Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Weirdness Censor

 Weirdness Censor
type
FeatureClass
 Weirdness Censor
label
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor
page
WeirdnessCensor
 Weirdness Censor
comment
In some universes, ignoring the antics of the story goes beyond the Bystander Syndrome. It seems that with your average person, their attention span is wholly taken up with the gray mundanity of their everyday lives. They simply refuse to see anything too strange.
Sometimes invoked for seriousness, such as an explanation in which exploits go on ignored by most people... but often, this is just one part of the Rule of Funny. Magic battles, an Alien Invasion, and all other sorts of supernatural happenings often happen right in front of people's faces... and yet they merely glance out the window, and go back to their morning coffee, sometimes either not noticing it or just saying some excuse.
If it's ignored because they're incapable of seeing it, it's Invisible to Normals. Compare Bavarian Fire Drill, which exploits similar psychological tendencies. Contrast the Fisher Kingdom, where the world itself is the censor. Frequently Pink Elephants are invoked when the only evidence of the character's having drunk anything is what he claims to have seen that is being dismissed as a hallucination.
One of many things that enables the Masquerade, especially its extra strength variant, and allows Muggle characters to act like real people despite the extraordinary things that go on in their universe every day. When it's an actual power, becomes subject to You Can See Me? And they, in fact, can be seen By the Eyes of the Blind.
This can sometimes lead to Artificial Atmospheric Actions where NPCs merely treat all sorts of odd stuff as an everyday occurrence. Can also lead to the protagonists, especially if they're a small group or completely isolated from others that can see through the effect, seriously wondering if they're the ones who are seeing things wrong, or just insane.
Possibly overlaps with Supernatural-Proof Father.
Compare and overlap Unusually Uninteresting Sight, where something blatantly looks out of place to the viewer, but nobody notices (or cares to notice), and also Fantastically Indifferent, where the Muggles do acknowledge the weirdness, but are unfazed by it. Compare with Seen It All, where someone has simply experienced too many weird things to be fazed by them anymore. Also see Apathy Killed the Cat, where certain aspects of the strange thing in question raise no deeper questions in anyone, even if they acknowledge it.
Compare Perception Filter, which causes people to overlook something regardless of whether or not it's "weird".
 Weirdness Censor
fetched
2024-04-05T00:38:23Z
 Weirdness Censor
parsed
2024-04-05T00:38:23Z
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to AIs: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to AncientTradition: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to BigBad: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to Brainwashing: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to CassandraTruth: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ClanOfTheCaveBear: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ConspiracyTheory: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ContinuityNod: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to DarkMagicalGirl: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to DreamWeaver: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to EldritchAbomination: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to EldritchLocation: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to FailedASpotCheck: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to FakeUltimateHero: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to FridgeBrilliance: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to HalloweenSpecial: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to HumanoidAbomination: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to HumongousMecha: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to InvisibleToNormals: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to LockedOutOfTheLoop: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to Masquerade: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to MissionControl: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to MouseWorld: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to Muggles: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to NoPeripheralVision: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to NonPlayerCharacter: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to Pretear: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to Retcon: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to RobotGirl: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to SecretSecretKeeper: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to TalkingAnimal: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to TheAdjectivalSuperhero: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to TheUnmasquedWorld: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to TheyKilledKennyAgain: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to TooDumbToLive: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to WordOfGod: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to WorldGoneMad: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to WrongContextMagic: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to lampshadehanging: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingComment
Dropped link to playedfordrama: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Weirdness Censor
processingUnknown
Pretear
 Weirdness Censor
processingUnknown
ClanOfTheCaveBear
 Weirdness Censor
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Weirdness Censor / int_10ddd3d5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_10ddd3d5
comment
In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the Hyrule Castle townsfolk do not notice, or at least have nothing to say about, their castle being taken over by an evil warlord and his moblin army, which is then encased in a crystalline force field, and especially not right after said force field is broken by a giant glowing spider demon. They do however react when the player's wolf form runs around town. The ignoring (or being completely blind to) the barrier is lampshaded by one character.
 Weirdness Censor / int_10ddd3d5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_10ddd3d5
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_10ddd3d5
 Weirdness Censor / int_11859033
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_11859033
comment
Narbonic partially subverts this by showing that, while Dave Davenport's brother Bill is unable to see such things as talking gerbils or dancing androids, Dave proves equally blind to Bill's flaws as compared to himself, determined to see Bill as having a better life than he does. Also, when the clone-Dave is under the effect of the Mad Science cure, he too is affected, even while in the midst of a running battle.
Elaborated on in the sequel, Skin Horse. Although censors don't appear to be universal even among the regular population (the filename story suggests about 20% of the population), those who have one make for good employees or middle-men in secret projects: one is guaranteed not to spill the beans when one is not aware there are any beans to be spilled.
There's one point where Sweetheart sings Gilbert & Sullivan in front of two Reality Blind people to make a point.
As of the end of "Sure As You're Born", the proportion of the population who are reality blind has gone from 20% to "nearly everyone", which subsequently turns out to be the work of A-Sig, who have the aforementioned Cure.
 Weirdness Censor / int_11859033
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_11859033
featureConfidence
1.0
 Narbonic (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_11859033
 Weirdness Censor / int_136342f1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_136342f1
comment
An unusual example is in Mort, where the title character changes history by saving the life of a princess doomed to die, and everyone in the kingdom except a wizard find themselves unconsciously acting as though she had died, and feeling upset and nauseous when confronted with the fact that she still lives, then revert back to believing her dead once away from her.
 Weirdness Censor / int_136342f1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_136342f1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mort
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_136342f1
 Weirdness Censor / int_157916fb
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_157916fb
comment
Meanwhile Black Crusade has the mutation "Aura of Normalcy", which makes the character appear completely mundane. Even if said character is a 8 foot tall Chaos Space Marine in Powered Armor carrying a missile launcher and has wings, is phasing in and out of reality and has a flaming skull straight out of Ghost Rider.
 Weirdness Censor / int_157916fb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_157916fb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Black Crusade (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_157916fb
 Weirdness Censor / int_15bd4cf4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_15bd4cf4
comment
The Weirdness Censor appears to have been (mostly) left out of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. When said rodents decide to have a talk with the townspeople, it takes a few minutes for most of the humans to accept the existence of talking rats.
 Weirdness Censor / int_15bd4cf4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_15bd4cf4
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_15bd4cf4
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b575f28
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b575f28
comment
In Digimon Ghost Game, the series takes place 20 Minutes into the Future with holograms being commonplace, and as a result the protagonists are able to take their mons out in public with bystanders assuming this to be the case. However it's Zig-Zagged with hostile Digimon, as the public clearly recognizes them as abnormal but don't have another frame of reference, giving them the nickname "hologram ghosts". In previous series, the protagonists would get by through having them pretend to be stuffed animals or cosplaying kids in public with the exception of Digimon Data Squad where they could simply be stored in their Digivices.
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b575f28
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b575f28
featureConfidence
1.0
 Digimon Ghost Game
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_1b575f28
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b5eec6e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b5eec6e
comment
The military in Sheep in the Big City try to enforce this, not even bothering to hide their giant top secret military bases and helicopters, but instead just putting up signs telling people to ignore them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b5eec6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_1b5eec6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sheep in the Big City
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_1b5eec6e
 Weirdness Censor / int_1bdeba5a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_1bdeba5a
comment
X-Men:
For a while, Professor X would use his telepathic powers to erase the memories of local citizenry. Yes, he has done this to save lives, which is fine, but he used to do this just to simply act as a Weirdness Censor and keep the X-Men secretive. Professor Xavier is a jerk.
Issue 75 of the adjectiveless X-Men series, set before the X-Men's headquarters became known to the world, has two cops talk about how the local wind produces weird audio effects occasionally. What they don't realize is the wind is actually giant robots attacking the mansion, demon attacks, the Juggernaut plowing through half the ground floor... things of that nature. To further drive home the point, an X-Man who falsely thought he was out of his gourd is whisked away from confessing to the very same cops, causing confusion.
 Weirdness Censor / int_1bdeba5a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_1bdeba5a
featureConfidence
1.0
 X-Men (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_1bdeba5a
 Weirdness Censor / int_1cc09117
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_1cc09117
comment
In Bleach, any fighting done in the mortal realm is invisible to most of the human population, but despite that there are a few things that still should stick out. Whenever a human who can see spirits addresses one of them it looks like they're talking to thin air to a normal bystander. When a human turns into a Shinigami their spirit leaves their body, while most Shinigami compensate and have a temporary soul inhabit their body, Ichigo tends to just leave his body lying around out in the open. Nobody at all ever seems to notice either of these events until the first movie, which is roughly 100 episodes into the continuity, and it's hardly mentioned again, if ever at all.
Somewhat explained with all the level of Brainwashing the Shinigami pull off. Also, there's another "substitute soul-reaper" there, as well as is reasonable to think the Technological Department, considering Karakura-town (or whatever) is the set of many, MANY altercations, may have devised something to make the townspeople unaware to what's going on under their noses. Even Ichigo was close to having his memories removed, Orihime had the process applied on her, Ichigo's sisters etc. At this level, It's surprising more of the characters don't die of brain cancer...
Averted when they handle Ichigo leaving his body lying around in one of the movies. Exactly as Rukia said would happen, someone found his body and some paramedics were trying to restart his heart.
Although, there are occasions where the fights actually caused damage to nearby structures, which is hardly ever mentioned. The only times it's mentioned is in the first episode, where a Hollow breaks the glass on a nearby building, (only Ichigo can see what did it). Also when Shinji fights Grimmjow, he mentions that their fight is breaking the roofs of houses and asks him to be more careful.
It's implied by Yumichika that Soul Society actually factors in this sort of damage into their missions- when the battle against Grimmjow's Fraccion seems to be getting more heated than expected, he calls up Mission Control telling them to set a 'spatial freeze' around the battling shinigami and add repairs to the mission budget.
 Weirdness Censor / int_1cc09117
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_1cc09117
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bleach (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_1cc09117
 Weirdness Censor / int_1ff419c5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_1ff419c5
comment
Kingdom Hearts II: When investigating the Seven Wonders of Twilight Town during the prologue, Pence comes up with "sensible" conclusions that totally ignore some of the seemingly impossible events that Roxas witnesses. Justified since he's a simulation created by DiZ, who's trying to cover up the fact that Roxas is in a computer.
 Weirdness Censor / int_1ff419c5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_1ff419c5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_1ff419c5
 Weirdness Censor / int_2179055c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2179055c
comment
Exaggerated in Cromartie High School, where the majority of the school doesn't bat an eye that among the student body is a Tin-Can Robot, a gorilla and a man who may or may not be Freddie Mercury. Mechazawa (the aforementioned Tin-Can Robot) in particular is especially odd in that not only do most people not even realize that he's a robot, but Mechazawa himself doesn't seem to realize it, either.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2179055c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2179055c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Cromartie High School (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2179055c
 Weirdness Censor / int_21ab2cb9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_21ab2cb9
comment
Present in Thunderstruck, where supernatural entities of all descriptions operate right under the nose of the general populace — partly through passive Weirdness Censoring among the general populace, and partly through active Masquerading. Children lack Weirdness Censors, though — in fact, they're actually drawn to the supernatural.
 Weirdness Censor / int_21ab2cb9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_21ab2cb9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Thunderstruck
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_21ab2cb9
 Weirdness Censor / int_2232f584
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2232f584
comment
In prose, at least in early incarnations, the police denied that The Shadow existed, claiming he just represented a contemporary rumor. In the 1994 Alec Baldwin film, a woman scoffs at the Shadow as just a rumor to get people to listen to the radio and read newspapers. (Earlier, the Shadow, while as Lamont Cranston at the Cobalt Club, used his powers of suggestion to dissuade Commissioner Wainright Barth from assigning his officers to investigate the rumors of the Shadow.)
 Weirdness Censor / int_2232f584
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2232f584
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Shadow
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2232f584
 Weirdness Censor / int_234b78e5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_234b78e5
comment
In Changeling: The Dreaming, changelings are prone to Banality (the death of imagination), which not only shuts down their magic, but is potentially lethal to them, and if they manage to use their magic in front of mortals, the Mists will erase the knowledge of it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_234b78e5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_234b78e5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_234b78e5
 Weirdness Censor / int_25f6f1a0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_25f6f1a0
comment
And in Umineko: When They Cry Battler uses it to deny that the Beato/Virgilia battle happened even better example in ep 5, after being defeated by Battler on the game board, Erika suddenly stands up in her chair during the meal and starts talking in blue truth and exclaims to her master Bernkastel that she has won and has to be acknowledged. Then she suddenly sits down in her chair eating. The family collectively thinks they were hallucinating.
 Weirdness Censor / int_25f6f1a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_25f6f1a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_25f6f1a0
 Weirdness Censor / int_261c8d3f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_261c8d3f
comment
The Simpsons. The entire theme of "Homer's Enemy" was to plop a regular person (in the form of Frank Grimes) into the Springfield universe and have them react to just how bizarre that world really was. Frank was thunderstruck how a moron like Homer could have two cars, win a Grammy, tour with rock stars, be friends with Gerald Ford and been to space on the space shuttle.
 Weirdness Censor / int_261c8d3f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_261c8d3f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Simpsons
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_261c8d3f
 Weirdness Censor / int_26674ed5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_26674ed5
comment
At the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, a gigantic superweapon crashes into New York City. From the wreckage emerge a white haired pretty boy wielding a sword and the former president wielding two swords and wearing a suit of tentacled power armor. They proceed to fight a battle on the roof of Federal Hall, culminating in the villain being stabbed and falling from the roof. You'd think the cops or someone would take interest, but it just shows everyone going about their daily business because it's New York and they're used to that.
Not that the rest of the ending was any more rational.
This is actually intentional. The patriots wanted to put their all-controlling super-AI to one final test: suppose that one day, the mind-control nanomachines and the ID-controlled guns go completely haywire. Can the A.I.s come up with a plan to prevent would-be rebels reacting poorly to the newly-revealed broken Masquerade, even if they see it in all of its full glory? The fact that the patriot A.I.s were able to micromanage New York so that a giant submarine crashing into the city was considered "normal" means that the test was an extremely productive success.
 Weirdness Censor / int_26674ed5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_26674ed5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_26674ed5
 Weirdness Censor / int_26ff56a1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_26ff56a1
comment
Inverted in The Detective and the Diplomat. While most people in Ankh-Morpork don't even blink at a lot of stuff in the city, Sherlock Holmes has trained himself to pay attention to his senses and unusual clues and thus his Weirdness Censor doesn't work. This becomes a considerable problem when he is trapped there.
 Weirdness Censor / int_26ff56a1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_26ff56a1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Detective and the Diplomat (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_26ff56a1
 Weirdness Censor / int_28df3e79
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_28df3e79
comment
There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
Adrien notes at one point in To Rule Alone, to Build Together that the rest of the world doesn't even seem to notice that Paris is attacked by supervillains on a regular basis. Chloe later almost name-drops the trope when talking to Lady Noire and Mister Bug about how people outside of Paris know that they exist (though not to nearly the extent that they should, with even Spider-Man being more popular than the oddly obscure Parisian hero duo), the former of which notes that she and Tikki think that there's basically a magical bubble over the city preventing anything inside from affecting the outside and vice versa, like a giant version of the Glamour that protects the identities of the Miraculous holders.
The Mist used to enforce this on the world, shrouding the senses of ordinary humans regarding the exploits of demigods and monsters, but of late it's becoming less and less effective at doing so. One theory is that this is at least partially because, with the superheroes and all the other craziness that's been showing up relatively lately, the idea of mythical creatures existing is a lot less farfetched, so the Mist can't exploit their disbelief like it used to. Hecate, who is in charge of the Mist, hasn't been answering Zeus' calls about it either. The Olympians are seriously considering revealing their existence to the world at large so they can at least do this on their own terms.
Like Paris, it's noted in Thanatos Scowled that the exploits of Danny Phantom never making national, or even state news, was likely because of the Mist. That said, Nico notes the people of Amity Park seem to be able to see through the Mist more than normal, likely because they see ghosts regularly, and although Danny himself hasn't been seen in six years at that point, there's still a museum and a statue of him, among other things.
According to Word of God, the reason that no one's come across ancient Gem ruins or battlegrounds around the world is because Rose Quartz put up wards that act similarly to the Mist; as long as no one's actively looking for these sites, they can't find them. Although people who can see through the Mist like Rachel Elizabeth Dare can still find the sites regardless, even demigods and other magical humans are affected by it. The one place not so warded is the moon base, as Rose didn't expect humans to develop space flight, much to her surprise when a S.W.O.R.D. expedition stumbled onto it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_28df3e79
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_28df3e79
featureConfidence
1.0
 There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_28df3e79
 Weirdness Censor / int_295048d5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_295048d5
comment
Bloodborne: This is actually a stat in this game; increasing your Insight represents your weirdness filter being slowly removed, so you notice things like arcane beam attacks, the Witch of Hemwick summoning Mad Ones, the Plain Doll being alive, [[spoiler;and the Lesser Amygdalas hanging around everywhere]]. Rom is also implied to be a living Weirdness Censor; as long as she's around, the truth of the Mensis Ritual being performed and the Blood Moon will never reach Yharnam proper.
 Weirdness Censor / int_295048d5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_295048d5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bloodborne (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_295048d5
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a4c791e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a4c791e
comment
Ah! My Goddess: No matter how pyrotechnic the magic, the antics of the goddesses and demons never draw the police (or possibly the Army). Not even humongous monsters like Garm. This was explained in the manga as the townspeople being desensitized to weirdness due to the neighborhood kids pulling off epic level pranks on a regular basis, or some similar Hand Wave.
