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So you're living in The Unmasqued World, have the aliens out in the streets, vampires out of the coffin, etc. etc.
That has been accomplished through The Reveal, in a flashy and dramatic fashion. However, people just go on.
The Reveal, as dramatic as it was, leads to no worse thing than maybe a little Fantastic Racism or a Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?.
No crazy military group will hunt you for your powers, or try to replicate them.
No religions will spontaneously form or be destroyed as the Revelation of You goes around.
No political leaders hurry out to make contacts, pass laws, etc.
No scientists tear their hair out in frustration, spew around theories and ask you to Just Think of the Potential!. Nobody will sneak in at night and try to steal your Transformation Trinket or Clingy MacGuffin to be a little super. And Alice and Bob still go to school, stay out of trouble, keep their heads down and maybe join the "I love aliens!" fanclub.
No matter how widespread the information, nobody cares. Things slip quickly and quietly into Mundane Fantastic, with little ruckus.
See also Reed Richards Is Useless, Inferred Holocaust, No Endor Holocaust, World of Weirdness, No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus, and Law of Conservation of Normality. Compare Extra-Strength Masquerade, when the Masquerade doesn't even break despite events that should break it. Compare Like Reality, Unless Noted, where everything sure seems like real life until someone mentions something that couldn't possibly exist in real life.

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Averted in Watchmen, where the global consequences of the existence of Dr. Manhattan are numerous - notably, the existence of various gizmos made possible by his synthesizing vast stocks of rare elements or that he invented himself. Politically, because "the Superman exists and he's American"note In fact, according to the "extra" material at the end of each issue, that's the modified quote. The original was "God exists, and he's American... and if that doesn't scare you, you're not thinking hard enough"., the USA has enjoyed decades of strategic superiority, which has made the Communist bloc incredibly paranoid.
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In Wonder Woman (1987) Diana gets some near fanatical backlash from fundamentalist religious groups, because her history and parentage (she's Ares' granddaughter and regularly fights him) indicate that Greek mythology has a basis in reality. Some high school Wonder Woman fan clubs get forcibly disbanded as pagan cults by paranoid parents and "concerned citizens".
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Ranma ½: Most people in Furinkan know about Ranma's curse. That means they know magic exists, for one. They talk about it as if they were discussing the weather. You may wonder why the government or army is not interested in groups of One Man Armies running around and regularly damaging buildings - especially since there's a major JGSDF base in Nerima.
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Initially Arrow in the first few seasons presented the idea that superheroes and supervillains (and later super-powered humans) were a new thing in that setting, which was mostly identical to our world save for a few geographic differences, with the origin of the Flash being the open introduction of people with superpowers and everyone befuddled by the concept. Go forward a few more seasons in the Arrowverse and it's revealed there was at least one costumed supervillain operating two decades previously, that an official team of superheroes fought on behalf of the Allies in World War II, that magic existed with its own community of users, and that the US government (at least) was well aware of the existence of hostile aliens since the 1950s. And yet none of this changed the world in any significant way until Oliver Queen returned to Starling City and put on a green hood.
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Messed around a bit with in Guyver. After X-Day when Kronos unveils themselves and take over the world there are major shake-ups at high levels of government and the protagonists are forced further into hiding since their pursuers no longer have to worry keeping up the Masquerade. However for the average person on the street who is not a member of La Résistance the only real difference is recruiting ads and posters and a Zoanoid Boy Band.
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: This is revealed to be the invoked point of the ludicrously expensive Big Shell; it was branded with all the red flags of a madman designer who worshiped a global terrorist, while its control center is a superintelligent AI that has been trained to micromanage all the anxiety and suspicion of living on and/or around something so insane. When the Shell crashes into New York City, the AI is so good at its job that people go about their daily lives, completely ignoring the giant oil rig / war machine hybrid that has rammed itself straight into a museum, and it does this while it's high on a computer virus. Deeming the project a success, the conspiracy applies the AI to pretty much anything the conspiracy wants to keep under wraps, and the world goes insane.
