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Clarke's Third Law

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Clarke's Third Law	comment	Within many works, the separation between science and magic can be blurred to deceive a bystander. In some cases, one may masquerade as the other. This is an important justification for many forms of Applied Phlebotinum. Trope Namer for these corollaries: Sufficiently Analyzed Magic, Sufficiently Advanced Alien, and Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology, as well as the reverse Insufficiently Advanced Alien. In case you're wondering, here are all three laws. The first and second laws are partially covered by And You Thought It Would Fail and Beyond the Impossible, respectively. Compare with Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys, Doing In the Wizard, First Church of Mecha, Machine Worship, Magic from Technology, Magic Tool, and The Spark of Genius. Contrast with Doing in the Scientist, Fantastic Science, and Magic-Powered Pseudoscience. Compare and contrast Magic by Any Other Name, Magitek, and Placebotinum Effect. See also Cargo Cult, Giving Radio to the Romans, God Guise, and Science Fantasy.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_108cd205	comment	Likewise in Wizardry 8, where a Gadgeteer class can assemble certain items into gadgets that have exactly the same effect as some spells, with advantage of them consuming stamina only instead of mana.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_12ce6b61	comment	In GreedFall, the Nauts are the game's independent Navy faction and it's said that they have their own unique magic that aids in their navigating the sea. However, a late game quest reveals that the Nauts don't rely on magic at all, but mundane seafaring technology. They've invented the gyrocompass, the barometer, even SONAR. This is subtly foreshadowed by your Naut party member, Vasco, having no magic abilities and relying on firearms in combat, owing to the Nauts' mastery of technology. The Nauts also frequently fall afoul of The Inquisition, with some more zealous Inquisitors even blaming Naut "magic" for the Malichor. The Nauts consider it a price worth paying to maintain their monopoly on large-scale ocean travel.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica features both magic and Sufficiently Advanced Aliens in the form of the Incubators, bizarre cat-like aliens who grant human beings access to magic in exchange for their services as Magical Girls (and an eventual inevitable transformation into Witches). The line between magic and technology can become extremely blurry with the Incubators, but it seems that almost all that they do other than the granting of wishes is done with conventional but highly advanced means, since magic use appears to require psychological traits that they don't possess. This includes moving human souls to new containers, forming new bodies from the air, and ensnaring a Physical God in a trap with a person's soul as bait.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_13605458	comment	In Gate, the world beyond the Gate resembles a mix of the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, with magic. Seeing modern marvels like guns, vehicles, etc. tends to make its inhabitants confuse it with magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_145d9b29	comment	In Star Ocean: The Second Story, the main character's laser blaster, used on a primitive world, gets him branded as a prophesied hero with a "Sword of Light".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_15d17004	comment	In Sherlock Holmes (2009), Lord Blackwood's Evil Plan is to fool England into believing that he has Functional Magic and take over England through fear.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_17266d9d	comment	Emily H The Viking Princess: Implied in regards to the titular character's genetic magical powers, which is referred to as "ethnobotany".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_17415b19	comment	Star Ocean: In Star Ocean, Millie describes Ronyx and Ilia as being like gods when they discover how advanced human technology is in comparison to anything on her world, particularly when she and her friends are beamed aboard a human starship. In Star Ocean: The Second Story, the main character's laser blaster, used on a primitive world, gets him branded as a prophesied hero with a "Sword of Light".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	The Might and Magic Ancients' devices belong in this category, not because magic doesn't exist (it does, and not only through their technology) but because their technology is so developed that from the outside perspective it is impossible to say if any of their technologies are Magitek (except in one specific case, which is part of the proof for magic existing beyond the Ancients' technology as used by the barbarian survivors of the Silence), and if it is, where the technology stops and the magic begins.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	Likewise, in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Kite had the power to take the soul of anyone he beats, like a Millennium Item wielder. The catch is, all of his power is attributed to science. Deconstructed, as other characters can achieve the same results using actual magic without dealing with the detrimental side-effects that destroy Kite's health.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1aec9ec4	comment	Septerra Core does this big time. Both technological equipment and magical abilities are powered by radiation from the Core, a gigantic friggin' biocomputer! Essentially, anything done by a living thing is magic, and anything done by a machine is technology. Then again, the line between lifeforms and machines is blurred too, with the game having both sentient robots and biotechnology (see Living Ship).
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1be9854a	comment	Discussed in Sound of the Sky. The characters in-universe recognize that the Lost Technology from before the apocalyptic war that defines the setting is technology, but most of it is so far beyond their current state of roughly WWII-era knowledge and resources that they feel like it might as well be magic. This includes everything from Black Boxes with floating holographic displays to the products of advanced glass making.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1bfb41c6	comment	The Colour of Magic When Rincewind first sees a picture box, he surmises it must work by use of photosensitive materials capturing the light off the target... right up until the magical imp inside complains that he's out of paint.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1ca7cc29	comment	Secret Avengers: In one issue, Bruce Banner quotes Clark's Third Law while discussing Doctor Strange with Iron Patriot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1cc8e29f	comment	In the Destiny series, the characters are Guardians, dead human(oid)s imbued with the "Light of the Traveler," a strange energy which lets them infinitely resurrect and utilize Elemental Powers. The Traveler itself is a giant white sphere. It opposes the Darkness, a force of Social Darwinism that nearly wiped out humanity and takes the form of a fleet of giant black pyramids. Meanwhile, humanity and all the alien races use firearms, hovering vehicles, and starships. It's implied the magic is just technology so far beyond humankind, they ascribe mythical status to it. Later its revealed that the Light and Darkness are forces that originated from before the universe came to exist, and therefore aren't subject to normally inviolable laws of physics, like cause presceding effect, logical consequence, thermodynamics or anything else. While completely mundane and normal for other paracausal beings, for humans who exist wholly as part of the universe, these powers must be couched and understood in mystical and magical structures because, essentially, that's what the Light might as well be. The driving force for the Light to insert itself like this is that the natural, deterministic laws of the universe will always favor the emergence of all-consuming AI that will convert the universe entirely into itself forever. Because these patterns like to time travel, the only way to prevent their dominance and let other interesting things happen was to cheat.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_1d1591e8	comment	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles provides a possible example. It's implied that the Crying Titan—from which Yōkai, magic, and the Mutagenic Goo originated—was one of the Krang, which would mean that everything mystical in the series was actually highly advanced alien technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: Played for Laughs when a slightly tipsy Hawkeye ribs Thor about his "magic hammer." Tony also jokes MjÃ¶lnir's "if he be worthy" clause just means it's coded to Thor's fingerprints, something Thor is amused by.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_231e4976	comment	In V (2009), Anna threatens to lead people away from the Catholic Church, as V technology is capable of many of the same "miracles" on which the Christian faith is based, unless the Church forces its priests to stop badmouthing the aliens. The Cardinal she is talking to gives in.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_2389c7e8	comment	The main character of The Taking recalls this law at the end and inverts it, noting that to a cynical society magic would appear to be highly advanced technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_261c8d3f	comment	Parodied in The Simpsons when in the future Marge points out how much easier things are since scientists invented magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_2a2cc085	comment	Prolecto has this as a minor theme, contributing to the Science Fantasy feel. The demons and the angels all use technology that is explained in scientific terms.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_2adb8058	comment	In Fate/Grand Order: First Order, the heroes team up with CÃº Chulainn, who was summoned as a Caster Servantnote Though CÃº Chulainn is more known for being a warrior in his legend, he also received training as a druid with rune magecraft. The heroes use a high tech device with a holographic display to communicate with Dr. Roman. CÃº Chulainn is amazed and says their magecraft is impressive.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha uses this to describe their technology. The title includes the word "magic", and everyone there in the anime is running on Magitek.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl: In Supergirl (1982) #18, Supergirl fights Kraken, a super-villain who claims to be a wizard. Kara deduces Kraken is not a wizard, because if his skills were magic-based, she would have been seriously hurt when his blows hit her. She scans his costume with her X-Ray Vision and spots his gadgets. Invoked constantly by a secondary character in the final arc of Supergirl (2005): In that same storyline another character said: "It only looks like magic if you can't do the math."
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Clarke's Third Law / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash: Abra Kadabra, a member of the Flash's rogues gallery, takes advantage of this. His schtick is coming from the 64th century, where the technology is so advanced that he passes as a magician in the 20/21st century. Then he made a Deal with the Devil to get real magic which also exists in the DC Universe.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, the people of Lior view alchemy as being a type of miracle, but others treat it as a science; they're both right, in some respects. Although it behaves like magic, it does seem to be part of the physical makeup of their universe, and obeys strict laws like Equivalent Exchange. Human Transmutation is where things get more mystical, as it's universally treated as forbidden knowledge, and for good reason — anyone who attempts it ends up dead, dismembered, or worse. Surviving it allows you to perform alchemy without an alchemy circle which, in their world, makes about as much sense as surfing the internet without a computer. The protagonists and a handful of others have this ability, and it baffles everyone they meet.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_353b7af3	comment	In Star Trek: Discovery, Captain Pike brings up Clarke's Third Law when discussing a colony of humans who were pulled halfway across the galaxy before Zefram Cochrane invented warp drive. He then goes on to quote Shermer's Last Law, which seems very apropos for the Star Trek universe: "Any sufficiently-advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God."
