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Famously Mundane, Fictionally Magical
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A sub-trope of Public Domain Artifact, this is the one where real-life objects of notable historical value (that indisputably exist or existed in real life) are given a magical makeover in a work of fiction. Think of it as the inanimate version of Beethoven Was an Alien Spy or a Historical Hero Upgrade. Can be related to Clap Your Hands If You Believe, Weaponized Landmark or Real Event, Fictional Cause. Examples |
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The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone (AKA "The Zone") as (even more of) a Death World packed with mutants, physics defying fields that appear and reappear in new locations over time and spawning Super Power at a Price giving items. It is the result of mad scientists operating within the conveniently abandoned area to escape prying eyes, not the disaster itself. | |
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In Dimension 20's Unsleeping City setting, various iconic elements of New York City are part of its magical otherworld—for example, the lions guarding the New York Public Library are alive, Yankee's Stadium is the entryway to the Hall of Heroes, and the Angel of Bethesda Fountain is a literal angel in physical form. | |
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The World Ends with You turns the Shibuya River into an extradimensional nexus. | |
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In the Ranma ½ fan fiction series Boy Scouts ½, the entire country of Japan can fall under this trope. The series begins in Massachusetts, and presents the world as behaving, arguably, mostly normal aside from the obvious Jusekyo curses. But when, eventually, the main characters have to relocate to Japan, they are quite surprised to find that the country actually suffers from many of the tropes about it that are regularly portrayed in fiction. Giant Monsters? Hammerspace? Anime Hair and Hair Colors? All real. In fact, one of the characters notes that since arriving in Japan, they are developing High-Pressure Blood! | |
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The Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "Past Reckoning" by Jackie Marshall in Decalog 3: Consequences reveals that the diadem discovered by Heinrich Schliemann as part of the "Jewels of Helen" is actually the Jewelled Headdress of Princess Maxtra, a psychic enhancement device of unclear origins. (On its supposed planet of origin, it was actually a mysterious artifact used to bolster a false history, as revealed in the previous story in the collection.) The Doctor speculates that it creates a Glamour that could explain Helen's legendary beauty. It also sometimes kills the wearer, apparently arbitrarily. | |
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Stormwatch PHD had a villain seeking to mystically weaponize the Nuclear Doomsday Clock. | |
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In The Dresden Files universe: One short story features the musket ball that killed Nelson at Trafalgar. It is reused as a sorcerer-slaying weapon. The Shroud of Turin also shows up, toying with this trope. Though many people in the real world believe it's by no means mundane, Harry mostly agrees with the theory that it was a medieval forgery. The thing is, in the Dresdenverse, tens of millions of people literally can't be wrong about something being mystically potent. Later, he finds the actual Shroud, which not only proves the earlier one is fake and fueled by everybody's belief, but is also blindingly more powerful. Several more of these are related to the Knights of the Blackened Denarius. Their namesakes are the literal thirty silver coins which Judas was paid for betraying Jesus, each of them imbued with a demon that will attempt to "recruit" whoever holds the coins. The leader of the Denarians, Nicodemus Archleone, also wears around his neck the noose that Judas used to hang himself, which apparently grants him immunity to physical harm. |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-157-ARC, a bullet that, thanks to its mystical properties, apparently shifts shape to transform into the projectile used in virtually every major modern assassination. Another SCP entry concerns the so-called Demon core, which is apparently sentient or close to it. SCP-099 is the original version of René Magritte's "The Portrait", which has the memetic effect of inducing paranoid delusions. A magma giant buried underground in Pennsylvania, whose very breath is toxic. Fortunately, the Foundation succesfully disguised its awakening as a mine fire. SCP-668 is clearly the knife used in the real life murder of Kitty Genovese. |
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Men in Black: In the first film, the flying-saucer-shaped observation towers at the New York State Pavillion really are UFOs, as the whole World's Fair was actually a cover for alien immigration. In Men in Black: International, Gustav Eiffel was an MIB agent and built his tower as an arrival point for alien immigrants. |
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Geist: The Sin-Eaters has Memorabilia, extremely powerful items given their power by being associated with the deaths of the famous. Such examples include the ring Joe DiMaggio slipped on Marilyn Monroe at her funeral, JFK's death car, the pistol that killed Lee Harvey Oswald, and the National Enquirer's photo of Elvis Presley in repose. | |
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Wynonna Earp: Upon her 27th birthday, Wynonna inherits the special power to return revenants to Hell with her ancestor's 12-inch barrel special "Peacemaker" revolver. This gun did not exist in the original comic book inccarnation of Wynonna Earp, but has subsequently become a Canon Immigrant. | |
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In Broken Sword 3, the Voynich Manuscript contains the secret to extracting life energy from Ley Lines. | |
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The Umbrella Academy shows the Eiffel Tower being a spacecraft/weapon piloted by Zombie Robot Gustav Eiffel. | |
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A Dragon article for epic-level 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons gave epic powers to Stonehenge, the Hope Diamond, the Stone of Scone, the crystal skulls, the First Folio, the Rosetta Stone, the British crown jewels, and the Taj Mahal. | |
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Similarly a Ghost Rider story arc involved stopping demonic forces from getting a hold of Judas' thirty pieces of silver to melt down and forge into powerful weapons. A single bullet made from them visibly resonates with evil energies. | |
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In The Kane Chronicles, the Rosetta Stone is this. Any pyramid or obelisk, as well. It doesn't have to be ancient, or even Egyptian in origin. The Washington Monument will do. |
