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7->''"In fact, mostly they just swerved and looked irritated, as if they had to deal with a lot of ratty teenagers carrying old hippie women across the freeway."''
8-->-- '''Percy Jackson''', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus: The Son of Neptune''
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12Something that is blatantly unusual, yet nobody seems to take notice of it. It could be an odd costume, UnusualEars, an [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud external monologue]], a visible weapon, or an animal that only vaguely resembles a normal one (such as a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom blue wolf wearing armor]]). For some reason, none of the bystanders take notice or comment on it.
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14In some cases this is justified with [[InvisibleToNormals not being seen by mortals]] or for some reason, if it's a kid's show/book/comic/other, it's often stated that the weirdness [[InvisibleToAdults cannot be seen by adults or doubters]].
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16Possibly an extension of the BystanderSyndrome, contrast with MundaneMadeAwesome and FauxHorrific. Occasionally justified with a WeirdnessCensor. Common in MagicRealism and MundaneFantastic. See also ElephantInTheLivingRoom, FantasticallyIndifferent, LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy, MetallicarSyndrome, MyGodYouAreSerious, NotDistractedByTheSexy, UnfazedEveryman, and ShutUpScaryThing.
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21[[index]]
22* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/AnimeAndManga
23* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/ComicBooks
24* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/FanWorks
25* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/{{Film}}
26* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/{{Literature}}
27* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/LiveActionTV
28* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/VideoGames
29* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/{{Webcomics}}
30* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/WesternAnimation
31* UnusuallyUninterestingSight/RealLife
32[[/index]]
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34!!Other examples:
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37[[folder:Advertising]]
38* "Advertising/TheGreatCrunchieTrainRobbery": The little old lady who is knitting ignores the robbery; a brawl that erupts around her; the train being attacked by Indians, Arabs and Nazis; and being fired on by artillery and a fighter plane and keeps calmly knitting.
39[[/folder]]
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41[[folder:Art]]
42* ''Art/SistineChapel'': In one of its many paintings, there are two people chatting away with their backs turned to the Son of God freely giving the truths of the universe away.
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45[[folder:Asian Animation]]
46* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': Lamput encounters a monster hiding in a coffin in "Haunted House". He's scared of it, but the docs are too busy searching for him to even notice and be scared as well.
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49[[folder:Comedy]]
50* Creator/JoshWolf has a bit where he discusses the first time his daughter met his wife Beth. The previous night, Beth had been too tired to drive home, but Josh didn't want her first time meeting the kids to be in his bed, so she asked to sleep in the closet instead. The next morning, Josh's daughter Kaitlynn couldn't find her shoes, and when Josh told her to keep looking, she checked Josh's closet and found Beth, then returned to him saying "I still can't find my shoes and there's a stranger sleeping in your closet". Josh notes that if this was how she reacted to a stranger sleeping in his closet, she would never snitch on him for anything.
51--> '''Josh''': Just out of curiosity, Kait, there's a stranger sleeping in my closet. That's the reaction I get?\
52'''Kaitlynn''': It's your closet, daddy, I don't know what happens in your closet.
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55[[folder:Comic Strips]]
56* ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'': Invoked with the magical [[WeirdnessCensor Shield of Boringness]].
57* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Nobody in this otherwise carefully realistic neighborhood seems to find it at all odd that a beagle should be riding atop his doghouse dressed as a WWI Flying Ace, among many other things. Occasionally lampshaded when they ''do'' find his behaviour odd - just in passing - then continue on their merry way.
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60[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
61* ''Animation/TheFrogPrincess'': No one seems at all surprised that animals can talk, or that wizards and witches exist.
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64[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
65* In "Literature/MotherHolle", the main character barely raises a eyebrow when she runs into talking loaves and sentient trees; and nobody thinks anything of the rooster speaking.
66* "Literature/LittleOtik": Most of peasants seem to take the presence of a big wooden creature who can walk and talk in stride.
67* Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheEnchantedQuill": One man falls asleep while riding his horse. Suddenly, a crow wakes up him and speaks that the man was falling into an eternal sleep, and it wants to marry one of his sisters in reward for saving him from such a fate. And the man takes everything in stride.
