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The Magicians

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The Magicians	comment	The Magicians is the first in a trilogy of Urban Fantasy novels by Lev Grossman.Quentin Coldwater probably wasn't expecting much more from his day than an entrance interview to Princeton and an awful lot of boredom and amateur magic tricks, with perhaps a few daydreams about the world of Fillory, a magical kingdom from the books he read as a child. However, things take a turn for the strange when his interviewer turns up dead, and one of the paramedics at the scene decides to hand over some of the deceased's belongings to Quentin; this leads him quite abruptly onto the grounds of the Wizarding School Brakebills, which, after an especially arduous examination, accepts him as a student. After five long years at Brakebills, our hero drifts in Manhattan as a fully-fledged magician with far too much time on his hands... up until he discovers that Fillory, the world he always dreamed of visiting, is very real â€” and within reach.The sequel, The Magician King, focuses on Quentin as king of Fillory along with three characters from the previous book, and on a quest he undertakes for seemingly no reason other than to defeat his own ennui, but quickly turns into something a great deal more serious. This is alternated with the story of Julia's own path of magic after parting ways with Quentin, intersecting at various points with the plot of the first novel.A third novel, The Magician's Land, was published in summer 2014. Here, fresh from returning home and getting into hot water with the Brakebills faculty, Quentin finds himself recruited for a magical heist mission... and stumbling one of Fillory's deepest, darkest secrets in the process - all while his fellow magicians try to stop a cataclysm that threatens all of Fillory.A graphic novel, The Magicians: Alice's Story, was published in 2019, and charts the course of Quentin's friend and lover, Alice, before, during and after her time at Brakebills. The same year, a series of comic books titled The Magicians: New Class was released, featuring a class of hedge magicians being accepted into Brakebills in order to build bridges between "legitimate" magicians and the underground community of hedge magicians - and the chaos that ensues as a result.The trilogy was adapted as a TV series on Syfy, which premiered December 16, 2015.
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The Magicians / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
The Magicians / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: It's never questioned why the inhabitants of Fillory speak perfect English.
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The Magicians / int_10b58de3	type	Genius Burnout
The Magicians / int_10b58de3	comment	Genius Burnout: Students accepted into Brakebills are among the best and brightest of all the Teen Geniuses surveyed for the entrance exam, a necessity considering just how difficult it is to learn and control magic. However, instead of actually using their powers and intellect for anything remotely constructive, far too many Brakebills graduates go to seed. Part of this is due to the fact that such students tend to be highly competitive, challenge-oriented individuals who flourish while studying but fall to pieces without something to focus on. More importantly, it's also due to the fact that once mastered, magic can do almost anything, making postgraduate life extremely unsatisfying. Many graduates descend into a life of mindless hedonism: some pursue meaningless hobbies, some (like Quentin) take serious risks in pursuit of adventure, and some even leave the magical world altogether and pose as muggles, most commonly while sponging off the Brakebills' old boys network in an effort to avoid actually having to work. As such, Quentin's character arc over the course of the series involves him gradually clambering out of this decline and finding something important to devote his abilities to.
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The Magicians / int_1242b9d4	type	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal
The Magicians / int_1242b9d4	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: Subverted when Julia offers herself to Reynard the Fox to save her friends. She meant she offered to die in their place... he interpreted it in a different way.
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The Magicians / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
The Magicians / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: Do you enjoy escapist fantasy? Ever long for adventure, magic, and whimsy? Then you must have a lot of issuesâ€”in fact you might just be a depressive malcontent at odds with just about anywhere you end upâ€”at least if you're similar to the protagonist of this book.
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The Magicians / int_163afa58	type	Wizards from Outer Space
The Magicians / int_163afa58	comment	Wizards from Outer Space: One of the careers for an adult magician to choose is to live in Earth's orbit protecting the world from asteroids, cosmic radiation and solar flares.
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The Magicians / int_17059108	type	Magic Wand
The Magicians / int_17059108	comment	Magic Wand: Dint uses one. Almost nobody at Brakebills does except as a particularly embarrassing crutch for magical power. The only witnessed uses outside Fillory are in first year, in which Surrendra draws invisible sigils in the air with a willow wand as part of a spell to slice a marble in half, and as part of an extremely mundane spell used for making shapes from fire with the aid of specially-prepared wands.
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The Magicians / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Magicians / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: All over, really, but called out a few times. The group didn't split up to search a house because it "would have violated the basic teaching of every movie ever made."
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The Magicians / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Magicians / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Quentin's internal monologue talks about how it feels to be a Magician King when he battle magics his way through a castle.
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The Magicians / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Magicians / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Quentin (oblivious to any possible negative tension within the group, the only one to really believe in magic according to Alice).
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The Magicians / int_1c3423d6	type	The Quest
The Magicians / int_1c3423d6	comment	The Quest: Part of it takes place in Fillory, so, of course. This one involves seven keys and the stakes are higher than ever.
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The Magicians / int_1d77dd02	type	Motivational Lie
The Magicians / int_1d77dd02	comment	Motivational Lie: As Alice uses a psionic magnifying glass to burn through the door to the Physical Kids' house (an unofficial entry exam), Quentin watches her progress for her and exaggerates how close she is to the end.
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The Magicians / int_1e1ce503	type	Portal Crossroad World
The Magicians / int_1e1ce503	comment	Portal Crossroad World: The City the button teleports to, which contains an infinite number of PortalPools, in the form of fountains.
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The Magicians / int_1f1248fc	type	Vancian Magic
The Magicians / int_1f1248fc	comment	Vancian Magic: Some magical feats, such as turning armies invisible or becoming a Barrier Warrior involve casting several spells the night before.
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The Magicians / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
The Magicians / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: Largely averted, particularly in the case of Quentin and Penny's first punch-up. According to Gretchen, it's believed that Welters was created as a substitute to dueling, as students kept killing each other. Meanwhile, Battle Magic such as fireballs and magic missiles are illegal and cannot be taught on Brakebills campus for this very reason.
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The Magicians / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Magicians / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: During their time at Brakebills South, Quentin and the other fourth-years learn how to transform into polar bears and arctic foxes; apparently, some shapes can be assumed spontaneously, but other forms require specific ingredients for the transition to work - like goose fat or whalebone. Unfortunately, The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, resulting in much awkwardness when they return to human form. Later on, Alice shapeshifts into many different forms during the battle with Martin Chatwin, including that of a lion, a giant scorpion, and a dragon.
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The Magicians / int_209d0b5f	type	Wainscot Society
The Magicians / int_209d0b5f	comment	Wainscot Society: For the most part, magical society tries to keep itself hidden from the world of normal people... with varying levels of success.
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The Magicians / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Magicians / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Most of the young magicians think that visiting Fillory means they're in a children's fantasy story. Accepting a quest from a stranger should be safe and fun, right?
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The Magicians / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
The Magicians / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The Cacodemon tattoo, which contains exactly one demon of the same name; once you release it, it will tackle whatever's threatening you, but it can't be sealed back into place. However, after the Cacodemon is released, nothing says you can't put another demon in it's place...
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The Magicians / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Magicians / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The cacodemons given to the students upon graduating, which come in very handy when pitted against dangers in Fillory. Quentin uses his to buy Alice enough time to transform into Niffin and kill the Beast.
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The Magicians / int_2313c3f0	type	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse
The Magicians / int_2313c3f0	comment	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse: Students at Brakebills are divided into magical specialties (AKA Disciplines) and each group has their own exclusive clubhouse, most of them unseen over the course of the series. The Healers reside in the infirmary, the Knowledge students are situated in the attic of the school library, the Naturals live in a tree house somewhere in the surrounding forest, the Illusionists have a floating castle that can only be found by members of the clique, and so on. After his discipline is found to be impossible to determine, Quentin ends up getting sorted alongside Alice into the Physical Kids - practitioners of messy, physics-based magic - and find themselves billeted in a handsome cottage with wine, gourmet cooking and an awful lot of hijinks.