They do live in the same town as a technical engineering college. If those people get bored enough, they can disassemble your car and then reassemble it. Inside your living room.
Shown in action in one occasion: when Marller transformed the college in a castle due a wish from Sayoko, even the students who weren't in when she did it decided it was a prank, and left to not get involved with the mess.
Amazingly enough, the fire brigade actually turned up in one of the latest manga chapters. They ended up thinking it was a false alarm though, as all the damage had already been fixed with supernatural means.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a4c791e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a4c791e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ah! My Goddess (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2a4c791e
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a8943c0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a8943c0
comment
Adrien notes at one point in To Rule Alone, to Build Together that the rest of the world doesn't even seem to notice that Paris is attacked by supervillains on a regular basis. Chloe later almost name-drops the trope when talking to Lady Noire and Mister Bug about how people outside of Paris know that they exist (though not to nearly the extent that they should, with even Spider-Man being more popular than the oddly obscure Parisian hero duo), the former of which notes that she and Tikki think that there's basically a magical bubble over the city preventing anything inside from affecting the outside and vice versa, like a giant version of the Glamour that protects the identities of the Miraculous holders.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a8943c0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2a8943c0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Miraculous Ladybug
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2a8943c0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2ade1ae9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2ade1ae9
comment
Nobilis averts this. Muggles may go mad from encountering what they could not possibly understand and Nobles must take pains to ensure that this will not happen. However, their bosses, the Imperators, are powerful enough that reality itself will censor their actions. If an Imperator blots out the sun, not only will everyone believe it's a solar eclipse, but scientists will have retroactively predicted it several weeks ago. Third edition tones this down a bit, with most miracles having a degree of muggle-safety, but pulling off stuff that's too blatant will still cause dementia animus.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2ade1ae9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2ade1ae9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Nobilis (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2ade1ae9
 Weirdness Censor / int_2b70efd4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2b70efd4
comment
Old World of Darkness-only examples:
In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, werewolves (and other shapeshifters, except werefoxes), have the Delirium. This means that (most) mortals, upon seeing a werewolf in true form, freak out hysterically, and forget about what happened later. However, relying on this to maintain the Masquerade is pointedly a stupid idea and usually outlawed in shapeshifter societies, as the various enemies who know about them can simply follow incidences of such hysteria to track down the protagonists.
In Changeling: The Dreaming, changelings are prone to Banality (the death of imagination), which not only shuts down their magic, but is potentially lethal to them, and if they manage to use their magic in front of mortals, the Mists will erase the knowledge of it.
Wraith: The Oblivion has a similar censorship mechanic called the Fog, where mortals who see wraiths and experience their powers will react with mortal terror, then write it all off as a nightmare or trick of the light.
In Mage: The Ascension, humanity has been so convinced to accept a paradigm of what is and what isn't possible that anything too blatantly "magical" usually results in reality itself backlashing against mages in the form of "Paradox". The presence of normal humans actively disrupts magic. The mere act of observing a mage's supernatural abilities can cause their spells to decay into nothingness. The Arcane advantage doubles down on this by making the mage himself tend to slip out of both physical records and human memory, meaning that the censor extends even to people actively trying to figure it out.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2b70efd4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2b70efd4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2b70efd4
 Weirdness Censor / int_2c9a932f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_2c9a932f
comment
Very few people ever seem to notice or remark on Vampirella's Stripperiffic outfit and when they do it's quickly handwaved.
 Weirdness Censor / int_2c9a932f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_2c9a932f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Vampirella (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_2c9a932f
 Weirdness Censor / int_3038d75c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3038d75c
comment
This was present to an extent in Diablo II as well. One of the first things that Warriv says to you is "Some say that Diablo, the Lord of Terror, walks the world again. I don't know if I believe that..."
 Weirdness Censor / int_3038d75c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3038d75c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Diablo II (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3038d75c
 Weirdness Censor / int_33cee4c8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_33cee4c8
comment
Penny Saves Paldea: Several people around Paldea have observed the odd phenomena taking place, which include things like inexplicably slow movements, people and Pokemon phasing through objects, and invisible stuff that should be visible. However, the majority of the population either think the occurrences are the results of Pokemon being themselves or just ignore them altogether. Oddly enough, all the people who properly notice the phenomena are important to the plot of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet; namely Penny, Arven, various members of Team Star, Director Clavell, and Juliana.
 Weirdness Censor / int_33cee4c8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_33cee4c8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Penny Saves Paldea (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_33cee4c8
 Weirdness Censor / int_3a8f9c4e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3a8f9c4e
comment
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School: Despite living next door to Grimwood's Finishing School, which houses girls who include a vampire and a mummy, the Calloway Cadets and Colonel seem incapable of recognizing they're literal monsters.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3a8f9c4e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3a8f9c4e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3a8f9c4e
 Weirdness Censor / int_3aba6550
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3aba6550
comment
In High Anxiety fugitive Richard Thorndyke invokes this trope when he tells Brisbane that people tend to ignore strange things. In order to pass customs without incident, they behave like an outrageously obnoxious bickering old Jewish couple.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3aba6550
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3aba6550
featureConfidence
1.0
 High Anxiety
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3aba6550
 Weirdness Censor / int_3b34143f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3b34143f
comment
Harry Potter:
The entrance to Diagon Alley, a street filled with shops for wizards, is hidden behind a pub called The Leaky Cauldron which muggles never notice because they don't pay attention to their surroundings and don't expect it to be there. Though with memory charms, "Muggle repelling wards" and the charms that make Hogwarts look like a pile of rubble, it's not so much that Muggles willfully ignore magic as that any interaction with magic tends to involve them getting parts of their cortex melted.
Arthur Weasley also notes that Muggles who are the victims of such magical pranks as shrinking keys will always insist that they simply lost them.
The whole world of Harry Potter relies on Muggles' inherent ignorance towards anything magical. There's an in-universe book devoted to why muggles tend to subconsciously suppress all the memories of supernatural experiences.
In Order of the Phoenix the majority of wizarding Britain was putting one on themselves with the Minster's smear campaign against Harry, and willful denial of Voldemort's return.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3b34143f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3b34143f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Harry Potter
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3b34143f
 Weirdness Censor / int_3bbd2f1c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3bbd2f1c
comment
Most of the stages in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle have onlookers, most of whom watch the fight, with some commenting on hazards. However, the background characters for the Cairo stage simply do not care about the insanity occurring right next to them. Granted, Stands are Invisible to Normals, but they should still see such things as a man teleporting around and dropping steamrollers, a woman unraveling herself into string, a man's bullets being redirected in a zigzag pattern, or a long-dead president of the United States (though to be fair, not one from this present timeline) disappearing into an American Flag, or any one of the crazy things from the first two parts, but no one bats an eye. They don't even react when a car speeds right past their table.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3bbd2f1c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3bbd2f1c
featureConfidence
1.0
 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3bbd2f1c
 Weirdness Censor / int_3c6be122
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3c6be122
comment
In Guyver: Dark Hero, a newspaper headline reads "Verdict Still Out on Armored Vigilante" perhaps indicating that much of the public has not accepted him more than a rumor.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3c6be122
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3c6be122
featureConfidence
1.0
 Guyver: Dark Hero
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3c6be122
 Weirdness Censor / int_3cc40e40
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3cc40e40
comment
In Everyday Heroes, it seems at first that Uma and her father are just using the standard Paper-Thin Disguise of wearing glasses to pass as human. Later, they mention using an "Adams Field", implying that the glasses have some sort of Weirdness Censor built into them. On its highest setting, the glasses can interfere with all electronic recording devices nearby.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3cc40e40
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3cc40e40
featureConfidence
1.0
 Everyday Heroes (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3cc40e40
 Weirdness Censor / int_3db49365
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3db49365
comment
Spider-Man Trilogy:
Occurs quite often in Spider-Man: Peter Parker jumps around, climbs up walls, shoots webs and acknowledges himself as Spider-Man when getting money off a man who runs the wrestling. He also beats the snot out of another student, and nobody makes the connection.
The only time they could clearly see Peter Parker doing any of that stuff was the fight he got into. Other than that, you had some guy jumping on roofs once that someone might have seen at a distance or not, and Spider-Man in a worse costume doing wrestling. Maybe it would have been possible to get a hint of his identity by tracking clues through the wrestling establishment, but it wasn't evident from any other character's perspective these isolated incidents were tied together.
He does get unmasked on the L train in Spider-Man 2. But no one knows a name to go with the face, and they promise not to reveal his identity anyway since he saved their lives.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3db49365
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3db49365
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man Trilogy
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3db49365
 Weirdness Censor / int_3defe34c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3defe34c
comment
Discussed in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
 Weirdness Censor / int_3defe34c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3defe34c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Discussed Trope
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3defe34c
 Weirdness Censor / int_3efdce9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3efdce9
comment
Edgedancer (a novella of The Stormlight Archive): The people of Yeddaw outright ignore a miracle happening in the middle of their town (specifically a tree growing ten feet in seconds), despite being exceptionally good at spotting street urchins and lawbreakers. Lift snarks that they must be doing so on purpose.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3efdce9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3efdce9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Edgedancer
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3efdce9
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f2325d3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f2325d3
comment
In Chasing the Sunset, humans purposefully ignore Myhrad.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f2325d3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f2325d3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Chasing the Sunset (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3f2325d3
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f44e3d7
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f44e3d7
comment
In Princess Tutu, the typical townsperson (and the majority of the main cast in the beginning) doesn't question any of the "odder" stuff that goes on in Kinkan, including ballerina-dancing Anteaters (and other anthropomorphic animals). Even visitors to the town are affected—one women wonders if her troupe leader used to be an electric eel before arriving to the town, then quickly brushes it off. Later on in the series, it's revealed that it's because of the story magically controlling the town and the people inside of it. The only people that ever seem to realize something's off with the town are either important to the story, or actively go looking for something odd in the town.
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f44e3d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_3f44e3d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Princess Tutu
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_3f44e3d7
 Weirdness Censor / int_408f1063
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_408f1063
comment
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer will willingly ignore all the evidences that the sheep and other farm animals are clearly sentient and acting like humans.
 Weirdness Censor / int_408f1063
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_408f1063
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shaun the Sheep
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_408f1063
 Weirdness Censor / int_41b0198a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_41b0198a
comment
The Dresden Files:
The Masquerade is held up by the vanilla humans as much by the supernatural community, largely because people just don't want to believe that the world is saturated with murderous monsters and inexplicable magic. The safe, mundane world that most vanillas live in is a much safer and happier place if they didn't have to worry about vampires, demons, or warlocks, which explain why you never hear stories about trolls and magic. Everyone just writes it off as something mundane that, at the time, they thought was impossible. If they're attacked by a troll, for example and they're asked about it in a few months or so, they'll just claim that it was a large drug addict or something (the first few months will just have them staying quiet, afraid of people thinking they're crazy or for thinking that they 'themselves' have gone off the deep end). It also helps that human magic users tend to screw up any kind of recording equipment, making efforts to actually record evidence of the supernatural turn out to be grainy, filled with static, and generally seeming like badly distorted or faked content.
It helps that the people who do outright report what they have seen tend to be dismissed at best, or tossed into the loony bin, or in certain cases attacked by the very things they witnessed. A good example of this is the medical examiner, Butters, who reports that several bodies he examined were clearly not human, and was thus suspended for three months and put into a psych ward for observation as a result.
The author makes a point of justifying this every now and then, and gives at least one long speech about it. It actually makes sense, so you accept the blatant use of this trope.
It also helps that the various supernatural powers in play have a pretty big stake in making sure humanity does not find out about them, given that for all the contempt most of these creatures have for humans, the last thing they want to do is get humanity riled up. While in the past a mob with torches and pitchforks could be considered a tangible threat to most supernatural creatures, humanity has since upgraded to assault rifles and attack helicopters. And now number in the billions. Harry has, in fact, used this as a threat once or twice, mentioning to the latest Big Bad that if they go ahead the way they are, they'll end up involving the human authorities, or Harry might call them in. Human involvement has been likened to nuclear brinkmanship - you're unlikely to actually use it, but your opponent can't always be certain that you won't get that desperate.
It really helps that most humans really don't want to believe that the Things That Go "Bump" in the Night are real. Selective Obliviousness at its finest. To the point that they will accept any alternate "rational" explanation no matter how farfetched.
One individual, Anna Valmont, a normal human and master thief, was very suddenly pulled into the supernatural side when demons killed her partners and she finds that they were being used as a playing piece between the forces of Heaven and Hell. When she gets out, she continues with her craft, taking on clients and targets in the supernatural community, though she mentioned how easy it was to find information on the players of the supernatural world, and this trope gets mentioned again as the reason why the supernatural nations don't need to try too hard to keep concealed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_41b0198a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_41b0198a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Dresden Files
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_41b0198a
 Weirdness Censor / int_41c887f7
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_41c887f7
comment
In The Truman Show, this explains why Truman takes so long realizing that his world is fake. "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented." It also explains why all the people around him studiously ignore Truman when he starts to act out. They ignore Truman's antics because that's what they are paid to do.
 Weirdness Censor / int_41c887f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_41c887f7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Truman Show
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_41c887f7
 Weirdness Censor / int_42ffb88e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_42ffb88e
comment
SCP Foundation: There are several anomalies that prevent people from properly perceiving them or erase memories about themselves, but most anomalies do not and so when civilians encounter them they have to be subjected to Laser-Guided Amnesia to uphold the masquerade. However, a small but significant proportion of the population is affected by what is called Filbuson Syndrome. People with this condition will refuse to believe in the existence of anything "unscientific" no matter what they see, and if they are forced to acknowledge anomalies they may come up with scientific or pseudoscientific rationalizations for them. People with severe cases of this condition will try to force their denial of the supernatural on to other people, turning them into militant atheists. Surprisingly, it also is possible for people who do believe in the supernatural to suffer from it, resulting in people who believe in magic as part of their religion but are unable to believe it if they witnessed real magic.
 Weirdness Censor / int_42ffb88e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_42ffb88e
featureConfidence
1.0
 SCP Foundation (Website)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_42ffb88e
 Weirdness Censor / int_455e3038
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_455e3038
comment
Played for laughs in King of the Hill; Hank Hill's unique form of eccentricity makes him literally incapable of understanding things that strongly contradict his strongly conservative Good Ol' Boy values. Most notably, in one episode when he meets his wife Peggy's friend, "Carolyn", a Drag Queen, Hank genuinely believes that "she's" a woman because he refuses to believe that men would dress as women even after being told the truth.note Part of this stems from flanderization as Hank saw Bill do the same during a nervous breakdown and even took part in order to save him from getting his ass kicked at his Christmas party.
 Weirdness Censor / int_455e3038
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_455e3038
featureConfidence
1.0
 King of the Hill
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_455e3038
 Weirdness Censor / int_4690300e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4690300e
comment
Ashina: The Red Witch: Ash's sister Tena doesn't seem to realise she's in the spirit world after her boss Yoko invites her to the bathhouse, not thinking much about the fact that the other guests don't look human, and later thinking that the Red Witch's transformation during the confrontation with Yoko in the theatre is just really good special effects.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4690300e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4690300e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ashina: The Red Witch (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4690300e
 Weirdness Censor / int_494e23
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_494e23
comment
In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, the characters do try to keep the Muggles from realizing that there are Cthulhu Mythos monsters in their town (with the title character erecting a "convenient barrier" to block out her battles) — but they don't bother hiding much else. Nyarko introduces herself at school as Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos and Mahiro's wife and nobody bats an eyelash. Cuko introduces herself as Nyarko's wife with nary a remark (except for Nyarko's friend remarking "You're pretty lucky!"). Nyarko's pet shantak-bird (which looks like a mix of hippopotamus, bird, and bat) does draw some brief commentary, but they just shrug it off.
 Weirdness Censor / int_494e23
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_494e23
featureConfidence
1.0
 Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_494e23
 Weirdness Censor / int_498b77e9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_498b77e9
comment
Elaborated on in the sequel, Skin Horse. Although censors don't appear to be universal even among the regular population (the filename story suggests about 20% of the population), those who have one make for good employees or middle-men in secret projects: one is guaranteed not to spill the beans when one is not aware there are any beans to be spilled.
There's one point where Sweetheart sings Gilbert & Sullivan in front of two Reality Blind people to make a point.
As of the end of "Sure As You're Born", the proportion of the population who are reality blind has gone from 20% to "nearly everyone", which subsequently turns out to be the work of A-Sig, who have the aforementioned Cure.
 Weirdness Censor / int_498b77e9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_498b77e9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Skin Horse (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_498b77e9
 Weirdness Censor / int_4a94a5fc
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4a94a5fc
comment
Inverted in Maskerade, wherein the cast of the Opera House can't come up with the most obvious solutions because those just aren't theatrical enough.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4a94a5fc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4a94a5fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Maskerade
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4a94a5fc
 Weirdness Censor / int_4be1bdd0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4be1bdd0
comment
In Golden Sun and both sequels, Psynergy itself is Invisible to Normals... but people still should be able to see the objects that move without being touched, fires starting and stopping, sprouts growing into giant vines in a matter of seconds, puddles freezing into giant ice pillars, and that group of Anime Haired teenagers that always seems to be around when strange things happen. The number of situations where anybody notices Psynergy in use or the effects thereof, in all three games, can be counted on one hand.
