Angel Fall arc, the heroes at one point have to deal with a Serial Killer named Jinsaku Hino, who they suspect is the source of the Angel Fall spell. The Skill-out Uprising arc has Touma deal with a bunch of Skill-Out thugs whom have kidnapped Mikoto's mother, Misuzu for ransom. Since they all have guns, he has to sneak his way around most of the time (with the help of some bullet-proof glass), and the arc ends with him having a non-superpowered punch-up with the Arc Villain, Shiage Hamazura. It should be noted that this arc chronologically takes place just after the Academy City Invasion arc, where Touma had to face off against a high powered magician who crippled a good portion of the city's defense force by herself. In Light Novel Vol. 17, Touma and Index's plane gets hijacked by mundane terrorists, leading to a "Die Hard" on an X plot. Magical organization GREMLIN learn and hires armed mercenaries to deal with Touma, since he can't negate their mundane guns, and at least one of their members trained in martial arts just in case he got in too close. Aleister Crowley, who could outplan other chessmasters with his ruthlessness, paranoia and intelligence, spent centuries waiting for his main plan (whatever it is) to come to fruition, and built the entire metropolis of Academy City to acquire Touma Kamijou and his Imagine Breaker long before their birth was nearly brought down to his knees by an unexpected anomaly, who had seemingly out of nowhere managed to send his current plans careening down the ground through its actions by eliminating one of his prized Level 5s. That anomaly is Shiage Hamazura. |
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In Mampato, the protagonist and his friends have traveled through time and space, facing multiple dangers: dinosaurs -on more than one occasion-, mutants -on more than one occasion-, pirates, aliens, alien carnivorous plants, have been captured to be offered as Human Sacrifice and they have participated in several battles. One of the occasions Mampato came closest to dying? Due to an infection from a poorly treated superficial wound. | |
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In Episode 7 of Andor, Cassian is arrested and sentenced to prison (a prison which is secretly a slave labor facility building the Death Star that never actually lets anyone out), simply because while walking to the store he happened to pass by some sort of police action and a cop on a power trip decided he didn't like the way Cassian looked or answered the cop's questions, choosing to interpret everything Cassian said or did as proof that he was involved in the crime or was mouthing off to the cop. Cue Cassian being hit with a bunch of trumped up and blatantly false charges. For anyone living in an authoritarian system or in an area known for overactive or brutal police, it's an all too real fear, and proof that The Empire doesn't need space wizards with fantastic powers to be terrifying. | |
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A famous episode of Angel has Angel and the team handling a young boy who appears to be possessed by a demon, including setting fire and trying to kill his sister. They exorcise the demon and hunt him down. When Wesley declares the demon won't get the boy's soul, the demon scoffs "what soul?". As he relates, the boy was a bigger monster than the demon could be and the demon was trying to free himself of him. Sure enough, the sociopathic youth is already trying to kill his own family just for fun. | |
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Arrow: After spending many seasons dealing with highly-trained assassins, a master hacker, and a 275-year-old Evil Sorcerer, who plans to nuke the world (not to mention crossovers involving a 4000-year-old immortal, an Alien Invasion, and Those Wacky Nazis), the man who nearly brings Oliver down is a down-to-earth street thug with lots of patience and an abundance of ruthlessness. Even a powerful meta like Black Siren is afraid of him. | |
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In Bones, the one villain (out of multiple serial killers, international terrorists, trained assassins and other powerful people) that came the closest to have badass ex-Special Forces soldier and FBI Agent Seely Booth Killed Off for Real was a Stalker with a Crush carrying a revolver. And the second thing was a brain tumor. | |
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CSI: NY: In the eighth season finale, "Near Death", the episode spends its whole runtime flashing back to the events that left Mac Taylor lying down on the floor of a drug store bleeding to (near-) death. After the case of the episode (a diamond store robbery) was solved with no violence (it turns out that it was performed by a bunch of old people willing to do anything to not end up in retirement homes), Mac walks into the drug store in the last five minutes of the episode, sees it is being robbed and trÃes to stop it… and ends up being shot In the Back by a random junkie Mac had not noticed. The following episode had the entire cast on a rabid Cop Killer Manhunt driven just as much by the fact it was Mac as the fact it was some two-bit punk that had done the deed. | |
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Haven: This show normally deals with the Troubled residents of Haven, Maine. In "Welcome To Haven", there's an escaped convict and a man who plans to kill his fiance and take her money. In "The Trial of Audrey Parker", two criminals hijack Duke's boat and kidnap everybody by sailing it out to sea. One of the criminals had the power to read minds, but his mundane partner was clearly the brains of the operation. In "Resurfacing", the villains are a corrupt trio who sell people shoddy parts. A boat fitted with their parts sinks, killing everybody on board. The criminals attempt to kill everybody who learns about their shoddy parts and Make It Look Like an Accident. In "Lockdown", a woman inadvertently spreads a deadly disease with her powers, but then her mundane, abusive husband takes center stage by holding everybody hostage with a gun. In fact, the woman's anguish over her abuse was what triggered her ability. |
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Disney Animated Canon is a franchise of animated movies with a colorful cast of villains who have funny moments to them despite being a threat to the heroes in their own right. But the darkest Disney villains are Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) and Bill Sykes from Oliver & Company. Frollo is a prejudiced bigot who abuses his position as the French Minister of Justice for his pent-up sexual frustration of Esmeralda, a Romani woman whom he obsessively pursues to the point of threatening to kill her if she refuses despite him initially professing to be sin-free. Frollo's Holier Than Thou attitude to justify his evil actions drives a major portion of The Hunchback of Notre Dame's plot, but it also contributes to his Villainous Breakdown. Bill Sykes is a New York City Loan Shark who threatens to kill Fagin, a poor homeless man, if he doesn't pay back his loan. When seven-year-old Jenny arrives at the docks alone to pay the ramson for her kidnapped cat, he kidnaps her and threatens to feed her to his dogs if her parents don't pay. | |
