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''Tropes about powers and mystical abilities accessible to characters. Take a look at the article on [[Magic]] and consider what it is; some claim it's usually a kind of [[Applied Phlebotinum]].''
''Tropes about powers and mystical abilities accessible to characters. Take a look at the article on [[Magic]] and consider what it is; some claim it's usually a kind of [[Applied Phlebotinum]].''
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=== Tropes ===


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Subcategories=
* [[Elemental Powers]]
* [[Elemental Powers]]
* [[Mind Manipulation]]
* [[Mind Manipulation]]
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* [[This Index Is Cursed]]
* [[This Index Is Cursed]]
* [[Wizards and Witches]]
* [[Wizards and Witches]]
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Kinds of powers=

== Kinds of powers: ==
* [[Adaptive Ability]]
* [[Adaptive Ability]]
* [[Alchemy Is Magic|Alchemy]]
* [[Alchemy Is Magic|Alchemy]]
* [[Animate Dead]]
* [[Animate Dead]]
* [[Anti Magic]]
* [[Anti-Magic]]
* [[Armor Piercing Attack]]
* [[Armor-Piercing Attack]]
* [[Art Attacker]]
* [[Art Attacker]]
* [[Art Initiates Life]]
* [[Art Initiates Life]]
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* [[Black Magic]]
* [[Black Magic]]
* [[Blood Magic]]
* [[Blood Magic]]
* [[Call On Me]]
* [[Call on Me]]
* [[Came Back Strong]]
* [[Came Back Strong]]
* [[Celebrity Power]]
* [[Celebrity Power]]
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* [[Invisibility]]
* [[Invisibility]]
* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Ki Attacks]]
* [[Kill One Others Get Stronger]]
* [[Kill One, and the Others Get Stronger]]
* [[Kung Fu Wizard]]
* [[Kung Fu Wizard]]
* [[Living Battery]]
* [[Living Battery]]
* [[Made of Phlebotinum]]
* [[Made of Phlebotinum]]
* [[Magic By Any Other Name]]
* [[Magic by Any Other Name]]
* [[Magic Kiss]]
* [[Magic Kiss]]
** [[A Magic Contract Comes With a Kiss]]
** [[A Magic Contract Comes with a Kiss]]
** [[True Loves Kiss]]
** [[True Love's Kiss]]
* [[Magic Enhancement]]
* [[Magic Enhancement]]
* [[Magic Hair]]
* [[Magic Hair]]
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* [[The Power of Creation]]
* [[The Power of Creation]]
* [[The Power of Love]]
* [[The Power of Love]]
* [[Power of Trust]]
* [[The Power of Trust]]
* [[Power of the Void]]
* [[Power of the Void]]
* [[Psychic Link]]
* [[Psychic Link]]
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* [[Wild Magic]]
* [[Wild Magic]]
* [[Wizards and Witches]]
* [[Wizards and Witches]]
* [[Yin Yang Bomb]]
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]
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== Ways of establishing and showing powers: ==
Ways of establishing and showing powers=
* [[Aura Vision]]
* [[Aura Vision]]
* [[Background Magic Field]]
* [[Background Magic Field]]
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** [[Blind Seer]]
** [[Blind Seer]]
* [[Discard and Draw]]
* [[Discard and Draw]]
* [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]
* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]
* [[Emerald Power]]
* [[Emerald Power]]
* [[Full Contact Magic]]
* [[Full-Contact Magic]]
* [[Fireballs]]
* [[Fireballs]]
* [[God Test]]
* [[God Test]]
* [[How Do I Shot Web]]
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]
* [[Instant Runes]]
* [[Instant Runes]]
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]
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* [[Life Energy]]
* [[Life Energy]]
* [[Magi Babble]]
* [[Magi Babble]]
* [[Magic a Is Magic A]]
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]
* [[Magic Dance]]
* [[Magic Dance]]
* [[Magic From Technology]]
* [[Magic From Technology]]
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* [[Mystical Plague]]
* [[Mystical Plague]]
* [[Neck Lift]]
* [[Neck Lift]]
* [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]]
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]
* [[Ninety Percent of Your Brain]]
* [[90% of Your Brain]]
* [[One Hero Hold the Weaksauce]]
* [[One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce]]
* [[One Person One Power]]
* [[One Person, One Power]]
* [[Our Ancestors Are Superheroes]]
* [[Our Ancestors Are Superheroes]]
* [[Personality Powers]]
* [[Personality Powers]]
* [[Place of Power]]
* [[Place of Power]]
* [[Post Modern Magik]]
* [[Post-Modern Magik]]
* [[Power Born of Madness]]
* [[Power Born of Madness]]
* [[Power Echoes]]
* [[Power Echoes]]
* [[Power Makes Your Voice Deep]]
* [[Power Makes Your Voice Deep]]
* [[Power Overhaul]]
* [[Power Overhaul]]
* [[Power Up]]
* [[Power-Up]]
* [[Power Up Food]]
* [[Power-Up Food]]
* [[Powers As Programs]]
* [[Powers as Programs]]
* [[Powers in The First Episode]]
* [[Powers in the First Episode]]
* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]
* [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]]
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]
* [[Psychic Nosebleed]]
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* [[The Rainman]]
* [[The Rainman]]
* [[Religion Is Magic]]
* [[Religion Is Magic]]
* [[Re Power]]
* [[Re-Power]]
* [[Rewriting Reality]]
* [[Rewriting Reality]]
* [[Shaping Your Attacks]]
* [[Shaping Your Attacks]]
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* [[Super Serum]]
* [[Super Serum]]
* [[Technicolor Fire]]
* [[Technicolor Fire]]
* [[Thought Controlled Power]]
* [[Thought-Controlled Power]]
* [[Un Equal Rites]]
* [[Un-Equal Rites]]
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]
* [[Voodoo Doll]]
* [[Voodoo Doll]]
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* [[Wonder Twin Powers]]
* [[Wonder Twin Powers]]
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]
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== Power limitations and catches: ==
Power limitations and catches=
* [[Addiction Powered]]
* [[Addiction-Powered]]
* [[Addictive Magic]]
* [[Addictive Magic]]
* [[Bad Powers Bad People]]
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]
* [[Bad Powers Good People]]
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]
* [[Black Magic]]
* [[Black Magic]]
** [[The Dark Side]]
** [[The Dark Side]]
** [[Magic Is Evil]]
** [[Magic Is Evil]]
* [[Cast From Hit Points]]
* [[Cast from Hit Points]]
* [[Celestial Deadline]]
* [[Celestial Deadline]]
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]
* [[Curse Escape Clause]]
* [[Death Activated Superpower]]
* [[Death-Activated Superpower]]
* [[Defence Mechanism Superpower]]
* [[Defence Mechanism Superpower]]
* [[Equivalent Exchange]]
* [[Equivalent Exchange]]
* [[Fighting Spirit]]
* [[Fighting Spirit]]
* [[Fights Like a Normal]]
* [[Fights Like a Normal]]
* [[Flight Strength Heart]]
* [[Flight, Strength, Heart]]
* [[Glamour Failure]]
* [[Glamour Failure]]
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]
* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]
* [[Good Powers Bad People]]
* [[Good Powers, Bad People]]
* [[Healing Magic Is the Hardest]]
* [[Healing Magic Is the Hardest]]
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]
* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]
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* [[Inept Mage]]
* [[Inept Mage]]
* [[Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress]]
* [[Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Lethal Harmless Powers]]
* [[Lethal Harmless Powers]]
* [[Long Range Fighter]]
* [[Long-Range Fighter]]
* [[Magic Is a Monster Magnet]]
* [[Magic Is a Monster Magnet]]
* [[Magic Misfire]]
* [[Magic Misfire]]
* [[Malfunction Malady]]
* [[Malfunction Malady]]
* [[Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane]]
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Read]]
* [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read]]
* [[Mind Over Manners]]
* [[Mind Over Manners]]
* [[Muggles Do It Better]]
* [[Muggles Do It Better]]
* [[Mutually Exclusive Magic]]
* [[Mutually Exclusive Magic]]
* [[No Self Buffs]]
* [[No Self-Buffs]]
* [[Only the Pure of Heart]]
* [[Only the Pure of Heart]]
* [[Power Crutch]]
* [[Power Crutch]]
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* [[Psychic Static]]
* [[Psychic Static]]
* [[Psychoactive Powers]]
* [[Psychoactive Powers]]
* [[Randomly Gifted]]
* [[Randomly-Gifted]]
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]
* [[Restraining Bolt]]
* [[Restraining Bolt]]
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* [[Swiss Army Tears]]
* [[Swiss Army Tears]]
* [[Sympathetic Magic]]
* [[Sympathetic Magic]]
* [[Un Sorcerer]]
* [[Un-Sorcerer]]
* [[Useless Superpowers]]
* [[Useless Superpowers]]
* [[Virgin Power]]
* [[Virgin Power]]
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]]
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]
* [[Willfully Weak]]
* [[Willfully Weak]]
* [[Wishplosion]]
* [[Wishplosion]]
* [[Words Do Not Make the Magic]]
* [[Words Do Not Make the Magic]]
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== See also: ==
See also=
* [[As Lethal as It Needs to Be]]