68* "Literature/FollowMeJodel": Jodel thinks nothing of a toad being able to speak. He does not even wonder why it wants to help him, or in the first place, how it knows he needs help. He never questions why it owns a house in the woods and a mouse servant who can also speak. In fact, Jodel shows a bigger reaction to its ugliness than to everything else.
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71[[folder:Jokes]]
72* There is a joke which both [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope: One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She read, "...and so the pig went up to the man with the wheel barrow full of straw and said, 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?'" The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you think that man said?" One little boy raised his hand and said, "I think he said 'Holy shit! A talking pig!'" The teacher was [[{{Corpsing}} unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.]]
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75[[folder:Music]]
76* Several Inugami Circus Dan videos depict the members working in offices, sitting in cafes, meeting old friends and generally going about their business like ordinary people whilst wearing their trademark white and black face paint. None of the extras notice, let alone comment on it. Particularly noticeable example from about 1:34 in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1zj9hP4BrE this video]]
77* Parodied in a Music/MariahCarey video (Boy - I Need You). It takes place in Tokyo with several giant monsters and mechs running amok, and the locals just go about their business.
78** Likewise, in the video of "Heroes" which The Wallflowers recorded for ''Film/Godzilla1998'', the band keeps right on playing even after Godzilla's tail knocks a hole in the wall of the apartment where they're performing, and the singer just glances at the hovering military helicopter that stops to check out the damage. Meanwhile, a girl in a hoodie disinterestedly walks past crowds of panicked, fleeing people, picks up a six-pack from the bodega across the street, leaves some money on the counter when she can't find the cashier, and walks back again, never even glancing at the huge footprint which Godzilla left in the pavement while she was in there.
79* In the video for Lisa Stanfield's cover of Music/BarryWhite's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up", she goes out onto the streets, nude, after taking a bath. No one gives her anything more than a passing glance. Granted, she does eventually find a coat to put on as she heads to her boyfriend's house.
80* The video for Bonnie Tyler's "Music/TotalEclipseOfTheHeart": {{Ninja}}s! Kids with GlowingEyes! A kid with {{Wing|edHumanoid}}s! In a boarding school! It isn't until [[SelectiveObliviousness near the end]] when the one kids with glowing eyes sings the hook "Turn around bright eyes" that she gets the sense that there is something wrong.
81* Main/PlayedForLaughs in the music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAQyg2F0ZWo Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla]] from metalcore band A Crowd of Rebellion. The band stops for a quick rest while a parkouring gorilla comes out of nowhere and starts ''beating the shit'' out of the lead singer. [[spoiler: Only for him to appear just fine and the gorilla hands him a pair of drum sticks and a guitar pick.]] The rest of the band casually looks at the beatdown bored out of their minds.
82* In the video for Music/OliviaRodrigo's "bad idea right?" she takes no notice of her lover exploding as he lies on the bed next to her, and she is seemingly more concerned with the spider crawling up the pillow.
83* Music/TheRamones' video for "I Wanna Be Sedated" entirely consists of the members sitting around a dinner table while a party featuring nuns, acrobats, ballerinas, monsters, cheerleaders, clowns, doctors, fetish nurses, and smoking schoolgirls goes on behind them. They never take notice of any of this.
84* "[[Music/HonkyChateau Rocket Man]]" by Music/EltonJohn takes the usually interesting job of an astronaut and makes it as boring as a 9-to-5 job.
85* ''Collapsing New People'' by Fad Gadget has Frank, who's covered in TarAndFeathers for [[NoodleIncident unknown reasons]] start grabbing at the people playing the other instruments. Said people just ignore him and keep playing, even after their faces get covered in tar as well.
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88[[folder:Podcasts]]
89* ''Podcast/BinaryBreak'': After landing in the Digital World, Sophie very much takes the weirdness of the situation in stride. It helps that she was already a bit of a {{cloudcuckoolander}} and treats the situation like being in a fairy-tale adventure (which she'd been hoping to end up in one day anyway).
