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Disappearing Box
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A magician asks for a volunteer in the audience or uses his assistant to place him or her in a regular cabinet. He then closes the cabinet, waves his wand to tap the box, opens it to reveal that the person is gone! A variant has the person then emerge from some other location in the room. It is believed that there is a trap door or a hidden exit in the box (and in the variant, a hidden entrance to the exit location) to make it all an illusion. A Running Gag in this trope is that the person either escapes or doesn't know how to get back in, leaving the magician flabbergasted and the audience booing. For a more dramatic twist, instead of the volunteer reappearing alive and well, the magician opens the box and a corpse falls out. Sometimes a curtain will be used instead if the subject is bigger. Since it is a Discredited Trope and easy to perform, the ones that often do this magic trick in media are children. A magician will have to really make it presentable and impossible in order to wow the audience. Compare Smoke Out, a more combat-oriented variant. |
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A variation is used in A Bug's Life to help the unsuspecting Queen escape. Hopper catches on to it before it works as planned. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Hypnota and Serva's signature act involves Serva seeming to disappear from a standing cabinet and then in a quick poof of smoke Hypnota appearing to turn into Serva. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Natasha uses her new pet "lizard" Yuri to recreate a handheld version of the trick to entertain the other revolutionaries. It's not explained just how Yuri disappears and then reappears in the box. | |
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In the Dennis the Menace episode, "It's Magic Time", Dennis, Joey, and Margaret go to a magic show hosted by Max the Magnificent. When Max needs a volunteer for his disappearing act, Dennis volunteers himself. Dennis knows all of Max's tricks due to him having read the same magic book Max read, so he decides to play a trick on Max by clinging onto the rungs inside the disappearing box instead of standing on the trap door. When Max tries to grab Dennis, he falls down the trap door. | |
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Harry Potter features a variant that uses actual magic to actually make people disappear: a vanishing cabinet. It then reveals that two such cabinets can create a portal between two locations. | |
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Arrested Development has the "Aztec Tomb". In the first episode during George Sr.'s retirement party, GOB hid his father in the tomb to hide him from the Securities and Exchange Commission. George Sr. hid behind the revolving door in the tomb, which kept him out of sight until the police dogs found him. This was broadcast in-universe on the FOX 6 news, and GOB was subsequently kicked out of The Alliance of Magicians. The tomb continued to be part of GOB's blacklisted magic career and was used in "Public Relations" for his retirement home charity show. GOB hid Earl Milford in the tomb, and Earl used the chance to escape the nursing home. The Aztec Tomb was stored in the model home's attic, where George successfully hid on multiple occasions while on the lam. |
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The King of the Hill episode "Sleight of Hank" Peggy being pulled on stage to help with this trick. The episode mostly involves Hank trying to figure out how the trick is done; at the very end, Bobby explains it how to the viewer. | |
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In one episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Zack performed this magic act for some local children. During the act a monster attacked, so Zack had to use the box as cover to teleport out - and made it part of the show. Power Rangers S.P.D. once went after a magician who was caught up in the bad guys' plans, and the Omega Ranger made his grand entrance by hijacking the trick and appearing in the should-be-empty box. |
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Played with in an episode of Matlock. The lovely assistant goes in and disappears...only to replaced by the corpse of the magician's scumbag manager. | |
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This trope is inverted in the Razzberry Jazzberry Jam episode “Disappearing Act�, as stage magician Tesla introduces the Jazzberries by having them step out of a seemingly-empty box, which grows larger every time one of them exits it. This sequence ends with the box itself (apparently) transforming into Ella. | |
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In Pokemon Jirachi Wish Maker, the stage magician Butler plays this straight... except for the part where he has his Dusclops destroy the box instead of simply opening it. | |
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In the Columbo episode "Now You See Him," the water tank escape act that the Great Santini uses to establish his alibi when he shoots Jesse Jerome has got some traces of this. What the audience sees: He scrunches himself up into a water crate that is then sealed shut and tightly secured with chains and padlocks. The crate is hoisted up into the air, and dumped into a water tank at the rear of the stage. After a few minutes go by, the crate is returned to the front of the stage, and is opened, to reveal Santini's daughter, while Santini reveals himself to be one of the black-suited and masked assistants on stage performing during the intermission. What really happens: the wooden crate has a false bottom, and is positioned over a trapdoor when it is on the stage floor. Santini hides in a break room underneath and changes outfits while the crate is in the tank, then sneaks back up to the stage. It is a 15-minute waiting period, so he uses the crate as an opportunity to pose as a waiter to get to Jerome's office and shoot him. | |
