Basic Trope: The existence supernatural somehow remains hidden, despite the fact evidence should be overwhelming
- Straight: The general public are unaware of the existence of magic, despite the fact Alice and Bob had a magical duel to the death in the middle of the street.
- Exaggerated: The general public are unaware fo the existence of magic, despite the fact that Bob magically turned the moon into a dragon and had it fight the millions-strong army of demons that Alice called forth to conquer all of Eurasia.
- Downplayed: While Alice and Bob do at least duck into an alleyway for their magical duel, it still seems people should have noticed the people shooting fires from their hands.
- Justified:
- Magic is invisible to normals — everyone else sees the duel as a mundane battle.
- Magic is protected by reality warpers — all evidence is erased from the timeline.
- Inverted: A single grainy, out of photo of Alice's hands glowing is enough to convince the entire world that magic is real and wizards walk among them.
- Subverted: After a few episodes of seeming normality, Charlie casually asks Alice about her magic. What? They saw the fireballs!
- Double Subverted: Somehow, they can't convince anyone else that magic is real despite their live footage, though.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob are actively trying to convince people magic exists, but even when they shapeshift in front of people, they just assume it's a viral marketing stunt or something.
- Zig-Zagged: At several points large numbers of muggles figure out that magic exists, but it never quite enters the mainstream.
- Averted: There's never any magical phenomena so large it couldn't plausibly be covered up.
- Enforced: This urban fantasy story needs to resemble earth, so most people must be unaware of magic, logic and reason be damned!
- Lampshaded: "Humans. Even when you disintegrate a car, they'll contrive some nonsense about special effects rather then admit the truth.
- Invoked: The aforementioned reality warpers will make sure that nothing breaks the masquerade
- Exploited: The wizards know that muggles won't see what they do, so they escalate to increasingly extreme violence with complete impunity.
- Defied: Alice's mentor sternly tells her to keep her magic subtle — if she's too obvious about it, people will notice.
- Discussed:
"Well, we just hurled a fireball through town square. Guess that's the end of the age of secrecy?"
"You'd think so, wouldn't you? But no, these things always blow over in the end."
- Conversed: "Like, why does no-one ever notice these big magical events? What do they think melted the golden gate bridge? ...Do you think there's big supernatural things we don't know about?"
- Deconstructed: After years of blatant supernatural phenomena goes ignored, wizards get complacent about hiding — eventually leading to people finding out about them through more mundane methods like leaked emails and paper trails.
- Reconstructed: However, even then, the sheer implausibility of magic existing means the masquerade stays mostly intact.
- Played for Laughs: Muggles causality drink their coffee and chat as a wizard opens portals over their head and summons angry manticores into the coffee shop. "Probably big dogs", they say.
- Played for Drama: Muggles all give the exact same explanation of supernatural phenomena, word for world. It's almost like they're not in control of their actions, like somethings reaching into their head and stopping them noticing...
