History Main / ThereAreNoGlobalConsequences

* Messed around a bit with in ''{{Manga/Guyver}}''. After X-Day when [[AncientConspiracy Kronos]] unveils themselves and take over the world there are major shake-ups at high levels of government and the protagonists are forced further into hiding since their pursuers no longer have to worry keeping up the {{Masquerade}}. However for the average person on the street who is not a member of {{La Resistance}} the only real difference is recruiting ads and posters and a Zoanoid Boy Band.

** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' Diana gets some near fanatical backlash from fundamentalist religious groups, because her history and parentage (she's ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}}' granddaughter and regularly fights him) indicate that Greek mythology has a basis in reality. Some high school Wonder Woman fan clubs get forcibly disbanded as pagan cults by paranoid parents and "concerned citizens".

* ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'': [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Superman is shown to have a definite effect on the world other than supervillain battles.

** And though the [[spoiler: resurgence of the Red Room]] in the sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past,'' only takes place across about twelve days, the social and political effects are felt around the world, and probably will be for years to come.

* FanFic/RealityChecksNyxverse averts this trope in regards to the [[Fanfic/PastSins original fanfic]]. Specifically, ''Alicornundrum'' shows that much of the world suffered [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistically]] from two weeks of TheNightThatNeverEnds on one side and EndlessDaytime on the other, and the political fallout from the need to hold someone responsible.

* The existence of superhumans rarely has any longterm sociological effects in comics save for FantasticRacism against mutants -- but ''not'' against those with any other SuperHeroOrigin. Sometimes the effects of living in a world full of not only superbeings, but aliens, magical beings, {{Alternate Universe}}s, TimeTravel, and {{Mad Scientist}}s who [[CutLexLuthorACheck hoard]] [[ReedRichardsIsUseless their technology]] is explored in {{Elseworlds}} such as ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' and in purpose-specific {{Deconstruction}}s or {{Reconstruction}}s, but for the most part, it's LikeRealityUnlessNoted, no matter how unrealistic that might be. The lack of wild reaction could be caused by the fact that the heroes were there all the time. Sure, there were periods that were super-light, but every "normal" remembers when the heroes were around. If they ever leave, we know they'll always come back. In Franchise/TheDCU, the first superhero was actually the first human. He invented fire. So, a paleolithic Reed Richards actually helped people. The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} (and its many spin-off agencies) to handle this, and as of Comicbook/CivilWar the government has taken a more active stance in the superhuman world.

** They know that Thor and Zeus ''exist'', but that doesn't mean they believe they are ''gods''. The average modern citizen in the Marvel or DC universes presumably believes something like "In ancient times, people with superhuman powers were worshipped as gods; but in this modern age, we know they're just superheroes."

* Totally averted in ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' when the entire human race stops dying, but still age, get sick, and suffer bodily harm while remaining fully alive unless incinerated. Not only has the entire political climate changed, a complete overhaul of the medical care system is in the works since the very definition of life has changed. It eventually culminates in a second Great Depression and draconian methods of PopulationControl, namely [[spoiler:throwing comatose, brain-dead or undesirable people into ovens]]. If anything, the global changes may be happening faster than they would in reality, though it's hard to judge without a real-world example.

* Totally averted in ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' when the entire human race stops dying. Not only has the entire political climate changed, a complete overhaul of the medical care system is in the works since the very definition of life has changed. It eventually culminates in a second Great Depression and draconian methods of PopulationControl, namely [[spoiler:throwing comatose, brain-dead or undesirable people into ovens]]. If anything, the global changes may be happening faster than they would in reality, though it's hard to judge without a real-world example.
** Ironically, there are also global consequences once the Miracle ends, when all the people who should've died during the Miracle (besides those who've had the opportunity to heal) die at once. Jack points out that most funeral homes are scheduling at least ten funerals every hour due to the "backlog".

* Franchise/PowerRangers looks like a case of no global consequences, with things exactly like real life despite Earth suffering monster attacks since 1993 and making formal FirstContact in '98. But keep in mind that the government debuted [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue their own Ranger team]] to deal with paranormal threats in 2000, Ranger tech was used to create clean energy in 2019, and by [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2025]] aliens will have settled on earth and there'll be SpacePolice to deal with alien criminals.