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Clarke's Third Law / int_367f632a	comment	Then there's the Ecclesiarchy in Dawn of War Soulstorm, as somehow a relic (which is usually old bones) blessed by a saint confers invulnerability, with no other explanation given otherwise. Even in Tabletop, the Sisters of Battle faction has ability to use "miracles". These work on same principle as Ork "technology". As the Warp is projection of thoughts and emotions, it's possible, with strong enough faith, to bend laws of physics. As the Sisters are zealots even among zealots, their faith is (with morale boosts by Relic) strong enough to do this.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_38c57aa2	comment	Inverted in the Eberron setting where mundane technology is all but discarded because magic has reached the point where it could be called a technology in and of itself.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal gives the law an interesting corrolary.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_396309a7	comment	In Rabi-Ribi, modern technology from the Warp Destination aka the outside world is indistinguishable from and oddly compatible with magic from Rabi Rabi Island, to the point that magical energy can be used to charge Syaro's cell phone and Cicini's devices. Erina and Ribbon are confused when Cicini has no idea what magic is despite a boss fight where she was flinging around what they thought were magic projectiles.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_3b45421d	comment	Isle of Dogs features a rather mundane twist on the idea: among the dogs, Oracle earns her name and status not by having psychic visions, but by being the only one of them who can understand the news reports shown on television.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_3defe34c	comment	A Discussed Trope in Starsnatcher. When Lucas and Steve talk about wormholes, the latter struggles to understand what makes them differ from magic portals.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_3e14b5c0	comment	Eternal Champions: Xavier Pendragon was burned at the stake for being a warlock despite the manual saying that his abilities were based in science.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Disputed by Harry Dresden. He comments that the spells he used on his heavy leather duster allow it to be waterproof, bulletproof, and breathe like cotton. He is warm and dry even in a rainstorm as he awaits battle and no piece of modern clothing could be all of that.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_4368039d	comment	In Supergirl (1982) #18, Supergirl fights Kraken, a super-villain who claims to be a wizard. Kara deduces Kraken is not a wizard, because if his skills were magic-based, she would have been seriously hurt when his blows hit her. She scans his costume with her X-Ray Vision and spots his gadgets.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_4368553e	comment	Invoked constantly by a secondary character in the final arc of Supergirl (2005):
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Clarke's Third Law / int_44127c7c	comment	Invoked back and forth in Power Rangers. The original series explicitly identified the Rangers' mentor, Zordon, as an alien wizard, with their powers, weapons and vehicles the creation of his magic, but later shows have made the Rangers' powers more explicitly technological in nature, such as Lightspeed Rescue being an elite contemporary rescue team and Time Force an elite police force that originated from the year 3000 but operate in the year 2001, while Dino Thunder draw their power from the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs. Mystic Force, naturally, is full-on magic, while Ninja Storm and Jungle Fury involve Supernatural Martial Arts that could just as well be magic but are never called such. Moreover, while some teams have powers outside their suits, becoming an actual Ranger apparently involves tapping into the Morphing Grid, whether you use magic or science to do so.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion tends to blur the lines between the scientific, esoteric/metaphysical and divine/spiritual.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_460f6c24	comment	Planet of the Apes (2001): When Davidson explains his messenger device to the apes, Krull thinks it's sorcery.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_468bebb0	comment	Inverted in Discworld where sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology: The Colour of Magic When Rincewind first sees a picture box, he surmises it must work by use of photosensitive materials capturing the light off the target... right up until the magical imp inside complains that he's out of paint. The Science of Discworld quotes Clarke in its frontispiece and later agrees with Florence:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_4811a5a6	comment	The main source of the advanced tech from Asura's Wrath comes from this law, though with a more Hindu and Buddhist Twist.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_498b77e9	comment	In Skin Horse, Dr. Virginia Lee, a sane scientist in a Mad Science universe, believes that any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV features magic and technology (as well as Magitek, naturally) coexisting, but even the most advanced Garlean magitek pales in comparison to the creations of the Allagan Empire, whose technological prowess borders on Reality Warping.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: In the episode, "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court", the wizard's recipe for "Dragon's Bane" (sulfur, rock salt, charcoal and seagull droppingsnote a source of potassium nitrate), reveals that it's just a fantastic name for gunpowder.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_4c9647dd	comment	In the Savage Worlds system, magic users/spellcasters and gadgeteers/inventors use the same rules to determine the in-game effects of their spells/inventions. If a mage uses a fly spell or a mad scientist builds a jetpack, both work exactly the same way.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: Unsuccessfully invoked by Lu, who notes that aliens visiting Earth must have abilities humanly indistinguishable from magic. However, in this setting, magic and spirits surround her while extraterrestrials don't, and she ends up mistaking the former for the latter. Though that does make Lu technically right that humans can't tell them apart. Shadow Mei believes the "online shopping" Garaku used to get her a dress was some kind of magic spell.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Eridan of Homestuck refuses to believe that magic exists and insists on calling it science, even calling the magic that he uses "White Science". Earlier, in a trans-temporal memo made by Karkat, Kanaya asks him if magic is real. While he says he's not sure, the point is moot since all the equipment Sgrub has leaves nothing for magic to really offer. They kind of have magic in the Alchemy already.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_51d31800	comment	In Space Marine Battles, Spirit of Integrity was built during the Golden Age of Technology and outclasses the Imperium so badly they can't do a thing to stop it. It can do a variety of things that leave the techmarines with their hands spread out and saying "I don't know".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_5524b5fd	comment	Unicorn Jelly: While the majority of the Plate inhabitants believe that the two inviolably separate disciplines of Witchcraft and Alchemy Is Magic, they are in fact science — but science which seems unintelligible to humans, because it is rooted in the other-dimensional physics of the Sierpinski Triangle Worldplates. While the earliest humans to be transported to — or. rather (we later learn), duplicated into — the dimension of the Worldplates were able to learn the pre-Cataclysm Jellese science to some degree, that knowledge got disrupted when they were forced to flee the Plate they originally appeared on. However, the possibility that there is 'real' magic, such as the Holy Unicorn which supposedly empowered Uni, remained ambiguous throughout. This theme also appears in the related Pastel Defender Heliotrope, set in the sub-sub-dimension of Pastel.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: The Green Lantern Corps' rings and by extension the other Corps' power rings use light in order to form physical constructs. It's supposedly advanced technology, but because light isn't normally physical, for all intents and purposes the power rings are magic to everyone except Superman because he's weak to magic and this is not magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick had a gag that any sufficiently advanced and reliable magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_5b28dc78	comment	In Hoshin Engi, it's highly implied that the paope used by Sennin and Doshi alike are more akin to hi-tech artifacts fueled by the Sendo's energy, which in turn is generated from their peculiar bone structure. A good example is when Taiitsu inspects Sengyoku's paope (a seemingly normal large stone) and opens it, revealing an interior akin to that of a machine. It's ultimately revealed that the paope are knock offs of the original deal left behind by aliens, which are even more advanced.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The technology behind the Tenno and Orokin of Warframe certainly fall into this.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_5c4f8aab	comment	The aliens in Cowboys & Aliens are never called as such. They're most often called demons and the cast never thinks of them as being technologically advanced. Ella, another alien, says that she came from beyond the stars, giving the impression of an angel.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_60249eb3	comment	In Childhood's End, the alien Overlords possess technology so far beyond human understanding that they might as well be gods. Humans for the most part accept that it is in fact some form of technology, but characters within the story observe that from the human perspective, Overlord technology might as well be magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_611c72dc	comment	Late in the Star Trek novel Federation, Zefram Cochrane arrives aboard the Enterprise-D from the Ent-Nil and is reminded of this. He could guess at the basic principles behind the Constitution-class's devices, but the Galaxy-class is so far in advance of anything he's dealt with that, for all he knows, it's magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe Doctor Strange: Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme involves a MacGuffin known as the Word of God that appears to be a spellbook of unimaginable power. Turns out the spellbook is actually advanced technology from an extradimensional alien being that magic users just happen to have an affinity for. Using its spells draws the owner to the dimension it resides it. Iron Man: Played with in an issue of Iron Man 2012 from Kieron Gillen's run. Malekith of The Fair Folk (one of Thor's usual enemies) refers to one of the Mandarin's rings as magic. When the ring protests that it is science, Malekith ignores this. Scarlet Witch: The Scarlet Witch zigzags this trope. Her power is to affect probability in order to make wildly improbable events happen. This has drifted to become a general ability to warp reality. Thus, despite her name and the description of her power as including "hex bolts," she is not magical. It was at one point but has since been retconned and later still it became a combination of both: her mutant powers made it possible for her to make contact with Cthon, an Elder god turned demon sealed in Mount Wundagore. Cthon bestowed powerful Chaos Magic to Wanda as part of his plans. The Ultimate Marvel universe tried to explain that in order to make said improbable events happen she had to "do the math" of how likely the events would be before she could cause them. Secret Avengers: In one issue, Bruce Banner quotes Clark's Third Law while discussing Doctor Strange with Iron Patriot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_631805af	comment	Invoked in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, when Otacon gives a theoretical explanation of Vamp's 'superpowers': Also invoked in a couple of the optional Codec calls in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Otacon compares Snake's artillery to everyone else's unique methods of attack when Ganondorf is concerned, and Mei Ling even directly goes into a spiel about how technology is simply another kind of magic when Zelda's around.