It's a nice night. Why drive?
- Aquaman: In modern comics, nobody in the town of Amnesty Bay bats an eye at the huge viking-looking guy in golden scale armour or the flame-haired amazon in a bright green wetsuit just walking around town. Several panels have shown Atlantean soldiers in full armour walking out of the sea past townspeople just hanging out on the beach who barely give them a second look.
- Astro City: Although most people in Astro City will still stop and watch whatever super-heroics occur nearby, there are residents who have become jaded enough to not raise an eyebrow at the excitement around them.
- For the people in Shadow Hill, the evening streets are filled with various vampires, Eldritch Horrors, bogeymen, and The Hanged Man. The residents deal with it by simply refreshing their wards, making sure the incense is lit, and having their charms conveniently nearby.
- In "The Out-of-Towners", a hundred-foot translucent being called the Incarnate appears high above Astro City. It doesn't move or communicate, and ignores everyone's attempts to communicate, so the citizens simply nicknamed him "Big Joe" and went on with their lives.
- Atomic Robo: The titular character, Atomic Robo Tesla, is the world's first and only (as far as the public knows) sentient robot, built by Nikola Tesla using technology so advanced even modern science has yet to replicate it. But this means the novelty of him has had well over a century to wear off (Tesla originally unveiled him in a storm of publicity to make him too recognizable and beloved to 'disappear'), so people respond to him with the awe you'd give any other internationally recognized scientific leader and war hero, rather than the world's first and only sentient robot.
- Cerebus the Aardvark: Most people either don't seem to even notice that the protagonist isn't human, are too polite to comment on it, or misinterpret what they're seeing. (Elrod, for example, thinks he is just a "kid in a bunny suit".)
- Concrete: Deliberately invoked, as the government sets out to so thoroughly inundate the public mind with Concrete's existence that he becomes this in order to allow him to live a relatively normal life. It works.
- Dark Horse Monsters: In the story "Mike and Viv Go to Vegas!", a bickering married couple on their way to Las Vegas suddenly find themselves transported through time to the Cretaceous Period. Their forward momentum is halted when Viv, who is driving, hits a Triceratops. Neither she nor her husband seem to care about it or the Velociraptors and other dinosaurs who immediately begin feasting on its carcass, even though they have a front seat of the animals through their windshield. Instead, they content themselves with arguing over whose fault it is that they haven't gotten to Vegas yet. It takes the sudden appears of two Tyrannosaurs to finally make them react in any meaningful way, but even then, after their initial shock at the sight of two huge predators, Mike and Viv immediately return to arguing and ignoring everything around them.
- 'Dead Of Winter' comic book. Sure, it's a zombie apocalypse but the fact one of the human's most powerful warriors is a golden retriever in a cape wielding a SWORD is never commented upon. To counter balance that, an angry, angry man in a Santa costume gets lots of comments.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Invoked in an issue of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where the city of Dawson catches fire. The visiting Colonel Steele expresses concern, but his biographer, Jack London, tells him that sort of thing happens all the time there. Col. Steele accepts this as Dawson's "normal".
- Elvis Shrugged: None of the villains (Col. Tom, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peters/Guber, etc.) seem to find anything odd about the Mad Scientist being named Dr. Hilarious Pants.
- Fray: Used when the demon Urkonn tries to convince Melaka Fray of his otherworldliness. Melaka, however, works for a large, talking, mutant fish. Whose appearance isn't all that unusual, in a world populated by all sorts of mutants.
- Freaks' Squeele: Ombre is a very large (but very shy) wolf-man. He helps a mother with her stroller by lifting it over his head and no one notices him until a yappy dog attacks him and then its owner starts shouting. 'Course this is a world with two Super Hero Schools and Ombre's classmates include a living skeleton, a centaur-like spider-woman, and a girl with no head.
- Gold Digger and Ninja High School exist in a shared universe where weirdness tends to be... concentrated. In Quagmire and the Digger's home towns, werecheetahs, aliens, magic, and other such phenomena get brushed off as completely normal. A police officer reacting in shock is normally brushed off as 'heh, newbies'. Being more circumspect is required more elsewhere in the world, not everyone's as blase about nonhumans and powers as those in the Weirdness Magnet towns, but even elsewhere a flying car tends to not be as big a deal as you'd expect.
- Hellboy: Hellboy is a huge red-skinned demon guy with filed-down horns, his colleague is a blue-skinned fish-man, yet no one ever comments on how strange or frightening he looks. His existence is not kept a secret by the government, and he often deals with cases in person. The main reason that he's not freaked out around more often in the comics is because 1) he's pretty well known, and 2) he's mostly shown interacting with people that have day-to-day experiences with either him, or things that make him and the rest of the group seem normal. There have been more than a few instances where ordinary, every day citizens at least get the bug-eyed "Holy crap look at him!' reaction when he shows up.
- House of Mystery: Various people from different realities and worlds come to an inn where they pay for their drinks with stories. One patron from an alternate New York City tells the story of that one time he was late for work and got there and found out he left his work boots at home and then went home and got them and he was still on time. While the people in the inn are bored to tears, the reader sees the story unfold with his dull, droning narration, and we learn that his roommate was getting eaten by a giant spider on the ceiling, he got attacked by flying vampiric cats on the subway, and got accosted by undead homeless people begging for spare brains. Virtually every panel contains at least one completely insane background event. Thing is, he considers all this fairly normal aspects of his everyday life, so he didn't think any of it worth mentioning. Oh, and when he says he works in pest control, he really means he spends all day killing 12-foot monster bugs in a quarantine zone with an assault rifle.
- Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: It seems to be part of the reason Johnny never gets caught. Except for Squee, and later Devi (though she was pretty blind to it right up until he pulled out the knives) no one seems to notice how run down and barren house #777 is, or hear the screams, or the little black bags of jingling metal. It's also a major part of why he can walk into a coffee shop and kill everyone, or drain a street vendor of his blood, without getting caught. It is justified by a weirdness censoring force that is explained later in the series.
- Milestone Comics: Upon creating the imprint, Dwayne McDuffie at least initially wanted to avert this. He stated that: "I don't want the Milestone Universe to be the kind of place where you can drop in to borrow Reed Richards' time machine. I want it to be the kind of place where a man flies, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever seen." What McDuffie might have forgotten is that back in Fantastic Four # 1, a flying man was the most amazing thing people in the Marvel Universe had ever seen. But after a while, it was inevitable that they got a bit jaded.
- Morning Glories: This happens all the time, where major Wham Lines and Wham Shots are dropped nearly every issue, yet people rarely react unless it directly affects them.
- As an example, Zoe in issue #7 admits that she killed her teacher and forced her friend to help her clean the body. While her audience is sympathetic to how traumatic it must be for her, they do not seem to find the event itself as disturbing or crazy.
- Zoe even lampshades that they don't have much of a reaction to the fact that she just admitted to a major crime.
- Mortadelo y Filemón: A gag in Los Ladrones de Coches (The Car Thieves) has Mortadelo leaning on a wall and watching bored how several persons who look like thugs carry away automobile parts he was tasked with guarding the car of the Súper against thieves, and since they did not steal it Mortadelo did nothing. Later we see the car reduced to just a bare bodywork, those thieves having stripped it of everything. A chase of Mortadelo by both Filemón and el Súper, and a few vignettes, later even the bodywork has been stolen
- Psycho Man: God grants the main character Kevin superpowers in order to jumpstart the human race. Whenever Kevin uses his powers, no one thinks it's odd in the slightest. Kevin smashes a brick wall with his bare hands? A cop tries to arrest him for destroying public property. Kevin flies around to impress a girl? She calls him a freak and runs away. Kevin flies off after having a fight with his parents? His mom wonders how he's doing that, but his dad dismisses it as one of his 'tricks'.
- Rex the Wonder Dog: In one story, Rex gets a job as a photojournalist. Everybody at the newspaper office just treats him like he's just an unusually quiet man, instead of a super-intelligent (though non-speaking) German Shepherd, to the point where you sort of wonder if they realize they're dealing with a crime-fighting photojournalist dog. In fact, the people in Rex stories often act this way.
- Runaways:
- The gang come across a Godzilla-sized monster wrecking Los Angeles, and while most everyone in the Leapfrog is screaming for their lives, Xavin the Super Skrull is entirely unperturbed as the only thing s/he has has to say is, "Outstanding."
- Elsewhere in the run, the gang goes to New York and have dinner with the Kingpin as part of a deal-making scheme (just go with it). When Fisk is his usual arrogant self, Chase calls him on it, as they have superpowers and he's noticed She-Hulk having dinner in the same restaurant. The Kingpin's deadpan response was that it wasn't She-Hulk."Dude, she's green!"
"This is New York."
- Spider-Man:
- In Spider-Men II, a giant piece of a robot falls on the school's yard. Initially, only Miles Morales and Ganke are interested in it.
- In Edge of Spider-Verse (2022), at no point in Spinstress' story does any comment on the fact that Bishop Octopus is half-octopus.
- Superman: In the story arc The Phantom Zone, a drunkard slumped against a wall sees a brunette girl dashing into his alley, changing into a blonde super-hero right in front of him and flying off, and Supergirl's changing hair color is the only thing he considers worth of commenting on.
- Tom Strong: Almost no one finds the fact that Tom Strong has a talking gorilla as an assistant to be strange.
- Ultimate Marvel:
- Ultimate Origins: Watchers begin popping up all over Earth. One lands right in front of Logan, and he doesn't even stop drinking his beer.
- Ultimate FF: Rick Jones is the only one to be properly surprised at talking with a pig-man. Everyone else involved has Seen It All.
- The Ultimates:
- The Wasp arrives at Hank's lab, and sees that several boxes are being moved by ants. The workers in there are completely unfazed by it, and tell her to ask Pym.
- Bucky welcomes Captain America and Nick Fury into his home, ask for their coats, and comments on his daily routines... until it finally hits him: Captain America, his old friend, that he thought dead since WWII, is alive and standing right there!
- Wonder Woman Vol. 2: There was a running gag for a while concerning Ferdinand, the live-in minotaur chef at the Amazons' embassy in DC. Normal Joes from outside the world of capes and myth would meet him and, quite understandably, be somewhat awed and unsettled by the seven-foot bull-headed monster of legend casually slicing up leeks in a dapper apron. Other members of the cast invariably attributed this shock to something else, like the amazing quality of his food or the shocked character having just met Superman a few minutes prior.
- Wurr: The Hounds' cavalier attitude towards their deformities is demonstrated by Iacar's nickname for Pyramos. Pyramos has extra fingers growing out of his sides, Godzilla-like bone protrusions on his shoulders, a spearlike point of bone on the end of his tail, and a front paw so deformed it looks like a skeletal claw. What does Iacar call him? "Stripeface".
- Young Avengers: Wiccan lacks a mask and always has, which his team mates do not find the least bit strange, and he still can keep his identity a secret. A Wizard Did It. Wiccan is one of the most powerful magic users in the Marvel Universe.
