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* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': Aside from a [[BecomeARealBoy teenage robot]], the [[ChildProdigy 8-year-old professor]] [[GadgeteerGenius who built her]], and their [[TranslatorCollar talking cat]], the series is all about the ordinary lives of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent normal high-school freshwomen]]. It's even in the name: ''nichijou'' means "everyday, ordinary"; hence, the lesser-used English title ''My Ordinary Life''.

* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': The Master Detectives having Forensic Fortes, a supernatural disposition aiding detectives in their investigations that allows them to break the laws of physics, while seen as a natural and impressive skill, is not really questioned upon. The Forensic Fortes just exist as a normal achievement in this game's universe, with nothing being concerning about ''how'' the supernatural is possible. In a similar fashion, [[spoiler:the residents of Kanai Ward are clueless to the presence of [[ArtificialHuman homunculi]] created by Amaterasu Corporation head researcher Dr. Huesca roaming around the city, because they ''are'' those homunculi and think they are their original human selves, though that's because Makoto covered up that truth from them.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'': Between the three games and all their expansions, there's [[OurGeniesAreDifferent genies]], [[PlantPeople Plant-Sim hybrids]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]], [[TheUndead various assorted undead]], android-things, {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}}, levitation, teleportation, Sim-eating plants, {{alien abduction}}s, [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien Sims]], magic powers, meteors falling from space, {{time machine}}s, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking those bloody splines reticulating all over the place]], and so on. And, of course, there is [[MediumAwareness you]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' goes beyond "mundane" to the point of being [[CrapsackWorld vaguely bleak]]. While Dr. Venture's life is filled with murderers dressed like butterflies, dog-Hitler-clones, and exotic death traps, it's all treated by the cast as standard and tiresome. In spite of all the enormous scientific leaps apparently made in the show's universe, [[ReedRichardsIsUseless the world at large doesn't seem any more futuristic then our own save for the occasional bad guy in a flying car]]. This might be the point -- the creators say that the CentralTheme of the show is failure, and single out the fact that in TheSixties, science was going to usher in a utopia [[IWantMyJetpack that still has yet to arrive]]. Several arcs involve the 'Guild', who keep the mad scientists and the regular adventurers from being too much of a bother to everyday society. Their main weapon is murder and they're damn good at it.

{{Anime}} uses this ''very'' frequently, which probably contributes to the perception of "[[WidgetSeries inherent strangeness]]" for that visual medium.

* Most {{superhero}} comics are like this to some degree or another. Sure, if a ''new'' alien race or magic being shows up, people will pay attention, but [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Skrulls]] and the like are treated as just a part of life.
** ''[[MemeticMutation ANAL]]'' Skrulls. [[spoiler:Though they did give Earth quite the shock there]].
** One Franchise/{{Superman}} comic {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this hilariously when a cabbie yells at someone in front of him about traffic. The person says Supes is fighting a monster. The cabbie retorts that that happens every day.

* The people on ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' normally live in mundane settings. There are still things like satanic teddy bears, magic guns, and appearances by characters from the things in which they review.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a great example. It is perfectly normal that everyone stores their things in a HyperspaceArsenal that can only be accessed in weird ways, item cards have captcha codes that serve strange purposes, and everyone can only use one particular kind of weapon unless they obtain additional equipment slots. The proper response when encountering your loved one is to engage in a brutal but bloodless battle, and a program that can remodel your room over an Internet connection is met with no surprise at all. Rose is also rather unfazed by gaining actual magic powers. And Dave takes everything in [[IncrediblyLamePun stride]].

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