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While most artifacts in The Librarian films are mythic items that are famously supposed to be magical anyway (Excalibur, the Spear of Destiny, etc.) or invented for the films (the Judas Chalice) the second film centres around the original Book of Solomon providing mastery over time and space. | |
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The entire raison d'etre of Warehouse 13 — in the series, "Artifacts" are objects that were used by famous people or that originated from historically significant locations tend to develop magical effects that range from humorous to helpful to dangerous if they fall into the wrong hands. Some examples include Abraham Lincoln's top hat (imbues wearers with the desire to "free" any nearby African-Americans), Sylvia Plath's typewriter (causes a deep depression in anyone who comes near to it), a shard of glass that had been part of the lens of the Lighthouse of Alexandria (acts like a powerful magnifying glass for any light that passes through it), and the Disco Ball from Studio 54 (broadcasts disco music and spontaneously generates a colorful light shows). | |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Pretty much every statue in New York city can be converted into an automaton thanks to the intervention of Daedalus (the one associated with the Labyrinth, yes). | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, The Ashes are not merely a burnt cricket stump, but the remains of the Wooden Pillar of Nature and Spirituality, one of the five Plot Coupons that make up the Wikkit Gate. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters episode "The Ghostbusters in Paris" reveals that the Eiffel Tower is actually a primitive ghost trap. | |
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Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run: The Golden Proportion has weird, almost magic powers. If you manage to make an ordinary steel ball to spin forming a Golden Spiral it will carry an immense power, which can be applied for enhancing your strength and resistance, healing, killing painlessly, making paralytics walk again, and disintegrating an object by passing the endless rotation of the ball to its molecules and atoms to the point that the force of the rotation overrides the forces that make them form an object. | |
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One character in Requiem Vampire Knight collects historically significant weapons (the guns that killed Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, the sword that killed Julius Caesar, etc.). On Résurrection, the more evil you did in life, the more powerful you are here (to the point where Hitler is a Fantastic Nuke, along with two other, unnamed persons). | |
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In France Five, the Eiffel Tower is a shamanic totem that generates a barrier around the Earth, protecting the planet from a large-scale alien invasion. | |
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Discussed in The Journeyer. Marco, expecting the opulent empires as described in The Bible, is disappointed to realize that the largest cities from the Bible are little more than villages run by tribal chiefs. He also opines that the great leaders, such as King David and King Solomon, were probably also petty chiefs. | |
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In Men in Black: International, Gustav Eiffel was an MIB agent and built his tower as an arrival point for alien immigrants. | |
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Drawing on fringe occult theories, From Hell suggests that Christopher Wren's churches are examples of occult architecture. | |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor features the Terracotta army of Shihuangdi coming to life. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "The Giggle", Stooky Bill, the ventriloquist's dummy John Logie Baird used for his early television experiments, was provided by the Toymaker and left a "giggle" hidden in all TV broadcasts as part of a long term plan to unleash a Hate Plague. | |
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In the first film, the flying-saucer-shaped observation towers at the New York State Pavillion really are UFOs, as the whole World's Fair was actually a cover for alien immigration. | |
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The Academy of Superheroes universe has the Worldmaze, a Portal Network created using the globally-scattered pieces of the Berlin Wall as foci. The Great Pyramid at Giza was revealed to be a power accumulator that after five millennia had enough juice to make one a god. Magellan's oceanbound route around the world is used by Q'Nos to summon Jorumngandr. Peregryn counters the summoning by tracing the path of the Lucky Lady II, the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe. |
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Deadlands is chock full of these: the list includes the muskets of the Conquistadors, Wild Bill Hickok's guns, etc. — all magical items. One particularly mundane and non-unique item, "Hoyle's Book of Games", is the In-Universe spellbook for all Hucksters — the setting equivalent of wizards. The earlier editions are more powerful, since editors have messed up the coded secrets the book holds about contacting the Manitou. |
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In The Science of Discworld, the Origin of Species is a major L-Space node. L-Space theory says that large numbers of books warp spacetime, but a single book that spawns an entire subject has the same "weight". | |
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In Doctor Strange: The Oath, Strange is nearly killed by an assassin wielding Adolf Hitler's personal weapon. The combination of that firearm plus a silver bullet has enough negative mojo to get through his shields. | |
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GURPS Warehouse 23 has a Real Life artifact, the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull. It allows its owner to cast a powerful Divination spell, and has powerful telepathic abilities in its own right. | |
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In Hudson Hawk, many of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous artworks contain the components of an alchemical device for making lead into gold. | |
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The New World of Darkness also has the Reliquary book, which provides rules for building magic items from scratch, as well as a number of sample items. Among them are William Shakespeare's lost play, the Dendera lights, and the Baghdad batteries. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Crystal Skulls, the Antikythera mechanism, the Voynich manuscript and many more. All ancient Precursor technology, all have seemingly magic powers. | |
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