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The Magicians / int_240fee1f	type	Ultimate Final Exam
The Magicians / int_240fee1f	comment	Ultimate Final Exam: The immensely-challenging fourth year at Brakebills concludes with the student magicians being made to walk from Brakebills' southern campus to the South Pole - naked, with only their magic to protect them from the elements, point them in the right direction, and keep them from starving to death. And at the end, it turns out that only Quentin and Alice actually went through with it. The others refused the challenge with no adverse consequences, though it's indicated that only the participants of this test were able to truly earn Mayakovsky's hard-won respect.
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The Magicians / int_246c697b	type	Ascended Fanfic
The Magicians / int_246c697b	comment	The realm of Fillory may also be a deconstruction of Narnia, or at least the idea of a magical world to escape to, as it is pointed out repeatedly that their world is not a plaything.
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The Magicians / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The Magicians / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: The Fillory series, which is also called the Fillory and Further series: Book 1: The World in the Walls, Book 3: The Flying Forest, and Book 4: The Secret Sea.
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The Magicians / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
The Magicians / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: There are many other schools of magic throughout the world, but only one student from one of them appears more than once. Similarly, the other Disciplines of magic: the only one formally introduced is Physical Magic. The others â€” Nature, Illusion, Healing, Psychic, Knowledge, etc. â€” are only given a few fleeting but tantalizing references, though Illusion is given more focus in in The Magician's Land.
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The Magicians / int_2b2c66c3	type	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
The Magicians / int_2b2c66c3	comment	Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Julia notes that trickster gods tend not to be very funny.
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The Magicians / int_2c7a0875	type	Reveling in the New Form
The Magicians / int_2c7a0875	comment	Reveling in the New Form: The fourth year at Brakebills features the students being transformed into ducks so they can transport themselves to the southern campus for a year-long Training from Hell. Once the initial Transformation Horror is over, Quentin and the other students enjoy flying immensely, and treat the whole thing as an epic adventure that they look back upon with much fondness. Over the course of the aforementioned year at Brakebills South, the students are taught to transform at will, spending a happy afternoon clowning around in the form of polar bears in a welcome reprieve from the mind-pummeling coursework. Later, they're taught to transform into Arctic Foxes, which they also enjoy... but unfortunately, they end up taking the fun a little too far when the sex-starved students begin succumbing to their newfound animal instincts. Nobody in the class can make eye contact once they return to human form.
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The Magicians / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
The Magicians / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: The initial setup with Quentin, Julia, and James. Quentin, Alice, and Penny may be considered this trope as well.
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The Magicians / int_2f2f58f2	type	Hedge Mage
The Magicians / int_2f2f58f2	comment	Hedge Mage: Hedge Witches, or Hedge for short, are Magicians who practice Hedge magic, a self-taught form of magic instead of the formal education at a Magical School. This is done by using information from the internet and public sources. The spells aren't strong or crafted well, which can result in them being dangerous, which is why Hedges have safe houses to share their knowledge with each other.
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The Magicians / int_30509b6d	type	Shapeshifter Baggage
The Magicians / int_30509b6d	comment	Shapeshifter Baggage: At Brakebills South, Quentin learns how to turn into various animals and finds out that much of the trick is shedding, storing and restoring the difference in body mass.
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The Magicians / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
The Magicians / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: When The Beast first appears, he stops time for everyone in the classroom but him; unfortunately, the students are still very much aware of the passage of time.
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The Magicians / int_3356ed55	type	I Wish It Were Real
The Magicians / int_3356ed55	comment	I Wish It Were Real: Quentin daydreams about Fillory turning out to be real. It eventually does, and Quentin starts learning to be careful what he wishes for.
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The Magicians / int_371aec84	type	Chekhov's Gift
The Magicians / int_371aec84	comment	Chekhov's Gift: Subverted. A river nymph gives Quentin a silver horn, apparently for use in "break-glass-in-case-of-emergency" situations. Actually, it summons the Big Bad into territory he couldn't previously reach.
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The Magicians / int_38b2491d	type	The Fog of Ages
The Magicians / int_38b2491d	comment	The Fog of Ages: When Quentin discovers the sixth key, the undead creatures guarding it launches a fireball at him (which misses) and then throws a knife at him (which is even further off target) before remarking that he doesn't even know why he is fighting after all this time guarding the key.
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The Magicians / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Magicians / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Alice (comes to school already knowing several advanced incantations, extremely studious).
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The Magicians / int_3a9a910d	type	Solar Sail
The Magicians / int_3a9a910d	comment	Solar Sail: They find a magic sail on board the Muntjac that collects sunlight as well as wind. The kids had one in one of the Fillory books.
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The Magicians / int_3be6d35	type	Rescued from the Underworld
The Magicians / int_3be6d35	comment	Rescued from the Underworld: Quentin tries to do this for Benedict but fails. Played straight when Our Lady Underground rescues him and Julia.
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The Magicians / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Magicians / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Quentin notices that all fourth-year students vanish from campus once a year, coming back months later refusing to talk about what happened. He finds out in his own fourth year, and has a similar reaction when he comes back to campus. As it turns out, the fourth year is spent at Brakebills' southern campus, giving a Training from Hell in the depths of Antarctica.
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The Magicians / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Magicians / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Eliot's first battle against the Lorian army results in an easy win for Fillory; among other things, Eliot takes the invaders by surprise with a mixture of his own magical prowess and spells set up the night before, then reveals his own army - including six giants. Then, he has an entire river attack the Lorians.
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The Magicians / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
The Magicians / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: The Free Trader Beowulf group and the Order, who both regard gods as magicians who use a more potent but not fundamentally different form of magic. The former group even tries to gain access to the gods' magic, with catastrophic results.
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The Magicians / int_3ff34221	type	To Hell and Back
The Magicians / int_3ff34221	comment	To Hell and Back: Quentin and Julia enter Fillory's underworld to talk to Benedict.
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The Magicians / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Magicians / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Julia finally recovers from her trauma and becomes a dryad, allowing her Bingle, and Abigail the sloth to descend into the Far Side, a new version of Fillory in the process of being created. Unfortunately, Quentin is not allowed to go with them because he's already used his passport to travel to the Underworld... and he also gets kicked out of Fillory by Ember because he took the blame for Julia's part in unwittingly triggering the apocalypse. Doubly galling Josh and Poppy (the girl Quentin has been sleeping with) decide to stay in Fillory as king and queen now that Quentin and Julia are leaving. On the upside, Quentin is given a magic button that will take him to any world except Fillory... and instead of feeling depressed at losing his utopia, for the first time, he feels genuine optimism and hope for the future.
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The Magicians / int_41d8a845	type	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic
The Magicians / int_41d8a845	comment	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: The method of teaching magic fits this to a T. The analysis is so single-minded that only the most intelligent and obsessed candidates can even manifest the simplest magic consistently.
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The Magicians / int_43955609	type	Extradimensional Emergency Exit
The Magicians / int_43955609	comment	Extradimensional Emergency Exit: Being a parody of The Chronicles Of Narnia, the Fillory and Further series features a moment where Martin Chatwin first ventures into the Magical Land of Fillory by stepping through the door of a grandfather clock. Later, Quentin discovers that the adventures of the Chatwin children were actually real - and that Martin might not have entered the clock out of pure curiosity: he was being molested by Christopher Plover at the time, and Jane Chatwin speculates that he only entered the clock in a desperate attempt to escape Plover's advances.
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The Magicians / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Magicians / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: The sullen Benedict appears to be gearing up to become a hero after a year of questing and training with a master swordsman. However, just when it looks like he's going to fight his first proper battle and prove his worth, he diesâ€”shot through the throat before he can even reach the enemy. Even Benedict's ghost thinks this was an undignified way to go.
