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* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. The students in class E are trying to assassinate their [[SuperSpeed super-fast]], [[NighInvulnerability almost-impossible-to-kill]] octopus-monster sensei before he destroys the world in March. Compared with Koro-sensei, normal weirdness just doesn't measure up.

* As noted, {{superhero}} universes have a tendency to feature this. Even superheroes that don't work in teams, and people from the CityOfAdventure that don't know super-persons personally; the fantastic tends to be common enough a sight and occurrence in such settings that, after a series has gone on for a few in-universe years, readers come to ''expect'' this trope from civilians, with any character that does have a big reaction to any major event regarded as a FlatEarthAtheist. Aliens can only [[AlienInvasion invade]] (only to be repelled by somebody wearing spandex) so many times before it becomes more like a fire drill for the civilians than a bizarre attention grabber, after all.
* A tremendously funny scene in issue 15 of ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''. Protagonist Jessica Jones is on her first date with [[ComicBook/AntMan Scott Lang]] after [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] set them up, when suddenly [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]] and Franchise/SpiderMan go by chasing Doc Ock down the street. They just sorta look at each other and go, "You wanna go help?" "Nah, they got it."
* In ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'', both Creator/CarlSagan and [[Magazine/ForteanTimes Charles Fort]] react rather calmly to the reality-warping machinations of an extradimensional EldritchAbomination -- although Sagan ''does'' take a moment ([[INeedAFreakingDrink and some booze]]) to reach this point.

** The EGS:NP stories often take this UpToEleven.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Gretchen is totally uninterested in Jasper's ability to restore memories. While dozens of other Deadland residents clamber over each other for a chance to remember something from their lives, Gretchen never even ''tries'' to get him to restore more of her memories.

-->''"I don't want to think about this, I don't want to talk about this. It doesn't do us any good. We know what's at stake. What we have to figure out is what's our first move."''

** Generally speaking, the characters in the show tend to be unfazed by many of the bizarre and outright crazy things they encounter. Carl and Shake are the best examples, as they'll react to certain events like [[ItMakesSenseInContext a robot claiming to be the ghost of Christmas past or aliens from the moon]] with shock at most and mild annoyance at least.

* Many of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' tend to be unfazed by many of the bizarre and sometimes downright scary things they come across. Carl and Shake are probably the best examples; at best, they react to stuff like a [[ItMakesSenseInContext robot claiming to be the ghost of Christmas past]] with shock. At worse, they'll just react with mild annoyance.

->'''Robo''': Overall, I gotta say, you're taking this rather well.\\
'''Creator/CarlSagan''': Astronomy is a long and relentless lesson that the universe is under ''no'' obligation to match up with your expectations. Also, [[INeedAFreakingDrink the alcohol helps]].

->'''Robo:''' Overall, I gotta say, you're taking this rather well.\\
'''Creator/CarlSagan:''' Astronomy is a long and relentless lesson that the universe is under ''no'' obligation to match up with your expectations. Also, [[INeedAFreakingDrink the alcohol helps]].

* Justified in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. The students in class E are trying to assassinate their [[SuperSpeed super-fast]] [[NighInvulnerable almost impossible to kill]] octopus-monster sensei before he destroys the world in March. Compared with Koro-sensei, normal weirdness just doesn't measure up.
* PlayedForLaughs in the manhwa ''Manhwa/IWish''. Since Lyu-Jin has started working for [[Really700YearsOld K]], she's seen weird things like a race of flower-people that you can eat to obtain eternal life, a thumb-sized sprite that had a [[HalfHumanHybrid son with a regular human]] and a man whose memories need to be erased in order to prevent being killed by them, so that when a "normal" 150 year old vampire reveals himself to her it lost all its shock potential.

* As noted, superheroes have a tendency to do this, as well as those around them. Even superheroes that don't work in teams, and people from the CityOfAdventure that don't know super-persons personally; the fantastic tends to be common enough a sight and occurrence in such settings that, after a series has gone on for a few in-universe years, readers come to ''expect'' this trope from civilians, with any character that does have a big reaction to any major event regarded as a FlatEarthAtheist. Aliens can only invade (only to be repelled by somebody wearing spandex) so many times before it becomes more like a fire drill for the civilians than a bizarre attention grabber, after all.
* A tremendously funny scene in issue 15 of ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''. Protagonist Jessica Jones is on her first date with [[ComicBook/AntMan Scott Lang]] after [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] set them up, when suddenly [[Franchise/FantasticFour Human Torch]] and Franchise/SpiderMan go by chasing Doc Ock down the street. They just sorta look at each other and go, "You wanna go help?" "Nah, they got it."
* In ''ComicBook/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.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10520321/6/And-I-Saw-the-Beast-upon-a-Cold-World And I Saw the Beast upon a Cold World]]'' Anna's sole reaction to [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]] accidentally freezing the table and everything on it is to pick up her plate then set it back down once the frost passes.

