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Magic Feather
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Alice is given a supposed magic item that will give her special/exceptional abilities. She does amazingly well, but then she loses the item. She goes back to her mentors, only to learn that it was just a useless placebo, and "the magic was inside you all along!" Sometimes the audience knows, or at least suspects, that Alice's abilities were her own, but other times The Reveal is just as much a surprise to them as to her. In comic books, a retooled Super Hero Origin sometimes shifts a character's gimmicky power from artifact-dependent to innate, with the revelation that the famous prop or incantation was simply a focus. Supertrope to Placebotinum Effect, and of course this is the Placebo Effect. It's also a neat way to subvert the Amulet of Concentrated Awesome. Somewhat of a Dead Horse Trope in newer works (a common subversion is that the character throws away her 'feather,' only to discover that she needed it after all). The key to this trope is in The Reveal, so examples where the feather is never shown to be bogus do not count. If the character (or the audience) believes the feather does nothing, but this is never put to the test, see Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. Sister trope of All That Glitters, Motivational Lie, The Presents Were Never from Santa, and sometimes Wax On, Wax Off. Compare It's the Journey That Counts. Not to be confused with Mario's flying cape item. Warning: As a Reveal Trope, spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned. |
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In season 2 of Hero Corp, Vanur gives Burt a special tea to help him recover his power as Acid-Man (which has degenerated from squirting acid to squirting non-stinging shampoo). When out of tea, however, Vanur reveals that there were no "special ingredient" in it, it was just a matter of confidence. | |
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Smart Guy: TJ gives his idiot friend, Mo, sugar pills to make him smarter. When he finds out that it is a placebo, Mo gets his own sugar pills to continue replicating the effect. When TJ crossed over to Sister, Sister, he entices a high-strung Tia with his super-secret technique to get a 1600 on her SAT's... if she'd take him to Chuck E. Ch—er, Buck E. Duck. Turns out she just needed to relax. |
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A story arc with Tom Terrific has Tom helping a ragtag bunch of little kids compete in a series of athletic events against a team of bullies. Tom kits the kids out with plain tennis shoes but tells them that they're magic shoes that will help them win. The confidence boost soon kicks in as the kids defeat the bullies. Tom lets on that the shoes were just regular shoes afterwards, | |
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Rugrats: In the 1991 series epsiode, "Superhero Chuckie", Chuckie is outfitted with a super hero "costume" by the other babies, including a towel-for-a-cape, saying that it would give him super powers and be a real hero. However, when he loses the cape and still defeats Angelica, who had stolen away his globe beach ball, the babies realize it was all in him. In the 2021 reboot episode, "Lucky Smudge", Angelica wins all the games at her school carnival when she has Tommy, who has a smudge on his belly, by her side. Near the end of the episode, she spins a special wheel in the hopes of winning a Cynthia Shimmering Diva Disco Playset. When Didi wipes the smudge off of Tommy's belly, Angelica ends up winning a set of Colby Clay instead. Even though Tommy had his smudge wiped off, the babies realize that she still won those games due to her own skills, and her winning the Colby Clay was good luck for them, since it's what they like to play with. In "Bottles Away", another episode from the 2021 reboot, Tommy is unsure about giving up his bottle after a wave washes it away, so he and his friends go on an adventure where they pretend to be pirates to get it back. Tommy spends much of the episode determined to get his bottle back despite his friends sharing their stories of when they started drinking from sippy cups. He eventually gets into a battle with a sea monster (really Stu's octopus-shaped kite), and when he finally gets his bottle back from it, he realizes that he was brave enough to fight the sea monster without it, so he decides to hand it down to his new baby brother. |
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The Smurfs: In The Olympic Smurfs, Papa Smurf gives to the puny Weakly Smurf a reddish doping jelly to put on his nose, in order to help him compete in the Olympic Games. When he eventually wins, he is about to confess his cheating, but it turns out that the substance was only raspberry jelly, and that Weakly smurf owes his victory only to his newly-acquired self-confidence. | |
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Ranma ½: In a first-season episode, Nabiki gives aspirin to Ryōga in the middle of his first on-screen challenge fight with Ranma, and tells him that they're basically instant steroids. Ryōga, who is not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, believes her and upon taking them gets a psychosomatic boost to his already monstrous strength, allowing him to pull telephone poles from the ground simply because he thinks he is on steroids (which don't even work that way). In a much later episode, Happōsai, ticked off at Ranma interfering with his undie raids, takes Kunō and offers him "Speed of Light elixir", which he claims will make him super fast. It turns him into a Lethal Joke Character, even upgrading his Razor Wind attacks, but it's implicitly at least as much due to the Training from Hell Happōsai put him through (running into occupied women's bathing areas, locker rooms, and other places where they were nude, while trying to evade their attacks and survive being beaten to a pulp). Said "elixir" is revealed to actually be tap water and the scrapings from under Happosai's fingernails. |
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In "Puddle's Lucky Clover" from Toot & Puddle, Puddle upturns his and Toot's house looking for his lucky clover, then searches for a near one when he can't find it. He wants it because he feels it helped him win last year's beanbag toss, and he wants to win this year's one. Toot tells him from the start that what he needs it to practice. Otto tells him as much too, but he's still not convinced. Dr. Ha Song agrees to let him borrow his favorite coin. After Puddle wins that years beanbag toss, Dr. Ha Song tells him that he never said the coin was "lucky." It also turns out he lost it anyway, which leads him to realize he never needed it. | |
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Lil Gator Game: When you buy the last stamina bracelet, you're told that the bracelets do nothing and the stamina was within you all along. Which means your stamina is no longer constrained by how many bracelets you have, giving you unlimited climbing! | |
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Subverted in Mistborn, where the Magic Feather given to Yeden's army by Kelsier (a promise that his mistborn abilities could be channeled into others) leads Yeden to send out his still unprepared army prematurely out on a raid because of overconfidence, killing them all. Kelsier gets a serious What the Hell, Hero? by his entire crew for his efforts. | |
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Shelldon An episode featured a series of flashbacks showing Mayor Yoko giving members of the community trinkets that he claimed were magic, but were really just Magic Feathers. When the community was threatened by an impending catastrophe, Shelldon and his friends traveled to his office to try to get some of his magic, and discovered the truth. So nice, it was used twice. In "Magic Mojo," Shelldon becomes the mascot of the school finball team and comes to believe his mascot costume is magic after he ends up being subbed into the team and scores a game-winning goal. When the costume ends up getting shrunk in the wash, he despairs. He ends up seeking help from Doctor Shell, but when he doesn't believe Doctor Shell's advice that the mojo comes from him, Doctor Shell gives him what he claims to be a powerful mojo charm. After winning the big game, Shelldon returns it to him and he eats it. It turns out it was a peanut butter candy. |
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In Episode 4 of Season 3 of Sam & Max, Max has to fight the Big Bad but has no Toys of Power. Then Dr. Norington tells him that he doesn't really need the toys. Max suddenly starts glowing and takes to the sky, now able to use his powers without the aid of the Toys. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Awaki Musujime can teleport by pointing a flashlight at her intended destination. Misaki Shokuhou has mental manipulation abilities and points a TV remote at her intended target. Neither of them actually need these items to use their powers, but they help them concentrate. | |
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Leila’s costume story in Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story has Yozuru pretend to alter Leila’s memories so she’ll forget about her lack of confidence and be able to cook well, only to reveal after the food is finished that she never used her powers and Leila kept her cool on her own. | |
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Angelina Ballerina: In "The Lucky Penny", Angelina is practicing for an upcoming audition but her moves aren't as good; when she finds the eponymous penny, she somehow improves at her dancing and feels like she doesn't need to practice. After losing the penny during a movie, Angelina realizes it wasn't the penny that improved her dancing, it was her time, patience, and hard work, all of which she uses to perform her audition perfectly and passes. | |
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In the "Grandpa Pyle's Good Luck Charm" episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Gomer is feeling a bit nervous about tryouts to see if any of the troops would be capable of becoming future non-com officers, and his grandpa Otis Pyle is in town. When Gomer tells his grandpa of his dilemma after failing the first try, Grandpa Otis gives him a chrome plate "Excelsior" to help boost his confidence. After Otis remarks that Sgt. Carter has been looking a little flabby and out of shape, Sgt. Carter decides to give Pyle another chance, and he's more successful the second time around. Later in Grandpa Otis's trailer, he reveals that the chrome "Excelsior" plate came from his fridge, and Pyle's confidence came from within his heart after a little encouragement. | |
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After spending all of Book 4 of The Chronicles of Prydain in a quest to find himself, Taran discovers the legendary magical Mirror of Llunet. After gazing into it, he's asked what he learned, and he responds: He then adds that it wasn't magical at all; the Mirror was no more than a pretty puddle of water. (Although he does raise the theory that perhaps it was enchanted and he just didn't notice anything, which is possible as well.) |
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Parodied hilariously in the live-action version of The Tick (2001), when the The Tick walks up to a stranger, hands him a hub cap and tells him "Remember, it was not a magic hub cap. The magic was within you all along." | |
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The Belgariad: In her prequel novel, Polgara the Sorceress teaches her seneschal Telepathy by telling him that she enchanted a particular closet to transmit his thoughts to her when he stands in it. Once he gets used to the ability, she reveals that it was his own Achievement in Ignorance. | |
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One of the characters from Tears to Tiara seduces The Hero using a magical Red String of Fate she bought from the far east. While it did in fact have a functional, working Love Potion power, she tied the string to the wrong finger, meaning the two of them actually made out without its spell in effect. | |
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Parodied in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "Flowers for Charlie," where Charlie takes part in an experiment to increase intelligence. As the name suggests, it starts out looking like "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome, but at the end of the episode, it's revealed that the pills Charlie was taking were a placebo. The other twist: Charlie didn't actually become smarter; he just became more arrogant and pretentious. | |
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The Simpsons: Subverted in "Last Tap Dance in Springfield". In it, Lisa is part of a Shirley Temple Expy's tap dancing class, but is extremely clumsy. Professor Frink offers to help out by putting the motors from a sound-activated dancing toy in her shoes. At the recital, she does dance well, but the tremendous applause causes her to do things like Wall Run and even outdance her teacher. After the recital: In "Whiskey Business", Moe gets a new suit, which causes others to treat him better and directly leads to his whiskey going public. When he loses the suit, Marge tells him the magic was inside him all along, even referencing Dumbo, the Trope Namer itself. Subverted when Moe goes to the public stock presentation without the suit, his appearance causing the company to collapse immediately. |
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In The Luck of the Irish, the protagonist's grandfather (a leprechaun) is watching the protagonist and his Token Black Friend play basketball against an evil leprechaun. A large part of the plot involves the protagonist losing his lucky coin (stolen by the Big Bad), with his family suffering bad luck since then. At the game, the grandfather sees that their team is losing and throws his grandson's friend a coin, claiming it's lucky. The guy's game immediately improves. The protagonist confronts his grandfather, as he knows the coin is fake. The grandfather invokes this trope, causing the protagonist to realize that he can make his own luck without relying on some coin. Subverted in that the stolen coin is really magical (part of its powers include maintaining The Masquerade), as, before, Ryan's life was a chain of good luck, and he never had to work for anything (e.g. his basketball plays are full of Hail Marys, and his good grades are a result of him guessing on tests). | |
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In an episode of MythBusters where the team is testing cures to seasickness, Grant, one of the guinea pigs, is given a supposed "wonder drug" that helps to combat seasickness greatly. It works outstandingly, and after the experiment the "wonder drug" is revealed to be a vitamin B12 pill. Which might be a subversion, as B12 might actually help with sea-sickness. But it was meant as a placebo. And when Adam took that pill, it did not help him at all. | |