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In The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Amina decides to quit the job to retrieve Dunya al-Hilli when she realizes that she and her crew really are facing a sorcerer, and an incredibly dangerous one at that. Salima al-Hilli, Dunya's grandmother, immediately threatens to use her wealth, power, and extensive political connections to have Amina's whole family killed, starting with her ten-year-old daughter... and if Amina murdered her, she would only hasten their demise. Compared to that threat, Falco and his cruel magic are far easier to defeat. | |
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Variation in Fringe episode "Northwest Passage". The killer is just a lone killer whose methods happen to look a lot like something done by the conspiracy, to an absurdly specific degree (he takes pieces of the temporal lobe of the brain). It would fit except that the conspiracy is not actually supernatural. | |
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The Long Dark makes a great point about how economic stagnation and being continually dismissed by the comsopolitan political elite of the 20th and 21st Centuries can have an even greater impact on isolated "flyover" communities than actual natural disasters. | |
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Stardew Valley is set in a Small Town, USA Fantasy Kitchen Sink where the main antagonistic force is a predatory megacorporation that is wrecking the natural environment, driving the local Mom & Pop general store out of business, and stifling the community spirit. Despite the very cutesy visuals, many of the townsfolk are a Dysfunction Junction coping with serious mundane issues: Shane is working as a shelf stacker at the local JojaMart and falling apart at the seams from alcoholism and severe depression, which is upsetting his family. He goes as far as to consider suicide at one point. Oh, and if you do the "right thing" and stop Joja Corp from expanding into the valley by restoring the local community, the JojaMart closes down and Shane loses his job. Alex had a bastard of a father who hit him and put him down throughout his childhood, and when he walked out on the family, Alex's mother died not long after, leaving the boy to live with his grandparents. The cool Lovable Jock persona he has is in large part a thin lacquer hiding quite a troubled young man. Penny is one of the poorest residents in the valley (besides Linus, the old man who lives in a tent in the forest). She lives in a riverside trailer alone with her alcoholic mother Pam, and makes a pittance working as an unofficial School Marm to the two local kids. Penny's relationship with her mother has only soured since the bus service broke down, leaving Pam unemployed and with nothing to do but get drunk at the local saloon and take out her aggression on her gentle daughter when she comes home. Leah moved into town to escape a jealous and controlling ex in the city who did not support her dream of becoming an artist. Sebastian has literally become a basement dweller just to stay away from his family. His stepdad Demetrius seems to dislike him and wants his daughter Maru to stay away from him, and Robin does nothing to fix this situation. The only people in town he appears to like are Sam and Abigail. There's also some dialogue that implies that Demetrius and Robin's marriage is on the rocksnote In early builds of the game, Robin was supposed to be a bachelorette candidate that was facilitated by causing the breakup of their marriage.. Jodi's husband Kent (who is absent in the first year) is a soldier who spent time in enemy captivity as a POW. He still has PTSD from his experiences and it causes friction in their marriage as well as problems in Kent's personal life. Clint, the local blacksmith, expresses frustration at his current career; he only became a blacksmith because he comes from a long line of professionals but he himself has fallen out of love with the craft. He is attracted to local Granola Girl/New-Age Retro Hippie Emily but is a Hopeless Suitor who can't bring himself to ever talk to her (and there currently is no way to get them together). |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: While closure of borders early in the spread of the Plague Zombie disease enabled Iceland to be spared from it, the country lost a lot of its population to The Famine during its first decade of isolation. | |
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NCIS: Los Angeles: Unlike the flagship, the team in this Spin-Off is a lower-profile group that mainly deals with national security-related cases, to the point where they express some bafflement when the Body of the Week is on occasion an apparently mundane murder of a Marine or Navy sailor. | |
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Highlander: Duncan is able to protect Tessa from many Immortals who wanted to hurt her to get to him. However, she ended up killed by a random human mugger. Duncan and the others occasionally face ordinary human criminals instead of Immortals. For example, in "Deadly Medicine", the villain was a Mad Doctor who would kidnap people and experiment on them, inevitably killing them. He ends up kidnapping Duncan and gets really excited when he discovers Duncan's Healing Factor, but never learns about the Immortals. |
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The Bedtime Stories episode "25 Cromwell Street", which ranks among the most chilling videos they've ever made because there is no supernatural or paranormal angle to the story: It is simply a concise, dispassionate and unflinching account of the crimes of Serial Killer, rapist and domestic abuser Frederick West and his wife and victim-turned-accomplice Rosemary. As the creators themselves put it: | |
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Dream SMP: In a world where gods and supernatural creatures exist*the latter in Minecraft mobs, the most heinous acts in the majority of the series are committed by player-characters, in scenarios that can be easily transplanted to real life. The most notable examples of this are abusers and corrupt figures in power*power in terms of political and economic power alike, and the two characters that the fandom typically regards to have crossed the MEH are both of these: both Schlatt and Dream are tyrants in their own right, with the former being a Bad Boss and a Domestic Abuser, and the latter abusing a teenager to the point said teen attempted suicide. Another arc has a cult leader as the Arc Villain which recruits and brainwashes characters when they are emotionally vulnerable, which is still applicable to the real world even when the supernatural elements are removed. | |
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The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Be Forgot" opens with a man who can't remember the date, but knows it's important. He needs to go out, but something is stopping him. When the Doctor and companion Jess visit him, a voice only he can hear says that if he lets them in, they'll die. This is not the work some alien psychic parasite creature, though, but his depression and anxiety on the anniversary of his mother's death. | |
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In the game Uncanny Valley, what was shown as disturbing shadow beings in the protagonist's nightmares turns out to be a bunch of gangsters out for the protagonists blood. However, after they're dealt with, the protagonist have to deal with a bunch of Killer Robots unconnected with the aforementioned gangsters. | |
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Rick and Morty: The heroes face aliens and creatures from other dimensions on daily basis, but the B plot of the episode "Ricksy Business" has a female human rapist as the antagonist. | |
