History UnusuallyUninterestingSight / Literature

* In his book ''The Age of Reason'' Creator/ThomasPaine wrote that, assuming this happened, the [[MassResurrection mass rising of the dead]] described in the [[Literature/TheBible Gospel of Matthew]] at Jesus' death must have been one, since no one appears to have written down any other accounts. Matthew is also the only Gospel that mentions it. Nor does it say [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what had happened afterward]]-did they return home to their families, attempt to reclaim their property, or just go back into their graves?

* ''Literature/[[TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'':

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':
** The Cullens and Hales in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. For the most part they don't claim to be related by blood, but they're all very pale, young-looking, hot (specifically, they are all breathtakingly beautiful and snow white, with gold--not brown--eyes) people whom {{Muggle}}s (with the exception of Bella) have a tendency to avoid, but no one seems to find it strange. To be fair, they ''do'' find them strange. They simply have stopped caring way before Bella came to the town.

** In ''New Moon'', Charlie doesn't seem to notice Bella coming home with stitches and a huge bandage around her arm. She tries to handwave it as normal for her to come home with injuries from her clumsiness, but one would think such a huge cut would get ''some'' attention from the Forks Police Chief.

* This principle is so well understood in ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' universe that it has been weaponized as the SEP (Someone Else's Problem) field. If something is so unusual that it doesn't make any sense for it to be there, people will just pretend it isn't.

* ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'': No one bats an eye at the talking bear in the hat and raincoat walking around town. It applies here just as it applies to [[Film/{{Paddington}} the movie based the books]].

* In the ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'', in the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.

* DoubleSubverted in ''Literature/ReaperMan'': One effect of excess life force is that a suit comes to life and runs down the street, followed by a second pair of trousers, and a man shouting that he paid seven dollars for them. Archchancellor Ridcully expresses his astonishment, and the Dean contrives to suggest that Ridcully is letting down the whole of wizardry by being surprised by such things ... until the Archchancellor clarifies that he's just surprised an AM$7 suit came with two pairs of trousers.

* ''Literature/TheSatanicVerses'': When Saladin Chamcha is detained by officers just as he starts [[SlowTransformation turning into]] a devil, he is the only one that gets [[BalefulPolymorph freaked out]] about it: the officers mock his goat-like appearance, but they treat it as something completely mundane instead of a supernatural occurrence.

* ''Literature/MailFoxTales'' : Eva being spotted walking into the inner sanctum of a Shinto shrine is only a conceren for the local priest until she [[{{Kitsune}} shows her fox ears and tail]]

* In the ''Prostokvashino'' franchise by Eduard Uspensky, hardly anyone bats an eyelid at a six-year-old boy living completely by himself with a sentient, talking dog and a sentient, talking cat. All three of them are able to keep house, make purchases (including a tractor and an experimental heating device), and everyone’s perfectly fine with it.

* Referenced by Dickens in his account of his journey to America, ''American Notes''. A few days into his trip over the seas, he's utterly bored to the point that "if Neptune himself had walked in, with a toasted shark on his trident, I should have looked upon the event as one of the very commonest everyday occurrences".

* ''Literature/OneCoolFriend'': Elliot "adopts" Magellan because the penguin's appearance and mannerism reminds Elliot of himself. His father, as a bit of {{Foreshadowing}}, looks like a tortoise with his roundness and green clothing, and at the end of the book, he is shown to own a green Galápagos tortoise.

%%* Among many others in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', the commercial scene in the third book.

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the protagonist at one point reveals himself to his TrueCompanions to be alive despite having seemed dead for over a year. Absolutely nobody is surprised by this, though they do take the time to confirm it's him first. At least one person even figures it out, figures out what he's doing, and comes to help without even being told it's him. They, too, are completely nonchalant about it.
** And in the book after that, when the protagonist has (seemingly) returned to being dead, his apprentice in magic is not only completely unsurprised when he comes back to life, but actually prepared for it by setting aside a room for him in her apartment.
** This trope is justified, given that said companions are fully aware of the supernatural world and how much weird crap goes on around the protagonist.

** Students raised among muggles (for example, [[AudienceSurrogate Harry himself]]) are taken by surprise at the many magical-related things that go on around them. Meanwhile, most witches and wizards don't even look up when they see people with strange hair colors, students getting changed into badgers, or people visiting the hospital wing as cat-human hybrids. On the flipside, students raised in the magical community are often amazed by things like aqua lungs or stationary pictures, which muggle-raised students find perfectly normal.

* In the ''Prostokvashino'' franchise by Eduard Uspensky, hardly anyone bats an eyelid at a six-year-old boy living completely by himself with a sentient, talking dog and a sentient, talking cat. All three of them are able to keep house, make purchases (including a tractor and an experimental heating device, and everyone’s perfectly fine with it.

* In the ''Prostokvashino'' franchise by Eduard Uspensky, hardly anyone bats an eyelid at a six-year-old boy living completely by himself with a sentient, talking dog and a sentient, talking cat. All three of them are able to keep house, make purchases (including ordering a specific sort of tractor right from the Ministry!), and everyone’s perfectly fine with it.

* In the ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' story "A Close Shave," a barber seems unfazed by the fact that a train just '''crashed through his shop'''. It's only after Duck speaks that the barber is upset that he "frightened my customer."