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Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation gives us one used by the villains. Wick creates an alleged magic amulet for the Rank that reportedly increases their strength, but when the turtles get one neither Don nor Venus can find anything unusual about it. Near the end, the Dragon Lord's taunt on how fear is an excellent distraction causes them to realize that the 'magic' is just a placebo effect- the Rank puts them on thinking it'll make them invincible, and fight with more confidence. | |
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Thomas & Friends: The series did this with Season 17's "Percy's Lucky Day", where Stephen gives Percy his lucky horseshoe. The twist is that Percy accidentally left the shoe at the castle, and Stephen told him that he did all the things after he left without any help from the horseshoe. The concept is revisited in Season 23's "Crowning Around", where Rajiv loses his crown when it gets knocked off his funnel by a crane and taken by the monkeys. He believes that he can't be useful without it, and Shankar has to do his work for him. Near the end of the episode, when Noor Jehan can't stop due to her brakes being jammed and is heading towards Shankar, Rajiv pushes Shankar out of the way just in time, which gets him to realize that he can still be useful without his crown. |
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In Um Jammer Lammy, Lammy is clumsy and hopeless until she gets her guitar, at which point she's confident, brilliant and unstoppable. Fortunately for her, in the first stage of the game she ends up Dreaming the Truth about how her guitar is in her mind (like how Chop Chop Master Onion's destroyed casino still exists in his mind), giving her full control over her magic feather abilities so long as she hears the word "casino". Later on even this trigger word is no longer needed as she gains more confidence. | |
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Heroes: Played relatively straight with Hiro, who believes he needs a particular sword to recover his abilities. Of course, it turns out (and the viewing public finds out long before Hiro does) he never lost his abilities in the first place. A rather darker example is Isaac, who thinks he can't paint the future without heroin. Also, Niki, who believes that she can't use her Super-Strength unless her Superpowered Evil Side is in control. |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Splinter performs an impressive feat of magic with three tiny white spheres, shrinking three inflated turtles back to normal. He explains the spheres were given to him by a wise Sensei for use in an emergency, but they aren't made of anything magical: | |
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In Teresa Frohock's Miserere: An Autumn Tale, Lucian tells Lindsey that the Psalter is magical; later, when he says it helped her focus and the power was hers, she was annoyed. | |
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In Odin Sphere, the characters go through a lot of trouble trying to obtain the ring Titrel, which grants power over the Cauldron. Unfortunately for everybody, while the ring itself is the only thing that can allow most anyone to use the Cauldron, it turns out King Valentine doesn't need Titrel to control it because he created it, and the Cauldron is loyal to its master. Supposedly, the only reason he himself was after the ring was to ensure that no one could stop his plan once it started, along with being utterly insane, but by the end of the game he's decided to just go on ahead with Armageddon regardless. | |
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Amazing Super Powers shows a case of overdoing this. | |
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Played straight in one episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983). After Adam is taken hostage by Skeletor, leaving only Orko and Cringer able to get his sword to him, Cringer seems the best one to try (seeing that, if he manages, he would have the best benefit, being able to become Battle-Cat when Adam turns into He-Man. In order to get the well-known Lovable Coward to even try, Orko gives him a supposed magical amulet that he claims gives the wearer bravery, and it actually works, letting Cringer even get past a ghost in a dark part of the dungeons of Snake Mountain. At the end of the story, after Cringer's mission succeeds, he finds he lost the amulet, but Orko tells him it was just a piece of junk anyway. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In the episode Dumber Days, Meatwad discovers what he thought was his brain is only a cat toy. Frylock tells Meatwad he is giving him a new brain, and after the brain is implanted Meatwad gains an interest in science and can do incredible feats of telekinesis. Later, Frylock reveals that the "brain" he put into Meatwad is the same cat toy with macaroni and glitter glued to it, and Meatwad subsequently reverts to his old "dumb" self. | |
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Legends & Lattes: Viv takes a Scalvert Stone, reputed to bring the owner good luck, and buries it under the floor of her new café, which gradually becomes prosperous. It's left unresolved for most of the book whether this actually had an effect. It did, but not what she thought: Scalvert Stones don't bring the owner luck, they bring them like-minded people. So Viv, who wanted to make people happy with coffee and food, gets surrounded by people who want her to be happy, while Fennus, who steals the Stone at the climax, gets what's coming to him. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Inverted in this comic. "The failure was in you all along!" Subverted: No, it really is an evil artifact that now owns you. Parodied: Why sociologists shouldn't be allowed to make movies: "It wasn't that ring that made you successful! It was the confidence it gave you — in addition to being an able-bodied young person in history's richest country — all along!" |
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The lucky crystal necklace Chieri uses in The Cherry Project turns out to be this. | |
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The Doctor Who Novelisations version of The Day of the Doctor reveals that, in the "Make me a warrior" scene in "The Night of the Doctor", the potion the Sisterhood of Karn gave Eighth was actually lemonade and dry ice. | |
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Moville Mysteries: In one episode, a slacker believes he's gained talent playing the guitar by inadvertently selling his soul to the Devil, disguised as an old musician. He becomes increasingly paranoid from various supernatural happenings that Satan is coming to collect on his debt, with his sister trying to help him. In the end, it's revealed he actually gained his skill through practice and hard work; his sister, however, sold her soul and has been trying to set him up so the Devil will claim him instead. | |
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An episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh had Christopher Robin give Piglet a pair of "magical earmuffs" so that he could ice skate. Piglet loses the earmuffs, and believes that he cannot skate without them...until his friends are in danger. Naturally, Piglet saves the day, even without the "magic." | |
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The Marvel UK character Captain Britain used a costume and staff which he believed was the source of his powers, but merely focused his innate powers (his daddy was from Another Dimension, so powers kinda run in the family). Later, he was able to do without. | |
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Discussed in The Last Days of Foxhound. In one page, Liquid explains to Berthold that Psycho Mantis needs his mask in order to control his Power Incontinence (if he wears the mask, he can read minds voluntarily. If the mask is removed, then the thoughts of every human within ten miles force their way into his head). Liquid comments that he doesn't know if the mask itself is magic, or if it's just a placebo that Mantis is dependent on to control his powers. | |
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Inverted in the Rick and Morty episode "Look Who's Purging Now", when the normally meek Morty goes on a bloodthirsty warpath during the Purge. At the end of the episode, Morty is worried that he has several demons to work out within himself, only to be told by Rick that a candy bar he had eaten earlier contained Purgenol, which increases aggression. Cue the shot showing that the candy bar is "Now Purgenol-Free". | |
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When Austin's mojo is stolen in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, he is rendered impotent. Aside from his erectile dysfunction, he also believes he cannot defeat Dr. Evil without it. However, in the end, he saves the world, defeats Dr. Evil, and wins Felicity's love without his mojo. In the end credits, Austin is confirmed to have his mojo back when he sees his past self shagging Felicity. | |
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Cracked.com article on Poe's Law: "You didn't even need those cars, Vin. The violence was inside you the whole time." | |
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In The Way of Kings (2010), Shallan's overarching goal is to steal her teacher Jasnah's Soulcaster and learn how to use it to work magic, as the one owned by her family had stopped working. She eventually successfully steals it and replaces Jasnah's with her broken one, but for a long time, is unable to figure out how to use it. Finally, in a climactic moment, she figures out the secret, using it to save her own life... and then discovers that Jasnah's Soulcaster was a fake: Jasnah was Soulcasting without needing a Soulcaster (widely believed to be impossible), and Shallan just did the same thing. | |
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Raising Dion: In episode 3, Dion is already aware that he has superpowers, but has trouble controling them leading to several cases of Power Incontinence. At the suggestion of Pat (who even mentions the trope by name here), Dion's mom Nicole gives Dion his late father's watch and convinces him it helps the wearer stay focussed. It works, and Dion gains much more control over his powers. | |
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The fourth book, Rhythm of War, makes it clear that this is common for Lightweavers. One of Shallan's apprentices uses paint to activate his powers, another has to focus on the general colors, and another can only use illusions on himself when he adjusts his mind to become his illusion (the others are baffled by him explaining how he made an illusion of a rock by "thinking like a rock"). Likewise, one of the apprentices has a lot more success with Soulcasting when she has a sample of the material she is trying to transform, as a "seed" to "show" the thing what it should be. This is entirely different from how Elsecallers, the other Order with Soulcasting, work. | |
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On Xavier: Renegade Angel, when Xavier's mother demands he bring her pills and alcohol, he gives her placebos and apple juice. Years later, her life has spiraled into ruin and she laments her addictions, so Xavier reveals that she'd been using harmless substances all along. She promptly loses her mind. | |
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In Gundam Build Fighters Try, Evil Former Friend Junya is convinced that there is a secret behind the Jigen Haoh martial arts style and, somehow, Sekai had learned it when their master refused to teach him it. During their match, Junya tries beating it out of Sekai and, despite that, Sekai ends up besting Junya, realizing that there was more to this than what he knew. After the match, Sekai's sister, Mirai, tells Junya there is no secret, just inner mysteries towards yourself. | |
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Played with in Brooklyn Nine-Nine: When Charles tries to reinvent himself, he puts on Rosa's leather jacket and suddenly seems to become a cool, suave badass who people respect. His friends are quick to suggest that the real change is that he's more confident, but he brushes them off, insisting that the jacket is magic and confidence has nothing to do with it.... which is apparently true, as the effect completely wears off as soon as he gives another man the jacket. | |
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Inuyasha: Meidou Zangetsuha. Able to master any sword with a single swing or even without touching the blade, Sesshoumaru is finally stumped by Tenseiga's Meidou Zangetsuha which requires a compassionate heart to master instead of skill. Upon mastering it, he learns he's actually not allowed to keep it which sets up the revelation that he's possessed a sword of his very own all along, sleeping within his very soul waiting for the day when he was strong enough and compassionate enough to manifest it, a revelation that helps explain why he had such skill with a blade to begin with. | |
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Jax's enhanced arms prove to be this in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and Sonya even tells him straight out that he has a confidence problem. Only by regaining his confidence and ditching the arms is he able to defeat Motaro and help Sonya against the others in the final battle. | |
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In Guardian Fairy Michel, the people of a certain village believe that a floating golden feather in a glass orb helps the people of their village become great runners, and when the feather falls, the people begin to run out of energy and lose their ability to run. While the feather falling and the people failing to run are connected, it's a third, external force causing it: The manipulation of gravity. The feather is implicitly magic, but it was gravity's fault. | |
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In the Berenstain Bears book "The Bad Dream", Sister goes to see a movie called "The Magic Toeshoes". It's about a girl who has trouble with ballet dancing, and is given "magic" ballet slippers by her ballet teacher, which improve her dancing. On the night of the big ballet, she accidentally leaves her slippers on the bus. Her teacher tells her that the slippers were just ordinary shoes, and that the skill was in her all along, so she performs the ballet successfully without the "magic" slippers. | |