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Averted in The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries. The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that considers vampires legally people (read: it's illegal to hunt them down and kill them — though that doesn't stop people from doing so and using vamp blood as a potent drug). The first book mentions that the citizens of Afghanistan ripped their vampire spokeswoman into bloody shreds. And there's The Brotherhood of the Sun — an anti-vamp Christian sect. This may have something to do with the fact that they eat people.
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In Air Force One, the titular plane is fired upon by Kazakhstani-piloted MiGs. That's a declaration of war right there. Presumably Washington and the UN are going to be having a little talk once the (former) Liberty 2-4 gets back.
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Power Rangers looks like a case of no global consequences, with things exactly like real life despite Earth suffering monster attacks since 1993 and making formal First Contact in '98. But keep in mind that the government debuted their own Ranger team to deal with paranormal threats in 2000, Ranger tech was used to create clean energy in 2019, and by 2025 aliens will have settled on earth and there'll be Space Police to deal with alien criminals.
There are also hints that morphing technology is out there for those who want it, even if only a very few can get it (a private corporation studied Ranger tech in 2001; the 2007 team was publicly backed by a billionaire with his own company; and the 2008 mentor got morphers "from a guy who knew a guy who had an uncle", which to some suggests a black market). They're still lowballing the consequences by a long shot, but they're there.
Of course, part of the reason it can get away with this is because some series that do have undeniable global effects (Power Rangers RPM had a robot apocalypse, and Power Rangers Dino Charge ended with time travel shenanigans where the dinosaurs never went extinct) are turned into parallel dimensions that don't affect the "main" universe.
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Averted quite nicely in the fourth volume of Mirage's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. The series starts out with the Utroms, aliens who have appeared in the story before, coming to Earth and offering the planet a chance to join the larger galactic community. The narration describes how the world reacts to the offer and knowledge that aliens exist. Among other things, religions try to fit the aliens' existence into their doctrines, several regimes are overthrown, and the stock market is thrown into chaos. There're more mundane consequences, such as a vicious bidding war between toy companies for the right to produce Utrom plushies. The story resumes after the governments of the world have mostly managed to smooth things out, but the way society has changed to accommodate the aliens is a major part of the series from that point on.
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In Turning Red, after the existence of people who turn into giant red pandas is revealed to the world after the climax, nothing significant changes for Mei and her family other than her family temple becoming more popular because of her panda form.
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Both averted and played straight in Pandora's Star. Humanity has changed irretrievably by the time the main story begins, and the general population is aware of this. The alien antagonists, however, are taken over by a single alien mind, which nukes the competing aliens and is oblivious or indifferent to the fact it has caused a nuclear winter on its home world, carrying out plans for an invasion as if nothing has changed.
Primes care nothing about any life than theirs. They eradicated all other life on their home world, including plants, that isn’t Prime. The introduction to their world mentions they use radioactive jets to land spaceships and that newly hatched Primes have neurological damage and radiation burns. A nuclear winter, if it didn’t already exist, would make little difference.
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The Stargate-verse didn't have the opportunity to end the SGC's masquerade (the reveal having been slated for the movie Stargate Revolution, which ended in Development Hell) but a few alternate universes visited in Stargate SG-1 avert the trope. In "The Road Not Taken", the United States has been under under martial law for three years due to widespread riots after the president revealed the existence of aliens and the Stargate program during Anubis' attack on Antarctica.
In the main universe, the masquerade seems to have been implausibly durable, since by the beginning of Stargate Atlantis (concurrent with season 8 of SG-1) there's more than 2 dozen nations and tens of thousands of personnel directly involved in the Stargate program and Atlantis expedition. Even accounting for the possibility that not every national government that has some of its citizens represented in the Atlantis expedition was actually informed and instead it was just carefully-vetted individual scientists from those nations being invited, that's still a secret that's been spread far too widely to plausibly avoid getting leaked. And at a minimum, the governments of all 5 permanent member nations of the UN Security Council (US, UK, France, Russia and China) are in on the secret by this point.
