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Magicians Are Wizards

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Magicians Are Wizards	comment	Fiction generally features two distinct types of magic users: Characters of the first kind stereotypically wear robes and pointy hats, have long white beards, and can perform impossible feats such as raising the dead, casting spells, and summoning fabulous creatures. We call these kinds of characters wizards or sorcerers (among other things), and they don't exist in Real Life.note At least, not anymore... or, that's what we think. Characters of the second kind wear capes and top hats, usually perform their acts before a wide audience, (or a children's birthday party) and can perform simpler tricks like pulling rabbits out of their hats. We call these kinds of characters stage magicians, conjurers or illusionists, and they do exist in Real Life. Their magic is not real; they use misdirection, special effects and optical illusions to create the impression of magic. As Lee Siegel says, "'Real magic', in other words, refers to the magic that's not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic." Sometimes, in fiction, the lines between realism and fantasy blur, and magicians really can perform feats of magic that would normally belong strictly in the wizards' territory. There are no smoke and mirrors here; the magic is all real, but the audience may not realize this, and think that the magician is relying on the same old sleights-of-hand. There may be subtle differences — their magic may come from a different source, and/or the two groups may operate at different Power Levels (perhaps magicians can perform spells based on manipulating people's perception, whereas wizards can outright modify reality). If there is rivalry between the two factions, it falls under Unequal Rites. If a legitimate wizard really does use his magic for a magic show, then it's a Mundane Utility. If he uses it only for his show, then it may be an example of Misapplied Phlebotinum. In other words, some Magicians Are Wizards. See also Magitek which in this case can be called "Engineers are wizards" because they make magical technology. If the wizard-magician hopes no one realizes that real wizards exist, his act is an example of Fiction as Cover-Up. When the Fourth Wall audience (you, the viewer or reader) isn't sure, it's a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. The opposite of Fake Wizardry, where someone uses stage magic to pretend to have actual magic powers. Compare Our Mages Are Different for differentiating kinds of mages (especially the first kind mentioned above), Magical Clown, which involves clowns and jesters instead of stage magicians, and Circus of Magic, where an entire circus is magical. Contrast Magician Detective, where training in the art of deception have given magicians an ability to see the mundane solution when no-one else can. Subtrope of this is the Occult Detective. Contrast Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick, which is supposedly not true magic, yet is more spectacular than anything possible in real life.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_1215a23d	comment	In Genshin Impact, Fontainian twins Lyney and Lynette are Stage Magicians who also happen to possess Visions (Pyro in Lyney's case, Anemo in Lynette's). As shown in the Archon Quest, the two start their magic shows by setting their Visions aside, making it clear that they aren't using real magic - their act is built entirely around clever sleight-of-hand and carefully hidden props.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_13a8a9fe	comment	Magic 2.0 is about people from the modern era discovering Magic from Technology and settling all through time. Minor characters Sid and Gilbert work as stage magicians in Victorian England. They don't use their powers in the shows themselves, considering that to be cheating; they do steal more advanced tricks from the future, though.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_16fc4335	comment	In one of the Heralds of Valdemar novels, a group of real mages make their way across an enemy country by pretending to be a group of stage magicians in a traveling show.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Himiko Yumeno, the Ultimate Magician, claims to be a member of an order of stage magicians who are secretly mages.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_179462bd	comment	In one episode of Magic User's Club, Takeo performs magic for a group, and justifies it by saying "since they just think it's magic tricks, it's okay."
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_18e13b55	comment	It's Magic, Charlie Brown: Snoopy takes up stage magic, and learns the ability to perform many seemingly impossible tricks, including turning his owner Charlie Brown invisible. Charlie Brown briefly gets stuck that way, but not before taking the opportunity to finally kick that football before Lucy pulls it away.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_1beda93b	comment	The Great Kesandru, from Sluggy Freelance, who uses legions of invisible enslaved spirits to perform the same stock magic tricks regularly performed by more mundane magicians.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_21810fae	comment	Trixie Lulamoon of RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse is both a competent stage magician and one of the rare unicorns whose mark encompasses all forms of magic. But interestingly, her grandfather, from whom she inherited her mark and proficiency in stage magic, was an earth pony and thus had no spellcasting ability.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_21ab2cb9	comment	Saxony Canterbury from Thunderstruck is unambiguously a wizard, but in this verse all wizards need some mental idea to base their magic around, his is stage magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_222efbd1	comment	At least one episode of Dungeons & Dragons (1983) suggested Presto was an amateur stage magician before Dungeon Master gave him a magic hat. (Jimmy Whittaker in "City at the Edge of Midnight" says that Presto can show him some card tricks at school.) Which might explain why he's called Presto.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_23762f3e	comment	The Last Unicorn: Schmendrick the Magician entertains the sightseers at Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival while they wait for the show to start, but he could "work more ominous wonders if he chose."