* Subverted in ''Fanfic/ImaginarySeas''. Having saved the world time and time again, Percy thinks he's SeenItAll until he learns that the Greek gods were HumongousMecha. Then he starts getting regular doses of nanomachines to upgrade himself and learns about how the gods combined into a super mecha to fight off an AlienInvasion.

* [[FanFic/BecomingPonies Stories in the Pony Earth Verse]] vary in regard to this. Usually, "later" stories have the people transformed into ponies reacting very dryly to their situation, in comparison with "earlier" stories focusing on shocked initial reactions.

* ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-17276-100/TheLaughingMan+My+Archive+Of+One+Shots.htm Venomous Xander]]'' has a trio of teens see [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]] in full Comicbook/{{Venom}} form and their sole reaction is asking if he knows Spider-Man. Of course, it helps they're all seriously stoned.

-->"You all right?" the woman at the stand asked. "Looked like you fell pretty far."\\
That was not a normal person's reaction.

* During ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', aside from a brief freakout upon first meeting the living Olaf, Anna shows complete indifference to learning that Elsa can make magic ice. Justified possibly by the fact that Anna is probably a good compartmentalizer and is pushing that aside to deal with what's important (bringing Elsa back to Arendelle). Though it also extends to when Kristoff takes her to the trolls, and Anna is a lot less freaked out to the point that Olaf is trying to tell her to run.

* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', when the characters are all transported onto the Protector, everyone freaks out, except Fred, who smiles vaguely and says "That was a hell of a thing." Likewise while they are on a shuttle heading down to an alien world, Guy freaks out at the realization that he's a RedShirt, and the others try to calm him down, while Fred placidly munches on a Handi-Snak. Possibly {{justified|Trope}} by a deleted scene which implies that he's high the entire time.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', "The Extreme" - While wandering in the Arctic, the kids run into an Inuit boy named Derek who is bizarrely unfazed by shapeshifting teenagers, a telepathic four-eyed blue centaur, or human-Controllers blasting wildlife with "Stark Trek guns".
* Ronnie, in ''Literature/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.
** Also Edward from the same series. Yeah, he's an assassin who kills monsters for a living, but turning into some kind of human vampire who feeds off of sex is still pretty outside his experiences, so when Anita reveals this has happened to her, it should still be a shock, but he's more or less like "Well, that's unusual." And finding out that the vampires who are so scary that other vampires are afraid of them are after Anita should give one pause as well. His response is basically *shrug* "Okay, so how do we kill them?"
* Kazuo Kiriyama of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' is fairly calm for someone who learns that he's expected to kill or be killed by his classmates. Justified in the novel and manga, where [[spoiler: a car accident in utero/childhood (respectively) gave him brain damage that left him unable to feel emotions]].
** Shogo Kawada is also pretty calm about the whole ordeal, with the exceptions being anger rather than shock. This leads up to TheReveal that [[spoiler: by coincidence, he was part of "the Program" the previous year, and therefore knows exactly how it works]].

-->"I don't want to think about this, I don't want to talk about this. It doesn't do us any good. We know what's at stake. What we have to figure out is what's our first move."

* The agents of the ''Literature/RedRoom'' series tend to behave as if zombie plagues in their headquarters, invisible mercenaries, Oni assassins, and Rakshasas in shopping malls are all in a day's work--which they are. Subverted, ironically, [[CutenessProximity by Agent O'Reilly when she goes nuts over a Committee member having his own panda.]]

* In ''Literature/MotherOfLearning'' HardBoiledDetective Haslush finds Zorian's calmness in the face of hearing of unusual and horrifying events noteworthy and unnerving. Zorian claims to just be naturally calm, but he just has SeenItAll, and is just a poor actor.

