History Main / ObsessivelyNormal

See also AbsoluteXenophobe, TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong, FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence, MuggleFosterParents and RefreshinglyNormalLifeChoice. Not to be confused with the CreatureOfHabit, who sticks to their routine even if they know it looks strange to others. Also not to be confused with IJustWantToBeNormal, which is about characters who would rather not have the unique powers or situation they live with (although the two tropes ''can'' overlap if a character who Just Wants To Be Normal then extends their dislike of their own abnormality to external things that have nothing to do with them - perhaps thanks to [[BoomerangBigot Boomerang Bigotry]] or InternalizedCategorism).

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Jack Drake is an interesting take, he loves traveling almost all year long and having sway over politicians that can be bought but he expects his son, whom he rarely interacts with, to be the perfect example of an obedient sitcom son from the '50s, playing catch with his father and football in school. Every time Tim is not exactly what Jack expects he refuses to accept it and, at best, screams at Tim for it. Jack also tried to hide his own failing marriage and tries appear to be a normal jovial dad to outsiders, though he makes no real attempts to actually be a decent dad.
* In ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', Joe Wright is a married man who chalks up anything that happens in his Wisconsin suburb that doesn't fall within his narrow idea of what's acceptable to sinister alien "Normalcy Invaders." He becomes both super-empowered and more insane when the American Scream uses him. As his hold over his StepfordSuburbia - and therefore his madness - increases, his definiton of "normal" gets narrower and narrower, until he's realising that actually, ''women'' are "different", when you think about it, and checking whether his second-in-command takes milk in his coffee.

* ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'', [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision]]'s attempt at creating a happy nuclear family to live a comfortable life in Suburbia in. The mother stays at home, the father is a superhero, and the two children go to school and come home to play with the family dog. The only problem is that [[spoiler:the wife is prone to murder in times of stress and is hiding the piling up bodies, the dog is actually the cybernetically modified corpse of the neighbor's, and nobody in the family other than Vision understands how to handle social situations beyond their nuclear family programming.]]

* The villain in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Addams Family|2019}}'' (2019), Margaux Needler, is the host of a home renovation show whose obsession with white-picket-fence suburban normality has turned her into a tyrant over the [[StepfordSuburbia planned community]] she's building, to the point of [[spoiler:[[BigBrotherIsWatching installing spy cameras in her neighbors' homes]] to police their behavior]]. The Addamses, naturally, don't fit in with her ideal, so she connives to have them driven out, [[HistoryRepeats just like]] the TorchesAndPitchforks mob that forced Gomez and Morticia to flee [[{{Uberwald}} the Old Country]] in the first place.
* Rick Mitchell from ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' is a somewhat {{downplayed}} version of this. While he doesn't judge or even throw shame at his family for their various interests, he is so obsessed with his old-school kind of life that he can come across as eccentric to his wife and kids.

* This is part of the plot twist to ''Film/HotFuzz'': [[spoiler: Anything and everything (and ''everyone'') that is a threat to Sandford's normalcy and its chance of winning the annual "Village of the Year" award is swiftly and unequivocally killed by the Neighborhood Watch. Their targets include graffiti artists, street performers, underage drinkers, a wannabe tabloid reporter who can't spell, a dreadful actor and his mistress with an annoying laugh, and a ''nouveau-riche'' businessman who lives in a tacky mansion. Their first victims were entire families of [[TrashyTrailerHome travelers]].]]

* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/{{Zombies|2018}}'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by the only wallpaper, toiletries and [[LimitedWardrobe clothing colors]] sold there are pastel pink and blue (sometimes green), and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig. This is likely done to oppose zombies and it mellows out from the second movie on as zombies and the other monster races start gaining acceptance.

* [[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Mark Russell]] in the novelization of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is an indirect, projecting case. He willingly works for the {{Kaiju}}-tracking quasi-governmental agency Monarch as a director and a monster expert, but he constantly refuses to let his rebellious teenage daughter Madison have anything to do with Monarch or the monsters, wanting her to have as normal and unremarkable a life as possible, even if he has to [[MyBelovedSmother force that on her against her wishes]].