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Clifford the Big Red Dog did this in "Lucky Charm", where Emily Elizabeth had a lucky stone to help her skate, but losing her confidence after losing it and feels like she can't accomplish anything. Her friends, Charley and Vaz decided to help her by making another lucky stone and pretend that they "found it". They revealed to Emily that it wasn't her real stone, but tell her that she doesn't need a luck charm. | |
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Raj from The Big Bang Theory Cannot Talk to Women unless he's been drinking. It's eventually revealed that this isn't due to inebriation but for this trope, as he was able to flirt pretty well with Summer Glau until he learned he was drinking non-alcoholic beer. | |
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In X-Men: First Class, the chest blaster device helps Havok control his energy blasts, but eventually it gets damaged. He eventually gains enough control over it to aim his uncontrolled blasts effectively, clipping Angel's wings with them. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Scroll is stated to grant infinite strength and wisdom to the reader, but turns out to be blank and covered with a golden-colored, reflective material to show the reader that they already have all that's needed to become the Dragon Warrior. Po's father has a special soup with a secret ingredient. He later reveals to Po, there is no secret ingredient. People think there is, so it tastes extra special to them. This is what allows Po to understand what the Dragon Scroll means. In addition to his other flaws, Tai Lung could not become the Dragon Warrior because of his Inferiority Superiority Complex. He needed outside validation. As a result, Tai Lung could not grasp the Scroll's message even after Po told him what it meant. |
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Homestuck The players use various focusing devices before they can fully control their powers. This isn't outrightly stated, but by comparing Aradia's shift from using time-controlling music boxes to freezing Bec Noir in place with her mind, it becomes obvious. Some characters just jump this hurdle entirely though. It's heavily implied that John was supposed to obtain a flute to teach him how to use his windy thing, and that Rose had a similar sidequest involving "learning how to play the rain", a statement which never gets defined. A slightly more sinister example is Rose's wands. Doc Scratch suggests that the real power was given directly to Rose by the horrorterrors and that the wands are a way to make her think she's working alone while actually doing their bidding. Another theory is that Rose wasn't given the power directly from the Horrorterrors, but instead inverted her Aspect, Light, which usually symbolizes knowledge. Sburb being Sburb, deviating from your fate doesn't tend to end too well for you, as showcased by Rose. |
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In Wizard of the Pigeons, all wizards have to follow certain rules to keep their magic working. The titular Wizard must care for pigeons, answer questions for those who ask him, never abuse his strength on others, never have more than a dollar on his person, remain celibate, and help those who come to him for help. However, late in the story it's revealed that half the rules are ones he had made up himself and forgotten, and have no real impact on his magic except that he thought they did. | |
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In Kamen Rider Drive's Hyper Battle DVD, a Roidmude manages to become a duplicate of Drive and starts smearing his good name. After it gets the better of Shinnosuke, Mr. Belt has Drive's Type Speed upgraded into the luxury car-inspired Type High Speed, which gives him an edge. At the end of the special Mr. Belt reveals that Shinnosuke lost at first because he was psyched out by the duplicate, and the confidence boost he got from High Speed (which was nothing but a cosmetic change) let him get back into the right mindset to win. | |
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In Baman Piderman, the Happy Winter Friends' wish was inside him all along! (Like, literally, inside him. He had a drawer in his chest.) | |
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Casper the Friendly Ghost was given one from Dr. Harvey for a school play. | |
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The Order of the Stick: A sinister variant: when Vaarsuvius makes a Deal with the Devil, the fiends tell them that the Soul Splice may cause some "feedback" related to their Character Alignment. After V casts Familicide, the fiends admit to Qarr that they were completely lying about that, and only made the claim because they knew it would lower V's inhibitions. Enor gives Gannji "an authentic piece of lizardfolk Victory String" in response to the latter's fears of gladiatorial combat. Belkar and Roy immediately lampshade and parody the trope. |
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In The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle the white explorers encounter a Native American tribe menaced by ape people. The Native Americans ask the explorers to use their modern weaponry to help fight the ape people. The explorers agree, but when the actual battle comes around they barely get to fire a shot. The extra confidence their presence gave the Native Americans allowed them to defeat the ape people on their own. | |
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Inverted in Inspector Gadget (1999), in which Gadget requires a computer chip in order for his cyborg body to function. However, after the chip is taken out and smashed by Claw, it turns out that he can still operate without it. | |
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Smash Ogre finds one in the Xanth novel Ogre Ogre. He is affected by an "Eye Queue" vine that renders him intelligent and articulate, in contrast to most ogres, who are dimwitted and can only speak in rhyme. Eventually it turns out that Eye Queue vines do no such thing, they merely make the user think they have become more intelligent. Smash has human ancestry, and the belief that he could think and talk like a human just allowed him to realize he could always do so. In general, visits to the Good Magician Humphrey are this. He'll answer any question in return for a year of service (or equivalent quest, if you are a protagonist). This answer is the MacGuffin that's supposed to solve the character's problem, but most times the quest reveals that the answer was inside the character all along. |
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Subverted in the Vampire Princess Miyu episode "The Red Shoes". The titular shoes are given to Miyu's classmate Miho (a Shrinking Violet and aspiring Idol Singer) by her manager, and stated to magically make her an unparalleled singer. And they actually do just that. But they do so by sucking her Life Energy, and worse yet, once Miyu has defeated the Shinma who gave them to poor Miho, they can never be removed again. Miyu has to bite her friend and exchange blood with her in order to save her life. When last seen, Miho is physically better, but she's confined in an hospital.note This episode is in reference to a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Red Shoes, which is a semi-common reference in Japanese culture. The titular shoes are cursed and force the wearer to continue dancing forever, and cannot be removed — the dancer only stops dancing once she has a friendly knight chop off her feet — and the shoes, with the rotting feet, go dancing off into the wilderness on their own. | |
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In The Summer You Were There, Shizuku wears the dress Kaori gave her when she, accompanied by Kaori, goes to apologize to Ruri for bullying her in elementary school. She outwardly says that she feels that her ordinary clothes would be too casual for the situation, but inwardly feels as though the clothes make her stronger. | |
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At the end of Digimon Adventure when the Crests are destroyed by the final Big Bad, the kids need to figure out that the traits which powered their Digimon were part of them all along and they didn't need the Crests in the first place. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Variant when Captain Murtaugh orders Kath to "be brilliant" and figure out the enemy's moves. | |
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In Soul Eater, a medicine that supposedly suppresses madness is given to all the good guys. Lord Death privately admits that there is no such medicine; it was to make everyone brave enough to confront the Kishin, who infects others with madness. | |
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: While Phoebe is preparing for a talent show, Marigold tells her she'll cast a talent spell so she can play the piano perfectly without practicing. Later, when Phoebe is about to go perform, Marigold reveals she made the spell up to give her confidence...only for Phoebe to tell her that only works after she's done the performance. | |
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Luke in Mon Colle Knights once went to find an axe of bravery that would remedy his shyness around his crush. He found it and got his courage during a desperate moment, then lost it the moment the crisis was over and he learned the axe was fake, and he returned to bumbling. In the end, he instead gets over his shyness by confessing, which required a crisis as big as the world ending. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "The Scarlett Getter" Steve believes wearing a pair of Hayley's panties gives him good luck. After Snot steals them, Hayley explains to Steve using the episode of The Smurfs (1981) as an example, that it was really his confidence that gave him luck, not the panties. This trope is subverted when it is revealed Hayley does believe they're magic and beats up Snot and takes back the panties from him. In a later episode, Stan does not feel comfortable in his non-suit clothes so Roger utilizes a fashion designer persona to help only to then reveal that he can't design clothes and Stan's newly gained confidence was within himself all along namedropping the Trope Namer. |
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Minor Marvel Universe hero Blue Shield originally needed a micro-circuitry belt to power his super-strength, stamina, and force field projection powers. Eventually the belt altered his genetic structure so he no longer required it. | |
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Played straight in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Cover Up" with Buttercup and a security blanket. Buttercup needs to be thoroughly convinced she can fight without the blankie after it's misplaced. Once she is, she gives it up and the girls' father Professor Utonium snatches it up claiming it had recently helped him create his newest invention. | |
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In "Follow Your Nose," a Very Special Episode of PB&J Otter, Jelly's "Super Jellina Cape of Fearlessness" helped her to be less afraid of the dark. | |
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Mutants & Masterminds has a villainous version: Dr Stratos thought he needed his big fancy device to control the weather, until he learned it had been junk all along. He immediately went A God Am I. | |
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The Danny Ketch version of Ghost Rider initially believed he transformed into the titular character by touching his mystical motorcycle. In Hearts of Darkness (a Crossover featauring Ghost Rider, Punisher and Wolverine), the villain Blackheart stole Danny's bike. Believing himself unable to transform, he decided to steal an ordinary bike to reach the villain's location, only to discover that he could transform on his own, also changing the ordinary bike into a mystical one. | |
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The Talisman, written jointly by Stephen King and Peter Straub, has the novel's resident Magical Negro give the main character a drink that allows him to flip between worlds. After he consumes it all, it turns out that he always had the power; the stuff was just sour wine. It's hard to fault the main character not recognizing it for what it was, seeing as he was just a ten-year-old boy (talk about negligent spiritual guardians...) | |
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The Donald Duck comic "Bum Bum e il cappello fortunato" deconstructs the trope. In order to boost the self esteem of their common friend Bum Bum Ghigno, Donald Duck and Gyro Gearloose give him a top hat patterned like a ladybug with a (presumably fake) four-leaf clover on it, telling him it's an ancient wizard's magical hat that gives instant good luck to anyone who wears it. To their surprise, the lucky hat is actually working and makes Bum Bum as lucky as Gladstone Gander in the span of a few days. Donald immediately goes crazy and tries to get the hat back. At the end, the hat is lost and they tell Bum Bum the classic "the luck was all inside you all along" stuff... except we then see a street artist picking up the lost hat and immediately getting the luck. | |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor's trusty hammer Mjölnir is destroyed. Eventually, he learns from Odin's spirit that while the hammer is indeed a mighty weapon, it was not the source of his lightning powers. It came from within him, and the hammer was actually a Power Limiter to help him focus his powers. A deleted scene invokes this directly with Bruce Banner explaining Dumbo and the Magic Feather to Thor in a dinner scene after they escape on the Grandmaster's ship. |
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The Stormlight Archive: Thaylen religion, based around "the Passions," involves carved charms representing an emotion such as bravery. The charms are not magical and the Thaylens do not think that they are; the intent is for the charm to remind you to keep the emotion in mind when you need it. In The Way of Kings (2010), Shallan's overarching goal is to steal her teacher Jasnah's Soulcaster and learn how to use it to work magic, as the one owned by her family had stopped working. She eventually successfully steals it and replaces Jasnah's with her broken one, but for a long time, is unable to figure out how to use it. Finally, in a climactic moment, she figures out the secret, using it to save her own life... and then discovers that Jasnah's Soulcaster was a fake: Jasnah was Soulcasting without needing a Soulcaster (widely believed to be impossible), and Shallan just did the same thing. In the second book, Words of Radiance, Shallan discovers that she can't use her Lightweaving powers without drawing a picture of it first. When she's disguising herself as people, this makes sense due to how complicated they are, but she needs to do it even for something as simple as an illusion of a plain wall. Her spren, Pattern, notes that this shouldn't be necessary, implying she'll grow out of it eventually. The fourth book, Rhythm of War, makes it clear that this is common for Lightweavers. One of Shallan's apprentices uses paint to activate his powers, another has to focus on the general colors, and another can only use illusions on himself when he adjusts his mind to become his illusion (the others are baffled by him explaining how he made an illusion of a rock by "thinking like a rock"). Likewise, one of the apprentices has a lot more success with Soulcasting when she has a sample of the material she is trying to transform, as a "seed" to "show" the thing what it should be. This is entirely different from how Elsecallers, the other Order with Soulcasting, work. |