Subverted in Dark Dawn when Briggs recognizes Matthew & Co. because he saw them handwaving crates around on the other side of the dock... but it's implied that he knew what to look for since he's dealt with Adepts before (and lives with a few), making him more of an exception that proves the rule.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4be1bdd0
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_4be1bdd0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Golden Sun (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4be1bdd0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c095a1f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c095a1f
comment
The Transformers:
A few episodes after the Decepticons became active on Earth it seems the entire planet is put on a war footing, factories pumping out weapons intended to be used in the war against them, complete with old-fashioned propaganda posters.
There's a sort of Masquerade for the first few episodes, but after a bit the Transformers don't bother with hiding from humans as a whole (though many people still seem unaware of their existence, considering all the episodes where a human mistakes a Transformer for a normal vehicle and react with shock/fear/awe when the Transformer reveals himself). Following a twenty-year timeskip between the second season and The Movie, the Transformers are living openly on Earth.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c095a1f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c095a1f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Transformers
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4c095a1f
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c300a8c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c300a8c
comment
Lilo & Stitch: The Series has all types of aliens running around and yet hardly anyone ever give it any mind. When Lilo gives a few aliens away to help with a specific job, the owners are more then happy to take them in.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c300a8c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4c300a8c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Lilo & Stitch: The Series
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4c300a8c
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e621604
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e621604
comment
The staff (with the possible exception of the janitor) of Flying Rhino Junior High, especially Mrs. Snodgrass and Principal Mulligan.
in a way, the rest of the cast to the fact that there principal is an anthropomorphic Rhinoceros and there janitor is an anthropomorphic pig
The janitor even fooled the intro, which points out that the Principle is a Rhino, but notes that the Janitor's a spy.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e621604
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e621604
featureConfidence
1.0
 Flying Rhino Junior High
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4e621604
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e98bd99
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e98bd99
comment
Petscop: In episode 6, a four hour long cutscene occurs, involving the windmill and a randomly generating environment, which includes ominous text. Paul's only comment is that it was neat that the windmill reversed directions.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e98bd99
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4e98bd99
featureConfidence
1.0
 Petscop (Web Video)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4e98bd99
 Weirdness Censor / int_4fd9904a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_4fd9904a
comment
In Order of the Phoenix the majority of wizarding Britain was putting one on themselves with the Minster's smear campaign against Harry, and willful denial of Voldemort's return.
 Weirdness Censor / int_4fd9904a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_4fd9904a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_4fd9904a
 Weirdness Censor / int_503d5009
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_503d5009
comment
Most modern humans in Ayakashi Triangle cannot notice and tend to forget supernatural phenomena. This makes ayakashi Invisible to Normals unless they appear as someone or something mundane; even then, they tend to be forgotten afterward. Sosuke made quite a stir when he showed up at Hokusai High School as a student, but by the next day no one but Suzu and Matsuri remembered him. Oddly, people in the past did the opposite, attributing natural phenomena they didn't understand to ayakashi, and their belief created more of them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_503d5009
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_503d5009
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ayakashi Triangle (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_503d5009
 Weirdness Censor / int_50b9086a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_50b9086a
comment
In Ready Jet Go!, nobody in Boxwood Terrace (save for Mitchell), acknowledges the alien behaviors of the Propulsions, or notice their minivan turning into a flying saucer.
 Weirdness Censor / int_50b9086a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_50b9086a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ready Jet Go!
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_50b9086a
 Weirdness Censor / int_51be5b37
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_51be5b37
comment
The Swedish horror game KULT makes this the central premise of the world's mythology: Humanity has been imprisoned in an illusory world by the Demiurge and blinded to the real world around them. When supernatural events transpire around them, the illusion-spell in people's minds makes them rationalize it away as normal accidents.
 Weirdness Censor / int_51be5b37
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_51be5b37
featureConfidence
1.0
 KULT (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_51be5b37
 Weirdness Censor / int_542776ac
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_542776ac
comment
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, after entering Narnia, Eustace Scrubb seems completely certain he is just somewhere else on Earth and not the magical place his cousins claim he's in, despite the fact that he was pulled through a picture on the wall.
 Weirdness Censor / int_542776ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_542776ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_542776ac
 Weirdness Censor / int_5436b1a9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5436b1a9
comment
This is the point of a camouflage barrier in Senran Kagura. While it gives away a Shinobi's position to other Shinobi, it makes them completely Invisible to Normals, to the point where they can trash their surroundings fighting in a busy food court and still go completely unnoticed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5436b1a9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5436b1a9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Senran Kagura (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5436b1a9
 Weirdness Censor / int_545bb2d5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_545bb2d5
comment
In What if the Yeerks Were the Good Guys?, Iniss wonders if no-one found the cavern underneath an abandoned building because it was protected by a psychic perception filter.
 Weirdness Censor / int_545bb2d5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_545bb2d5
featureConfidence
1.0
 What if the Yeerks Were the Good Guys? (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_545bb2d5
 Weirdness Censor / int_557434b6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_557434b6
comment
For some reason in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, nobody seems to notice how many monsters are in Twilight Town. For that matter; it almost seems to be a ghost town whenever you have to be in there. Bonus points go to when you consider that Xion's final form is floating in the air in front of the train station. And she's practically an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. How on earth did people not notice that or even come to investigate?!
But they probably would have forgotten about seeing Xion, actually.
 Weirdness Censor / int_557434b6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_557434b6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_557434b6
 Weirdness Censor / int_57f80079
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_57f80079
comment
In The Mortal Instruments, mundanes cannot see the Shadow World or most individuals belonging to it as they really are. The Shadowhunters, being mostly human, would normally be visible to them, but a simple bit of magic renders them unnoticeable as well. Locations, including an entire country are hidden from human perception this way.
 Weirdness Censor / int_57f80079
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_57f80079
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Mortal Instruments
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_57f80079
 Weirdness Censor / int_58258d8f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_58258d8f
comment
In The Howling, there is a live werewolf transformation on the evening news. Many of the locals pass it off as special effects.
 Weirdness Censor / int_58258d8f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_58258d8f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Howling
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_58258d8f
 Weirdness Censor / int_58808436
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_58808436
comment
Nobody seems to notice their friends strange behavior and obvious paranoia, or at least do anything about it, in the answer arcs of Higurashi: When They Cry.
This trope is subverted in Tatarigoroshi-hen, or actually any arc where they try to save Satoko. In Tataragiroshi-hen in particular, Rena and Mion notice Keiichi's paranoia, unlike Onikakushi-hen, and try to cover his actions up.
And in Umineko: When They Cry Battler uses it to deny that the Beato/Virgilia battle happened even better example in ep 5, after being defeated by Battler on the game board, Erika suddenly stands up in her chair during the meal and starts talking in blue truth and exclaims to her master Bernkastel that she has won and has to be acknowledged. Then she suddenly sits down in her chair eating. The family collectively thinks they were hallucinating.
 Weirdness Censor / int_58808436
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_58808436
featureConfidence
1.0
 Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_58808436
 Weirdness Censor / int_58d80a4a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_58d80a4a
comment
Lord Rust in Jingo confirms that it's not just the supernatural that falls subject to this trope on Discworld: his personal Weirdness Censor is so strict that it even blots out his perception of rudeness, on the grounds that a lowborn churl like Sam Vimes wouldn't possibly dare snark off to an aristocrat like him. Snuff would later expand this into a superpower; his absolute certainty that he was invincible caused arrows to curve in flight and hit the man behind him instead.
 Weirdness Censor / int_58d80a4a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_58d80a4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jingo
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_58d80a4a
 Weirdness Censor / int_5911d036
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5911d036
comment
In the ONSET series, it's theorized that one of the effects of the Seal of Solomon which has kept most of the really powerful supernatural entities away from Earth for a few millennia is that it increases the probability that people will avoid consciously noticing the rare supernatural events that take place (unless they're made aware of the Masquerade). However, as the Seal weakens not only does it increase the odds of something powerful getting through, people are more likely to notice odd things.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5911d036
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5911d036
featureConfidence
1.0
 ONSET
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5911d036
 Weirdness Censor / int_59303db8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_59303db8
comment
A Certain Scientific Railgun has a girl whose special ability is Dummy Check. It makes her invisible to the naked eye but not to cameras. Apparently she can also use it as a Weirdness Censor in order to avoid drawing attention to herself (mainly due to her massive eyebrows).
 Weirdness Censor / int_59303db8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_59303db8
featureConfidence
1.0
 A Certain Scientific Railgun (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_59303db8
 Weirdness Censor / int_5cf8a4e8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5cf8a4e8
comment
In Phoebe and Her Unicorn, the class doesn't react much when Phoebe shows a real live unicorn during show and tell. As the unicorn tells Phoebe, this is because of the "Shield of Boringness," a bit of magic that lets unicorns live undisturbed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5cf8a4e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5cf8a4e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Comic Strip)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5cf8a4e8
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da196
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da196
comment
Occurs quite often in Spider-Man: Peter Parker jumps around, climbs up walls, shoots webs and acknowledges himself as Spider-Man when getting money off a man who runs the wrestling. He also beats the snot out of another student, and nobody makes the connection.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da196
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da196
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da196
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da197
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da197
comment
He does get unmasked on the L train in Spider-Man 2. But no one knows a name to go with the face, and they promise not to reveal his identity anyway since he saved their lives.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da197
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da197
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man 2
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5d4da197
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d908c85
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d908c85
comment
The titular character of Archie's Weird Mysteries, given all the odd things that happen in that God-forsaken town, is pretty quick to accept the existence of anything from aliens to a giant blob monster made of tapioca pudding. Subverted (and lampshaded) when Santa Claus comes to town and Archie can't believe it's really him:
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d908c85
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_5d908c85
featureConfidence
1.0
 Archie's Weird Mysteries
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5d908c85
 Weirdness Censor / int_5eabd2c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5eabd2c
comment
The Mat Dickie game The You Testament has this with its citizens. It's not uncommon to watch citizens greet others, turn around and attack them, steal items, run around with missing limbs, hug a person, then turn around and attack them... you try to do any of this stuff, you're gonna get caught.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5eabd2c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5eabd2c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The You Testament (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5eabd2c
 Weirdness Censor / int_5ec920a5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5ec920a5
comment
Aztek, for DC Comics, is about a technologically enhanced superhero working in the town of Vanity. Aztek's support group, believing his existence will help save the earth, employ active weirdness censors to help him out. Shouting out his secrets in the halls of his secret identity's workplace does nothing.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5ec920a5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5ec920a5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Aztek (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5ec920a5
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f0c7ed4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f0c7ed4
comment
Pet Alien: Tommy, being the Only Sane Man of the show, is the only person in DeSpray Bay who knows his friends are aliens, even though they don't wear disguises. Anyone not in the know just calls them his friends or his "things".
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f0c7ed4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f0c7ed4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pet Alien
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5f0c7ed4
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f4f7a65
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f4f7a65
comment
In Octodad, the great majority of people don't seem to think strange a "man" walks in bizarre patterns, talks in blurbs, has tentacles instead of arms and legs or causes great amounts of property damage doing even the most mundane of tasks. The only person who knows his secret is a psychotic chef and his daughter, who assumed that everyone already knew.
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f4f7a65
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_5f4f7a65
featureConfidence
1.0
 Octodad (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_5f4f7a65
 Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
comment
In one of the Darkman sequels, a newspaper headline refers to Darkman as "an urban Bigfoot", suggesting that the public thinks of him as a rumor.
 Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Darkman
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6138216a
 Weirdness Censor / int_636e1d46
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_636e1d46
comment
The Lost Thing ends with the main character noting that he might have stopped noticing the lost things, implying that the people of the dull place he lives in are too mundane to notice something out of the ordinary like that. Earlier on, his parents don't notice that there's a giant thing in their living room until he draws their attention to it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_636e1d46
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_636e1d46
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Lost Thing
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_636e1d46
 Weirdness Censor / int_64967da8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_64967da8
comment
The Golem and the Jinni: The title characters look like humans to Muggles, but they and other supernaturally-aware entities can see each other as figures formed of stone and primordial fire, respectively.
 Weirdness Censor / int_64967da8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_64967da8
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Golem and the Jinni
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_64967da8
 Weirdness Censor / int_65355b84
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_65355b84
comment
Played with in Love Is in the Bag, where everyone except the London transfer students know about Kate turning into a bag.
 Weirdness Censor / int_65355b84
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_65355b84
featureConfidence
1.0
 Love Is in the Bag (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_65355b84
 Weirdness Censor / int_6920713d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6920713d
comment
Played with in Shortpacked!. For some reason, everybody who works at the titular store (or, at least, the ones who weren't involved in SEMME-related adventures), don't remember any alien-related stuff that happened over the past few years. Everybody else, on the other hand, usually does.
It seems more like they just really don't care. For instance, at one point Amber goes to New York, and mentions "huh, you would never be able to tell this place was destroyed a few years ago."
 Weirdness Censor / int_6920713d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6920713d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shortpacked! (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6920713d
 Weirdness Censor / int_6ac55ec7
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6ac55ec7
comment
Dungeons & Dragons:
The core rule books advise the DM and the players to avoid this; if you're playing in a setting where you can buy and sell magic items fairly easily, it kind of behooves the NPCs to notice magic, and not knock it as "superstition."
Except in Ravenloft, where noticing what's spooky and magical can get you killed. Natives of domains such as Richemulot or Zherisia, where the populace is infiltrated by monsters, find it a lot safer not to admit they've seen anything suspicious, even to themselves.
Outsiders embodying the multiverse's Lawful alignments can have trouble with this, becoming so used to following rules that they assume that everyone else is too. So that group of mortals moving through the Nine Hells of Baator must be mercenaries or cultists on official business, and not, say, an adventuring party raiding the Lower Planes.
Successfully making your Will saving throw against the demon queen Pale Night means that you've managed to activate a Weirdness Censor as a defensive mechanism, since You Cannot Grasp the True Form of such a primordial horror. It's implied that her standard appearance, that of a hovering feminine figure wrapped in a billowing white sheet, is some sort of cosmic censor. Fail the saving throw? You understand exactly what you're seeing - something so unspeakably monstrous that just seeing it burns your brain out and kills you. If someone resurrects you, mercifully, your brain deletes what you saw and all you remember is a feeling of sheer terror.
 Weirdness Censor / int_6ac55ec7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6ac55ec7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6ac55ec7
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c11bb94
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c11bb94
comment
In the 2008 Horton Hears a Who!, the only one to make the connection is the Mayor. Other than that, Whoville makes Sunnydale look like a highly alert town. Though, the members of the city council help to actively enforce the Weirdness Censor, which helps a little to justify this. Not by much, but still...
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c11bb94
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c11bb94
featureConfidence
1.0
 Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6c11bb94
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c2c4bf3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c2c4bf3
comment
The X-Men Film Series play fast and loose with this trope. The world knows mutants exist to the point where governments are trying to pass laws against them, there are entire studies done on them, the issue is being discussed in the media, and people are actively protesting for/against them. Despite this, people are usually shocked when they see mutants displaying their powers with only a few exceptions. This even includes Wolverine who finds the concept of the X-Men bizarre despite the fact that he is a mutant himself.
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c2c4bf3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c2c4bf3
featureConfidence
1.0
 X-Men Film Series
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6c2c4bf3
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c5725a2
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c5725a2
comment
In Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, at one point the humans completely forget about what Autobots AND Decepticons are despite the series having already established the existence of both factions and the early episodes showing there's a few people who know about them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c5725a2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6c5725a2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6c5725a2
 Weirdness Censor / int_6f06e8fc
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_6f06e8fc
comment
This is how people miss magical events in Errant Story. When they see something impossible (like the talking cat with wings) they think that there's no way they just saw that and then promptly forget it even existed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_6f06e8fc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_6f06e8fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Errant Story (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_6f06e8fc
 Weirdness Censor / int_701f0ece
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_701f0ece
comment
In Berserk, this explains why normal people literally cannot see supernatural creatures of the less-antagonizing variety, as people only bother to remember what they can explain (or what's not trying to rape and eat them).
 Weirdness Censor / int_701f0ece
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_701f0ece
featureConfidence
1.0
 Berserk (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_701f0ece
 Weirdness Censor / int_705bb59a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_705bb59a
comment
Vampires in both settings can learn Obfuscate, a power which causes others to not notice them. Essentially every other type of supernatural creature has at least one (usually several) specialty or subtype with the same ability (such as mages using telepathy or probability manipulation or changelings using illusions).
 Weirdness Censor / int_705bb59a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_705bb59a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_705bb59a
 Weirdness Censor / int_70ec955b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_70ec955b
comment
Subverted by the marketing for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which counts both of the first two film's events as canon, then clarifies (via a schoolteacher who is aware of the Ghostbusters) that there hasn't been a ghost sighting in 30 years. As such, the original team's exploits have passed into legend.
 Weirdness Censor / int_70ec955b
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_70ec955b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ghostbusters: Afterlife
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_70ec955b
 Weirdness Censor / int_711ee08
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_711ee08
comment
Secret City: While a general Masquerade is in effect, most humans will easily believe claims that data were forged, witnesses drunk or drugged and people claiming to use magic used clever technology or hypnotism. The eponymous Secret City dwellers also actively support skepticism in the population.
 Weirdness Censor / int_711ee08
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_711ee08
featureConfidence
1.0
 Secret City
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_711ee08
 Weirdness Censor / int_73b4d4c1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_73b4d4c1
comment
In Call of Cthulhu, one possible form of insanity is Panzaism, the pathological inability to perceive extraordinary things as such. A Deep One, for example, will be seen as a normal man, or perhaps a man in a wetsuit, or at the very most, man wearing a deeply unconvincing monster suit.