* John Doe in ''Literature/JPod'' goes out of his way to be the most statistically average person in the world. Unlike some other examples, he doesn't care how other people live their lives as long as he himself is normal. This is because he was born [[{{all lowercase letters}} crow river mountain jumper]] and raised on a lesbian commune; he is desperate to escape his incredibly unusual childhood.

* ''Series/WandaVision'' begins with Wanda and Vision starring in a '50s sitcom in which everything is as pristinely normal as it can possibly be... mostly. Wanda is a housewife, Vision works a corporate job and has to have his boss over for dinner, hijinks Ensue. But even in the first episode, there are hints that [[spoiler:Wanda hexed an entire town into a sitcom fantasy because she wants [[IJustWantToBeNormal so desperately]] to escape the extraordinary circumstances that killed Pietro and Vision. She forces everyone to embody rigid sitcom roles so she can live out her fantasy of a "normal" domestic life.]]

* In the song "Subdivisions" by Music/{{Rush|Band}}, you got "In the high school halls, In the shopping malls, Conform or be cast out."

* In ''Videogame/DiscoElysium'', it's possible to play the Detective as a "Boring Cop" who goes out of his way to avoid saying anything particularly bizarre or have any particularly strong opinions (which usually means that [[UnconventionalAlignment their political alignment]] will likely be "Moralism" [[note]]The setting's version of Centrism[[/note]]). It's also noted however that doing so is something that goes against [[BunnyEarsLawyer the Detective's]] very nature, requires a large amount of willpower from his part, and sometimes results in him insisting he is normal directly after doing blatantly ''abnormal'' things.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Thedas is a StandardFantasySetting with mages, elves, dwarves, dragons, demons, human nobles, etc. Elven companion Sera was orphaned young and reared by humans, and as a result has InternalizedCategorism against her fellow EnslavedElves. As a result, Sera's desperation to fit in among Andrastian (Fantasy Christianity) human commoner culture causes her to berate companions she feels doesn't meet her narrow standards.
-->'''Solas:''' Have you considered snapping the Veil-warp to enhance the relative energy?\\
'''Dorian:''' Like cracking a whip? Yes, tried it once. Made my teeth taste funny.\\
'''Sera:''' Two of you doesn't make this normal!
** Sera can also frequently berate and [[spoiler:break up with]] a female Elven Inquisitor who chooses to pursue a RomanceSidequest with her, but whom Sera feels is being "too elfy." If Sera feels the Female Elven PC doesn't conform to human commoner culture enough, [[spoiler:she breaks up with her]].

* Covenant in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is a walled-off city that consists of normal people doing normal[[note]]However, the ''Fallout'' universe got stuck in the '50s up until the bombs dropped in 2077[[/note]] activities in normal houses... 200 years after everything was eradicated by a nuclear war. Heck, their houses are the only ones in the entire commonwealth that are still in perfect condition! They do interview everyone who wishes to enter, although [[EverythingTryingToKillYou even it is justified given the situation]]. [[spoiler: You find out that they use the test to determine if you're a human or not, and everyone they deem suspicious is sent in a hideaway for testing (read: tortured). Not agreeing with their methods results in the entire town trying to gun you down, and once it's emptied you can build your own settlement inside the walls. Alternatively, you can side with them and use their settlement.]]