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Vow of Nudity: Played for laughs; Walburt originally protested leaving his bear totem at home because he claimed it was the only way he could cast his few spells. Then, after hours of tough fights where they would have been useful, he spontaneously casts speak with animals and excitedly realizes the magic was inside him all along. Haara is not amused. | |
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Used several times in episodes of the children's animation Dragon Tales. Ord believes that he can only do aerial tricks with a lucky stone, but, upon unknowingly losing said stone, still is able to do the tricks. It turns out as expected. In a slight variation on the trope, Ord is afraid of a thunder storm until given a cape, which he uses to pretend he's a super hero, causing him to no longer be afraid of the thunder. In another slight variation of this trope, Cassie goes to the wishing well to wish for a talent for the talent show. In order to convince the jaded wishing well to help, Cassie helps the wishing well and promises to be her friend. Then Cassie realizes that she already has a talent; helping people. A bit Anvilicious, but still cute. |
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Quantum Leap features a variation of this in "Pool Hall Blues" where Sam did need the ‘feather’ at least at first. For this Leap, Sam needs to win a game of pool when he doesn’t actually have any experience in the game and less than a day to learn. Al is able to adapt the holographic system of the Imaging Chamber to project a series of laser lines on the table (visible only to himself and Sam) to demonstrate where Sam should hit the ball and where he wants to ricochet it off the sides of the table, helping Sam get a better feel for the game. During the final shot of the game, the Imaging Chamber runs out of power to project the lasers, but by this point Sam appears to have gained enough experience at the game to make the final shot on his own, despite it being an exceptionally tricky one involving him ricocheting the white off three sides of the table before hitting the final ball. | |
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Much of the early campaign in Battle Realms involves Kenji trying to hunt down his family heirloom, the Serpent's Orb, because of its 'magic power'. In the Dragon campaign, the Dragon eventually reveals to him that the orb itself is little more than a focus and an ancestor of Kenji's who used it to break the world was only able to do so because he (unwittingly) channeled his own ki power through it because he believed it had power. | |
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In the second book, Words of Radiance, Shallan discovers that she can't use her Lightweaving powers without drawing a picture of it first. When she's disguising herself as people, this makes sense due to how complicated they are, but she needs to do it even for something as simple as an illusion of a plain wall. Her spren, Pattern, notes that this shouldn't be necessary, implying she'll grow out of it eventually. | |
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In the Goosebumps book The Blob That Ate Everything, Zackie thought that his reality altering powers came from a magical typewriter, only to find when he couldn't get the typewriter to work they were actually within himself. | |
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In Wonder Woman (2017), Ares destroys Diana's God-killer sword with his hand, revealing that the actual God-killer is Diana herself. | |
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Storm Hawks plays with this concept using Junko's Knuckle Busters, which were given to him when he was younger by his aunt to make him stronger. Being a Wallop, he's actually plenty strong already but he suffered a bad case of doubting his own strength due to bullying in his youth. However, the episode shows that one would build up muscle using them anyways, anyway (since the item in question is really heavy) and that they stop your wrists from hurting after punching metal, meaning they were always meant to be a complement to his natural strength rather than the source like he imagined. | |
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In Angel Moxie, when Alex's staff is broken, she seemingly lost her magic. Miya tells that the staff only acts like a focus to get her started, while saying how cliched it is. | |
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In Going Postal, Moist is given a dangerous test to get into a secret society of postmen; vicious guard dogs. However, Moist recognizes these are Lipwigzers; a rare breed from his own homeland, who are all taught various commands from birth, and of whom only the males are exported, to prevent breeding and keep the prices high. Realizing this, he simply shouts commands at the dogs, pacifying them and passing the test. However, it is then revealed to him that they aren't purebreds at all; they are mixed breeds, and were never taught the commands. Apparently the dogs were just shocked to have an unfrightened human shout at them. | |
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In the Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater episode "Cat Wars", a spoof of Star Wars, the Luke Skywalker expy is given a fur coat he believes allows him to access his powers. Naturally, he loses the coat, but realizes he doesn't need it and defeats the Darth Vader expy. | |
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Season 5 of Archer has Krieger inject a "mind control chip" into Cheryl's brain, so that she can overcome her stage fright and become country singing sensation Cherlene like she wanted all along. At the end of the season, Krieger reveals it was just the sticker off of a Lego spaceman... that he still injected into her brain. | |
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In a first season story of Arthur, Arthur believes that he has a "lucky pencil" that helps him do well on tests. He seems to realize eventually that he did well because he studied, though that doesn't stop him from whining loudly when D.W. tries to claim the pencil for her own. The story of the pencil became the basis for a song on the original Arthur music album, Arthur And Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD. | |
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In Thief of Time, Lobsang is wearing a portable procrastinator to enable him to continue walking around after time has been stopped. He panics after Susan tells him it stopped a while ago. Not a standard magic feather as the device would work as described, it just turns out that Lobsang doesn't need it, as he's the son of (or rather half of the son of) the anthropomorphic personification of Time. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Tia Dalma gives Jack an artifact after learning that the Kraken is after him. It is heavily implied that this jar of dirt does absolutely nothing, and is just a placebo for Jack to feel safer. Fridge Brilliance kicks in that the jar of dirt would also be a measure to keep Davy Jones away, since he couldn't set foot on dry land for at least another decade. | |
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Incarnations of Immortality: In On a Pale Horse, while fighting Satan, Death realizes that he doesn't actually need his scythe and cloak to use his powers, reasoning that if that had been true, Satan would have attacked him earlier while he was off duty. (The course of the series suggests his reasoning was actually wrong about that but his intuition was correct—while the scythe and cloak are in fact highly enchanted objects that would permit almost anyone to carry out the minimum of job performance as Death, it's the actual officeholder's adjustment to the office and intent to fill it which really matters.) In Under a Velvet Cloak, Karena finds from Morgan Le Fae that the velvet cloak has magical properties. Morgan teaches Karena how to use the invisibility, phase through the ground, protect the wearer from attack, and finally the spell Karena wanted — "Locate a person", to find her lost lover. Later in the story, Karena finds the most important quality of the cloak: the cloak is not magical; Karena did this all with her innate magical abilities. |
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In Sylvia Louise Engdahl's SF novel Enchantress from the Stars, Elana gives Georyn a stone that she says will give him magical powers. It's intended to give him enough confidence to use his innate psionic abilities. | |
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In Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, the protagonist's transformation into a metal monster is shown to have been caused by an injection with a serum. It's later revealed that an object in his pocket prevented the serum from being injected into him. His transformation was caused by his own anger. | |
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In GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class, innocent protagonist Kisaragi was conned into buying what she believed was "God's pencil" from an old lady at a stationary store. Using the pencil on her exams did help her get into the school, but that may have been more due to her practising like hell (enough to completely use up 20 of them) the day before. Either way she was still conned into buying old excess stock. Even after this fact is revealed, she still buys them, at least for sentimental value (since the granny died). | |
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In Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded, the walls encircling the kingdom of Lightening Pass is strengthened by sorceresses performing an annual spell called "the Buttoning." Chantel and her friends eventually deduce the walls are impenetrable without magic, and the real annual enchantment is a contentedness spell cast over the citizens. | |
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Inverted in Frozen (2013), where Elsa is given a pair of gloves to help her control her ice powers. It's made clear that the gloves don't do anything, they provide a placebo effect and help her calm down. She's shown producing ice from her feet, changing her outfit with magic and she breaks an enormous pair of shackles. | |
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Inverted in Fable II and Fable III. While the protagonist of Fable III needs gauntlets to use magic, his father, the protagonist of Fable II, did not need gauntlets. | |
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The Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons campaign pulls a parody of this when the guild is trying to sell an obviously haunted house that tries to kill and/or horribly maim the prospective buyers. | |
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Used in an episode of ThunderCats (1985), when the mind-controlling villain Alluro acquires an amulet in a box that is supposed to ramp up powers. He then proceeds to easily mesmerize all the heroes except for Snarf, who manages to get the box away from him, and then defeat him, even using the powers of the Sword of Omens, which had previously only activated for its proper wielder. At the end, naturally, Snarf realizes he never bothered to open the box to see what the amulet looked like, and when he does open it, it's revealed that the amulet inside has been broken for some time. Probably a good thing nobody told the bad guy. | |
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In the Thunder Cats 2011 episode "The Duelist and the Drifter", Master Swordsman The duelist challenges The Hero Lion-O to a Sword Fight, wagering their swords and Lion-O loses. The Ultimate Blacksmith that made the Duelist's sword makes another one for Lion-O and a rematch takes place. The Duelist loses despite Lion-O's new sword being broken in half and ends up being humiliated by the blacksmith. The blacksmith explains that the duelist's sword took years to be forged and the new one took just a few hours, so Lion-O had it in himself to defeat the Duelist the whole time. | |
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In the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's friends possess the qualities that they seek, but insist on getting a Magic Feather from the Wizard anyway. The film version provides a variation in that the Wizard instead gives Dorothy's friends various symbols of what they've achieved—a diploma that signifies the Scarecrow getting his brain, a ticking heart watch that reflects the Tin Man's kindness, and a war medal that testifies to the Cowardly Lion's courage. And of course, Dorothy had the slippers to get home the ENTIRE time. To invert the previous examples though, the wizard offered her... a ride home. |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Invoked, but subverted in one of the Choose Your Own Ending shorts. Should Rainbow Dash choose to accept Bulk Biceps' help, he gives her his lucky sock to help her win a soccer game. When she does win, Bulk explains that the sock was just an ordinary sock, and that Rainbow Dash didn't need luck to win the game. The subversion comes from the fact that Bulk hasn't washed his socks in years, and the sock he gave to Rainbow Dash was smelly enough to knock out the opposing team. | |
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Some stones in The Game of the Ages are magical, but focus stones are magic feathers to boost your confidence. | |
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In the 2021 reboot episode, "Lucky Smudge", Angelica wins all the games at her school carnival when she has Tommy, who has a smudge on his belly, by her side. Near the end of the episode, she spins a special wheel in the hopes of winning a Cynthia Shimmering Diva Disco Playset. When Didi wipes the smudge off of Tommy's belly, Angelica ends up winning a set of Colby Clay instead. Even though Tommy had his smudge wiped off, the babies realize that she still won those games due to her own skills, and her winning the Colby Clay was good luck for them, since it's what they like to play with. | |