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The Magicians / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
The Magicians / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Professor Foxtree, who is specifically noted to be of Native American descent.
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The Magicians / int_47e61b99	type	Narnia Time
The Magicians / int_47e61b99	comment	Narnia Time: The Neitherlands and Fillory, both of which are desynchronized with Earth's timeline.
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The Magicians / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Magicians / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Alice.
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The Magicians / int_48d464ca	type	Interdimensional Travel Device
The Magicians / int_48d464ca	comment	Interdimensional Travel Device: The Button(s) act as this, allowing the user to transport themselves into the Neitherlands, allowing them access to an interdimensional Portal Network.
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The Magicians / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Magicians / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: In the finale Quentin uses the power he inherited from Ember to destroy Fillory's Mundane Afterlife so the dead can rest.
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The Magicians / int_4a8d9d4d	type	Non Sequitur Environment
The Magicians / int_4a8d9d4d	comment	Non Sequitur Environment: Early in the book, Quentin pursues a loose page from a manuscript into a hedge in New York during the autumn - only to find himself emerging in the idyllic Brakebills campus, in what appears to be the middle of summer. It's later discovered that most prospective students arrive in similar ways regardless of their environment; something always gets their attention and lures them into an invisible portal.
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The Magicians / int_4bad4a5b	type	Students' Secret Society
The Magicians / int_4bad4a5b	comment	Students' Secret Society: The League, a secret gang of students at Brakebills dedicated to pranking individuals who have committed some kind of social offence. Plum, the League's president, claims that it's an Ancient Tradition within the school, but privately admits that it's actually based on something she read in a PG Wodehouse novel. Their latest target is a student wine waiter believed to be short pouring at mealtimes... but the attempted grand finale of the prank campaign ends with Plum accidentally trespassing on a forbidden area of the school and getting expelled. After spending some time working alongside Quentin Coldwater as part of a magical heist crew, Plum can't help but look back and belatedly realize just how silly the League was.
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The Magicians / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Magicians / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Josh (large in size, and capable of extremely powerful magic... when he actually manages to cast a spell that is).
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The Magicians / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
The Magicians / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Cacodemons are imprisoned in a tattoo on the magician's back the night before they leave Brakebills. They can be released once using magic words and will try to kill whatever is in front of the magician.
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The Magicians / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
The Magicians / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: Quentin and his friends are urged at the beginning to think of their studies as a purely practical course with a minimum of theory. Apparently many magicians have tried and failed to unearth the roots of magic. But they do have an understanding of the Circumstances, Alice and Penny manage to cobble together offensive spells from books, and in a conversation Alice says that spells demonstrably pull energy from the environment to work, though how or at what distance isn't specified. The Physical discipline of magic, which Quentin and his friends are in, specializes in messy practical magic that is based off of Physics. So it's unclear how much understanding they have, but it seems like a lot of work was done to get that understanding and work is still being done to expand it, and it's mentioned that some of the new magical research being done involves using recent scientific discoveries. Science Is Wrong is averted, it's more that figuring out magic seems to be a lot harder than gravity. It also has the EMP effect, given that Brakebills has only one games console hidden in a closet and it switches off if anyone casts a spell nearby.
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The Magicians / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
The Magicians / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: Josh describes a few of these. When Quentin asks him about it he says he never walked more than a few miles from his starting point on each world.
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The Magicians / int_54eceae6	type	Magic Is Evil
The Magicians / int_54eceae6	comment	Magic Is Evil: Emily Greenstreet firmly believes this, due to a number of events that were mainly her fault. Quentin also briefly holds shades of this belief until Emily blames Alice's death on magic as well and congratulates him on leaving magic behind.
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The Magicians / int_5565bf30	type	Three-Way Sex
The Magicians / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: Quentin, Janet and Eliot have a threesome while drunk at a party. Alice later has sex with Penny in revenge after she finds this out.
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The Magicians / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Magicians / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: An aggrieved Alice calls Janet a cunt after Janet gives away the story of how Charlie, Alice's brother, turned into a Niffin: The Beast calls the Watcherwoman a cunt regarding the clock-trees:
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The Magicians / int_5d6e6919	type	Magicians Are Wizards
The Magicians / int_5d6e6919	comment	Magicians Are Wizards: Quentin accidentally does real magic while performing sleight-of-hand coin tricks, which is what initially attracts the attention of Brakebills. It is also mentioned that some hedge wizards make a living as stage magicians.
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The Magicians / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
The Magicians / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: Referenced by Penny and Free Trader Beowulf when they say that the power of gods wouldn't be any different to a really powerful magician's.
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The Magicians / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Magicians / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Eliot (attached to the hip with Janet, more laid back but wields the authority of "cool").
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The Magicians / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
The Magicians / int_60e49895	comment	The Leader: Janet (Type III, takes the lead when they have to form a Welters team, rather bossy, and despite her lesser qualities she's also probably the most loyal to the group as a whole)
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The Magicians / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Magicians / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Students attending Brakebills' Antarctic campus tend to go a little bit crazy due to the magical restrictions on speech, to the point that Quentin actually begins to hallucinate.
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The Magicians / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Magicians / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Discussed a lot. Quentin learns what being a hero really means the hard way.
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The Magicians / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Magicians / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Christian magicians are extremely rare, Richard is an exception.
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The Magicians / int_66705432	type	The Old Gods
The Magicians / int_66705432	comment	The Old Gods: Referred to by name. They've found out about the magic leak, and they're out to fix it.
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The Magicians / int_66ec693b	type	Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain
The Magicians / int_66ec693b	comment	Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain: The Beast is a Humanoid Abomination possessed of incredible power but is also a Psychopathic Manchild with no discipline, lazily ruling over Fillory from the shadows and only stirring when something gets his attention. By contrast, the Physical Kids are Work Hard, Play Hard magicians who have undergone years of study plus a year-long Training from Hell to master their powers and tend to go to pieces without a challenge to keep them occupied. Once they've gotten their act together, the Weak, but Skilled Physical Kids are able to get the Unskilled, but Strong Beast on the ropes for the first time in the entire story.
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The Magicians / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
The Magicians / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: Jollyby, the Master of the Hunt, is killed within a few pages of his introduction.
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The Magicians / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
The Magicians / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Magic seems to follow its own internal rules, some of which the protagonists and magical society at large seem to know, and some that they don't, for example the "turtles all the way down" speech Quentin and his friends get at the start of their first class. But if you know the spell you're using and the Circumstances where you are,and preform the spell correctly then you'll get a predictable resultâ€” the Circumstances are so idiosyncratic that the students have to basically be imprisoned in Antarctica for a term repeating spells until they internalise some of the "grammar" of magic.
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The Magicians / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Magicians / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: It's stated that one of the students was the son of a five-star general. The United States Army hasn't promoted anybody to that rank since 1950, and the last one (Omar Bradley) died in 1981, and though the setting abides by the rule of Like Reality, Unless Noted, there's no indication that American military history is any different than the real world.
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The Magicians / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
The Magicians / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: Turns out there's a second masquerade of hedge witches and various fair folk that the Brakebills magicians don't know about.
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The Magicians / int_70c6a6db	type	Absurdly Exclusive Recruiting Standards
The Magicians / int_70c6a6db	comment	Absurdly Exclusive Recruiting Standards: The Free Trader Beowulf Group doesn't open its door to Julia until she has become the undisputed champion of the entire safehouse community and learned secrets that other hedge-witches haven't even dreamed of. Once again, there's a logic to this decision, as the FTB isn't a fight club, but a top-secret research group demanding magical mastery from its members.
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The Magicians / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
The Magicians / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Word of God says here that everything (including Harry Potter books) that exists in real life exists in the Magiciansverse apart from The Chronicles of Narnia and C. S. Lewis which are replaced by "Fillory and Further" and Christopher Plover.
