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2[[caption-width-right:283:And the bidding war for that script was [[SillySimian bananas]]!]]
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4->'''Clone of Creator/BenjaminFranklin:''' Why do you have your barber on emergency speed dial?\
5'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' I don't know? Because life is '''''crazy?!'''''
6-->-- ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''
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8Guess what? Remember last week when [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] possessed our [[AlienAmongUs resident alien]] when we killed that vampire? Well, this week we've got {{time travel}}ing [[BlackMagic wizards]] on our tail! Good thing we acquired those PsychicPowers from that [[TheMonolith black monolith]] two weeks ago, eh?
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10…basically, every concept or [[MonsterMash creature]] that was ever touched upon in popular culture is not only real, but has a vested interest in the main characters. However, despite the rampant weirdness, everything superficially ''appears'' to be identical to the present day.
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12Distinguished from [[StandardSuperheroSetting comic book settings]] in that in comics, the unusual is used as a plot device ("This guy comes from space, and that's why he has powers!"), whereas World Of Weirdness uses it as a plot enabler ("This guy went to space on his vacation, and all he got was this stupid T-shirt!").
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14Often comes hand-in-hand with the LawOfConservationOfNormality. Often develops a complex and nuanced CrossoverCosmology. Use of this in a serious manner with separate explanations of how all of the weirdness came to be turns it into a FantasyKitchenSink. MagicAIsMagicA can generally be assumed to be completely averted. If the weirdness has a detective/thriller angle to it, may also overlap with WorldOfMysteries.
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16This trope was originally named "Planet Eris" after the goddess of Chaos in ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'', the prime text of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordian|ism}} religion. Also relates to the original Ancient Greek mythology version of Eris as the goddess of discord, strife and quarrels. Look up the ''Literature/TheIliad'' (especially the Judgement of Paris scene) for one of her most famous roles therein, you know the Original Snub and 'For the Fairest' and the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple Corps]]. Not to be confused with Eros, god of sexual love and beauty, or Ares, god of war, or Chaos/Khaos/χάος, [[GeniusLoci who was the void before the creation of gods and earth]]. Yeah, Greek Myth was involved. Suffice to say Eris is the embodiment of the modern term chaos, discord and the fun stuff.
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18See also UrbanFantasy for the genre use of this trope.
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20This is the most common setting for the FlatEarthAtheist.
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27* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': The world around the characters in this GagSeries is implied to be this, whether it be Kusuri's drugs or anything the Serious Group produces.
28* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' casually features everything from [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], {{Cyborg}}s and [[HumanAliens aliens]] to PsychicPowers, [[UpliftedAnimal intelligent orangutans]] and [[MixAndMatchCritters man-headed dogs]] without much - if any - explanation or fanfare. It eventually gets to the point where being attacked by [[FightingSpirit enemy Stand Users]] is not only accepted as normal by the characters, it's downright expected.
29* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' can be like this at times; while there is a little surprise at the existence of the headless motorcyclist Celty, Shizuo's superhuman strength is considered, at worst, an interesting character quirk. Simon's almost equal strength isn't even that.
30* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Besides the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of countries walking around, you have aliens, mythical creatures visible only to certain countries, and other sorts of weirdness. And yet life goes on as normal for most of the human race.
31* ''Manga/LoveHina'' definitely falls into this, as characters using robots, magic, etc. is hardly noticable. Even when Keitaro's ability to withstand severe physical abuse is revealed to be some form of nigh-indestructability, it's not given much more than a shrug; people generally are just mildly impressed by it.
32** This does not hold for ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', the semi-sequel set in the same universe, where [[TheMasquerade a masquerade]] is clearly shown to be upheld.
33* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' has, among its student body, a robot, a gorilla, and an extremely buff character who may or may not be [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]. The anime even adds things like spaceships flying in the background and a character's mohawk apparently being prehensile.
34* The ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' movies has the main cast encountering dinosaurs, giant robots, aliens, evolved animals, wizards, dragons, merpeople, etc. The whole series, for a start, has a robotic cat from the future as the main character.
35* The original run of ''Manga/DragonBall'' was this, albeit set in a fantasy universe. Beyond walking, talking {{Funny Animal}}s, magic and shape-shifting was considered usual. Even in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', this was present (although less obvious).
36** This was a hold-over from Toriyama's previous series, ''Manga/DoctorSlump''.
37* Two words. ''Manga/OnePiece''. Here's a meta hint: Creator/EiichiroOda once apprenticed under Creator/AkiraToriyama. Let's see, humans, mermaids, fishmen, and giants (who are all able to interbreed). A World Government like this one that hasn't already destroyed the world. Circular rainbows, a race of alien angels with weird hair who say "Heso", fruit that lets people stretch like rubber or shoot magma, an unofficial government for pirates, dinosaurs hunted for food... Is it any wonder that the singing skeleton with an afro rarely gets lampshaded anymore?
38* ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'' runs on it. Between the local police station fighting space-crimes, galactic pirates, middle schoolers making [[ImpossibleThief apps that can steal anything]], every planet having an equivalent Ogikubo, and [[spoiler:''all of Creator/StudioTrigger's works existing in the same universe'']], Luluco finds it pretty hard to live a normal life.
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42* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' is a perfect example of this trope at its finest. With little more than a HandWave, the series casually includes epic battle scenes, mystical powers, save points, and ninjas. A good example of how the series treats fantastical elements is that finding out someone is psychic is generally no more surprising than finding out that they're vegan[[note]]In the series, there's actually some overlap, as a vegan diet gives you psychic powers[[/note]]: it's unusual, but in no way fantastic.
43** The series manages to be this and MagicRealism at the same time interestingly enough. Beyond the video game logic, it's a story about overcoming your negative qualities and owning up to your mistakes.
44* The premise of ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''. Every single character from history and fiction that the author [[PublicDomainCharacter won't be sued for using]] is fair game as a character.
45** The same goes for spin-off series ''Jack of Fables''.
46* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is this, especially if you read the text chapters and not just the comics. Not surprising, since the main premise of the books is that all written fiction is true.
47* The tie-in comics for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' go into some detail about what it's like to live in a town where all the inhabitants are cartoon characters. It's... chaotic, verging on a WorldGoneMad (the first issue involves a safe falling from nowhere, a pair of [[LivingClothes pants]] that talks like a gangster, and evil flying pizzas that are ultimately defeated by a pack of dogs).
48* PlayedForLaughs in ''Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', which has aliens, psychics, zombies, wizards, gangsters, talking toys, ghosts, Santa Claus, elves, roadside Americana, dinosaurs, mole people, time travel, Satan and hell, vampires, sapient [=80s=] computers, talking paintings... The [[DarkerAndEdgier surprisingly epic]] game ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'' is a story about a space gorilla attempting to steal the psychic brain of the President of the US, who is also a murderous rabbit creature and the second main character, while battling a dark wizard who wants the brain to unsummon [[CosmicHorror Yog Soggoth]], and a RealityWarper Pharaoh.
49* ''ComicBook/KingCity'' has, among other things, Sasquatch, ninjas, {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s aplenty, psychics, gangsters, an ancient Mayan corn cult, various monsters, an EldritchAbomination, and a bunch of specially trained warriors whose main weapons are their pet cats.
50* In ''ComicBook/GiraffesOnHorsebackSalad'', Earth becomes one of these when the Surrealist Woman falls in love with Jimmy and her RealityWarper powers are amplified -- the streets of Paris all go in one direction, Venice has been drained and floats twenty feet off the ground, bridges of slime fill the city and lead to roads in the air, and more.