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_63230cb	comment	We get allusions to this in consecutive episodes of Dragon Ball Z Abridged. In Episode 12, a doctor in Freeza's army refers to medicine as "delicious, magical science" while treating Vegeta. And in Episode 13, Goku refers to senzu beans as "sweet, science-y magic".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_65d07453	comment	There's also a mention in Captain America: The First Avenger when a Nazi agent calls Red Skull's technology magic. Plus, elements in multiple films imply that Iron Man's state-of-the-art Arc Reactor is based on the Tesseract, a container for the Space Stone.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_677659e3	comment	Mystic Detective from Process of Elimination specializes in crimes that apparently involve the supernatural and figuring out the true, mundane causes behind them. For instance, a murder that a witness claimed was done by a werewolf was actually committed by a Tyke Bomb whose hair and nails were never cut, making her look like a werewolf.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_67855503	comment	Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle is a superficially medieval fantasy setting, in which the fantastic elements come from the advanced technology of a lost civilisation. Knights use dragon-themed Mini-Mecha called Drag-Knights (and hence are called Drag-Knights), Ruins (analogous to dungeons in fantasy games) are the literal ruins of said civilisation, and monsters (here called Abyss) are living weapons also produced by said civilisation. The Drag-Rides in particular have a technological flavour, with Hard Light computer interfaces, radar and implied radio communications. People in the setting are aware that the advanced technology is just that and not magic, even if they don't fully understand it.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_68237790	comment	The Pathfinder Technology Guide opens with a quote of the trope-naming law. Much of the tech presented therein has similar effects to magic items from other rulebooks, and pricing is also similar.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_684610	comment	In BlazBlue, there is a clear distinction between science and magic, however the "magic" used by most characters is called Ars Magus, which is in actuality a middle ground between the two. Pure magic is defined as much more powerful, and currently the only known characters to wield it are Rachel, Nine and her daughter, Kokonoe.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_68b5d8bb	comment	Clarke's Third Law is explicitly mentioned and quoted in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures episode "The Might of Doom", where Doctor Doom's powers are rationalized as incredibly advanced technology rather than sorcery. Doom himself takes this further by saying that Dormammu, a hellish Dimension Lord in the comics, is simply a Sufficiently Advanced Alien that primitive humans mistook for a demonic entity. It later turns out that Doom's armor is based on alien technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars dabbles in this with many of its Original Generation Super Robots being products of alien technology so far advanced from anything on Earth that it borders on magic. One notable example is SRX: the robots that comprise it, the R-Series, are Real Robots with capabilities that are on par with Earth-built mecha, but the combined SRX is so powerful that it fights just like a Super Robot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Unlike the MCU's film entry, the television side usually averts this trope and is content to let magic be magic. Daredevil (2015), Iron Fist (2017), and The Defenders (2017) regularly feature Supernatural Martial Arts and other Eastern sorcery, and even Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spent a whole season on Ghost Rider and a demonic spellbook. However, this trope is zig-zagged in Runaways (2017). In the comic, the Staff of One is a magic artifact conjured by Nico Minoru spilling her own blood, and it can create any affect but only once. In the show however, it's an intricate device composed of nanotechnology that interfaces with — oh hell, it's a magic staff. Nico, a Wiccan, has this exact attitude as her mother tries to explain it to her. In fact, Tina's description of the Staff made so little sense (and didn't explain everything we saw it do), that the second season retconned it into being magic after all. The third season went even further by having Morgan La Fey as the Big Bad and Nico and Tina fully showing off their sorcery. It's also revealed that the Staff of One is essentially magic training wheels, and a sufficiently skilled sorcerer, like Tina or an adult Nico, will eventually outgrow it.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: Played with in an issue of Iron Man 2012 from Kieron Gillen's run. Malekith of The Fair Folk (one of Thor's usual enemies) refers to one of the Mandarin's rings as magic. When the ring protests that it is science, Malekith ignores this.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6ab1b49f	comment	In the Council Wars series, there are elves, orcs, dragons etc that are the result of genetic engineering combined with nanotech, "spells" are based on high energy manipulation of quantum physics; you name it and there's science behind it!
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Inverted in the Hollow World D&D setting, where the Blacklore elves' "advanced technology" is secretly powered by magic. This allows the Immortals who oversee the Hollow World to preserve the high-tech culture of the Blacklore elves (who've forgotten how their own machines work and can't tell the difference), while ensuring that actual technology won't spread to other parts of the HW setting and disrupt other preserved cultures.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6acaf8c8	comment	Vividred Operation is a Magical Girl anime...where the girls are given their powers through pure science.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6af83614	comment	In A Thing of Vikings, quite a few kings, bishops and other political figures from outside of Berk see the dragons as demons and regard Hiccup as a sorcerer who commands them. Harthacnut referred to him as a "sorcerer-smith" and was particularly unnerved by his artificial leg, which allowed him to walk normally. Others are more positive, but the leg, Toothless' harness, Hiccup's flaming sword and Astrid's flaming ax are all believed to be the work of magic, not engineering.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6bf8941a	comment	In The Prestige, the audience is shown the behind-the-scenes gadgets without which the various magic tricks seen would be impossible. Most are clearly mechanical in nature, but Tesla's machine is practically witchcraft even by modern day standards.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6cf5fb1f	comment	The 1960s series The Time Tunnel had a shout out to this trope one episode:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6d10ab03	comment	Mortal Kombat 1 features loads of magic and other supernatural goings-ons, especially with the people of Outworld, but in one scene, Johnny Cage from Earthrealm brings his own form of wizardry: a $30k drone with a camera and viewfinder tablet that allows them to spy on enemy forces. Mileena (a princess of Outworld) genuinely believes at first that it's an incredible magic she'd never seen before.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_6fd40e79	comment	Taken to its extreme in The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven. A planetary scout gets stranded on a primitive world, and has to enlist the help of the natives to get to a place he can summon help. Said natives have to be taught production technology and how to create certain things in order to do this...which makes them regard him as a high-powered magician. The story is also told from the perspective of one of the natives, for added humor.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Most of the technology of the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens is taken as magic by the majority of the less advanced civilizations in the galaxy. In later seasons, Daniel tries to tell a village that there is no such thing as magic; it is ineffective because no sooner has he finished saying this than he and the rest of his team are beamed away in a flash of light, leaving the villagers baffled. Daniel hangs his head and complains at the timing. This trope actually becomes an issue for the good guys in the last two seasons with the Ori as while the Priors can be overpowered by certain technologies (these are not foolproof and only last temporarily) and humans can evolve naturally or be evolved into a state where they gain the powers the Priors possess, some of those powers cannot be replicated and used or at least not as effectively with technology as they are by near-ascended humans and regardless said powers are genuine thus SG-1's usual arguments countering such claims of divinity or divine-empowerment as just being the doing of advanced technology won't work so well, especially when said Priors are granted those powers by the Ori, ascended beings who have most, if not all the powers associated with actual deities and that there's a fair argument to be made that the Ori really are gods by most definitions regardless of them not always being such and whether they are now truly divine or not. It comes to the point where SG-1 realize this and change their argument from the Ori not being gods to whether their actions make them worthy of worship.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_70b26f38	comment	In Fate/strange Fake, Lord El-Melloi II's slightly above-average competence with computers is often mistaken by his technologically illiterate colleagues as a new branch of magecraft that he's studying. This is partly how he manages to garner as much respect in the Clock Tower as he does despite actually being absolutely terrible at magecraft.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_73f86f22	comment	In Hocus Pocus this is played with as the witches return to Salem after 300 years. When Max uses his lighter they believe he makes fire with his hands. He trips a sprinkler system and makes them believe it is 'the burning rain of death'.