Unusually Uninteresting Sights in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- ZigZagging in Amazing Fantasy. After the initial shock of a teenager jumping out of traffic wears off, the crowd at the corner scoffs at Izuku for worrying them when he had a "Quirk" like that. His subsequent wall-crawling antics and decision to keep climbing rather than get down does unnerve people enough to get them to call a Hero to get him down.
- Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library?: In a Shout-Out to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Azazel, Serafall, and Nike create a spell called "Large, Friendly Letters" that makes civilians see the supernatural fights going on in Kyoto as someone else's problem.
- Both Syllables explains that Irkens have a low-level psychic power that keeps most people from noticing anything weird about them; Dib and Gaz just so happen to be immune. Jumba creates a technological variant to affect everyone in Lilo's town, which is why nobody notices the experiments' oddness unless they already know about them.
- In Goat's cameo in Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness, he at first seems unnerved by the fact that there's a portal from Gensokyo right in his junkyard... then he looks through it and sees Megas on the other side, upon which he just nods and goes about his business as if nothing of consequence happened. Lampshaded by Reimu who thinks Add 'bizarrely excepting' to the list.
- The Infinite Loops: It's a Running Gag that Loopers don't react much to weird events. For instance, when Mario and Luigi are randomly turned into pigs, Mario remarks that now he knows how Twilight feels.
- In Jojo's Bizarre Loops, 1.7
, it's revealed that the citizens of the Marvel version of New York just see the fights as little more than an annoyance. While the citizens have noticed that Spider-Man has taken a 180 in terms of personality and is beating up every villain or two-bit crook he gets his hands on (due being around the time of The Superior Spider-Man), they're taking it in stride and are giving it a few months before some earth-shattering event causes Spidey to revert to normal.
- In Jojo's Bizarre Loops, 1.7
- Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily has Gladion finding the Infinity Train in front of him. Gladion is at the beach and the Train itself is floating on the sea. He questions how no one else didn't hear the loud whistle, or that the train just magically appeared out of nowhere.
- The Last Human: A Tale of the Pre-Classical Era: Humans are so rare that most ponies can't recognize them, mistaking them for some other fantastic anthropoid like a yeti or sasquatch. Thus, when the Human and his companion Star Swirl walk through an Earth pony town, almost nopony bats an eye.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom, Western Animation, TV Series, and Comic Books.): Danny notices that when he dated Jenny Wakeman (a robot) and Starfire (an alien), nobody really paid that much attention to them.
- In Episode 3 of Yudhaikeledai's My Little Pony in the Sims, Night Light get spooked by a ghost, freaks out and flees the house screaming. Neither Lyra and Berry Punch, who were blocking the front door, nor his own daughter close by so much as twitch at the disruption.
- The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor: Anyone who comes across Naruto or Xanna nude and/or having sex will generally ignore it. At least anyone from (or has spent a great deal of time in) the Celestial Empire will, others usually react as expected. This is especially poignant when two Tok'ra need to talk to Naruto. The visiting Tok'ra is mortified to see a nude Naruto who was clearly in the middle of having sex, while the one who acts as the Tok'ras ambassador to the Celestial Empire carries on a conversation with him as normal.
- Once Upon a Time/Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic Swapping Genres: When Emma meets Groot, she comments that she must have spent too much time around the Avengers and fairytale characters, as she doesn't even flinch at the fact that a tree just talked to her.
- The Final Reckoning of the Ghost of the Old Bailey has Lord Stronghart checking if Barok van Ziek and his apprentice have witnessed the hauntings of a ghost in the Old Bailey courthouse. Not only do Barok and his apprentice confirm they have witnessed the hauntings and that it is supernatural, but Barok adds that after the incidents they immediately returned to paperwork and meditation respectively.
- In Eleutherophobia: How I Live Now, the locals of Santa Barbara are unfazed by two aliens, five human war heroes (one of whom was presumed dead for almost two years), and Tom chartering a bus.