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The Magicians / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
The Magicians / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Richard and Ember, though not entirely antagonistic or useless characters, both take this role semi-frequently in order to allow Quentin to shoot down ideas about religion and philosophy that the author does not espouse. Amusingly enough, Richard is ultimately revealed to be exactly right in his argument - he was just aiming too low.
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The Magicians / int_72d9724c	type	Scenery-Based Societal Barometer
The Magicians / int_72d9724c	comment	Scenery-Based Societal Barometer: The Neitherlands are normally a gloomy but largely sedate Portal Crossroad World that manifests as a ruined city decorated with fountains - and given that the protagonists are incurably driven to travel, it's returned at least once or twice per book. However, in The Magician King, it's soon discovered that weather has inexplicably arrived in the Neitherlands, freezing the fountains and consuming the place in a potentially lethal blizzard - a sure sign to magicians in the know that something very bad is on the horizon. It turns out that the gods have become aware that mortals have learned how to manipulate reality through magic as they have, and are now out to destroy magic - hence the erratic weather in the Neitherlands. When Quentin returns to the Neitherlands at the end of the story, he finds that the frost is beginning to melt and plantlife is beginning to grow throughout the ruined city, signifying that the heroes' efforts have paid off and magic has been preserved.
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The Magicians / int_745760ee	type	Polar Madness
The Magicians / int_745760ee	comment	Polar Madness: Crops up during the Fourth Year at Brakebills: as this is the semester when student magicians are required to truly internalize what they've learned so far, they're sent to the secondary campus in Antarctica for a Training from Hell at the hands of Professor Mayakovsky. Worse still, students are immediately rendered mute so they won't be distracted. Over the next few months, the ceaseless workload, humiliating tricks, lack of interaction, and the overwhelming monotony of the landscape gradually wear on the sanity of the young magicians: Quentin finds himself hallucinating at several points, and witnesses other students who've gotten so desperate for human contact that they've started fucking each other in public.
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The Magicians / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Magicians / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: At the end of the first book, Quentin finally gets a solid reason to be a woobie and suffers an extended Heroic BSoD after Alice dies fighting the Beast. She is gone before he can tell her what he's realized... that he really loves her.
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The Magicians / int_78a96b71	type	Safely Secluded Science Center
The Magicians / int_78a96b71	comment	Safely Secluded Science Center: Julia's travels in the backstory eventually lead her to Murs, an isolated commune in the south of France: here, the hedge-witches of the Free Trader Beowulf Group conduct top-secret research into the deepest mysteries of the world. Quite apart from being a beautiful place to live, its relative isolation keeps their work from being investigated by "legitimate" magicians. Even so, it takes a lot of tests before Julia is allowed to join their experiments and finally learns of their true goal: they're trying to make contact with the oldest and most benevolent form of divinity by summoning a goddess.
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The Magicians / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Magicians / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: A contradictory example surrounding C.S. Lewis and Christopher Plover. Word of God says here that in the Magiciansverse, C.S. Lewis was never born. If he had he and Christopher Plover would have collapsed into each other and formed a space-time singularity. But Plover's defictionalised real life website says that he's one of the founders of the modern English fantasy tradition along with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkein.
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The Magicians / int_7c88991a	type	Portal Book
The Magicians / int_7c88991a	comment	Portal Book: Martin and Rupert Chatwin are revealed to have visited Fillory via a book in the family library - though in Martin's case, he had to use magic to force it to let him in, given that he was too old to visit. This was Martin's final visit to Fillory before he sold his humanity and became the Beast.
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The Magicians / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The Magicians / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: Quentin spends a lot of the book trying to make a world of his own similar to Fillory.
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The Magicians / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Magicians / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Early in the novel, the Lorians decide to invade Fillory; as Eliot makes this abundantly clear, this was a profoundly bad idea, because the Lorains are just a human Proud Warrior Race up against an entire nation of magical beasts and beings led by a small clique of magical monarchs.
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The Magicians / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
The Magicians / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: The first half of the first book is about the eponymous Magicians' time in magic school. While interesting in its own right, and important in that it sets up the characters, who are very well developed and realistically drawn, the plot doesn't really pick up motion until Penny shows up with the Button. Also, as a whole the group isn't exactly overflowing with the most admirable or heroic qualities.
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The Magicians / int_83095fe8	type	Signature Scent
The Magicians / int_83095fe8	comment	Signature Scent: During Julia's segments of the book, she can recognize magicians by the smell of ozone: when Quentin returns to New York while on vacation, she knows that he's secretly been studying at Brakebills because his hands smell of lightning, and later, when Julia finally begins to work her own magic, she clearly recognizes the electric smell around her first spell - "Quentin's smell," as she calls it.
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The Magicians / int_834427cd	type	Cap
The Magicians / int_834427cd	comment	Literally; the hedge witch network use actual levels â€” tattooed on their bodies in little stars â€” as they learn more magic. Julia finds the Level Cap of this â€” 250 â€” and a group of brilliant magicians who are all far beyond it.
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The Magicians / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
The Magicians / int_83adb272	comment	The rams, Ember and Umber, stand in for Aslan.
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The Magicians / int_84c65a8c	type	Reinforce Field
The Magicians / int_84c65a8c	comment	Reinforce Field: Spells stop Venice sinking.
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The Magicians / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Magicians / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Averted. Quentin guesses that the creators of the multiverse are these and that the human brain registers them as giant silver men but Penny says what you see is what you get.
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The Magicians / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
The Magicians / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: The hedge magicians in the safehouses use a network of magic mirrors to covertly transport themselves throughout Earth.
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The Magicians / int_8737b599	type	Fireballs
The Magicians / int_8737b599	comment	Fireballs: One of the first battle spells our heroes learn is fireball, directly based off a Dungeons and Dragons spell.
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The Magicians / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Magicians / int_8774fb47	comment	The Free Trader Beowulf group are trying something similar by summoning up a god in order to discover ultimate truth, power, and open a doorway into a Heavenly realm without suffering. It doesn't quite work out.
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The Magicians / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Magicians / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Despite feeling that he shouldn't, Quentin declines the quest that the clock tree is obviously a part of in the first meadow. Later averted, as when he returns to Fillory he finds Eliot in the midst of the quest that the clock tree meadow started, and Quentin joins the quest-in-progress.
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The Magicians / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
The Magicians / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Janet and Eliot. She's the blunt, caustic, ambitious, and promiscuous girl to his vain, lazy, emotionally reserved, and... equally promiscuous boy. For all their differences, they're as similar as they are unalike and pretty much best friends.
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The Magicians / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
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The Magicians / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
The Magicians / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare: The Seeing Hare, which can apparently see the future; it forecasts the end of the world and ends up killing a royal courtier in the process.
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The Magicians / int_8acd56cf	type	Elite School Means Elite Brain
The Magicians / int_8acd56cf	comment	Elite School Means Elite Brain: Brakebills is considered the best Wizarding School in North America—and also the most exclusive. Because working magic requires incredible intelligence and a level of focus bordering on insanity, you need to be an intellectual prodigy just to be considered for enrollment, and out of an entire class of potential students, only a handful ever pass the notoriously-difficult entrance exam—the rest having their memories of magic erased, no excuses, no second chances. For this reason, Brakebills students are considered the best and brightest of all magicians in the settings. By contrast, hedge magicians who learned their skills from non-official sources are treated as dunces who earned their skills at a 7-11.
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The Magicians / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Magicians / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Can be seen as a deconstruction of the Harry Potter series, in that it explores the realities of what an elitist magical academy might be like, as well as the effects on our protagonist, Quentin. At some points it also manages to make magic seem well, magical again, for example when Professor Myakovsky reverses entropy as a class demonstration, or Quentin's first piece of magic. Quentin can also be seen as a deconstruction of the sort of person who wishes he could enter a fantasy world, given that he ends up dissatisfied with just about everywhere he goes â€” to the point that Alice eventually calls him on it. The realm of Fillory may also be a deconstruction of Narnia, or at least the idea of a magical world to escape to, as it is pointed out repeatedly that their world is not a plaything.