90* In the first world of ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'', the students of [[Film/HighSchoolMusical East High]] don't bat an eye at a strange man in a cloak playing card games in their gym while asking them who's the most hateful among them. Even the main characters take a while to notice, since Marche is distracted by the game and Roxanne thinks his aesthetic is normal.
91* When ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour's'' Marshal on Mars, Sparks Nevada, and Troubleshooter Ginny West have their first date, they meet a trio of robots have found and taken in a baby human girl. Ginny is understandably concerned about this, and can't fathom that Sparks is more interested in continuing their date than investigating it.
92-->'''Ginny West:''' How did three robots come to be in possession of a human baby? Ain't it your job as Marshal to find out?\
93'''Sparks Nevada:''' Hmmm... You may have marshallin' confused with bein' a busybody. They're different.
94* Basically everybody's reaction to ''everything'' in Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale, with the exception of the [[OnlySaneMan visiting scientists]], and even they're getting used to it. Ominous coloured helicopters watching your children? Check the colour chart to make sure they aren't ''really'' dangerous. A giant, sentient glow cloud raining dead-animals on the town? Let's make it the president of the PTA. An eighteen foot tall, five-headed dragon? He runs a blog, got arrested for fraud and is running for mayor. Confronted with a terrible existential dread about the meaningless of your life? Drink to forget.
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97[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
98* ProfessionalWrestling lives and breathes this trope, due to a combination of {{Kayfabe}}, RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, WorldOfBadass and WorldOfHam. While all of these may have been surprising when they were first introduced, fans came to accept them as utterly normal.
99** Wrestling/TheUndertaker, a grave-digging zombie with the ability to make the lights go on and off, come BackFromTheDead and {{Teleport|ation}} at will? Check.
100** Wrestling/{{Sabu}}, a maniac who celebrated winning matches by moonsaulting ''himself'' through a table? Check.
101** A TagTeam called Incoherence ([[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]], Wrestling/{{Hallowicked}} and Wrestling/{{Frightmare}}) who got plenty of mic time even though their promos were largely unintelligible gibberish? Check.
102** Wrestling/LaParka, a Mexican guy in a [[DemBones skeleton]] costume who dances and does AirGuitar with a chair during his entrance? Check.
103* The Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}-affiliated Wrestling Is Fun! promotion had as its main title the [[https://www.cagematch.net//?id=5&nr=1840 WiF! Banana Title]], that is, a title that was represented by ''an actual banana''. Wrestling/{{Jaka}} actually ''ate'' the banana after winning it, which his manager Wrestling/SidneyBakabella [[EvenEvilHasStandards found shocking]].
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106[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
107* In ''Series/FraggleRock'''s postcards from Uncle Travelling Matt about his adventures in Outer Space, the "Silly Creatures" are generally portrayed as amused or confused by his misunderstanding of human customs, but not so much "Oh, my God! What even ''is'' that thing?" as you might expect, given that the existence of Fraggles is mostly unknown beyond the Rock.
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110[[folder:Radio]]
111* ''Radio/BleakExpectations:''
112** The people of France have absolutely no reaction to a talking dinosaur walking about. They are pretty annoyed that he's English, and decide the best course of action is to eat him.
113** Similarly, the Reverend Godly Fecund doesn't even seem to notice very much that Harry Biscuit is, for complicated reasons, now in the body of a T-Rex until it's pointed out to him.
114--->'''Rev. Fecund:''' I thought it was a new type of jacket...
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118[[folder:Roleplay]]
119* Season 3.5 of ''Roleplay/TheMassiveMultiFandomRPG'' takes place in an artificial copy of Miami, complete with inhabitants who pay no mind to the presence of bizarre and alien individuals and monsters. For example, [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire May]]'s "grandma" notices the fact that "her granddaughter's imaginary friend" (a Pokemon) is apparently real and visible, but doesn't seem to care at all.
