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-->'''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?

* A number of characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' easily qualify, but none more so 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, Music/DavidBowie -- ''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.
%%* From ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice:'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA2zt1Y7btw Oh look, Billy's home.]] [[MuggleFosterParents Muggle Foster Parent]] doesn't even look up from his book.

Take a person. Something fantastic happens to or around them. He or she acknowledges that something as supernatural or as something that should be impossible, but, when people expect them to freak out, they don't. It turns out that the person in question utterly fails to react with the sense of wonder that something fantastic, unnatural or supposedly impossible would entail. This usually happens for one of two reasons:

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'':
** April takes Petra's mutating due to a spider bite fairly well...although the fact that Petra still looks like a normal human probably helped. Her biggest concern was whether or not she was eating bugs.
** SHIELD's agents have seen so much in the past that a group of teenage mutant ninja turtles, their spider-powered sister, and a human ninja-turned rat don't receive anything more than a momentary look of surprise. Doctor Connors is the only one to avert this trope, and only because he takes a moment to gush over how fascinating the Turtles are.

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* 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 lament that [[ItMakesSenseInContext his girlfriend turned into the moon]]:
-->'''Zuko''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr9xPqGD8o That's rough, buddy.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Parodied in the "Treehouse Of Horror V" segment "The Shinning", which spoofs ''Film/TheShining''. As Mr. Burns guides the Simpsons through the winter lodge, they stop at the elevator when the river of blood spills out of it, and while the Simpsons are horrified, Burns is hilariously blasé.

** April takes Petra's mutating due to a spider bite fairly well...although the fact that Petra still looks like a normal human probably helped.
** SHIELD's agents have seen so much in the past that a group of teenage mutant ninja turtles, their spider-powered sister, and human ninja-turned rat don't receive anything more than a momentary look of surprise. Doctor Connors is the only one to avert this trope, and only because he takes a moment to gush over how impressive the Turtles and Pet's powers are.

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': For most of the game, it's a plot point that only two colonists know of the Gardeners, the ArtificialIntellicence network left behind by the planet's long-gone sentient species with orders to restore and maintain its ecosystem. If the PlayerCharacter tries telling anyone else about the Gardeners too often, it's possible for them to get WrongfullyCommitted. It's also possible for their actions to result in the WetwareBody of a Gardener named Nocticulent showing up near the end of the game and talking directly to the colony's human-supremacist Governor who is among the people who had no idea the Gardeners exist up to that point. The Governor's response? Simply telling Nocticulent to leave because the planet now belongs to humans.

* ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' describes [[UsefulNotes/TheGloryThatWasRome the Roman Legions]] dealing with zombie outbreaks about the same as they would any armed uprising - with normalized, well-trained discipline, allowing 480 men in 121 AD to be well-prepared against over 9000 zombies and defeat them all at the cost of 150 of them. UsefulNotes/Hadrian had an anti-zombie manual of their own disseminated after this. It even got to the point where overwhelming numbers were advised in response to an outbreak [[CrowdPanic just to deal with the general populace's panic]] rather than the zombies themselves, and outbreaks largely weren't even worth mentioning in detail thereafter. Some thirty years later, a riot occurred over the Roman troops putting down a zombified holy man (and nine other zombies) - the Romans' casualties were caused only by the riot.

* ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' describes [[UsefulNotes/TheGloryThatWasRome the Roman Legions]] dealing with zombie outbreaks about the same as they would any armed uprising - with normalized, well-trained discipline. It even got to the point where they also wrote an anti-zombie manual of their own.

* In ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'', Janine doesn't take suddenly [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter ending up in the body of a]] [[PteroSoarer Quetzalcoatlus]] with ''total'' calm, but she adjusts much faster than the others, to the point where Mike asks her about it.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder]]", Louis de Pointe du Lac is curious about Lestat de Lioncourt's {{Telepathy}} and TimeStandsStill abilities, but he's otherwise unfazed by these impossible feats, believing them to be mere parlor tricks that Lestat had picked up in France. These supernatural skills should've been a dead giveaway to Louis that his new friend isn't human, yet this thought doesn't cross his mind.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the first episode, Louis de Pointe du Lac is curious about Lestat de Lioncourt's {{Telepathy}} and TimeStandsStill abilities, but he's otherwise unfazed by these impossible feats, believing them to be mere parlor tricks that Lestat had picked up in France. These supernatural skills should've been a dead giveaway to Louis that his new friend isn't human, yet this thought doesn't cross his mind.

* Subverted in ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily''. Despite all his training desensitizing him to many dangers, Taiyo continues to be the OnlySaneMan and reacts with alarm and surprise when encountering something truly weird, like buying bullets at a bubble tea shop or Nanao shrinking down to an unrecognizably small state.

* 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 the first case, the person is more likely to berate others for their overreaction, though not always. In the second case, the person already reacted strongly to this kind of thing a few times, if only offscreen, so they won't really mind when others do. Mind that the person does know the event is impressive or surprising - they're just too calm or too used to it to really mind. Superheroes that work in teams depend on this trope not to stare wide-eyed in the middle of a battle whenever a teammate does something.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'', the humans tend to treat the aliens quite well at best and with casual indifference at worst, being completely unphased that aliens are real and that a family of them are their neighbors and students. At least, until the aliens [[VillainProtagonist inevitably do something evil or immoral]] and the humans react accordingly... and the aliens [[NeverMyFault accuse them]] of [[FantasticRacism being racist against aliens]].

* {{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.

* Pebbles from ''Literature/SuperMinion'' is not impressed or surprised at all when a squid in restaurant mutates, grows to enormous size, smashes through a wall and attacks them. He is annoyed though, because the chef should have known better than to keep live ingredients during Odd Summer.

* In ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'', [[spoiler:Sakura]] set a series of PerceptionFilter across the city of Tama to prevent {{Magical Girl}}s from interacting with demons. This means in Tama, they co-exist with {{muggles}}, and since muggles are not affected by the said barriers, they have been interacting with the demons so frequently that they [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight see nothing unusual]] in the protagonist gaining horns and tail overnight, or a talking statue claiming itself to be Myth/{{Lilith}}.

* ''ComicaBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In the titular team's ''[[ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes first story]]'', upon arriving at the 30th century, the Legion shows ComicBook/{{Superboy}} one class where one professor is using a Superboy Robot to explain how his Kryptonians powers worked. Unfortunately, the robot malfunctions, but Cosmic Boy steps forward and says they have brought the real Superboy from the past, who is eager to help him. The professor takes the appearance of a long-gone legend in his classroom completely in stride, expressing nothing other than delight at being able to continue his lesson.