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_257f783b	comment	The Pixar animated short Presto (2008) features a magician with both a top hat and a pointy wizard hat; anything placed into one will come out the other. He intends to use this magic to pull a rabbit out of his hat before a live audience, but the rabbit (who's angry about being forced to skip lunch) has other plans. Hilarity Ensues.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_2659bbac	comment	Asuma from Hibiki's Magic did his fair share of street performances for kids, conjuring up flowers and birds. War orphan Misaki mistakes this for real magic and is understandably upset when she finds out the secret to his trick... until he casts a well-timed and very real spell to save her from her abusive guardian.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_286b0fc9	comment	In Castle Falkenstein, there is an order of wizards called The Cabinet of Cups and Wands who mix actual spellcasting with stage magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_2a04866b	comment	In the Guild Wars franchise, the Mesmer profession is easy to take for granted as a fantasy combat wizard like any other since you always play a hero, but they have a heavy stage magician theme implied to be the sort of thing Mesmers usually do for a living. This is shown early on with the first Mesmer trainer being found at the Actor's Stage. Their illusion powers make them great magicians or actors, while (lore-wise) they are also potentially the most powerful form of wizards, manipulating magic in its raw state to alter the fabric of reality.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_2b70efd4	comment	Played with in the Old World of Darkness crossover game Midnight Circus: though the eponymous circus has quite a few mages among its ranks, the position of Magician is currently occupied by Calabris, a Toreador vampire. However, Calabris has actually lived long enough to master the Ravnos discipline of Chimerstry and even manipulate the Glamour field surrounding the Circus. On the other hand, he doesn't actually use his supernatural powers at any point during the magic show, instead relying on his expertise in mundane illusion to enrapture the audience.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: One of the episodes features Malika, a stage magician who asks Freddie to the girl's choice dance and seems to be practicing real magic. Even the iCarly gang can't explain her magic tricks, which might be genuine magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_304d4028	comment	Spirou & Fantasio: The recurring character Ito Kata plays with this. He is a stage magicians who is unambiguously explained as having no magical ability, even though he keeps pulling off stunts that seem beyond what even the most talented magician should plausibly be able to do. For example, he seems at any time capable of producing more rabbits from his hat than its entire volume would allow him to conceal, or one man could carry weight-wise.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_34b7ce64	comment	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has Reg, a university dean who performs an impossible magic trick to entertain a restless little girl at a formal dinner. Nobody but the protagonist realizes this, and he decides to investigate. As it turns out, there was Time Travel involved.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_36a2eedb	comment	The magician recruited in Chapter 3 of Legend of Legendary Mighty Knight can conjure birds from under their robe that can actually contribute to the team, and seems to be largely limited to stage magician-type magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3717ea4a	comment	DC Animated Universe: Zatanna is an odd case. When she first appears in Batman: The Animated Series, she's a skilled stage magician and Escape Artist, with no implication that she uses actual magic. By Justice League, she's capable of real magic like the comic-book version. She explains that most of her acts are mundane stage magic but she will throw in a genuine magical feat somewhere in the show to help with the Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: Hypnota does not have any magic, but they are a telepath who uses their powers in their show while disguising it as a hypnotist act in the middle of all the illusionist bits.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_396e0331	comment	Classic Disney Shorts: Mickey Mouse in "Magician Mickey". His tricks become more elaborate and implausible as the cartoon goes on. Most of these tricks are directed at Donald specifically in almost Looney Tunes fashion. Another example is "Baggage Buster", where Goofy has to deliver a magician's trunk to the train station that is obviously magical. Hilarity Ensues.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3b34143f	comment	In Harry Potter, the Weasley twins once mention going down to the nearby town to show some magic tricks to a Muggle girl. The tricks are so good they almost seem like real magic, don't they? They also learn more mundane tricks like picking locks.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3c4f3e49	comment	The Night Circus: One of the two main characters has been trained since childhood to be a stage magician at the titular Night Circus, as well as having been trained since childhood in real magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3d7e3b25	comment	In Chronicle, Andrew uses his newfound Psychic Powers to do magic tricks at his school's talent show.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3d88b6d2	comment	Champions of Far'aus: The Stage Thief of Vickerton dresses like a stage magician (for the most part), and is a mage, with their magic wand looking like a stage magicians wand.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_3f35c69c	comment	In the Deverry novels, Salamander poses as 'The Great Wizard Krysello' in the Bardek marketplaces. Everyone in the audience assumes that he's doing stage magic when he's actually using real magic. Nevyn was not amused.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Averted for Harry's dad, Malcolm Dresden, who was a stage magician with no actual magic. It's specifically noted that he was, in many respects, entirely ordinary. Harry Dresden is a wizard, but his yellow pages ad specifically says he doesn't do parties. Harry seems to know about this trope, and tries to defy it as much as possible... yet people still phone him to ask if he really is a wizard, and not just some magician or charlatan. Inverted later in the series, when Harry starts learning how to play Xanatos Speed Chess and masters the Indy Ploy, and begins relying just as much on trickery and misdirection as on brute force to resolve matters for his employers. He also laments that a magician's arsenal contains a wide variety of very useful tricks (like slipping out of a pair of handcuffs) that he wishes he could have learned from his dad. He apparently also gets calls asking him if he's really a wizard named "Harry". He is however, named after three famous magicians (at least) and a city that is famous for being bombed / burned down. Houdini, Blackstone, Copperfield and Dresden. This is Meaningful Name as he is a Guile Hero Occult Detective who has a "problem with buildings".