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122[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
123* A spell in TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}, ''aura of the unremarkable'', works as a sort of enforced version of this. It allows the target to perform any number of strange actions - perfectly in view of the public - and not have anyone view it as abnormal. They see and remember the actions normally, but unless it directly threatens them or their allies, they are magically compelled to think that there's nothing unusual about the team attempting to blow the hinges off the vault door or cutting the supports for the chandeliers. Once it turns into a "hostile action", the spell won't work, though... handy for preparing your assassination, but not after you fire the ballista at the parade.
124* Invoked by the narrator in TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Black Ops who took the subway after a mission with a gaping hole in his chest. Even though he left a large pool of blood underneath his feet, not a single other soul on the train looked up or said anything. The narrator says that half the reason why their shadow war has remained a secret is that the world cannot and will not accept the existence of paranormal creatures, and therefore will remain willfully ignorant, writing off any unusual thing they see.
125* One of the ''TabletopGame/{{Pachimon}}'' cards have a kaiju rampaging across London and trampling over vehicles, and civilians simply wandering about oblivious to the monster walking around in the open. [[https://wikizilla.org/w/images/e/e4/DanpurarPachimonKaijuYokopro01.jpg Like, really]].
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128[[folder:Theater]]
129* In ''Theatre/OrpheusAPoeticDrama'', when Aristaeus asks about his bees' whereabouts, Orpheus admits that the swarm may have passed by without him noticing, to which Aristaus wonders how that could possibly happen. (Orpheus admits to being lovestruck at the time and ignored everything around him.)
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132[[folder:Visual Novels]]
133* In ''VisualNovel/AreaX'', this is one of the reasons that Elcia is able to tell that Rexus is the leader of Project Recovery and knows who she really is, as he don't react to the fact a girl in a school uniform wants to negotiate with ORZ Corporate, since a normal student wouldn't want or need to negotiate with a major corporation.
134* Justified in ''VisualNovel/CafeEnchante'' where Misyr uses his magic to alter the perceptions of humans around them so no one comments on Canus's missing head or the fact he wears sometimes wears an armored helmet with his regular clothes.
135* Nobody in ''VisualNovel/LoveAtFirstSight'' appears to care about the fact that [[CuteClumsyGirl Sachi]] is a {{Cyclops}}. For example, the resident bully goes after her due to her being an ExtremeDoormat.
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138[[folder:Web Animation]]
139* The seven minute animatic ''WebAnimation/BabushkaTheMovie'' is an adaption of a round of ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' played by a famous group of streamers and Lets Players. Like the video game, a pair of impostors try to wipe out the crew of a space ship. Unlike the normal video game, the impostors get splashed and even covered with blood as they slaughter the crew one by one. Somehow nobody else seems to notice that or think it's worth noting.
140* In ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', Bee has a tendency to under-react to events that would freak out lots of people, such as being (briefly) sentenced to incineration.
141** In Part 1 after her inexplicably found dog(or maybe a cat) gets a letter transported through it's bell collar all she can manage is groaning. She does lampshade that there better not be anything cryptic in it.
142* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Lizzie didn't think anything of the dripping acid and sudden influx of invasive venomous snakes in his exhibit, which were caused by [[PoisonousPerson Micheal and Ashely]], because 'poison and snakes were a common sight'.
143* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
144** In the 2009 [[HalloweenSpecial Halloween toon]], "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", Bubs is dabbling in fiendish experimentation, which results in his concession stand turning into ''his own head''. Bubs, however, is more annoyed than terrified.
145--->'''Bubs:''' Aw, this was supposed to ''reduce'' my overhead, not turn ''into'' my head!
146*** It ''does'', however, [[OffWithHisHead bite his head off]] after the comment is made!
147** In "Fall Float Parade", Marzipan's only observation when Homsar appears to have duplicated himself is "Oh, and there's another Homsar." Of course, for [[RealityWarper Homsar]], that sort of stuff ''is'' that ordinary.
148* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', when Karl the Deranged sends "galaxy's most deadly virus" with his letter and gaseous cloud starts enveloping the Throne Room, everyone present seems rather bored by this turn of events. Justified, as they're all unable to fall ill.
