History UnusuallyUninterestingSight / VideoGames

** What happens with ''Ryu'' when he enters Sonne actually manages to make the above look completely plausible in comparison. He's called "Ryong", is greeted as if he's actively returning, and otherwise treated as if he were in fact his other half... despite the fact that ''Ryu and Fou-lu look noticeably different''. You'd think the fact that Ryu [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair has blue hair]] rather than white, has a distinct lack of horns, and doesn't share his speech patterns would be a clue. The only plausible explanation is that the backwater farming village of Sonne is secretly a village full of psychics [[spoiler:who can all see that Ryu and Fou-lu are part of the same LiteralSplitPersonality]].

** Both averted and played straight in ''[[Videogame/GoldenSunTheLostAge The Lost Age]]''... in the same ''town'', even. Upon his arrival in Madra, Piers is promptly associated with the pirates who recently ransacked the place, arrested, and the talk of the town for being a foreigner and an oddity. Once you've rescued him and [[SixthRanger added him to your group]], you can return to Madra and meet Karst there. Nobody comments on her. Apparently a [[{{Stripperiffic}} scantily-dressed]] CuteMonsterGirl isn't nearly as weird as [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair a guy with blue hair]]. In fact, nobody ''ever'' comments on the Mars Clan having [[PointyEars double-pointed ears]], [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation colorful skin]], ''scales'', RedEyesTakeWarning, and bizarre hair (though apparently normal people in the 'verse do rarely have unusual hair colors or styles, usually a visual cue that they're Adepts). Even your own party members don't seem to think them unusual, save for an offhand comment about [[MsFanservice Karst's clothing]].

** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', you are capable of giving your [[VirtualPaperDoll customizable]] PlayerCharacter a variety of eye-popping features, such as outlandish face paint, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair unusual hair color]], or [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation unrealistic skin color]], and none of the characters you meet even bat an eye to it. Even when it is justified by the fact that [[spoiler:all of the humans have artificial bodies]], your character will be the only one in New LA to have such striking features.

** Alex's Mom's big tip-off that there's something weird about the Essentia 2000 is not her metallic joints, the bolts sticking from her head, the glowing eyes and mouth, or the fact that her mouth doesn't move when she speaks. It's the fact that she has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]].

* Princess Peach of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' franchise has likely SeenItAll after all her years of being kidnapped and dragged across a surreal fantasy world, so she usually has an excuse for being largely unfazed by whatever she encounters. But ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' nonetheless has an egregious example of this with [[spoiler:her lack of reaction to the Ruined Dragon in the post-game. Here we have an [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever enormous]] and [[NonStandardCharacterDesign unusually realistic-looking]] dragon implied to have [[BeastOfTheApocalypse destroyed the Ruined Kingdom]] in which it is fought. Yet when she and Tiara are found next to the too-exhausted-from-battle-to-move creature, she comments on the Ruined Kingdom being a [[{{Understatement}} "fixer upper"]] but says absolutely nothing about the dragon itself.]]

* ''Himalayan Mysteries'', a fan-made ''Franchise/TombRaider LevelEditor'', project sees Lara stranded in the Himalayas. While there, she will comment on various things, [[CaptainObvious right down to the fact that it's cold]], yet she doesn't bat an eyelid the first time [[spoiler:a dead alien, encased in ice,]] is shown halfway through the game.

** you can steal vehicles right under the Krimzon Guard's nose, and no one will comment on it except for the poor soul who just got his zoomer stolen. No one will move a finger to help him either. Also, the Krimzon Guard is supposed to be looking for you everywhere, but you can stand in front of one and be completely safe. It's only if you harm one of them that they actually notice you.

** Averted once in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', where [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Judge Frollo]] actually notices Sora's out-of-place clothing, although this just leads him to the not unreasonable conclusion that Sora is a gypsy.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'':

** Speaking of demons, the fact that Sig has a miscolored demon arm and eye doesn't bother him that much, even if he does wonder about how he can get rid of it on a couple occasions. Some of his friends actually find his red arm pretty neat; in ''20th Anniversary'', Raffina in particular thinks it's from him ''exercising too much''.