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_43576f5	comment	The fourth season Supernatural episode "Criss Angel is a Douchebag" revolves around the idea. The main characters, Sam and Dean, spend the entire episode trying to find a serial-killer wizard, who is hiding by pretending to be an elderly stage magician. Turns out he has a fondness for entertaining an audience when he's not committing homicide. Ironically enough, he dies when an Average Joe stage magician uses sleight of hand to use his own cursed stage-props to kill him.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_43cce8e1	comment	The entire plot of The Illusionist (2010) is that Alice believes that the Illusionist has real magical powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: In Power Rangers S.P.D., an unskilled street magician is given a real magic wand by Morgana, and uses it to commit crimes. Likewise, Power Rangers Ninja Steel has Stage Magician Preston gaining real magic as a gift from the Ninja Nexus Prism. He even retains it when he temporarily loses his Ranger powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_44715363	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Black/Dark Magician, and to a lesser extend his apprentice, the Black/Dark Magician Girl, has a stage magician and a wizard imagery. He can pull out classic magic tricks, but with actual magic, but he also has access to magic circles and other occult wizard stuff.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_452f8509	comment	The Great Fondoo, a member of the Really Rottens in Laff-A-Lympics, was a sorcerer who dressed like a stage magician. (Possibly supposed to be an Expy Abner K. Dabra from the 1963 book, Yogi Bear and the Cranky Magician; his origins are unclear otherwise.)
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_46521a96	comment	In The Drawing of the Dark, Aurelianus is a wizard of sorts (in fact he's Merlin), but at one point he is called on to perform some juggling tricks to amuse crying children.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Mostly averted. Real Wizards look down upon mere magicians, and consider being called a magician an insult. However, "magicians" are low-level magic users; the people who saw women in half are called "conjurers". Conjurers don't seem to have any magical abilities at all, but are still higher up the magical hierarchy than thaumaturgists (more or less magical IT guys). It's also stated that conjurers are quite popular: people find tricks done with misdirection and sleight of hand to be more impressive than boring old magic. Also partly inverted with both Witches and Wizards. As noted above, magic is nowhere near as flashy as people think and can be done with everyday objects. As such, they make sure to add as much showmanship to their spells as possible — Wizards tend to use props while Witches usually prefer mind games. However, the basic unit of magic (the thaum) is defined as the amount of magic needed to produce a pigeon or three white balls.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_4ca717b9	comment	In Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King, The Amazing Krudsky is a stage magician who wants to be a real wizard. He ultimately drains the fairy Princess Willow's magic to grant himself real magic powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_4fc8fae	comment	Ace Cooper, the titular hero of the French series The Magician.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_54291151	comment	In Littlest Pet Shop (2012), Sunil's greatest dream is to become a famous stage magician, so he's constantly practicing magic acts, with mixed results. At times, he seems to display genuine magical abilities, like swapping his position with another character using a teleportation-like effect.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_569093cc	comment	Subverted in DuckTales (2017), where Magica De Spell becomes a party magician at Funso's Funzone, but only after being stripped of her powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_5a05b300	comment	In Wilde Life, the witch Zulime has a traveling magic show that she uses to support herself and her crew of runaway teens, who seem legitimately devoted to her. Which would be fine, if her other activities didn't include turning people into monsters, kidnapping and Mind Control.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_5b5183fb	comment	Uten from NEEDLESS who dresses like a magician and uses the catchphrase "It's magic!", can apparently really do pretty much everything, even breaking the rule of having only one power. In reality, his sole power is making things invisible, combined with carefully prepared tricks and traps, and he uses actual stage magic strategies to distract people to stop them from finding him out.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_5bf54361	comment	Carnival Magic is about a stage magician who secretly has real powers of mind-reading and telekinesis.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_628e310b	comment	Cosmo the Astounding is a mediocre criminal wizard for hire in the Metro City Chronicles.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_634e2929	comment	In Devil Doll, the main villain is a ventriloquist who's really a soul-stealing hypnotist.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_639e0f76	comment	Ghost Hunt: Naru with his spoon is variant with telekinesis.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The episode "The Amazing Maleeni" features a magician who dies from having his head fall off after performing a trick where he rotates his head the whole way around. This turns out to be a subversion; unusually for this show, there is no magic or anything supernatural involved, and only mild foul play.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_693f253	comment	Jacob Maskelyne of the Seekers of Truth is the scion of a line of magicians who have real powers that they use for the betterment of humanity, as well as to enhance their stage show.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_6bf8941a	comment	Subverted in The Prestige: the movie explains every trick, and at one point Michael Caine snaps "You're a magician, not a bloody wizard! If you want to do magic, you've got to get your hands dirty." However, Tesla is a "wizard" of a sort, having created Angier's cloning device.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_6dec62d6	comment	Most of the tricks in The Illusionist (2006) are impossible without modern special effects. Ironically, the last trick, which wows the audience the most, is actually possible without advanced technology. According to the DVD extras, Eisenheim's effects are largely the result of an Unreliable Narrator, to show how his illusions must have appeared to an audience unaccustomed to CGI. The Orange Tree trick, for instance is a real trick involving an unbelievably complicated clockwork setup, some sleight of hand, and real oranges pinned to the clockwork tree.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_6f437730	comment	In The Dresden Files, little magic Harry helped his dad out a bit with his conjuring act, without his father's knowledge or permission...
