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* Happens in {{Angel}}, after Angel gives Connor the lowdown on demons and whatnot in ''Origin'':

-->'''Connor:''' So...demons, vampires, doctors with claws... and I'm some sort of super-hero. [[ShrugTake Okay]].

* From ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the first time Oz is caught up in a fight with vampires, Willow hesitantly begins to explain the whole situation, prefacing it with "Now don't freak out..." Oz doesn't, because not only is he really that calm, but because the fact that vampires are real suddenly makes a lot of things about Sunnydale make sense.

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* ''ElGoonishShive'': [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2003-02-10 Here]].

* The Pikka birds in HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy embody this trope. They're not surprised by unusual, million-to-one, you'll-never-see-that-again events, because, well, they're unusual, million-to-one, and you'll never see them again in you're life, so why bother noticing? And yet, every morning, the sunrise takes them completely by surprise.

* Candy Quackenbush from ''{{Abarat}}'' is like this. She accepts one bizarre thing after another, just as they come because, she reasons, what else can she do? WordOfGod has said that he intentionally invoked this to spare readers from having to read pages and pages of freak-out scenes.

* From Webcomic/QuestionableContent, Faye once mentions that if feels strange being so jaded that Pintsize's antics no longer surprise her.

* From Questionable Content, Faye once mentions that if feels strange being so jaded that Pintsize's antics no longer surprise her.

* From Series/DoctorWho, when Rory first walks into the TARDIS, both the audience and the Doctor expect him to look around in wonder, saying "Its BiggerOnTheInside". He doesn't, and calmly explains that its another dimension before the Doctor can. Pehaps a rare example of the guy being too jealous to show wonder, for once.
** And really, the Doctor and anyone who travels with him is probably going to become at least a ''little'' FantasticallyIndifferent. After all, when you're travelling through time and space with a 900 year-old-alien who switches bodies, in a sentient Police Call Box that's bigger on the inside, while defeating monsters and aliens of all types, fantastic is an everyday occurrence.

* ''ElGoonishShive'': [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2003-02-10 Here]].
** Even more with Liz who is [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-16 Highly Skilled at Not Giving a Crap]].
* Weird example in ''IDreamOfJeannie'' - while Nelson is used to magic (so he doesn't react with wonder to it per se), he does get caught flat-footed by what Jeannie does with said magic. Not because he thought it was impossible, but because of the situations it gets him in.

* Candy Quackenbush from {{Abarat}} is like this. She accepts one bizarre thing after another, just as they come because, she reasons, what else can she do? WordOfGod has said that he intentionally invoked this to spare readers from having to read pages and pages of freak-out scenes.

* In ''AtomicRobo'', both Carl Sagan and Charles Fort react rather calmly to the reality-warping machinations of an extradimensional EldritchAbomination -- although Sagan ''does'' take a moment (and some booze) to reach this point.

->"Astronomy is a long and relentless lesson that the universe is under ''no'' obligation to match up with your expectations. [[INeedAFreakingDrink Also, the alcohol helps.]]"
-->-- '''CarlSagan''', ''AtomicRobo and the Shadow from Beyond Time''

"Astronomy is a long and relentless lesson that the universe is under ''no'' obligation to match up with your expectations. [[INeedAFreakingDrink Also, the alcohol helps.]]"

** And really, the Doctor and anyone who travels with him is probably going to become at least a ''little'' FantasticallyIndifferent. After all, when you're travelling through time and space with a 900 year-old-alien who switches bodies, in a sentient Police Call Box that's bigger on the inside, while defeating monsters and aliens of all types, fantastic is an everyday occurrence. [[CatchPhrase(Especially if you're with the Ninth Doctor.)]]

* From DoctorWho, when Rory first walks into the TARDIS, both the audience and the Doctor expect him to look around in wonder, saying "Its BiggerOnTheInside". He doesn't, and calmly explains that its another dimension before the Doctor can. Pehaps a rare example of the guy being too jealous to show wonder, for once.

* Candy Quackenbush from {{Abarat}} is like this. She accepts one bizarre thing after another, just as they come because, she reasons, what else can she do?

** Even more with Liz who "[[http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-16 Highly Skilled at Not Giving a Crap]]".

* Near obligatory El Goonish Shive example: http://egscomics.com/?date=2003-02-10
* Weird example in IDreamOfJeannie - while Nelson is used to magic (so he doesn't react with wonder to it per se), he does get caught flat-footed by what Jeannie does with said magic. Not because he thought it was impossible, but because of the situations it gets him in.
* Ronnie, in AnitaBlakeVampireHunter has no psychic or magic abilities and despite her job as a P.I. not a lot of contact with such things outside of her association with Anita. When the weird crap happens, though, she takes it pretty well. at least until her character derailment later in the series.

* From BuffyTheVampireSlayer, the first time Oz is caught up in a fight with vampires, Willow hesitantly begins to explain the whole situation, prefacing it with "Now don't freak out..." Oz doesn't, because not only is he really that calm, but because the fact that vampires are real suddenly makes a lot of things about Sunnydale make sense.

1- The person is just that calm or collected; or

2- The person has seen enough of this sort of thing, maybe from the same source, that - though they recognize it IS fantastic - they got used to it enough to view it as "normal" - for them, at least. This isn't quite SeenItAll because the person in question tends to be a MuggleBestFriend or some sort of normal that knows what's going on - and knows it enough not to mind anyways.

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* From BuffyTheVampireSlayer, the first time Oz is caught up in a fight with vampires, Willow hesitantly begins to explain the whole situation, prefacing it with "Now don't freak out..." Oz doesn't, because not only is he really that calm, but because the fact that vampires are real suddenly makes a lot of things about Sunnydale make sense.