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7559ae0b	comment	The Dune series Most of the organizations in can fall into this group, but most of them also need spice melange at some point. Even if each group doesn't, cannot or elects not to understand the deepest inner workings of another group's near-magical technology, they accept that there's a rational, scientific basis underlying it. The Ixians emphasize pure technology and can electronically duplicate the Guild Navigators' future-path-mapping abilities and in the process nearly bring about the extinction of humankind.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_755b343f	comment	This is the view held by many on Master Chief's technology in A Spartan in Westeros. When the Chief explains forensic science to Tyrion, Tyrion retorts that despite his logical mind and knowing that it is merely advanced technology, he can see nothing but sorcery.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_755fadab	comment	The "data manipulation" of the aliens of Haruhi Suzumiya is barely distinguishable from Reality Warping; the time travelers from the future ostensibly do things with technology, but they seem to just happen with no source due to computers having advanced beyond having physical hardware. To make matters more confusing, it's heavily implied that the aliens and time travelers were created by Haruhi's inexplicable reality-warping powers, i.e. magic. The super-advanced aliens are studying her because even they don't understand her ability to "create data".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_76b266d1	comment	In Christopher Stasheff's Warlock of Gramarye series, the inhabitants of the planet Gramarye interpreted abilities like telekinesis as "magic" due to their ancestors' decision to adopt a low-tech pseudo-medieval culture and the passage of centuries without contact from any other planets. Beings such as fairies, trolls and whatnot, according to the main character, were the result of a combination of psychic powers, a psi-sensitive local plant called "witchmoss" and a lot of fairy tales.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_771fc130	comment	Delta Green Agents calls magic Hypergeometry, due to its frequent association with lines, shapes, numbers, position and mathematics. The game gives an example on how a tribal shaman drawing a mandala in sand or a scientist pointing lasers in the sky to call something begin similar things with a similar "math", the rituals are referred to be "tapping" in an infinite energy grid existing beyond the four dimensions. Hypergeometry is stated to be the "technology" used by advanced alien and unearthly species such as the Elder Things, Mi-Go, Deep Ones and the Great Race of Yith, and implied they were passed down to humanity by the Great Old Ones.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe at first seems very much like a fantasy show, especially due to its Magical Girl trappings. However, as the show progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that the Gems' "magic" is in fact extremely advanced technology, including holograms, spaceships and teleporters. The Gems themselves are revealed to be an alien race that seem to most closely resemble computers in function (the show's creator somewhat jokingly called them "solar-powered robots"). That said, there are still many details that make the existence of magic ambiguous in-universe, most notably the presence of life energy and the fact that the Gems themselves refer to their abilities as "magical".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_78e99559	comment	Enchantress from the Stars: The Andrecians view Imperial technology as magic wands that turn people to stone (stunners), dragons (rock-chewer), monsters with no faces (Imperials in suits) and the examples in the summary. Also, telepathy and psychokinesis among the Federal field agents are stand-ins for advanced technologies humankind can't think of yet.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7988cb68	comment	Biotics in Mass Effect run the whole gamut of Psychic Powers and could easily be mistaken for magic. In fact, biotic characters fill the "mage" role of the game's Fighter, Mage, Thief dynamic. However, given the game's extreme levels of Shown Their Work and hard sci-fi, it's plausibly explained as the result of Element Zero in the body stimulated by electrical currents generated in the person's nervous system. In-universe, there is a radio story in one of the games about how a following on Earth now believes that the God-myths from ancient civilizations were encounters with alien races (likely the Protheans) and these encounters fell under this trope. In 3, Javik outright tells Liara that the Protheans guided their development, and the Goddess Athame and her followers were Prothean.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_79d01256	comment	Ichika quotes this in Episode 8 of Cat Planet Cuties to explain her "magic" scrolls.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7ad0ade	comment	The villain of George of the Jungle tried to do this with a Polaroid camera to impress his native guides. They suggested a more classic camera for the resolution improvements, then mentioned they had the equipment on them to clean a smudge on his optics.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7cf5a07	comment	Directly referenced in The Flash (2014), when the villain Abra Kadabra appears, using 64th century technology disguised with stage magic tricks to make himself appear to be doing actual magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7d3de191	comment	Interesting variation in Shepard's R&R. The Equestrians, who have actual magic, think the technology of the Mass Effect-verse is magical as well. Meanwhile Shepard's crew (and the galaxy at large) invert this and believe the Equestrians' "magic" is some kind of advanced technology. The latter might be right.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7ed2e204	comment	In Doraemon, the titular robot cat owns many gadgets from the twenty second century that is capable of defying the law of physics; from flashlights capable of altering the size, matter or density of an object, to a phone booth that can alter reality. The technology behind these gadgets are so advanced that characters from other equally advanced civilizations or from outer space mistook them for magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7fc53da4	comment	In The Magic School Bus, it's implied that the titular bus's powers are actually futuristic technology. Its shapeshifting and shrinking abilities, for example, are attributed to devices called a "mesmerglober" and a "portashrinker" respectively.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_7fc78282	comment	Referenced after a fashion by Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings, when she comments on the Hobbits' tendency to talk about "Elf Magic" while taking Frodo and Sam to look at her mirror. In the Elvish language, their word for magic also means "skill," and for them, making a camouflage cloak or an incredibly light but strong rope is just something they do; for the Elves, there's nothing supernatural about it.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_80d8708a	comment	The Numenera setting opens with Dr. Clarke's quote and then puts it front and center with the titular devices. After multiple examples of After the End and millions of years' worth of technological advancement, if there was ever a split between what could actually be considered "magic" and "technology" within the setting, it's long since been gone and forgotten.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_819b8c9e	comment	In Warehouse 13, this seems to held as the mentality of the Warehouse agency with regards to the artifacts they collect, or at least by Artie as he claimed in the first episode:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_83d41855	comment	In Gargoyles, after seeing one of the guns wielded by his enemies for the first time, Hudson says "We must be battling sorcerers!" When explaining the floppy disks used by computers at the time to Goliath, Xanatos describes them as "magic talismans, each containing hundreds of spells" and breaking encryption codes as "translating the spells." Tom and Katharine also describe Macbeth's and Demona's guns as "magic weapons".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_847bc578	comment	The Reckoners Trilogy: Zig-zagged, in Steelheart. Prof uses technology to imitate an Epic for Steelheart to fight. Then we learn that he was really an Epic all along, and most of the technology he used was fake.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_84f3f987	comment	Implied in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. In previous series, when people with magical powers start flexing their sorcerous muscle, usually the first thing they did was make the damage the Solid Vision holograms dealt real. By Arc-V, that kind of power can be used by anyone, when they upgraded to Real Solid Vision. It can even be miniaturized and put inside a standard duel disk.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_8645d677	comment	Spellsinger: The (Wizard) Clothahump explains this idea to the (Human) Jon-Tom in the first book. When pressed about his use of healing magic, Clothahump counters by asking him to explain his watch, and comparing the battery that allows it to run to stored magical power.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius has lots of this. In a Steampunk version of Victorian-era Europe, most of the technology seems to depend upon gears, rotors and basic electricity. This does not stop clockwork robots having extremely advanced artificial intelligence, or genetic engineering being so far advanced that full revival of a dead, and often otherwise obliterated human being is very much possible with an intact brain. This is thanks to "The Spark", a powerful natural talent for all fields of science that some people are born with. Naturally, to non-Sparks, the amazing technologies that Sparks produce look nothing short of magical. An example explicitly naming "magic" is this (non-canon) little gem, where Agatha pimps up a magic wand (with SCIENCE!). Another non-canon example where a time traveling Spark from the distant past gives another variation of the expression. The God Queens and the Polar Lords are even closer. In fact, for all intents and purposes, their abilities are basically Psychic Powers. They tap into energies from another dimension that can be controlled by the mind, allowing them to use Telepathy, live indefinitely, shapeshift, and manipulate the environment to their will. While Queen Albia still treats it as some sort of secret science, the Polar Lords explicitly call their abilities "Arcana".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_877eac68	comment	In The Familiar of Zero there are a number of old artifacts in the magical world that the protagonist was dumped in, including a family's heirloom book that can seduce men, a weapon called the "Staff of Destruction", and a tale about a dragon, whose blood was collected. The objects are a porn magazine, an M72 LAW rocket launcher, and a Japanese Zero Fighter aircraft respectively. The 'blood' was actually gasoline.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_885e1bec	comment	The trope is deconstructed in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which demonstrates that some magical artifacts and effects, such as Animagus transformations and Time Turners, blatantly violate not only the physical laws of science but the deeper laws of mathematics. For example, time travel exists but time cannot be changed, making history not Turing Computable and thereby ruling out any kind of logic we would understand as the fundamental basis of the Potterverse. Sufficiently non-mundane magic doesn't have to make sense.