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Averted in the manga Watashi No Messiah Sama. Once the protagonist is forced to do The Reveal about his powers in front of the media and military and declare that he would go against the world if he had to, things get chaotic very quickly. His school sides with him against the world and secedes from Japan, declaring independence with armies of tanks and ninjas led by a eerily hyper-competent teacher, while different nations send in special ops forces to wipe the protagonist and his companions out, which results in a secondary character getting shot and dying, causing her love interest (the so-far unawakened Big Bad) to perform the biggest Face–Heel Turn of the series, propelling the main plot to its finale.
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Averted in Worldwar: War of Equals. The huge amount of defense spending causes a recession and the world's geography and politics changes rapidly and this is all before the invasion. During the war, many oil processing plants on land are destroyed by Race airstrikes and the prices of oil skyrocket.
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If you start reading Shortpacked! without reading the previous works set in the same shared universe, you'd completely miss out on the fact that Shortpacked! takes place in a world where aliens have been publicly revealed to exist, it's public knowledge that the US government has reversed engineered alien technology including giant robots and spaceships, and where just a short time before Shortpacked! starts, Earth fought a war against the Martians who wanted to Kill All Humans.
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The Disney Ducks Comic Universe will basically just use any crazy idea, but none of it tends to have real consequences. In particular, advanced space travel is usually possible if you just spend some money on it, but nobody bothers to exploit this for either research or even profit unless Scrooge McDuck happens to get some crazy idea for one story. Gyro Gearloose and other Gadgeteer Geniuses can build just about anything else too, but nobody bothers to use that for anything much either. Meanwhile, the Mickey Mouse Comic Universe has a slightly milder case, because Mickey does occasionally get sent on high-tech adventures For Science!
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And Shine Heaven Now: While Erin has admitted that she made the final story arc a Time Skip specifically so she didn't have to work out the ramifications of humanity finding out vampires and the supernatural exist, she has confirmed that world militaries now have anti-vampire units and first responders are trained on how to deal with supernatural problems. Conversely, though, because of the devastation the Millennium attacks caused, vampire and zombie media don't get a resurgence because it's no longer seen as appropriate for fantasy fodder. There is also mention in the final arc about the U.S. and Brazilian governments arguing over who has jurisdiction to handle a rogue dragon.
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In the final episode of Terror in Resonance, Nine exposes the Japanese government's construction of an illegal nuclear bomb and detonates it in the skies above Tokyo. In the one year Time Skip afterwards, there is absolutely no hint of any global reaction to this incident.
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Steven Universe: An odd case. The series is rife with Alternate History (some of which may or may not have been influenced by the gems) and subtle differences to the real world (geography included) if you pay close attention, but overall the world is mostly similar to our own and the general course of human history remains mostly unchanged by the events of the gem war (the U.S. still exists for example). Even within Beach City, the gems' home base, people seem to barely know that they exist, and apparently there have been no attempts to excavate sites formed during the days of gem colonization.
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Bright takes place in a world where fantastical creatures like orcs, elves, dwarves and etc., have existed side by side with humanity since the dawn of time. This is also a world where things turned out the same way as ours with at least Christianity still existing (Los Angeles was founded by Catholic missionaries and several characters drops several "Jesus Christ" swears) alongside widely different religious beliefs like the Orcish faith (which has traits of Christianity and druidic faiths cobbled together). Movies like Shrek and historical events such as the Mexican-American War are also referenced and the Crips exist despite orcs being an oppressed minority.
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Averted in Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles. After the Masquerade is nuked, a Fantastic Racist group forms against them, and lawmakers try to figure out just where a Gargoyle stands in regard to the law (including a memorable case where Goliath is arrested and brought to trial and his lawyer asks him to try to get off on the grounds that he's not human).