 Weirdness Censor / int_73b4d4c1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_73b4d4c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_73b4d4c1
 Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
comment
Employed more subtly in the Discworld novel Interesting Times. Rincewind, on yet another foreign jaunt, figures out nobody really notices men on horseback because doing so tends to get people stabbed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Interesting Times
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_740815bb
 Weirdness Censor / int_747d9a6f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_747d9a6f
comment
Only partly averted in [PROTOTYPE]. Pedestrians will freak out and the military will open fire if the PC Alex Mercer reveals some of his Lovecraftian Superpowers, but running along a wall upwards, leaping across a street or gliding? Nah, that's fine. There's a small chance that a pedestrian or marine will look at you, look away, and say "fucking New York." Apparently, that sort of thing happens all the time here.
 Weirdness Censor / int_747d9a6f
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_747d9a6f
featureConfidence
1.0
 [PROTOTYPE] / Videogame
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_747d9a6f
 Weirdness Censor / int_74ce3b5b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_74ce3b5b
comment
In Beetlejuice the dead are Invisible to Normals - which Lydia Deetz is proudly not.
 Weirdness Censor / int_74ce3b5b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_74ce3b5b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Beetlejuice
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_74ce3b5b
 Weirdness Censor / int_74f7210c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_74f7210c
comment
The Legend of Zelda:
In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, the Hyrule Castle townsfolk do not notice, or at least have nothing to say about, their castle being taken over by an evil warlord and his moblin army, which is then encased in a crystalline force field, and especially not right after said force field is broken by a giant glowing spider demon. They do however react when the player's wolf form runs around town. The ignoring (or being completely blind to) the barrier is lampshaded by one character.
Zigzagged in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask where at first it appears to be an aversion with people ignoring the moon, until you walk in on the meeting with the Mayor and Captain Viscen declares that the city is usually overrun with people this time of year, making it clear you're only seeing the very small portion of people who actually are ignoring it. As time goes on however, more and more people flee until the only few who are left are those who have utterly resigned themselves to the annihilation. Mutoh is the only person left who actually still refuses to believe the moon will fall.
 Weirdness Censor / int_74f7210c
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_74f7210c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_74f7210c
 Weirdness Censor / int_755fadab
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_755fadab
comment
Haruhi Suzumiya:
The title character, despite seeking anything weird or unusual in the world, manages to remain oblivious to the weird things that happen around her, aiding the other characters in keeping her Locked Out of the Loop.
Haruhi provides an interesting take on this trope in that she not a normal person like Kyon is (who is very much in the know), nor just any common supernatural entity either, but is The Omnipotent who shapes the universe to her whim, and who may have possibly created the aliens, time travelers, and espers of the Haruhi Suzumiya universe. However, it is likely that her expectations and skepticism towards the supernatural may ironically prevent her from interacting with them despite her desire to do so (she desires secret esper organizations, so of course the esper organizations will be secret). Her own Reality Warper powers may likely be, and thankfully too, effectively acting as her own weirdness censor.
Kuyou Suou / Suou Kuyou is a Humanoid Abomination who is just so...off that normal people don't even react to her presence. When some people (like Kyon) are forced to acknowledge her, they're creeped out by just how obviously yet subtly wrong everything about her is.
 Weirdness Censor / int_755fadab
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_755fadab
featureConfidence
1.0
 Haruhi Suzumiya
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_755fadab
 Weirdness Censor / int_76cb191b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_76cb191b
comment
In The Invisibles, it is revealed that babies are capable of seeing all kinds of strange beings and concepts but lose the ability once they learn language, which makes it impossible for them to express these concepts and thus impossible for them to register them in their heads. The same is used in Mary Poppins with the twins.
 Weirdness Censor / int_76cb191b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_76cb191b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Invisibles (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_76cb191b
 Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
comment
There's also Thief of Time, where an actual horse (Binky) walks into a library to pick up Susan. But since everybody knows that that doesn't happen, it's obviously not real and therefore nothing to be concerned about.
 Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Thief of Time
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_77be988d
 Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
comment
In John 12 of The Bible, while Jesus is speaking, a voice speaks from heaven, and many people in the crowd think it's just thunder.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Four Gospels
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7894fb5d
 Weirdness Censor / int_78ec49bd
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_78ec49bd
comment
The wizards in the Young Wizards series depend on this to get away with doing some forms of magic out in the open. The bullies can't hit you because your spell is deflecting their blows? They convince themselves that they didn't want to hit you, because invisible force fields are impossible. Vanish off a subway platform via teleporting? Whoever saw you thinks you simply moved deeper into the crowd while they weren't looking.
 Weirdness Censor / int_78ec49bd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_78ec49bd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Young Wizards
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_78ec49bd
 Weirdness Censor / int_79bf0b84
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_79bf0b84
comment
In Slightly Damned, for most mortals the sight of a Demon and an Angel walking around together instead of fighting each other is so unthinkable everyone assumes that's just some people in costumes. The fact that most mortals have never seen angels and demons also helps.
 Weirdness Censor / int_79bf0b84
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_79bf0b84
featureConfidence
1.0
 Slightly Damned (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_79bf0b84
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c038c18
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c038c18
comment
Citizens in Phineas and Ferb who notice the larger stuff the boys do never seem to find it worthy enough for the newspaper. Candace was pretty unlucky no one ever wanted to talk to her parents about what the boys had done, especially in The Movie, where the entire town witnesses a robot invasion and never discusses it again.
There is a deleted scene where a TV news reporter states that all the robots were actually "A weather balloon".
And it's not just in the boys' hometown. In one episode, giant robots of a dragon and Queen Elizabeth I were duking it out in downtown London (the boys weren't involved in any way). While this does make it to the news, the only thing that caught people's attention was the second story of a new version of Jane Eyre being made.
After a while it's pretty clear that their mom Linda is the only person in town who doesn't know what's going on. Even their dad participates in many of their projects; increasingly ludicrous misunderstandings keep him from realizing that she isn't aware of them. Both sets of grandparents are frequently involved as well.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c038c18
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c038c18
featureConfidence
1.0
 Phineas and Ferb
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7c038c18
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c48915b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c48915b
comment
Kat from Gunnerkrigg Court:
We are first introduced to the Realm of The Dead from Kat's perspective where the organization and its facilities seems to take the form of some kind of children's haunted house with her companions Annie and Mort completely mystified by her ability to treat it as such. When we finally get a look at what they see it's hard not to sympathize. Whether it is this, Invisible to Normals, or something else is not clear, but the way she uses the Realm's devices while her friends can begin to comprehend them, and the "smoke and mirrors" speech suggest that her rational(ish) view of the world helps her see through the Realm's illusions.
It's later revealed that her this applies to her own eldritch appearance in the Ether. She and everything she sees look normal to her, while in the ether she looks like some steel/bug Eldritch Abomination.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c48915b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_7c48915b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7c48915b
 Weirdness Censor / int_7de1376e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7de1376e
comment
Subverted in Wyrd Sisters: Death was visible on stage during a play, because the audience were expecting to see Death appear and assumed he was an actor. He fit in quite well, since he forgot the lines just like the other actors.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7de1376e
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_7de1376e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Wyrd Sisters
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7de1376e
 Weirdness Censor / int_7df9324b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7df9324b
comment
In Zebra Girl, the lagomorphic Sam explains that he can stroll into any bar to have a drink without worrying about his appearance because most people will actively dismiss him out of hand even if he's sitting right there.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7df9324b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_7df9324b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Zebra Girl (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7df9324b
 Weirdness Censor / int_7f4c3315
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_7f4c3315
comment
Near the beginning of Something More Than Night, a car is pulled out of the bay with a very dead body in the driver's seat and, unexpectedly, a very much alive woman in the trunk. The cops investigating the scene are baffled by her survival, since the car was submerged for several hours and the trunk had visible holes in it and was full of water, but quickly persuade themselves, despite the evidence of their own senses, that it must have been watertight and preserved her in an air pocket. The protagonist, observing all this, reflects that in his experience most people, when confronted with the impossible, find ways to rationalize it or remember it as something more mundane.
 Weirdness Censor / int_7f4c3315
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_7f4c3315
featureConfidence
1.0
 Something More Than Night
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_7f4c3315
 Weirdness Censor / int_815220e8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_815220e8
comment
In contrast, Transformers: Armada has maybe five people actually see the constant robot battles. This is partially justified as apparently all but a few of the Mini-Con panels appear in unpopulated areas, but still.
 Weirdness Censor / int_815220e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_815220e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Transformers: Armada
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_815220e8
 Weirdness Censor / int_817acecf
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_817acecf
comment
Fabletown in Fables has a magical protection to keep mundies from noticing their magical society in the middle of New York City. At one point they have to rely on rain to act instead, and at another their filter (and the magic holding the buildings together) fails, forcing them to leave as New York discovers one of its neighborhoods is now suddenly in ruins for no discernible reason.
 Weirdness Censor / int_817acecf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_817acecf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fables (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_817acecf
 Weirdness Censor / int_84823809
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_84823809
comment
Kaeloo: Lavanade has supernatural powers, and ghosts are naturally attracted to her. This means that wherever she goes, a horde of ghosts pops up behind her. The ghosts are visible to Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, all of Lavanade's sisters, and Lavanade's teacher, but Lavanade's mother is unable to see them and insists that it's all in Stumpy's head whenever he tries to point it out to her.
 Weirdness Censor / int_84823809
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_84823809
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kaeloo
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_84823809
 Weirdness Censor / int_8889afa3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8889afa3
comment
Rogue Trader mentions this as a Required Secondary Power for Navigators- their Warp eye allows them to gaze into the Warp, but also edits the input into an appropriate metaphor- the examples in the book are finding a path through a storm-racked wood or navigating a roiling sea. It's actually a good thing, as Going Mad From The Revelation can be harmful to your health.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8889afa3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8889afa3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Rogue Trader (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8889afa3
 Weirdness Censor / int_88aef33b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_88aef33b
comment
A running joke in the Invincible comic book is that people without powers never look up, so heroes can change in back alleys and fly away and no one will see. (It's also a play on "Look! Up in the sky!", a phrase associated with Superman.)
 Weirdness Censor / int_88aef33b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_88aef33b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Invincible (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_88aef33b
 Weirdness Censor / int_88b580f0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_88b580f0
comment
In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, werewolves (and other shapeshifters, except werefoxes), have the Delirium. This means that (most) mortals, upon seeing a werewolf in true form, freak out hysterically, and forget about what happened later. However, relying on this to maintain the Masquerade is pointedly a stupid idea and usually outlawed in shapeshifter societies, as the various enemies who know about them can simply follow incidences of such hysteria to track down the protagonists.
 Weirdness Censor / int_88b580f0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_88b580f0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_88b580f0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8920421e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8920421e
comment
This is exploited in WarpZone Project to cover up the fact that Comic Books Are Real. A character sums up the idea behind it as "Imagine you run into Spider-Man. The next moment, you'll think you're just remembering a scene from a movie, a comic book or a video game.".
 Weirdness Censor / int_8920421e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8920421e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Warp Zone Project
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8920421e
 Weirdness Censor / int_89465e75
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_89465e75
comment
In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books, a magical force called Mist acts as an active version to cover up whenever a mortal sees gods or monsters. A few mortals are known to be immune to its effects.
 Weirdness Censor / int_89465e75
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_89465e75
featureConfidence
1.0
 Percy Jackson and the Olympians
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_89465e75
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a339030
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a339030
comment
In the Indiana Jones franchise, the weirdness censor is Dr. Jones himself. This serves also as a disclaimer that the movies are not what real archaeology is about.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a339030
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a339030
featureConfidence
1.0
 Indiana Jones (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8a339030
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a4370bd
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a4370bd
comment
In The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, students from a Superhero School and Academy of Evil get into a fight in the middle of a London street, and a crowd gathers. The combatants don't worry about it, because they know that within a few hours at most the Ordinaries will have convinced themselves that they imagined the whole thing, or turned the memory into something more mundane. Before the fight's even over, there are people in the crowd telling each other that they saw better last time they went to see a conjurer at the theatre.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a4370bd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8a4370bd
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8a4370bd
 Weirdness Censor / int_8b957d5d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8b957d5d
comment
Life, the Universe and Everything introduces the SEP, or "Somebody Else's Problem" field, a device which renders things effectively invisible by suggesting to an onlooker's subconscious that it's somebody else's problem and can therefore be safely ignored.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8b957d5d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8b957d5d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Life, the Universe and Everything
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8b957d5d
 Weirdness Censor / int_8bf307b3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8bf307b3
comment
A running gag of the Italian Disney Comics of old was that Goofy was a massive skeptic, steadfastly refusing to believe in magic and the supernatural, no matter how many times Witch Hazel tried to impress him. Of course, this didn't stop him from taking part in various sci-fi and fantasy adventures by various artists.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8bf307b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8bf307b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Disney Mouse and Duck Comics (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8bf307b3
 Weirdness Censor / int_8f99cb4c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8f99cb4c
comment
American Dragon: Jake Long: "I'm glad everyone bought the You've-been-Punked story we feed them."
 Weirdness Censor / int_8f99cb4c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8f99cb4c
featureConfidence
1.0
 American Dragon: Jake Long
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8f99cb4c
 Weirdness Censor / int_8fff8e9b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_8fff8e9b
comment
The Marvel crossover storyline Inferno (1988) had Manhattan Island being overrun by demonic forces for what seems like a period of several weeks. Once things return to normal, a very weak Masquerade blaming hallucinations is accepted by the public. How hallucinations can explain the sheer amount of infrastructure damage or the many deaths during the event or the amount of time lost during those "hallucinated" days, is one question. Why a public that's already accepted the reality of superbeings, aliens and gods would have any trouble believing that New York was attacked by demons is another.
 Weirdness Censor / int_8fff8e9b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_8fff8e9b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Inferno (1988) (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_8fff8e9b
 Weirdness Censor / int_903a9871
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_903a9871
comment
In addition, the Unremarkable trait from Dark Heresy can work like this. The Moritat assassin who is anti-social and obsessed with murder? All I see is a businessman with a bit of red on him...
 Weirdness Censor / int_903a9871
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_903a9871
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_903a9871
 Weirdness Censor / int_90b916ba
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_90b916ba
comment
One episode of Batman: The Animated Series pits the Dark Knight against the Condiment King: a hammy pun-dropping Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who uses ketchup, mustard, and hot sauce as weapons. Good old Bats is so used to villains with outlandish costumes and motives that he doesn't even think twice about it; he simply assumes the guy is new at it and even offers to go easy on him. He does mutter, "It's gonna be one of those nights" when he hears the initial police radio report, suggesting that the situation is weird even by his standards.
 Weirdness Censor / int_90b916ba
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_90b916ba
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman: The Animated Series
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_90b916ba
 Weirdness Censor / int_90c73dda
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_90c73dda
comment
Animorphs: The reason that, when discussing who to recruit for the Auxiliary Animorphs, the kids decide that Adults Are Useless.
 Weirdness Censor / int_90c73dda
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_90c73dda
featureConfidence
1.0
 Animorphs
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_90c73dda
 Weirdness Censor / int_93e492c3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_93e492c3
comment
The plot of Black Hole centers around a sexually transmitted disease that horribly mutates high school students, yet none of their parents, teachers or, indeed, any adults in the town seem to realize or do anything about it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_93e492c3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_93e492c3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Black Hole (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_93e492c3
 Weirdness Censor / int_94c1352f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_94c1352f
comment
In The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter shatters a basketball goal when dunking the ball and later throws a football so hard that it slams into and bends a goal post. Each of these events had multiple witnesses who knew Peter, but nothing seems to come of them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_94c1352f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_94c1352f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Amazing Spider-Man
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_94c1352f
 Weirdness Censor / int_96a961e1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_96a961e1
comment
In His Wife Is a Hen, the husband is completely unaware his wife is a hen, despite the fact that she makes no effort whatsoever to hide it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_96a961e1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_96a961e1
featureConfidence
1.0
 His Wife Is a Hen (Animation)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_96a961e1
 Weirdness Censor / int_96fc8aa6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_96fc8aa6
comment
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan lampshades this in the first episode. She introduces herself to the class as an angel (after turning a classmate into a monkey and making another one completely vanish) despite Sakura's insistence that she keep it a secret, but they just nod and accept it fully. In fact, Sakura is the only one who seems the slightest bit weirded out by the situation. "This should really bother you! Say 'Ahh! Angels exist?!' or something!"
 Weirdness Censor / int_96fc8aa6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_96fc8aa6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_96fc8aa6
 Weirdness Censor / int_989506be
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_989506be
comment
In The Vampire Lestat, Lestat mentions that this tendency is "a lesson about mortal piece of mind I never forgot."
 Weirdness Censor / int_989506be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_989506be
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Vampire Chronicles
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_989506be
 Weirdness Censor / int_98c961e2
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_98c961e2
comment
Helluva Boss: The main characters are demons who go around assassinating humans. It seems that most humans are too stupid to recognize demons when they see them. Undisguised demons spotted in the living world have been mistaken for people in costumes, and in one case for a possum. In season 2 episode 2, Blitzo dons a poor disguise to pass as a human, gets mistaken for a comedian obviously based on his real-life voice actor just because his wig looks like his hair, and continues to play the role of that character even after losing the part of his disguise hiding his huge horns, in a studio in front of loads of people none of whom notices anything. Well, maybe his voice is right.