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_88aef33b	comment	Invincible: Supplemental material for the Invincible universe states that magic is simply the end result of technological advancement. That the trappings of invocation and ritual are merely security measures like encryption and authorization for unimaginably advanced technology to keep it from being used accidentally or by unauthorized parties.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Although Mr. Mxyzptlk has vast powers traditionally attributed to magic, many interpretations of the character suggest it's due to his access to very advanced technology and the physical advantage that living in the fifth dimension confers over tridimensional beings like Superman. Batman's analogue to Mr. Mxyzptlk, Bat-Mite on the other hand runs on "5th dimensional technology" through and through, doing the same Reality Warping effects.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_8e608c43	comment	Downplayed and partly averted in Sixty Eight Rooms by Mariannne Malone. Jack showed Thomas (from the seventeenth century) a flashlight, but tried to explain how it worked. Thomas, eight-years-old, doesn't understand, but comments that if it was witchcraft, he wasn't afraid of it. Thomas later becomes an inventor.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_8e93a13d	comment	Phantasy Star seems to run on this trope, particularly Phantasy Star Universe in which the spells are equipped as programs for weapons. In Phantasy Star IV, for example, the main character can shoot lasers/holy light out of his hands, his partner can summon fire out of nowhere, and a companion that joins early on can freeze his enemies, etc. Your basic fantasy game magic, right? Well, not too far into the story, the characters are joined by a robed character, who (during a cutscene) blasts away some rocks with some sort of fire. The rest of the characters go, "Whoa, was that * MAGIC* ? I thought that the art of magic was lost centuries ago!" Cue the confused player thinking, "wait, you mean the * other* fire spell that the other player can cast ISN'T magic?" It's not really explained what the difference is, but the game has androids ("An droid, the droid, WHATEVER" -Raja, Phantasy Star IV) and spaceships, and such. The trope is varied, though, because the characters seem to be able to distinguish easily between magic and tech, it's just the player that's confused. "Techniques" from Phantasy Star II tend to be described as science (or at least Techno Babble). The manual explains how some techniques do what they do; for instance, Foi "compresses the oxygen in the air until it ignites." The likely explanation is that they're a form of Psychic Powers developed by Mother Brain, and that magic has more or less died off in the age of modern science. Still, Phantasy Star II in general has a lot of Sufficiently Advanced vibes anyway, so you never know.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_8ebf0402	comment	Westward evokes the Law in an early strip. One of the characters notes that the (essentially incomprehensible) form of Faster-Than-Light Travel used by the titular Cool Starship is easier to accept if one thinks of it as magic, rather than technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_903a9871	comment	A sidebar in the Dark Heresy book Blood of Martyrs recounts the story of how Goge Vandire turned the Daughters of the Emperor to his side: to demonstrate that he had the Emperor's grace, he had one of his bodyguards shoot him. The force field in his rosarius absorbed the shot. He gambled that the Brides hadn't seen it before and it paid off: they swore allegiance to him, were renamed the Brides of the Emperor, and became his Bodyguard Babes.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_9060799c	comment	Infinity Crisis: Invoked in Of Kryptonians and Queens as Merlin complains over Brainy assuming his magic is just an advanced science.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_914ba844	comment	The Wizard of Oz: the Wizard fakes the all-powerful wizard role using a machine. He does it again in Oz the Great and Powerful: Oscar fools the inhabitants of Oz into believing he is the Wizard prophesied to save their land using technology and parlor tricks from his homeland. His plan to rescue Glinda and retake the Emerald City in the climax hinges on the wicked witches not being able to distinguish his technology from genuine magical ability.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_931ad6c7	comment	A Hero Forged: Everyone thinks that Luz is either using some kind of super-advanced form of Construction Magic or some kind of "Human Magic" unique to her to create her Iron Witch suits. While she is using titan bone as a power-source and has incorporated glyphs into the designs to utilize glyph magic, her suits are otherwise 100% based on human science.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Hinted at in Dishonored, where the Outsider mentions that his existence and the abilities he sometimes bestows upon Corvo and others appear to be magic to them.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_976efc02	comment	Played for laughs by the Observers from Mystery Science Theater 3000, who are an omnipotent race of morons. Show writer Kevin Murphy wrote that, "The only thing Mr. Clarke doesn't take into account is how incredibly stupid any creature might be, no matter how advanced."
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Clarke's Third Law / int_9d4fbe8e	comment	Freeman's Mind points out that while advanced technology could appear to be magic, it doesn't rule out magic as an explanation.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_9d963831	comment	In Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series, several spells have suspicious names, such as one called "flashlight". At the end of Fyre, the quote takes up the final page of the series. It's also important to note the series is set in the 10th millenium, and that people have legends of ships that fly through the stars. All in all, it can reasonably be assumed that Septimus Heap is set in a future so far that technology and magic are the same.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_9e2f90f4	comment	The techniques that Nami devised during the time-skip in One Piece are called "weather sorcery", and do involve Storm-like manipulation of the weather for combat purposes. This "sorcery" is actually based upon the science of the meteorologists who live on the sky island of Weatheria, though it only qualifies as science within the weird boundaries of the One Piece universe.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_9f2fe1ec	comment	While Pugmire looks like a mix between a D&D session and a Furry comic, everything in its setting — from the Funny Animals to the "Artisans" who cast spells by focusing their ancient artifacts — is explained as being either a product or a remnant of the long-gone race of Man's superior technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU The Flash: Abra Kadabra, a member of the Flash's rogues gallery, takes advantage of this. His schtick is coming from the 64th century, where the technology is so advanced that he passes as a magician in the 20/21st century. Then he made a Deal with the Devil to get real magic which also exists in the DC Universe. Green Lantern: The Green Lantern Corps' rings and by extension the other Corps' power rings use light in order to form physical constructs. It's supposedly advanced technology, but because light isn't normally physical, for all intents and purposes the power rings are magic to everyone except Superman because he's weak to magic and this is not magic. Supergirl: In Supergirl (1982) #18, Supergirl fights Kraken, a super-villain who claims to be a wizard. Kara deduces Kraken is not a wizard, because if his skills were magic-based, she would have been seriously hurt when his blows hit her. She scans his costume with her X-Ray Vision and spots his gadgets. Invoked constantly by a secondary character in the final arc of Supergirl (2005): In that same storyline another character said: "It only looks like magic if you can't do the math." Superman: Although Mr. Mxyzptlk has vast powers traditionally attributed to magic, many interpretations of the character suggest it's due to his access to very advanced technology and the physical advantage that living in the fifth dimension confers over tridimensional beings like Superman. Batman's analogue to Mr. Mxyzptlk, Bat-Mite on the other hand runs on "5th dimensional technology" through and through, doing the same Reality Warping effects.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a0aafd19	comment	In Aisopos, this is Played for Laughs when the Barbarian encounters the Deus ex machina created by Thales and he thinks it's an actual God with real powers. Thales explaining to him that it's all based on machinery doesn't change his opinion.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a0eccac9	comment	The Foundation Trilogy: When Foundation begins, the Galactic Empire's civilization and technology has already begun to crumble; local systems are losing the scientific expertise necessary for an interstellar society to function and control of the Periphery is quickly lost. Starting from the end of "The Encyclopedists", the people of Terminus begin educating people from the Four Kingdoms in technology, such as nuclear power, radioactive synthetics, and hyperwave relays. However, in order to explain the technology in a way they could understand, Terminus has to couch everything in religious terms, effectively saying The Galactic Spirit Did It to convince the local barbarians that it was safe for human use. When a better educated man is trying to piece through the veil of mysticism created by the gulf of distance, he protests that a personal shield is impossible. To which the person he's interrogating drolly points out that their status as "magicians" is not wholly unearned.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a183d57f	comment	Parodied even harder in Futurama with the Satanic-err...scientific ritual to restore Calculon to life. "Hail Science!" The ritual involves protective, black cloaks with red lines, wireless routers laid out in a pentagram, taking a spare circuit board from a mechanical goat (which is opened with a knife on a satanic altar), and playing an installation dish backwards, which, incidentally, says "Rise from the dead in the name of Satan!"
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a1970a85	comment	In Fading Suns, there's usually a possible scientific explanation for anything magical, and contrariwise there's usually magical trappings to anything scientific. But when it comes to the technology of the Anunnaki, this trope is invoked outright; Ur-tech such as the Jumpgates and Philosopher's Stones is effectively incomprehensible magic, plain and simple.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm: Generally speaking, technology invented and used by a higher-singularity being may be understandable and even able to be replicated (at least in its most basic form and applications) by a very smart individual of a lower intelligence, but once you get beyond a two-singularity difference, the tech's complexity is simply beyond a person's mental ability to process. Post-singularity technologies that cannot be replicated by a human-level intelligence are called "Clarketech" in reference to this law, and are pretty much indistinguishable from magic to everyone but their creators. Everyone is generally well-aware that it really is technology, but many argue that since its effects are indistinguishable from "magic", is there really any point differentiating it?