* In ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' Season 7, May wakes up in a healing pod and meets someone who claims they have yet to meet in that timeline, who asks her what she remembers. She explains she remembers fighting her way through an alternate dimension and killing the BigBad of the previous season, and then waking up where she is now. She's told she briefly died, was saved by futuristic technology, and that she's currently in the yeaar 1931. After six seasons of and change of [[WorldOfWeirdness what she does for a living]], her response is [[TheComicallySerious hilariously flippant]]:
-->'''May:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' I'm hungry.
* Happens in ''Series/{{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. ''[{{beat}}]'' [[ShrugTake Okay]].

** Sets in with Xander by Episode 10: after the latest fantastic occurrence in class, he says he's gotten used to living on the Hellmouth and that if there's something serious going on, Buffy will slay it.
** 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. In the comics, he tops himself when his ex drops by outside the monastery he's meditating at, in a submarine, that she teleported to Tibet. His reaction: a nonchalant "Huh".

--->'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree Harriet Jones]]:''' If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted. Listen to me. I'm saying Slitheen as if it's normal.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", this attitude is part of what convinces Queen Victoria the Doctor can't be trusted/relied on. He and Rose's delight at the chance to encounter "real werewolves" appalls her in light of the very real danger and very high body count of the "adventure". She calls them out on it at the end of the episode, going as far as to knight "Sir Doctor" and "Dame Rose" for saving her life, and then ''banishing'' them for posing a greater danger than the werewolves. [[spoiler:Then she founds the Torchwood Institute on the spot, to combat menaces like him.]]

-->'''Peggy:''' It's just a [[spoiler:flying saucer]], Ed! We gotta go.
* Lampshaded in "For Those Of You Just Joining Us", an episode of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' which takes place in the modern day. "Excuse me, but doesn't it worry anyone that the god of war is real?"
* In a second-season episode of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', King Shark attacks the West house while hunting the title character and rips a huge hole in the roof in the process. Wally, who's new to Central City and the superhero-supervillain battles that happen every weeks, is visibly weirded out by the whole situation, but his father and sister? Iris is calmly sweeping up the dust while Joe grumbles about how his insurance is probably not going to cover the damage.
-->'''Wally''': I- I don't understand you people. [[Film/{{Jaws}} Jaws]] busts through your house like the Kool-Aid man, the Flash shows up, and y'all just act like it's no big deal.\\

* Weird example in ''Series/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.
* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': In "...And Some Dude Named Jeff'', the eponymous dude named Jeff pulls a GrandTheftMe on Jenkins using a dangerous artefact. To gain access to the library and reverse the process, Jenkins must enlist the help of Jeff's D&D group ... whose reaction when he explains the situation is "Okay, makes sense. We figured something like that was going on."

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. At the end of "Emanations", Captain Janeway orders EnsignNewbie Harry Kim to take some time off to ponder what just happened to him.
-->"It's so easy to become jaded, to treat the extraordinary like just another day at the office, but sometimes there are experiences which transcend all that."

--->'''Samuel Colt:''' When you've done this job as long as I have, a giant from the future with some magic brick doesn't exactly give you the vapours.
** In an episode of season ten, adults are being abducted and de-aged into children. Dean becomes a victim, as well as a woman he was chatting with at a bar. Dean's reaction to being kidnapped and suddenly fourteen years old is essentially [[SeenItAll irritation]], while the woman is understandably freaked and demands to know how he can be so calm about things.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3:'' Ashley William's reaction to the discovery of a species that's been hiding for billions of years, can possess people across light years and, oh yeah, [[spoiler:created the Reapers]]? Aggressive indifference. As she explains to Shepard, she doesn't care who made the Reapers, she just wants them dead.

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' takes place in a school for birds. Supposedly everyone there but the TokenHuman is male. In the manga Okosan mentions laying an egg, and only one character finds this at all noteworthy - the same character who was confused and taken aback to hear that the SchoolIdol [[EvenTheGuysWantHim gets a lot of presents]] on their analogue to Valentine's Day. Poor, sheltered Sakuya.
* While most characters in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' have WeirdnessCensor towards Maya channelling the spirit of her sister Mia, the hyper-logical Miles Edgeworth ends up working with Phoenix on a case that directly involves spirit channelling (Bridge to the Turnabout)... and he barely comments on it. It's implied that, seeing it irrefutably performed, he simply treats it like he would another fact of the case.