* Ironically, in RealLife, a family that is as normal as this trope would be quite special, since, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oc9tKkH7WE as Vsauce explains]], based on probability, [[ImmediateSelfContradiction it is quite abnormal to be normal]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Addams Family|1992}}'': Norman and Normina Normanmeyer strive to be as normal as possible. Because of this, they despise their abnormal neighbors the Addams for this very reason. They expect the same from their more open-minded son, N.J. Ironically, some would say that the Normanmeyers are the most ''abnormal'' characters on their show due to their obsession with underwear, with Norman being the CEO of a large underwear manufacturing corporation.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'':

** In the episode "Don't Fear the Roofer", all of the Simpson family labels Homer as crazy and get Dr. Hibbert to [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture try to shock it out of him with electroconvulsive therapy]] simply because they refuse to believe that Homer found a contractor to help him fix the house's damaged roof and, because of a series of really weird coincidences, haven't seen the man. Hibbert himself is even worse -- he considers Homer ''still having a sense of humor after multiple sessions'' as something "bad" and worth more electrocution, and so is Homer declaring (in a test to determine that he could determine which characters in pictures were real and unreal, which he seemed to be acing so far) Myth/RobinHood as real when (then-recent) historical research had revealed that he wasn't ([[DisproportionateRetribution again, Hibbert shocked Homer just because he wasn't up to date with medieval history]]).
** DependingOnTheWriter, this is one of the central reasons why Principal Seymour Skinner is an antagonist: he does his absolute damnedest to destroy the dreams, hopes, and personal tastes of the children that attend Springfield Elementary in an attempt to mold them to a level of generic mediocrity so he won't have to deal with having to put an effort ([[CuttingCorners and expense]]) in their education. Skinner himself shows in many episodes to be such a milquetoast that he actively enjoys bland, trivial mundanities that most people wouldn't care about, to the point where Superintendent Chalmers had this to say upon learning of Skinner's morning routine:

:: Sera can also frequently berate and [[spoiler:break up with]] a female Elven Inquisitor who chooses to pursue a RomanceSidequest with her, but whom Sera feels is being "too elfy." If Sera feels the Female Elven PC doesn't conform to human commoner culture enough, [[spoiler:she breaks up with her]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'', [[spoiler:Bradford Buzzard]] is the antithesis of Scrooge, having a hatred of adventure and seeking to impose what he deems "normal" upon the world. He initially uses bureaucratic means before outright becoming a supervillain, ultimately planning to [[spoiler:force Scrooge to sign a MagicallyBindingContract in which Scrooge renounces being an adventurer forevermore [[IHaveYourWife at figurative gunpoint]]]]. The fact that, in the process, [[YouAreWhatYouHate he makes himself as far from normal as possible]] is something that's pointed out and definitely irks him.

* [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] in the novelization of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' is an indirect, projecting case. He willingly works for the {{Kaiju}}-tracking quasi-governmental agency Monarch as a director and a monster expert, but he constantly refuses to let his rebellious teenage daughter Madison have anything to do with Monarch or the monsters, wanting her to have as normal and unremarkable a life as possible, even if he has to [[MyBelovedSmother force that on her against her wishes]].

* In the ''Website/SCPFoundation'', the Group of Interest SAPPHIRE (Society of Atheists for the Protection from the Perilous and Hindering Institutionalized Religions Everywhere) are in a way since they want to destroy what they don't understand.

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* Chisame Hasegawa in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' wants nothing to do with the magic, mad science, and other assorted weirdness around her. At least, according to her. When she learns that [[spoiler:she's immune to a LotusEaterMachine that target's a person's insecurities]] because she's perfectly content with her current abnormal life, she loudly protests this.
* Yoshikage Kira from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' wants nothing more to live a very quiet, very normal life. His lifestyle, daily routine, and overall appearance are intricately designed to be as mundane as physically possible. There’s just one problem for Kira; he happens to have a constant, overwhelming desire to [[SerialKiller murder women, cut off their hands, and take them as “girlfriends”]]. No matter what he tries, he can't break the addiction, so instead he simply indulges it every once in a while, killing anybody who discovers his crimes or otherwise threatens to upset his "quiet life".
* Uno Hinako from ''Manga/DoughnutsUnderACrescentMoon'' is obsessed with the idea of being normal, throwing herself into makeup, fashion, and romance. But the inauthenticity of this façade combined with her failure to connect with any of her romantic prospects have left her a stressed, self-doubting mess, and she ends up breaking down into tears in the manga's opening chapter.
* The titular character of ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'', Saiki Kusuo, just wants to live a simple life, being left alone by others to enjoy the quiet and his coffee jellies, but due to being an unwilling MagneticHero for his eccentric classmates and winner of the SuperpowerLottery as the world's most powerful psychic, he's constantly being dragged into comedic scenarios that drag him out of that normality. Throughout the series, he's doing his best to be good enough to succeed, but bad enough that he doesn't stand out.