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a4420d22	comment	In The Venture Bros., this is Doctor Venture's view on all magic: specifically, magic is just a different form of science that uses differing terminology and ideas but accomplishes the same thing. Though he's quite familiar with mages and necromancers, even having one by the name of Doctor Orpheus renting out part of his property, he's also seen all manner of crazy superscience accomplishments, and he's never seen a thing that could be done by one and not the other. He goes so far as to claim that the synaptic data he uses for Brain Uploading purposes is no different from a soul—and he may be right, as Orpheus's attempt to track lost souls led him right to the computer storing said data.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a609791a	comment	The Scooby-Doo cartoons tend to be about seemingly paranormal events caused by scientists or technicians with enough know-how to be able to fake such incidences using advanced technology.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a7a0b48b	comment	In NieR: Automata, your Pods have many technology-oriented attacks that are essentially the copies of blood-powered magic of Grimoire Weiss from Nier. The first game itself has the separation line between magic and technology rather blurry, what with the androids that can use standard magic ...
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a806ea97	comment	Garrett, P.I.: In Wicked Bronze Ambition, the Operators kidnap Kip and Kevans in order to steal their "magical talents" in a ritual of sorcery, not realizing that the teens have been using mundane engineering and creativity, not supernatural insights, to invent ingenious devices.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_a896e651	comment	Against a Dark Background has ancient technology that does inexplicable things. Scientists create their own maddening explanations for how something can weight three times as much when upside-down.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Invoked but defied with the Technocracy in Mage: The Ascension; the Technocrats truly believe with all their hearts and souls that this is the root to their "hyper-technology", but the reality is that what they're doing is actually Magic-Powered Pseudoscience and they've been indoctrinated to think otherwise. Later editions play this straighter, as it's pointed out that, metaphorically, "magic" is just Psychic Powers and alien physics. To the point that the raw belief that powers the setting has been quantified and artificially replicated as "Anthropic Radiation".
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Clarke's Third Law / int_af2a147e	comment	In Enchanted, many of the characters are from a fairy tale world that resembles the Middle Ages who end up in modern day New York. They adjust fairly quickly. Giselle figures out how a vacuum cleaner and the shower works and Prince Edward figures out how a TV and remote control works. They just think of these devices as magical in nature. Edward sees the TV as a magic mirror that shows different scenes.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star featured as an important plot point the Caster Guns that fire unique shells that are incredibly powerful. The main theories as to their origin is that they are either a piece of lost advanced technology or magical in nature. It turns out to be a little of both.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b24d189d	comment	Lord of Light has some characters develop psionic powers through genetic engineering and centuries of practice. They become strong enough that they are mistaken for gods. They take advantage of this by adopting the appearance and persona of Hindu gods and rule the populace via existing Hindu temples.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: A lot of objects deemed magical or miraculous in myth were in fact very advanced alien technology left on Earth.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b370ddd1	comment	Clarke's Third Law is actively discussed in Thor, where Thor states that to humans, magic and science are different, but the Asgardians have mastered both to such a level that making a distinction is no longer significant. In the sequel, Jane is actually able to identify an Asgardian medical device based on observed effects. She calls it a quantum field generator while they call it a soul forge, but it's clearly the same thing.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b61a666a	comment	Parodied by TISM in the liner notes of Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, which declare that "a sufficiently advanced Techno is indistinguishable from Music"
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Both inverted and played straight in the Young Justice (2010) episode "Denial". Kid Flash denies the existence of magic, insisting that there is a scientific explanation for everything. He dismisses Doctor Fate's 'magic' as technical tricks. Understandable because of his experience with the Flash villain Abra Kadabra, a straight example who uses his technology to simulate magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_b96b4bce	comment	Inverted in Steven Universe: and the Hunters of Arcadia. Being able to mentally interface with Jasper's gem using elixlore, Jamie comes to the conclusion that it is some form of advance computer, being able to properly communicate with an uncorrupted part of Jasper's mind.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	In the Granblue Fantasy story event "Freedom's Dirge", Rhiogur is shown to be able to channel the spirit of the deceased Guzaletha, the head of the gang that many of Rhiogur's followers used to be part of. In the final chapter of the story, this "channeling" is revealed to just be Rhiogur doing a good impression of his voice while one of his lackeys operates a special effects machine.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Played with in Warhammer 40,000: While the technology of every major power in the grim dark future is amazing to some degree, it's hard to tell where the tech ends and the magic begins. For example, the Imperium believes, by and large, that their machines are given life by "Machine Spirits" and are somehow enchanted. They might be right, or maybe they're deluding themselves. Then there's the Orks, whose technology, cobbled together from junk, logically shouldn't work half the time, and yet it does because the Orks think it should. It's not always clear whether the weapons and machines of this setting work because they follow established natural laws, or because "a psyker did it." This depends more on the author than anything else. Some have described Ork technology as unconnected junk that only works because they believe it will, while others have it being entirely normal, if rather crude, and usable by humans. Background fluff, as opposed to actual novels, has generally said that Mekboys are born with inherent knowledge of technology, which suggests that it was intended to be advanced technology rather than actual magic. The Sorcery in Warhammer is projection of psychic energy called Warp, and that energy comes from "condensated" emotions casted by souls and minds of sentient species. Its very similar to Force from Star Wars in principle, only Darker and Edgier. Adeptus Mechanicus Priests revere machines as holy relics, in turn ensuring that whatever they build, they will not skimp on the cost. Their maintenance of it also treats each individual machine as a holy spirit. While this seems outwardly weird by our standards, this means that they will not cut corners on maintenance and will always do a precise job, keeping the machine at top efficiency until the end of it's life. Then there's the Ecclesiarchy in Dawn of War Soulstorm, as somehow a relic (which is usually old bones) blessed by a saint confers invulnerability, with no other explanation given otherwise. Even in Tabletop, the Sisters of Battle faction has ability to use "miracles". These work on same principle as Ork "technology". As the Warp is projection of thoughts and emotions, it's possible, with strong enough faith, to bend laws of physics. As the Sisters are zealots even among zealots, their faith is (with morale boosts by Relic) strong enough to do this. The 40K universe is as much an inversion, as it is playing it straight. By the time 40k rolls around, Humanity had suffered a civilizational collapse some 15,000 years previously where the only technology maintained was either practical and necessary, or picked up by the Mechanicus which developed into a cult as the original source material for development and maintenance degraded and they needed a way to maintain the technology without losing the how to do it. Since their lives depended heavily on keeping their systems working... The Necrons play this the straightest as they explicitly don't use magic much at all, but their technology is so advanced that it may as well be magic. Conveniently this gives them abilities nearly indistinguishable from magic users; they have combat scientists called "Crypteks" take the place that combat psykers do in other races, and their various scientific disciplines are named like disciplines of magic. Psychomancy includes blasting an opponent's mind with fear or despair so they die or go insane and teleporting through clouds of darkness. Plasmancy controls Pure Energy, but also can control fire and light. Chronomancy is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Ethermancy is the control of air and lightning. Geomancy, despite the name, is more about alchemy than about direct earth control; Crypteks following this discipline are known as Harbingers of Transmogrification. Arguably even more advanced than the Necrons are the Dark Eldar, who are very much space Fair Folk. Craftworld Eldar have plenty of nice technology as-is, but they've turned themselves into Space Amish somewhat since the fall of their society; the Dark Eldar meanwhile have kept all their pre-fall toys and even expanded on some of them, and some of their really crazy stuff defies all scientific explanation. Dark Lances supposedly fire munitions gleaned from the inside of black holes, and they even have this really strange weapon which is like a mirror that when shattered instantly does the same to whoever is reflected in it. They can even bring people Back from the Dead. A sidebar in the Dark Heresy book Blood of Martyrs recounts the story of how Goge Vandire turned the Daughters of the Emperor to his side: to demonstrate that he had the Emperor's grace, he had one of his bodyguards shoot him. The force field in his rosarius absorbed the shot. He gambled that the Brides hadn't seen it before and it paid off: they swore allegiance to him, were renamed the Brides of the Emperor, and became his Bodyguard Babes. Feral worlds are often recruiting grounds for Space Marines, the inhabitants of which often describe the marines as "angels". To them, the marines are demigods who, once in their lifetimes, comes to take those few strong and worthy to join their immortal ranks. For the marines, the reason they only come "once a lifetime" is because most marine chapters are forbidden from mass recruitment and because the entrance "exam" often kills most of that generation's fertile males. They're also viewed as Angels because they often descent onto a planet by drop pod or thunderhawk transports.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: It was unclear, even to Tedd, if Tedd's TFG was technology or magic. It was confirmed in this comic that it a combination of both and thus Magitek. It is also a major reason for Tedd to make magic available to everyone. Sure magic can be dangerous, but technology is usually more directly destructive, and easier to use to boot. An ancient vampire nearly kills one of the most powerful wizards in the world with a perfectly ordinary gun.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	This law is directly quoted, word for word, in Season 2 Episode 9 of Stargate Universe, by Eli.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: Robo is one of the few characters who can't use magic, but the weapons he has built into him have enough similar properties to be functionally identical. He can even tech with other magic users to amplify the effects of their spells.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c37e7a28	comment	In Emerald City, while some characters explicitly refer to what the Wizard does as science and technology, some keep referring to it as magic, different from the magic of witches.