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Magic tricks are difficult. Audiences are cynical, and people want to know how to do them. However, in TV Shows, a Stage Magician can do amazing things, completely impossible in real life. They don't even have to bother with an explanation; "magicians never reveal their tricks" is an ideal handwave for forgoing any explanation. Compare Impossible Theft which is a similar idea applied to the field of thievery instead of stage magic. Contrast Magicians Are Wizards, in which a character is explicitly in-universe camouflaging real magic as stage magic. Related to Charles Atlas Superpower, in which mundane athletic training is depicted as giving people superhuman strength and agility that would be impossible for anyone to achieve in real life. Overlaps with Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane when there is an implication that the feat might have been genuinely supernatural. See Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game and Magic Poker Equation for equally implausible feats in other fields of entertainment. |
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Genshin Impact: Lynette and Lyney's magic tricks are often difficult to explain, even though they started their first show in the Opera Epiclese by temporarily putting away their Visions to make it clear they weren't using real magic. One of them is explained fully, but others leave the audience scratching their head. This is a plot point, as when Lynette appeared to be transformed into water as part of a trick, it placed Lynette and Lyney under suspicion for a crime where Water of the Primordial Sea was used to transform Fontainians into water. In reality, it was just a really good trick, as if it wasn't, it wouldn't have been so easy to reconstruct Lynette. | |
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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World: Prince Akatsuki is explicitly a stage magician, but many of his magic tricks seem downright impossible to pull off in real life, such as removing his own head and periodically flying. No explanation is ever given for how his tricks work due to how magicians typically refuse to reveal their secrets, which becomes even more galling when he ends up in a world where magic is real and yet without actual magic still manages to impress people. The only thing that really distinguishes his stage magic from real magic is that skilled mages like Grandmaster Neuro can sense when magic is used, which the latter uses to confirm that Akatsuki and the Luminaries are from Earth. | |
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Mousse of Ranma ½ carries an utterly impossible amount of Hidden Weapons inside of his clothes. The series' setting contains plenty of supernatural phenomena, but there's no implication any of that is involved. Mousse just claims he's that good at concealment. | |
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In House, a stage magician manages to pull off some amazing tricks, that impressed and stumped even House himself. One such trick was a simple "pick a card" trick. Then he threw the deck at a window, where a card stuck to the glass. When House took the card and told him it wasn't his card... he found his card, stuck to the other side of the glass. Amazingly enough, this is an existing trick that real magicians can perform. | |
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Such tricks are the abundant in Now You See Me and its sequel. Several of them are analyzed and explained but a lot of them are not, and the ending makes it a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. | |
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Played with in an episode of Justice League that shows Zatanna performs for an audience with traditional illusions and stage tricks that fit this trope already, but then ends her show by using a real magic spell in order to keep people guessing how she really pulls off her acts. In her earlier appearance in Batman: The Animated Series, she was depicted as purely a talented stage magician... with the possible exception of the Stealth Hi/Bye departure she pulled on Batman himself. |
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Parodied in the Teen Titans Go! episode "Magic", where Robin is performing tricks that the team all consider ridiculously amazing, but Raven is not convinced. Then Robin tries to be a young Houdini by escaping a tank full of water while tied up. It doesn't work. Before the latter, we get this little gem: | |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: During a business meeting Kavalier's magician background comes up and he is asked for a demonstration. He manages to make a lit cigarette disappear and then reapper inside someone else's cigarette case. (Later in the story, when he's working as a professional magician, the boy whose Bar Mitzvah he's performing at catches him planting cards for a trick to be done during the banquet, so it's not like there is no acknowledgement of magic's need for setup.) | |
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The magic trick performed by Reg to amuse a bored little girl in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is specifically stated to be such. Making the salt shaker disappear is simple, making it appear in a piece of ancient pottery on the other side of the table is completely impossible. Unless you have a time machine. | |
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In Terry Pratchett's Discworld, the Wizards of Unseen University, who can do real magic, are utterly disgruntled at the given fact that people will still pay real hard-earned money to see a stage magic act where everyone knows it's done by sleight-of-hand, mirrors and misdirection. This trope comes into play when the audiences think this is better than anything the wizards are capable of. | |