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_705bb59a	comment	Averted in the Vampire: The Masquerade book Havens of the Damned. Despite his skills in illusion and special effects, Jesse Van Reginald doesn't know real magic, nor is he a member of the Ravnos or the Tremere — as he no doubt would have preferred. Instead, he's part of clan Toreador, and currently laboring under a massive case of Creative Sterility.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_7c0f1317	comment	Diogenes Club series: In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", the titular conjurer is The Great Edmondo, who is a celebrated stage magician and also one of the four magic users who defend London. Possibly the Mystic Maharajah of the Splendid Six in "Clubland Heroes", although it's unclear how much power he actually has. One of his colleagues is convinced all his magic is trickery; another comments that however he does it, the important thing is that it works. Catriona recalls that before he joined the Splendids to fight weird crime, he was a low-rent stage performer whom she encountered while investigating fraudulent psychics; perhaps significantly, she doesn't specify whether he himself was a fraud.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_7fc78282	comment	Prior to the events of The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was best known to the Audience Surrogate residents of the Shire for his fireworks shows, "some of which were obviously magical." He also tells Bilbo that he should "not take [him] for some conjurer of cheap tricks".
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_816181cb	comment	In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wizard was a stage magician mistaken for the real thing when he landed in Oz. Later on, he began to learn real magic from Glinda. Parodied in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, where the Ozians thought he was a powerful wizard because he could do the detached thumb trick.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8459204b	comment	Legend of the Seeker: In "Desecrated" the gang watched some stage magic in a village. Then it's revealed the stage magician knows some real magic too. He uses this to seek revenge on others.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8645d677	comment	A stage magician finds his way to the world of Spellsinger, where all his tricks suddenly work for real, in The Moment Of The Magician. Makes sense, since in Spellsinger universe magic is similar to technology — and he's using a kind of technology.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_86e4732f	comment	Odysseus Grant from the Kitty Norville series does a stage show in Vegas, but when he puts someone in the disappearing cabinet, they go somewhere else entirely. He appears to be some sort of guardian or other. Grant knows both stage magic tricks and real magic. In Kitty's House of Horrors, he pulls a quarter out of a skeptic's ear. He also practices hypnotism, carries around a set of lockpicking tools and can put himself in a state of hibernation which another character says is how real-life stage magicians spend long hours locked in chests or underwater. He finds a hidden half of a locket in record time, but it's never made clear how. He would be the most mundane character in this series, if it weren't for the necromancy...