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The Magicians / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
The Magicians / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted; after leaving Brakebills, some adult magicians promote the success of humanitarian causes or prop the balance in failing ecosystems.
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The Magicians / int_8c3241aa	type	One-Hour Work Week
The Magicians / int_8c3241aa	comment	One-Hour Work Week: Magicians that leave the magical world tend to find employment in businesses that are enchanted to disguise the fact that none of them actually do anything. Emily Greenstreet is one of these types, as is Quentin at the end of the novel â€” before his friends invite him back to Fillory.
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The Magicians / int_8d522951	type	Self-Imposed Exile
The Magicians / int_8d522951	comment	Self-Imposed Exile: Towards the end, Quentin Coldwater exiles himself to the Muggle world in the aftermath of his foolhardy journey to Fillory which resulted in the death of his lover, Alice. It's not much of a penance considering that he quickly descends into yet another life of sloth and self-indulgence in order to escape from his guilt, and his arrogance returns once he starts thinking himself more mature for abandoning magic, so it's really just an extension of his earlier self-pity. After meeting fellow exile Emily Greenstreet and witnessing the depths of denial the two of them are descending to, he gradually realizes that he isn't becoming a better person at all, and abandons exile in favor of returning to the magical lifestyle with his friends.
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The Magicians / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
The Magicians / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: Word of God says that The Magicians was never meant to have any sequels but then he imagined Quentin having a The Voyage of the Dawn Treader style adventure on Fillory's seas which inspired him to write two more books.
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The Magicians / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Magicians / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: Fillory, which remains socially and technologically trapped in the Middle Ages despite all the time that passes over the course of the Fillory and Further books and the main narrative.
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The Magicians / int_904f86a7	type	Enigmatic Institute
The Magicians / int_904f86a7	comment	Enigmatic Institute: The already-secret magical society in which legitimate magicians live and work is revealed to feature a Wainscot Society of safehouses and fight clubs in which Hedge-Witches can work their own illegal magic... and hidden in the most secretive regions of this underground is the Free Trader Beowulf Group, a covert magical research group buried a Safely Secluded Science Center in the south of France. Once Julia Wicker becomes worthy of joining them, it turns out the secrecy is due to them studying the deepest secrets of magic - some of which have the potential to backfire messily. Their ultimate project is the summoning of a Goddess.
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The Magicians / int_92587498	type	Five-Man Band
The Magicians / int_92587498	comment	Five-Man Band: The Physical Kids: The Leader: Janet (Type III, takes the lead when they have to form a Welters team, rather bossy, and despite her lesser qualities she's also probably the most loyal to the group as a whole) The Lancer: Eliot (attached to the hip with Janet, more laid back but wields the authority of "cool"). The Smart Guy: Alice (comes to school already knowing several advanced incantations, extremely studious). The Big Guy: Josh (large in size, and capable of extremely powerful magic... when he actually manages to cast a spell that is). The Heart: Quentin (oblivious to any possible negative tension within the group, the only one to really believe in magic according to Alice).
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The Magicians / int_947bf915	type	Last Day of Normalcy
The Magicians / int_947bf915	comment	Last Day of Normalcy: it begins with Quentin Coldwater making his way to a college interview for Princeton, the next logical step in his life as a Teen Genius. Along the way, he's established as a slightly depressed guy who is Aimlessly Seeking Happiness and compulsively performs coin tricks to bring the illusion of magic to his life. However, the predictable routine of the day goes awry when the interviewer unexpectedly turns up dead; soon after, Quentin finds himself stumbling off the street and into the entrance exam for a Wizarding School.
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The Magicians / int_94bd514c	type	Planet England
The Magicians / int_94bd514c	comment	Planet England: Like Narnia, Fillory seems to be the name of the entire world and also one particular country in it.
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The Magicians / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Magicians / int_970c790a	comment	Likewise, the Watcherwoman is one for the White Witch. Up until Quentin finally meets her, whereupon she's revealed to be an expy of Lucy Pevensie.
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The Magicians / int_98460ff5	type	Wacky College
The Magicians / int_98460ff5	comment	Wacky College
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The Magicians / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
The Magicians / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: The discipline of Illusion Magic is all about this. Though only addressed in passing, the Brakebills Illusionists are skilled enough to make sure that nobody really knows where they gather.
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The Magicians / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Magicians / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Zigzagged with Umber. As the Beast's patron, he is the ultimate cause of Fillory's discord; by taking Martin's humanity he enabled the Beast's subsequent tyranny and all the tragedy that befell those who crossed his path. However, his actions were without any real malice, and he claims that the Martin incident in particular was actually motivated by sympathy. Janet, at least, does not consider this an excuse and holds him to this trope. If anything, though, it's his "brother" Ember who's the more antagonistic force by the end.
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The Magicians / int_9b6f7fbb	type	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness
The Magicians / int_9b6f7fbb	comment	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness: The administration of Brakebills School of Magical Pedagogy selects its students well in advance from only the most intelligent and obsessive teenagers across America - not just via the records of other elite schools, but through stranger methods. Protagonist Quentin Coldwater was earmarked by Brakebills three years before his enrolment, back when he was learning how to perform sleight-of-hand; the man who sold Quentin the props was actually one of the faculty's talent-spotters. And up until he's finally whisked away to Brakebills, Quentin and many of the other potential students aren't even aware that real magic exists.
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The Magicians / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Magicians / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Despite being more or less ineffective in the fight scenes of the previous book, Quentin absolutely demolishes any opposition put in front of him. Julia, the hedge-witch, has become more powerful in many many ways than the Brakebills kids, and over the course of the book we learn how she leveled up and by the end she's taken the ultimate power up by becoming a demi-goddess Also Josh, to a lesser extent. He's set himself up in Venice as The Fixer, a go-between between the "official" magical world and the underground. He's also noted to have become more confident in his magic and we learn has been through some intense shit himself. Literally; the hedge witch network use actual levels â€” tattooed on their bodies in little stars â€” as they learn more magic. Julia finds the Level Cap of this â€” 250 â€” and a group of brilliant magicians who are all far beyond it.
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The Magicians / int_9cae763f	type	Schmuck Banquet
The Magicians / int_9cae763f	comment	Schmuck Banquet: There's an extremely long table laden with food in Ember's Tomb. The guys Genre Savvy enough to know not to touch it but Janet eventually ends up drinking some of the wine to no ill effect.
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The Magicians / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Magicians / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Julia suffers serious depression over not making it into Wizarding School, her mother asks her if she's been raped. Guess what sends her into an extended Heroic BSoD later in the book?
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The Magicians / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Magicians / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: According to Dean Fogg, cacodemons have skin like iron and may actually be made from iron, hence why they're tough enough to be used as emergency weapons. In Fillory, they actually fight a giant made from red hot iron. Josh manages to defeat him by summoning a miniature black hole to suck him in.
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The Magicians / int_9e0b9695	type	Flight
The Magicians / int_9e0b9695	comment	Flight: One of the powers that Quentin and the other Physical Kids have mastered by the end of the book, though it's difficult to maintain and takes a lot of energy.
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The Magicians / int_9ff7276d	type	Literal Transformative Experience
The Magicians / int_9ff7276d	comment	Literal Transformative Experience: During the visit to Brakebills' southern campus, fourth-year students are taught how to transform into arctic foxes; as it turns out, this is another part of the Training from Hell, this one ensuring that the students are humiliated by the end result of combining animal instincts with several months without sex. However, the experience encourages Quentin and Alice to take their relationship to the next level and become lovers. For good measure, Alice also experiences another spike in confidence, driving her to refuse the offered magical ingredients from Mayakovsky and tackle the Ultimate Final Exam - walking naked to the South Pole with only her magic to defend her - entirely on her own; in the comic, she jokingly attributes it to having a few fox traits left over from the transformation.