--->'''Sarah:''' You could have ''warned'' me before making light.\\
'''Pandora:''' An ancient being of tremendous power appears floating in your room, and you chastise her for turning on the lights too fast?\\
'''Sarah:''' I react to paranormal stuff in one of two ways: Curiosity, or sass. You hurt my eyes. You get sass.\\
'''Pandora:''' ''[grinning]'' Oh yes. I made the right decision with ''you''.

--->'''Tensaided''': ''(seeing [[TheStoic Susan]] has [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-013 turned]] into a [[MsFanservice buxom blonde bimbo]] and is [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-014 dashing]] around the store with a cart)'' SUSAN! Take it slow with that cart, okay? Speeding through the store is dangerous.\\

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''-- While everyone around him is properly freaking out, Bob's standard reaction to almost anything is a brief moment of DullSurprise, and then he takes it in stride.

* The artist of ''Webcomic/MarioAndLuigiCleanupCrew'' loves this. Almost every major character so far has had one.
** Luigi is peacefully reading a newspaper when Toad's sudden emergency wailing causes him to leap straight up in fright.
** Mario is first seen locked in battle with a Piranha Plant stuck in his toilet, wielding a plunger like a sword.
** Peach's first action after completing any governmental tasks? Deciding to make a cake.
** The Toad Minister spends his entire debut complaining about the state of the youth.

-->'''Fern:''' [...] what if this is one of the times it doesn't "sort out?"\\
'''Cheryl:''' ...Then it's the new normal, hon. You roll with it. Either mom takes the dog home to her kids after all this or a flesh pillar takes her jelly ball home to her red slugs.

* Owen Burnett loyal right-hand man to Xanatos from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' reacts to all the magic and monster related madness unfurling around him with barely anything more than a raised eyebrow. [[spoiler: Which makes sense since he himself is secretly a fairy.]]
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has Roadrunner standing on a rock that floats in midair, to which the Coyote responds "I wouldn't mind, except that he defies the law of gravity!". (Road Runner: Sure, but I never studied law.)

-->'''Alien Lizard!Phineas:''' Outer-space alien super-crooks from a planet of frogs and reptiles have [[FreakyFridayFlip taken over our bodies]]!\\
'''Candace:''' Okay. What do you want me to do?\\
'''Alien Lizard!Phineas:''' Really? You believe that weird story just like that?\\
'''Candace:''' Yeah. It's been a long summer, kid. What do you need?

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' both the silent Mrs. Osborn and [[StiffUpperLip the family butler]] walk in to see [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norman]] and [[WellDoneSonGuy Harry]] (who had just been missing for a week) talking to Franchise/SpiderMan and the most surprise we get is a raised eyebrow from the former.
-->'''Houseman:''' ''(nodding in greeting)'' Master Osborn, Master Harry. ({{beat}}) Spider-Man.

** Everyone in Beach City seems either completely uninterested in the fact that MagicalGirl aliens are living in their midst, or don't know what the Gems are and don't really care. [[ConspiracyTheorist Ronaldo]] is the ultimate example: he has a CharacterBlog (InUniverse and in RealLife) where he often chronicles supernatural things from the show. When he realizes that most of his discoveries are related to the Crystal Gems, he's devastated, because apparently, chronicling ''their'' paranormal activities never occurs to him.\\
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The unstated reason for much of this seems to be that the Crystal Gems have been living in the vicinity of Beach City since before it was actually settled - they actually rescued the city founder when he was lost at sea - and while they have mostly kept to themselves over the millennia, they've made no real attempt at hiding what they are.
** In "Political Power", Mayor Dewey suggests that his job has largely involved keeping the Beach City residents happy and calm despite all the supernatural events around them. Its more likely that they ''are'' that indifferent, but Dewey seems to think otherwise. His approach utterly falls apart once a supernatural event ([[spoiler:a series of {{Alien Abduction}}s]]) starts upsetting people enough that they ''stop'' being indifferent.
** On a few occasions were people ''not'' from Beach City witness the gems and their supernatural powers, those people find them unusual — but only about as much as a weird haircut, not a worldview shattering revelation.
*** In "Fusion Cuisine", Connie's parents are introduced to the Crystal Gems, at the time [[FusionDance fused together]] into a multi-story giant with six arms. They seem slightly nervous, but continue an awkward dinner and don't even comment when she breaks apart into three different people; [[SkewedPriorities they're more upset]] Connie lied to them about Steven coming from a nuclear family.
*** When informed the gems are aliens in "Gem Harvest", Greg's cousin Andy takes it as another reason to dislike them because that makes them illegal immigrants. And to be clear, given his comments that follow shortly afterward, Andy didn't misunderstand the word "alien".