 Weirdness Censor / int_98c961e2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_98c961e2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Helluva Boss (Web Animation)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_98c961e2
 Weirdness Censor / int_997cc3b9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_997cc3b9
comment
Heretical Edge has the Bystander Effect, which functions similarity to The Mist from the Percy Jackson example up above by erasing or censoring memories of anything magical or otherwise supernatural from the minds of mundane humans. It can be overcome by becoming a Heretic or by being born half or part human. It's essentially a giant memory spell cast by a race called the Seosten to stunt humanity's growth and isolate it from other races. Individual Seosten can selectively free humans from its effects.
 Weirdness Censor / int_997cc3b9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_997cc3b9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Heretical Edge
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_997cc3b9
 Weirdness Censor / int_9989595b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9989595b
comment
At the end of the second season of W.I.T.C.H. the five girls have ascended to their zenith forms (pure whatever element they are—air, earth, fire, water and quintessence) and are fighting a giant snake monster who ate Phobos and gained his power. No one in the city notices this fight because the regent for the heart of Earth makes it look like it was a cartoon on a big billboard downtown. Also, during the first season no one seems to notice or question the frequent appearance of portals or girls with wings and magical powers closing those portals.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9989595b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9989595b
featureConfidence
1.0
 WITCH
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9989595b
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a45848c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a45848c
comment
From Julius Caesar:
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a45848c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a45848c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Julius Caesar (Theatre)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9a45848c
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a67b688
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a67b688
comment
Case Closed. In order for the Masquerade to be sustained, there are a number of details that the cast is forcibly required to ignore, otherwise the whole charade would fall apart rather quickly. With time, most of these have been either lampshaded to death or even seriously acknowledged by the cast.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a67b688
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9a67b688
featureConfidence
1.0
 Case Closed (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9a67b688
 Weirdness Censor / int_9ab32c13
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9ab32c13
comment
Pony POV Series: The Interviewers are a mysterious trio who go around interviewing various characters and giving cryptic advice. Except for rare occasions like when they handed Twilight Sparkle Razzaroo's Apocalyptic Log, none of the characters ever question their presence and their habit of appearing and disappearing at will.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9ab32c13
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9ab32c13
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pony POV Series / Fan Fic
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9ab32c13
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d34190a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d34190a
comment
In The Elder Scrolls series, Tamriel has one, partly thanks to Artificial Atmospheric Actions. NPCs will suffer odd pathing issues and will get stuck trying to walk through each other. Guards will ignore people attacking you, but if you attack someone, they'll immediately try to arrest you for committing a crime. You can murder someone in cold blood in the street, pay your fine, and then otherwise walk away scot-free. You can fire an arrow into a person's head from stealth, and that person will dismiss it as the wind. Odd circumstances crop up where two guards will suddenly try to kill each other because one accidentally struck a friendly NPC while fighting a legitimate enemy and the other considered it a crime. You may help a village defend against an attack but then immediately find yourself under arrest because you accidentally killed a chicken in the fighting. You'll wake up to find yourself being attacked by an assassin or a zombie but your bunkmate won't lift a finger to help you. Many fans actually enjoy this aspect of the series because the weirdness is just that entertaining sometimes.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d34190a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d34190a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9d34190a
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d4cb472
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d4cb472
comment
In Kamichu! a middle school girl becomes a goddess. It's just another after school job as far as most of the townsfolk are concerned.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d4cb472
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9d4cb472
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kamichu!
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9d4cb472
 Weirdness Censor / int_9e2f90f4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9e2f90f4
comment
This is often played for laughs in the typically bizarre world of One Piece. Particularly because the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, who is literally made of rubber, and who has recruited a large cast of truly freaky characters into his crew, finds extremely random things to be weird. For example, he has a talking reindeer as his ship's doctor, but is shocked and baffled to meet a talking bear on another crew.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9e2f90f4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9e2f90f4
featureConfidence
1.0
 One Piece (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9e2f90f4
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f698158
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f698158
comment
In Emergency Exit it is revealed that the Apartment has one of these only after it temporarily takes it down, allowing police attention to come to the large hole in the wall, because "It thinks it's funny" to do so.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f698158
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f698158
featureConfidence
1.0
 Emergency Exit (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9f698158
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f89a5f0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f89a5f0
comment
Pokémon: Huh. That ten-year-old is running around with a giant, super-rare, legendary creature following their every whim. Nah, that's probably just a transformed Ditto.
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f89a5f0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_9f89a5f0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pokémon (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_9f89a5f0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a134c04a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a134c04a
comment
Practically a part of everyday human existence in the various The World of Darkness games.
Vampires in both settings can learn Obfuscate, a power which causes others to not notice them. Essentially every other type of supernatural creature has at least one (usually several) specialty or subtype with the same ability (such as mages using telepathy or probability manipulation or changelings using illusions).
Old World of Darkness-only examples:
In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, werewolves (and other shapeshifters, except werefoxes), have the Delirium. This means that (most) mortals, upon seeing a werewolf in true form, freak out hysterically, and forget about what happened later. However, relying on this to maintain the Masquerade is pointedly a stupid idea and usually outlawed in shapeshifter societies, as the various enemies who know about them can simply follow incidences of such hysteria to track down the protagonists.
In Changeling: The Dreaming, changelings are prone to Banality (the death of imagination), which not only shuts down their magic, but is potentially lethal to them, and if they manage to use their magic in front of mortals, the Mists will erase the knowledge of it.
Wraith: The Oblivion has a similar censorship mechanic called the Fog, where mortals who see wraiths and experience their powers will react with mortal terror, then write it all off as a nightmare or trick of the light.
In Mage: The Ascension, humanity has been so convinced to accept a paradigm of what is and what isn't possible that anything too blatantly "magical" usually results in reality itself backlashing against mages in the form of "Paradox". The presence of normal humans actively disrupts magic. The mere act of observing a mage's supernatural abilities can cause their spells to decay into nothingness. The Arcane advantage doubles down on this by making the mage himself tend to slip out of both physical records and human memory, meaning that the censor extends even to people actively trying to figure it out.
New World of Darkness-only examples:
Mage: The Awakening keeps Paradox, but in this case, it's coded into the very laws of the universe. Human observation will cause magic to decay (due to the Lie), but the very act of performing something explicitly magical runs the risk of the universe (or... something worse) pantsing you. Related to this is Quiescence, the tendency of humans to rationalize and forget anything obviously magical that they witnessed. Certain people (known as Sleepwalkers) are, while unable to work magic, able to see past the Lie and truly witness magic; this same ability also means they cannot trigger Paradox, making them invaluable as assistants to mages.
Werewolf: The Forsaken has Lunacy, which is equivalent to Delirium. Instead of being the ancestral memories of werewolves culling humans, however, it's a gift by their patron goddess Luna that keeps humanity from easily finding the beasts in their midst.
A similar effect occurs in the Second Sight splatbook, where almost all humans are latent psychics, but since they don't believe in psychics, end up using their abilities to suppress the unbelievable psychic acts of others. Conversely, it's possible for characters to gain an advantage in the form of a believing hanger-on who actually makes their psychic abilities perform better.
In Changeling: The Lost, all changeling magic (as well as the changeling's inhuman appearance) is covered by "the Mask". A seven-foot-tall cyclops with fey armour sculpted from living, rune-etched wood looks like a banged-up old bouncer with an eye patch and hockey pads, and so on.
Averted in the fan-game Genius: The Transgression: the rules explicitly state that nothing about Mad Science clouds men's minds. Causes insanity yes, but if you resist that (and it doesn't kill you before you can tell anyone) there's no censor. The only groups that appear to be unable to perceive something are both intrinsically supernatural - the Lemurians and the Seers to the Throne, the bad-guy conspiracies for Geniuses and Mages respectively, are seemingly unable to detect each other, and no-one knows why.
Other fan-game Princess: The Hopeful has an optional rule allowing to apply the trope to Princesses' outfits; according to this rule, the Nobles' magic combined with mortals' natural tendency to ignore the supernatural means a Princess dressed in a futuristic sci-fi outfit can go around in public completely unnoticed, aside from people noticing she looks a bit "nerdy".
 Weirdness Censor / int_a134c04a
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a134c04a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a134c04a
 Weirdness Censor / int_a183d57f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a183d57f
comment
Futurama has an episode in which the crew go back in time, first to visit the American Revolution and then to help America win because their last visit caused Britain to win. Not one colonial notices that Bender is a robot — Paul Revere believes he's a cannon, Benjamin Franklin mistakes him for an oven, and so on. Much to Bender's surprise, he proves capable of shooting cannonballs out his ass and baking a turkey in his compartment.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a183d57f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a183d57f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Futurama
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a183d57f
 Weirdness Censor / int_a2dc1180
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a2dc1180
comment
In the Shadowgirls universe; enough templars in an area disbelieving hard enough can shut down magic users entirely. Which leads to Starkweather circumventing said limitation by somehow tapping into an older magic.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a2dc1180
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a2dc1180
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shadowgirls (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a2dc1180
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4420d22
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4420d22
comment
The Galactic Grand Inquisitor from The Venture Bros. tries to enforce this, following the characters around everywhere and yelling "IGNORE ME!" whenever anyone looks at him.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4420d22
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4420d22
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Venture Bros.
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a4420d22
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4a6b86a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4a6b86a
comment
Used maybe as irony in Code Geass: "You will disregard any strange events." The geassed people usually reply if they're asked why they're not doing anything about a crisis situation, or even reassure themselves, or warn the watcher that they are geassed with the line "I see nothing out of the ordinary."
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4a6b86a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a4a6b86a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Code Geass
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a4a6b86a
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6543322
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6543322
comment
Touhou Project's Koishi Komeiji has the ability to manipulate the subconscious, the most common application of which seems to be to trigger peoples' Weirdness Censors, thereby making herself invisible to them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6543322
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6543322
featureConfidence
1.0
 Touhou Project (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a6543322
 Weirdness Censor / int_a698aa86
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a698aa86
comment
The Ghostbusters franchise has a long history with this trope:
Ghostbusters II picks up five years after the end of the original, and excuses the public perception caused by a litany of ghosts/50-foot tall marshmallow man rampaging across New York City for one day by having the populace write the titular heroes off as having created a series of projections. By the time the sequel's plot begins, the characters have been sued by the city, lost most of the income they generated through the business, and have been forced to seek other employment, with only Stantz and Zeddemore still doing birthday parties in-costume (and one kid dismissing them as heroes). It takes another public incident (the reveal of the Scoleri Brothers after the Ghostbusters have had their gear impounded and a trial launched to find them guilty of illegally accessing city property) for the public to start trusting them again.
The 2015 Sony Pictures email hack references this trope as the rationale for why Paul Feig wanted to have a Continuity Reboot of the franchise. In an email to then-Chairman Amy Pascal, Feig reasoned that having a franchise where the public is aware of ghosts would create too many problems for future plots, necessitating a fresh start in a world where there have never been mass ghost sightings.
Subverted by the marketing for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which counts both of the first two film's events as canon, then clarifies (via a schoolteacher who is aware of the Ghostbusters) that there hasn't been a ghost sighting in 30 years. As such, the original team's exploits have passed into legend.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a698aa86
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_a698aa86
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ghostbusters (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a698aa86
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6d7fbf4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6d7fbf4
comment
Exchange Student Zero: From how the people simply just stood there in shock or pure confusion to anything bizzare and strange, probably none of them would be scarred for life.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6d7fbf4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a6d7fbf4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Exchange Student Zero
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a6d7fbf4
 Weirdness Censor / int_a7cb7544
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a7cb7544
comment
Adults not in the know cannot figure out that the title character of Selkie isn't human. The official story is that she's a human with a rare genetic condition. Sure, she has periwinkle skin, a mouth full of razor sharp teeth, and webbed fingers and toes. She's also an obligate carnivore, is cold-blooded, and her nose is blatantly non-human. However, her gills are typically covered by her clothing, and she wears her hair down to hide the fact that her ears are entirely internal. Notably, every child who has spent meaningful time around her knows the truth. Amanda says it best:
 Weirdness Censor / int_a7cb7544
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a7cb7544
featureConfidence
1.0
 Selkie (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a7cb7544
 Weirdness Censor / int_a90d239a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a90d239a
comment
Psychonauts plays this quite literally. Every mind has actual censors whose job is to roam around and stamp out anything that doesn't belong. (Such as visiting Psychonauts...)
 Weirdness Censor / int_a90d239a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a90d239a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Psychonauts (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a90d239a
 Weirdness Censor / int_a9cb14fc
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_a9cb14fc
comment
Except in Ravenloft, where noticing what's spooky and magical can get you killed. Natives of domains such as Richemulot or Zherisia, where the populace is infiltrated by monsters, find it a lot safer not to admit they've seen anything suspicious, even to themselves.
 Weirdness Censor / int_a9cb14fc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_a9cb14fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ravenloft (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_a9cb14fc
 Weirdness Censor / int_aae9b70b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_aae9b70b
comment
This seems to happen occasionally in Rhapsodies most notably after Dielle hitches a ride
 Weirdness Censor / int_aae9b70b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_aae9b70b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Rhapsodies (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_aae9b70b
 Weirdness Censor / int_abd5699
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_abd5699
comment
The iOS game Plague Inc. (similar in many respects to Pandemic) has several types of plagues that can be unleashed. The "parasite" type has additional abilities that can be evolved that hide it from notice by people. In game terms, this decreases the "severity" stat to below zero. What this means is that the symptoms can include nausea, coughing + vomiting (which enables projectile vomiting) and still not think anything is wrong. You can have the entire world have these symptoms with no one the wiser. It's not until you "evolve" deadly symptoms and people start dying by the millions that anybody starts to consider that something strange is going on. The same can be done with the special Neurax Worm plague type, but that is implied to be a semi-sentient Puppeteer Parasite.
 Weirdness Censor / int_abd5699
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_abd5699
featureConfidence
1.0
 Plague Inc. (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_abd5699
 Weirdness Censor / int_ac8b90f5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ac8b90f5
comment
In Mage: The Ascension, humanity has been so convinced to accept a paradigm of what is and what isn't possible that anything too blatantly "magical" usually results in reality itself backlashing against mages in the form of "Paradox". The presence of normal humans actively disrupts magic. The mere act of observing a mage's supernatural abilities can cause their spells to decay into nothingness. The Arcane advantage doubles down on this by making the mage himself tend to slip out of both physical records and human memory, meaning that the censor extends even to people actively trying to figure it out.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ac8b90f5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ac8b90f5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ac8b90f5
 Weirdness Censor / int_ad6a095e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ad6a095e
comment
Other fan-game Princess: The Hopeful has an optional rule allowing to apply the trope to Princesses' outfits; according to this rule, the Nobles' magic combined with mortals' natural tendency to ignore the supernatural means a Princess dressed in a futuristic sci-fi outfit can go around in public completely unnoticed, aside from people noticing she looks a bit "nerdy".
 Weirdness Censor / int_ad6a095e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ad6a095e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ad6a095e
 Weirdness Censor / int_ae8d22f6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ae8d22f6
comment
Werewolf: The Forsaken has Lunacy, which is equivalent to Delirium. Instead of being the ancestral memories of werewolves culling humans, however, it's a gift by their patron goddess Luna that keeps humanity from easily finding the beasts in their midst.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ae8d22f6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ae8d22f6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Werewolf: The Forsaken (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ae8d22f6
 Weirdness Censor / int_b211ee13
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b211ee13
comment
Became a running joke in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, in which one woman is constantly harassed by Sideburn — who is trying to get jiggy with her car. By narrative convenience, she starts being in range of the giant robot battles nearly every episode.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b211ee13
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b211ee13
featureConfidence
1.0
 Transformers: Robots in Disguise
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b211ee13
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2165525
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2165525
comment
In Blade (1998), no one even glances at the dude driving the souped-up muscle car, with the funny hair and tats, dressed in a black leather duster with a sword handle sticking out of it. He beats up a uniformed cop on a populated street in broad daylight and no one cares.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2165525
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2165525
featureConfidence
1.0
 Blade (1998)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b2165525
 Weirdness Censor / int_b23651be
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b23651be
comment
Lampshaded in the yaoi manga Sex Pistols: any "Madararui talk" overheard by the "normal" humans is automatically and subconsciously discarded. The art plays it literal for laughs: inside the normal people thought-clouds, a paper with "Madararui talk" written on it is crushed into a ball and then thrown into a garbage bin.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b23651be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b23651be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Love Pistols (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b23651be
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2c187a7
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2c187a7
comment
In The Magician's Nephew, Uncle Andrew is incapable of believing animals can talk. When he encounters animals talking, the narrator takes glee in describing how Andrew's own Weirdness Censor engages at that moment, rendering him incapable of understanding them. Ironic in that Uncle Andrew spent his whole life looking for magic, and when he was finally confronted with real power, he just couldn't handle it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2c187a7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b2c187a7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Magician's Nephew
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b2c187a7
 Weirdness Censor / int_b36f7cc5
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b36f7cc5
comment
Played with in R.I.P.D. Nick/old Chinese guy gets crushed by a car and a group of bystanders rush to help him. The Dead-o's actions do not go unnoticed by the media.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b36f7cc5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b36f7cc5
featureConfidence
1.0
 R.I.P.D.
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b36f7cc5
 Weirdness Censor / int_b4fe32c9
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b4fe32c9
comment
Invader Zim uses this trope; though it is completely obvious that Zim is an alien (he has green skin and no ears or nose), Dib is the only one who ever notices (aside from his sister Gaz, who simply doesn't care). Likewise any time something bizarre happens most people either ignore it, or notice it but never question how or why it happened in the first place. (Or if they do, Dib usually somehow gets unfairly blamed).