* Totally averted in ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay.'' Not only has the entire political climate changed, a complete overhaul of the medical care system is in the works since the very definition of life has changed. It eventually culminates in a second Great Depression and draconian methods of PopulationControl, namely [[spoiler: throwing people into ovens.]] If anything, the global changes may be happening faster than they would in reality, though it's hard to judge without a real-world example.
** Ironically, there are also global consequences once the Miracle ends, when all the people who should've died since the beginning of the series all die at once. Jack points out that most funeral homes are scheduling at least ten funerals every hour due to the "backlog".

* ''{{Film/Bright}}'' takes place in a world where fantastical creatures like orcs, elves, dwarves and etc., have existed side by side with humanity since the dawn of time. This is also a world where [[InSpiteOfANail things turned out the same way as ours]] with at least Christianity still existing (Los Angeles was founded by Catholic missionaries and several characters drops several "Jesus Christ" swears) alongside widely different religious beliefs like the Orcish faith (which has traits of [[CrystalDragonJesus Christianity and druidic faiths cobbled together]]). Movies like WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} and historical events such as the Mexican-American War are also referenced and the Crips exist despite orcs being an oppressed minority.

* ''Literature/WhenSupernaturalBattlesBecameCommonplace'', a group of {{Ordinary High School Student}}s with an addition of one {{Chuunibyou}} randomly receive godlike magical powers. Their lives are forever altered, they are no longer 'humans', but gods. Together they control the elements, the act of creation and time itself. There's nothing they cannot accomplish, acquire or do -- But, does it really change anything? Well, Not really. They cast the {{Phlebotinum}} aside and carry on with their high school club activities. [[spoiler:This is helped by the fact that one of the characters is trying to keep them LockedOutOfTheLoop from the superpower BattleRoyale the best he can.]]

* The {{Masquerade}} and WeirdnessCensor were firmly in place in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', but ''Series/{{Angel}}'' more or less eliminated that, showing that the masquerade was mostly a facade and there are huge communities not only aware of demons, but ''composed'' of demons, and magic and weirdness abound (and can't even be handwaved away by the fact that everyone's weird in LA). Sure, the really powerful keep a lid on things, right? But shopkeepers are aware of this stuff, and use it, and yet somehow everything looks perfectly normal out there.

* In ''Film/AirForceOne'', the titular plane is fired upon by Kazakhstani-piloted MiGs. That's a declaration of war right there. Presumably Washington and the UN are going to be having a little talk once the (former) Liberty 2-4 gets back.

* The end of the ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' manga screws continuity in favor of allowing the main characters an easy commute, and (due to Koenma's coup) opens the borders between the human and demon dimensions, relying on Enki's noninterference laws to keep everything smooth, and the Masquerade is also abandoned, though it takes a while for humans to start believing in the demon population. This goes quite calmly. One of the reasons it goes calmly is that Togashi retconned that demons aren't actually prone to violent crime, and all the proof that they were was due to Enma Senior's propaganda. This despite the fact that they come form a feudal society where AsskickingEqualsAuthority is the only thing anyone recognizes, and a lot of them [[ImAHumanitarian have humans as their natural diet]]. On the other hand, dispossessed political elements within the spirit world stage a terrorist coup in response and nearly blow up the world with a laser cannon.

* ''LightNovel/WhenSupernaturalBattlesBecameCommonplace'', a group of {{Ordinary High School Student}}s with an addition of one [[MrImagination Chuunibyou]], randomly receive godlike magical powers. Their lives are forever altered, they are no longer 'humans', but gods. Together they control the elements, the act of creation and time itself. There's nothing they cannot accomplish, acquire or do -- But, does it really change anything? Well, Not really. They cast the {{Phlebotinum}} aside as mere bonus-flavor for the highschool-life genre and carry on with their club activities. [[spoiler:This is helped by the fact that one of the characters is trying to keep them LockedOutOfTheLoop from the superpower BattleRoyale the best he can.]]

* Cranked UpToEleven in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series, where the hand of God reaching down to spare Israel from the entire military might of both Russia and Ethiopia before the series begins, changes nobody's mind about religion, leaving most of the world to be Left Behind when the rapture comes. When a third of the world's population disappears (including all the children), everybody who's been Left Behind continues on as if everything were normal. All the massive changes that later follow to the world's economy, religions, and spiritual structure come about as a result of the Antichrist's manipulations, which have no earthly cause/effect relationship to the Rapture event. Yeah, there are people who don't like this series very much. Similar criticisms can be leveled against [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick's]] versions of the Rapture and Tribulation.