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: While this is a recurring theme, there are two instances in which he plays with it. In one, the Doctor gives Leela, who hails from a superstitious and technologically underdeveloped society, a yo-yo, and gives her the impression that she needs to play with it to keep the TARDIS working. Later on he comments "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo." "The Pirate Planet" uses this trope by name; the Captain brags that he built his old raiding vessel, "with technology so far advanced you would not be able to distinguish it from magic." "Battlefield" has him dealing with an alternate universe loosely based on Arthurian myth. After wandering through what looks like a futuristic tomb, Ace is surprised that this is supposed to be magic. The Doctor asks Ace if she knows Clarke's third law, when she quotes it he tells her that it also applies in reverse, and she exclaims "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology?" In the new series, the law makes a few appearances: In "The Christmas Invasion", the Sycorax's blood control technology is explicitly described by one character as "like casting a spell". "The Shakespeare Code" has the Monster of the Week be three crones who appear to be witches that cast spells through incantations. When they use a spell to kill a man, the Doctor warns Martha to keep quiet, otherwise the townsfolk will think it's witchcraft. It turns out that the witches are aliens called Carrionites, who use science based on the power of words (similarly to the Logopolitans' block-transfer computation in "Logopolis"). "The Vampires of Venice" has girls seemingly being turned into vampires, with sharp teeth, burns from sunlight, and no reflections. It's revealed that the girls were turned into fish-aliens with sharp teeth and a sensitivity to sunlight. Their holographic illusions (which let them appear human) couldn't provide reflections. Time Lord technology in general is this trope. Time Lord founders Rassilon and Omega are particularly inclined towards it. Most of their inventions are outwardly non-technological in design and could easily be taken for magical artifacts. Apparently there were actual magic-workers on Gallifrey in the days before they were Time Lords, according mostly to supplementary materials that don't quite count. There was war between science and the magical regime, and the dubiously canon "genetic looms" on which Time Lords are made because they can't breed are necessary because of the old dictator's dying curse. "The Shakespeare Code" tried to spin it as magic really being a special kind of applied science, but basically, a lot of the science is magic. At the end of "The Witchfinders", the Doctor quotes the Law to King James I word-for-word before departing in the TARDIS.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c592c211	comment	Empire of the Petal Throne: In the world of TÃ©kumel most magic artifacts (called "eyes") actually are objects of highly advanced technology, of which all memories have been lost in a cataclysm. And the "magic" of wizards and priests actually are just Psychic Powers activated in certain individuals by the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens / Energy Beings that the people of TÃ©kumel see as gods.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c5bf9810	comment	The Mentats from his Legacy of the Aldenata series are capable of Teleportation, 'conjuring up' or modifying items with resources pulled from the surroundings (or seemingly, thin air), with the use of advanced nanomachines.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c60e8211	comment	The Closer: Game of the Year Edition Invokes and Parodies the trope when a character to learn magic to escape an old video game. Zisik mentions the trope in all but name, and the party realizes that for a baseball game that takes place in the 40s, modern baseball statistics are a completely foreign concept. As a result, invoking sabermetrics allows one to become a Reality Warper using the power of Sabermancy.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: In "Power", an After the End society decided to destroy all their technology and start again from the beginning. Years later the Hypercompetent Sidekick of local chieftain Gunn Sar has found a Master Computer room they missed, that he uses to secretly keep things running for their barbarian descendants.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_cb6abef3	comment	This is further reinforced in The Avengers, when Thor fires a lightning bolt from MjÃ¶lnir at Iron Man. While the armor sustains some damage, most of the energy is absorbed by the ARC reactor and is fired by Tony straight back at Thor. Also, Captain America says Loki's "glow stick of destiny" resembles a HYDRA weapon.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_cc9f7417	comment	The Kalahari bushmen in The Gods Must Be Crazy discover a Coke bottle and believe it to be a gift from the Gods. Hilarity Ensues. Eventually, they decide it would be best for all concerned if it were returned to the Gods and cast off the edge of the world.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_cfd860dd	comment	In the Nasuverse, a variation of this works with magecraft rules, which is different from magic that was common during the Age of Gods. One of those rules is that magecraft cannot replicate what can't be performed otherwise (in other words, since mankind has yet to create a Time Machine, Magecraft cannot create a Time Machine). The corollary, of course, is that as technology advances new applications of Magecraft will come into existence. The Grand Order example (where Chaldea has created a fusion of Magecraft and technology capable of traveling into the past) is this to the logical conclusion. In Fate/Grand Order: First Order, the heroes team up with CÃº Chulainn, who was summoned as a Caster Servantnote Though CÃº Chulainn is more known for being a warrior in his legend, he also received training as a druid with rune magecraft. The heroes use a high tech device with a holographic display to communicate with Dr. Roman. CÃº Chulainn is amazed and says their magecraft is impressive. In Fate/strange Fake, Lord El-Melloi II's slightly above-average competence with computers is often mistaken by his technologically illiterate colleagues as a new branch of magecraft that he's studying. This is partly how he manages to garner as much respect in the Clock Tower as he does despite actually being absolutely terrible at magecraft.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d0ea0838	comment	In Star Ocean, Millie describes Ronyx and Ilia as being like gods when they discover how advanced human technology is in comparison to anything on her world, particularly when she and her friends are beamed aboard a human starship.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d3c800ed	comment	In the science fiction universe of Sonic X: Dark Chaos, it turns out this trope is why Jesus Christ was able to perform miracles in the Bible. He discovered a forgotten cache of insanely advanced Angel technology in a desert cave, which he was able to use thanks to his mutated genetics.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d64fad36	comment	The Dreamside Road: Explaining and controlling the "magic" of the world was one of the main motivations of the IHSA and the Dreamthought Project, former owners of the Dreamside Road trove.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d870c809	comment	Scarlet Witch: The Scarlet Witch zigzags this trope. Her power is to affect probability in order to make wildly improbable events happen. This has drifted to become a general ability to warp reality. Thus, despite her name and the description of her power as including "hex bolts," she is not magical. It was at one point but has since been retconned and later still it became a combination of both: her mutant powers made it possible for her to make contact with Cthon, an Elder god turned demon sealed in Mount Wundagore. Cthon bestowed powerful Chaos Magic to Wanda as part of his plans. The Ultimate Marvel universe tried to explain that in order to make said improbable events happen she had to "do the math" of how likely the events would be before she could cause them.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d88c6466	comment	The Science of Discworld quotes Clarke in its frontispiece and later agrees with Florence:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_d91aea9e	comment	Constants and Variables: Elizabeth's tear-based powers are all scientific in origin, but are so alien and fantastical to those unfamiliar with her origins that they are mistaken as being incredibly powerful magic. When she saves Ron and Hermione from the escaped troll by opening a tear to a raging storm, everyone thinks she instead used wordless magic to summon a storm.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_db1bba6c	comment	Outlander: Kainan, a soldier from another world, is mistaken for a servant of the Gods by his wife-to-be Freya when he smashed the beacon so he cannot be rescued from Earth.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City: The second Confessor uses technological methods to replicate (some of) the original's abilities.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_de23f447	comment	Titus Crow by Brian Lumley: One of the early things established in the series is that there is no such thing as "magic" and that everything they encounter is the advanced science of the Cthulhu Mythos or the Elder Gods. It's just the latter functions identically to magic with summonings, incantations, and so on.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e03940f	comment	Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Goofy once asks Eega Beeva to use his future technology to help Goofy perform some magic tricks for a group of stage magicians. Since the technology is so advanced, they get kicked out for doing real magic. Goofy himself thought that since Eega Beeva's tricks were indistinguishable from magic, that meant they were magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e096101e	comment	In keeping with it's connections to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sixes and Sevens also brings it up. In Agent Carter: Phantom Pain, Sousa mentions the trope (in a chapter titled "Sufficiently Advanced Technology"), claiming he heard it from someone he met in London (implied to be Clarke himself). It's used to help bridge the gap between the things The Invaders have been dealing with (which mostly have supernatural connections) versus what he and Peggy have been facing (highly advanced science). Emily also has to play into this with Ivan, since he'd never believe in magic despite seeing agents from the Abyss with his own eyes; she has to tell him they're advanced HYDRA experiments.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Willow states that "Magic works off physics" and is often seen messing with the 'mechanics' of spells. Conversely, material outside of the series itself classified superscience (for example, Warren building completely humanoid androids) as a form of magic in and of itself. That is, people like Warren were only able to create such high tech devices because of a latent magical ability that functioned in this way, which may inadvertently explain why Willow was the only one able to repair the Buffybot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange: Doctor Strange And The Sorcerers Supreme involves a MacGuffin known as the Word of God that appears to be a spellbook of unimaginable power. Turns out the spellbook is actually advanced technology from an extradimensional alien being that magic users just happen to have an affinity for. Using its spells draws the owner to the dimension it resides it.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e44ac57e	comment	In My Master Ed, because the method to create gold with alchemy wouldn't be discovered for another couple hundred years, when Edward transmutes some in front of an elderly couple, they start worshiping him. When he does the same in front of Hohenheim, he assumes Edward's a god in disguise and passes out on the spot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e5c5bc22	comment	One chapter opening vignette in GURPS Thaumatology features a lecturer at a magic seminar demonstrating an amazing magical device that conjures fire, yet neither it nor the concoction within it triggers any of the normal methods used to detect magic. It's pretty clear from the description that it's a cigarette lighter.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e63c8b18	comment	The City and the Stars, is set in the very far distant future. The city of Diaspar has existed in its current form for a billion years, and it is not made clear how long Human history before that was. So technologies such as Brain Uploading and Matter Replicator functions controlled by mental command simply are, even to the inhabitants of the city. Their ancestors achieved even more fantastic heights of science, such as building stars and planets. Feats the current Diasparans no longer even understand.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: There's one arc where thousands of students are given magic to wield. Then they fight off baddies with it. The catch? They are told it's just highly advanced computerized effect technology and that it's just a game, in order to keep up the masquerade. Electricity can also be used to power magic, as the magic community is quite fine with Magitek. It even appears to be pretty efficient at it. However, most mages don't seem to have the technical expertise to really take advantage of this, and obviously most people don't know enough about magic to work it from their side either. Chao and Hakase (and by extension Chachamaru) on the other hand...