149* An inversion in ''Indiada Jodes'':
150-->'''Kid:''' I have a paper that leads to a thing.\
151'''Indy:''' DID YOU SAY A THING?
152* Almost every episode of ''Leo and Layla'' has them using TimeTravel to talk to some historical figure. In many cases, they outright say they are time travelers, and the person just reacts like it's an everyday occurrence. Also, the way they time travel is using an ''app Layla downloaded for her phone''(!!!). When Layla shows it to Leo in the first episode, his response is pretty much, "[[DullSurprise Eh, that's neat.]]"
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156* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2602 SCP-2602]] of the Website/SCPFoundation forces this onto the minds of anyone who learns about it, making them think that some aspects of the SCP are entirely normal consequences of the fact that it used to be a library. Usually this is on target, leaving people believing that its shrines, hazardous waste pit and extensive underground structure are no big deal since, after all, it used to be a library. But occasionally it misfires: at least two people have come away convinced that ''gravity'' only exists at that location due to the fact that it was formerly a library.
157* Sometimes, you've got to love the page pictures that go with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Minifigure some]] Website/{{Wikipedia}} articles. Apparently, this is run-of-the-mill for Lego minifigures.
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160[[folder:Web Videos]]
161* ''WebVideo/AnalystBroniesReact'': In the third ''Equestria Girls'' movie, some watching note how the students barely react to Rainbow Dash flying on the stage.
162* The hosts of ''WebVideo/TheAttack'' have all sorts of horrors appear in their studio, and generally don't bat an eye at any of them. Many of them involve production team members dying in particularly gruesome ways.
163* ''WebVideo/BuzzfeedUnsolved'':
164** In "The Creepy Murder in Room 1046", they frequently lampshade how many suspicious things (like a guy lying on the bed surrounded by a dark stain) are discounted by the hotel staff discount, who walk away with no comment.
165** Shane posits that the Keddie killer got away clean because "in the 80s, you see someone running down a back road covered in blood, you just move on".
166* WebVideo/ChadVader: He works in an ordinary, present-day Earth supermarket, but dresses like Darth Vader, uses The Force, and wields a lightsaber. No one finds this unusual.
167* Website/ChannelAwesome:
168** In the anniversary special ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'':
169*** The citizens of Molossia (all ''five'' of them) treat an invasion and then a rebellion as this, simply going "Mmmm-hmmm!" and reading their magazines. The only time any of them showed any reaction was when they were freed, and it was still just a look up from the magazine and a confused "What?"
170*** [[spoiler:After much pleading from others, Spoony finally gives into his inner madness and transforms into Dr. Insano. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's reaction? "Oh hey! You gave into the madness, that's awesome," and turns back to his TV.]]
171** Also from TGWTG, in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/MyPetMonster'', he criticizes the characters for acting nonchalant about how the protagonist keeps turning into a monster. The Critic then walks off, and comes across [[RealLifeRelative The Other Guy]] reading ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''... and is a velociraptor. Both the Critic and The Other Guy act calmly about it. "I'm a dinosaur", indeed.
172** Lampshaded by him in his He-Man and She-Ra Christmas special, when he points out that them transforming has become a common occurrence for the titular twins.
173--->'''Critic!He-Man:''' Hi, sis. I have the power.
174** Deconstructed in ''[[WebVideo/DemoReel The Review Must Go On]]'', as Karl completely ruins Donnie's hopes of everything being okay by having the same dinosaur head. The music freaks and the very normal Donnie looks he's going to break down crying.
175** Another TGWTG example, Nash and Tara from WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou often point out how the strange stories they cover have gotten a bit mundane to them. They also point out how [[OnlyInFlorida Floridians are probably used to all the craziness that goes on there.]] Tara, being from Long Island, likes to say that New Yorkers are already used to their own craziness.
176** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] sometimes complains about this trope in his comic reviews, where characters will act like someone flying or having super strength is nothing. [[RunningGag He often says]] "Be ''impressed'', dammit!" when this happens.
177* In ''WebVideo/{{Cold}}'', none of the people attending the Queen's coronation are particularly interested when the Queen bursts into the room.