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The Makings of Team CRME is a RWBY fanfiction series. It is set in the main canon where things like Grimm beasts, Faunus, powers given by Battle Auras, and the substance Dust are commonplace. However, while these things are featured, the main sources of conflict involve Abusive Parents, Loan Sharks, Professional Killers, and mobsters. Very normal and down-to-earth threats for the world this takes place in. The only stories that extensively feature the fantasy element of the world are My Name Is Cindernote and even then, the first two chapters mostly excluded it and CRME. The other stories, while having these things in them, mostly focused on rather mundane conflicts. | |
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SCP Foundation deals with dangerous anomalies, monsters, and world-ending objects on a daily basis. All sorts of stories exist about what could happen if something goes wrong, leading to The End of the World as We Know It. However, one tale has them brought to their knees by a computer glitch. Specifically in the computer system that controls the Dead Man's Switch for their emergency nuclear warheads. | |
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Supernatural has featured a couple of these: A Cannibal Clan in "The Benders" (named after a real-life cannibal family nicknamed the Bloody Benders), feral children in "Family Remains" and a murderous "Scooby-Doo" Hoax in "#Thinman". "Breakdown" is a subversion. It seems to be the work of an ordinary human serial killer running a murder.com website, but he's actually in league with real monsters. In "ScoobyNatural", for all of the crazy the episode portrays, Dean still shows surprise that Velma Dinkley was right and the Big Bad of the episode was only doing his own version of a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, with the reveal in The Movie that the final Angel is "mankind", in the form of an All Your Base Are Belong to Us attack on the Geofront. | |
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The Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon pitted them against their usual selection of crazy monsters, giant robots, aliens, and so forth - as well as against their loserly human Loony Fan, Lorne. He is easily the most fondly-regarded villain in the show. | |
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The Fall: In a world devastated by nuclear war, where mutants and bloodthirsty killers roam freely what is Louise's most pressing danger? Radiation poisoning due to averting No Biochemical Barriers typical in reverse summon stories. That and simply earning enough to pay for it. | |
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The first series of Torchwood featured a Cannibal Clan in "Countrycide". Like the Supernatural example, the heroes were drawn by killings they assumed were the work of aliens or the rift at first. This episode also has the distinction of being the only story in Doctor Who, or its Expanded Universe, to be devoid of any science fiction elements beyond the mere fact that Jack exists (the SUV tracker Toshiko holds is the most advanced tech the episode features, and Jack's immortality is never used either). | |
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The fourth season of Supergirl (2015) has Agent Liberty, a normal former college professor, whipping up people into an anti-alien bias. Kara at first downplays them as just some minor crazy extremists. That is until she finds chat rooms where regular suburban mothers are asking for advice on how to make bombs to take care of alien children in school. As Kara relates to J'onn, she can handle monstrous aliens and would-be dictators but the idea of normal, regular people willing to kill those who look different is too much for her to take. | |
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Static Shock usually has to deal with superpowered villains, but in the Very Special Episode "Jimmy", the main threat is a trio of vicious bullies, and their main target who plans to kill them with his father's stolen gun. | |
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When the smartphone game Pokémon GO was released, muggers found the players easy targets— wandering in strange neighborhoods, distracted, often alone, with an expensive smartphone out. | |
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Spinning Silver: The Mandelstams are afraid of the Staryk Fair Folk who take an interest in their household, but much more afraid of their interest becoming known. The Staryk might be inhuman monsters, but the Mandelstams are Jewish, and the last Jewish community believed to have attracted the Staryk's interest was destroyed in a pogrom by antisemitic humans. | |
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The 1959 series episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is about a small suburban community tearing itself apart over suspicion that any one of them might be an alien invader in disguise. While it ultimately turns out that aliens were responsible for the events of the episode, it's made clear that they didn't have to fire a shot in order to plunge Maple Street into chaos — the townsfolk's natural paranoia did that for them. The episode's title was referring to the human characters. (The episode was later remade for the 2002 series with the threat being terrorists instead of aliens, but the basic structure, including the nature of The Reveal, was the same.) | |
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The 2002 series episode "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" has the supernatural element of an action figure coming to life, but the threat itself is the boy's abusive father. Azoth himself treats the father as just as serious an evil as the supervillains he normally faces, and in the end is unable to defeat him. The father is taken down when the mother and son have enough and kick him out. | |
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With the Homura Crimson Squad officially in exile in Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, hunted by their former school and on bad terms with many others, their greatest threat, as revealed when they ally with the Hanzo students, is... getting enough to eat. Shinobi they may be, but they're assassins, not survivalists, and even with a working knowledge of edible plants, they live in a city. Using their skills for thievery would light them up as a target, so their only choice is to get jobs. Shitty, less-than-minimum-wage cash-in-hand jobs that don't mind the fact they have no ID or proof of education. | |
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Resident Evil: In a franchise where every other villain is some sort of plague-spreading Diabolical Mastermind with a god complex, one of the most pants-shittingly horrifying and evil villains is Chief Brian Irons in the second game, a completely mundane Dirty Cop with no superpowers and isn't even one of the infected. He does make it up perfectly for his Taxidermy Sex Dungeon of Evil, mass spree killings and being a legitimate threat against Claire and Sherry, and replaces the Sex Dungeon with new crimes that are just as bad in the remake. | |
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Persona 5: In a franchise where every other villain is a God of Evil trying to obliterate or control humanity or a person harnessing the collective unconsciousness to do the same thing, one of the most evil and despicable villains is Kamoshida, a completely mundane Creepy Gym Coach who beats, blackmails and even molests his fellow athletes. | |
