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* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold and SoulSilver]], the player character spends some time dressed up as a Team Rocket grunt. Every NPC in the city gets new dialogue to reflect this, with most of them expressing either fear or anger. The exceptions are the employees at the local department store, who continue to treat you like a regular customer. One of the other [=NPCs=] even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.
* In ''VideoGame/{{ADOM}}'', you can have the weirdest mutations from the corruption of Chaos, but the only one that bothers shopkeepers is the aura that scares away customers. That this one does bother them shows [[DevelopersForesight it's probably a deliberate choice]] to have them ignore the others. Of course, a shop in this game might be halfway down the Caverns of Chaos, so it's only to be expected.

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* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': In a flashback, when Doctor Dinosaur (who is, it should be noted, a talking dinosaur) shows up at a science fair with uzis.
-->'''Robo:''' How'd a dinosaur get ''guns!?''\\
''[One Week Ago...]''\\
'''Alonso:''' ''[of "Alonso's Gun Hut"]'' 'Fraid I'm gonna have t'see some I.D.\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Dr. Dinosaur:''' ''[holds up a book labeled "Big Book of Dinosaurs", flips it open to a page showing his species]''\\
'''Alonso:''' Awright, let's ring y'up.\\
''[end flashback]''\\
'''Dr. Dinosaur:''' In a perfectly legal manner is how!

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* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' gives [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Isaac and Miria]] coming into a hat store and acting like absolute children, ''then'' trying to be intimidating while paying the clerk. He pays little heed and counts out their change. Of course, it ''is'' a store where TheMafia buys their hats.

Subtrope of TheStoic and of the {{Shopkeeper}}. Compare BunnyEarsLawyer and ApatheticClerk. Related to UnusuallyUninterestingSight.

* Comic shop proprietor Stuart in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and the way he deals with the parade of ill-adjusted nerds, sociopaths and weirdos who comprise his clientele. Not even Sheldon Cooper fazes him. Much. Although he can be panicked by a pretty girl. (He's had less experience in dealing with pretty girls. Or ''any'' sort of girl). And even then, he handles it better than his regular customers.

* Comic shop proprietor Stuart in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' and the way he deals with the parade of ill-adjusted nerds, sociopaths and weirdos who comprise his clientele. Not even Sheldon Cooper fazes him. Much. Although he can be panicked by a pretty girl. (He's had less experience in dealing with pretty girls. Or ''any'' sort of girl). And even then, he handles it better than his [[HollywoodNerd regular customers]].

Some characters, most probably [[CloudCuckooLander unusual ones]], are participating in [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] on their way through the town and decide that they need to go shopping for something, be it mundane, supernatural or just plain crazy. They bust into the store, acting and looking absolutely and completely out of place (and most probably also being totally obnoxious). They get weird looks sent their way, some people sneak out just in case, most customers are stunned with the sheer audacity of the scene.

* This is very much a TruthInTelevision. Those that work in retail often deal with and do business with individuals that are far from the norm. Part of this is professional courtesy, since the individuals are still customers. The other part is from having experience with these kind of customers.

** In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesSE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman]]", the bartender remains calm as the place [[BarBrawl gets turned upside down by a brawl]] started when another hoodlum decides to pick a fight with Sid (who had supposedly killed Batman) to [[VillainCred pump up his reputation]]. Given that the place is hosting a criminal party to celebrate Sid's triumph, this might be justified as the sort of thing that happens there all the time. The one thing the barkeep does is sneakily slide a glass bowl off a table and onto one man's head, so maybe he ''enjoys'' these fights.

* Averted in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS02E10Renunion Reunion]]" when Darla, after slaughtering most of the occupants of a clothing store, tries to enlist an employee's aid in selecting shoes. Since she does nothing but whimper and try to crawl away, Darla [[NeckSnap kills her]] and complains about the service.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' when Darla, after slaughtering most of the occupants of a clothing store, tries to enlist an employee's aid in selecting shoes. Since she does nothing but whimper and try to crawl away, Darla [[NeckSnap kills her]] and complains about the service.

** In "The Man Who Killed Batman", the bartender remains calm as the place [[BarBrawl gets turned upside down by a brawl]] started when another hoodlum decides to pick a fight with Sid (who had supposedly killed Batman) to [[VillainCred pump up his reputation]]. Given that the place is hosting a criminal party to celebrate Sid's triumph, this might be justified as the sort of thing that happens there all the time. The one thing the barkeep does is sneakily slide a glass bowl off a table and onto one man's head, so maybe he ''enjoys'' these fights.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In ''The Cartridge Family'' Homer goes to buy a gun from Bloodbath & Beyond. The clerk remains completely nonplussed, even when Homer repeatedly fires an unloaded handgun in his face and threatens his life for imposing a waiting period.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Nice Guy", the cashier at a gas-station convenience store is a snarky teen who is, at most, mildly annoyed by Wander's antics trying to buy Sylvia a Thunder-Blazz.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' episode "Primal", after his brothers go mad with hunger on an ill-planned HorribleCampingTrip, Grizzly hijacks a parked car and drives them to a nearby fast-food restaurant. The cashier at the drive-thru window not only effortlessly translates Panda and Ice Bear's maddened growls into an order, but is completely unfazed by the sight of three bears (two of which are viciously mauling each other in the back seat) paying for the food.

Subtrope of TheStoic and of the {{Shopkeeper}}. Compare BunnyEarsLawyer. Related to UnusuallyUninterestingSight.

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* The current page image comes from ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'', in which a store clerk, upon meeting a talking dinosaur MadScientist who wants to buy several pounds of explosives and guns for obviously criminal reasons, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight has no response beyond asking for ID]]. When he's given ID in the form of a children's picture book about dinosaurs, he just shrugs and rings up his customer.
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Subtrope of TheStoic. Compare BunnyEarsLawyer. Related to UnusuallyUninterestingSight.

** In the episode [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE23BewareTheCreeper "Beware the Creeper"]], right after being drastically changed by a vat of chemicals and Joker's laughing gas, ComicBook/TheCreeper busts into a vintage clothing shop, makes a mess of the place trying to find some clothes to match his new appearance. Clients run and scream. The woman behind the counter says, completely deadpan, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "With your skin color, I'd go green." while handing him a pair of underpants]]. After picking up a few more bits of costume ("How about the boa? Too much?!" "Not on you, baby.") he pays with his credit card.

* ''Film/Venom2018'': The convenience store owner Mrs. Chen isn't completely deadpan, but she's only resignedly disappointed about getting robbed at gunpoint and reacts with DullSurprise to [[spoiler:Eddie turning into Venom and eating a robber right in front of her]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': Most shopkeepers in The City will be either this, or in [[ThereAreNoTherapists therapy]].

'''Alonso:''' ''[of "Alonso's Gun Hut"]'' 'Fraid I'm going to have to see some I.D.\\

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', Burgerpants is a jaded washout working for a [[MeanBoss narcissistic, delusional robot]] in a BurgerFool. If he serves an OmnicidalManiac player character who's cut a bloody swath through the underground, the extent of his reaction is to complain that he still has to come to work even when everybody's dead.