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54* In its early years, ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' had strips involving dinosaurs, aliens, trolls, people stowing away inside Dilbert's torso, and an arc where Dilbert is killed by Mother Nature and is brought BackFromTheDead with a homemade cloning device. There's much less of that stuff now, though it's not completely diminished, what with consultants who dig into your flesh just to get at your wallet, the ruler of Heck (titled "Prince of Insufficient Light") showing up every now and again, talking animals who function as {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s and Indians apparently being taught telekinesis in college.
55-->(Asok [[YourHeadASplode blows up some guy's head with his mind]])\
56'''Dilbert:''' They taught you some good stuff.\
57'''Asok:''' Nah, they don't even let you in unless you can do that.
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61* ''Fanfic/Swing123AndGarfieldodiesCalvinverse'' has aliens, all sorts of technology, [[MadScientist mad scientists]]...
62* [[BadFuture Dark World]] in ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' is this, given [[MadGod Discord has ruled for a thousand years]]. Sea Ponies based off various aqautic species live in an ocean floating high about the planet, Pegasi and Griffins are now one species, as are Zebras and Unicorns, the night day cycle changes completely randomly, it actually raining ''water'' is considered odd, Changelings are now common place freedom fighters, and an alien invasion happened five hundred years ago. Apple Computer's response to his children saving a pony from a Pony Eating Rock is basically to say OhNoNotAgain and invite said pony to dinner. This even continues after the world is saved and it becomes less weird because [[spoiler:a good chunk of the world's populace came BackFromTheDead thanks to Rarity becoming Queen Libra]] and Sky Ocean still exists.
63* ''Fanfic/Flashpoint2AdventSolaris'', this is basically how all of the DC characters from the DCAMU react to seeing the anthro Sonic characters for the first time, and it's questionable if they ever truly get used to it or not.
64* ''Fanfic/KasumisEpicQuest''. The first chapter alone gives us a bag that literally holds everything, an evil clan of sentient books who kill people by shoving pictures of basilisks in their faces, [[VideoGame/MineCraft Creepers]], [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the Killer Rabbit and the Holy Handgrenade]], and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic carpenter ponies]]. The world isn't ''quite'' bizarre enough to be considered a WorldOfChaos, but it is still a very, very silly place.
65* ''Blog/ThePredespairKids'' and ''Blog/AskTheNewHopesPeak'' take the setting of ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'', already a pretty bizarre series on its own, and manage to make it even ''crazier.''
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69* ''Film/ForbiddenZone'' mostly takes place in the eponymous Fifth Dimension, which can be summarized by saying its leader, Fausto the Midget King, is planning on conquering the galaxy with an army of zombie babies as soon as he can get his teenage lover away from his wife's evil anthropomorphic frog. The "real world" is a little better, aside from the giant mouth in the Hercules family's basement and Squeezit's ability to talk to chickens whenever his mom's "clients" beat him up.
70* This is literally the plot of ''Film/TheMatrix'' though one would think at least one civilian would notice other people turning into Agents at some point.
71* ''Film/MenInBlack'' manages to be this in spite of TheMasquerade. It implies the real world is like this, we just don't know about it because a) the MIB organization is actively hiding the truth from the general public and b) whenever someone ''does'' spill the beans, nobody believes them anyway. At one point K goes to get leads from the "hot sheets", which turn out to be tabloids like ''National Enquirer'' and ''Weekly World News''. He tells the incredulous J, "Finest investigative reporting on the planet. Oh, you can read the ''New York Times'' if you ''want'' to; sometimes they get lucky."
72* In ''Film/{{Looper}}'', time travel is at least treated as an odd sort of thing from the future. The fact that a percentage of the population is telekinetic, however, gets barely any fanfare.
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76* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'': With a name like "Wonderland", what else can you expect?
77* "Literature/AngelDerinEdala": Although most people in the setting have not seen an angel, their existence is treated as common knowledge.
78* Nearly every SpeculativeFiction plot, setting and mechanics you can imagine exists within the world of ''Literature/ConstanceVerity''. Time travel, space travel, barbarians, lost civilizations, aliens, demons, mole men, magic, fairies, ghosts, wormholes, eldritch horrors from beyond; you name it, it exists here.
79* ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'': [[SolarSystemNeighbors Every planet in the Earth's solar system is populated with space-faring alien life]] who are now walking on Earth just like anyone else. {{Atlantis}}, MoleMen and Bigfoot nations share the Earth with humans, or "[[PlanetTerra Terrans]]" as they're called, and all sorts of interplanetary or interdimensional strangeness happens on an almost daily basis. After retiring from conquering, Mollusk's job as Earth's Emperor is mainly him using his impressive tech and intellect to fight off anything that threatens it.
80* One of the earliest examples: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy was deliberately written to be the World of Weirdness of conspiracy theories.
81* Creator/RobertRankin has built a highly successful writing career on this trope.
82* Simon Green's ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' novels surely qualify, as they feature pop-culture figures like "the Traveling Doctor" operating side by side with mythological gods and extradimensional entities. One might walk into any Nightside pub and find a cyborg, a mummy, and a gnome in a Nazi uniform knocking back shots at the bar, none of which would strike the pub's regulars as odd.
83* ''Literature/TheGoneAwayWorld'' by Nick Harkaway has decaying reality as the setting due to a super weapon gone awry.
84* A lighthearted example is explored in the Creator/DrSeuss children's book ''Wacky Wednesday''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Just like the title implies]], the protagonist wakes up on a Wednesday to find everything has gone...wacky. Things escalate from a palm tree growing from the toilet and shoes stuck to the walls and ceiling, to a completely surreal world where airplanes fly backwards, pigs run amok on chicken legs (or levitate without legs), there are two suns or a green sun, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the entire town is full of mothers strolling their babies]].
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88* ''Series/LookAroundYou'' has ghosts, time travel, animals capable of building computers, resurrection, a disease that turns people into piles of rocks while granting them the ability to fly, and a thousand other bizarre things...all treated as perfectly normal.
89* ''Series/TrueBlood'' subverts this; it starts out establishing [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] as having integrated into society and considered an oppressed minority and civil rights group. Other creatures, however--werewolves, shapeshifters, telepaths--are treated as strange and keep up a [[TheMasquerade masquerade]].
90* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': the first two series were mostly focused on ghosts with a few other strange things. In the later seasons, all bets were off, with books of Viking magical poetry, living shadows, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext fish that make your penis function like a propeller]], [[GrossoutShow gelato machines in human form that extrude the stuff from their noses]], magical kiss-granting lip balm, time travel radios, a FreakyFridayFlip resulting from a badly tuned VR machine, dragons, ghostly dogs that curse you to [[VerbalTic end every sentence]] with "without my pants", and even an episode where two characters had their brains sucked out of their heads and shot out the window, necessitating said brains to bounce across town to regain their bodies.
91* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' definitely got weirder over time- by the final season, there were plenty of weird things referenced, like Pennsylvania's voting machines somehow gaining sentience (and being strongly in favor of gay marriage), to Leap Day being an actual holiday, and that's not even taking into account the antics at ''TGS'' itself- and of course, Kenneth apparently being immortal.
92* Wellsville in ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete''. From a conspiracy of ice-cream vendors to Artie, the WorldsStrongestMan, to an [[TheAce amazingly talented and successful]] underwear inspector and a legendary striped bass and cursed bowling ball, all sorts of crazy things happen in this town that [[WeirdnessCensor nobody else really seems to notice]].
93* The bizarre, the inexplicable, and the zany are a constant background presence on ''Series/OddSquad'', yet people just call in the Odd Squad agents to clean up the mess and then get on with their daily lives. Even the agents won't bother to investigate ''why'' a particular odd event occurred, unless there's a pattern of serial oddness that hints an actual villain is to blame.