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In Wilde Life, Cliff the teenage animal person tussles with monsters, unstable ghosts, mind-controlling witches, and the threat of a Viral Transformation, but Chapter 12 focuses on a more persistent and difficult threat: his own abusive stepfather. | |
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In one episode of Superman: The Animated Series the villain is a corrupt police detective who got an innocent man sent to death row for murder (that the detective committed). When Clark Kent manages to confirm the inmate's alibi, he gets caught in a carbomb attack, setting Superman's investigation back to square one and "killing" Clark Kent. | |
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Captain America: Civil War: after successfully fighting off various supervillains, a Norse God, an Alien Invasion, and a Killer Robot, the Avengers are brought to their knees by a vengeful soldier with no powers beyond "patience and experience", not even wearing a costume. | |
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Solomon Kane mostly fought supernatural villains of some sort. However, in "Blades of the Brotherhood" the villains were perfectly ordinary pirates. | |
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Black Widow (2021) has General Dreykov, one of the most vile villains in a MCU movie. He might have no powers whatsoever, in fact he is pathetic physically, but he is still the mastermind that created the Black Widows, meaning he has hundreds of women brainwashed to do his bidding all over the world, and holds enormous influence, which means he is still a major threat. | |
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Long before the werewolves show up, the first major threat Karyn encounters in The Howling (1977) is the human - yet no less monstrous - serial rapist Max Quist, who breaks into her home and sexually assaults her. Notably, the film alters things so that Quist is also a werewolf, though the protagonists don't realise this until about halfway through. | |
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The Silent Hill franchise has more often than not put its mentally ill protagonist of the day in the genuinely haunted titular town and pitted them against genuine monsters. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories appears to be more of the same... but no. The whole game is the fantasy world of a troubled young girl who grew up in a broken home and without a father. | |
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Odd Thomas: Odd usually deals with supernatural threats— cult organizations, spooks and spectres, and the like. In the graphic novel Odd Is On Our Side, the villain is an old man who really, really hated children trampling his prize-winning flower garden on Halloween. | |
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Underwater is a variation: instead of mundanity intruding on a supernatural setting, the supernatural causes mundane danger. It is set on an underwater drilling rig which suffers a catastrophic failure. All of the crushing and drowning and suffocation turns out to be caused by a Cosmic Horror throwing its weight around. | |
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Fear Itself has a (non supernatural) Town with a Dark Secret in "Community"; and in "Something with Bite", the gruesome murders turn out to be the work of a human serial killer who wants to gain the attention of a real werewolf, so he can make him one. | |
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Unsurpisingly, given its long run on TV, The X-Files features a bunch of these. In "The Jersey Devil", the famous creature is neither a devil nor a bigfoot, as they seem to angle for a while, but a feral woman. The outlet left for mystery is the woman's male companion, whose body is stolen before the agents (and the audience) can examine it. In both "Irresistible" and "Orison", a serial killer named Donnie Pfaster becomes obsessed with Scully; he is seen on a couple of occasions with a demonic visage, but this could just be his victims' fear warping their perception. In "Our Town", an entire town turns out to be a Cannibal Clan; although there is a slight supernatural edge to the piece — eating human flesh, it turns out, provides you with extended life and youthfulness — it's secondary to the actual threat. In "War of the Coprophages", a cockroach infestation creates mass hysteria about an alien invasion, though the trope is subverted in that there really are robotic alien cockroaches,note And even then, it's still unclear if there is actually more than one alien robotic cockroach and the others are not just the common kind but they have nothing to do with the deaths in the episode. In "Grotesque", a serial killer believes that he is possessed by a demon, though it is implied that this is more down to madness and obsession than genuine supernatural drama. In "Hell Money", an incinerated man turns out to be part of a grim organ-dealing gambling game. "Quagmire", on the other hand, provides a Double Subversion: The prehistoric monster said to inhabit a Georgian lake where people have gone missing recently turns out to be an alligator. Mulder is... disappointed, but just as he leaves the scene, the audience gets to see that there is an actual plesiosaur in the lake. Whether the entire episode is just one big Deconstruction or a vindication of Cryptozoology is anyone's guess. "Home" sees Mulder and Scully tackling a trio of murderous inbred hicks. Done to chilling effect in "Paper Hearts", in which Mulder confronts a child killer who claims to have taken Mulder's sister. The episode ends ambiguously with Mulder's convictions of her alien abduction shaken. Played with in "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", in which there is a were-lizard running around, but said creature is totally harmless and benign. The real threat is a deranged Serial Killer whose murders are attributed to the were-lizard. |
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In the Batman Beyond episode "Out of the Past", the incident that convinces the elderly Bruce Wayne to give a chance to the obviously-quite-fantastical youth-sustaining Lazarus Pits... is when he tries to save a fallen pedestrian from being run over by a truck, only to almost be hit himself because age has slowed him down that much. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Netflix shows in general tend to go for this trope, dealing with threats too mundane for the Avengers to handle, such as Wilson Fisk, Kilgrave, or Cottonmouth. Even the Hand, with their "ninja cult with immortal leaders" schtick, prefer to stick to low-down crime like Corporate Warfare. | |
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Iron Man: One of the beings who has come closest to killing Tony Stark is not any of the costumed criminals, space aliens, gods or monsters he's faced, but Kathy Dare, a mentally unhinged stalker who simply ambushes him in his home when he doesn't have him armor on, and shoots him dead center with a gun. Howard Stark, a billionaire spy / inventor / industrialist dies alongside his wife in a car crash. Some versions of this have been that it was part of a conspiracy, while others are that it really was just a straight-up crash. |
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The Chosen One comes across all kinds of strangeness in Fallout 2, from ghosts to super-mutants to intelligent scorpions. But when (s)he investigates giant scorpion monsters that are kidnapping cattle at night, they turn out to just be a pair of cattle rustlers. | |