* ''[[ComicBook/TheVision2015 The Visions]]'', [[ComicBook/TheVision Vision]]'s attempt at creating a happy nuclear family to live a comfortable life in Suburbia in. The mother stays at home, the father is a superhero, and the two children go to school and come home to play with the family dog. The only problem is that [[spoiler: the wife is prone to murder in times of stress and is hiding the piling up bodies, the dog is actually the cybernetically modified corpse of the neighbor's, and nobody in the family other than Vision understands how to handle social situations beyond their nuclear family programming.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Jack Drake is an interesting take, he loves traveling almost all year long and having sway over politicians that can be bought but he expects his son, whom he rarely interacts with, to be the perfect example of an obedient sitcom son from the '50s, playing catch with his father and football in school. Every time Tim is not exactly what Jack expects he refuses to accept it and, at best, screams at Tim for it. Jack also tried to hide his own failing marriage and tries appear to be a normal jovial dad to outsiders, though he makes no real attempts to actually be a decent dad.

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* The villain in ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019'', Margaux Needler, is the host of a home renovation show whose obsession with white-picket-fence suburban normality has turned her into a tyrant over the [[StepfordSuburbia planned community]] she's building, to the point of [[spoiler:[[BigBrotherIsWatching installing spy cameras in her neighbors' homes]] to police their behavior]]. The Addamses, naturally, don't fit in with her ideal, so she connives to have them driven out, [[HistoryRepeats just like]] the TorchesAndPitchforks mob that forced Gomez and Morticia to flee [[{{Uberwald}} the Old Country]] in the first place.

* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Neil's father, who has already plotted out his life (becoming a doctor) and won't accept anything that deviates from this a single bit (including activities that could look good on his portfolio like being the school newspaper's editor), even when Neil tries to defend himself by pointing out that he's an A+ student regardless. He can't even bother to label Neil's acting desire a hobby but rather an ''obsession'', and even with everybody in the theater giving Neil a thunderous ovation he still makes a scene to drag his son away, can't bother to admit it was a good performance (even if he won't let him act again) and takes [[MilitarySchool overkill measures]] to make sure Neil will never deviate from the goal he's made for him, [[spoiler:which is the reason Neil [[DrivenToSuicide decides to take the only option he believes is left]].]]

* Col. Strickland, the villain of ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', lives his life completely by the book, following orders, starting a family he doesn't love, and being mean and condescending to everyone who doesn't fit into his view of "normal" (read: everyone who isn't a straight white man), and being [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence morally offended by the very existence]] of the [[FishPeople Amphibian Man]] - a beautiful, magical creature he can only perceive as a monstrous freak. In one scene, a canny car salesman talks Strickland into buying a car he doesn't really like by convincing him that the colour is actually an extremely cool and manly status symbol. As with most of Creator/GuillermoDelToro's villains, BeingEvilSucks and Strickland is a deeply unhappy man.
* The town of Seabrook from ''Film/Zombies2018'' happens to be the best example of this trope -- the people there hate ''anything'' that's different. This is displayed by the only wallpaper, toiletries and [[LimitedWardrobe clothing colors]] sold there are pastel pink and blue (sometimes green), and all the houses have basically the same architecture and design. They also reject any abnormal hair color, such as Addison's natural white hair which she has to keep hidden under a blonde wig. This is likely done to oppose zombies and it mellows out from the second movie on as zombies and the other monster races start gaining acceptance.