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97* The comics in ''[[Magazine/TopSecretMagazine Top Secret]]'' seem to take place in a world made from all the video game settings mushed together, thus allowing the heroes to go on wacky hijinx [[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis with Indiana Jones]] or [[Franchise/StarWars having their office attacked by the Death Star]].
98* The ''Magazine/ForteanTimes'' is predicated on this trope. Halfway between complete credulity of the New Age sort and militant scepticism of the James Randi variety, FT gathers in and recounts strange and anomalous events from around the world, and discusses their validity or otherwise in a very serious and readable way.
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102* The state of UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} has garnered a [[OnlyInFlorida reputation]] of being an alligator-infested epicenter for the strangest stories from chaotic locals. Many a publication will end up viral if the title is ever adorned with a "Florida Man". This is due to its transparency regarding information pertaining to different cases, which lets papers and reporters publish the strangest and most absurd happenings that other states would normally downplay in their headlines. Strange wording for headlines aside, the fact that the state is home to [[OnlyInMiami Miami]] and is near TheBermudaTriangle only help to sell its infamy.
103* UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} was memed as this through a good chunk of 2022, being portrayed as a world where [[EldritchAbomination eldritch monsters]], [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], [[UnknownPhenomenon strange phenomena]], and more, all exist and are treated as part of everyday life by the equally weird locals.
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107* Music/{{Gorillaz}} play to this. It can be excused in their music videos, but when you find in their backstories that they attended [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier's School for Gifted Children]], are part of a government Super Soldier program that specializes in creating brilliant musicians, were suspended from school due to demon possession, or have scaly green skin due to tanning, this trope comes into play.
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111* The world of ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'', an impression conveyed not only by the events Reverend Mord describes, but implicitly by the matter-of-fact way in which he describes them. An account of an incident in which a man spontaneously transformed into a cloud of butterflies features the phrase "Spontaneous butterfly explosions were nearly unknown at that time". Within that world, the oft-mentioned Echo Harbor is a city of weirdos where strange happenings are so much more common that nothing that happens there is a surprise. No, not even shutting out the Fathers with a wall made of live dolphins that whistle hostile sonnets. The only event ever mentioned to terrify its citizens is that time [[http://thehiddenalmanac.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_for_2015-10-14 a little old lady]] came through striking up conversation and being unperturbed by the clouds performing unspeakable rites on each other.
112-->'''Mord:''' "You're so lucky to live in this lovely city," she is reported to have said. "One sees so much evil in small towns."
113* The town of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. Hooded figures who lurk in the dog park, spontaneous chronal wormholes, angels no one is allowed to acknowledge, a mind controlling cloud that glows and drops dead animals, bloodstone circles, the Brownstone Spire, a shape no one speaks about or acknowledges, deadly wheat and wheat byproducts, floating cats, Vague Yet Menacing Government Agents, [[EldritchAbomination librarians]], and more all can be found within its borders. Of course, finding them can be difficult given that many of these anomalies are either covered up, denied, or viewed as normal.
114** Amusingly, one two-part episode has an OnlySaneMan (or as close as the podcast gets) conspiracy theorist write in to two separate radio stations (the titular Night Vale Radio and the corresponding station in [[EvilCounterpart Desert Bluffs]]) claiming that the government has engineered a sandstorm that is approaching the two towns. Cecil, the host of NVR, is enraged that the writer would waste his time with something ''so incredibly obvious'', while Kevin, the host of Desert Bluff's radio, agrees with his assessment, in that he thinks that the sandstorm is poorly and inefficiently implemented, and that a private corporation could control the weather much more efficiently and effectively.
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118* Both the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' and the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''. Vlad Tepes invented vampirical Scientology (which actually ''works''), Frankenstein's Monster is the father of a race of other Frankensteinian monsters, evil aliens infect the souls of entire vampire clans, and five tons of other stuff.
119** The fanmade ''World of Darkness'' gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' only continues the above trend.
120* Steve Jackson Games' ''TabletopGame/GURPSIlluminatiUniversity'' gives every appearance of being created specifically to be the setting for any webcomic you care to name. The Phil Foglio art doesn't hurt that at all...
121** ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [[TheIlluminati Illuminati]]'' also has this quality, but less light-hearted.
122* ''TabletopGame/{{Pandemonium|1993}}: Adventures in Tabloid World'' is a comedy RPG which takes place in a world where all the stuff you read in "weird but true" tabloids like the ''Weekly World News'' (reincarnation, Fortean phenomena, psychic powers, aliens, and so on) really is true.
123* Collectible trading card game ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' lives this trope. The game universe encompasses mermaids, vampires, dragons, goblins, wizards, zombies, golems, killer robots, trans-dimensional Eldritch horrors, and several special monster types specific to the game universe besides. A typical game in Commander format might see you getting attacked by all of the above in one charge.
124* ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'' runs on this trope - the fictional island of Al Amarja is overrun with psychics, spies, alien infiltrators, cultists, artists, and other weirdness. (The game helpfully points out that if the players leave Al Amarja, you need to decide if the island is a nexus for weirdness, or if the whole world is this strange, and they just ''never noticed before''.)
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128* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'': Bosses include a bungee-jumping booger man, Professor Monkey-for-a-Head, fire-breathing snowmen, a fire-breathing steak, and Queen Bloated-Festering-Pus-Filled-Malformed-Slug-for-a-Butt.
129* ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' '''is''' this. Don't be fooled by the apparent pretenses at realism at the starting area. Justified due to most of the content being made by other users.
130* The world of ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'', nonstop. Massive spirits, demons, monsters, and Power Ranger {{expy}}s wandering around; floating cities and giant mushrooms; and of course, the royal family itself.
131* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', Paragon City is a pretty weird place.
132** The world is actually rather internally consistent, although everything weird ''ever'' happens to be concentrated in the two faction cities. However, a lack of available lore leads to many players [[{{Fanon}} getting creative]]. This applies to any Superhero game, of course. Not many people want to conform to preset concepts and origins.
133* ''Videogame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' takes place within "The Nexus," a conflux of time and space where heroes and worlds clash,[[labelnote:*]]And yes, ''several'' characters [[LampshadeHanging comment]] on how [[SelfDeprecation creatively underwhelming this concept is]] in StopPokingMe Quotes[[/labelnote]] this nexus draws in characters and realms from all over Creator/BlizzardEntertainment's franchises to do endless MOBA -- [[InsistentTerminology Hero Brawler!]] -- battle, and given that those franchises take place in ''wildly'' different universes with their own MagicAIsMagicA, TechnologyLevels, etc, the Nexus invariably becomes a World Of Weirdness where lasers are shot from sun-powered obelisks right next to {{Steampunk}} turrets, necromancy raises undead right next to a tank, and there's a trio of vikings running around with MediumAwareness of their situation.
134* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': in the windows games: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Vampires]], [[CuteGhostGirl Ghosts and]] [[RealityWarper a reality warper]], MagiTek [[HumanAliens moon people and]] [[LittleBitBeastly bunny girls]], [[PalsWithJesus rival Goddesses]] [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly set up shop down the street]], [[ApocalypseHow World domination/destruction by]] nuclear-powered [[FeatheredFiend Hell Crow]], and [=UFOs=], all while [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] and FanFic portray liberal SchizoTech, especially at the hands of the {{kappa}} and {{tengu}}, or whenever "[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve technology becomes mythical]]" enough for it [[TheMagicGoesAway to disappear into Gensokyo]]. [[GoodAllAlong While they may fight for no reason at first,]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek the various monsters or spacemen]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship make up]], [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu and drink tea with all the other freaks afterwards]].
135* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' games are basically set on a World of Weirdness. There's the obvious stuff, like the {{alien abduction}}s, vampires, werewolves, [[FantasyKitchenSink and so forth]]; and then there are the subtler examples found in the buyable objects' descriptions, like the fact that there's apparently a government rehabilitation program in which actual bears make teddy bears.
136* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games are almost certainly set on World Of Weirdness. Oh sure, it looks like ''VideoGame/Persona1'' is set on Earth until you remember that the SEBEC Group built a machine that rewrites reality [[spoiler:[[PoweredByAForsakenChild based on the whims of a high school girl in a coma]]]].
137** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'', Creator/StephenHawking created the Demon Summoning Program. In the sequel, he's still providing updates.
138** ''Shin Megami Tensei'' is really a Multiverse of Weirdness, as most games take place in alternate Earths that each undergo their own little apocalypses and then have to deal with the aftermath. The ''Persona'' subseries is the least applicable to this trope with hints that TheMasquerade is enforced by a mix of government and corporate cover-ups and willful disbelief. However, ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}''' were more willing to do things that couldn't just be covered up or written off as mass hysteria, and ''everyone'' seemed to already know when someone else might, say, be a demon summoner. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' were more bent on preserving TheMasquerade, disqualifying them from this trope.
139* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', common gameplay elements include [[TheUndead zombies and skeletons]], [[GiantSpiders giant spiders]], [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos (sl)endermen]], [[FunctionalMagic magic]], [[RuinsForRuinsSake ancient ruins]], and [[AnotherDimension interdimensional travel]].
140* Ah, ''VideoGame/PunchOut''. A boxing game that includes, among others, a German who [[ShellShockedVeteran developed PTSD from being beaten by his child students]], an Indian who [[MysticalIndia utilizes illusionary powers]], a Russian who [[DrunkOnMilk becomes intoxicated via soda]], an African-American who [[PersonOfMassDestruction can level a building with his bare hands]], and, most importantly, a 5'7" kid from the Bronx who weighs 100 pounds and can ''beat all of them one-on-one using only fisticuffs''.
141* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'': Planet Sera is relatively normal on the surface. Sure, they've got some pretty advanced tech such as [[DoAnythingRobot Do-Anything Robots]] and {{Kill Sat}}s even though all their buildings look pretty old-fashioned, but that's just because most of the money gets pumped into the military. When you go underground however, you start finding the weird shit, like an entire race of BeePeople, a '''GIANT WORM!''', and a miracle fuel [[spoiler:that is actually a parasitic organism]].
142* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' seemed like a simple cartoony gorefest... at first. But in recent years, the continuity was expanded. Now, the canon of the game includes ghosts, magicians, TimeTravel, [[EnergyWeapon laser guns]] from [[AnotherDimension other dimensions]], transformative elements that give people incredible strength, heightened intelligence and superb mustaches (yes, even the women), [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant floating eyeball monsters that open portals to the Underworld]], and quite possibly, [[TheGrays aliens]]...
143* The ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' series. In any given game you can expect to find some combination of psychic powers, [=UFOs=], cybernetic and/or tentacled aliens, cultists/fanatics, EverythingTryingToKillYou, hippies, jazz clubs, improbable animals and plants (obviously trying to kill you), ancient civilizations, alien abductions, alternate realities, MushroomSamba, abandoned children, teleportation, talking monkeys, breaking the fourth wall, levitation, prophecy, time travel, a quest for music, bottle rockets, clueless adults, a needlessly detailed system of food and condiments, and zombies. Maybe your quest starts because a bee hitched a ride to your time on a meteorite just to share a prophecy with you, maybe it starts because a lamp and a doll come to life and try killing your sister and your dad thinks your grandfather's abduction by aliens is probably involved. It's that kind of game.
144* Only in a series like ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' can you find mad scientists, anthropomorphic animals, kung fu masters, ninjas, witches, aliens, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking improbably young retro gamers, high schoolers with a load of jobs, a family of disco dancers and]] [[Franchise/{{Mario}} Wario]] in a single place. And that's just the main characters!
145** The closely-related ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'' series fares about the same. Vegetables with facial hair and faces, raps about snacks, monkeys, army birds, dumpling-inhaling monks, monkeys, badminton between a dog and cat piloting planes, whatever Donk-Donk is supposed to be, monkeys, sentient ground shooting fruit into basketball hoops, martians who love pork rice bowls, and a few more monkeys for good measure... basically the only thing that separates the two series is that absolutely everything in Rhythm Heaven is done to the beat of catchy music. And monkeys.
146* ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'': According to Wyldstyle, the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Land of Oz]] manages to make [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie Cloud Cuckoo Land]] seem normal.
147* The ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' series ostensibly takes place in the "real" England--which, in this reality, contains RidiculouslyHumanRobots, hallucinogenic gases that can manifest entire towns, ancient civilizations who had technology beyond anything contemporary humanity possesses, a boy who SpeaksFluentAnimal, giant sea monsters, working time travel, and a villain whose skill in LatexPerfection allows him to not only change his appearance, but his entire size and physique. And that's ignoring the central gimmick of the series: everyone--yes, ''everyone''--is absolutely obsessed with puzzles. No matter who you talk to, they'll have a brainteaser or riddle for you to solve, even when they're investigating murders and kidnappings. Only the first game in the series bothered to HandWave this trope, as [[spoiler: it's revealed that the Ridiculously Human Robots mentioned above were built by a puzzle-loving man as a SecretTestOfCharacter to determine who would be a good choice to adopt his ward]]; after that, the developers simply added it to the endless list of quirks in Layton's world.
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151* ''Webcomic/AntiBunny'': Magic exists. A superhero battled an army of evil robots, and ordinary life goes on. Pooky writes for a Weekly World News type rag, and every bit of it is true. That's not even getting into what goes on in haunted junction.
152* ''Webcomic/TemplarArizona'' is set in a largely realistic but subtly different world, where there are, among other things, fast-food restaurants serving fried guinea pig, and one of the largest immigrant factions of the eponymous city is composed of people who are both ethnically and culturally ''Ancient Egyptian''. There's also a huge black man named Scipio who is a professional bodyguard and who dresses like a Roman gladiator, and no one who meets him finds anything even slightly remarkable about this.
153* ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'': In the beginning, the comic had many appearances of ninjas, an [[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/cad/20021025 ogre]], random arrows, and one ''[[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/cad/20021101 insistence]]" where Ethan kills a person before he can say all your base are belong to us. Now, the only "supernatural" things in the comic would have to be Zeke, Ted, Chef Brian, and any comic poking fun at a game, movie, etc.
154* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' When {{Satan}} was summoned into Riff's computer in the very first series of strips, that was more ''normal'' than what would be the average. Not only are alternate universes, demons, aliens and TimeTravel present and accounted for, but also aliens ''from'' alternate universes, demons from the far future and every other mind-wrenching combination you can imagine. Sometimes they fight each other.
155-->'''Torg:''' With my secretary encased in a cocoon, I can't get a lot done.\
156'''Riff:''' And I don't have to worry about saving the world from an alien invasion for now.\
157'''Zoë:''' And with the prophesy fulfilled, the comets won't destroy the Earth for weeks.\
158'''Torg, Riff, and Zoë:''' IT'S SUMMER VACATION TIME!\
159'''Torg and Riff:''' ''...Comets?''\
160'''Zoë:''' School is out and the office is closed, but that just sounded too dull compared to you guys. You really know how to make a girl sound boring.
161* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' features a {{downplayed|Trope}} version of this combined with [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture more advanced technology]]. The result is [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1557 flying]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1594 Roomba]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1643 babies]]. Other things include a character being born on a SpaceStation, and raised by robots. Also, arbitrary action movie scenes [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=696 just]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=697 happen]].
162* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'': Whether it's simply a fact of life [[AllGhoulsSchool at Charybdis Heights]], or if it's limited to Nina and her friends, one thing is clear: [[WeirdnessMagnet weird things happen. A lot.]]
163** Such as the time [[SuccubiAndIncubi Chloe's]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/gesundheit! pheromones flooded the entire school]], turning all the boys into [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/it_is_making_blair_cry! Chloe-obsessed "zombies".]] Though they went after any girls who were covered in her pheromones too. The situation wound up being resolved by Nina hitting the fire alarm ([[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/short_girls with help from Blair]]).
164** Then there was the time Nina [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/real_evil got pulled into the cursed mirror]] and was replaced by [[EvilTwin the Nina-ganger.]] But since it was influenced by aspects of her personality, it was [[{{Troll}} a tad less "evil"]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/less_abominable than it should've been.]] Tiffany and the others eventually [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/hunk_of_a_man lured it back into the mirror]] and saved Nina.
165** And there was [[GenderBender the Tiresias Orb incident]], thanks to [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/the_wrong_hands Blair getting his hands on it]] and using it to turn almost everyone at the school into his idea of the [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boing ideal woman]] (BuxomBeautyStandard + DumbBlonde). And the less said about how they got outta ''[[BrainBleach that one]]''... [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boobs_go_away! the better.]]
166* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has ''tons'' of this. The "new readers" page actually contains a warning that the comic "often ignores the laws of Physics".
167** The "EGS Mayhem" forum is worse. As in, if the Weirdness Index of ''El Goonish Shive'' is x, then the Weirdness Index of EGS Mayhem is x^x, at least. There's a reason the forum tagline is ''It means "The Goonish Shive crippling of eye or limb".''
168** As the comic developed, things became a [[MagicAIsMagicA little more internally consistent]], although still pretty random.
169* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' has more than a few instances of this. Niels Bohr is feline, unobserved and immortal. The [[{{Mayincatec}} Toltec]] underworld exists, Heaven exists (though not [[FluffyCloudHeaven the type of heaven one might expect]]). The Egyptian pantheon exists, and so do robots, time travellers, "Nephilim", [[NoodleIncident Reverse Moses and Aqua-Pharaoh]], and superheroes. And that's just the beginning of it. The culture is also kind of odd, with a Historical Preenactment Society dedicated to doing future conflicts such as the Second Moon War, and an entire city where you legally have to register your crimes and there's an entire department dedicated to opposing the other departments.
170** And yet the fantasy and surrealist elements coexist alongside some rather solid, hard-SF science. As well as "dark science", whatever that actually means.
171* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', Dr. [=McNinja=] lives in an alternate-universe Cumberland, Maryland, in which [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] run the Red Cross, {{pirate}}s still sail the seas and [[SkyPirate skies]], and the mayor installed a working [[ZombieApocalypse zombie]] defense system which got used. What's particularly funny is that no one takes the weirdness for granted.
172** No one, that is, except for King Radical, who thinks there isn't nearly enough of it, and hopes to pull beings from his home dimension, the Radical Lands, into Doc's world. (NB: This is because his own world was poisoned by an evil unicorn overlord that later turns into a mind-controlling motorcycle.)
173*** [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the reason the world is so strange is because of a leaking dimensional rift; it's right between the Radical Lands and another [[RealLife similar yet exceptionally more boring dimension]].]]
174* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' is a notable example of this trope in action. It has everything including alternate dimensions, time travel and lots of breaking the fourth wall. Seemingly everyone in that comic seems to be in on the joke, though. If anything, it's almost ''too'' goofy.
175* ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' is full of goblins, devil bears, talking flying bells, scheming Wendigos, {{Satan}}, WeirdScience of many kinds, numerous [[MilkmanConspiracy bizarre conspiracies]] and a fish-man in self-denial.
176* ''Webcomic/{{Candi}}'' is a mild example. It's mostly about the lives of ordinary college students, but every now and then some weirdness pops up. It seems to be slowly increasing in frequency, too - first there was just the levitating ferret, then the squirrel mafia shows up...
177* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has this, with the caveat that all the insanity tends to gravitate around [[WeirdnessMagnet one guy]].
178* ''Webcomic/EmergencyExit'' starts off completely normal (aside from the inexplicable insanity of Eddie), but soon drops into World of Weirdness with the introduction of such things as Karl's apartment's alternate-reality portal, the talking cat Fred, witchcraft, curses, and shapeshifting villains competing in a quest to grab the pieces of some [[CosmicKeystone shattered artifact]]... ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia'', which EE crossed over with a couple times, starts looking normal by comparison, and that's a post-apocalyptic dark urban fantasy where nightmares and demons run rampant.
179** All of which serves to make the things Eddie says make a lot more sense...
180* The entire premise of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' is the way in which the main character, [[EmotionlessGirl Antimony]], is completely unsurprised by any of the strange, mystical goings on at the titular boarding school.
181** Not exactly that surprising, since when she lived in a hospital, before she came to the Court, Antimony was on first name terms with several [[spoiler:psychopomps]].
182* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' (and presumably its SpiritualSuccessor ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'') takes place in a world where {{mad scien|tist}}ce in particular is pretty rampant. The existence of demons, Hell, and ghosts is confirmed, and aliens have been mentioned in throwaway. Human magic, as well as Earthly supernatural creatures, hasn't been shown yet, but mad science can replicate those pretty well (a newly-mad mad scientist has an almost magical field of entropic chaos around them, and ''Skin Horse'' feature [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent science-created werewolves]] complete with infectiousness and regeneration) in one storyline.
183* ''Webcomic/GeminiJourney'' takes place in a quirky contemporary melting pot of different mythological and fantasy themes.
184** [[http://www.geminijourney.com/index.php?c=188 It costs a gold coin ''and'' a virgin tear for a coffee]], [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/gemini-journey/here-there-be-dragons/viewer?title_no=111693&episode_no=2 the dragons are a pest]], and [[http://www.geminijourney.com/index.php?c=206 Suburban Decay's maSCAREa]] could use some work.
185* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': {{Kaiju}}, {{Ninja}}, ZombieApocalypse, HumongousMecha, {{Magical Girl}}s, etc. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Nobody seems surprised]], though -- it's [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]]. Parts of it are Largo's imagination, though.
186** It gets more complicated. WordOfGod says that the comic is about different perceptions of reality, much like a larger-scale version of the [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]] conundrum. And nobody's reality is called "true" so far. So the girls may be parts of Piro's imagination and Largo may be entirely right.
187*** Considering how strongly perceptions play into the comic, don't be surprised if the determinator of which reality is "correct" in the end is the ''audience''.
188---->''"[[http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?showtopic=1736148&view=findpost&p=5037822 Did it ever occur to you guys that this plethora of widely varying perceptions is exactly the device I am applying in MT for a specific effect?]]"''
189*** What Piro sees is true for Piro. What Largo sees is true for Largo. Their realities (among many others) occupy the same space, but are effectively separate. They appear to represent the extreme ends of the spectrum, with most of the other characters sitting somewhere in between. In fact, Piro and Largo appear to be the ''only'' characters in the comic who have no perception of one another's reality, with everyone else having at least some degree of crossover.
190* ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'' is careful to paint its protagonist's encounters with the Egyptian Gods as delusions (or at least plausibly deniable)... but the killer A.I./giant robot ant/velociraptor is ''perfectly normal''.
191* ''Webcomic/{{Khatru}}'' has WeirdScience, FunctionalMagic, super-powered [[PlayingWithFire college]] [[HealingFactor students]], and more.