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This happens in Parasyte. Shinichi spends most of the series fighting increasingly powerful shapeshifting monsters, but one of his most dramatic confrontations was with a human serial killer. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures would occasionally have episodes revolving around completely mundane criminals, notable examples being "The Mother of All Battles", "Pleasure Cruise", and "The Good Guys" (the latter being one of several A Day in the Limelight eps for The Dark Hand). | |
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Call of Cthulhu normally involves players going up against the creatures and cultists of the Cthulhu Mythos. One adventure, "Westchester" House, was about a "haunted house" where the hauntings were strictly human created, with nothing from the Mythos involved. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Apparently, in a kingdom filled with fantastic monsters, powerful magic users and a nigh unstoppable boar-man using the source of unlimited power, regular chickens (cuccos) are the most terrifying foes to face. | |
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In Far Cry 5, you are aiming to liberate an entire county of rural Montana from an army of deranged cultists armed with an arsenal of military-grade weaponry, during which you might be attacked by a horde of drug-fuelled zombies, fight alongside a grizzly bear and puma, or blow up a giant statue with an attack helicopter. This makes Deputy Hudson's disturbingly detailed story about her partner's murder during a routine traffic stop especially chilling, given that it reflects the sudden and random nature of danger and death in Real Life. | |
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Defenders of the Earth mostly has the Defenders facing alien incursions (with Ming being the usual culprit), as well as technology gone rogue, superhumans who are using their powers for evil, and various demons and other supernatural creatures. However, there are a few episodes where the antagonist is an ordinary human, and the only science fiction and fantasy elements are the futuristic setting and/or at least one out of the Phantom, Mandrake and Jedda using their special powers: In "Return of the Skyband", the antagonists are a group of female space pirates whose leader is the granddaughter of a woman the Phantom's grandfather accidentally killed. This woman now seeks to kill the Phantom in the belief that she will avenge her grandmother by doing so. "100 Proof Highway" revolves around Rick and LJ trying to protect Jedda after she becomes friends with a boy from school who has a serious drinking problem and is putting both himself and Jedda in danger. This is the only episode in the series where there is almost nothing in the story that has any basis in science fiction or fantasy. "The Adoption of Kshin" features a gang of river pirates led by a woman known as the Dragon Queen, who (pre-series) clashed with Kshin's family during the search for a lost city, leading to Kshin losing his parents and being separated from his grandfather. When, years later, Kshin's grandfather continues the search for the city (accompanied by Mandrake, Lothar and Kshin) the Dragon Queen and her stooges follow them. |
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In the horror game Devotion, there are many supernatural dangers present such as possessed mannequins and ghost women, but the biggest horror present throughout the game is Feng Yu gradually slipping apart thanks to the influence of a cult leader. It leads to him abusing his wife and falling apart as a person, and it all eventually culminates in the cult tricking him into killing his own daughter in a misguided attempt to "cure" her anxiety. | |
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In Beasts of Burden, most of the dangers the characters face are supernatural in nature. However, in "Lost", ultimately the source of the problem turns out to be a teenage boy who is secretly a serial animal killer. | |
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A few of Ito's one-shot stories count as well, in a meta sense. While most of his work revolves around bizarre supernatural horrors, a few such as "Scripted Love" and "Bullied" (both from Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection) revolve around all too real horrors like murder, domestic abuse and incest. | |
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Girl Genius: Zola doesn't have the Spark, nor is she a construct, but she is a well-trained fighter who came very close to killing the protagonists. | |
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One episode of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), a series in which heroes and villains alike wield alchemic magic, deals with a comparatively less-flashy cross-dressing serial killer. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters: The episode "Ghost Busted" is all about the 'busters retooling themselves to hunt human criminals, when their ghost-busting campaign (temporarily) goes too well and leaves them without any more to bust. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks has a brief instance where a different risk of the holodeck is revealed—even when it isn't malfunctioning, it's easy to get critically dehydrated in there if you aren't paying attention. | |
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In World War Z, hunger, disease, and panic chaos cause a large number of deaths, possibly as many as the zombies. Years later, the military has learned effective strategies to eliminate zombies, so that the main dangers they face are - again - disease, extremely large and aggressive predatory animals, buildings on the verge of collapsing and traps left behind by the survivors. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series There's often a normal human gangster or corrupt boss behind the villainy of the week. In a lot of cases, they're even more evil than the costumed villains are, like Boyle, the guy who created Mister Freeze by callously trying to pull the plug on his wife. The Running Gag (such as it is) of the episode "The Man Who Killed Batman" lies in the fact both heroes and villains of Gotham (especially The Joker) have a hard time assimilating the fact that the Caped Crusader apparently met his demise to some little fat schlub of a Mook (of the type he pummels by the dozens without breaking a sweat) that got lucky for once in his life. However, Rupert Thorne believes he's playing dumb to muscle into his territory. |
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Masters of Horror: The villains in the episodes "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road", "Pick Me Up", "Family" and "The Washingtonians" are more or less colorful serial killers (colorless, in the case of "Incident"), but human as far as we know. The villain in "Dance of the Dead" is just a shady club owner. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: despite the looming threat of the Others behind the Wall, the worst evils in the novels are constantly committed by human beings driven by greed, ambition, or sheer sadistic pleasure. | |
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One Piece has the Arc Villain of Enies Lobby, Spandam. Unlike most major antagonists, he is weak and incompetent, and relies on Lucci to do most of the fighting for him. However, his cruelty is matched by very few foes, as he has the shipwright of Roger's ship killed, has Franky mutilated and forces him to become a cyborg by running him over with a train, and his abuse of Robin is such that he makes her cry, which not even other villains that make her experience illusions of her deceased loved ones can do. | |