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003) features the Amazing Mumbo, a blue-skinned villain in a cape and top hat who uses elaborate magic tricks to commit his crimes (usually bank robbery). If his wand is broken, he loses his powers and reverts to his normal human form. Word of God states that he was an ordinary magician who got his hands on a real magic wand, which gave him magical powers at the expense of his sanity. In a later episode, he has his own little world where he controls everything tucked away in his hat. Once caught inside, Raven (herself a magic user) insists that everything Mumbo does is "just" an illusion (seemingly just because it's not a kind of magic she is used to). She ends up admitting it's real enough, and uses a mundane illusion to trick Mumbo and save the team.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_88652dbc	comment	In Mixels, the Wiztastics are a magic-based tribe. They're traveling stage magicians, yet their powers are straight-up magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_88b1bb0d	comment	In the Free Spirit (1989) Halloween Episode, Magical Nanny Winnie tries to help Jessie impress a few high school students by performing a magic trick in which Winnie would make Jessie disappear. Unfortunately, Winnie's powers malfunction on Halloween (she blames all the mortals performing stage magic), complicating the process of making her reappear.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos Eric Watley picked up sleight-of-hand tricks before he learned Functional Magic. Afterwards, he added the two together to create new tricks. He was even hired to perform dinner-and-a-show style in a restaurant. Dengel is a famous researcher and codifier of magic in 21st century Tariatla, but in his own time he was closer to a court jester performing parlor tricks for his clients. That is, when he wasn't helping lay siege to fortresses.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8a76eb6b	comment	In The Master and Margarita, Professor Woland is a magician who performs a magic act. Given that he is actually the devil, this act involves real magic, but the audience is convinced there must be some trick behind it and demands him to reveal his secret.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8a95c055	comment	Mister Mystic from Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wizard that dresses like a stage magician, and acts like one to boot. The database at the end explains that he used to be a hack magician that stumbled upon the secrets of real magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8d90d456	comment	The Magic Order: Leonard Moonstone and his daughter Cordelia both use their magic powers to act as magicians; he as a regular but impressive stage magician and she as an escape artist.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8e077a1	comment	Likewise, Power Rangers Ninja Steel has Stage Magician Preston gaining real magic as a gift from the Ninja Nexus Prism. He even retains it when he temporarily loses his Ranger powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8ea79323	comment	In Widdershins, Malik can't get a job as a magician because he's a wizard.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8eda89ef	comment	In Darker than Black, August 7 was a stage magician before he became a Contractor with powers that seem almost magical. The price of his power is that he must reveal one of his tricks, which might not seem too bad a price for getting superpowers, especially compared to other prices like breaking one's fingers or drinking blood, but it hurts his pride as a former magician and takes away any professional benefit he could get from his powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_8f6d81a3	comment	The Pink Panther cartoon "Bully for Pink" features the Panther as a bullfighter who confuses a magician's cape for his red cloth and accidentally causes all sorts of magical mayhem during the bullfight.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_929cef3c	comment	In The Immortals' third book, we learn that Numair's hobby is sleight of hand. He actually supported himself as a stage magician for a while when on the run from Carthak, and didn't use real wizardry because the emperor and his court could trace that.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9322493f	comment	In Kamen Rider Zi-O, a stage magician is granted the genuine magic powers of Kamen Rider Wizard, which he uses in his act. Unfortunately, like all cases of hijacked Rider powers in Zi-O, they come with Sanity Slippage and he becomes the Monster of the Week.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_945f2d42	comment	Wapsi Square: Best explanation the magic: she's some kind of magician!
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_98b9912e	comment	Another example is "Baggage Buster", where Goofy has to deliver a magician's trunk to the train station that is obviously magical. Hilarity Ensues.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9a86e877	comment	Gargamel in The Smurfs 2 has been successfully touring the world using magic in a stage show. The plot kicks off when he starts running out of Smurf essence that powers his magic so has to summon more Smurfs to the modern day.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9acfd037	comment	Elemental Masters series: Jonathon Hightower, from Reserved for the Cat, is a skilled stage magician ... and an Elemental Master of Fire. Most of his stagework is sleight of hand, but he enjoys using "real magic" at least once in each show. In Steadfast, Lionel Hawkins is also a stage magician, and an Air Magician, who uses sylphs to help with his magic act.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Inverted in A Song of Ice and Fire, where many people who claim to be sorcerers rely partially or entirely on sleight of hand, chemistry, and clever engineering to simulate the magic they can't do. This even includes Melisandre, who notes that her supply of powders which among other things, she throws into fires to change their color, is running low. But with the dragons back, real magic is becoming more common and powerful.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9e876c22	comment	Aziraphale in Good Omens liked to do stage magic as a hobby. He's also an angel, perfectly capable of doing real magic anytime he wants, but considers that "cheating" while working as a magician. He's also an absolutely dreadful magician - though it is implied that he was once at least competent, and is just a century out of practice. The fact that his grasp of the 20th century, showmanship included, stopped in the 1950s, didn't help.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9f502569	comment	Cirque De Zale Played straight with The Great Astoundo in the opening, who is just a normal circus magician, but still magically banishes Alexander to another dimension. Inverted/parodied with Adrastos the Non-Wizard, who was raised learning the art of magic, but prefers doing sleight-of-hand illusions, which he specifically refers to as "non-magic", because they require actual skill compared to just casting a spell.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9fdbe934	comment	In Willow, the title character defeats the evil Sorceress by using sleight of hand to pretend to have made The Chosen One disappear. Bavmorda is so used to true, actual magic that in her amazement she is Hoist by Her Own Petard.