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* The premise of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' where ''LightNovel/ReZero'', ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'', ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'', and ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'', four light novels that deal with stories where the protagonists get TrappedInAnotherWorld, get TrappedInAnotherWorld ''again'', where the protagonists and their closest allies end up becoming classmates.

Compare BroughtDownToNormal, RefugeeFromTVLand, UniversalAdaptorCast, WelcomeToTheRealWorld. See also AdaptationalMundanity.

** Another ''Naruto Shippuden'' outro depicts Naruto and Sasuke as enemy {{ronin}}}.

* Borderline example: The Disney series ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' plunks several characters from ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' into a 1930s-era "Golden Age of Flying" environment. Baloo becomes a GeniusDitz pilot, Louie a barkeeper, Shere Khan a (relatively benign) corporate CEO. The actual plot of the film never enters into it.

* ''Comicbook/{{PS238}}'' has a storyline where [[BigBadWannabe Victor von Fogg]] goes to an alternate universe without superheroes, with some of the heroes ([[EvilVsEvil and also Zodon]]) in pursuit. This includes meeting Alternate Universe Zodon, who's comparably nicer and a more realistic version of a ChildProdigy. (As in, he has his own internet company but no doomsday devices.)

* The premise of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' where ''LightNovel/ReZero'', ''LightNovel/YoujoSenki'', ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'', and ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'', four light novels that deal with stories where the protagonists get TrappedInADifferentWorld, get TrappedInADifferentWorld ''again'', where the protagonists and their closest allies end up becoming classmates.

Compare BroughtDownToNormal, RefugeeFromTVLand, UniversalAdaptorCast, WelcomeToTheRealWorld. See also TransplantedCharacterFic, HighSchoolAU, and CoffeeShopAUFic for FanFic version of this trope.

* One of the ending sequences for ''[[{{Anime/Naruto}} Naruto: Shippuuden]]'' drops the cast into a HighSchoolAU.

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* Not quite "fan fiction", the [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html Sandstorm Reviews]] page dedicated to Terry Goodkind's ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series has some very critical pastiches and parodies, including the short work that fits this trope, [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/10/sword-of-truth-non-fantasy-version.html "The Sword of Truth (Non-fantasy Version)."]] As its header proclaims, this story was written in response to [[SciFiGhetto this statement by Goodkind in an interview]]:
-->'''Terry Goodkind:''' First of all, I don't write fantasy. I write stories that have important human themes. They have elements of romance, history, adventure, mystery and philosophy. Most fantasy is one-dimensional. It's either about magic or a world-building. I don't do either.
:: After the second or third book, quite a bit of text is devoted to both world-building and long, drawn-out discussions on the mechanics of magic, so making no judgments regarding quality, there appears to be a bit of a disconnect between the author and his work, as this quote is from a press junket for the eighth in the series.
* Very common in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fandom. It helps that the fans have found ways to replicate most of canon's events: Rose Quartz giving up her physical form to give birth to Steven? Have her suffer DeathByChildBirth. Amethyst being found in the Kindergarten? Give her a form of ParentalAbandonment. Garnet being a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire? Make them her [[HasTwoMommies moms]]. Lapis and Jasper fusing into Malachite? Put them in an abusive relationship (child named Malachite optional). And so on.
* There are numerous fanfics of this variety in the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fandom, but it's far more difficult to adapt canon events into mundane equivalents than it is for ''Steven Universe'' fic. As such, they tend to drift a bit farther from canon, particularly when depicting human versions of alien characters; such stories often completely disregard/rewrite characters' backstories and other assorted canon events due to them simply not working in mundane settings. There are also ones which focus entirely on the canonically human characters and deviate from canon primarily via [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame SBURB]] not existing, and ones where aliens (usually just trolls) live on Earth alongside humans and everything is otherwise mundane.
* ''Webcomic/TransGirlTimmyTurner'' is set in an AU where Cosmo and Wanda were just comic characters that Timmy designed as a child.
* ''Fanfic/SpeciesIdentityDisorder'' takes place on Remnant, but it's an altered version of it. Beacon is a college instead of a huntsman academy and the SDC is involved with fashion instead of dust.
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* In the Webcomic/WalkyVerse, ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' is basically a ReBoot that removes the sci-fi elements, [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether moving the characters]] [[HighSchoolAU to a normal college setting]].

* ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' famously originated as a mundane-AU fanfic novel based on ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
*** It gave us "A Piece of the Action", in which the crew visited a planet run like the Prohibition-era Mafia, complete with Tommy guns, pin-striped suits, and Model-A Fords. Many other planets resemble Earth's past to varying degrees.

Compare BroughtDownToNormal, RefugeeFromTVLand, UniversalAdaptorCast, WelcomeToTheRealWorld. See also TransplantedCharacterFic and HighSchoolAU for FanFic version of this trope.

!!Examples

* The setting of ''Film/SuperiorUltraman8Brothers'' was like this at first, before the monsters started invading.

* In the WalkyVerse, ''Dumbing of Age'' is basically a ReBoot that removes the sci-fi elements, [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether moving the characters]] [[HighSchoolAU to a normal college setting]].
** Ironic as the WalkyVerse started in the same setting with ''Roomies'' before the alien-abduction backstory became the dominant plot-line.

* The ''Star Trek'' king of this was ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', where TimeTravel had our heroes attempting to blend in in 1980s San Francisco.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' gave us "A Piece of the Action", in which the crew visited a planet run like the Prohibition-era Mafia, complete with Tommy guns, pin-striped suits, and Model-A Fords. Many other planets resemble Earth's past to varying degrees.
** They also actually visit the past of Earth in "City on the Edge of Forever" (TheThirties) and "Assignment: Earth" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday", both of which were set in the contemporary [[TheSixties Sixties]].

* Not quite "fan fiction", the [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/08/goodkind-parodies.html Sandstorm Reviews]] page dedicated to Terry Goodkind's ''SwordOfTruth'' series has some very critical pastiches and parodies, including the short work that fits this trope, [[http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com/2006/10/sword-of-truth-non-fantasy-version.html "The Sword of Truth (Non-fantasy Version)."]] As its header proclaims, this story was written in response to [[SciFiGhetto this statement by Goodkind in an interview]]:

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* ''Series/BeingHuman'': Various supernatural critters under one roof in contemporary times.

* The ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' TV series had three episodes where the characters were dropped into other genres, including a HighSchool drama and a FilmNoir.

* The ''FairyTail'' omakes usually put the characters into everyday situations instead of the fantastical adventures and magical battles they experience in the main series. Examples are going to the pool, suffering from awkward teenage romances and visiting a girl's dorm. Most of them seem to be canon as a few have been referenced in the main story, so the reason they are separate from the series is probably that they would distract too much from, and postpone, the more actionized main plot. One of the few non-canon omakes even puts Lucy and co. in a normal high school setting where magic doesn't exist at all.

* ''Series/StargateUniverse'' is a borderline example. While the ''{{Stargate}}'' canon has many fantastic elements, it is set in modern-day earth with mostly normal humans. ''Universe'', however, is set halfway across the universe in a YouCantGoHomeAgain scenario, but still uses a [[ItwasAllJustADream hallucination episode]], [[Recap/StargateUniverseS2E5Cloverdale "Cloverdale"]], to play the trope straight.