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Tends to happen to you in The World of Darkness if you survive long enough. Hunters in particular are likely to run into mundane serial killers. Of course, this being the World of Darkness, not all those serial killers stay mundane... |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Despite the surplus of dark wizards and magical beasts running aboutnote which become the main focus of the following films, everything ultimately comes down to an ordinary, fundamentalist mother and the son she has spent a lifetime abusing. | |
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In the extended version of The Stand, King spends a short chapter describing the "second wave of deaths" caused by the after-effects of the plague. Unlike the billions of people who die from the super-flu plague, these people die of mundane causes. Like the guy who dies of tetanus because all the doctors who could have treated him have died, or the girl who dies in the car accident when she decides that a lack of people equals a lack of traffic and runs into a stalled car at 100 mph, or the older man who dies of a heart attack because he runs out of his medication, and so on. | |
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Although the Ravenloft setting is best known for its vampires, werebeasts, mad scientists and other horror staples, it's also home to a number of mundanger human killers. One of the Core's bloodiest darklords, the tyrant Vlad Drakov, is an ordinary fighter whose only supernatural quality is an enhanced resistance to magic. The (non-darklord) ruler of Nova Vaasa, Prince Othmar, is likewise a normal human villain. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog ran afoul of all kinds of creatures that belong in the horror genre like aliens, ghosts, demons, mutants, and zombies. The most realistic of them were "merely" criminals with something seriously off about them who would be considered weird on their own by the standards of a more down-to-earth show but were somehow mundane for Courage's experiences, like say a feline Serial Killer who made his first appearance running a motel that fed people to his pet-spiders, a duck Con Man and a Corrupt Corporate Executive who both utilised hypnotism, a Mad Scientist who sent animals to space through his home-made rockets, a burglar with severe memory issues, a Domestic Abuser who manipulates his girlfriend and would gladly punish her for having a best friend note all but said to be her girlfriend and wreck said best friend's life just because she's a cat while he himself is a dog, and perhaps the most disturbing of all, a barber with an unsettling fixation on forceful shaving. | |
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Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: Mastermind quickly becomes one of the biggest threats to Pro-Heroes in all of Japan due to his talent for reading people, even through television and/or secondhand accounts, and exploiting their physical and mental weaknesses. He uses this absurd talent to create criminal plans (mostly murders and robberies) on commission for villains. While the police and the Pro-Heroes working on the Mastermind case assume that the villain in question has some kind of analysis quirk that allows him to pull off these plans, in reality, his secret identity is the Quirkless teen Izuku Midoriya, something he takes full advantage of to remain Beneath Notice. | |
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The occasional episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, the most well-known one probably being "The Long Road"; on the way back to Curious Goods after getting a new artifact, Micki and Johnny are taken captive by inbred brothers, who murder people so they can stuff the corpses and put them on display. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, the Big Bad Yoshikage Kira fends off various enemies having powerful Stands with his own Stand, but he is finally brought down by Hayato: an ordinary, yet very clever and suspicious boy whose father he pulled a Kill and Replace on. Hayato is not even able to see Stands, yet he managed to defeat Kira's "Groundhog Day" Loop ability. To add insult to injury, Kira is also ultimately killed by an ambulance. | |
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The twist ending of Scream of the Wolf reveals that the werewolf’s killings were actually the work of a disturbed hunter and a hunting dog trained to go after humans. | |
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An arc in Todd McFarlane's run on Spider-Man involved a series of gruesome slasher murders in the woods of British Columbia. Spider-Man initially believed the murders to be the work of the monstrous Wendigo, but while investigating alongside Wolverine they learned that the murders were committed by a serial killer. | |
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Grim Prairie Tales: While the other stories in this Anthology Film feature supernatural horror, Deeds' story is solely about the horror that men can inflict upon their fellow man and themselves. | |
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In the Maximum Ride series, the Flock face off against genetically engineered werewolves and other mutant threats. In The Final Warning, a huge source of danger is Angel falling down a chasm in the Arctic and then nearly dying, along with Max and Total, in a blizzard. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: For all the dangers posed by the Orks, Necrons, Aeldari, Drukhari, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults, Tau, Leagues of Votann, and of course Chaos, one of the biggest dangers to the average Imperial citizen is Corrupt Cops. In a bit of a scale of mundanger, the constant threat of Ork or Eldar raids can often become mundane for a specific world, while other threats are scarier. |
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In the world of Splatoon, much of the danger comes from sentient disembodied tentacles, berserk salmon, and a rotating cast of Big Bads, but in I've Got Your Back, Marina suffers a life-threatening injury from lacerating herself on a jagged-ended handrail. | |
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The Punisher counts as this for the criminals and villains of the Marvel universe. Commit a crime in New York and you could be brought in by mutants, aliens or a literal Physical God, or, if you're unlucky, shot to death by a gun-toting vigilante. Parodied when he tries to bring in the Runaways, where he's so convinced that he's the scariest thing in New York that he completely misses the winged monstrosity that flies up behind him and nearly takes his head off. | |
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One of the scariest scenes in the Jurassic Park series comes in The Lost World, and doesn’t involve the dinosaurs at all (although they’re responsible for the situation). Sarah Harding awakens from a concussion inside a trailer dangling off the edge of a cliff, with only the rear windshield separating her from falling hundreds of feet to the sea below— and then the glass begins to crack… | |
