Magic and Powers
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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Kinds of powers:
- 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
- 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
Ways of establishing and showing powers:
- Aura Vision
- Background Magic Field
- Become Your Weapon
- Body Snatcher
- Blasting Time
- Blood Bath
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- Brainwashed
- By the Power of Grayskull
- Celestial Body
- Celestial Deadline
- Charles Atlas Superpower
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe
- Coconut Superpowers
- Crystal Ball
- Disability Superpower
- Discard and Draw
- Eleventh-Hour Superpower
- Emerald Power
- Full-Contact Magic
- Fireballs
- God Test
- How Do I Shot Web?
- Instant Runes
- Lamarck Was Right
- Ley Line
- Life Energy
- Magi Babble
- Magic a Is Magic A
- Magic Dance
- Magic From Technology
- Magic Meteor
- Magic Mirror
- Magic Missile
- Magic Music
- Magic Staff
- Magic Wand
- Mana
- Mineral MacGuffin
- Mystical Plague
- Neck Lift
- New Powers As the Plot Demands
- 90% of Your Brain
- One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce
- One Person, One Power
- Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
- Personality Powers
- Place of Power
- Post-Modern Magik
- Power Born of Madness
- Power Echoes
- Power Makes Your Voice Deep
- Power Overhaul
- Power Up
- Power Up Food
- Powers As Programs
- Powers in The First Episode
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance
- Psychic Nosebleed
- Real Life Super Powers
- The Rainman
- Religion Is Magic
- Re Power
- Rewriting Reality
- Shaping Your Attacks
- Shockwave Clap
- Signature Move
- Simplified Spellcasting
- Spell Book
- Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
- Summoning Ritual
- Supernatural Is Purple
- Superpowers for A Day
- Super Serum
- Technicolor Fire
- Thought-Controlled Power
- Un-Equal Rites
- Upgrade Artifact
- Voodoo Doll
- Wing Pull
- With Great Power Comes Great Perks
- Wizard Beard
- Wizards Live Longer
- Wonder Twin Powers
- Your Mind Makes It Real
Power limitations and catches:
- 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
See also:
- 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