178* Downplayed in the sixth and final episode of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''. [[spoiler:Red Guy takes off his clothes and walks on a stage to sing the Creativity Song, but the other Red Guys are more bothered by how bad the song is.]]
179* A rare scary example occurs in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' with Alex in Entry #46. [[spoiler: [[BigBad The Operator]] appears behind him in his own house, but unlike Jay who bolts as soon as it happens, Alex stays put and is later found to be okay.]] Of course, this is foreshadowing to [[spoiler: Alex's betrayal]].
180* ''WebVideo/TheMinervaAlliance'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV0r7tV0WxU "Boyd's Pest Control"]], the Shadowmander (a gecko-like lizard that is invisible in well-lit rooms but appears as a black silhouette when there's barely any light) is clearly anomalous, but the video treats it as no big deal and one of the easier pests to take care of.
181* This is how a lot of people react in ''WebVideo/PoohsAdventures''. Talking stuffed animals? Act like nothing. Living, breathing trains? Act like nothing.
182* ''WebVideo/RatsSMP'': Most of the Icraga household treat the rats this way. When the Maid and the Mother find half the mischief of rats gathering on the library table having a CourtroomEpisode, their reaction is to literally ''walk away''. The Janitor is the only one who considers the rats an active threat to the Mansion, while the Eldest Daughter is a PunchClockVillain who doesn't mind them personally as long as they don't barge into her business or mess with her stuff, and the Grandmother is [[TokenGoodTeammate all-round friendly to them]].
183* ''WebVideo/RoosterTeethShorts'': Life or death battle in iBlade headquarters between the son of the outgoing CEO and [[spoiler:his best friend revealed to be a 'Deathless' infiltrator]]. Worth a glance, but back to whatever you're doing.
184* ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'' uploaded a review of ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'' on AprilFoolsDay. The video is a normal review, except Ross used some sort of code or mod to give everyone in the game pumpkins for heads. He never comments on it once, but he does mention that getting headshots on enemies feels ''really'' satisfying for some reason that he can't figure out. At one point it ''looks'' like he's going to finally mention the pumpkins when he says he's going to "finally address the elephant in the room", but no, the elephant in the room is ''obviously'' the fact that lots of people requested him to review "Wolfenstein", and he knew they ''actually'' meant ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', but he decided to prank them by being LiteralMinded and reviewing the game just called "Wolfenstein". Then he goes on to complain about video games using the RecycledTitle trope.
185* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Secret Life SMP]]'': By the premise of the series, each player is assigned a "secret task" from the Secret Keeper in each recording session, which they are encouraged to complete to receive extra hearts to combat the series' AntiRegeneration mechanism or material gifts usually unobtainable in the series (if they've reached the health cap). The activities assigned to each secret task can range from silly (e.g. making a bed shrine out of other players' beds or being TheNicknamer) to [[CerebusSyndrome eventually]], the serious (e.g. Red Life tasks that cause harm to other players). As early as Day 2, everyone is getting used to seeing strange behavior from their server-mates and as such they stop questioning it. This is mildly PlayedForDrama on Day 2 as Jimmy and Lizzie both fail their tasks and call out the server on this, as they both needed people to respond to their antics in certain ways (or at all), but never received a response.
186-->'''Grian:''' This series, I just stopped asking questions.
187* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': Stampy has a tendency to be unsettlingly calm at every new development that doesn't happen in a Hit The Target attack, whether it be the Helpers goofing off or [[ExploitedTrope his enemies building obvious mechanisms for their next evil scheme]].
188* In the WebVideo/GameGrumps spin-off ''WebVideo/TableFlip'', nobody seems perturbed by 'Him', the mysterious cloaked figure who shows up whenever the rules need clarifying. [[OnlySaneMan Danny]] seems to be the only person who questions it, and is freaked out by everyone else's indifference.
189* In the very first episode of ''LetsPlay/{{Thescatsbury}}'''s series ''Skyrim Randomness'', soldiers kill a dragon and state completely calmly: "Imperial business, be on your way."
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