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In the Lost Girl episode "Faetal Attraction", a Fury named Olivia finds out that her husband Samir is having an affair with a human named Jenny. Olivia angrily hires Bo to assassinate her. Bo assumes Jenny is just an innocent girl and tries to protect her, but it turns out that she is actually a psycho who kills her lovers and collects their skulls (of which she has dozens). By the time Bo finds out, Jenny has already added Samir's skull to the collection and was completely unaware of his supernatural nature. She then falls in love with Bo and tries to kill them both with a bomb. Bo manages to escape, but the explosion kills Olivia and her two sisters. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Season 5 premiere "The Cutie Map - Part 1" breaks the Sliding Scale of Villain Threat to Equestria with a Town with a Dark Secret (actually a cult) lead by a seemingly ordinary unicorn. Subverted in her second appearance, in which she has become so magically powerful that she goes back in time to Make Wrong What Once Went Right and causes multiple Bad Futures. | |
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Doctor Who: Although several of the earliest episodes had nothing science-fictional beyond the Doctor and his time machine, the only post-'60s story to feature nothing fantastical at all (apart from the presence of the main characters, three of whom are aliens while the fourth is a human from the future, relative to the setting) was the two-part murder mystery "Black Orchid". The relaunched series episode "Midnight", while it still has an Eldritch Abomination alien menace, is far more focused on the people of the episode, who grow more and more paranoid before nearly stretching to murder. What makes it Mundanger is that while the alien presence does manipulate people somewhat, the humans are the ones who are the real threat. A fantastic example of mob mentality. The episode is milked for all the Psychological Horror and Humans Are Bastards it can, a disturbing contrast to the usually quite idealistic program. "Rosa" is a story about a man who wants to Make Wrong What Once Went Right and destroy the civil rights movement in America... because it turns out that even a billion years in the future there's still people who are racists (in the mundane sense, not in the "that guy is from Sycorax Seven" sense), and he is one of them. This actually makes one of the Doctor's companions so sickened that he shoots the guy (with a time displacer gun, but still). The story also takes place in Alabama during The '50s, and because (aside from the Doctor) they are all people of differing ethnicities, it becomes even harder to move around. Other notable Mundanger stories, by form of danger: Political conflict: "An Unearthly Child", "The Reign of Terror". War: "Marco Polo", "The Crusade", "The Myth Makers", "The Highlanders". Religious fanaticism: "The Aztecs", "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve", "A Girl's Best Friend". Historical tyrants: "The Reign of Terror", "The Romans". Organized crime: "The Gunfighters", "The Smugglers". Individual criminals: "The Highlanders", "Black Orchid". Mass hysteria: "Midnight". |
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Misery is about a writer who is kept captive by his deranged fan Annie. | |
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The Yoobiiverse is primarily rife with supernatural and inter-dimensional horrors, as well as crazy supervillains. But in Annabelle (RPG Maker), the horrors are entirely mundane in nature, with the surrealism present due to the nightmares suffered by the titular Annabelle. The overall villain of the series is Jason Sunray, who has no fantastical powers and is just some guy with an apartment, but is an abusive husband and father who molests his own daughter. His abuse is the very reason for all the nightmares and issues that Annabelle struggles with through the series. Projection introduces a gang of school bullies, led by Alpha Bitch Riley, as the antagonists who cause Annabelle great distress and body issues, which are played fully seriously. Exorcism has a religious Orphanage of Fear, The Church, and its fundamentalist owner, The Preacher, who abuses the orphans both physically and mentally, and instills in them a twisted philosophy that their suffering is punishment from God that they can only be released from by repenting. |
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Criminal Minds had some variations on this: the villains are usually serial or spree killers, but one episode had a guy disguise a pragmatic, money-motivated murder by committing other murders, so that it looked the work of a serial killer. Another one had a killer who committed a double murder and tried to disguise it as the work of a cult. "A Shade of Gray" had a serial killer/rapist of children being framed for the murder of a child who was actually killed by the victim's psychopathic elder brother, a boy of 9. "False Flag", which is a deconstruction of conspiracy theories, has the team finding that a case of serial killing in a Conspiracy Theorist group is actually a coincidental accident, an unplanned murder, and a suicide. |
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The Twilight Zone: The 1959 series episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is about a small suburban community tearing itself apart over suspicion that any one of them might be an alien invader in disguise. While it ultimately turns out that aliens were responsible for the events of the episode, it's made clear that they didn't have to fire a shot in order to plunge Maple Street into chaos — the townsfolk's natural paranoia did that for them. The episode's title was referring to the human characters. (The episode was later remade for the 2002 series with the threat being terrorists instead of aliens, but the basic structure, including the nature of The Reveal, was the same.) The 2002 series episode "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" has the supernatural element of an action figure coming to life, but the threat itself is the boy's abusive father. Azoth himself treats the father as just as serious an evil as the supervillains he normally faces, and in the end is unable to defeat him. The father is taken down when the mother and son have enough and kick him out. |
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Brotherhood of the Wolf centers around the true Urban Legend of a giant wolf who terrified France in the 1700's. Throughout the movie, it is believed that the wolf is a supernatural force. As it turns out, it was a pet lion made to look like a monster. | |
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In a Hack/Slash story it at first looked like old villain Father Wrath was back, but it turned out to be a non-powered copycat, whose neck Vlad nonchalantly snaps. | |
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Chrysalis Visits The Hague: Despite revolving around powerful Magocracies, emotion eaters, shapeshifters and mind controllers, the most menacing and crucial dangers the story depicts are things such as racial tension (between ponies, changelings and humans) and war (of the undeclared civil kind), political power play (both foreign & domestic) and the grasping for strategic interests, corruption (also of the non-magical kind) and crippling bureacracy (plus the subsequent inability of lawmakers and peacekeepers to do their jobs) as well as the trappings of due process and the perversion of justice (since this story is a Courtroom Drama first and foremost). | |
