In a far future where Mars becomes a water planet after an excavation mentioned in the backstory. ARIA: A drama about some girls' life as a gondola worker on a Venice replica.Not related to Mundane Dogmatic, a science fiction movement/genre which is explicitly against fantastic, speculative settings. Compare Mundane Made Awesome for the rational/scientific equivalent. See also Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems, Fantastically Indifferent, Fantastic Comedy and World of Weirdness. Isolated fantastic elements are typically considered Unusually Uninteresting Sights. If the story is in a realistic setting that is recognizable as our past or present world, it's Magic Realism. A Mundane Fantastic show may Jump the Shark if a new writer comes on board and decides that all the fantastic elements have to be explained to death.Īnime uses this very frequently, which probably contributes to the perception of " inherent strangeness" for that visual medium. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the idea that if a cartoon is to be taken seriously it has to be serious and played straight. But while hackers attract attention and interest, Mundane Fantastic wizards are unremarkable even while being uncommon, much like county clerks.įor a purely artistic standpoint, the Mundane Fantastic is a major reason why a show might be animated instead of done live. Not that everyone knows the difference between hacking and wizardry anyway. So the people who know that their world has only two or three wizards in every town would consider this normal too.
In our world, hackers may be uncommon, but they're perfectly plausible, so there's no reason to constantly point them out all the time or give detailed explanations of their place in reality.
This attitude can often be justified as more realistic in a story where the impossible has always been possible. This is more often seen in Urban Fantasy because they are set in a setting that's close to our real world, just with added fantastic elements. In short, unlike normal fantasy story, a Mundane Fantastic one doesn't indulge in their own fantastic elements, because they're there only as flavor. The impossible elements don't rely on consistency to maintain Willing Suspension of Disbelief their presentation as unexceptional helps keep the audience from demanding a plausible explanation. This separates it from general fantasy where magic is real but still attracts attention. The fantastic is seen as mundane not just in the sense of being a natural part of the world, but also mundane in the sense of being dull. The complete mesh of fantastic and realistic elements where the impossible is treated as unremarkable.
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