* [[As Lethal As It Needs to Be]]
* [[Apothecary Alligator]]
* [[Apothecary Alligator]]
* [[Cats Are Magic]]
* [[Cats Are Magic]]
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* [[Cosmic Entity]]
* [[Cosmic Entity]]
* [[Fantasy Character Classes]]
* [[Fantasy Character Classes]]
* [[The Force Is Strong With This One]]
* [[The Force Is Strong with This One]]
* [[Genie in A Bottle]]
* [[Genie in a Bottle]]
** [[Freeing the Genie]]
** [[Freeing the Genie]]
* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]]
* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]]
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* [[Magical Native American]]
* [[Magical Native American]]
* [[Magic Mushroom]]
* [[Magic Mushroom]]
* [[Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane]]
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]
* [[Power Levels]]
* [[Power Levels]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]
* [[Reality Changing Miniature]]
* [[Reality-Changing Miniature]]
* [[Ring of Power]]
* [[Ring of Power]]
* [[Secret Art]]
* [[Secret Art]]
* [[A Wizard Did It]]
* [[A Wizard Did It]]
* [[Wrong Context Magic]]
* [[Wrong-Context Magic]]
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[[Category:Genre Tropes]]
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Tropes about powers and mystical abilities accessible to characters. Take a look at the article on Magic and consider what it is; some claim it's usually a kind of Applied Phlebotinum.