-->'''Angel''': Okay, I knew Casey hanged out with pretty weird dudes, but you guys are off the charts.
* A number of characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' easily qualify, but none moreso than Rusty. In one episode, after a number of shenanigans lead him to believe an extremely farfetched story, the following commentary is made on the matter:
--> '''Dermott:''' How does he even ''believe'' this!\\
'''Hank:''' [scoffs!] Last year, right where you're standing, David Bowie--''looking like David Bowie from the 70's''--slapped a guy with invisible arms and legs. Right over there, Brock killed a guy from 'Dimension C'- that may or may not have been an alternate earth. [beat] Dude, totally see you there.\\
[[spoiler: '''Gary''']]: That's impossible! Stealth mode!\\
'''Hank:''' And ''that's'' an ex-henchman for my dad's arch-enemy. ..Pretty sure he lives in my yard now.\\
'''Dermott:''' No, nah I get it. I get it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' two-parter ''Pandemic'', Craig is this. [[TheComicallySerious Oh so hilariously much]]. He ''never'' breaks his {{Deadpan Snark|er}} no matter what ludicrous things they experience, from being sent to Peru by the US Government, finding massive underground ruins, battling a Guinea Pirate (A gigantic photorealistic guinea pig in a pirate costume), or him literally being TheChosenOne destined to defeat the Guinea Creatures and save the world. Instead he takes every opportunity to chastise the others for constantly getting themselves involved in such ridiculous events with the same level of interest you'd explain to someone why chewing with their mouth open was rude. In the end he learns two very mundane [[AnAesop Aesops]] while narrating about the events of the day with complete disinterest:
-->'''Craig:''' The Guinea Pirate lived, but was taken to prison to live out the rest of his days, and people all over the world learned to support their local Peruvian flute bands, and buy their [=CDs=]. For they protect us from the Guinea Creatures. As for me, I was returned home by Homeland Security. My parents were sooo happy. I realized that we don't always have control over what happens to us. We are but players on the stage of life. And I also learned to never listen when people come asking you for money.
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Kid Stuff" when a battle between the league and some villains is interrupted by them all spontaneously being sent to another dimension. Copperhead freaks right out thinking he's died and been sent to hell, and...
-->'''Green Lantern:''' Calm down. We're probably just in another dimension.\\
'''Copperhead:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, is THAT all?]]
* One of Zuko's funniest lines in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', [[TheComicallySerious which is really saying something]], is his completely matter-of-fact and casually accepting response to Sokka's claim that [[ItMakesSenseInContext his girlfriend turned into the moon]]:
-->'''Zuko:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr9xPqGD8o That's rough, buddy.]]

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]", this attitude is part of what convinces Queen Victoria the Doctor can't be trusted/relied on. He and Rose's delight at the chance to encounter "real werewolves" appalls her in light of the very real danger and very high body count of the "adventure". She calls them out on it at the end of the episode, going as far as to knight the Doctor for saving her life, and then ''banishing'' him for posing a greater danger than the werewolves. [[spoiler:Then she founds Torchwood on the spot, to combat menaces like him.]]

-->'''Peggy:''' It's just a [[spoiler:flying saucer]], Ed. We gotta go.

Compare StiffUpperLip, WeirdnessCensor, ConditionedToAcceptHorror, UnusuallyUninterestingSight, and DullSurprise.

* Owen Burnett loyal right-hand man to Xanatos from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' reacts to all the magic and monster related madness unfurling around him with barley anything more than a raised eyebrow. [[spoiler: Which makes sense since he himself is secretly a fairy.]]

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# The person who has SeenItAll, 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.

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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the Avengers, and increasingly, Harry and his friends, being unfazed by the weirdness that tends to follow them (or rather, follow Harry) around like a bad smell. Unusually, they're contrasted with those outside their circle who find it ''very'' weird.
** In particular, those who deal with Doctor Strange on a regular basis become more or less inured to his SuccessThroughInsanity BeyondTheImpossible antics, and just pigeon-hole it as "Strange being Strange, in every possible sense of the phrase."