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Inverted in Girl Genius. Gil isn't convinced that his super-awesome perpetually-flaming hat (made for him by the Jagermonsters, who are very invested in hats) gives him any divine authority whatsoever. The rest of the crowd treat it like he's wearing a giant king's crown on fire (which it sort of is). Except one guy, who gets filed for promotion by Gil for having common sense. Basically, the hat makes him think less of himself (why is everyone willing to bow down and worship a prince who wears a jester's crown — OH WAIT), but almost all the non-regular cast are awed by it. | |
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This is also seen in The Tales of Beedle the Bard during the story "The Fountain of Fair Fortune". In the end, it turns out that the fountain is just an ordinary fountain, but the three witches and the Muggle knight who traveled to reach it have all had their lives changed for the better. | |
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The Onion: Viagra Announces Real Medicine That Gave Customers Erections Was Confidence All Along | |
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The Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan movie Space Jam, where Bugs offers his team-mates a bottle filled with "Michael's Secret Stuff" (really just tap water) to help them win the big game. Even after learning it was fake, the toons still ask for more. Of course, considering that It Runs on Nonsensoleum, the confidence boost was probably all they needed. | |
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There's a moment in the original Rainbow Brite episode "Peril in the Pits". Murky Dismal steals Rainbow's magic belt and traps our heroes in a dark cave, thinking they'll get depressed. They're trying to figure out how to escape without using the belt, and she blurts out "But we still have hope! And hope doesn't come from a belt. It comes from inside us!" | |
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Played completely straight in Glee when Brittany gets "paralyzed with fear" at the thought of having to dance prominently at sectionals. Artie gives her his magic comb and tells her if she combs her hair with it she can't lose. She loses it and causes Artie think she's cheating on him (It Makes Sense in Context). Artie finally revealed that he picked the comb off the floor and was on his way to throw it out when he ran into her. | |
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M*A*S*H: Hawkeye and B.J. give placebos to a shy, nebbish soldier, telling him they're Confidence Pills. They also give the same pills to Klinger, telling him they're a new drug that will help keep him cool — later, during a boiling hot day, he walks around in a long-sleeved shirt and long pants, seemingly unaffected by the heat. More seriously, when the camp runs out of morphine, they pass sugar pills off as painkillers via psychology, telling the current batch of wounded soldiers they can only have one each of these "super-powerful" new wonder drugs. The scene is subverted as at least one soldier seems not to be responding to it. |
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The Seven Little Monsters episode "The Winning Streak" has Mama give Six a ring she calls a Zimplooky and telling her it will improve her skill at bowling. When Six ends up losing the Zimplooky after a couple of strikes, Mama reveals to her daughter that the Zimplooky was a mere trinket and that Six had the confident to bowl well within her the whole time. | |
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In Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis, one of the characters' familiar spirits doesn't actually do anything and isn't actually magical at all; they're just a psychological crutch for the character, who is magically quite powerful and not human, but doesn't know it. | |
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Black Lightning is another superhero who started out using a gadget, only to eventually realise it had unlocked his own powers. | |
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In Hogfather, HEX, Unseen University's thinking machine becomes a Talkative Loon after prolongued exposure to the Bursar. Ridcully, who normally doesn't understand technology, solves the problem by typing DRYD FORG PILLS into the keyboard, (Dried Frog Pills being the medicine that keeps the Bursar halfway sane) reasoning: "If it can get the idea of being sick, it can get the idea of being cured." It works. | |
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Kim Possible: In one episode, Kim is unable to pass her driving test. By coincidence, she has to team up for a mission with a self-driving car, and uses it to pass the test. While on her mission something goes wrong and the computer can't control the car anymore, and Kim needs to drive the car she and Ron are in out of the villain's lair, she protests she can't drive, and the computer tells her that it never did anything - it was her all along. Kim, inspired, drives the car out of the collapsing lair. Subverted when the computer reveals that it lied - the computer had been doing the driving before, but needed to inspire her. Done a second time when Kim feels like she's lost her mojo when her signature costume gets shredded and is discontinued. However it was subverted in that it was less those specific clothes as having a distinct set of mission clothes, and with the help of some criminal fashion designers she's soon back to her ass-kicking ways. |
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The film version provides a variation in that the Wizard instead gives Dorothy's friends various symbols of what they've achieved—a diploma that signifies the Scarecrow getting his brain, a ticking heart watch that reflects the Tin Man's kindness, and a war medal that testifies to the Cowardly Lion's courage. | |
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In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, it is implied early on that Apollo's ability to Perceive tension and nervous tics in his witnesses is thanks to his bracelet. Later on, it is clarified that the descendents of Magnifi Gramarye, including Apollo and Trucy, have inherent powers of perception, and the bracelet is a keepsake from Thalassa Gramarye which seems to tighten when the wearer detects tension and thus tenses themselves, creating the illusion that it is the source of the ability. This is Zig-Zagged, however, due to the fact that the tightening of the bracelet itself acts as a cue to begin intentionally using the ability. Without it, the increased tension in the body would be much harder to notice, and thus it would be far more difficult for Apollo to know when to begin using the ability in earnest. This gives the bracelet more importance than the standard Magic Feather, even after the above is revealed. | |
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The 'magic' boardshorts in the Stōked! episode "Boardy Brotherhood". | |
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In Qualia the Purple, Hatou's ability to communicate with infinite parallel universes was there all along. It was just that Yukari rebuilding her arm with a cellphone awakened said power. | |
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In the Tangled: The Series episode "Curses!", Rapunzel angers a gypsy by refusing to give up the telescope given to her by her father. The gypsy then declares that Rapunzel will be cursed with misfortune. After experincing all kinds of bad luck, Rapunzel is about to give up her telescope to end the curse until Eugene gives her a moose tooth that is supposed to be a good luck charm to counteract the curse. After this, Rapunzel then gains the confidence to cross a dangerous ravine. But halfway through, the tooth is revealed to have come from Shorty's mouth, and she starts to worry that the curse will prevent them from getting to safety, until Eugene tells her that luck only exists if you believe in it. | |
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Spider-Man uses this trick to save a kid in The Amazing Spider-Man. He needs the kid to climb up out of a burning car so he can get him to safety, but the kid is too scared. So Spidey unmasks and gives it to the kid, claiming it will "make him strong". It works. | |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena comes with enough Magic Feathers to stuff a sofa. Most of the central characters hold unhealthy obsessions with (re)capturing a cherished person, ideal and/or time in their pasts. Yet while this monomania pushes them to achieve great success and popularity, they are nevertheless grasping for something that never existed, a fact that leads them wide open to disaster. | |
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Subverted in the Cow and Chicken episode "Cow's Magic Blanket". Cow had a security blanket until she grew tired of the taunts and threw it away. She later told Chicken that blanket was Supercow's cape and source of power. Overhearing this, Red Guy started hurting the other kids under the belief no superhero would stop him. Chicken then recovered the blanket and tried to use it on himself and become "Wonder Wattle" but Red easily defeated him. Chicken tried to convince Cow it meant she had the power all along but she points out he just has the cape backwards and flips it making Chicken become Wonder Wattle for real. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Mudd's Women", three women are supposedly given a "Venus drug" which made them irresistibly beautiful, but it revealed at the end that they didn't need the drug to make themselves beautiful — it was self-confidence all along. The on-screen moral being: apparently self-confidence can give you an actual makeover — complete with makeup and a new hairdo! | |
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In Lords and Ladies Magrat finds the ancient armor of Queen Ynci the Short-Tempered, and believes that her spirit is with her and gives her an extra capacity for violence and determination. As it turns out, Ynci was completely made up, and her armor had been made a few decades ago to give the royal house a little more color. | |
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In Archie Comics, Archie once requested for Jughead to use the latter's old stopwatch to record his time, to rehearse for the track-and-field tryouts later. During Archie's practice, Jughead tells Archie that he actually broke the world record for his sprint. Archie gets a huge confidence boost that he actually wins the tryout race. However, a skeptical Coach Kleats (he lost his own stopwatch, and Jughead volunteered to time the events in his stead; Kleats wonders why all the runners in the tryouts have excellent times) asked to have a closer inspection of Jughead's watch, and figures out that Jughead's watch is actually running slow. So Archie, never mind that he made the team, realizes he's been fooled, and decides to take out all his anger on Jughead. | |
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Played with in Bewitched when Uncle Arthur helps Darrin stand up to Endora - he teaches Darrin an incantation to defeat her and gives him a talisman that is simply a lamp finial. It turns out the incantation is useless gibberish - Arthur is just messing with Darrin for laughs. (However, it works both in the sense that Darrin does successfully banish Endora with the ritual - and because working to counter-prank Arthur gets Darrin a tiny bit closer to the acceptance from Endora he actually needs.) Played straight in another episode; after being belittled by Mr. Tate one time too many, Darren began to lose his confidence and considered quitting. The next morning, Samantha offered him a "magic potion" (actually just a glass of orange juice) that she said would increase his self-confidence. At a meeting with their new client, Darren showed him the ad campaign that Tate had previously dismissed as unprofessional, and the client liked the new campaign. Samantha later admitted to Darren that she didn't use any magic on him. |
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It's unclear whether the jester outfit that Maytag wears in Flipside actually causes her to become incredibly outgoing and self-confident, but if it doesn't, it's likely to be this trope. Events seem to be heading this way, with Maytag able to go on with her comedy act despite being magically stripped by a rival at the start of it. After a moment's hesitation, she even manages to joke about her situation. | |
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In Silent Hill: Homecoming, it's eventually revealed that Alex only acts like a bad ass ex-soldier because he believed he was one; reality isn't so pleasant. | |
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Regular Show subverts this trope. Mordecai and Rigby, trying to form a rock band, are visited by their future selves who promise to make them successful. Their future selves teach their present selves about dancing and fashion, but neglect to teach them how to actually play their instruments. Right before it's time for the present M&R to play their first gig, the future M&R show up with magic guitar picks, and miraculously, the gig begins successfully. In the middle of the song, however, present Mordecai realizes that, while it wasn't the magic guitar picks, it wasn't their natural talent either; the microphones and electric guitars were unplugged, and the pre-recorded song was playing in the background. | |
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Pretty much the most awesome example ever: in One Piece, for the Luffy vs. Foxy duel, Usopp hands Luffy a giant afro to give him strength... and then the entire crowd goes wild when he appears sporting it. And when he starts to show his Heroic Resolve, it is apparently because "THE AFRO POWER MADE HIM GO BERSERK!". In short, the Magic Feather that everybody (except Nami, but including Robin) believe. Even more confusing is that he effectively wins because of the afro! Not because it is special, but just because it happens to catch a shard of a mirror that Luffy pulls out later. | |
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Inverted in NewsRadio, which showed Matthew being given a homemade "Smart Drink" by Joe and becoming super intelligent. Smatthew (for "Smart Matthew") later begins to lose his intelligence, but upon being urged to consume more of Joe's smart drink, concludes that the drink was a placebo and only worked because stupid Matthew was so dumb he believed it would. He loses his newfound intelligence permanently. | |
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Cheshire Crossing plays this straight with Dorothy's ruby slippers: The teleportation power was all hers. However, the slippers do possess some intrinsic power: the power to mimic the abilities of the last person to wear them. | |