* Adaptive Ability

  • Alchemy
  • Animate Dead
  • Anti-Magic
  • Armor-Piercing Attack
  • Art Attacker
  • Art Initiates Life
  • The Assimilator
  • Barrier Warrior
  • Black Mage
  • Black Magic
  • Blood Magic
  • Call on Me
  • Came Back Strong
  • Celebrity Power
  • Chain Lightning
  • Clarke's Third Law
  • Combined Energy Attack
  • Curse
  • The Dark Arts
  • Electronic Telepathy
  • Elemental Punch
  • Emotion Bomb
  • Emotion Eater
  • The Empath
  • Energy Absorption
  • Energy Ball
  • Enlightenment Superpowers
  • Entropy and Chaos Magic
  • Functional Magic
  • Fusion Dance
  • Geas
  • Hellfire
  • Hollywood Voodoo
  • Holy Hand Grenade
  • Identity Absorption
  • I Know What You Fear
  • I See Dead People
  • Intangible Man
  • Invisibility
  • Ki Attacks
  • Kill One, and the Others Get Stronger
  • Kung Fu Wizard
  • Living Battery
  • Made of Phlebotinum
  • Magic by Any Other Name
  • Magic Kiss
  • Magic Enhancement
  • Magic Hair
  • Magic Is Mental
  • The Magic Touch
  • Magitek
  • Make a Wish
  • Marionette Master
  • Master of Your Domain
  • Mental World
  • Merlin Sickness
  • Mundane Utility
  • Musical Assassin
  • No Eye in Magic
  • Open Sesame
  • Parody Magic Spell
  • Power Copying
  • Power Nullifier
  • The Power of Creation
  • The Power of Love
  • The Power of Trust
  • Power of the Void
  • Psychic Link
  • Psychic Powers
  • Psychic Radar
  • Psychic Surgery
  • Pure Energy
  • The Red Mage
  • Sentient Cosmic Force
  • Solar and Lunar
  • Speak of the Devil
  • Spell Construction
  • Sphere of Destruction
  • Summon Magic
  • Summon to Hand
  • Supernatural Sensitivity
  • Technopath
  • Turn Undead
  • Unblockable Attack
  • Unholy Nuke
  • Utility Magic
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting
  • Walking Wasteland
  • Whatevermancy
  • White Mage
  • White Magic
  • Wild Magic
  • Wizards and Witches
  • Yin-Yang Bomb

  • * Aura Vision

    * Addiction-Powered

  • Addictive Magic
  • Bad Powers, Bad People
  • Bad Powers, Good People
  • Black Magic
  • Cast from Hit Points
  • Celestial Deadline
  • Curse Escape Clause
  • Death-Activated Superpower
  • Defence Mechanism Superpower
  • Equivalent Exchange
  • Fighting Spirit
  • Fights Like a Normal
  • Flight, Strength, Heart
  • Glamour Failure
  • Gods Need Prayer Badly
  • Good Powers, Bad People
  • Healing Magic Is the Hardest
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power
  • Heroic RROD
  • Hour of Power
  • Hulking Out
  • Inept Mage
  • Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Lethal Harmless Powers
  • Long-Range Fighter
  • Magic Is a Monster Magnet
  • Magic Misfire
  • Malfunction Malady
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
  • Mind Over Manners
  • Muggles Do It Better
  • Mutually Exclusive Magic
  • No Self-Buffs
  • Only the Pure of Heart
  • Power Crutch
  • Power Incontinence
  • Power Limiter
  • The Power of Blood
  • Power Strain Blackout
  • Psychic Block Defense
  • Psychic Static
  • Psychoactive Powers
  • Randomly-Gifted
  • Required Secondary Powers
  • Restraining Bolt
  • Situational Sword
  • Squishy Wizard
  • Superpower Meltdown
  • Superpower Silly Putty
  • Swiss Army Tears
  • Sympathetic Magic
  • Un-Sorcerer
  • Useless Superpowers
  • Virgin Power
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
  • Willfully Weak
  • Wishplosion
  • Words Do Not Make the Magic

  • * As Lethal as It Needs to Be

  • Apothecary Alligator
  • Cats Are Magic
  • Children Are Special
  • Cosmic Entity
  • Fantasy Character Classes
  • The Force Is Strong with This One
  • Genie in a Bottle
  • Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality
  • Inverse Law of Complexity to Power
  • I Thought Everyone Could Do That
  • Made of Magic
  • Mage Killer
  • Magic Carpet
  • Magical Girl
  • Magical Native American
  • Magic Mushroom
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
  • Power Levels
  • Power Perversion Potential
  • Reality-Changing Miniature
  • Ring of Power
  • Secret Art
  • A Wizard Did It
  • Wrong-Context Magic