History Main / LawOfConservationOfNormality

Compare WeirdnessCensor. Contrast SupermanStaysOutOfGotham. Not to be confused with StatusQuoIsGod, which is about the setting's internal normality rather than the normality of the author's societal context.

Compare WeirdnessCensor. Contrast SupermanStaysOutOfGotham.

* Franchise/SpiderMan [[TropeMaker invented]] this, pioneering the idea of a main character who was also an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. The most obvious example is how he still has to work for a living despite being able to whip up a multi-purpose, industrial-strength adhesive in his basement.

* ''Comicbook/AstroCity'' refines this to a fine art. An early issue had a recent immigrant to the town (from Chicago) witness to an attack by a gigantic storm elemental. Heading to the roof to watch the fight between the monster and all of the town's superheroes, he sees a bunch of the people in his building have gathered. When he asks one woman where her kids are, she tells him that they're working on their homework. Since if the city isn't destroyed, there'll still be school tomorrow. This almost terrifies him into leaving town the next day, but when he sees how quickly the place is cleaned up and how everyone pitches in, it charms him into staying.
** And the story "Newcomers" reveals that this isn't the case for all new arrivals - a fair few just can't take it and will go somewhere else. There are superheroes and villains in other cities, but Astro City is just an exceptional WeirdnessMagnet.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' lives and breathes this trope. In fact, some episodes focus so heavily on the mundane aspects of Koyomi and Senjogahara's lives and relationship that it's possible to forget that he's an ex-vampire and she was once rendered weightless by a crab god.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is almost like a StealthParody of this trope, mainly revolving around Kyon. Despite knowing that his friends are, respectively, an omnipotent RealityWarper, a member of a shady organization of psychics, a member of an equally shady organization of time travellers, and a humanoid interface for an [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible alien being]]...he seems determined to live a normal life, and is frequently irritated by the supernatural distractions. It's also an InvokedTrope, since they all conspire to make the omnipotent one's life ''seem'' normal so that she won't realize how powerful she is. But this sometimes backfires and makes her unwittingly warp reality for silly reasons, such as in the Endless Eight arc, where she creates an endless GroundhogDayLoop because [[spoiler:[[SeriousBusiness Kyon hasn't done his homework]]]].

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* ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'': Adam has "TV powers" which let him bend reality to his will while doing an episode, but he never uses his powers to solve his mundane life problems or those of other characters. Apparently he took an oath to only use them for learning.

* ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'': Ever since the GovernmentConspiracy [[ConspiracyRedemption gave up]], people have just learned to live with, well, [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya aliens, time travellers, sliders, and espers]] to the point that Wendy's now offers pails of raw meat juice in case any vampires show up. [[Webcomic/PennyAndAggie High school]], apparently, is [[strike:no longer taken wholesale from Archie and Mean Girls]] a bit different.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', supernatural creatures like ghosts and witches are openly real and more than one of Gumball's classmates are some kind of monster. However, in several episodes, including "The Curse", "The Poltergeist", "Christmas", and "The Wand", show that only stupid people or children attribute things to the supernatural.