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Quietly touched on in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids trilogy. In the final scene of the first film, the family gathers around the table to partake of an enlarged turkey dinner, and there is talk of eliminating world hunger. However, the second film shows the attempt to perfect an enlargement ray, although Wayne is now part of an official lab. The direct-to-video third film may hold the key to this apparent Canon Discontinuity: Wayne was forbidden to use the shrink ray again, under orders from a committee of the FDA and his wife Diane, despite now being president of Szalinski Labs. Let's apply some Fridge Logic: either the calorie count of enlarged food remains identical, or some other side effect of using the shrink ray as an enlarger showed up in a way that threatened the food supply and somehow ruined that dinner.
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Averted in The Uniques, where public knowledge of the existence of people with superpowers caused the Cold War to last several years longer than it did in the real world, and resulted in a superpowered terrorist attack that wiped out most of New York City in 1992. The America presented in The Uniques also seems somewhat more conservative; in this universe, the Republicans either held onto or re-took the White House in the nineties.
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The second season of Darker than Black shows absolutely no consequence blowing the lid on the existence of the Contractors. The general public are somewhat nervous of them, but the can still blend in comfortably with society. Government agencies still use Contractors and Dolls as pawns; the only difference is that they can acknowledge them in their diplomatic dealings with each other.
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Averted in the last Animorphs book. For starters, two years after the end of the war Jake is hired by the UN to train morph-capable paramilitary units to combat terrorism against alien tourists.
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Avenger of Steel: Averted. Superman is shown to have a definite effect on the world other than supervillain battles.
Using his advanced technology and superpowers, he able to track criminals in all sorts of ways, from the pedophiles and mobsters on the internet to using his super hearing to stop shootings. It gets to the point where the smarter criminals have to start adapting their methods to a world with Superman.
Superman's intervention in conflicts, and fear thereof, caused wars and military excursions around the world to grind to a halt. Natasha notes that it's the closest Earth's ever come to world peace.
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In Ben 10, there are aliens — especially Ben's — all over the news, but besides the established Men in Black, The Plumbers, and one task force, humanity seems to not care that there are other sentient lifeforms out there. The only scientist to ever go near Ben is the crazy one who wants the Omnitrix. As does every alien and their grandmothers — but no humans. That said the introduction of the Forever Knights began to change this, as they demonstrated many humans were against aliens, and as future seasons debuted their role increased and revealed a whole alien/human conflict conspiracy ongoing since ancient times. By Ben 10: Omniverse aliens have integrated into society and most of the impact has been had already.
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The box-office bomb Stealth depicts Hollywood-hero pilot Ben Gannon and his unruly UCAV friend EDI fly into Russian airspace where three of the country's Su-37s attack them for it, but that's as close to global consequences as it gets. When not only do the duo toast all three Russian pilots on THEIR OWN SOIL, but then rescue their token-love interest pilot Kara Wade from NORTH KOREA by gunning down a bunch of N. Korean soldiers...once again, on their own soil. Does Russia declare another Cold War that actually goes ahead with the Nukes, with N. Korea joining in turning it into WWIII? Nope!
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Very few people in minus. seem to care that there is an omnipotent child running around causing strange things to happen— even after her actions result in aliens and the animal kingdom declaring war on the human race which is only stopped when said omnipotent child summons a giant octopus which destroys a city. After minus accidentally sends everyone to the spirit world, this trope is averted, as the smartest people who ever lived get together and force her to sort things out. No one ever gets that upset because minus doesn't want them to.
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Wonder Woman: In "Judgment from Outer Space", the world is visited by a confirmed alien who demonstrates his powers and meets with world leaders such as President Roosevelt. But once Wonder Woman beats up a few Nazis and rescues everyone from their clutches, the very existence of extraterrestrial life drops out of everyone's sight.