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Subverted in three different episodes of Futurama: "I Second That Emotion", in which Bender is given the emotion chip, so that he feels what Leela feels. At the end of the episode, after Bender saves Nibbler due to his feeling compassion for him, the Professor removes the chip and says, "The chip shorted out! That emotion you felt was your own... no, wait, I'm wrong. It was actually running at triple capacity." Bender responds, "And I still barely felt anything! Good night, losers!" "The 30% Iron Chef": After Bender wins a cooking competition using drops from a crystal flask filled with "the essence of pure flavor", Professor Farnsworth runs a chemical analysis and announces the mystery liquid is "Water! Ordinary water!" Immediately after Fry concludes that all Bender needed to cook well was confidence, the professor adds, "Yes, ordinary water, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD." "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings": Fry loses the robot hands that allowed him to play the holophoner so well. Dr. Zoidberg shouts, "The beauty was in your heart, not your hands!" Fry attempts to continue playing, but does horribly. Dr. Zoidberg shouts, "Your music is bad, and you should feel bad!" Played with in that when Fry turns to leave, Leela (the only remaining audience member) asks him to play anyway. Though he needed the robot hands to play well, he still has the ability to win the affection of Leela (which is what he wanted in the first place) even without them. |
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In the big crossover between Hannah Montana and The Suite Life on Deck, Hannah's anklet acts like this. It's a keepsake of her mother's, and when she loses it everything goes wrong until Robbie Ray tells her that her mother is always with her, regardless of the anklet. | |
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A unique version was used in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command when XR's Black Sheep brother XL attacked him and stole a component from him called an AFD, which was the only difference between them he could find in their schematics. Naturally, XR felt that without it, he was useless. In the end, it was revealed that the AFD was merely an Air Freshening Device and that what XR had in him that made him great was not in a robotic sense. | |
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In the "Royal Pain" episode of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po vows to train Lu Kang, the emperor's grandson and potential heir, under pain of death, in the ways of Kung Fu. Po makes little headway until he tricks Lu Kang into believing that an ordinary bean pod, which he promotes as the "Sacred Bean Pod of Kensu", will give him Kung Fu powers. It works, until the week's villain, his adviser and caretaker, destroys it. Of course, Lu Kang gains his confidence back when Po reveals the deception. | |
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The Twisted Metal games occasionally put a dark twist on this trope. In the first game, the driver of Yellow Jacket, Charlie Kane, entered the Twisted Metal contest in the hopes of finding his long-lost son. Upon winning the contest, Calypso simply informs him that his son, Needles Kane, was the driver of Sweet Tooth in the contest — meaning that he had already run across the person he was looking for, and killed him along the way. A despondent Charlie thinks about re-entering the competition next year so that Calypso can take away his suffering. In Twisted Metal: Black, the driver of Brimstone, a preacher who's suffering from Demonic Possession ever since a failed exorcism that resulted in his congregation getting killed, enters the contest hoping that Calypso can exorcise the demon. Calypso grants his wish... by revealing that there was no demon at all. The preacher was just insane, and he had killed his congregation, so Calypso couldn't do anything to help him. The preacher kills himself once he realizes that he can't run away from his sin. |
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In the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral trilogy, the artificer Venser builds a machine that lets him teleport all over the Dominaria. He's the only one who can use it, making him indespensible to the heroes who are trying to save the world. Turns out, however, that he was unknowingly a planeswalker (dimension-hopping super-wizard) and it was ''him' and his "spark," not the machine, doing the teleporting. Even after he found this out, it took him a while to learn how to teleport and planeswalk without using the gizmo. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: In "Thunder Dog" when Dudley is spooked one too many times by Bird Brain's Thunderbird because of his fear of thunder, Kitty gives him the collar she was wearing to boost his confidence, saying Keswick made it for her to enhance her bravery. In the end she tells him the collar has no special effects, and he believed in himself to conquer his fear. | |
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The stuffed penguin used by Nodoka in Saki is obviously nothing but a psychological crutch to help her focus on her Mahjong playing. | |
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Questionable Content: At least for Marten initially, the Worry Hat. It gets passed on to Hannelore later on. | |
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In Mage: The Ascension, characters need to focus their magick through various means, but sufficiently high-level characters will realize that the magick comes from them and can cast spells without foci with no penalty. At this point, the mage starts becoming obscenely powerful and even Werewolves and centuries-old Vampires keep their distance. | |
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen has Blend, a soldier who's exceptionally good at hiding or remaining unnoticed. She thinks that it somes from a "don't-notice-me" charm she once purchased from a street vendor, but when High Mage Quick Ben takes a good look at the stone in question, he claims that it's just junk. Turns out Blend just has an innate talent that was brought out by her intense belief in the stone's potency. | |
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In Rekkit Rabbit, Rekkit gives Jake some magical help that makes him a genius (with a giant head) to win a competition. He then loses the effects of the magic, but Rekkit says there WAS no magic and he really IS that smart. So he goes on with the competition... and basically just drools and blabs incoherently. After failing, Rekkit says that unfortunately there really was magic. | |
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Pootie Tang: Pootie's magical belt is eventually revealed to be a completely non-magical item purchased from a Piggly Wiggly for 95 cents. | |
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In Bull Durham, there's Annie encouraging Nuke to wear garters to help him play better. Discussed by Crash later in the movie: | |
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The spirit monk amulet in Jade Empire is just a tool to focus the main character's innate powers. This, though, is probably just a Hand Wave as to how you can still use its functions, even though the plot requires it to be stolen. It does have some magic of its own though, since it allows Sun Li to grab more of the Water Dragon's power in a few days than his brother managed to drain in decades. It's because he isn't a Spirit Monk, and the amulet acts for him as it did for you early on, as a magical focus. But since your power and focus have grown so much, you no longer need it. It would be like using a flamethrower until you learned how shoot fire from your hands, yeah the flamethrower still works, but you don't really need it anymore do you? | |
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Happens in Generator Rex with the titular characters' Goggles. Back when Rex started working for Providence he had little control over his powers, so Agent Six presented him with the Goggles which he said came from a master craftsman that Six had defeated in the past; claiming that with these goggles Rex would be able to get control of his powers. Zigzagged in that Rex had figured out that the Goggles didn't even do anything, but he still wore them because he looked up to Six as a Father. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Slump, a Cross and Roadside Gravel", Missy starts getting better at batting after praying and wearing Mary's old crucifix. Then Mary finds out Missy thinks she can just pray for whatever she wants as if God were a magic genie and takes the cross away. George, being a sports coach, is sympathetic to Missy and steals the cross away to give it back during her next game. Missy rejects it, claiming that she now has the confidence to do better without it, but as soon as she gets a strike, she calls for George. | |
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In the Muppet Babies (2018) episode, "No Laughing Matter", when Fozzie loses his Great-Uncle Schnozzie's lucky joke book, he thinks he can't be funny without it. The other babies get Bunsen and Beaker to make a new lucky joke book for Fozzie, and when Fozzie sees that Rizzo borrowed the real lucky joke book, he realizes that he doesn't need it, as he still performed his funny joke show without it. | |
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Modern Family: In "Treehouse," Mitchell gives Jay a little pill that supposedly will loosen him up and help him dance. That pill? Turns out to be chewable baby aspirin. | |
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Pv P: Brent Sienna gives up coffee for health reasons. When the magazine is in crisis and desperately needs help, he insists on going back to coffee to give him his "edge." After his all-nighter, his girlfriend reveals that she has been bringing him decaf. Francis claimed that Skull's gaming fez was one. |
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In the Sakura Wars OVA, Sakura Shingouji attempts to figure out the secret of her father's super special technique and refuses to join the special team she's been recruited to until she learns it. She goes through every possible way to read the scroll it's said to be on before realizing that there is no secret - everyone knows it and it is brought out in their own way. | |
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Used on a large scale in Kingdom of Heaven, where, in response to the Patriarch of Jerusalem asking him how he plans on defending the city with no knights, Balian of Ibilin immediately knights every peasant and commoner within the sound of his voice. | |
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Played dangerously straight in Crash when a character gives his daughter (who is afraid of bullets after a stray one found its way through her bedroom window) an "impenetrable cloak given to him by a fairy". She believes it so much that she runs into his arms to shield him from a man who has him at gunpoint. But in an ironic and heart-touching parallel placebo-effect situation, the shooter's daughter has loaded the gun with blanks (she was afraid he'd accidentally shoot himself). | |
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Slight variation in the film Hitch, where the title character eventually comes to realize that he himself is a Magic Feather — he gave clients advice on how to woo their dream girls, and his success rate is very high, but ultimately his advice didn't matter and the ladies all fell for the guys because of things they did naturally, in some cases completely contrary to Hitch's advice. All Hitch really gave them was the confidence to make the first move by believing that with Hitch's help, they actually had a chance. | |
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In Duckman, the title character gets a new adrenal gland from whom he thinks is a world famous stuntman who recently died in a freak accident. This leads to him believing he can do all sorts of monumental stunts and acts of derring-do. And it works...until his partner informs him that the gland came from a dyslexic accountant (and a new adrenal gland wouldn't give one increased strength, balance or flexibility, either). He calls off his latest daring stunt and everything is back to normal. | |
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In The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, the Eccentric Mentor gives each of the children a special hat that will help them travel to the magical world of Whangdoodleland, and warns them never to take the hats off while they're there, or they may not be able to return home. Near the end of the book, he admits to the Prock that the hats are just hats, a ploy to help the children channel their imaginations. It's then played with, as it's suggested that the hats might, unknown to the Professor, have actual power. | |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power: Sorrowful the Dragon (in the episode "The Laughing Dragon") is given a necklace of roses that She-Ra tells him will give him courage. He then proceeds to open a can of whoopass on the Horde. When he finds out that the flowers aren't really magical, he faints. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Free Samples" when the customers begin to riot against the Krusty Krab after Plankton gave them chum-shaped krabby patties, SpongeBob wins them back by making new patties. When questioned by Mr. Krabs over how he did such a thing, SpongeBob explains he just sold the regular run-of-the-mill patties, but passed them off under a new name with a different taste. In "Life Insurance", a misunderstanding from a life insurance commercial causes SpongeBob and Patrick that signing said contract would protect them from all sorts of danger, to the point of having Squidward do such as well. But they soon find out the awful truth that life insurance is really an amount of money one will receive from someone when they die, and it's not protective at all. |
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In "Bravehat" from The Book of Pooh, the titular hat is one of these. When Piglet ends up discovering and wearing a stylish black hat, he ends up scaring off some bees that are bothering Pooh while flailing about because hat is covering his eyes. Pooh declares it to be a "bravehat" and afterwards, Piglet commits some brave acts while wearing it, including sleeping without his nightlight. In the end, he goes into the Scary Woods to rescue Eeyore, only for the hat to snag on a branch just as he's entering without him noticing. When he returns with Eeyore, he at first faints about discovering he left the hat behind, but then everyone realizes it was really Piglet who was brave. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Tedd created a glove that lets him enchant watches so they can cast spells. Pandora reveals to him he's doing it under his own power.note Pandora does reveal the glove does make it easier for Tedd to customise spells for said wands so it does do something but given the incredible rarity of Seers like Tedd it's not nearly as useful as he hoped. | |