- A Boy and His Dog: Orihime Inoue doesn't bat an eye when Sergie the dog (actually Captain Komamura) talks to her while she heals him. Justified since she is a Cloudcuckoolander, she just unlocked her new powers, and she is currently facing exhaustion.
- New Girl (mortimermcmirestinks): Emily notes that whenever someone finds Ahti suspicious or unusual, all anyone has to say about it is "good old Ahti."
- Rebloom: Apparently, Pomegranate Cookie goes to GingerBrave's Kingdom once a week to pick up Jellyberry Jam for Dark Enchantress Cookie. Despite her being one of the notorious Cookies of Darkness, they're so used to her visits at this point that they don't have any reaction whatsoever.
- In the Crack Fic Kingdom Come none of the U.N. security detail bats an eye when Light and Ryuk engage in a session of evil laughter together or make out.
- Irreversible Damage: Most people are far less put out by potions' various effects than one might assume. The various Gender Benders go entirely unquestioned, nobody pays any mind to the people compelled to dance constantly until they start dying of exhaustion, and Manny dying gets no emotional reaction out of anybody but Susan. Likewise, when Greg and Rodrick come across their mother and aunt talking about using necromancy to resurrect Manny, Greg's only reaction is annoyance at Manny still being their mom's favorite child.
- In Never Had a Friend Like Me, Crocker spontaneously screaming at the sky or otherwise making a big scene barely warrants a glance from anybody at school.
- Springtrap and Deliah: Harry and his family have little to no qualms about having a 7-foot animatronic around their neighborhood. Even Harry telling them Springtrap's backstory doesn't faze them too much. Though Harry does admit his parents will need some convincing to let Springtrap stay in the Light Ending.
- In Kimberly T's Gargoyles series, it's noted that those closely associated with the gargoyles have grown so used to them that they don't always register the fact that the gargoyles aren't human. At one point Elisa is writing a report based on observations made by the clan on a stakeout, and Matt has to point out that she's using terms such as focusing on the scent of the suspects. Later on, after Matt meets Martha, a gargoyle from the New Orleans clan who has relocated to New York after becoming mates with Broadway, Matt is so used to gargoyles that he just thinks of the female gargoyle in the modified housedress with the friendly manner as "nice lady"; it takes him seeing how two FBI agents react to Martha's sudden arrival to realise that other people might see her and think "monster".
- Invoked in Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived; when Slytherin Daphne Greengrass publicly moves from her house table to sit with her friends in Gryffindor, she attracts a few stares from the older students, but nobody comments once they see that Harry, Ron and Hermione are fine with it.
- For Love of Experimental Time Travel: Harry Potter created a bit of magic that causes everyone to simply... not gossip or share news about him. Everyone knows he's Really 700 Years Old and utterly bizarre, but they never talk about him.
- In It All Started When Harry Stole a Police Car, between Dumbledore's attempts to help and the power of the wards to make people rationalize things, everyone in Little Whinging is convinced that Harry's a police officer despite only being 10.
- Seventh Horcrux: Harry Potter has glowing red eyes. This isn't even mentioned in passing until several chapters in, and nobody sees it as a big deal.
- In The War Is Far from Over Now, only the newest employees at Stark Industries flinch at the sound of an explosion going off inside the building; the veterans just shrug it off as "R&D's at it again".
- Played straight with some characters, and subverted by others, in Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams. Rick Sheridan is initially reluctant to tell anyone about Sleepwalker living in his mind, but when he finally works up the nerve to tell them they accept it without blinking an eye. Other characters, such as many New York police officers and the district attorney, have largely come to accept the weirdness that they have to deal with in their jobs now, but they're still somewhat disturbed and alienated by the fact that so many things that were said to be scientifically impossible and impossible have now been shown to be true.
- Rate This (Trust is Hard to Come By): While getting ready to head back to school, Lila notices a blood red -51 floating over her head. She blithely dismisses this as being a side effect from some random akuma attack, without sparing a single thought to what her number might mean or why it's such a dark, foreboding color. This lack of curiousity bites her in the backside; perhaps if she'd looked online, she would've seen people posting selfies showing off their numbers online and talking about what they symbolized...