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The Magicians / int_a4f2570d	type	Muggles
The Magicians / int_a4f2570d	comment	Muggles: Most people simply don't have the particular aptitude for magic: either they're not intelligent enough, they don't have the capacity for spellcasting, they don't have the sheer obsessive desire to pursue their goals, or they simply weren't able to pass the entrance exam. Although a childhood crush of Quentin's fails the exam for Brakebills, she becomes a hedge witch.
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The Magicians / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Magicians / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: The fairy tale about the seven golden keys is wrong on a couple key details. The evil witch the man was trying to save his daughter from was his wife, and the mother of his child. When he completed his quest, his daughter didn't even remember who he was.
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The Magicians / int_a75c8dc9	type	Left-Justified Fantasy Map
The Magicians / int_a75c8dc9	comment	Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Found in the front of the book.
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The Magicians / int_a8371e84	type	Giving Radio to the Romans
The Magicians / int_a8371e84	comment	Giving Radio to the Romans: Discussed. the Physical Kids all agree it would be a bad idea to introduce guns to Fillory Janet brings one anyway, and ends up shooting her way out of danger.
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The Magicians / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Magicians / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: A class gets magically paralyzed by a yet-unfamiliar villain for a while. This trope especially applies to the girl he eats alive.
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The Magicians / int_aa8fa208	type	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced
The Magicians / int_aa8fa208	comment	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: By the midway point, the Physical Kids have completed the mind-pummeling coursework at Brakebills, polished off a year of Training from Hell in Antarctica, have graduated, and are fully trained magicians - for all intents and purposes, minor reality warpers. And in their first battle in Fillory, they're quickly reduced to a terrified, confused, shambolic mess because none of them have any combat experience. It takes several battles before any of them can effectively apply their skills to combat, and Quentin doesn't become remotely useful until the second book in the series. Worse still, they're also pretty easy to outsmart, given that they haven't had to apply their intellectual gifts to anything serious in months: the Beast is able to fool them into serving as his MacGuffin Delivery Service, and would have ended up dooming Fillory if Alice hadn't took the fight to him.
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The Magicians / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
The Magicians / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: A giant cat is one of the many monsters that attacked the gang in Umber's Tomb.
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The Magicians / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Magicians / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Subverted. The disciplines seem to be this, but they never really amount to much in the first book. We're only ever told what Penny's and Alice's are, and only Penny's seems to come in useful. This is somewhat justified in story, as it's basically said that the theory behind dividing students into disciplines is weak, and it often means very little beyond a student being slightly better than another student at some particular spells. Played straight in the final books when we finally find out Quentin's discipline is: fixing things - and it's the one thing that ends up saving the day.
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The Magicians / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
The Magicians / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: Brakebills, a magical university. It's mentioned that there are others in other countries.
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The Magicians / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Magicians / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: In the final chapter of Julia's flashbacks, the Free Trader Beowulf Group try to summon a god as part of their ongoing attempt to become gods themselves. Unfortunately, the god that answered kills all but two of them, before giving one of the survivors (Julia) exactly what the group wantedâ€”by raping her.
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The Magicians / int_b426973b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The Magicians / int_b426973b	comment	During their time at Brakebills South, Quentin and the other fourth-years learn how to transform into polar bears and arctic foxes; apparently, some shapes can be assumed spontaneously, but other forms require specific ingredients for the transition to work - like goose fat or whalebone. Unfortunately, The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body, resulting in much awkwardness when they return to human form.
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The Magicians / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
The Magicians / int_b7059ab0	comment	Dungeon Crawling: What they do in Ember's Tomb. Dint and Fen say they've been to a hundred places like it.
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The Magicians / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
The Magicians / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: A Fiery Salamander is summoned during a Welters match; at the end of Quentin's time at Brakebills, Dean Fogg summons cacodemons this way.
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The Magicians / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Magicians / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Brakebills students in their fourth year are involuntarily transformed into geese so that they can make the long and harsh journey to Brakebills' Antarctic campus.
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The Magicians / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
The Magicians / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: At the end Alice hasn't decided if she wants to be with Quentin or not.
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The Magicians / int_baedeab5	type	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam
The Magicians / int_baedeab5	comment	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam: Potential students at Brakebills are given a borderline-Daliesque entrance exam to prove if they have what it takes to wield magic. Among other things, examinees can be transported to Brakebills without warning and without even knowing that magic exists; they can be challenged to guess what's on the other side of a playing card, to draw a rabbit that moves as they try to finish drawing it, to describe how they would stop the exam paper from escaping, and even to invent a new language, detail its history, and translate a passage from The Tempest into the language and back. Following the written portion, they are given a number of seemingly nonsensical tasks, including map-drawing, conjuring tricks, blitz chess and knot-unraveling, before entrants are finally provoked into unveiling their magical powers. Though this seems eccentric, it's actually very good at identifying students with the intelligence, obsession and aptitudes necessary for spellcasting. However, Brakebills accepts only the best, and anyone who fails the exam for any reason will have their memories of the college erased... and out of a huge class of potential students, only two are accepted.
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The Magicians / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Magicians / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Alder Acorn Agnes Allison-fragrant-timber, Quentin's centaur doctor.
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The Magicians / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Magicians / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Quentin, a well-meaning idiot defined mainly by his longing for purpose and his growing wellspring of selfishness; often, his attempts at heroism end up getting people hurt.
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The Magicians / int_c3182167	type	Golem
The Magicians / int_c3182167	comment	Golem: In her final fight with The Beast/Martin Chatwin, Alice turns the sand in the room into a glass golem.
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The Magicians / int_c58de9b	type	Supernatural Martial Arts
The Magicians / int_c58de9b	comment	Supernatural Martial Arts: Fen's martial art "inc aga" was a hybrid technique of martial arts and highly specialised spellcasting style. A side effect of Fergus's Spectral Armory is that it gives the castor gives knowledge of martial arts while it's in effect.
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The Magicians / int_c8ed7020	comment	Volatile Second Tier Position: As it turns out, the most exhausting point during Quentin's time at Brakebills isn't the fifth and final year, but the fourth. Here, the usual trappings of lectures, exams, study and relaxation are stripped away in favor of a full-blown Training from Hell, and the fact that they're placed under the care of a teacher that may actually cross the line into outright villainy doesn't help. All told, this is the year that truly establishes if the students are capable of the incredible.
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The Magicians / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: Just prior to the final battle, the Beast tips the odds a little further in his favour by biting off Penny's hands before the fighting starts. As spells are dependent on complex gestures, this leaves the Physical Kids' most experienced battle-magician out of the fight - a fact that the Beast openly gloats about.
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The Magicians / int_c9a33c23	comment	Mundane Afterlife: Fillory's afterlife is a giant school gym hall where the dead play sports and board games for all eternity; needless to say, the dead are not happy with this arrangement.
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The Magicians / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: Alice and AnaÃ¯s are both known for their good looks and mastery of magic. Also "the paramedic," AKA Jane Chatwin.
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The Magicians / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: All three books contradict on how easy it hard it is to turn invisible: In the first, Alice can turn her forearm invisible and back fairly easily but can't yet do it wit the rest of her body. The Magician King says it's near impossible to turn truly invisible and the ones who do it never look normal again. Here Eliot can turn armies invisible fairly easily with the only limit being that he had to put in hours of spellwork the night before.
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The Magicians / int_cb11224e	comment	Posthuman Nudism: Magicians who blunder powerful spells run the risk of suffering a spectacular Superpower Meltdown that transforms them into a monstrous, all-powerful being of pure magic known as a Niffin. Beyond sanity and all comprehension of human nature, Niffins wear nothing whatsoever, the better to emphasize their bodies of glowing blue energy - aptly demonstrated in the finale of the first book, when Alice willingly transforms herself into a Niffin in order to defeat the Beast.