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In The House of Night series, vampyres ostensibly suffer immense Fantastic Racism, but most popular actors, singers, and others in the entertainment industry are vampyres. Vampyres also were many historical figures, who were apparently just as influential as they were in real life. Nor do the governments have any problem with the vampyres keeping their own government, setting up Houses of Night in various towns (even though regular people supposedly hate the presence of vampyres), and automatically having all fledglings legally emancipated- although these things are partly explained by both sides' desire for segregation. Also, even though vampyrism is supposed to occur because of junk DNA and a hormonal imbalance, there's no talk of scientists studying vampyres to find ways to prevent regular people from turning into them or reduce the risk of fledglings dying horrible deaths.
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Left Behind: The hand of God reaching down to spare Israel from the entire military might of both Russia and Ethiopia before the series begins, changes nobody's mind about religion, leaving most of the world to be Left Behind when the rapture comes. When a third of the world's population disappears (including all the children), everybody who's been Left Behind continues on as if everything were normal. All the massive changes that later follow to the world's economy, religions, and spiritual structure come about as a result of the Antichrist's manipulations, which have no earthly cause/effect relationship to the Rapture event. Yeah, there are people who don't like this series very much. Similar criticisms can be leveled against Jack Chick's versions of the Rapture and Tribulation.
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Child of the Storm plays with this trope, as it is quite clear that the events of the story have a significant effect on the real world, but Harry is largely insulated from it by his father and the other Avengers. However, this insulation only goes so far with a number of factions looking to use Harry and other newly emerging superhumans as part of the renewed Lensman Arms Race, spurred on by the fact that HYDRA - until chapter 75 - largely manage to evade the Avengers and SHIELD and strike with impunity, doing so with pinpoint precision owing to how deep the HYDRA infiltration of SHIELD goes (once they're found, however, they are monumentally screwed). Vague mention is also made of some people's renewed worship of Norse Gods, despite both Thor and Loki saying, 'no, really, we're not interested', while at least one atheist (Carol Danvers) has shifted to Nay-Theist. So the consequences aren't so much non-existent as... deferred.
Completely averted at the end of the fic. After the Final Battle and near-destruction of the world, it's mentioned that governments everywhere are stepping up their defense programmes, both mundane and supernatural. The Chinese, Americans, Russians, French, Germans, Brazilians and Israelis are all working on getting helicarriers, and probably India, Japan and South Africa too.
And though the resurgence of the Red Room in the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, only takes place across about twelve days, the social and political effects are felt around the world, and probably will be for years to come.
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In the world of Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., ten years after the Big Uneasy transformed a significant fraction of humanity into supernatural creatures and the dead started returning from the grave, society is pretty much back to normal. Yes, Dan's home city now boasts its own Unnatural Quarter, a few hate groups have changed their branding to add "anti-monster" to their roster of bigotries, and Dan's partner Robin has built her legal career around defending Unnaturals' civil rights, but the biggest overall social change mentioned is that the Goth subculture has disappeared among mundane humans, as "spooky" is now too mainstream for ex-Goths' tastes.
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Of course, part of the reason it can get away with this is because some series that do have undeniable global effects (Power Rangers RPM had a robot apocalypse, and Power Rangers Dino Charge ended with time travel shenanigans where the dinosaurs never went extinct) are turned into parallel dimensions that don't affect the "main" universe.
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This is also the approach taken during the first few volumes of The Ultimates. Thor might be a god, he might be insane, and/or he might just be a super soldier.
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In DearS, when the eponymous aliens arrive in Japan, they make quite a stir...but that's because they're hot. They have advanced technology, but none of it percolates out into the general public, and they smoothly integrate into society without so much as a ripple.
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RealityCheck's Nyxverse averts this trope in regards to the original fanfic. Specifically, Alicornundrum shows that much of the world suffered from two weeks of The Night That Never Ends on one side and Endless Daytime on the other, and the political fallout from the need to hold someone responsible.