192* ''[[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader]]'' often has chaotic things occurring, ranging from an attack by a slime monster in the early pages, to time travel on a steam powered hover-motor-cycle in the middle to battling an enraged android currently.
193* The world of ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors''. It's 2000 years in our future, after the world has been blown up four times, the fourth of which fused it with several other worlds. Most sociological and technological conventions ''resemble'' those of modern-day society, but magic is ever-present and allows people to do all sorts of interesting things. The Docs are just as likely to treat pinkeye one day and face a killer sentient cancer another, or turn a gorgon into a human at her request. As their leader says, "We don't live in a world where nothing is real. We live in a world where ''everything'' is real... though not all at once."
194* [[UnluckyEverydude Sam]] in ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' is often bewildered by strangeness and seems to be a [[WeirdnessMagnet magnet]] for it. Demon-possessed refrigerators, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja mafia]], [[ElaborateUndergroundBase elaborate underground cities]] -- all real, and all highly important to the plot.
195* While everyday life mostly stays normal in ''Webcomic/TheFan'', many supernatural concepts are mentioned in casual conversation. People with psychic powers or magical abilities (the latter are referred to as Gifted) are no different from the rest of humanity. In fact, it would seem that humans are sharing the planet with other sentient creatures as well. Murke the shape-shifting imp is treated no differently than a human who's a master of disguises would be.
196* ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'': The central cast consists of a woman who can see ghosts, a cyborg federal agent, the ghost of Creator/BenjaminFranklin, and a genetically engineered neocon koala super-genius. ''Then'' things get a little weird.
197%%* [[http://www.notmadcomic.com I'm Not Mad]] appears to take place on World, especially in the revamped second season.
198* Tycho and Gabe of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' routinely encounter supernatural events, like zombie outbreaks, or even sentient robotic fruit fuckers, without it surprising them the least. It's pretty unclear how crazy their world really is, since half the comics happen in video game worlds.
199* ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'' in most ways bears a superficial resemblance to the normal world, but it started out with goblins and dragons and has been getting crazier ever since.
200* ''WebComic/AxeCop'': Between hordes of dinosaurs, absurd superheroes, zombies, super-powered babies, ninjas, exploding telephones, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot sidekicks turned dinosaur turned avocado turned unicorn turned ghost turned ghostly dinosaur]], casual space travel, robots and out-of-the-blue transformations, all SerialEscalation, and resident badass Axe Cop himself, the comic takes this trope to the next level.
201* ''Webcomic/VoodooWalrus'' has a long history of [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=43 baby powered dommcano based publishing houses]], [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=699 sentient cacti instigating catsplosions]], and [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=1729 day trips to future dystopias]].
202%%* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', except, of course, for the Reality Zone.
203* The entire stable of comics loosely tied into the ''Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}'' (including, but not limited to, ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', ''Webcomic/DieselSweeties'', ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'', ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'', and a number of others) includes extensive use of artificial intelligence, boneless cats, ghosts, convenient space travel, and butts disease.
204* The world shared by ''Webcomic/AdventureDennis'' and ''Webcomic/HoverHead'' qualifies, given that it includes superheroes, demons, ghosts, yetis, living snowmen, aliens, wizards, and more.
205* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'', where everything imaginable exists, because the main character is [[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]].
206* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' seems to have a world that's ''mostly'' just normal, boring human stuff, with handfuls of [[LittleBitBeastly animal-people]] mixed in... it's just that every [[GovernmentConspiracy weird government experiment]] to clone [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny ADHD-ridden]] GeniusDitz squirrel-girls, every AlienInvasion, and every [[Film/TheyLive 1980s sci-fi plot come true]] all wind up somehow involving a certain down-on-his-luck graphic designer and his housemates. Oh, and apparently, birds can talk and carry grudges, though whether this reduces their airspeed velocity remains unexplored.
207* Half of the time, ''Webcomic/UGMadness'' will have Ty and Dom playing ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' and commenting on the game. The other half has head designer of the game Mark Rosewater portrayed as an imp who occasionally takes orders from Satan and holds conversations with a red hairball named Thomas who only exist in his subconscious. Also, Kamahl, a [[Literature/OdysseyCycle fictional]] [[Literature/OnslaughtCycle character]] from the game, barges into their apartment from time to time. All this leaves the main characters totally unfazed.
208* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': A battleship A.I. in charge of a ship that may have haunted plumbing. A former bounty hunter that can now 'excrete' shaped charges.[[note]]"You trust me not to drop my pants." "I ''used'' to..."[[/note]] A 'fast-food' worker charge with running a think tank to save the galaxy. And when a group of mercenaries find out just who's controlling an exo-galactic worldship...
209-->''"Don't tell me Captain Tagon saved the dinosaurs."\
210"... No. But I wouldn't put it past him."''
211%%* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': '''All''' the non-gray zones.
212* In the world of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', Most of human history has been shaped by gods playing a CosmicChessGame. The multiverse exists, as do most mythological creatures and deities in some form. Magic can be wielded to turn entire cities of humans into animals, and multiple forms of MouseWorld exist in the lower levels of society. Despite this, conflict is generally relegated to SliceOfLife scenarios, and TheUnmasquedWorld doesn't occur until the very last arc.
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216* Rufus Hooter Talltales may be a delusional CloudCuckooLander, but his world as seen in ''WebVideo/WorldsGreatestAdventures'' is gradually revealed to be bonkers in its own right. Werewolves, aliens, actual wizardyr, and [[TheNthDoctor regenerating]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer hats]].
217* In the [[DarthWiki/WALLEForumRoleplay WALL-E Forum Roleplay]], the Chicago Colony is inhabited by humans, [[HumanPopsicle human popsicles]], sapient animals, robots, robots that should have been part of a mass scrap years ago, an ousted robot spy, a robot based off an extremely destructive enemy automaton, a [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Turret]] rescued and given a robot body, a human robot sympathizer extremist, a human robot nonsympathizer, refugees from a nearly extinct race whose planet was blown up, refugees from a race of [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE alien kangaroos]] whose planet was consumed by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, refugees from a starship infested with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and generally considered to be a BedlamHouse, a couple of immortal entities, and probably a few folks I haven't thought of. There's another faction located underground, they were until recently regularly attacked by a RealityWarper (who they finally killed), and some [[AncientConspiracy very old secrets]] have been discovered although there's probably some more. This is all considered to be completely normal.
218** There are also a few other places on the planet that are inhabited, and then you go into space and things get ''really'' weird... and that's not even counting HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace....
219* ''Website/TheOnion'' could be read as a serious newspaper from a crazy parallel world.
220* The whole crux of ''WebAnimation/MattNDusty'', to the point where LampshadeHanging has become a frequent running gag.
221* ''Literature/TrintonChronicles'' is a little bit of this in every single way with vampires, super powers, magic, and hyper tech being the norm.
222* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT''. Ghosts who can turn you invisible, deities manifested as waterfalls using the form of a woman as a hollow shell, and MegaMicrobes made of water are just normal things to the cast.
223* ''Website/GaiaOnline'' features this, to an extreme, mostly due to its origins as a roleplaying community. They add a new canon race every year (or in the case of 2008 ''five''), not including various item based and user created races. Santa Claus has been killed, revived, then ''turned into a cow''. There have been two [[ZombieApocalypse zombie invasions]] and an alien invasion. The first shopkeeper you meet is a former vampire with a talking cat. There are at least three Mega Corps, one owned by Mrs. Claus, and the other two owned by resident Megalomaniac Johnny K. Gambino [[spoiler:and his clone]]. The Dark Elves run TheMafia. There is a city filled with Robots. Someone literally just ''found'' orcs in a cave. Centaurs are bureaucratic environmentalists. There are Pirates, Ninjas, [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed "Otami" Spirits]], and TheMenInBlack. Oh, and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou random objects have been coming alive and attacking people]]. Strangely, {{NPC}}s only consider the last one weird.