 Weirdness Censor / int_b4fe32c9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b4fe32c9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Invader Zim
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b4fe32c9
 Weirdness Censor / int_b7c37594
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b7c37594
comment
Most bystanders in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid seem to be utterly oblivious to the actions that any of the dragons take; like when Tohru used inhuman strength and speed to stop a purse snatcher, or when she fired a massive Wave-Motion Gun in broad daylight that blew away storm clouds while in full dragon form. They do notice the horns, but everyone just passes that off as cosplaying. It's later explained as being caused by "cognitive inhibition" magic on part of the dragons.
During the Dodgeball chapter where Tohru and friend ended fighting each other and destroyed the park they're on, Lucoa stated that she'll restore the park and manipulate bystander memory to keep their identity secret.
In chapter 38, Tohru also shows that she also capable to manipulate memories as she erase Clemene memories.
In chapter 6 of Lucoa is my xx, Lucoa admits to Shouta that she cast a "Fuzzy Spell" on his entire class that makes them oblivious to what she does while still being aware that she's there. She proceeds to demonstrate its effects by parting the pool a la Moses to save a drowning student without anyone making a comment.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b7c37594
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b7c37594
featureConfidence
1.0
 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b7c37594
 Weirdness Censor / int_b88b182f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b88b182f
comment
In The Dark Eye German Pen&Paper, its fairly normal for elves and dwarfs roam the cities. The bigger cities have their mage academies. Goblins and orcs are fairly well known in the wilderness. Yet muggles are particularity shocked whenever something magical happens around them, and are fast to shrug it off as something mundane instead of magic. This is played Up to Eleven with the kobolds, which in this setting are supernatural beings of near infinite power... and only use it for mischief or if enlisted by an deity for a particular job to guard an area. Like in Real Life if some mishap is going on, they are going to handwave it towards the kobolds as fairy tale, but maybe more true as they want it to be.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b88b182f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b88b182f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b88b182f
 Weirdness Censor / int_b99cadb6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b99cadb6
comment
In Twin Spica, nobody wonders about the weird stuff that sometimes happens involving Lion-san, for example when Asumi gets twirled around at the playground by some unseen force.
Usually this is the case, including people it's happening to, like Kasane on the merry-go-round. There is one little girl that comments on sake flying through the air, which gets her grandfather scolded for giving alcohol to the kids.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b99cadb6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b99cadb6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Twin Spica (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b99cadb6
 Weirdness Censor / int_b9b796cf
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_b9b796cf
comment
Hilariously done in Fate/stay night, when Rin gets so angry at the protagonist that she breaks her (entirely fake) "perfect student/school idol" image in front of their classmates to shout at him. The entire area goes quiet... everybody stops and stares... and suddenly go back to what they were doing, oblivious of what happened, having subconsciously repressed those memories to maintain their "perfect" image of her. This happens on two separate occasions.
 Weirdness Censor / int_b9b796cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_b9b796cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fate/stay night (Visual Novel)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_b9b796cf
 Weirdness Censor / int_ba9abaa8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ba9abaa8
comment
In Windy Tales, almost nobody notices the huge amounts of cats that fly around on air streams, not even when they're cluttered together in a huge ball consisting of dozens of them during a typhoon.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ba9abaa8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ba9abaa8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Windy Tales
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ba9abaa8
 Weirdness Censor / int_baf3bcd7
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_baf3bcd7
comment
Wraith: The Oblivion has a similar censorship mechanic called the Fog, where mortals who see wraiths and experience their powers will react with mortal terror, then write it all off as a nightmare or trick of the light.
 Weirdness Censor / int_baf3bcd7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_baf3bcd7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Wraith: The Oblivion (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_baf3bcd7
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb3fde3d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb3fde3d
comment
In Danny Phantom, Danny feels perfectly secure transforming into a ghost if he ducks inside a locker or even stands behind another person to do so. Apparently nobody makes the connection that a kid moving to a just-concealed area, disappearing, and being replaced by a ghost might mean something. Though this is probably justified to an extent since even the resident ghost experts don't know human/ghost hybrids are possible. After all, ghosts are supposed to be dead. Why would anyone assume a ghost superhero has a secret identity, much less a human one?
Subverted with Danny's sister, Jazz, early in the first season. Jazz has been incredibly concerned about his recent behavior since the start of the series, culminating in her discovering his ghost form after chasing him down to have a serious talk. She becomes a Secret Secret-Keeper until halfway through Season 2.
Paulina lampshades this in one episode, where she invites Fenton to her birthday party because he always seems be there whenever his alter ego shows up to save the day, meaning Phantom would come if Fenton did. She never puts two and two together, though.
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb3fde3d
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb3fde3d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Danny Phantom
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bb3fde3d
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb8d2f1a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb8d2f1a
comment
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Life, the Universe and Everything introduces the SEP, or "Somebody Else's Problem" field, a device which renders things effectively invisible by suggesting to an onlooker's subconscious that it's somebody else's problem and can therefore be safely ignored.
In Mostly Harmless, Arthur ends up on a planet that has a race of birds that ignore everything out of the ordinary that happens around them. For example, they fail to notice a giant crashing spaceship. On the flip side, everything normal comes as a huge shock to them. In the author's own words: "...and the sunrise always took them completely by surprise."
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb8d2f1a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_bb8d2f1a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bb8d2f1a
 Weirdness Censor / int_bbc9028b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bbc9028b
comment
New York Magician: Lampshaded repeatedly; most New Yorkers people won't notice unless something really incredible is happening. In fact, Michel muses that it's easier for him to get away with using magic in public than it is to get away with waving a gun around; people rationalize magic, but they call the cops for guns.
 Weirdness Censor / int_bbc9028b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_bbc9028b
featureConfidence
1.0
 New York Magician
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bbc9028b
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd310eaa
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd310eaa
comment
In El Goonish Shive, the aliens, when walking among humans, use a system of disguise that involves wearing shirts bearing the label 'human'. Despite their natural forms looking like Little Green Men, this method somehow successfully convinces anyone who has not been explicitly informed of their existence.
Averted later on when a monster attack happens in public, all the bystanders record the incident and release the information, the local news station immediately shows up and interviews the man who fought the monster, and that very same day the head of The Men in Black openly confirms magic and monsters are real.
The trope actually ends up being subtly deconstructed as The Unmasqued World really isn't any different from before. People still go about their lives as usual, The Men in Black still do their job as before, and most denizens of the magical world still stay out of sight. Even while the Masquerade was in place a lot of people knew about magic. It seems like people just don't let all the weirdness going on around them get in the way of living their lives, yet aren't in the least bit of denial about how strange things are. They just treat the fantastic the same way as they treat the mundane.
The above gets lampshaded when a security guard in EGS:NP calls someone's sleeves shrinking a "neat trick". The Rant says "Oh my god. We found him! We found the one character in EGS who makes excuses when he sees obvious magic and doesn't just accept it as a thing!"
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd310eaa
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd310eaa
featureConfidence
1.0
 El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bd310eaa
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd9edbdd
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd9edbdd
comment
Ghostbusters II picks up five years after the end of the original, and excuses the public perception caused by a litany of ghosts/50-foot tall marshmallow man rampaging across New York City for one day by having the populace write the titular heroes off as having created a series of projections. By the time the sequel's plot begins, the characters have been sued by the city, lost most of the income they generated through the business, and have been forced to seek other employment, with only Stantz and Zeddemore still doing birthday parties in-costume (and one kid dismissing them as heroes). It takes another public incident (the reveal of the Scoleri Brothers after the Ghostbusters have had their gear impounded and a trial launched to find them guilty of illegally accessing city property) for the public to start trusting them again.
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd9edbdd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_bd9edbdd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ghostbusters II
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bd9edbdd
 Weirdness Censor / int_beac6ffb
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_beac6ffb
comment
Zigzagged in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask where at first it appears to be an aversion with people ignoring the moon, until you walk in on the meeting with the Mayor and Captain Viscen declares that the city is usually overrun with people this time of year, making it clear you're only seeing the very small portion of people who actually are ignoring it. As time goes on however, more and more people flee until the only few who are left are those who have utterly resigned themselves to the annihilation. Mutoh is the only person left who actually still refuses to believe the moon will fall.
 Weirdness Censor / int_beac6ffb
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_beac6ffb
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_beac6ffb
 Weirdness Censor / int_bff01809
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_bff01809
comment
An amusing variation in Warhammer, with the level of it Depending on the Writer. The Empire refuse to believe in the existence of the Skaven (a race of technologically advanced rat-people, living just under the surface), despite the fact that half-human Beastmen, Elves, Dwarves (who exist in a constant state of war with the Skaven), magic and freaking Dragons are just a fact of life in the Empire . This has been explained back and forth by either the Empire keeping it quiet to keep everyone from panicking, the Skaven keeping it quiet in their own best interest, people just assuming they're a Beastmen variant or some innate magic of the Skaven making everyone forget.
 Weirdness Censor / int_bff01809
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_bff01809
featureConfidence
1.0
 Warhammer (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_bff01809
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2b1f04a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2b1f04a
comment
In Mononoke almost no one takes notice of the Medicine Seller's Facial Markings, Cute Little Fangs and Pointed Ears. Only once does anyone remark upon his unusual clothing. Usually, the most anyone notices about him is that he's very attractive.
This is especially obvious in the Zashiki-Warashi arc, which features a blonde, blue-eyed woman in Feudal Japan, something the other characters are astonished by when she first removes the cloth over her hair. These same characters have just met and interacted with the Medicine Seller, who has almost white hair and blue eyes, without comment.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2b1f04a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2b1f04a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mononoke
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c2b1f04a
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2d205a8
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2d205a8
comment
In Steven Gould's novel "Jumper" and the sequel "Reflex", the protagonist discovers he has the ability to teleport at will. At first he's afraid of revealing his secret if he ever "lands" somewhere within sight of anyone, but when this occurs a few times by accident, he discovers it's not a problem. Even when he instantly appears right in front of someone, the startled person just brushes it off with "oh excuse me, I didn't see you there" and dismisses it as a failure of their own attention rather than spending even a moment considering the ridiculous notion that he had just popped in.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2d205a8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c2d205a8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jumper
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c2d205a8
 Weirdness Censor / int_c3d017b4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c3d017b4
comment
The kids don't care that Blanche The Blue-Nosed Witch is a witch and can fly on a broomstick. However, when she darts off on her broom after visiting an evening party (because it's nearly midnight and she's about to be late to her scurry's meetup), one of the ladies at the party sees her fly off through the door slot and when she tells the others at the party, they just laugh her off.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c3d017b4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c3d017b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Blue-Nosed Witch
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c3d017b4
 Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
comment
One of the primary responsibilities of the Men in Black (the other being handling lawful extraterrestrial alien visitor traffic) is policing illicit alien activity on Earth. Part of that duty is ensuring that the humans on Earth outside the agency are completely oblivious to the aliens among them, be they legal or otherwise.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Men in Black
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
 Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
comment
In Shaun of the Dead, Shaun goes a whole day and into the next morning without noticing the Zombie Apocalypse that has already started. This is part of his characterization that he's trudging through his life like a zombie.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shaun of the Dead
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
 Weirdness Censor / int_c51cb60a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c51cb60a
comment
In Changeling: The Lost, all changeling magic (as well as the changeling's inhuman appearance) is covered by "the Mask". A seven-foot-tall cyclops with fey armour sculpted from living, rune-etched wood looks like a banged-up old bouncer with an eye patch and hockey pads, and so on.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c51cb60a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c51cb60a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c51cb60a
 Weirdness Censor / int_c564dcf0
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_c564dcf0
comment
Moreover, it is described in both Moving Pictures and Guards! Guards!! as a kind of permanent level of intoxication generated by the brain to be able to ignore things that could drive it to madness, which can happen if one were to ever become "knurd" (a state of sobriety so stark that the Weirdness Censor is shut off). Some people are born "knurd", or it can be achieved by, say drinking extra-strong Klatchian Coffee.
 Weirdness Censor / int_c564dcf0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_c564dcf0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Moving Pictures
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_c564dcf0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb2db091
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb2db091
comment
This is one of the central themes of Pratchett's lesser known works, the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, where the title character explicitly lacks those kind of mental filters, so he's usually the first (and sometimes only) one to notice the weird things around him. Ironically, that same lack of mental agility makes him best equipped to actually deal with said weirdness, as his friends tend to try to deal according to the way things are "supposed to" go.
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb2db091
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb2db091
featureConfidence
1.0
 Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cb2db091
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb570c4a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb570c4a
comment
In Mostly Harmless, Arthur ends up on a planet that has a race of birds that ignore everything out of the ordinary that happens around them. For example, they fail to notice a giant crashing spaceship. On the flip side, everything normal comes as a huge shock to them. In the author's own words: "...and the sunrise always took them completely by surprise."
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb570c4a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb570c4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mostly Harmless
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cb570c4a
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb840c8f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb840c8f
comment
The Sixth Sense is a weird case — the ghosts themselves "see what they want to see", protecting themselves from the Tomato in the Mirror.
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb840c8f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cb840c8f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Sixth Sense
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cb840c8f
 Weirdness Censor / int_cc2b38ea
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cc2b38ea
comment
This is the explanation for how the angels and demons of Elijah and Azuu are able to integrate into society... humans still physically see their horns and haloes, but simply don't process them. Though if someone is too weird looking they're simply Invisible to Normals.
 Weirdness Censor / int_cc2b38ea
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cc2b38ea
featureConfidence
1.0
 Elijah and Azuu (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cc2b38ea
 Weirdness Censor / int_cd69fa57
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cd69fa57
comment
Lynn Mims uses this in a story in a Darkover anthology—Caleb Hargrave’s Weirdness Censor is so strong that it cancels out psi powers. He’s a walking telepathic damper... but it only works when he’s nearby.
 Weirdness Censor / int_cd69fa57
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cd69fa57
featureConfidence
1.0
 Darkover
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cd69fa57
 Weirdness Censor / int_ce005579
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ce005579
comment
In Uta∽Kata nobody wonders about the tsunami that threatens Kamakura out of the blue, or about the fact that it is deflected by a flying, screaming young girl.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ce005579
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ce005579
featureConfidence
1.0
 Uta∽Kata
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ce005579
 Weirdness Censor / int_cf82b152
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_cf82b152
comment
The Last Battle has another instance set after Narnia's end, where the dwarves eat delicious food in a beautiful meadow but perceive it as stale bread in a muckhole due to their cynical incapability to accept the paradise.
 Weirdness Censor / int_cf82b152
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_cf82b152
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Last Battle
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_cf82b152
 Weirdness Censor / int_d08b9cae
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d08b9cae
comment
In Ikki Tousen nobody seems to care that students attack each other's high schools and commit openly visible acts of extreme violence. You'd at least expect that the police would try to intervene - or that the army would be called in to do something about the genocide that's taking place.
In the manga a doctor commented in it being more or less a bunch of delinquents beating each-other to death. He seems to be the only one that has noticed.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d08b9cae
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d08b9cae
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ikki Tousen (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d08b9cae
 Weirdness Censor / int_d0d474b1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d0d474b1
comment
Zatanna: In the first arc of Zatanna (2010), detective Dale Colton explains to Zatanna that people have a lot of trouble accepting the truth about magic, even though Zatanna herself is a world-famous Stage Magician with actual magical powers who is a member of the Justice League of America. No matter how often there is verifiable documentation of legitimate supernatural affairs people prefer to look the other way and hum really loudly, which explains why magic is still a "secret" in The DCU. This is particularly frustrating, even to Zatanna herself, because here there is no Masquerade, the supernatural world wants to be recognized, but the people are not listening. The alternate argument would be that in a world populated by aliens who can fly and shoot lasers out their eyes and gets invaded once a month, most people probably don't really see much difference between natural and supernatural as one could easily be used to mimic the other.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d0d474b1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d0d474b1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Zatanna (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d0d474b1
 Weirdness Censor / int_d27c007d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d27c007d
comment
Weaponized and enforced by the villains in Kill la Kill, who by the end of the series are roaming the streets eating everyone they see - and deleting memories of anything being out of the ordinary from everyone who hasn't built up resistance to their power, ensuring that nobody but the heroes notice enough to avoid getting eaten or even panic.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d27c007d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d27c007d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kill la Kill
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d27c007d
 Weirdness Censor / int_d32b35a6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d32b35a6
comment
Anyone who's not Stanley or part of his circle of friends and such on Stanley seems to use this when confronted by things such as talking/singing pets, or wild animals popping up in places they shouldn't be, such as the roof of Stanley's house.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d32b35a6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d32b35a6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Stanley
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d32b35a6
 Weirdness Censor / int_d69208d2
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d69208d2
comment
In the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation T.U.R.N.I.P.", the farmer is completely oblivious to the fact that his giant turnip is sending smaller ones through its roots all over the place and attacking the Sector V kids. The only thing that causes him to freak out is when it falls over and rolls into the sea.
This seems to be in effect for almost all the non-evil adults in the show; they seem to never notice the absolute insanity going on from the battles between the KND and the villains. The fact that the KND wipe the memories of their members once they turn 13 may be a contributing factor.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d69208d2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d69208d2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Codename: Kids Next Door
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d69208d2
 Weirdness Censor / int_d6e2146d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d6e2146d
comment
In Diablo III, pre-release information says that the majority of the world has shrugged off the events that happened 20 years ago, and are unaware that demons were responsible for the havoc caused. This is rather odd, because in the second game, the minions of the Prime Evils seemed to rampage across most of the known world, and most of the NPCs you talk to seemed aware of the cause of the problem.