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League of Legends: Runeterra is filled to brim with magical and supernatural threats - the Unholy Ground of the Shadow Isles, the all-consuming Void, ancient Ascended mages sealed for millennia and even independent figures like Brand and Evelynn. However, there's also the Noxian empire, which is 'just' a brutal and expansionistic tyranny. Independent villains also include Jhin, who uses only Depleted Phlebotinum Shells and his twisted artistic genius, and Gangplank, who is just a pirate on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Are they taken seriously in the lore? Yes. Are they taken seriously in gameplay? Even more so. | |
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Condemned: Criminal Origins and Condemned 2: Bloodshot likewise contain a whole lot of strange things - hallucinations, serial killers, crazy homeless people, ancient conspiracies responsible for all of the above, and what may very well be magic powers. The single most dangerous thing you encounter across the series, however? A good old-fashioned rabid bear. | |
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Hellblazer: In the arc "The Family Man", something that's gruesomely killing families turns out to just be an old man with a big knife. And the mysterious beastie that's eating people outside the town of Doglick in "Good Intentions" turns out to just be a giant boar. Notably, the titular Family Man scares John more than most supernatural villains in the series. The climax of "Family Man" is also notable for being the one and only time Constantine puts an enemy down with a firearm. Throughout Garth Ennis's run, John could handle supernatural threats (including the the First of the Fallen) with ease; he was completely helpless with dealing with personal (his nicotine addiction or inability to sustain a relationship) or social ills (racism, police/political corruption). |
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is about a little girl who gets lost in the woods. The horror comes from her predicament and her hallucinations. Until the God of the Lost shows up, which the text suggests may not be Trisha's delusion. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The show had a minor villain in the school's lunch lady, who tried to kill everyone in the school by dumping rat poison in their food. Buffy had accidentally acquired telepathy at the time and heard her thoughts, allowing Buffy to stop her. Played across the entire sixth season of the show with Buffy being ineffectually challenged by the Trio, a group of human supervillain wannabes; two of them have minor magical powers, but their leader Warren is just good with computers and machines. Inverted initially as, rather than being more challenging or horrifying than normal monsters, they actually spend most of the season being pretty useless nemeses, until Warren goes off the deep end, murders his ex-girlfriend and shoots Buffy and Tara, killing the latter - an especially noteworthy feat since it was the first time a character from the opening credits had been killed by one of the show's villains. Word of God is that the real Big Bad of that season was Life. Subverted in one Halloween episode, Dawn and a friend go out on Halloween with two boys and end up in the house of a creepy old man whose home is full of old children's toys. There's a shot of him in his kitchen staring at a knife in his hand, and just when you expect him to start slashing he suddenly jerks up with a look of shock and pain on his face and then drops to the ground. Turns out the girl's dates are vampires, and the real Villains Of The Week, and they've just killed him. Also, Joyce died of mundane causes, completely unrelated to the fact that Buffy was the Slayer. Of course, this plot arc led to the heroes finding a more supernatural threat in the hospital, but that doesn't diminish the fact that she still died of an aneurysm, not of any sort of magical creature. This only made it worse for Buffy, since it was something she couldn't fight. In a brief scene in one episode, Buffy breaks up what she thinks is a vampire attack, only to discover it's "only" a mugging. She remarks on how quaint it is. |
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Service with a Smile is a RWBY fanfic, in which Jaune's transcripts were rejected. Dejected, he opens a coffee shop. Despite his haunt being popular among the huntsmen and huntresses of Beacon and Vale's criminal underworld, Jaune's biggest threat is competition from a large coffee chain, and in one chapter he gets robbed and pummeled to a pulp by a bunch of common thieves. | |
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Succubus & Hitman: Main character Gamou Shouya is a "proxy hitman" for a demon named Armelina, who hunts and kills evildoers so she can devour their souls. His Myth Arc targets are all connected to a yakuza gumi that has been delving into occult magic, which also brings him into conflict with the Holy War Church that hunts evildoers in much the same way as him. However, he spends the first couple chapters hunting much more mundane fare, such as a Serial Killer attacking neighborhood girls with a hammer whom he saves his sister Riri from, and takes a Breather Episode after the fight with the Aragami family to kill a man who robbed and murdered an elderly couple with a knife. | |
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Enforced in Tales from the Loop; the game's Sanity Meter (which also works as the character's hit points) rules do not discriminate between supernatural and mundane reasons for stress; a Kid Hero can be just as easily pushed to the Despair Event Horizon by bullying at school or dismissive parents as an attack by robo-saurs from the 34th Hell-dimension. | |
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In the Charmed episode "Sight Unseen", a stalker turns out to be a human woman and not a demonic threat after all. There's a few other instances as well, like Barbas hiring the mob to kill the Charmed Ones ("Ms. Hellfire") or Prue being framed for murder by a random psychopath ("Just Harried"). Played with in "Dream Sorcerer": The Monster of the Week is an ordinary human with no magical powers, but he's using advanced technology to perform a magic-esque trick where he enters people's dreams and murders them via Your Mind Makes It Real. In "Awakened", Piper briefly dies not because of some supernatural threat but due to a disease (specifically Oroya fever, an early stage of Carrion's disease) that she picked up from a bug bite. |
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In all the episodes of Merlin (2008), only one episode has dealt with a threat that is purely non-magical in nature: the first season's "The Moment of Truth", in which the gang travels to Merlin's village in order to fight off rampaging bandits. Since then, there have been a couple of mundane villains, but they've armed themselves with magical weapons and tools. | |
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Team Neighborhood plays it for laughs. For all the overdramatic reactions the mercs have to being hit by snowballs, the first casualty of the snowball fight in Frozen Fortress is caused by RED Demoman passing out drunk outside and freezing to death. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Not What He Seems", The Heavy of the plot isn't some kind of Eldritch Abomination or bizarre creature, it's government agents who are intent on arresting Stan. There is also a less mundane issue, in the form of the unstable portal under Stan's house, but it doesn't get focused on that much until the last few minutes of the episode. | |
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