224** Funnily, quite a few of those things were player made organizations before becoming entrenched in Canon.
225* ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' and its sister channel ''Outside Xtra'' do weekly videos called, logically enough, "Show of the Week" for Xbox and "Show of the Weekend" for Xtra. These videos run entirely on the RuleOfFunny, and as such contain whatever weirdness seems to fit the topic that week: vampirism and the zombie plague both exist (and are curable), host Jane Douglas is a mad scientist and part-time supervillain, the show has been invaded in past by alien creatures and malevolent wigs, and Luke Westaway and Ellen Rose of Xtra have a Pikachu toy with the power of time travel.
226* ''Website/ChannelAwesome'' and other shows is set in the Reviewaverse. Everything fictional is real, and the universe has its own type of magic, mad science, and other weirdness.
227* ''LetsPlay/VenturianTale'' The world of the Venturian Tale roleplay is ridiculous. It has a man who teleports using toilets, a planet where all gingers are from, people being haunted by Mario and Elsa, a paranormal investigation team lead by a man named Johnny Ghost who has a serial killer alternate personality named Jimmy Casket, Dinosaurs, Dragons, a ton of paranormal entities, other dimensions, aliens, Sith lords and Jedi, Creapypasta characters going to high school, dating humans, and getting normal jobs, Five Nights at Freddy's characters walking around as if they were normal people, several memes existing as people, characters being turned into watermelons, a microwave that opens portals, and the main character, Papa Acachalla is a vampire hunting Indian Chief Timelord who was born in Zimbabwe thousands of years ago and turns a Hispanic man named Jose Jose Jose Jose every Monday at midnight, his kids are also weird, his daughter Sally turns into an Eldritch Abomination Waffle Demon when she doesn't get waffles and is also dating Slenderman, his adoptive son Billy is a Sith spy who was brainwashed by a watermelon to kill his real father, his other son Spencer is an Eldritch Abomination obsessed with all things nerdy possessing the body of a cult leader, the only slightly normal child ,Sue, is a man who was accidentally registered as a daughter rather than a son when being adopted, Papa Acachalla's wife Gertrude is a actually an interdimensional super hero known as The Crowbar and is also an alien from Gingeria, the planet of the Gingers who once sent him into the world of Dark Souls by hitting him with her crowbar.
228* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' normally doesn't have this, as the titular organization [[{{Masquerade}} tries very hard to prevent the weirdness from escaping their grasp.]] But in the [[TheUnmasquedWorld Broken Masquerade canon]], this is certainly the case. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/main-page-wikipedia Just look at the front page of Wikipedia!]]
229* In ''Literature/TheJenkinsverse'' the city of Folctha on the planet Cimbrean has evolved into this, as the only planet where non-{{Deathworld}} aliens and humans coexist. As retiring police chief Gabriel Arés told his successor:
230--> Welcome to the job. This isn’t Britain, Eric, this is ''Folctha''. The town’s foremost spiritual leader is a noodly six foot [[BeastMan Buddhist raccoon]], one of our most prominent citizens is a Roswell Grey [[CampStraight who must]] ''[[CampStraight never]]'' [[CampStraight be allowed to learn about drag]], the military presence are [[SpaceMarine the very best of the very best]] across ''two different species'', [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the most popular takeout in town once hit on the bright idea of putting broccoli in tacos]][[note]]most alien species are vegan[[/note]], the dogs are the next best thing to sapient and a rambunctious space emperor-slash-bear spends many weekends here, trying and mostly failing to have a ‘normal’ day… Folctha is, uh, ''weird''.
231* While a case could be made that even the vanilla world of ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' is one of these, it is ''especially'' so during the ''WebVideo/SteamTrain'' playthrough of it since Ross has a mod installed to turn all the dragons into Wrestling/MachoManRandySavage and is using various {{Speed Run}}ner {{Good Bad Bug}}s to sprint forever[[note]]Hold a torch and a weapon in your left and right hands, respectively. Put away the weapon and begin sprinting at the same time. Tap the left shoulder button until you run out of stamina, and then hold it down. You'll keep sprinting indefinitely until you stop.[[/note]] and clip through walls[[note]]Hold a bowl in front of you, bottom facing you. Walk up to a wall with the bowl at head level. Once the bowl is flat against the wall, walk toward it to phase right through[[/note]] and beat the game ''in under 3 hours''. Dan sums it up the best:
232--> '''Dan:''' So what you're telling me, right now, to the casual observer in this world, the world is full of Macho Man dragons and marathon-running cats with bowls that can walk through walls.
233--> '''Ross:''' [[FlatYes Yep.]]
234--> '''({{Beat}})'''
235--> '''Dan:''' [[FlatWhat ...Fuck.]]
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239* The amount of weirdness running around in the world of ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' is truly stunning- there's AnimateInanimateObject musical instruments, sci-fi technology that runs the gamut from "expected futuristic staple" to "bizarre one-off piece of AppliedPhlebotinum", giant talking rats ("Oscar Cracks A Nut"), aliens ("Star Tours"), magic corruption rings ("The Ring"), magic lamps ("Dance Of The Forty Thieves" and "Return Of Scheherazade"), vampires ("Fangs But No Fangs"), mermaids ("Water Music")... the list goes on.
240* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': A supervillain union, a henchman support group, Blaculas, sasquatches, haunted {{Indian burial ground}}s, necromancy, alchemy, [[MadScientist super-science]] as a discipline of science, and you can even wake up in a bathtub full of ice in Mexico, minus your kidneys! Also, Music/DavidBowie [[OpenSecret is the leader]] of a globally-recognized organization for the benefits of super villains, though according to the Season 5 finale [[spoiler:he's actually a shapeshifter who met Bowie and assumed his identity]].
241* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': Garfield foils multiple alien invasions, helps a witch get married, protects Bigfoot from nosy photographers, gets chased by a ghost, and encounters multiple robots and prehistoric animals. The characters in the US Acres segment find this happening to them as well, in addition to aliens and robots they've encountered an angel and discovered a chocolate mine.
242* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has this in spades, including the ''actual'' [[Myth/GreekMythology goddess Eris]].
243%%* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans''.
244* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Alien invasions, {{Timey Wimey Ball}}s including a double-subverted grandfather paradox, brains that make people dumb and plan to destroy the universe once they're omniscient (leading to yet ''another'' TimeyWimeyBall), time is both a straight line and a circle, [[LadyLand Amazon planets]], [[FantasyCounterpartCulture native Martians]], amoral robots that want to [[OmnicidalNeutral kill all humans]], robots insisting they evolved when they were created by man, celebrity heads in jars, suicide booths, a zombie that represents the spirit of Chanukah, a spaceship that became omnipotent when it crashed into God, rape tentacles from another universe, French-accented gargoyles, parallel universes inhabited by cowboys, hippies, and people with no faces, believing you've ended up in a post-apocalypse 41st century only to learn that you just accidentally ended up in Los Angeles... Yeah. The future sure is wacky.
245* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' initially confined most paranormal weirdness to the Halloween episodes, but they eventually bled over into the regular episodes as well, resulting in a Springfield that's seen alien visitations, multiple acts of divine intervention (including a premature Rapture), Vishnu living in the center of the Earth, Colonel Sanders and Spongebob Squarepants as divine entities, Bart having psychic powers, [=TVs=] that display plot-convenient commercials even though they're not plugged in, leprechauns, expies of the Thing and the Incredible Hulk, Chinese dragons, an island modeled after ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}'', the Dalai Lama having the power to fly, supernatural vision quests induced by eating too-spicy chili, and [[GreatGazoo a little green man named Ozmodiar who only Homer can see or hear]]. Of course, 90% of these examples are just [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment brief gags.]]
246* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has [[WorldOfWeirdness/FamilyGuy enough collective weirdness for its own page]].
247* As early as its ''first'' season, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has covered extraordinary events including (but not limited to) a clone attack, genetically engineered hostile turkeys, a mechanized Barbra Streisand, talking feces, zombies, alien invaders, and a heavyweight title fight between Jesus Christ and Satan. [[{{Tagline}} For the boys, it's all a part of growing up in South Park]].
248* ''Westernanimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' is set in a world where a death metal band became one of the world's biggest economies, and its {{Loony Fan}}s are impressionable and downright murderous. And the band is a WalkingDisasterArea that causes all sorts of disaster (ancient trolls, hurricanes) to the point an Illuminati group of sorts follows them.
249* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' stars a six foot tall blue jay and a two foot tall raccoon, who work with an anthropomorphic lollipop, a yeti and...whatever Muscle Man is, for a walking, talking gumball machine in a world mostly populated by ordinary human beings, who don't consider this unusual. On their first day of work they tie at rock-paper-scissors a hundred times in a row, summoning an EldritchAbomination from a black hole, and then turn everything back to normal by breaking the tie. This is then shown to be par for the course.
250* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has ghosts, trippy dimensions in space, soul-sucking demons from Hell, cyclopes whose tears heal wounds, tiny cat assassins, etc. Where do you think the 'Adventure' part comes from? Interestingly, the series actually gives us a concrete divergence point as to when and where everything went insane; there was a nuclear war that involved a mutagenic bomb, which somehow [[TheMagicComesBack made magic come back]]. Its shown that in a world where that particular bomb never exploded, things are much more conventionally postapocalyptic.
251* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is centered around a cat that is constantly abused by three sapient cockroaches. But that's not what makes it weird, noooo.. It also gives us a remote that can freeze people and revive them if they got pissed on, a whistle that can stop time in certain areas, vegetables that come to life, [[LightningCanDoAnything electricity]] that turns [[FunnyAnimal funny animals]] non-anthromorphic, {{teleportation}} devices, {{invisibility}} potion made by random junk and ''a cube that manipulates people into loving it and growing bigger in the process'' among others.
252* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' stars two step-brothers who can create anything, not to mention there's secret agent animals, mad scientists, lake monsters, aliens, alternate dimensions, etc.
253* The town of Elmore in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is a place where anything can (and will) come to life or spontaneously evolve from pet to family member. Not to mention the wackiness that happens from day to day. Don't take this lightly, though. There have been moments where it's gotten hostile...
254* The ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' face down villains in Megakat City every week, ranging from a red and purple BombThrowingAnarchist, to a half-kat half-snake hybrid/walking biohazard who uses chemical warfare in an effort to turn the city into a swamp, to a pair of gangsters who got their brains transplanted into robotic bodies, and more.
255* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' uses this trope quite a bit. MagicAIsMagicA is in full effect, but along comes an earth pony who can seemingly break the laws of physics and reality on a whim? It's just [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]] [[WeirdnessCoupon being Pinkie Pie]]. The once world-conquering and feared Spirit of Chaos is now reformed and dropping by your Gala to do stand-up? Yeah, he's not that funny so let's heckle him! Two fiercely-powerful wizards are having a duel? Cool, let's go watch! A monster is invading the town? Meh, wedding preparations are more important. Cerberus escaped from Tartarus (yes, that Cerberus and ''THAT'' Tartarus)? Good thing he's rather tame and the gates of Hell are less than a day's walk away!
256* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' series plays with this. The human world ''was'' normal until the ponies decided it'd be cool to [[SealedEvilInACan use it as a can]] to dump some [[EmotionEater sirens]] in and later introduce Equestrian magic as a whole to the world, which is slowly but surely turning it into one with each subsequent movie.
257* The Unknown in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' a place with things like FunnyAnimals, [[PumpkinPerson Pumpkin People]], [[TalkingAnimal talking birds]], among other things. And of course [[EldritchAbomination The Beast]]. Of course might be [[spoiler:AllJustADream]].
258* The original ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'' show was very much grounded in reality (aside from the {{Talking Animal}}s, of course) but the 2000's reboot turn the setting straight-up World of Weirdness with Babar and family traveling to very strange magical lands of things like living toys, sentient games, giants, fairies and the like. The SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/BabarAndTheAdventuresOfBadou'' staring Babar's grandson disregards completely the 2000's reboot and get things back to the more relatively realistic setting. It even may be ''more'' realistic as it shows some non-civilized animals.
259* The world of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is home to all sorts of supernatural oddities, many of them concentrated in [[WeirdnessMagnet the eponymous town.]] The main characters encounter gnomes, unicorns, ghosts, macho minotaurs, living video game characters, a monster made from unwanted Halloween candy, the long-lost eighth-and-a-half President of the United States, and more.
260* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' seems pretty normal at first glance, but it wasn't afraid to tell us it could still fit this trope to a Tee. There's a wanted criminal who plans to mind control all tweens with his music, snacks that taste gross but can actually give you superpowers and the ability to spin ghost into oblivion, the town where it set in (and apparently even half of the country) is under control by a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Magic Johnson expy,]] ''Series/{{Today}}'' weatherman Al Roker appears AsHimself while also being a JerkassGenie who's okay with putting ''babies into slavery,'' and the show's BigDamnMovie had the descendant of George Washington Carver making clones of the main cast and peanut humanoids in order to destroy all of humanity. Oh yeah, [[NoFourthWall and one episode shows that the characters are apparently aware that they're in a cartoon.]]
261* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' revels in the weirdness established by the other ''Trek'' shows and movies. Everything from [[AGodAmI Starfleet officers going god-like and turning into a giant head]], [[AIIsACrapshoot evil computers taking over a planet]] and [[CosmicEntity a giant space koala witnessed by those dying or ascending to another plane of existence]] are around, and the Starfleeters [[SeenItall mostly just take it all in stride]].
262* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' features villains with plots including (but not limited to): making everyone in the world extremely fat and hooked on cookies; depleting the entire Earth of its water supply; kidnapping teen girls and using life-draining chemical treatments to elongate their hair to harvest for wigs; developing toys that cause adults to regress into children; brainwashing shoppers to become violent anti-capitalists that destroy malls; kidnapping athletes and trapping them inside sports-themed video games; tricking weightlifters into eating nutrition bars that cause them to grow gigantic muscles to the point of exploding; abducting Nobel Prize-winning scientists to suck out their intelligence and transfer it into the brain of a preteen boy; and replacing world leaders with robotic duplicates that allow national landmarks to become amusement park rides. While most episodes will feature crowds of panicking bystanders, no one ever comments on the fact that the planet is in peril virtually every week, or that the only thing preventing total annihilation is a single team of teenage girls who are undercover spies.
263* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' starts out fairly weird, what with the cast including a stranded alien and a goldfish with the brain of an East German skier, but gets more and more weird as it goes, featuring such things as the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Rapture, evil Santa Claus, Krampus, elements of ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', time-travelling cyborgs, cloning, remote-controlled avatar bodies, ghosts created from sexual frustration, TV-dwelling demonic abominations, sexually-aggressive wraiths, sentient jeans, people uploaded into ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'', gigantic fish monsters, witches, a bunch more aliens (one of whom becomes Creator/KimKardashian), and the aforementioned stranded alien being a MasterOfDisguise to an impossible, [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] degree.
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