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The Magicians / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After punching out one of the apparently all-powerful guardians of Fillory, the Beast provides an explanation.
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The Magicians / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Not Hitler himself, but Martin Chatwin. There's apparently no time line where he does not go to Fillory. Possibly justified, on the grounds that Jane Chatwin was only given the time-travel watch because of Martin's rise to power in Fillory. Therefore, the range of universes she could create would be limited to ones in which Martin went to Fillory and made it possible for her to time travel in the first place. If this analysis is correct, it would effectively be a case of Stephen Hawking's "cosmic censor" stepping in to prevent a Grandfather Paradox from arising.
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The Magicians / int_d2177863	comment	Funny Bruce Lee Noises: Invoked by Quentin to knock open the door to the Physical Kids' cottage.
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The Magicians / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: A requirement to attend Brakebills, but Alice stands out even more than most.
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The Magicians / int_d5ac9158	comment	Harping on About Harpies: Josh has sex with one of these on a Greek mythology themed world, and has the scars to prove it.
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The Magicians / int_d66cd0e6	comment	The fourth year at Brakebills features the students being transformed into ducks so they can transport themselves to the southern campus for a year-long Training from Hell. Once the initial Transformation Horror is over, Quentin and the other students enjoy flying immensely, and treat the whole thing as an epic adventure that they look back upon with much fondness.
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The Magicians / int_d6dfb832	comment	Sexually Transmitted Superpowers: Played for Horror: a group of magicians attempt to summon a benevolent demigoddess in the hope of learning from her... only to get the attention of a monstrous Trickster God who kills most of them. Then, as a sick joke, he gives one of the survivors all the divine knowledge the group wanted by brutally raping her, tearing her soul out for good measure. Once it's all over, the victim staggers away, naked and covered in blood... and then, drawing on powers unknown to her, takes flight. The victim is none other than Julia Wicker, Quentin's old friend.
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The Magicians / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The Dragon of The Grand Canal. Quentin explicitly mentions that he finds it disappointing that not all dragons are the fire-breathing marauding type, and that fantasy books set him up for disappointment.
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The Magicians / int_d8fea106	comment	Naked Nutter: Inverted during the Fourth Year, in which getting naked seems to induce insanity: at the end of the Training from Hell in Antarctica, the Ultimate Final Exam features the student magicians being charged with walking to the South Pole - naked, with only their magic to protect them. By now, everyone's been hit with Polar Madness to at least some degree, and the process of wandering naked through the ice with no company nearly reduces Quentin to a barely-sane automaton - to the point that he ends up falling into a crevasse at one stage and barely even notices. Niffins are driven insane by their transformation from human to magical energy, and in both the books and the comics, are commonly depicted as being composed of blue flame and stark naked.
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The Magicians / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: The Gods don't like the fact that mortals have access to the same tricks as them, and are trying to correct the universe in order to close the magical loophole. Given that this would mean the destruction of numerous magical worlds and the extinction of countless species created through magic, the heroes have to find the seven keys to stop the Gods before it's too late.
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The Magicians / int_dabda72b	comment	Only the Worthy May Pass: It's revealed in this book that Brakebills has magical admissions protocols designed to automatically prevent sociopaths from becoming students, hence why there aren't many Evil Sorcerer types in the real world. Unfortunately, it's not 100% effective, and at least one sociopath slipped the net - resulting in a very messy Noodle Incident that occasionally causes one of the walls to sweat acid on humid days.
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The Magicians / int_db9dd05	comment	Magic Misfire: Casting advanced spells when upset will generally result in the caster transforming into a creature of pure magic (called a niffin), with lethal results (both for the caster and for anyone in the way).
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The Magicians / int_dc115332	comment	Scrubbing Off the Trauma: In The Magician King, Eliot mentions his first meeting with Julia at a spa, during which she had taken to obsessively taking steam baths - often at such high temperatures that nobody else could stand to be in the same room. Eliot speculates that she was trying to cleanse herself of something she can't remove, but the reason why doesn't become apparent until the end: Julia had taken part in the summoning of a goddess, only to get the attention of Renard the Fox, who brutally murdered all but one of Julia's friends - and then raped Julia herself in exchange for sparing her one remaining friend.
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The Magicians / int_dd7cfe55	comment	Apophenia Plot: Early in the novel, Quentin is called home from his work at Brakebills by the news that his father has died. While there, Quentin grows fixated on the idea that his unassuming dad must have been a magician like him, reasoning that nobody could possibly be that boring. The theorizing incorporates everything from his father's lack of involvement in Quentin's life to his refusal to let him attend a chess tournament when he was a kid, from his habit of keeping an unstrung banjo in his room to his obsession with Jeff Goldblum movies, and eventually forces Quentin to search his father's study from top to bottom for further evidence. He thinks he's hit paydirt when he stumbles upon a box of old index cards drawn with strange tables of indecipherable data, believing it to be some kind of magical cipher. He quickly realizes that the data tables are just stats from his dad's old fantasy golf league; turns out that Quentin's father was just an Indubitably Uninteresting Individual who didn't feel any real attachment to his son, and Quentin was just grasping at straws for something - anything - they might have in common.
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The Magicians / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: Magic is highly technical and rules-based. Magicians cast spells by saying a string of words (many of them in obscure, dead languages) and performing a set of complex Magical Gestures. New magicians must also memorize huge books full of Circumstances that change how a spell works, from the phase of the moon to the weather.
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The Magicians / int_e1ec1b15	comment	Make a Wish: When Quentin finds the Questing Beast, he is granted three wishes, though there are apparently limits to what he can wish for.
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The Magicians / int_e1ff8ff6	comment	Fantasy Kitchen Sink: When the Free Trader Beowulf group are interviewing supernatural beings, they come across a whole weird slew of them, and then contemplate checking out Greece for a wider reference pool.
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The Magicians / int_e4bb3e09	comment	Education Through Pyrotechnics: Or education through turning people into animals. Whatever works.
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The Magicians / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: As the Fillory and Further books are an in-universe stand-in for the Chronicles of Narnia, many of the characters in them are parodies of Narnia's most famous characters. The rams, Ember and Umber, stand in for Aslan. The Chatwin children are expies for the Pevensies; in particular, Martin becomes the recognized stand-in for Peter as both are the eldest siblings and both become the High Kings of their respective fantasy realms. Meanwhile, Fiona Chatwin remains the only member of the family to forget about Fillory and move on with her life, making her a stand-in for Susan. Likewise, the Watcherwoman is one for the White Witch. Up until Quentin finally meets her, whereupon she's revealed to be an expy of Lucy Pevensie.
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The Magicians / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence. The series is a satire on both Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia, and the Potter books are occasionally mentioned by the characters, though the Narnia books apparently don't exist in this universe, probably because the similarities to Fillory are just too close.
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The Magicians / int_e7095756	comment	Nightmare of Normality: Because the study of magic is so intensive, the Brakebills faculty take pains to weed out anyone who doesn't live up to the college's high standards via a ridiculously difficult entrance exam: those who fail have all memory of Brakebills and what little knowledge they have of magic expunged, before being sent on their way.
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The Magicians / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Prospective students who fail the Brakebills entrance exam have their memory of the encounter erased. However, this fails in the case of Julia, which nearly ruins her life.
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The Magicians / int_ea0f58c0	comment	God's Hands Are Tied: Ember spouts an excuse along these lines when Quentin asks him why he can't find the magic keys himself, claiming that Quentin must follow his own path to heroism. Quentin, who has encountered a lot of this in the Fillory and Further series, suspects that Ember's just talking bullshit to hide the fact that there are things he can't actually do. Penny says the creators of the multiverse are that powerful and perfect that they can only really do what is right and have no ability to make decisions of their own accord.