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One of these, operated by a magician’s incompetent assistant, sent Perky to the Land of Lug, and continues to send him to a new magical realm every time the assistant pulls the box’s lever. | |
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A Dragon article about various forms of "magic" in Alternity (sleight-of-hand, Sufficiently Advanced Technology, Psychic Powers and actual Supernatural FX) used this as a scenario for the first one: on a luxury starship cruise, a magician entertaining the passengers falls dead out of his own magic cabinet. | |
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The Prestige revolves around a variation of this trick in which the magician steps into one box, closes the door, and immediately steps out of another across the stage. | |
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In Circus of Fear, Eddie uses one as part of his ongoing campaign to become a clown. No one is very impressed, but he does use it to play an elaborate practical joke on Mr. Big. | |
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Done in Max and Ruby with Max as the volunteer and Ruby as the magician. | |
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In The Flintstones, Fred and Barney try the trick out on the wives, who find the trap door and decide to play a trick of their own on the guys and make them think they have really disappeared. | |
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Colonel March of Scotland Yard: In "The Case of the Misguided Missal", March brings in a Stage Magician who uses a miniature version of the disappearing box to demonstrate how the eponymous could have been stolen from the safe. However, even this demonstration turns out to be a piece of misdirection on March's part to allow him to catch the thief off-guard. | |
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In the episode "Decepto the Great" on The Thing, this trick is Decepto's big finish for his act at a high school carnival. The box is blatantly pressed up against the curtains at the back of the stage. He slips out and steals the show's money-box and robs all the kids' lockers. | |
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Done in Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand, the box is owned by a sorcerer who works as a stage magician and takes whatever gets put into it to another dimension that appears to be ruled by Eldritch Abominations. Kitty gets briefly held inside it and at the end of the story it's used to banish the villain in order to stop him from summoning an ancient, evil goddess. | |
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This appears in the Monk series episode 108, "Mr. Monk and the Magician". | |
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Banana Shpeel: Two boxes, one on each side of the stage. The idea is to "teleport" one performer to the other, but by the time the act is done, it seems half the cast has been through the ringer. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Zatanna does this as part of her magic act in the episode where she makes a guest appearance. Though she actually uses real magic to get the person in the box out of the box. | |
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Played with in The Tommyknockers. Hilly Brown's disappearing trick was actually a machine that teleported objects to another planet. After disappearing his best friend, Hilly has no idea how to get him back again. | |
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Wonder Woman Wonder Woman (1942): Hypnota and Serva's signature act involves Serva seeming to disappear from a standing cabinet and then in a quick poof of smoke Hypnota appearing to turn into Serva. Wonder Woman (1987): Natasha uses her new pet "lizard" Yuri to recreate a handheld version of the trick to entertain the other revolutionaries. It's not explained just how Yuri disappears and then reappears in the box. |
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On The Brady Bunch episode "Lights Out", Cindy becomes afraid of the dark after she watched a lady disappear in this manner at a friend's birthday party. (Cindy was so frightened she ran off before she reappeared.) Then, when Peter took up magic for the school's talent show and included this trick, Cindy agreed to be his assistant, thus mitigating her fear of the disappearing lady. Until Peter practiced it on Bobby, and Bobby refused to reappear as a joke, scaring Cindy once again. | |
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In the Rugrats episode, "Angelica the Magnificent", Angelica attempts a disappearing act by putting Lil in a cardboard box and having her go out the other end as she says the magic words. Because Lil chases a butterfly, and another one flies into the box as Angelica says the magic words, the babies and Angelica believe that Angelica turned Lil into a butterfly. | |
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This was inverted in an episode of Jonathan Creek when a dead body mysteriously appeared inside a wardrobe two characters had just carried up several flights of stairs, and the intrepid magician protagonist had to figure out how it had happened. | |
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The Magician: In "Illusion in Terror", Tony uses a disappearing box to 'vanish' his girlfriend when the two of them are being chased through Tony's workshop by a pair of hitmen. | |