* Memorably subverted by ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. A major part of the joke with the Addamses is that they thought that ''they'' were the normal ones, and that it was everybody else who was weird. The joke, of course, is that they're a family of {{Nightmare Fetishist}}s with a {{goth}}ic fashion sense straight out of old Franchise/UniversalHorror movies and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe stories. Many adaptations, some of them listed elsewhere on this page, play this up with their neighbors, depicted as {{Stepford Suburb|ia}}anites who see the Addamses as freaks.

* ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'': Clarissa's guidance counsellor moulds her students into meeting her standards of "normal." Funny thing is, her definition of normal is entirely her own.
* ''Series/WandaVision'' begins with Wanda and Vision starring in a 50's sitcom in which everything is as pristinely normal as it can possibly be... mostly. Wanda is a housewife, Vision works a corporate job and has to have his boss over for dinner, Hijinks Ensue. But even in the first episode, there are hints that [[spoiler: Wanda hexed an entire town into a sitcom fantasy because she wants [[IJustWantToBeNormal so desperately]] to escape the extraordinary circumstances that killed Pietro and Vision. She forces everyone to embody rigid sitcom roles so she can live out her fantasy of a "normal" domestic life.]]

* In older editions of ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'', the [[spoiler: Throckmorton]] Device was a weird science mass mind control machine that spread this trope by force. Anyone affected by it would become obsessed with enforcing conformity by any means, up to and including murder. [[spoiler: The Device hasn't even been invented yet, but its effects ripple backward through time.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Thedas is a StandardFantasySetting with mages, elves, dwarves, dragons, demons, human nobles, etc. Elven companion Sera was orphaned young and raised by humans, and as a result has InternalizedCategorism against her fellow EnslavedElves. As a result, Sera's desperation to fit in among Andrastian (Fantasy Christianity) human commoner culture causes her to berate companions she feels doesn't meet her narrow standards.

** Sera can also frequently berate and [[spoiler:break up with]] a female Elven Inquisitor who chooses to pursue a RomanceSidequest with her, but whom Sera feels is being "too elfy." If Sera feels the Female Elven PC doesn't conform to human commoner culture enough, [[spoiler:she breaks up with her]].

* In ''Videogame/DiscoElysium'', it's possible to play the Detective as a "Boring Cop" who goes out of his way to avoid saying anything particularly bizarre or have any particularly strong opinions (which usually means that [[UnconventionalAlignment their political alignment]] will likely be "Moralism" [[note]]The setting's version of Centrism[[/note]]). It's also noted however that doing so is something that goes against [[BunnyEarsLawyer the Detective's]] very nature, requires a large amount of willpower from his part, and sometimes results in him insisting he is normal directly after doing blatantly ''abnormal'' things.

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* In the ''Website/SCPFoundation'', the Group of Interest SAPPHIRE (Society of Atheists for the Protection from the Perilous and Hindering Institutionalized Religions Everywhere) are in a way since they want to destroy what they don't understand

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'': Norman and Normina Normanmeyer strive to be as normal as possible. Because of this, they despise their abnormal neighbors the Addams for this very reason. They expect the same from their more open-minded son, N.J. Ironically, some would say that the Normanmeyers are the most ''abnormal'' characters on their show due to their obsession with underwear, with Norman being the CEO of a large underwear manufacturing corporation.

* Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' can be this. He's so content with his normal life that it's almost criminal. Granted, his family does have quirks about them that drives him nuts (Peggy's narcissism, Bobby's love of comedy and Luanne's dim-wittedness), not to mention he is friends with three of the most abnormal people around (a conspiracy nut, a lonely and depressed divorcee and a fast-talking ladies' man), but Hank's obsessions (his job of dealing in propane, mowing his lawn and having obsolete values) make ''him'' come across as the abnormal one to many.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', [[spoiler:Bradford Buzzard]] is the antithesis of Scrooge, having a hatred of adventure and seeking to impose what he deems "normal" upon the world. He initially uses bureaucratic means before outright becoming a supervillain, ultimately planning to [[spoiler:force Scrooge to sign a MagicallyBindingContract in which Scrooge renounces being an adventurer forevermore [[IHaveYourWife at figurative gunpoint]]]]. The fact that, in the process, [[YouAreWhatYouHate he makes himself as far from normal as possible]] is something that's pointed out and definitely irks him.

Since what is "normal" varies across time and space, and even within societies, the norms that they are enforcing may come across as very strange to others.

And even within their community, the paradox these people face is that the more they strive to be "normal", the less normal they will be, since everyone deviates from the norm in some respect, and being perfectly "normal" is statistically very abnormal.

* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCouldFly'': The Institute of Normalcy, Stability, And Non-Exceptionality would like everyone and everything to be this, and while they claim to be helping people with fantastic abilities, their real mission is to bring every creature with superpowers down to normal.

* Jessica Peers' memoir ''Asparagus Dreams'', about the author's experience of life in a residential school for autistic children, states that this trope was enforced at the school: the staff set very strict routines and expectations for high-functioning students so they could appear to be superficially "normal."

* ''ComicBook/TheVisions'', ComicBook/Vision's attempt at creating a happy nuclear family to live a comfortable life in Suburbia in. The mother stays at home, the father is a superhero, and the two children go to school and come home to play with the family dog. The only problem is that [[spoiler: the wife is prone to murder in times of stress and is hiding the piling up bodies, the dog is actually the cybernetically modified corpse of the neighbor's, and nobody in the family other than Vision understands how to handle social situations beyond their nuclear family programming.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Thedas is a StandardFantasySetting with mages, elves, dwarves, dragons, demons,human nobles, etc. Elven companion Sera was orphaned young and raised by humans, and as a result has InternalizedCategorism against her fellow EnslavedElves. As a result, Sera's desperation to fit in among Andrastian (Fantasy Christianity) human commoner culture causes her to berate companions she feels doesn't meet her narrow standards.

* Covenant in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is a walled-off city that consists of normal people doing normal[[note]]However, the Fallout universe got stuck in the '50s up until the bombs dropped in 2077[[/note]] activities in normal houses... 200 years after everything was eradicated by a nuclear war. Heck, their houses are the only ones in the entire commonwealth that are still in perfect condition! They do interview everyone who wishes to enter, although [[EverythingTryingToKillYou even it is justified given the situation]]. [[spoiler: You find out that they use the test to determine if you're a human or not, and everyone they deem suspicious is sent in a hideaway for testing (read: tortured). Not agreeing with their methods results in the entire town trying to gun you down, and once it's emptied you can build your own settlement inside the walls. Alternatively, you can side with them and use their settlement.]]

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Jack Drake is an interesting take, he loves traveling almost all year long and having sway over politicians that can be bought but he expects his son, whom he rarely interacts with, to be the perfect example of an obedient sitcom son from the '50s, playing catch with his father and football in school. Every time Tim is not exactly what Jack expects he refuses to accept it and, at best, screams at Tim for it. Jack also tried to hide his own failing marriage and tries appear to be a normal jovial dad to outsiders, though he makes no real attempts to actually be a decent dad.

* ''Series/WandaVision'' begins with Wanda and Vision starring in a 50's sitcom in which everything is as pristinely normal as it can possibly be... mostly. Wanda is a housewife, Vision works a corporate job and has to have his boss over for dinner, HijinksEnsue. But even in the first episode, there are hints that [[spoiler: Wanda hexed an entire town into a sitcom fantasy because she wants [[IJustWantToBeNormal so desperately]] to escape the extraordinary circumstances that killed Pietro and Vision. She forces everyone to embody rigid sitcom roles so she can live out her fantasy of a "normal" domestic life.]]