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The Magicians / int_eb0bb6a6	comment	Solid Gold Poop: Fillory's Outer Island has Gold Beetles that eat dirt and poop gold.
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The Magicians / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Word of God says that the Neitherlands was either built over The Wood Between the Worlds from The Chronicles of Narnia or that the woods will eventually grow over The Neitherlands. In the second book Josh says he visited a world in the multiverse that was inhabited by Teletubbies. In this story Julia fights Kull.
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The Magicians / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: The clue that ultimately allows Julia to overwhelm her Laser-Guided Amnesia lies in the alibi the Brakebills faculty gave for her absence that day; in this case, she was supposedly working on a paper, and the finish essay exists complete with the teacher's marks attached. However, it's only received an A- for the use of Wikipedia, as revealed by a dating error shared by the subject's Wikipedia article. Julia, who is too much of a perfectionist to bother taking such an amateur shortcut, is immediately suspicious; she digs a little deeper, and finds that no earlier versions of this supposedly important paper exist, only a final draft. It's through these tiny details that she gradually uncovers a second set of memories of the day and discover her failed entrance exam for Brakebills.
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The Magicians / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Leonardo da Vinci, John Dee, Nostradamus, Roger Bacon and Isaac Newton were all magicians but low level ones who weren't able to keep within the Masquerade.
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The Magicians / int_ee828827	comment	Wizard Needs Food Badly: Cited, verbatim, by Josh after Quentin arrives back at Brakebills from Antarctica.
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The Magicians / int_f1c969f6	comment	Moving Beyond Bereavement: Quentin spends the last few chapters of the story grieving for Alice, who was forced to transform herself into a Niffin and is now effectively dead; and after two failed attempts to undo the death, he begins avoiding reality in order to cope. Giving up magic in favour of Self-Imposed Exile in New York, he uses the Brakebills old boys' network in order to get a job with no actual work attached, and spends his days wasting time; his denial is so extreme that he actually believes himself more mature for taking this step... until he meets Emily Greenstreet, who is even more locked in denial then he is. Realizing that he's just wallowing in self-indulgence and self-pity instead of actually making any effort to move on, Quentin eventually resolves to take responsibility for the mistakes he's made - namely by taking up magic again and helping his friends put Fillory back on an even keel. By the second book, he still misses Alice, but he's moved on enough to pursue another adventure and even get another girlfriend.
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The Magicians / int_f2350614	comment	Alice's parents provide a rather dark example, especially given what Quentin is looking for. Successful adult magicians, they can use magic to obtain anything they want immediately - leaving them Nothing Left to Do but Die.
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The Magicians / int_f4bda58e	comment	Good Shapeshifting, Evil Shapeshifting: In the finale, Alice ends up clashing with the Beast in a Shapeshifter Showdown. As the best and brightest of the Physical Kids, Alice has a huge variety of forms to choose from, including a lion, an anaconda, a bear, a giant scorpion, and even a dragon - befitting her imagination and wisdom. However, the Beast only uses his powers to make himself progressively bigger to the point that he can even coldcock a dragon, a sure sign of his own all-consuming narcissism and his nature as a Psychopathic Manchild.
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The Magicians / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After a long and sorrowful journey uphill, the book ends with Julia finally overcoming her trauma and undergoing her final transformation into a dryad, freeing herself from her depression at long last and beginning a new, happier chapter in her life. The Free Trader Beowulf group are trying something similar by summoning up a god in order to discover ultimate truth, power, and open a doorway into a Heavenly realm without suffering. It doesn't quite work out. By the end of the book, Quentin has endured numerous humiliations, personal trials, confronted the source of his own discontentment, and even gone to the afterlife. Ultimately, he ends up successfully preventing the Gods from destroying magic, and though he's been kicked out of Fillory, he's finally learned how to attain realistic contentment.
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The Magicians / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: Fillory's is an actual crescent shape that eclipses the sun each midday.
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The Magicians / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: Many magical buildings are larger on the inside, such as the cottage that the Physical Kids hang out in. Quentin's copy of A History Of Magic appears quite slim from the outside but actually has 1,832 pages.
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The Magicians	hasFeature	A True Story in My Universe / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Absurdly Divided School / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Absurdly Exclusive Recruiting Standards / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Acquired Situational Narcissism / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Adaptational Sexuality / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	After-Action Villain Analysis / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Aimlessly Seeking Happiness / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Amnesia Missed a Spot / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Apophenia Plot / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Military / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Asleep for Days / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Bigger on the Inside / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Break the Comedian / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Buxom Beauty Standard / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Buxom Is Better / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Call on Me / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Career-Revealing Trait / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Cathartic Crying / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Chekhov M.I.A. / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Comic Books Are Real / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Crippling the Competition / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Crossing the Burnt Bridge / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Cunning Linguist / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Death by Adaptation / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Deathly Unmasking / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Delusion Conclusion / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Detrimental Determination / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Digging Yourself Deeper / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Disability Immunity / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Eerie Arctic Research Station / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Eerily Out-of-Place Object / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Elite School Means Elite Brain / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Enigmatic Institute / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Escapism / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Ethnic Magician / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Executive Excess / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Expy Coexistence / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Extradimensional Emergency Exit / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Fantasy Kitchen Sink / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Fatal Forced March / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Finger-Snap Lighter / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Fireballs / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Flying Books / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Foreign Cuss Word / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Functional Magic / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Funny Bruce Lee Noises / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Genius Burnout / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Gentleman Wizard / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Good Shapeshifting, Evil Shapeshifting / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Hair-Raising Hare / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Happiness Realized Too Late / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Hassle-Free Hotwire / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Heist Episode / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Heroic Wannabe / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	I Am Not My Father / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	I Believe I Can Fly / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Immaturity Insult / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Inept Mage / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Inhuman Eye Concealers / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Jumped at the Call / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Last Day of Normalcy / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Light 'em Up / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Longing for Fictionland / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Lost Voice Plot / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	MacGuffin Delivery Service / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Mad Dreamer / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Magic Librarian / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Magic Misfire / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Magical Gesture / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Magical Species Transformation / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Magicians Are Wizards / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Make a Wish / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Mood-Swinger / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Moving Beyond Bereavement / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Mundane Afterlife / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Mysterious Antarctica / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Naked Nutter / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Narnia Time / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Never Gets Drunk / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Non Sequitur Environment / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Not Quite Back to Normal / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Oh, No... Not Again! / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	One-Hour Work Week / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Only Sane by Comparison / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Our Mages Are Different / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Out, Damned Spot! / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Overcome with Desire / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Perfection Is Static / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Planet England / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Polar Madness / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Portal Crossroad World / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Post-Victory Collapse / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Posthuman Nudism / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Public Domain Artifact / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Pure Magic Being / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Relieved Failure / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Resigned in Disgrace / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Reveling in the New Form / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Rich Recluse's Realm / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Safely Secluded Science Center / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Scenery-Based Societal Barometer / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	School Stories / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Scrubbing Off the Trauma / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Self-Imposed Exile / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Sex for Services / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Showdown / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Signature Scent / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Sinister Nudity / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Sorcerous Overlord / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Spell Levels / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Squishy Wizard / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Students' Secret Society / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Sufficiently Analyzed Magic / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Super-Toughness / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Supporting Protagonist / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Tragic Time Traveler / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Transformation Horror / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Ultimate Final Exam / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Unequal Rites / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Undiscriminating Addict / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Unrealistic Black Hole / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Unskilled, but Strong / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Vancian Magic / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Void Between the Worlds / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Volatile Second Tier Position / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Walking Techbane / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Wandering Walk of Madness / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Wax On, Wax Off / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Weak, but Skilled / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Weather Dissonance / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Whatevermancy / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Windmill Crusader / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Wizarding School / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Woobie Family / int_bca5b926
The Magicians	hasFeature	Your Approval Fills Me with Shame / int_bca5b926

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