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As it's a movie about magicians, these are common in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Even tricks that were explained still didn't make any sense. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. There's a flashback to Gordito's father, the Great Flying Shooting Juan (a sharpshooting trapeze artist magician) performing a card trick. The volunteer chooses a card, places it back into the deck, and throws the entire deck into the air. Juan shoots the card in midair... but the volunteer can't find the card afterward. Then he gets a call on his cell phone... | |
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Played with in one episode of The Big Bang Theory, in which Howard repeatedly performs a card trick that has Sheldon completely stumped. At the end of the episode, it's revealed to the audience - but not Sheldon - that he's not actually finding anyone's card; they're all just playing along in order to drive Sheldon crazy. | |
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The same actor played a magician in Just Shoot Me!, who managed to hide tickets inside an unpeeled banana... that a coworker brought from home... from across the room. | |
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Magic Kaito: In his solo episode when first introduced, and before even becoming Kaitou Kid, he manages to use a lifelike dummy that isn't noticed until its head screws off, and a giant monster-shaped balloon operated by a crane outside his school window, all as part of a prank. | |
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David Copperfield, in Terror Train, does a few of these, including a disappearing act which would require exiting the moving train and re-entering to wind up where he does. | |
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In Persona 4: Golden, the added S.link plotline with the main character's uncle's Bumbling Sidekick Adachi includes a scene where he demonstrates a magic trick that involves transporting a coin from his hand to the main character's pocket (from across a table they're sitting at opposite sides of). Which subtly foreshadows his true nature as a Corrupt Cop who's been committing the murders mainly For the Evulz. | |
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The X-Files: In the episode "The Amazing Maleeni", the stage magician Maleeni has a magic trick where he rotates his head 360 degrees. Every other trick performed in the episode is possible in real life. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: The juggler at the beginning of Chapter 23 is not only able to eat three apples while juggling them without stopping, but he manages to juggle a variety of objects, make them disappear and ask various audience members to return them to him, such as a coin-purse Fishlegs finds in his vest, an apple under a hat, a green ball from someone's boot and a long strand of handkerchiefs from someone's coat pocket. | |
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Mostly averted in The Prestige, where the tricks' explanations are shown and discussed, and are easily attemptable by real illusionists. However, the greatest trick of the film, Angier's "The Transported Man", turns out to be done by a cloning machine built by Nikola Tesla. | |
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A main plot point of the “Misdirection� episode of Inside No. 9 is an up-and-coming stage magician murdering an old man who performs at children’s parties in order to steal his trick. The trick in question involves the magician sitting on an empty chair in the middle of a warehouse and floating up into the air on it. The creators have stated that the floating chair is impossible in real life, at least in the way they showed it. | |
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In Drake & Josh, a magician is actually able to somehow make the titular characters' father's hair disappear and stuff a girl into a large popcorn holder (without anyone even noticing). | |
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In her earlier appearance in Batman: The Animated Series, she was depicted as purely a talented stage magician... with the possible exception of the Stealth Hi/Bye departure she pulled on Batman himself. | |
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney': The third case, "Turnabout Serenade", presents a magician's illusion in the middle of a concert, where singer Lamirior is teleported from one high vantage point to another over a period of twenty seconds when Klavier Gavin grabs her star-covered robe and flings it away. However, as much as Trucy Wright fights to preserve the "never reveal a magician's secrets" angle, the techniques of the trick are gradually worked out over the course of the trial in order to pin down the case's killer. Case four, "Turnabout Succcession", sees Zak Gramarye vanish completely from a courtroom, utterly surrounded by witnesses. The best resolution anyone gets is when Mike Meekins, a bailiff at the time, sees a Zak-like figure dash out and around a corner, but only finds Trucy at the dead end. |
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Spoofed in Octopussy where Q is trying to recreate the famous Indian rope trick using his miraculous spy technology, only to fail completely. | |