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Averted in True Blood, based on The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries novels (see above). The mockumentary detailing the events leading to the series mentions that within hours of vampires revealing themselves, many world cities were engulfed in panic and rioting.
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Bob & Jean were afraid for Molly the Monster's safety after she was born in a lab accident, so they sent her to live with Jean's Uncle on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When they realized she was unhappy there, they let her come back home, darn the consequences... and there don't seem to have been many consequences. Most of the townsfolk concluded she's a relative of Bob's who is deformed and hairy, but otherwise harmless. Well, they did form a small angry mob to hunt her down once, but that was Galatea's fault.
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In the main universe, the masquerade seems to have been implausibly durable, since by the beginning of Stargate Atlantis (concurrent with season 8 of SG-1) there's more than 2 dozen nations and tens of thousands of personnel directly involved in the Stargate program and Atlantis expedition. Even accounting for the possibility that not every national government that has some of its citizens represented in the Atlantis expedition was actually informed and instead it was just carefully-vetted individual scientists from those nations being invited, that's still a secret that's been spread far too widely to plausibly avoid getting leaked. And at a minimum, the governments of all 5 permanent member nations of the UN Security Council (US, UK, France, Russia and China) are in on the secret by this point.
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Averted pretty handily in Cannon God Exaxxion. The Riofaldians integrate themselves into Earth culture and their impressive technology revolutionizes humanity... to the point that when they reveal their plans for invasion, they control almost all of the technology on the planet.
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When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, a group of Ordinary High School Students with an addition of one Chuunibyou randomly receive godlike magical powers. Their lives are forever altered, they are no longer 'humans', but gods. Together they control the elements, the act of creation and time itself. There's nothing they cannot accomplish, acquire or do — But, does it really change anything? Well, Not really. They cast the Phlebotinum aside and carry on with their high school club activities. This is helped by the fact that one of the characters is trying to keep them Locked Out of the Loop from the superpower battle royale the best he can.
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X-Men: Apocalypse: The previous film took place during the Nixon administration. It's interesting to note that the "new" timeline in 1983 has Reagan as the U.S. President and a Germany that remains divided into West and East. Despite all of the events in 1973, the Cold War seems unaffected. Not even Apocalypse himself could change things: he launched all the world's nuclear weapons into space, but by the end of the movie, the countries are rebuilding their arsenals.
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The end of the YuYu Hakusho manga screws continuity in favor of allowing the main characters an easy commute, and (due to Koenma's coup) opens the borders between the human and demon dimensions, relying on Enki's noninterference laws to keep everything smooth, and the Masquerade is also abandoned, though it takes a while for humans to start believing in the demon population. This goes quite calmly. One of the reasons it goes calmly is that Togashi retconned that demons aren't actually prone to violent crime, and all the proof that they were was due to Enma Senior's propaganda. This despite the fact that they come form a feudal society where Asskicking Leads to Leadership is the only thing anyone recognizes, and a lot of them have humans as their natural diet. On the other hand, dispossessed political elements within the spirit world stage a terrorist coup in response and nearly blow up the world with a laser cannon.
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Totally averted in Torchwood: Miracle Day when the entire human race stops dying, but still age, get sick, and suffer bodily harm while remaining fully alive with any injury, even decapitation, unless incinerated. Not only has the entire political climate changed, a complete overhaul of the medical care system is in the works since the very definition of life has changed. It eventually culminates in a second Great Depression and draconian methods of Population Control, namely throwing comatose, brain-dead or undesirable people into ovens. If anything, the global changes may be happening faster than they would in reality, though it's hard to judge without a real-world example.
Ironically, there are also global consequences once the Miracle ends, when all the people who should've died during it (besides those who've had the opportunity to heal) die at once. Jack points out that most funeral homes are scheduling at least ten funerals every hour due to the "backlog".
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