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Parodied by the original Team Fortress 2 blog, showering the players with gifts for "Australian Christmas": | |
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God of War III has Kratos questing to open Pandora's Box a second time in order to obtain the power of Hope and destroy Zeus. When he finally opens the Box, it's empty; Kratos has had Hope within him since opening the box in the first game, without realising it.note There is a reason why the Ancient Greek believed Hope to be among the calamities of the world in Pandora's Box; they thought it was a delusion. Many modern depictions of Pandora's Box fail to mention/ignore this point. | |
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Angels in the Outfield: Both versions of the film have a Downplayed version of the trope as for most of their stories there really was divine intervention earlier in the season — it just wasn't there in the final games of the season. The original film had the angels who were providing supernatural help in baseball games throughout the season quit because Duffy's angry outburst violates the terms of the agreement. They reveal that they had gradually been helping less as the team's morale improved, so they should be okay on their own in the playoffs. The 1994 remake has a couple of instances of the angels (the heavenly beings) not helping the Angels (the professional baseball team): During the quick-cut montage of games showcasing the Angels' miraculous comeback from last place in the league all the way up to the top of the standings after the All-Star break, there is one instance of a game against the Yankees where George Knox (the Angels' bench manager), after seeing another outstanding defensive play, excitedly waves his arms to indicate the "angels are here" sign, only to turn and see Roger (the only one who can actually see said angels) just shake his head to say "no, there weren't angels there". Knox gives an understandably shocked, "No?!" of disbelief. The last game of the season against the White Sox which would decide the American League pennant because of a celestial rule — only Roger and Knox know this, though. The Angels' starting pitcher Mel Clark has been pitching the whole game and, with the Angels up 3-2 but the White Sox having the bases loaded and their massive slugger at the plate with a full count, is clearly exhausted after throwing around 160 pitchesnote this is already an incredibly high pitch count by early-1990's standards; with the modern-day sabermetrics emphasis on not overworking pitchers' arms throughout his career a pitcher reaching even half of that in a game almost never happens now. Knox comes out to talk to Clark and has Roger give the arm-flapping gesture he used throughout the season to signal Knox of an angel's presence. Soon, his friend JP, the rest of the Angels' team, and the whole home crowd start doing the same, convincing Clark to give it one more go. He does and gets the White Sox batter to line out to him on a diving catch for the final out, and the Angels win the pennant. It isn't until the team is in the middle of celebrating on the field that Knox tells Clark the truth — there was no angel that time, Knox having told Roger before coming onto the field to give a false "angel" signal. |
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In The Southern Reach Trilogy, each expedition member is given a black box with the instruction to immediately evacuate should the light bulb on it turn red. The biologist later learns that it doesn't actually measure anything; it's just intended to make them feel safer. | |
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Havan the Fire Maker of Red Sonja lost his magic and sought out other magic users to find what he was missing. Sonja fixes him by claiming to be a witch princess and commanding him to restore his own power. | |
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In This Bites!, when Luffy, a Devil Fruit user, has to win a surfing competition against an octopus, Boss gives him what he describes as Dugong Surfing Elixir that would enable Luffy to surf with the best of them. In actual fact, it was Boss's fermented seaweed juice. It still works. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Leap of Faith", the Flim-Flam Brothers sell a supposedly miracle cure-all tonic that is really just ordinary juice. The elderly Granny Smith takes it and surprisingly becomes agile and energetic again. Applejack exposes the con and saves Granny from killing herself doing a reckless stunt because she thought the tonic made her invincible. They realize Granny's belief in herself was what gave her strength, allowing her to still play with the others without having to take the tonic. | |
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In Asterix in Britain, after losing their supplies of magic potion, Asterix finds some herbs that Getafix had given him earlier, and declares that he can make magic potion from them. He boils them up and gives a cup to each of the British fighters, and of course they defeat the Romans. The chief of the Britons reveals that he had guessed that it wasn't proper magic potion, but declares that he will make it their national drink anyway. It later emerges that the herbs were tea-leaves. | |
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Parodied in The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. "See, this is why I don't do pep talks." | |
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Parodied in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Princess Mindy turns SpongeBob and Patrick into "men" with seaweed mustaches with her "mermaid magic", or so she claims, which are then ripped off later by the villain. In typical manner, they still manage to make it through. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: In "Power Squid and Spaghetti Beezy", Heloise gives Jimmy a "squid-based muscle enhancer" to put on his head for superpowers. When the squid is stolen by Lucius in the middle of a fight with the Rodeo Clowns, leaving Jimmy defenseless, a hologram of Heloise tells Jimmy "it was never the squid - the power was always deep within you". She might have been lying since her tiny assistant Dorkus had been able to lift a bull while wearing it earlier, but Jimmy does manage to drive off the clowns in the end while Lucius has no luck using the stolen squid for evil. Parodied in the same scene. When Heloise tells Jimmy the above line, Beezy asks if the same applies with his garlic breath superpower and the spaghetti and cooking pot he wears on his head. Heloise responds with "No, you just have really bad breath." |
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A similarly depressing version can be found in Blood Diamond, as Dia's identity as a Child Soldier, "See-Me-No-More", is tied up in a cap given to him by Captain Poison after getting promoted. The cap getting knocked off in the climax causes him to revert for a short time, until he sees someone killed in front of him. | |
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Flight of the Conchords did this with hair gel which supposedly made the boys look cool. When the hair gel is all used up, they can't bear to even leave the house, and Murray, their manager, tells them that the gel didn't make them cool, it just gave them the confidence to show everyone how cool they really were. Inspired by his words, they go to perform their gig sans gel, only for the entire crowd to walk away once they start playing. Murray concedes that yes, it really was the hair gel that made them cool. | |
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In the second Circle of Magic book, Niko doesn't have time to teach Tris how to see magic, so he puts a spell on her glasses to help her see it. When she asks how long it will last, he says "As long as you have those lenses." Two books later, he casually reveals that wasn't true: the spell only lasted a week. Ever since, she's been seeing magic on her own. | |
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In an '80s Daredevil story, DD's mentor Stick reveals that the radiation that gave Matt Murdock his superhumanly acute senses (and also blinded him) had a temporary effect — but that temporary boost taught Murdock to use his normal human senses to their full potential. (Alas, the blindness wasn't temporary. Sorry!) | |
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This often happens with sports-themed stories on Fantasy Island. A guest will be given an item from ice skates to a riding crop that gives them a boost to live out being the star they always wanted to be. After they win the big competition, Roarke will reveal these were just random items he had lying around with no magical powers and all they did was allow the guest to believe in their own talents. | |
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On Sheriff Callie's Wild West, Sparky's lucky scarf in the story "Sparky's Lucky Day" is this. If you believe the story's song, "Amazing Lucky Scarf," then with it, Sparky can "...hop that fence! Fly just like the birds / And beat 'em to the barn!" It's certainly stylish enough, but it doesn't actually have any special properties. | |
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Played straight in the most recent Jonny Quest series, where one episode had Hadji's ruby (the one in his turban, which was supposedly a magic charm from his mentor in mysticism) turn out to be red glass. | |
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Played with at the end of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, when the club owner gives his "the Devil is in all of us" speech, convincing Kage and JB not to worry about the pick breaking. Of course, immediately after we discover the club owner is actually Satan, and just wanted the pick to complete himself. | |
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The Challenge Coin in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, which was said to give SpongeBob and Patrick courage. When they lose it, they realize they were couragous the whole time. | |
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A large number of Wild Cards characters require a "psychological focus" to use their powers, most notably The Great And Powerful Turtle's armored Shells, to the point where he eventually becomes so cripplingly dependent on them that he loses his powers entirely when outside them. | |
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Bluestone 42 gives us Captain Medhurst and his Fisherman's Friends. When deprived of them, he devours an entire bag of Mint Imperials as a stop-gap, and when that is also denied him, he very nearly resorts to sun-dried rabbit droppings soaked in cough medicine. | |
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Fable: Inverted in Fable II and Fable III. While the protagonist of Fable III needs gauntlets to use magic, his father, the protagonist of Fable II, did not need gauntlets. There's also an in-game book in Fable III about a magician who created a homunculus to protect himself from disease and the ravages of age. At the end of the story, the homunculus is accidentally destroyed, but luckily for the magician nothing happens; turns out he just had a naturally strong constitution all along. |
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Pokémon: The Series anime: Episode "The Fortune Hunters": When a fortune telling book says James is like Moltres, James' confidence skyrockets and he becomes a total badass. When he is informed that fortune telling is just a scam, he turns into a loser again. Episode "True Blue Swablu": Max tricks an injured Swablu into thinking that the "magic powder" sprinkled on the Pokémon would help it to fly, except that the powder was actually just flour. Later turns into hilarity when Ash and Pikachu start believing in the stuff! Episode "Oh Do You Know the Poffin Plan!" Forsythia's shy Roserade can only fight when dressed as a superhero (with its face covered by a scarf). Meowth removes its scarf and it's captured by Team Rocket. Forsythia gives it a rousing speech, it realizes it doesn't need the scarf to be a hero and beats up Team Rocket. |
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In Hometown Story, most of the Playable Epilogue consists of the collection of fragments from a wish-granting item (which happens to be feather-shaped when complete), then using it to help various Non Player Characters. Granting the wish makes the item vanish. During one of such events, someone needs the item to become stronger to be able to fight a bully. At the end of the fight that was won by the wish-maker, it turns out that the feather-shaped item didn't vanish. | |
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In the South Park episode "Bloody Mary", Randy Marsh is diagnosed as an alcoholic, and is convinced it is a disease that only God can cure. He hears about a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary which suddenly started bleeding from its ass, and goes to it hoping it can cure him, and it actually does. However, when the Pope examines the statue to verify the miracle, he determines the statue is actually bleeding from its vagina, and is therefore not miraculous, because women are supposed to do that (ignoring the fact that statues of women aren't supposed to bleed from anywhere). After hearing the news, Randy immediately falls back into alcoholism until his son points out that these events show he has what it takes to beat the addiction himself. | |
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It's revealed towards the end of Fruits Basket that the head maid of the Sohma household tried to do this for Akito when her father died. She gave Akito a box and said that it held her father's soul. She only did it to console her (since Akito was extremely close to her father), figuring that Akito would eventually "grow up" and realize that the whole idea was silly. Instead, Akito clings to it for a decade, even if it's only because she hopes it's true; considering that she grew up surrounded by people who are possessed by Zodiac spirits, it wouldn't be that big of a stretch for her to believe in something like that, anyway. It turns into a regular Macguffin before the maid finally comes out and tells the truth. She doesn't take it too well. | |
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Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot: In "Luck o' the Oopsy", Oopsy is afraid of participating in the Care-a-lot Grand Prix because of his constant oopsys, so Good Luck gives him a four-leaf clover to give him some luck. Oopsy puts the clover under his helmet and practices flawlessly, but when the race begins, the clover falls out but he is still able to win, because of his hard work and not giving up. | |