* Film/AirForceOne: The titular plane is fired upon by Kazakhstani-piloted MiGs. That's a declaration of war right there. Washington and the UN are going to be having a little talk once (the former) Liberty 2-4 gets back.
* {{Film/Bright}} takes place in a world where fantastical creatures like orcs, elves, dwarves and etc., have existed side by side with humanity since the dawn of time. This is also a world where [[InSpiteOfANail things turned out the same way as ours]] with at least Christianity still existing (Los Angeles was founded by Catholic missionaries and several characters drops several "Jesus Christ" swears) alongside widely different religious beliefs like the Orcish faith (which has traits of [[CrystalDragonJesus Christianity and druidic faiths cobbled together]]). Movies like WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} and historical events such as the Mexican-American War are also referenced and the Crips exist despite orcs being an oppressed minority.

* In ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' series, vampyres ostensibly suffer immense FantasticRacism, however we find out that most popular actors, singers, and others in the entertainment industry are vampyres. Vampyres also were many historical figures, who were apparently just as influential as they were in real life. Not to mention that there's no word that the governments have any problem with the vampyres keeping their own government, setting up Houses of Night in various towns (even though regular people supposedly hate the presence of vampyres), and automatically having all fledglings legally emancipated. Also, even though vampyrism is supposed to occur because of junk DNA and a hormonal imbalance, there's no talk at all of scientists studying vampyres to find ways to prevent regular people from turning into them or, at the very least, reduce the risk of fledglings dying horrible deaths.

* Averted once more in the closing volume of Magic Ex Libris, in which the {{Masquerade}} being demolished results in a heaping helping of military kidnappings, terrorism against fantastical folk, and eventually the creation of a Vatican City-esque demi-nation to prevent the constant attempts at military applications for Libriomancy.

* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse will basically just use any crazy idea, but none of it tends to have real consequences. In particular, advanced space travel is usually possible if you just spend some money on it, but nobody bothers to exploit this for either research or even profit unless Scrooge [=McDuck=] happens to get some crazy idea for one story. Gyro Gearloose and other {{Gadgeteer Genius}}es can build just about anything else too, but nobody bothers to use that for anything much either. Meanwhile, the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse has a slightly milder case, because Mickey does occasionally get sent on high-tech adventures ForScience.

* The ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse will basically just use any crazy idea, but none of it tends to have real consequences. In particular, advanced space travel is usually possible if you just spend some money on it, but nobody bothers to exploit this for either research or even profit unless Scrooge [=McDuck=] happens to get some crazy idea for one story. Gyro Gearloose and other {{Gadgeteer Genius}}es can build just about anything else too, but nobody bothers to use that for anything much either. Meanwhile, the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse has a milder case, because Mickey does occasionally get sent on high-tech adventures ForScience, although it still only seems to be lone geniuses doing anything like that.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', there are aliens -- especially Ben's -- all over the news, but besides the established [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]], The Plumbers, and one task force, humanity seems to not care that there are other sentient lifeforms out there. The only scientist to ever go near Ben is the [[MadScientist crazy one]] who wants the [[MacGuffin Omnitrix]]. As does every alien and their grandmothers -- but no humans. That said the introduction of the Forever Knights began to change this, as they demonstrated many humans were against aliens, and as future seasons debuted their role increased and revealed a whole alien/human conflict conspiracy ongoing since ancient times. By ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniversese'' aliens have integrated into society and most of the impact has been had already.

* FanFic/RealityChecksNyxverse averts this trope in regards to the [[Fanfic/PastSins original fanfic]]. Specifically, ''Alicornundrum'' shows that much of the world suffered [[RealityEnsues realistically]] from two weeks of TheNightThatNeverEnds on one side and EndlessDaytime on the other, and the political fallout from the need to hold someone responsible.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', there are aliens -- especially Ben's -- all over the news, but besides the established [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]], The Plumbers, and one task force, humanity seems to not care that there are other sentient lifeforms out there. The only scientist to ever go near Ben is the [[MadScientist crazy one]] who wants the [[MacGuffin Omnitrix]]. As does every alien and their grandmothers -- but no humans. There was exactly one instance of a group of humans after Ben's aliens (without the excuse of belonging to a cult of medieval cosplayers). They never appeared again, though.

*** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' Diana gets some near fanatical backlash from fundamentalist religious groups, because her history and parentage (she's ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}}' granddaughter and regularly fights him) indicate that Greek mythology has a basis in reality. Some high school Wonder Woman fan clubs get forcibly disbanded as pagan cults by paranoid parents and "concerned citizens".

*** This very explanation is how [[FlatEarthAtheist in-universe atheists]] like Mr. Terrific justify their beliefs.