Even in one of the novels, a necromancer comments that their seers suspect that Baal is responsible for the destruction of Mount Arreat in the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. Not only do the necromancers usually seem more aware of what's going on than the rest of the world, but Baal was anything but subtle during his assault. Baal wasn't exactly skipping merrily to the summit, though. He killed cities and possibly kingdoms that were in his way. Who's left to say what really went on besides some reclusive, not terribly credible barbarians?
In the absence of forensics science, evidence of the Prime Evils rests entirely on eye witnesses. The demons weren't exactly leaving a lot of those... and most of them would likely be thought insane by anyone who hadn't been involved in the previous conflicts. Marius is a clear example of this, narrating his misadventures with the wanderer from inside an asylum cell.
This was present to an extent in Diablo II as well. One of the first things that Warriv says to you is "Some say that Diablo, the Lord of Terror, walks the world again. I don't know if I believe that..."
 Weirdness Censor / int_d6e2146d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d6e2146d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Diablo III (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d6e2146d
 Weirdness Censor / int_d7aab7c1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d7aab7c1
comment
In Sailor Moon SuperS, a gigantic evil circus tent appears right in the middle of Tokyo, in obvious plain view. Among the other random massive evil fortresses and demonic whatnots that show up in the middle of that same city in other seasons. Part of what makes this one stand out in the show is a lack of this problem in most cases: the evil base in the first season was underground in Antarctica, the base in the second season was on a distant planet in the far future, the base in the third season is a covert underground lab, and in the fifth it appears to be located in another dimension. The circus thing was actually lampshaded by the Lemures immediately after its appearance - they mocked the citizens for not noticing it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d7aab7c1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d7aab7c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sailor Moon
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d7aab7c1
 Weirdness Censor / int_d861bfb
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d861bfb
comment
The Infinite Loops: Mercilessly exploited by Applejack on a visit to Middle-earth, as a horse. Every time she gives away to non-Loopers that she's obviously talking (to saying nothing of earthbending), she actually says normal horse noises ("whinny, contented ear-flick"), and their natural weirdness censor reassures them that everything is alright. After all, horses can't talk.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d861bfb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d861bfb
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Infinite Loops / Fan Fic
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d861bfb
 Weirdness Censor / int_d9c602eb
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_d9c602eb
comment
Officer Barbrady does this a lot in the early episodes of South Park, whether it's political corruption or alien plots.
This applies to absolutely everyone in regards to Kenny's tendency to die horribly and return absolutely fine the very next day. No matter how many times Kenny reminds the others about it, or even prefaces them to remember before he does so, no one ever seems to recall when Kenny was last killed unless it JUST happened a few minutes ago.
 Weirdness Censor / int_d9c602eb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_d9c602eb
featureConfidence
1.0
 South Park
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_d9c602eb
 Weirdness Censor / int_db7f909b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_db7f909b
comment
This happens often in film adaptations, which tend to focus on either the origin or early years, instead of going for a more en media res approach. In 1996's The Phantom, someone scoffs at reports of the Phantom as "just a rumor" and in Daredevil in 2003 the police deny Daredevil as nothing more than a rumor until, in an early scene, reporter Ben Urich lights a drawing of flammable chemicals that Daredevil left behind as a Zorro Mark to spell out DD.
 Weirdness Censor / int_db7f909b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_db7f909b
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Phantom (1996)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_db7f909b
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbb68ab6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbb68ab6
comment
The Chronicles of Narnia:
In The Magician's Nephew, Uncle Andrew is incapable of believing animals can talk. When he encounters animals talking, the narrator takes glee in describing how Andrew's own Weirdness Censor engages at that moment, rendering him incapable of understanding them. Ironic in that Uncle Andrew spent his whole life looking for magic, and when he was finally confronted with real power, he just couldn't handle it.
The Last Battle has another instance set after Narnia's end, where the dwarves eat delicious food in a beautiful meadow but perceive it as stale bread in a muckhole due to their cynical incapability to accept the paradise.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, after entering Narnia, Eustace Scrubb seems completely certain he is just somewhere else on Earth and not the magical place his cousins claim he's in, despite the fact that he was pulled through a picture on the wall.
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbb68ab6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbb68ab6
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Chronicles of Narnia
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_dbb68ab6
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbd793bc
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbd793bc
comment
In two of the four main variants of d20 Modern, monsters roam the modern world. However, most humans can't believe that they exist, so they just see humans where player characters see monsters. (These settings are called Urban Arcana and Shadow Chasers, if you're wondering.) The average joe walks around in a state of autopilot, it's explained, so while they do see monsters as monsters while they're around, their mind subconsciously edits it out later, remembering a troll as a massive brute of a man, the dragon's fireball as a gas leak, the gnoll in the corner a shady guy wearing a trenchcoat. They also don't notice things that the more alert player characters and "aware" NPCs do, such as aforementioned shady man having slightly protruding ears...
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbd793bc
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_dbd793bc
featureConfidence
1.0
 d20 Modern (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_dbd793bc
 Weirdness Censor / int_defd21de
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_defd21de
comment
In Venus Versus Virus, only a few people can see a Virus. Not only that, the Virus likes to attack people who are able to see it.
 Weirdness Censor / int_defd21de
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_defd21de
featureConfidence
1.0
 Venus Versus Virus (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_defd21de
 Weirdness Censor / int_e05ef82a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e05ef82a
comment
In The Darkside Detective, most of the population of Twin Lakes seems to just ignore the supernatural events going on around them. At one point a computer operator comments that she can't figure out why the computer's on the fritz when there's a gremlin standing right next to her loudly nomming on the wiring. In the finale chapter, an incipient Zombie Apocalypse is treated as non-supernatural rioting by everybody except the Occult Detective protagonist and a priest he joins forces with.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e05ef82a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e05ef82a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e05ef82a
 Weirdness Censor / int_e081af79
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e081af79
comment
Most of the populace of Generictown in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! appears to have this trait to one degree or another (especially Mr. Bystander). Even Bob himself often refuses to acknowledge just how bizarre the situations are that he finds himself in. The only castmember completely free of this trope is Jean, leading her to exclaim at one point, "Ye gods! I'm the only sane person in town!"
 Weirdness Censor / int_e081af79
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e081af79
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e081af79
 Weirdness Censor / int_e08fec3a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e08fec3a
comment
Mary Poppins: Admiral Boom fires a cannon twice a day so regularly you can set your clock by it, which results in tremors akin to an earthquake for any nearby houses, including the Banks residence. However, they're so used to it at the time of the film that it barely fazes them; they just take their posts to make sure that no valuables are broken, then go back to whatever they were doing before.
A minor example with the eponymous character; Mary doesn't generally let people see her magic (with the exceptions of Jane, Michael, and those who are already aware of it like Bert and Uncle Albert), but near the start of the film, Ellen sees her and the children sliding down the banister and exiting the door to head for the park (the door opening and closing on its own). And how does she react? She simply smiles and waves, happy that she doesn't have to take on the responsibility of looking after Jane and Michael now that they have a good nanny.
Winifred comes home to find a crowd of sooty chimney sweeps dancing around the living room, and she looks mildly surprised at best. Then she casually says to Ellen that they need to talk when Ellen has a moment.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e08fec3a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e08fec3a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mary Poppins
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e08fec3a
 Weirdness Censor / int_e1575a9d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e1575a9d
comment
MegaTokyo:
Nobody even seems to notice when someone or something starts breaking stuff in Tokyo, no matter if it's Ping the overpowered Robot Girl, a giant drunken turtle, or a Rent-a-Zilla. This is justified to some degree, because not only does Tokyo get destroyed so often that nobody really cares, but also because the destruction rampages are scheduled and supervised by the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division. There is also some suggestion that many of the more outrageous aspects of Tokyo life are in fact literally Invisible to Normals, but the actual extent of this effect remains unclear. Also, the people don't look up particular iteration is alluded to in MegaTokyo as well, where Tohya tells Yuki that the civilians are "just as afraid to look up as you are to look down". In the fifth collection of Megatokyo, Gallagher FINALLY detailed his explanation for this phenomenon: "...the main theme of Megatokyo is how everyone has different perceptions of the world around them..." Everyone sees the world slightly differently. Piro and Largo are on the extreme ends of the scale—Piro only sees "mundane" things (and dismisses the fantastic things as mundane things) and Largo only sees "fantastic" things, and comes up with fantastic explanations for the mundane things he sees. Everyone else is somewhere else on this scale, nearly always between those two extremes.
It seems as though Miho has the power to turn off other people's Weirdness Censors. In this comic, she tells Kimiko to open her eyes, which leads her to notice that the restaurant is under attack by killer robots.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e1575a9d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e1575a9d
featureConfidence
1.0
 MegaTokyo
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e1575a9d
 Weirdness Censor / int_e270b7e1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e270b7e1
comment
Averted in the fan-game Genius: The Transgression: the rules explicitly state that nothing about Mad Science clouds men's minds. Causes insanity yes, but if you resist that (and it doesn't kill you before you can tell anyone) there's no censor. The only groups that appear to be unable to perceive something are both intrinsically supernatural - the Lemurians and the Seers to the Throne, the bad-guy conspiracies for Geniuses and Mages respectively, are seemingly unable to detect each other, and no-one knows why.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e270b7e1
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e270b7e1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e270b7e1
 Weirdness Censor / int_e2cb4c1
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e2cb4c1
comment
In Doctor Strange, magic is frequently explained away by "they must be shooting a movie." People still get out of Dr Strange's way, but they don't understand why (see Strange Tales vol. 1 #120 [May, 1964]). Amusingly, sometimes Doc and his associates have to chase down misbehaving magic, since the dragon/ogre/giant rabbit is something "even Greenwich Village would notice."
 Weirdness Censor / int_e2cb4c1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e2cb4c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Doctor Strange (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e2cb4c1
 Weirdness Censor / int_e5c5bc22
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e5c5bc22
comment
The Third Edition of GURPS, specifically in the IOU setting, included an advantageous character trait called "Mundanity". The advantage comes in a variety of levels. At its most expensive and intense level, any character with that trait has a chance of turning anything he / she sees that isn't considered "normal" into something normal. For example: demons turn into men in demon suits, ray guns turn into squirt guns, etc. It's sort of like a weaponized version of Sunnydale Syndrome.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e5c5bc22
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e5c5bc22
featureConfidence
1.0
 GURPS (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e5c5bc22
 Weirdness Censor / int_e65d9fd4
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_e65d9fd4
comment
The City & the City are a pair of politically and culturally distinct city-states that physically overlap. Residents of both cities are trained from childhood to ignore people, vehicles, buildings, and even disasters in the other city at all times. Visitors from other countries receive training to avoid "breaching" the division.
 Weirdness Censor / int_e65d9fd4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_e65d9fd4
featureConfidence
1.0
 The City & the City
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_e65d9fd4
 Weirdness Censor / int_ea4f62db
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ea4f62db
comment
Family Guy:
Parodied hilariously when the Griffins ignore the giant squid that destroys their home, choosing to blame it on earthquakes or a truck driving by.
Also, in the episode where they get a poltergeist, Lois pushes in some chairs around the dinner table and then turns around. When she turns back, they're all stacked in a pyramid on the table, and she says "Oh, I must have just stacked them wrong and not realized it. Yeah, that's it...."
Peter's fights with the giant chicken are treated this way. In one extreme example, Peter and Lois were interrupted mid-conversation by the chicken attacking Peter. The fight sequence (with a break for a fancy dinner) doesn't finish until hours have passed. When Peter finally returns home, battered and bleeding, Lois is still sitting there waiting for him, and they finish the conversation as if nothing happened.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ea4f62db
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ea4f62db
featureConfidence
1.0
 Family Guy
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ea4f62db
 Weirdness Censor / int_eacf9857
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_eacf9857
comment
The Yellow King has the This is Normal Now setting, which is our modern day reality... being slowly invaded by Carcosa, to the point that supernatural causes are responsible of 15 out of 100,000 deaths per year. People notice, but they don't care as much as they should, due to a psychic effect called the Reintegration Complex. While people joke about "threatening my integration" the same way some people might joke about trigger warnings, thinking too hard about the monsters and other strange phenomena stalking the world can cause mental breakdowns and death in some people.
 Weirdness Censor / int_eacf9857
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_eacf9857
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Yellow King (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_eacf9857
 Weirdness Censor / int_ebffc81f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ebffc81f
comment
Mage: The Awakening keeps Paradox, but in this case, it's coded into the very laws of the universe. Human observation will cause magic to decay (due to the Lie), but the very act of performing something explicitly magical runs the risk of the universe (or... something worse) pantsing you. Related to this is Quiescence, the tendency of humans to rationalize and forget anything obviously magical that they witnessed. Certain people (known as Sleepwalkers) are, while unable to work magic, able to see past the Lie and truly witness magic; this same ability also means they cannot trigger Paradox, making them invaluable as assistants to mages.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ebffc81f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ebffc81f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ebffc81f
 Weirdness Censor / int_ec28245c
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_ec28245c
comment
The citizens of the Dragon Ball Z universe seem to quickly get over the fact that several towns and cities suddenly explode when a Monster of the Week comes by.
King Piccolo nuked a city live on television and everyone knew he was more than capable of destroying West City when he made his announcement. There was also his son who destroyed the island where the Martial Arts Tournament is held, canceling the event for a number of years.
Nappa destroys several cities before military forces finally are sent out to stop him, to no avail. For whatever reason, the fact that he can blow up huge urban areas and shoot energy from his hand doesn't factor into their attempt at fighting back.
Perhaps the most blatant example of this was how the entire world became convinced that Cell was just a monster and chi attacks were just special effects. This despite the fact that not two decades earlier one of those special effects blew up the moon on global television.
The military also goes up against Majin Buu, before sending in Mr. Satan. Despite everything that has happened on a global scale for close to two decades, he initially refuses to believe in flight, chi attacks, nigh-indestructible super beings, or robots from the future. But doesn't seem to have much trouble accepting aliens.
There is also the fact that the citizens on Earth are happy to go back to their everyday lives after only briefly wondering if they were killed by Majin Buu and their cities destroyed. Then again, since this is Dragon Ball, maybe mass revivals became so common that not even the muggles care anymore.
 Weirdness Censor / int_ec28245c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_ec28245c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dragon Ball Z
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_ec28245c
 Weirdness Censor / int_f00d733b
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f00d733b
comment
New World of Darkness-only examples:
Mage: The Awakening keeps Paradox, but in this case, it's coded into the very laws of the universe. Human observation will cause magic to decay (due to the Lie), but the very act of performing something explicitly magical runs the risk of the universe (or... something worse) pantsing you. Related to this is Quiescence, the tendency of humans to rationalize and forget anything obviously magical that they witnessed. Certain people (known as Sleepwalkers) are, while unable to work magic, able to see past the Lie and truly witness magic; this same ability also means they cannot trigger Paradox, making them invaluable as assistants to mages.
Werewolf: The Forsaken has Lunacy, which is equivalent to Delirium. Instead of being the ancestral memories of werewolves culling humans, however, it's a gift by their patron goddess Luna that keeps humanity from easily finding the beasts in their midst.
A similar effect occurs in the Second Sight splatbook, where almost all humans are latent psychics, but since they don't believe in psychics, end up using their abilities to suppress the unbelievable psychic acts of others. Conversely, it's possible for characters to gain an advantage in the form of a believing hanger-on who actually makes their psychic abilities perform better.
In Changeling: The Lost, all changeling magic (as well as the changeling's inhuman appearance) is covered by "the Mask". A seven-foot-tall cyclops with fey armour sculpted from living, rune-etched wood looks like a banged-up old bouncer with an eye patch and hockey pads, and so on.
Averted in the fan-game Genius: The Transgression: the rules explicitly state that nothing about Mad Science clouds men's minds. Causes insanity yes, but if you resist that (and it doesn't kill you before you can tell anyone) there's no censor. The only groups that appear to be unable to perceive something are both intrinsically supernatural - the Lemurians and the Seers to the Throne, the bad-guy conspiracies for Geniuses and Mages respectively, are seemingly unable to detect each other, and no-one knows why.
Other fan-game Princess: The Hopeful has an optional rule allowing to apply the trope to Princesses' outfits; according to this rule, the Nobles' magic combined with mortals' natural tendency to ignore the supernatural means a Princess dressed in a futuristic sci-fi outfit can go around in public completely unnoticed, aside from people noticing she looks a bit "nerdy".
 Weirdness Censor / int_f00d733b
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f00d733b
featureConfidence
1.0
 New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f00d733b
 Weirdness Censor / int_f01be61d
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f01be61d
comment
In Don't Rest Your Head, "Sleepers" (aka Muggles who regularly sleep and live in the "normal" world) are incapable of perceiving the Mad City, its inhabitants, and their actions. Once, the Nightmares stole an entire district; Sleepers thought that it was destroyed in a fire. The manual implies that sleep is some sort of natural defence that makes Sleepers mostly immune to the Mad City.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f01be61d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f01be61d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Don't Rest Your Head (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f01be61d
 Weirdness Censor / int_f274e92e
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f274e92e
comment
In the manga Nagasarete Airantou Ikuto has a spell placed on him to cause him to disregard any supernatural events he witnesses and if forced to witness an event to handwave it with a scientific explanation even if his explanation makes no sense. (And double down if he's called out) This was done to prevent him from noticing that his sister is a Youkai because she was worried he'd be scared of her if he knew she wasn't human.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f274e92e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f274e92e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Nagasarete Airantou (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f274e92e
 Weirdness Censor / int_f3161017
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f3161017
comment
In the first film version of the Mack Bolan imitator The Punisher, the public did not at first feel sure that the Punisher amounted to more than a rumor. In the Lundgren film, as stated in dialogue several times, Castle had apparently died in the car explosion that slew his family five years previous to the main events of the film. In the main action of the film, people still think of Castle as dead, with only his former partner thinking of him as the true identity of the Punisher. Several newspaper headlines suggest that the public did not accept that the Punisher actually operated until he started leaving knives with his skull symbol on the handle behind. (When we see the Punisher in action before the police officially identify him as the hitherto though dead Castle, though, he does not seem to have made any effort to disguise himself. Somehow, no security cameras managed to get a recording of him, it seems Before anyone says "Maybe he looked different before the explosion, maybe he had plastic surgery", sorry, when we see him in flashback, he looks the same.)