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Becoming Ponies: While the initial reactions to people becoming ponies are not this trope, the reactions in canonically later days are. Octavia's counterpart is completely confused when she walks into a store and gets no reaction other then "Mommy, why is that pony wearing a bow tie?"
- Borrowed Time: The ponies spring a lot of these on the human-becoming-a-pony, and it frustrates him to no end:"Twilight," I asked, too weary to bother with her title, "I know this place isn't prone to acquiesce to common sense, but why is there a crime fighting bird coming out of the wall?"
"Oh, Rising Sun? Well, when I was remodeling the castle for my secret lab, the renovators were running a buy-one-get-one-free special on secret lairs. It seemed wasteful to leave the other empty, so Celestia let Rising Sun move in rent-free."
"That... doesn't answer my question."
"Weren't you asking why Rising Sun's secret lair is next to mine?"
"No, I mean why is there a crime-fighting bird coming out of the wall? Why am I surrounded by talking ponies? And why does this world think I'm an alicorn filly?"
I panted a little bit. I'd had no idea how much I needed to get that off my chest. - Actually Justified in Parting Words with the Not My Problem Spell, which influences anyone looking at the enchanted object to decide that said object is uninteresting and probably a lot of trouble to deal with, causing them to subconsciously ignore it. It's stated that the more bizarre the enchanted object appears, the more effective the spell gets, since bizarre things tend to be inconvenient to deal with. This spell does come with a warning; if you go too far, you become so Unusually Uninteresting that you are rendered invisible (which happened to one of the Princesses; something about being nearly run over by a carriage).
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: While there aren't any visual cues to go with it, Maud Pie barely reacts to her sister and the others' talk about magic and another world and instantly believes Pinkie about it.
- Pony POV Series: Apple Pie from the Dark World Arc grew up in Discord's World of Chaos, so naturally things even the rest of the mane six (half of which are thousand year old immortals, one is a wall eyed pegasus, and the last one is a dragon) find a little strange or menacing as daily occurrences. Her reaction to a zombie? About the same a normal person would have to a slightly aggressive dog. She's more interested in the (to her) hilarious paradox that it's both alive and dead at the same time, which causes her to invoke her Logic Bomb power for the first time and convince it it should be dead...which she ALSO doesn't seem to consider strange.
- Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto: When Kurohane appears out of nowhere in the hospital lobby (having previously been invisible), none of the hospital staff pay much attention as it's a hospital run by ninjas for ninjas.
- In the Peggy Sue fic Second Wind, Luffy doesn't react much to the prehistoric nature of Little Garden or to meeting the giant Dorry. Vivi takes both events with far less nonchalances.
- Throw Away Your Mask: Emiko reacts to Akechi telling her about the Dark Hour after Strega tries to kill her by deciding to go to bed.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: Unlike players in real life (and maybe trainers in the Pokémon world), Misty has absolutely no interest in shiny Pokémon, claiming that she doesn't see what's so great about a Pokémon that just has an odd coloring. Dexter is utterly horrified when Misty decided not to catch a shiny Magikarp her Slowpoke just fished up. It's implied that she'd only catch a shiny Pokémon if it was one she hasn't caught yet.
- While Frazie openly questions Ford's omnipresence around camp in Later, Traitor, everyone else just shrugs and ignores him.
- ultamite nineball depicts nobody in the non-magical universe of Redwall being remotely surprised by the teleporting and laser-producing abilities.
- In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, no one finds Liu Bei's eyestalks odd or remarkable in the slightest, although he is very occasionally mocked for his long ears. Also, no one questions Sun Qian's unexplained ability to teleport to wherever the plot requires him.
- Luminosity: This is justified and taken to what would otherwise be an insane degree. Allirea's vampire power is making people think of her as unimportant. This is wonderful for The Masquerade, or making people not fight back as she kills them/someone near them.