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e740c8b	comment	Starsector is built on Lost Technology that fits this. The population of the Sector actually have a pretty good understanding of technology around the 21st-century level and can still build starships by cookbook, sure, but the full technology of the Domain might as well be sorcery to them. A world of a few million people can have the productivity of a hundred trillion lower-tech workers in food, mineral production and shipbuilding, throwing together battleships in a virtual eyeblink with nanoforging, and otherwise provide the standard of living one expects from a Post-Scarcity Economy straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation. All of this is completely incomprehensible to them, but badly desired.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e7a99c6f	comment	Demon: The Descent goes both ways on this. The God-Machine maintains a firm grip on the functions of the universe because it has absolute mastery of quantum physics; this allows it to easily pull off feats that would be impossible for some of the most powerful beings of other gamelines, like time travel, the creation of alternate universes, etc. However, because this is the World of Darkness, it also has master of a secondary set of "occult physics" that produce means-tested results but still involve gathering weird shit into a strange configuration in order to produce weirder shit.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf normally takes place on Magnamund, a world of sword and sorcery that resembles the Middle Ages. In Book 19, Wolf's Bane, the hero gets sent to Avaros, a world with advanced technology. When Lone Wolf gets attacked by two mooks wearing Powered Armor and wielding flamethrowers, he thinks their weapons are magic staves. He in general thinks of the many technological marvels he sees as advanced and unique magic.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ea6f0a22	comment	In Shadowverse, the dimension Yuwan and the Portalcraft cards came from seems to be based on advanced technology (or Magitek) rather than outright magic, with a lot of machines and automatons among his followers. However, they still seem to incorporate magic into their operation, particularly the creepy soul-powered puppets.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ee66462b	comment	Dr. STONE is set in a post-apocalyptic setting where humanity still exists in small pockets but has regressed back to Stone Age technology. Because of this lack of understanding of science and scientific technique, acts of science demonstrated by Senku, an Omnidisciplinary Scientist who was brought over from the 21st century, appear to most onlookers as magic, as they have no idea how even the simpler devices Senku cobbles together even work. The only one who can keep up with Senku is a genius-intellect villager named Chrome, and even then, he referred to the results of his own chemical experimentation prior to Senku's arrival as sorcery. Even after Senku has practically drilled into every villager's head that what he's doing is science, not magic, some of the villagers continue to see Senku as a sorcerer and the devices he creates as sorcery.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ee6c1abc	comment	Parodied in Strong Bad Email #143 technology:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_eef5470a	comment	A common tactic among European explorers in Africa during the 19th Century was to use technology to convince natives that they were magicians or gods. Cameras trapped people's souls, tinderboxes or matches summoned the Sun into the palm of one's hand, etc. (The camera thing was referenced in Rurouni Kenshin.)
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f3bfbc44	comment	George and Azazel: Azazel is described as a demon in some stories, and a Sufficiently Advanced Alien in others. This is because the publishers would change their minds on if they wanted Dr Asimov to be writing Science Fiction or Fantasy, so he would revise the stories as needed to suit the editor.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl both embraces and averts the trope. To an outside observer, most (if not all) Fairy technology would seem to be magical. The story, however, is also told from the Fairy point-of-view, where it's shown that technology and magic are distinguishable, and it's someone's job to distinguish them further.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f42ccd4f	comment	Rimworld: The archotechs are a collective of super-intelligent AIs which have converted entire planets into gargantuan computing units, functionally becoming gods. It's possible to find artifacts of archotech origin, which function as the Infinity +1 Sword items of the setting, as they are extremely rare, very powerful, and cannot be reproduced. The Flavor Text for such items will frequently note that they seem to defy the laws of physics and how they function is beyond the understanding of even the most advanced human minds. The backstory of the Anomaly DLC takes this to an even greater extreme, as an archotech became a Mad God and turns the setting into a Cosmic Horror Story, complete with Soul Eating monsters, artifacts of doom, attacks from hordes of undead, and an Eldritch Abomination Meat Moss attempting to consume the entire planet, somehow all products of an AI gone insane with power.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, once XANA takes control of one of the Control Towers of the virtual world of Lyoko, there's pretty much no limit in how he can manipulate the real world; on the low end of supernatural, it can hack pretty much every electronic device or vehicle or create music that makes you go braindead, and from there it just ramps up: it can summon ghost-like digital specters that can not only possess people, but also give them Super-Strength and electrical powers, possess samurai armors with nothing electronic about them, generate a deadly snow storm that covers an entire town or even invert the gravity of a specific area. Most of this is barely given a Hand Wave at how it's even possible that an AI (advanced as it may be) can do any of this.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 has fun with this one. The Vorlons have used their technology for millennia to manipulate younger races into reacting favorably to them, passing off as "magical" beings of light. It is only at the "Dawn of the Third Age" that we finally see who they are, and "They are not Gods." Then there are the Technomages, who use technology to give the appearance of magic, and this famous discussion from "The Geometry of Shadows": Then a trilogy of novels (based on JMS's own notes) reveals that their tech originated with the Shadows and is not being used to its full potential.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed features the Isu, Human Aliens that created humanity as a Slave Race. The technology that they left behind is the driving force behind the plot.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_f89f466d	comment	Jack Harkness demonstrates and then discusses this trope in Torchwood: Miracle Day. In a flashback to depression-era New York City, Jack shows off his Future Tech and reassures his friend:
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Clarke's Third Law / int_fa89a1ac	comment	In Frozen II, the stranded soldier Destin Mattias sees photography as a type of magic, even though he's seen actual magic from the spirits and Elsa.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers loved this one, and often blurred the lined between the two. A great example was the Heart of Tarkon, which the natives assumed was magic, but the Rangers saw as a massive and advanced planetary computer. The truth was that they were both right. The Heart was a vast computer, but required Life Energy to run it. Niko also dismissed another character's explanation of her Psychic Powers as magic, saying they were just "powers of the mind...asleep in most people, but awake in me."
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Clarke's Third Law / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic! has Kurz lampshade the Lambda Driver shortly before its first appearance.
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Clarke's Third Law / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Who Watches the Watchers", Picard deliberately invokes this trope in an attempt to convince the natives that he is not a god. "Devil's Due" has the crew trying to discredit a technological con artist who claims to be the devil of not only the planet of the week, but every planet.
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KarlSchroeder	seeAlso	Clarke's Third Law
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