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_9fe68540	comment	In Today's Special, Waldo the Magnificent, a recurring visitor to the store, makes his living as a stage magician, but he can do real magic. He's the one who gave Jeff his magic hat and brought him to life.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a00e5c76	comment	Possibly the Mystic Maharajah of the Splendid Six in "Clubland Heroes", although it's unclear how much power he actually has. One of his colleagues is convinced all his magic is trickery; another comments that however he does it, the important thing is that it works. Catriona recalls that before he joined the Splendids to fight weird crime, he was a low-rent stage performer whom she encountered while investigating fraudulent psychics; perhaps significantly, she doesn't specify whether he himself was a fraud.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Sargon the Sorcerer was a Golden Age hero who used stage magic as a mask for his real magical powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a26439c	comment	In The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, Sarousch steals La Fidele by putting a curtain over it and saying some magic words.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a390e6f5	comment	The Great Farloss in Ssalia and the Dragons of Avienot is a stage magician whose tricks include turning himself invisible and transforming a volunteer with a magic powder, so the fact there's real magic involved is fairly evident. Not surprisingly, he is later referred to as a sorcerer.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a3bcb357	comment	In the game Gray Matter, Angela's father is revealed to be a magician whose magic was not an illusion, and Angela inherited his psychic powers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a4487466	comment	Inverted in Acquisitions Incorporated. It's a Dungeons & Dragons game, where real wizards are a dime a dozen. But when the resident mage, Jim Darkmagic, isn't adventuring with the group, he's using his powers to entertain the masses. He's apparently quite the celebrity, despite some mishaps on stage.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_a806ea97	comment	Played with in Petty Pewter Gods, when Magodor demonstrates the powers of her magical rope. Her demonstration is exactly like the routines which stage magicians perform with short pieces of rope, but in her case it's all done for real. Knowing better than to kibbitz a goddess with a title like "the Destroyer", Garrett does not mention the analogy when he spots it.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_aa0908ec	comment	Philip Swann in Lord of Illusions passed off his real magic as stage illusions. He explains to the man investigating his "suicide" that "Illusionists get Vegas contracts. Wizards get burned at the stake". (In modern-day America?) But consider that his teacher Nix was a Straw Nihilist and an Omnicidal Maniac. In the original story, Swann pretended to be a fake simply as a Take That! to the infernal powers he bargained with.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Subverted in one of the Questionable Content "Bembo" B-Side Comics. Somebody asks the eponymous Barbarian Hero why he hates wizards. He explains that a wizard will show you a that a hat is empty, then pull a rabbit out of it. The person he's talking to tries to explain that that's not a wizard, but Bembo just demands "WHERE DID THE RABBIT COME FROM?"
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ac8b90f5	comment	This is discussed as an option for mages in Mage: The Ascension. Most people can stop real magic working if they see and disbelieve it, but it's possible to pull it off by pretending to be a stage magician. There is even a skill, called 'Blatancy', to simulate how good a character is at passing their vulgar magic off as stage tricks.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_b27178e3	comment	This is what Magical Emi, the Magic Star is all about: She became a Magical Girl and used her powers to become a Stage Magician.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_b2e0bfb6	comment	In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", the titular conjurer is The Great Edmondo, who is a celebrated stage magician and also one of the four magic users who defend London.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_b507f2d1	comment	Played with in Scooby-Doo where magicians won't have actual magic as far as the mystery is concerned but will frequently pull tricks on Shaggy and Scooby that could only be done by actual magic as Rule of Funny is at play.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_b50b1fdb	comment	Inverted in one episode of Thundarr the Barbarian, where the evil wizard turns out to only be using stage magic. By using clever strategy and planning he shows himself to be as effective as most of the real wizards Thundarr and company face.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_b8c39fe6	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: Played with. Simon is a sorcerer introduced trying to eke out a living with stage magic. But in a fantasy setting where spellcasting is extremely common, his show comes off as extremely boring and basic, which is fine — because his actual plan is to distract the audience with how bad he is at magic as he pilfers them of their valuables.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_bca5b926	comment	Quentin Coldwater's first brush with real magic in The Magicians actually began with him learning basic slight of hand in the hopes of brightening up his rather dull life, unwittingly getting the attention of one of Brakebills' talent spotters, who sensed some potential in him. Later, one of Quentin's first instinctive uses of real power features Quentin performing a coin trick - and making it disappear for real.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic gives us The Great and Powerful Trixie, a magically-gifted unicorn who has a flashy, traveling stage show where she shows off her powers. Although all unicorns are capable of some kind of magic, it's usually highly specialized. Trixie's specialty is stage magic, hence her magic is mostly flash and no substance. On the other hoof, she's obviously not performing simple parlor tricks and illusions. Very few unicorns have strong enough telekinesis to throw another pony into the air, and conjuring things out of thin air — like a small thundercloud — is something only Twilight Sparkle has been shown to be able to accomplish. Unfortunately, she's got a bit of an Inferiority Superiority Complex and tends to consequently undervalue her own talents while trying to show up Twilight Sparkle, who's much better at traditional unicorn magic than she is.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Zatanna Zatara appear in the sequel as an Italian graduate of Beauxbatons and the new Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher, wielding a form of magic that her parents developed, which merges wandless and wanded styles. However, she mostly seems to use the aesthetic rather than actually working as a stage magician.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_c70a1171	comment	Spoofed in an issue parodying Conan the Barbarian: the seemingly all-powerful wizard our "heroine" met fought with playing cards, a rabbit and spells from... a bunch of Magic: The Gathering cards!