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The author continues the tradition in Case Closed: while major or plot-relevant "magic" is at least as reasonable as the rest of the gimmicks non-magician criminals manage to pull off, stage magicians pull off all sorts of very implausible minor tricks - for example, loading half a dozen doves into somebody's clothes and underwear within half a second without them noticing. While this could be a sort of perceptual filter (it's well known how showmanship alters the audience's memory of stage magic performances in this direction), there are enough subtly yet critically inaccurate references to real-life stage magic to suggest the research could just have been spotty wherever it didn't matter. | |
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In The Brady Bunch episode "Lights Out", Peter takes up magic for his school talent show. He does some classic tricks like the interlocking metal rings, pouring disappearing milk, and he builds a "vanishing lady" cabinet. But one simple trick was actually impossible. He takes two empty cardboard tubes and puts one around a bottle. The bottle disappears and reappears inside the other tube. Not complicated, but not possible without TV magic. | |
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Some of Adam Klaus's tricks in Jonathan Creek can be like this (for example his escape routine in "The Scented Room", where he's somehow back in his trailer mere seconds after being put in the coffin). This is a bit ironic, since the point of the series is that Jonathan knows impossible things don't happen and there's always an explanation that a conjurer's assistant might see. (It's implied that he was never actually put in the coffin and that some kind of switch took place, but it still isn't fully explained how.) | |
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What's New, Scooby-Doo?: The episode "Riva Ras Regas" centers on the ghost of the recently deceased stage magician Rufus Raucous, who turns out to have faked his death to get out of the spotlight and retire. He was last seen in a straitjacket nailed to a spinning wheel inside a building being demolishing by a wrecking ball, yet no explanation is given for how he survived other than "he's just that good" note It's later explained that he escaped long before the building was being demolished and it was pre-recorded then spliced into the footage and had special effects added to make it look like it was happening live , apparently. Later, when Rufus is encouraged by the gang to hold one more show to lure out the ghost, he perfoms tricks like being able to sprout new disembodied hands out of his sleeves, which walk around with a life of their own. How he does that isn't explained either, unless he invested thousands of dollars in animatronics.note Of course, this is the Scooby-Doo universe, where any disgruntled crook can build a monster mecha on a whim. His "ghost" can also fly, which turns out to be by magnets in its shoes, far more powerful than any real world magnet. | |
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Pushing Daisies has a few examples in the episode "Oh oh oh it's Magic." While several tricks of the episode are explained throughout the course of the episode, a couple are patently impossible (including the twins elevating a Lovely Assistant with bolts of electricity). | |
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Kaitou Saint Tail has the main character, the daughter of a Phantom Thief and Stage Magician, combine both talents to operate as the phantom thief Saint Tail. Her abilities are ostensibly just stage magic that she'd learned from her father and perfected, but they involve things like getting around via a handful of balloons or producing things out of a silk hat that should absolutely not fit in there, making the series present more like a Magical Girl one in practice. However, the series takes the stance that it is still stage magic, and the theme of "something that looks beautiful and ideal on the outside but is made up of something mundane and ordinary underneath" is a major part of the series. | |
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In one episode of The Golden Girls, Rose tells her friends about how her daughter Bridget was delivered by an obstetrician who was also a magician, and he performed some very strange sleight-of-hand with her newborn. Rose being the resident Cloud Cuckoolander, it's impossible to tell whether there's any truth to this story. | |
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Parodied with David Blaine in South Park, whose magic tricks depicted in "The Super Best Friends" include eating his own head, transporting a playing card into someone's anus, and bringing the Lincoln Memorial to life. Turns out actual magic was involved. | |
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Blood Meridian: One of the many ways the Judge Holden is Ambiguously Human is his ability to perform magic tricks that defy explanation. Whether he's using real magic or not is never revealed. | |
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In an episode of The Mentalist, Jane entertains some local kids with a magic trick: he makes a coin disappear from his hand and appear in the pocket of a boy standing in front of him, without having had an opportunity to touch or otherwise sneak a coin into his pocket. | |
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In How I Met Your Mother, Barney's role as an amateur magician leads to many instances of this. Notably, the trick the TSA agent performs in "Magician's Code," although it may have been a simple card trick. Not to mention Barney's trick itself, which involves a broadsword (that he somehow pulled out of a 1-foot by 1-foot box... that had just been scanned by airport security). | |
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Oscar, the title character of Oz the Great and Powerful, knows tricks that could put David Copperfield to shame, despite being much more small time and living decades earlier. | |
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