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An old Little Lulu story had Tubby watching a magician's show. When the magician makes Annie apparently turn into a bird by such a box, he volunteers to be the next person inside—and finds that it uses a trapdoor to drop him under the stage. He decides to sneak back into the theatre to see what the magician "turned him into"—and is mortified to find that it's a big fat jack o' lantern. | |
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In Leverage, they perform this trick in order to get the CEO up to unlock a door requiring a retinal scan. Their way of doing it: they switch his box with an empty one when it passes behind a sheet. | |
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Tohru teleports herself in the place of the girl in one of these boxes while watching a live magic show on TV in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, much to everyone else's shock. Exactly what happened to the girl is never made clear. | |
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In Scoop, Sondra Pransky is put inside a box as part of this trick. To her surprise, however, she's then faced with the ghost of investigative reporter Joe Strombel while in there. | |
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The Late Show (1992): The Santo the Magnificent sketch has Santo skip over the actual "Disappearing" part, leading Mick into the box before pulling the curtain after less than a second and saying "He's back!" | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic features this with The Great and Powerful Trixie! In "No Second Prances", she wants to perform the "Manticore Moonshot Mouthdive", which is the magician firing themselves from a cannon into the mouth of a manticore and then appearing in a box several feet away. She requires the aid of her "Great and Powerful Assistant", Starlight Glimmer, to make it work because it apparently requires teleportation. | |
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In Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang, stage magician Li H'sen Chang uses this in his act, and tries to murder the Doctor with it. The Doctor walks out of the back of the cabinet, prompting Chang to utter the immortal line, "The bird has flown. One of us is yellow!" | |
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This is Harvey's instant kill move in No More Heroes. | |
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CSI: "Abra Cadaver". During a magic show, a female participant really disappears during a disappearing act. | |
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In Get Smart, Siegfried kidnaps the chief in this way. | |
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Power Rangers S.P.D. once went after a magician who was caught up in the bad guys' plans, and the Omega Ranger made his grand entrance by hijacking the trick and appearing in the should-be-empty box. | |
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In the first edition of the show, Mickey Mouse, dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, performs this trick by drawing down curtains inside five giant birdcages, spreading some pixie dust, and lowing them to reveal pretty girls inside. Well, four of them at least; the last cage contained Pluto instead. | |
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Disney on Parade: In the first edition of the show, Mickey Mouse, dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, performs this trick by drawing down curtains inside five giant birdcages, spreading some pixie dust, and lowing them to reveal pretty girls inside. Well, four of them at least; the last cage contained Pluto instead. During the opening of the fourth edition, a group of characters stack four giant toy blocks on top of each other and, after a few moments, the blocks open up to reveal Mickey inside. |
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One Midsomer Murders episode has a magician's assistant die in the box (which has also been pincushioned with blades). The blades were meant to retract, but one had been blocked, and had been coated with poison dart frog mucus for good measure. | |
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Hey Arnold! had Helga participating in a magic act, but decided to ditch Arnold after "disappearing" in his box, imagining what life will be like without her. | |
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Young Indy used one of these to slip past his pursuers in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has the card Mystic Box, which destroys one of your opponent's monsters in exchange for giving them control of one of your monsters. The effect was slightly different in the card's first appearance in the anime, where it was used to destroy one monster while teleporting another into the destroyed monster's position, when the card was used in a variant of the game where monsters had to navigate through a maze. Its effect is depicted by having one monster enclosed in a box which is then pierced with swords, then the second monster being enclosed in another box, then the two boxes opening to reveal they have switched positions so the second monster was pierced with the swords instead while the first monster is unharmed. | |
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Done in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Falcon" to do a kidnap and replace on a member of the audience. The "randomly" selected member of the audience enters the box, and the IM Force member in disguise exits the box at the end of the trick. | |
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Kamen Rider Double had an arc centering around a magician who used a Gaia Memory to turn invisible and pull off this trick; the main conflict came because she didn't want to give it up, and Isaka wanted it to kill her in order to "mature" so he could add its power to his own. | |
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