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_c879d790	comment	Harrison from Camp Camp refers to himself as an illusionist and dresses accordingly. However, he has several times demonstrated that he really does have genuine powers, albeit difficulty controlling them due to a lack of experience.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_c9633211	comment	Harvey from No More Heroes has a variety of tricks that would be just about impossible without actual magic, such as summoning pigeons literally out of thin air, teleporting, and turning your screen upside-down.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_cae652c	comment	Hisoka from Hunter Ã— Hunter could be an inversion. While it's obvious that he's using some sort of magic, he uses clever tricks and misdirection much like a Stage Magician to make his powers seem far more varied than they actually are. For the record, he can create an invisible gum-like aura, and change the texture of objects. That's it.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ccf8f99e	comment	In Kaitou Saint Tail, the titular protagonist is a Magical Girl Phantom Thief using stage magic... But she's so good you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for actual magic. Also, the fact she prays for forgiveness before she's not "using gymmicks or tricks" opens interesting questions...
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ce7901ad	comment	Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars has Johnny Mabett, a minor villain with a stage magician motif that does a lot of things not possible through stage magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d0d474b1	comment	Zatanna: Zatanna Zatara and her father, John Zatara, are from a species called Homo magi, and they use their powers for both entertainment and fighting evil. In Justice League, Zatanna admits to using both real and stage magic to give her act flair yet also give it Plausible Deniability. An earlier comic even implies that she actually finds stage magic more difficult since it requires actual practice.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d294048	comment	The Stranger, a formerly retired Red Panda Adventures superhero, started life as a stage magician. However, around 1890, he gave up stage performance to seek out real magic and real power. He claims it found him, rather than the reverse, and in the decades following he fought evil as a member of the League of Gentleman Adventurers.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d4989060	comment	Phantasmagoria: Carno, a world-famous stage magician/escape artist became frustrated with just performing illusions, and wished to discover real magic. This lead him to an ancient book...which contained an evil demon.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d4a8407e	comment	Now You See It...: Played with; Danny suspects himself to be capable of real magic, but Max claims to the others he's just pulling a famous magician trick and trying to gain attention through claiming to have paranormal abilities. When Danny is sent to prove his powers for a panel of skeptics, Max's point is proven further thanks to Danny's levitation being the result of a cleverly made chair, and not Danny himself. However, it's then revealed that both Danny and Max really do have actual magical powers, and that Max was just trying to hide things from everyone else.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d56cb367	comment	In Power Rangers S.P.D., an unskilled street magician is given a real magic wand by Morgana, and uses it to commit crimes.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d5b5746a	comment	Tex Willer: The villainous Steve Dickart, a.k.a. Mefisto, debuted as a spy with a stage magician act as a cover (Mefisto being initially his stage name, complete with devil costume). After his initial defeat, however, he eventually returns with actual and vast magic powers linked in some way to the powers of Hell itself, but not through an explicit Deal with the Devil (he feared the consequences of not being able to pull off his own side of the deal and so refrained). Later, we meet Mefisto's son Blacky, who later starts going by Yama, and his past lover and Blacky's mother Myriam. While Blacky starts out as a stage magician who obtains his powers by studying from the black magic books left him by Mefisto, Myriam has minor powers (can see far away events from a crystal ball) while still a magician, and, differently from her past lover and son, never leaves the job.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d7e4fc52	comment	Parodied in The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, where the Ozians thought he was a powerful wizard because he could do the detached thumb trick.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_d930a4c7	comment	Lampshaded in a Spelljammer adventure. A minor NPC is a wizard who works as a stage magician and is immensely frustrated that his audiences refuse to believe that his carefully-practiced sleight-of-hand tricks are not just accomplished by him using real magic.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_dbaabb61	comment	Mickey Mouse in "Magician Mickey". His tricks become more elaborate and implausible as the cartoon goes on. Most of these tricks are directed at Donald specifically in almost Looney Tunes fashion.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_dc4e4f67	comment	The Wotch has a side character who does this. Apparently, a lot of wizards perform on stage as a hobby.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_e3b53f87	comment	The Care Bears Movie features a young man named Nicholas, a magician's apprentice who finds a book containing an evil spirit who teaches him to perform real magic... for a price.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_e816d3f3	comment	Zander from Battlerite comes from a troupe of performers and has the magician look, but he can still hurt and heal people just by throwing cards at them, shoot giant bolts of energy, open up portals, and turn enemies into sheep. His Self-Duplication could be exaplained as stage trickery, but considering the rest of his abilities they're probably actual magic too.