* Though they initially freak out, Harry/Hari's friends in ''Fanfic/ItachiIsThatABaby'' quickly stop reacting to Harry doing the impossible regularly. For example, when Harry visits Tracey over Christmas in third year, she reacts to the explosion of fire he arrives in right behind her and the gunshot from her mother that barely misses her with a calm "Morning Hari."
** Even Hermione, who initially reacted with outrage and fury over Hari violating the laws of magic and insisting the books claiming his actions to be impossible are wrong, mellows out. It helps that Hari teaches her to use wandless magic, [[SinkOrSwimMentor by stealing her wand and forcing her to attend classes without it]].

* ''Fanfic/TheSupermen'': most ordinary citizens in the DC universe would count, but special mention goes to the unnamed woman at the newsstand who Wesker speaks to right after arriving in the DC universe. Wesker has just fallen out of the sky, and she just attempts to make small talk with him as he buys a newspaper. She also accepts the events described by the newspaper (articles about Superman and The Joker, for instance) as everyday and uneventful. Wesker's narration lampshades this, as he'd expected people to be more surprised.
->"You all right?" the woman at the stand asked. "Looked like you fell pretty far."
-> That was not a normal person's reaction.

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* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', when the characters are all transported onto the Protector, everyone freaks out, except Fred, who smiles vaguely and says "That was a hell of a thing." Likewise while they are on a shuttle heading down to an alien world, Guy freaks out at the realization that he's a RedShirt, and the others try to calm him down, while Fred placidly munches on a Handi-Snak. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by a deleted scene which implies that he's high the entire time.

--> '''May:''' ({{Beat}}). I'm hungry.

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

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw "Tooth and Claw"]], this attitude is part of what convinces Queen Victoria the Doctor can't be trusted/relied on. He and Rose's delight at the chance to encounter "real werewolves" appalls her in light of the very real danger and very high body count of the "adventure". She calls them out on it at the end of the episode, going as far as to knight the Doctor for saving her life, and then ''banishing'' him for posing a greater danger than the werewolves. [[spoiler:Then she founds Torchwood on the spot, to combat menaces like him.]]
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], when Rory first walks into the TARDIS, both the audience and the Doctor expect him to look around in wonder, saying "It's BiggerOnTheInside". He doesn't, and calmly explains that it's dimensionally transcendental before the Doctor can, to his annoyance.

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* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', Kitten seems to have gotten this attitude after all the millennia in the Palace. When making tea for the Emperor, he cheerfully hums to himself even as a grand battle to open a can of alien beans rages behind him, and even the sudden arrival of Fab Custodes falling from the sky doesn't move him in the slightest.
* ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'': In "Spirit in the Sky", when everyone in the mall panics from the mannequins coming to life, Chris and Ian try to continue their meeting with Vince and Zach and only decide to evacuate when a mall announcement tells them to.
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--> '''Craig:''' The Guinea Pirate lived, but was taken to prison to live out the rest of his days, and people all over the world learned to support their local Peruvian flute bands, and buy their [=CDs=]. For they protect us from the Guinea Creatures. As for me, I was returned home by Homeland Security. My parents were sooo happy. I realized that we don't always have control over what happens to us. We are but players on the stage of life. And I also learned to never listen when people come asking you for money.

--> '''Green Lantern:''' Calm down. We're probably just in another dimension.
--> '''Copperhead:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, is THAT all?]]

--> '''Zuko:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr9xPqGD8o That's rough, buddy.]]

* Naruto's status as a jinchuriki is never made a secret in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', so none of the members of the Konoha 15 treat it or the existence of other jinchuriki as a big deal. This is best seen when Fu loses control and outs herself during the Chunin Exam finals and Shino (who has a mutual crush on her) thinks that it's "interesting". Kakashi even mentions during the Hidan and Kakazu arc that it's most likely the reason why Fu had a much easier time making friends in Konoha rather than her home village.

* ''Franchise/DragonAge:'' The [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Warden]] is this by the end of the vanilla game. [[spoiler:Flemeth? Check. A poet tree? Check. A dwarven Paragon made golem from a millenia ago? Check. The Lady of the Forest? Check. By the time of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeAwakening'' not even seeing a sapient, talking darkspawn surprised them anymore.]]

* ''Franchise/DragonAge:'' The [[DragonAgeOrigins Warden]] is this by the end of the vanilla game. [[spoiler:Flemeth? Check. A poet tree? Check. A dwarven Paragon made golem from a millenia ago? Check. The Lady of the Forest? Check. By the time of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeAwakening'' not even seeing a sapient, talking darkspawn surprised them anymore.]]