The Magic Touch: Difference between revisions

Literally touching one or more mundane objects (weapons, sticks, rocks, etc.) to transform them into awesome objects by infusing them with magic.

To repeat, it's just as easy as touch and go. You can, for example, make your pointy stick [[Vibroweapon|vibrate for extra killing potential]] or make your [[Blade on a Stick]] acidic. The important thing is that it is possible without a long amount of time or outside influence, such as [[The Blacksmith]] or, in extreme cases, tools.

You may also ask how is this different from [[Magic-Powered Pseudoscience]]? For the most part, the characters pulling this stunt know what they are doing and are under no illusion of "Pseudo"-science.

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* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': Cinque's Inherent Skill "Rumble Detonator" in ''StrikerS'' turns any metallic substance she touches into high-grade explosive. Combined with her other special ability to summon any number of steel throwing knives, it turns her into one of the most dangerous girls around.

* Gambit of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' has the ability to turn anything he touches into an explosive. Although he prefers to [[Death Dealer|charge and flick playing cards]] at his opponent.

* Another [[Marvel Universe]] character, Harpoon, could charge a metal spear with his own bio energy and use it as a devastating weapon.

* ''[[Ghost Rider (film)|Ghost Rider]]'': Johnny's motorcycle and a random shotgun.

* ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'': The pumpkin <s>king</s> coach and partially the nifty dress.

* Midas thought this was a good idea, [[Blessed with Suck|he learned]].

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'': Gauntlets of Ghost-Fighting for when you want to kill incorporeal things but don't want to enchant all of your stuff. Even older are Gauntlets of Weaponry Arcane that make any weapon held count for purpose of immunities as silver and +1 to what it normally is.

** Or for a less flavorful version you could learn the magic weapon/fang spell and hope the enchantment lasted long enough.

* A Feat sorcerers can pick up in the tabletop game ''[[Pathfinder]]'' lets you make your normal weapon into a magic plus 1 weapon by channeling magic into it.

* ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' has the rite of <s>dedication</s> pants. Interestingly enough, most Klaives don't count since they require the outside influence of a spirit and a great deal of time/effort.

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a lot of Clauses seem to work by empowering a prop, this is most clear in the case of the Entitlements: College of Worms, The Scarecrow Ministry, Bodhisattvas of the Broken Cage, and Squires of the Broken Bouch.

* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', [[Tautology|Mages]] can imbue objects with energy, thus for example allowing them to hit ghosts.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'': The first few stages of the [[Bottomless Magazines|obliterator]] virus work like this, up until you can't remove your weapons or armor anymore.

* In ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'', you learn the "Enchant Item" spell quite early on. While it can be used to power up weapons, it's also used to repair broken (by plot events only) items and at one point near the end {{spoiler|make a C4 bomb powerful enough to destroy some catacombs full of [[Eldritch Abomination]]s.}}

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] [[Oblivion]]'', poisons work this way. If you make a potion with only negative effects you can apply it to your weapon. While you're technically just using [[Poisoned Weapons]], the poison is alchemical in nature, has most of the same effects as magic and allows the poisoned strikes to affect incorporeal creatures (magical weapon) regardless of type.

* In the ''Makin' Magic'' expansion pack of ''[[The Sims]]'', any Sim with magical powers can use the Enchant spell to temporarily bring a garden gnome or lawn flamingo to life — or even just make the fridge open and close by itself as it pleases, or make the checkers on the checkerboard dance around.

* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'': [http://nonadventures.com/2009/01/31/animus-complex/ On this page], Wonderella gains the power to give life to anything she touches.

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