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_e8d13e52	comment	Urusei Yatsura has Tsubame Ozono, an inverted Ethnic Magician who left his native home in Japan to study Western Black Magic. As such, he dresses up like a stage magician. He still wields very real magic, at one point getting into a Wizard Duel with his girlfriend's disapproving Buddhist priest uncle, countering the priest's summoning of obake with his own conjurations of Western monsters such as Medusa and Frankenstein's Monster.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_e92b62ba	comment	Rat-Man (1989): Spoofed in an issue parodying Conan the Barbarian: the seemingly all-powerful wizard our "heroine" met fought with playing cards, a rabbit and spells from... a bunch of Magic: The Gathering cards! Later, we get a three-issue spoof of Harry Potter in which wizards liberally combine Potterverse-like magic and stage magic tricks. We're even treated to pulling rabbits out of hats for use as projectiles from the top of a castle's walls and a giant top hat used as a siege cannon.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ea787cd1	comment	In Forgotten Realms, Finder Wyvernspur did a sleight-of-hand trick with a vanishing lockpick when Olive tried to help him to run away from his second Harpers' trial, just to demonstrate he could have vanished long ago if he thought it was a good idea. May be Shout Out to Raistlin.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_ebffc81f	comment	In the rebooted Mage: The Awakening, the possibility is still open, but game mechanics discourage it. Using magic for mere personal gain can be considered an act of Hubris and ding your Karma Meter. Furthermore, "Vulgar" magic (which would be necessary for most stage tricks) risks attracting the attention of an Eldritch Abomination. Primarily the difference is that certain classes of effects are now just classified vulgar by definition, and while covert magic can become vulgar the reverse isn't true. So if you, for instance, conjure a flame the size of a lighter flame on top of an actual lighter, you take the penalty roll regardless of the impossibility of anyone calling you on it. Though it does sometimes work the other way, too. Softening a stone wall to play-dough and digging your way out with your bare hands would get you paradoxed in the old world, but now it's still covert if no-one's watching, even though the effect is pretty... blatant.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_f1ae884f	comment	Fallen London: With the Neath being as odd as it is, naturally magicians were bound to stumble onto something to make their tricks a little less reliant on sleight of hand. The process is not detailed, but it ends at magician turf wars fought with strange and powerful sorcery that not even the magicians themselves understand. This reaches the point where, among the various "Hunting Dangerous Beasts" sort of quests, you get a commission to capture a certain stage magician alive as one of the harder quests, and the preparations recommended are nothing short of unnerving:
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_f349915b	comment	In Dragonlance, Raistlin Majere does some sleight-of-hand trick in Demi-season Dragons, with a vanishing coin. Since a major part of spellcasting involves intricate patterns of hand movements, it's not that weird that Raistlin (and others) have a certain affinity for sleight-of-hand tricks. He also shocks (and ticks off) Fistandantilus by using flash powder to pretend to cast a spell when Fistandantilus casts an Anti-Magic spell. Later in that scene, he uses his sleight-of-hand skills (which Fistandantilus considered unfitting of a true mage) to steal his Immortality Inducer without him realizing it's gone, thereby allowing the two of them to engage in a Wizards Duel fairly evenly. Once, a duergar (dark dwarf) was juggling a knife while Raistlin was trying to talk to him. He grabbed the knife out of the air, and the duergar assumed he'd used magic to do so.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_f3d3a91c	comment	In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Donny Blaze is a magician who uses real sorcery to enhance his show. Unfortunately he's bad at both of them, his stage magic a series of cliched tricks executed poorly and his real magic novice-level and performed with dangerous ignorance. His main sorcerous trick is using a sling-ring to open a portal to a seemingly random location and having an audience member walk through it, which is not even all that visually interesting. When he tries to spice up his act further he accidentally unleashes a horde of demonic imps on the audience.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_f3f3618e	comment	The third edition of the anthology series Halloween Unspectacular introduces Madame Athena, a stage magician who turns out to be one of the last human practitioners of magic in the world, and one of the most powerful to boot.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_f673ad61	comment	Cat Soup features a clearly supernatural circus performer who dresses like a fantasy wizard rather than a stage magician, and his tricks include bloodily dismembering his assistant, spinning her pieces around in midair, and reassembling her unharmed.
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Magicians Are Wizards / int_fa709106	comment	Mandrake the Magician is, if not quite the Ur-Example, certainly the best known example, inspiring countless similar characters in The Golden Age of Comic Books, including Zatara and Sargon. This is something of a Zig-Zagged Trope however, as at least initially, the strip seemed uncertain if Mandrake could actually achieve supernatural feats, or if he was just a really good hypnotist who convinced the villains he'd done so.
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