** Klug never acknowledges the demon trapped in the book he always carries around, even after getting possessed by it. This is made especially jarring in Chapter 9 of ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', when he despairs over his book yelling at him and never makes any mention of the demon, making it sound like he is (somehow) genuinely unaware of it's presence.

*** This is also present in VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake, and it's even more absurd... at first. As PennyArcade notes [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVp25BOU0AEnDCw?format=jpg&name=medium in a comic]], the main cast stick out like sore thumbs, yet ''nobody'' seems to notice them, despite an impressive rap sheet. However, this starts to sense as we learn more about Midgar, and just how ''bad'' things really are. Midgar, it turns out, is being badly mismanaged by Shinra, and numerous armed malitia groups are active in the city.

*** No one bats an eyelid at friendly Super Mutant Fawkes tagging along with you, despite Super Mutants being in the game setting an incredibly feared race of AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters at war with the human race. This is {{handwave}}d with a line of random in-game dialogue in which he suggests that it's because people respect you so much, they trust anyone with you that you aren't shooting yourself. This becomes rather amusing when your character is always in Stealth Mode, and therefore all anyone ever sees is this giant Super Mutant ranting about how much people seem to respect a heat shimmer. However, some {{NPC}}s will refuse to work with you or even open fire on you if they see you with Fawkes or Charon the Ghoul.

** In the games, you can use the [[OlympusMons legendaries]] you caught in battle, and no {{NPC}} opponent will bat an eyelash. Even Arceus, who is the '''God''' of the Pokémon universe. And in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]'', some of the Frontier Brains use legendaries, which passes without mention. Maybe it's because they use [[CharacterTiers lower tier]] legendaries, but still... And it's more bizarre in [=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=], when your primary Pokémon follows you around at all times out of its Pokéball. Yes, even massive, colorful, one-of-a-kind Legendaries. One trainer who will sometimes call you for a rematch continuously asks if you've seen any legendary birds in your travels - even if a Lugia is flapping its humongous wings right beside you.\\\

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': No-one from any of the worlds seems to worry about how different the main characters are, which is especially weird in the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' world, which is the closest to "the real world" the game gets. One would expect Will or Elizabeth to be a little surprised to see a talking wizard duck, but no one seems to care. And the main characters are also so brightly colored in comparison with the rest of the world! Interestingly, Sora and his friends ''do'' comment that this world is weird for some reason they can't quite put their finger on. The only possible justification is that once Will and Elizabeth got into the whole zombie pirates thing, accepting a talking wizard duck wasn't so bad in comparison, but it still doesn't account for the flat-out difference in art styles.

** An example unrelated to costumes happens in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''‘s “Land of the Dragons” world, based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. In this retelling of the story, Captain Shang finds out that Mulan is a woman when [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Mushu]] pops out of the snow and starts using female pronouns to refer to her. Rather than being surprised to see a talking dragon, he treats it as completely normal and only focuses on Mulan being a woman, which is apparently the more outlandish event to him. He may have become more used to seeing talking animals after meeting Donald and Goofy, but still.

** The games in the series feature the LeapOfFaith - jumping off tall buildings or other high places in a very stylish manner and landing in hidings spots like carts of hay, without anyone ever paying attention to the fact that ''a man just fell from the sky and landed in a pile of hay''. I's best explained by the RuleOfCool and [[AWizardDidIt Animus rendering]].

** Alex's Mom's big tip-off that there's something weird about the Essentia 2000 is not her metallic joints, the bolts sticking from her head, the glowing eyes and mouth, or the fact that her mouth doesn't move when she speaks. It's the fact that she has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair green hair]].

** Relatedly, none of the {{Non Player Character}}s seem to find a Hunter's pet at all odd. You can walk into somebody's house or shop with a miniaturized TyrannosaurusRex and nobody will bat an eye.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' is right back to it on the Isle of Armor. Pokémon can follow you there and though there aren’t many trainer battles after the main story, no one notices you have a legendary following you.