 Weirdness Censor / int_f3161017
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f3161017
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Punisher (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f3161017
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4345923
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4345923
comment
Played with in a few of Bob & Ray's Wally Ballou skits, wherein the newsman, searching eagerly for a story, ends up interviewing the most boring man alive (in the most memorable version, a cranberry grower) while resolutely ignoring the obvious disaster — gunshots, sirens, screams, crackling flames etc — happening all around them.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4345923
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4345923
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bob & Ray (Radio)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f4345923
 Weirdness Censor / int_f47d7226
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f47d7226
comment
Re:CREATORS is supposedly set in the "real world" but employs this to such a high degree that it borders on parody. Fictional characters including mages, fantasy swordswomen and mecha pilots pop up in real life Japan, but nobody ever seems to care. One time the aftermath of one of their battles was pointed out, but every other time since then there always was a Conveniently Empty Building. The Obviously Evil character couldn't be more blatant if she tried and yet everybody falls for her tricks. Another character blows herself up generating what amounts to a Fantastic Nuke, yet nobody ever comments on it afterwards, not even the Japanese government.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f47d7226
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f47d7226
featureConfidence
1.0
 Re:CREATORS
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f47d7226
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4bc8de
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4bc8de
comment
Let Me In shows Owen. He quickly notices that Abby is acting strange. He never sees her in daylight, she obviously can't eat sweets, and she walks barefoot through the snow because she can't feel the cold. In addition, she does not know very famous pop culture objects such as the Rubix cube. In addition, one night she climbs through his window into his bedroom, although an ordinary human would not be able to climb up there at all. But eventually Owen confronts Abby about whether she is a vampire. That implies that he suspected it before, but was willing to overlook it as long as she's going to be his girlfriend.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4bc8de
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f4bc8de
featureConfidence
1.0
 Let Me In
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f4bc8de
 Weirdness Censor / int_f502a38a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f502a38a
comment
In The Smurfs episode "Romeo And Smurfette", when the Smurfs capture Papa Smurf posing as Gargamel after a "Freaky Friday" Flip and stake him down, they refuse to believe that he is actually Papa Smurf despite the fact that he is clearly speaking to them in Papa Smurf's voice. Since this scene was actually adapted from the comic book story "Smurf Vs. Smurf", it's obvious that the attempt to translate this mistake in knowing who's actually in the appearance of Gargamel did not work as well as it did in the comic book, where even Hefty without his tattoo mark in the comic book version of "King Smurf" had trouble convincing his fellow Smurfs who he actually is.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f502a38a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f502a38a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Smurfs (1981)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f502a38a
 Weirdness Censor / int_f554e011
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f554e011
comment
Discussed in Katawa Shoujo. After a couple of weeks of studying at a school for the physically disabled, the main character notices that he's been developing a Weirdness Censor of sorts for his classmates' various disabilities.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f554e011
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f554e011
featureConfidence
1.0
 Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f554e011
 Weirdness Censor / int_f5a661a6
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f5a661a6
comment
In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Finnean the Talking Weapon continues to believe himself to be a flesh and blood human as opposed to a spectral Morph Weapon, and when confronted with the time discrepancy, his inability to move under his own power, and any other extremely obvious evidence of his current state, will dismiss it as a joke or rationalize it away. Only seeing his own skull lets him remember what happened.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f5a661a6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f5a661a6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f5a661a6
 Weirdness Censor / int_f6a1016f
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f6a1016f
comment
Mentioned in the background material for The Matrix films. Apparently (it's not well conveyed on-screen) as well as The Matrix's ability to revert an area and people's memories to remove an incident from history, the leads are supposed to have a "bubble effect" which prevents passers-by (NPCs, if you will) from noticing them or interacting with them unless they do something dramatic (like stealing their phone).
 Weirdness Censor / int_f6a1016f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f6a1016f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Matrix (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f6a1016f
 Weirdness Censor / int_f7d93e4a
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f7d93e4a
comment
Averted in the Assassin's Creed games, when bystanders will basically go "WTF?!" when they see Altair, Ezio, and other characters climbing up a wall, and so on.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f7d93e4a
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f7d93e4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Assassin's Creed (Franchise)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f7d93e4a
 Weirdness Censor / int_f8705c18
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_f8705c18
comment
In Chapter 12 of the Hellsing manga, a group of tourists witness Alucard and Anderson preparing to fight to the death, and dismiss them as performance artists. You could say it was lampshaded, since they were inside a museum when that happened.
 Weirdness Censor / int_f8705c18
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_f8705c18
featureConfidence
1.0
 Hellsing (Manga)
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_f8705c18
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb2796e2
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb2796e2
comment
Dorg Van Dango: Though RD (a blobby alien who spends most of his time in a humanoid form) and Patronella (a witch) arguably pass well for humans when disguised, bystanders don't seem to notice that Jet and Yooki are a bipedal unicorn and a Bedsheet Ghost respectively.
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb2796e2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb2796e2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dorg Van Dango
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_fb2796e2
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb57d4f2
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb57d4f2
comment
In Is This A Zombie?, the heroes normally erase the memories of the normal people to keep the Masquerade. In the first episode of season 2, Ayumu is forced to fight a tentacled monster in broad daylight, yet everybody seems to only give it a passing glance and concentrate on the fact that Ayumu is in a dress. After defeating the monster, the device Ayumu uses to erase memories breaks down, leaving him a laughingstock as everyone brings up the crossdressing for a long, long time. At the very least, Taeko noticed the monster and thanked him for saving her life.
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb57d4f2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_fb57d4f2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Is This A Zombie?
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_fb57d4f2
 Weirdness Censor / int_fdbace96
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weirdness Censor / int_fdbace96
comment
Gravity Falls: Grunkle Stan either doesn't see or doesn't seem bothered by the supernatural events in the town. When he sees preserved dinosaurs, he only thinks of how much money he can make by using them as attractions. Though by the end of season 1 it's revealed that he knows a lot more than that as he's been gathering the secrets of the books to unlock something. When Dipper presents evidence in the form of his book, Stan makes a few jokes about it, reads it, and gives it back, thinking them funny stories when in reality he used the books for his machines and photo copied the contents. When Dipper unleashes zombies in season 2 Stan fights them off, and reveals he's known all along about the supernatural, having lived in the town for years. He pretended not to notice because messing with that stuff is dangerous and could get the kids killed.
The rest of the town, however, barely reacts to any of the strange things going on. While a lot of the weirdness is occurring in the woods and may not be perfectly in sight, things like a giant rampaging gnome made of smaller gnomes or a two-dimensional, pixelated video game character destroying things throughout the town would be pretty hard to miss. All it takes for Mermando to hide his identity as a mermaid is a conveniently-placed pool raft, and the teenagers seem to go more or less back to normal after their encounter with the convenience store ghosts and never mention it again.
Possibly justified because even without the supernatural elements, the town is pretty strange by itself: for example, one episode has Pool Check the pool manager lock a kid up in the drain for unknown reasons and an indeterminate amount of time.
There turns out to be a good reason for this in the season 2 episode "Society of the Blind Eye": the eponymous Society has been kidnapping people who do see the supernatural and erasing their memories. Repeated memory wipes have also damaged the memory of much of the town making them less prone to noticing things at all, and turning their founder into a raving lunatic.
Then, in the final episode after said Society was no longer active, the mayor declares the "Never Mind All That" act, wherein the whole town agrees to not talk about Weirdmageddon with outsiders. Though there is a shot of a farmer shooing "eye-bats" out of his barn, so they are acknowledging some of the weirdness, at least.
 Weirdness Censor / int_fdbace96
featureApplicability
1.0
 Weirdness Censor / int_fdbace96
featureConfidence
1.0
 Gravity Falls
hasFeature
Weirdness Censor / int_fdbace96

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Weirdness Censor
processingCategory2
Ignored Index
 Weirdness Censor
processingCategory2
Index Syndrome
 Weirdness Censor
processingCategory2
Invisibility Index
 Weirdness Censor
processingCategory2
Urban Fantasy Tropes
 His Wife Is a Hen (Animation)
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Waltz with Bashir (Animation) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Angel Beats! / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Anime-Gataris / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 DEVILMAN crybaby / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Digimon Frontier / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Kamichu! / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ojamajo Doremi / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Princess Tutu / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 RahXephon / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Suzume / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Windy Tales / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Wolf Children / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Yo-kai Watch / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Your Name / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Angel and the Ape (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Identity Crisis (2004) (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Darkness (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Invisibles (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Sandman Universe (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Werewolf by Night (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Y: The Last Man (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Zatanna (2010) (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Comic Strip) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Adopted Displaced / Fan Fic / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 DeepAsTheSea
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Dimensions
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Morgan Freeman's Blessings on this Beautiful Hood! (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Starlight Series / Fan Fic
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 A Dovahkiin Spreads His Wings (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 A Dream (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Beyond the Outer Gate Lies... (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Calvin & Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Five Score, Divided by Four (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hands (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Harbinger (Finmonster) (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hell's Boiling Point (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hours 'Verse (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Invasion Of Falls (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Of Love and Bunnies (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Operation: B.U.T.T.E.R.F.L.Y. (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Path of the King (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Penny Saves Paldea (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Phantom and the Knight (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Project Bluefield (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Shadows Over Hell (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Shinji Ikiryo (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Spirited Away (2012) (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Taylor Is DOOMed (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Exodus (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Ultimate Evil (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Trouble Island (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 What if the Yeerks Were the Good Guys? (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Yet again, with a little extra help (Fanfic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 A Thousand Kisses Deep / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Air Doll / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Batman: The Movie / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Beetlejuice / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Being John Malkovich / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bruce Almighty / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Child's Play / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Evan Almighty / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Forbidden Zone / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 From Beyond / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ghostbusters II / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hot Fuzz / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Let Me In / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Life After Beth / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Little Otik / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Making Contact / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mary Poppins / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Men in Black / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Peter Rabbit / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Pretty Cool Too / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 R.I.P.D. / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rise of the Planet of the Apes / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Shaun of the Dead / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Forbidden Kingdom / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Howling (1981) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Lawnmower Man / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Muppet Christmas Carol / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Punisher (1989) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Santa Clause / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Sixth Sense / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Tournament / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The World's Greatest Athlete / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Wrong Guy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Troll 2 / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Yogi Bear / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Buffyverse (Franchise) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Child's Play (Franchise) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Digimon (Franchise) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ghostbusters (Franchise) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Transformers Film Series (Franchise)
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 DeliciousCinnamon (Lets Play) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Nnemonic (Lets Play) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Heavy Object / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 A Certain Magical Index / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 A Little Vice / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Anna Dressed in Blood / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Autobiography of Red / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ben-To / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bring Me to Life / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Children of Dust / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Daughters of the Moon / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Discworld / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Doctor Who Novelisations / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Edgedancer / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 1408 / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 14 (Peter Clines) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Fred, The Vampire Accountant / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 From the New World / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Generation P / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Good Omens / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Heavy Object / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Heretical Edge / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Homerooms & Hall Passes / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Horus Heresy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 InCryptid / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Iron Druid Chronicles / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Johnny Maxwell Trilogy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Journey to the Dream Land / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Kanokon / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mercy Thompson / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mister B. Gone / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 NoFairytale
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 One Last Stop / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Otherland / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Paddington Bear / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Prince Roger / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Prophecy Approved Companion / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Reaper (Ivan Navi) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Reaper Man / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Redshirts / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rivers of London / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rollerskater / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Sandman Slim / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Shimoneta / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Soul Music / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Soul Survivor / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 T2 Trilogy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Telepathy Shoujo Ran / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Blue-Nosed Witch / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Devil's Arithmetic / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Four Gospels / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Kane Chronicles / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Lost Thing / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Mortal Instruments / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Tenebrous Trilogy / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 There's No Such Thing as a Dragon / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Thinner / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Time Warp Trio / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Way Station / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weaveworld / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Muse Magazine (Magazine) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hremsfeld
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Mariko-chan
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Mario4812LikedTropes3
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Ptitle5uvafvz8
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Ptitlea50k2rj99g16
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 SomebodyElsesProblem
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 TheDrugAvengers
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 TheUnMasquedWorld
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 WeirdnessIsolationTropes
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 A Certain Scientific Accelerator (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Case Closed (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Chinpui (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Detroit Metal City (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Good Luck Girl! (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hokenshitsu no Shinigami (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ikki Tousen (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Inuyashiki (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Kuro (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Legendz (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Love Is in the Bag (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Love Pistols (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mahou Shoujo Nante Mou Ii Desu Kara (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mahoutsukai to Deshi no Futekisetsu na Kankei (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Moon Child (1989) (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 My Monster Secret (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Nozomu Nozomi (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Nyotai-ka (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Parasyte (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Princess Resurrection (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Reborn! (2004) (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Sankarea (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Urusei Yatsura (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ushio and Tora (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Yozakura Quartet (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 No Such Thing As A Fish (Podcast) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Monster Hunters (Podcast) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bob & Ray (Radio) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 That Gosh Darn Hippie Show (Radio) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Replay Value Universe / Role Play / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Academy of Merlin (Roleplay) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Shadowside (Roleplay) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Trans 9 (Roleplay) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Astrid And Lilly Save The World / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bar Karma / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Being Erica / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Being Human (US) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 CSI / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Cold Case / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Corner Gas / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Dark Oracle / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Dead Like Me / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Doom Patrol (2019) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Eerie, Indiana / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Eureka / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Extraordinary You / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Fraggle Rock / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Incredible Crew / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Juken Sentai Gekiranger / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Locke & Key (2020) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Men Behaving Badly / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Misfits / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 My Babysitter's a Vampire / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Penny Dreadful / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Power Rangers Dino Charge / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ragnarok (2020) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Sliders / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Special Unit 2 / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Greatest American Hero / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Ink Thief / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Librarians (2014) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Lost Room / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Middleman / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Young Ones / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 30 Rock / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Tiger King / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Twin Peaks / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 WandaVision / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Weird Science / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Wynonna Earp / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Black Crusade (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Don't Rest Your Head (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hunter: The Reckoning (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Kindred of the East (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Esoterrorists (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Whispering Vault (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Werewolf: The Forsaken (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Wraith: The Oblivion (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Be More Chill (Theatre) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Apex Legends (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ashina: The Red Witch (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Crossing Souls (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 I Am Fish (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Live Powerful Pro Baseball (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Melty Blood (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Metal Walker (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 My Teacher Is an Alien (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Octodad (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Reincarnation (2008) (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Silent Hill: Downpour (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Tales of Maj'Eyal (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Darkness (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The You Testament (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Time Stalkers (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Torin's Passage (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Tsugu No Hi (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Twisted Metal (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Unavowed (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Five Nights at Freddy's 2 / Videogame
seeAlso
Weirdness Censor
 Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 A Redtail's Dream (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Tales to Behold (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Avatar: The Abridged Series (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Carmilla the Series (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 CinemaSins (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Empires SMP (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hatchetfield (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Ricesnot (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Scootertrix the Abridged (Web Video) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Alcatraz High (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Cheer! (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Cobweb and Stripes (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Demon Thesis (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Elijah and Azuu (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Escape from Terra (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Everyday Heroes (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Faux Pas (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Girls Next Door (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Joe vs. Elan School (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Love and Capes (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Mahou Shounen Fight! (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Modest Medusa (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 MoringMark - TOH Comics (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Muted (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Narbonic (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Raven's Dojo (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Savestate (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Selkie (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Slightly Damned (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 SPRINGIETTE (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Cyantian Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Gamer (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Law of Purple (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Weave (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Wotch (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Thunderstruck (Grayson Towler) (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Valewood Tales (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Vampire Husband (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Zebra Girl (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 An American Tail / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Bunnicula / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Class of the Titans / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Counterfeit Cat / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Dorg Van Dango / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Duckman / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Exchange Student Zero / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Famous Fred / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Finding Dory / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Grojband / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Help! I'm a Fish / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Hotel Transylvania / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Johnny Test / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Lilo & Stitch: The Series / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Magical Girl Friendship Squad / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Paddington (1975) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Pasila / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Pet Alien / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Rekkit Rabbit / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Sabrina: The Animated Series / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Stanley / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Taz-Mania / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Brave Little Toaster / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Cat Came Back / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Devil and Daniel Mouse / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Flintstones / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The LEGO Movie / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Smurfs (1981) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 The Smurfs (2021) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Welcome to the Wayne / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Yellow Submarine / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Magical Angel Creamy Mami / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Aztek (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Identity Crisis (Comic Book) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 weirdnesscensor
sameAs
Weirdness Censor
 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Manga) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Smallville / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Wizards of Waverly Place / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Young Dracula / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Changeling: The Dreaming (Tabletop Game) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor
 Errant Story (Webcomic) / int_abdf7d09
type
Weirdness Censor