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Once Upon a Time episode Lost Girl In the enchanted forest, Charming takes Snow up on a hilltop and finds Excalibur. He is unable to draw it, but she can which he says shows she is the true ruler of these lands. This gives her the courage to stand up to Evil Queen. Turns out, it was a regular sword that Charming placed there, and he faked being unable to remove it from the stone. Rumplestiltskin explains this to her, mocks her for believing it (pointing out Excalibur is naturally in Camelot), and vaporizes the blade. | |
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In GoGo Sentai Boukenger Eiji Takaoka depended on his father's shakujo to keep his Ashu heritage in check. After the Questors destroyed it, Satoru Akashi gave Eiji the GoGo Changer and Sagasniper, telling him that the latter was made by analyzing the shakujo. After Eiji successfully suppressed his Ashu blood and fought off the Questors, Satoru revealed that the Sagasniper didn't play a role in suppressing Eiji's Ashu blood at all. Eiji's heart was more than strong enough to do the work. | |
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In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Wakamatsu tries acting to become more confident. Kashima gives him an eyepatch to help him get into character as a villain and overcome his stage fright. He immediately becomes more confident, acting cool and aloof, and tries wearing the eyepatch around school. Of course, limited depth perception is a problem in basketball, causing him to trip. | |
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A dark variant in No Antidote, Bulbasaur doesn't realize until it's too late that his trainer has been brain-dead and their successes were due to him and the other Pokemon alone. Bulbasaur doesn't take it well. | |
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A Mickey Mouse Comic Universe story called "Topolino e la spada invincibile" ("Mickey and the Invincible Sword") stars Mickey Mouse as the son of a famous swordsmith, who is tasked with forging the perfect sword for the king's nephew, Prince Pete. Pete imprisons the swordsmith in a tower in his castle, but unbeknownst to him Mickey has smuggled himself into the tower. Once the sword is finished, Pete reveals that he never intended to release the swordsmith, and Mickey, furious, swears to defeat Pete and rescue his father. His father claims that this would require an even more formidable sword, which would take at least two years to create and must then be dipped in a magic spring. Mickey spends two years practicing his skills, then escapes the tower with the newly forged sword. Taking up apprenticeship with the aging swordsman Ben Longo (Goofy), he passes several difficult tests and finally finds the magic spring. Returning to the city, he easily defeats Pete and is knighted. Upon protesting that it was all thanks to the invincible sword, his father and Ben reveal that the sword and spring are wholly mundane—Mickey just needed the time to grow, both physically and mentally. | |
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In Days of Thunder, Cole is angry after a fouled pit stop places him in poor track position. Harry tells him that during that stop they put perfectly matched and balanced tires on his race car and that it will help him overtake the leader. Cole wins the race. Then during the post-race interview Harry admits that there wasn't anything different about the tires, but he had to tell Cole something to get him to calm down and focus on driving. | |
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Punky Brewster once got a "magic coin" from Henry. | |
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Wimzie's House has an episode called "The Lucky Pin" in which Rousso gives Jonas a special star pin to celebrate his dedication in practicing basketball. Afterwards, Jonas completes a tricky shot for the first time and is convinced that he's been given a "lucky pin." He then experiences a crisis of self-confidence after losing it, until Wimzie gives him another pin that she made herself, but tells him that it's the one he lost. He makes five basketball shots in a row, but another of the characters tells him it's not the original pin. He loses his self-confidence again until Wimzie points out that he made the shots even without his lucky pin. He realizes that his "luck" is all due to practice and he doesn't need a lucky pin. | |
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The Lenses used by the Lensman are usually your average Applied Phlebotinum, but for the more advanced characters (Kimball Kinnison and his children, among others) they become little more than a Magic Feather. They seem to have some function beyond that, as the children know they have the power innately, but they actually create Lenses at one point to help them in particularly high-powered work. |
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In The Bridge, when Blade Dancer is evacuating citizens during the Gyaos attack on Canterlot, she encounters a young colt who is too scared to move. She has to let him wear her helmet to make him brave enough. | |
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During the climactic battle between Dark Helmet and Lone Starr in Spaceballs, Helmet manages to steal Lone Starr's magic Schwartz ring and throw it down a vent. Fortunately, Starr's mentor Yogurt reveals in a telepathic message, "The ring was bupkis! I found it in a Crackerjack box! The Schwartz is in you, Lone Starr, it's in you!" | |
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In the Zero Punctuation review of GRIS and Ashen, after going over the latter's online co-op feature, Yahtzee muses on the idea of a game claiming to have such a feature, but actually partnering up the player with AIs instead, as an inversion of this trope. | |
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This seems to be the case with the Super Sauce that Super Chicken (who appeared in the George of the Jungle cartoon) supposedly used to fuel his powers; it was highly implied that the sauce, which his assistant Fred made, was just a placebo that helped the hero use his natural powers. | |
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In one episode of My Wife and Kids, Michael pulls this on his son Junior, using grandson Junior Jr. as the "magic baby" and saying that holding him will make Junior smarter. Eventually, when Junior drifts into annoying territory, Mike lets him in on the truth, saying that his own father pulled the "magic baby" trick on him, using Junior. | |
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In the first chapter of Dr. STONE, Taiju is planning to confess his feelings to friend Yuzuriha after five years of knowing her. Senku offers his a love potion to help win her over, Taiju declines and states he will tell her without any tricks. After he leaves, Senku tells his classmates that the "love potion" was actually gasoline. He states he only presented it that way knowing that Taiju wouldn't want to use it. | |
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In Dora Wilk Series, Witkacy's shamanism teacher told him before the story starts that for all the ceremony, drugs and gadgets that surround shamanistic practices, it's all simply to help him use power that comes from him. | |
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On Wonder Showzen, Chauncey chugs a vial of pure liquid imagination and becomes addicted. Later, the revelation that it was regular tap water all along instantly cures him. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: When Barney is incredibly hungover on his wedding day the rest of the gang gather the ingredients to the "Stinson Hangover Fixer Elixir" which has previously cured them of their hangovers in key moments. They're able to revive Barney enough to ask him for the secret ingredient only for him to reveal that there isn't one. The "Elixir" doesn't actually do anything and the gang were cured because they believed it was working. | |
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A theme from the ancient Sumerian tale The Epic of Gilgamesh can be seen as a predecessor to this trope. Gilgamesh goes on this elaborate quest for immortality, eventually laying hands on a magical coral flower with the power to extend his life. A snake steals the flower when he's not looking and Gilgamesh is crushed, but in the end he realizes he had immortality all along — through the legacy of his contributions to the enduring power of his city, Uruk. He was also made a god some time after he died. | |
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In the Charmed (1998) episode "That Old Black Magic", the girls use a courage potion on the chosen one, which turns out to actually be plain water. The evil witch they're facing knows the potion is fake, but the chosen one believes it and finds the strength to defeat her. | |
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In Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou, Kikko gives the Robot Girl Earth-chan magic candy that she says allows machines to dream. When Earth-chan asks Kikko to lift the spell, Kikko reveals that she was lying about the candy being magical. | |
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In Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, even though Captain Underpants' powers came from alien super power juice (It Makes Sense in Context), he's convinced they come from cottony soft underpants. When Captain Underpants is depowered by spray-on starch, the boys have to come up with a magical feather, so they Retcon a powerful crystal he swallowed as a child on his home planet (even though Captain Underpants is actually the boys' principal, while Captain Underpants he believes he has the fictional character's backstory). | |
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In Ranger's Apprentice: The Siege of Macindaw, Sir Karel uses a blue gemstone to hypnotize and interrogate his prisoner Alyss. The healer Malcolm sends her a 'stellatite' stone, along with instructions for using it to defeat the hypnosis, and she manages to trick him. When she goes to give it back to Malcolm, he revealed that it was an ordinary rock all along. | |
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The Smurfs (1981): The same "doping jelly" plot as in The Olympic Smurfs was carried over in an episode of the Hanna-Barbera animated series, where it is used on Weakly Smurf to make him stop thinking he really is weak. He ends up saving the village from a collapsing bridge during a storm and being crowned a hero as a result. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: After joining the Lost Light, Megatron is put on fool's energon, energon tainted with substances to weaken Megatron, in order to keep him in line. Eventually however, Megatron grows to appreciate the stuff, having come to the conclusion that he's a better bot under its influence (given that he outright renounces violence after a few months on it, he's certainly justified in thinking that). Then in a pivotal moment in issue 54, Ratchet reveals that fool's energon is nothing more than unfiltered, garden variety energon; Megatron's internals were such a disaster after what Shockwave did to him, Ratchet and Optimus couldn't give him anything else, so they came up with fool's energon as a sort of Secret Test of Character. The revelation that everything he did up to that point was of his own volition as opposed to any sort of brainwashing, compounded with the sight of Tarn tearing Ravage in half is enough to convince Megatron to take up his fusion cannon one last time. | |
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Played straight in the novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, wherein Harry tricks Ron Weasley into thinking that he (Harry) has just poured some "Felix Felicis" luck potion into Ron's drink to improve his Quidditch game (which had been suffering due to an extreme case of nerves). Hermione saw Harry do it, and warned Ron not to drink it, as it would be cheating to use a potion in a Quiddich game. Ron drinks it anyway, and his game improves hugely. Then, when Hermione confronts Harry again afterward (once Gryffindor has won with over 200 points), Harry shows both of them that he hadn't poured a drop—in fact, the bottle was still sealed. This causes additional problems for Ron and Hermione's already-strained friendship (as she appeared to imply that he couldn't have done it without the aid of the potion), but it also helps Ron realize that he actually is a good player, which helps him through the rest of the season. | |
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In The Second Try sequel Aki-chan's Life, it's the titular character's first day of kindergarten, and she's upset about being forced to wear an uniform. So Touji gives Aki his old school hat, which's "empowered by the spirit of freedom", and whose "magic" will make her feel comfortable no matter what. It helps Aki get through her first day until she realizes she doesn't really need it. | |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown: Diego, the saber-toothed tiger, has a fear of water, but he needs to swim to save his friend. Said friend told him earlier that "Most animals can swim as babies," and he uses this to go after him. Once saved, the friend tells him baby tigers can't swim; he left that part out. | |
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Jack Putter (played by Martin Short) in the film Innerspace believes that Tuck Pendleton (who has been shrunk and is inside Putter's body — long story) can increase the power of his muscles during a confrontation with an evil henchman. He can't, but that doesn't stop Jack kicking his ass. | |
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Implied in Crusader Kings II with the Hermetic Society. Their rituals give a character and (just as importantly) their offspring useful buffs, but nothing that can't be replicated through definitely non-magical means, and they work fine even with supernatural events turned off. | |
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FLCL: Commander Amarao claims that his fake Big Ol' Eyebrows are actually special devices that block N.O. usage, but between their continual failure to do anything at anytime and the way he never shuts up about how manly they supposedly make him look, it's painfully obvious that they're just something he wears to feel confident and ease his massive insecurities/anxieties. | |
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Cobra Kai: Eli Moskowitz, after getting a mohawk and tattoos, Took a Level in Badass (and unfortunately, one in jerkass as well), taking on the moniker "Hawk". In the fourth season, he suffers a Traumatic Haircut at the hands of the Cobra Kai students, losing most of his confidence with the mohawk. However, Demetri helps him realize that his incresed confidence came from himself, not his hairstyle, and he ends up winning the boys' division of the All-Valley tournament with a crew cut. | |
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