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The Magician

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The Magician	comment	The Magician was a French animated television series produced by Xilam and distributed by Gaumont. The series aired in 1999 on Fox Kids Saturday mornings.The series takes place near the beginning of the third millennium in the fictional city of Electro City. Technology has advanced, and a new wave of criminals are willing to take advantage of it, including Black Jack, one of the city's most dangerous criminals.The only man who can face these criminals is Ace Cooper, aka The Magician. He works as a stage magician, which allows him to hide that he also possesses real magic. In his crime-fighting, Ace is helped by Cosmo, his teenage magician's assistant, and Lieutenant Vega, an old friend from the police. Ace is also sometimes helped by Mona Malone, his romantic interest in the series, but their relationship is often strained because she is also the daughter of Black Jack.The series is not well known and has a small fanbase. There were two seasons made; but, for unknown reasons, while the second season aired in other countries (probably including France), it never aired on Fox Kids.Not to be confused with the 1973-1974 live action series starring Bill Bixby.
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The Magician / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
The Magician / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: This will always happen, several times with the major villain Black Jack, and also with the two other big villains, Faceless and Sonny Boy.
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The Magician / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Magician / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Ace is often dealing with the criminal activities of Blackjack, one of the few recurring villains in the show. The final episode of season one has him assemble an alliance of criminals Ace put away, along with his rival Sunny, just to get rid of him.
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The Magician / int_432af81e	type	Bantering Baddie Buddies
The Magician / int_432af81e	comment	Bantering Baddie Buddies: Spade and Diamond were Blackjack's henchmen, and their back-and-forth was pretty versatile: sometimes it was Played for Laughs, and other times they would convey a part of the plan to the viewer by discussing it between themselves, e.g. Diamond reminding Spade that gas masks were hidden inside clown noses.
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The Magician / int_4f243887	type	Magician Detective
The Magician / int_4f243887	comment	Magician Detective: This is Ace's main job in the show.
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The Magician / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Magician / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Ace's transformation seems to amount to him just letting the audience know he's getting serious, since there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in his abilities in or out of costume.
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The Magician / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Magician / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police, especially Captain Fredricks, tend to be this a lot. Many times, they've arrested Ace Cooper or blamed him, for the crime of the episode.
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The Magician / int_5d6e6919	type	Magicians Are Wizards
The Magician / int_5d6e6919	comment	Magicians Are Wizards: The "hiding in plain sight" variety. He keeps to stage magic, until his Transformation Sequence Once an Episode.
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The Magician / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
The Magician / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: Was made clear with Ace since he was raised in an orphanage and we have no clue of what happened to his parents. It's hinted that Cosmo used to live with at least his father before living with Ace, but it's never clear if his parents are actually alive or dead.
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The Magician / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
The Magician / int_6e60e40a	comment	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Downplayed with Spade and Diamond. They're armed, dangerous, and generally competent, but their back-and-forth with each other is occasionally Played for Laughs, whereas Black Jack is never funny.
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The Magician / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
The Magician / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Ace's love interest, Mona Malone, is also the daughter of his archnemesis, "Black" Jack Malone. Played with, in that she doesn't participate in her father's criminal activities.
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The Magician / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
The Magician / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience: In-universe, for a show whose presenter is a recurring character. Prompts for applauding or laughing are visible, in the form of screens with icons.
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The Magician / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
The Magician / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Blackjack has an attorney called Professor Clockwise. He generally knows all about Blackjack's plans and does a terrific job keeping Blackjack out of prison: just about everyone in Electro City believes Blackjack to be a legitimate casino owner instead of the crime boss he is, largely thanks to Clockwise. Clockwise also talked Blackjack out of having his henchmen find and kill Ace in the pilot, as the police might trace that back to them.
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The Magician / int_afd71b8a	type	Inside a Computer System
The Magician / int_afd71b8a	comment	Inside a Computer System: It happens during the episode "Virtual Fatality."
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The Magician / int_bcc4b873	type	By the Power of Grayskull!
The Magician / int_bcc4b873	comment	By the Power of Grayskull!: Ace Cooper always said, "Magic force! Reveal the power within!" to change into his alter ego, The Magician.
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The Magician / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
The Magician / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Black Jack needs to fly around in a hovering wheelchair and can't walk on his own. We aren't really shown how he got that way, but an early episode does show that he used to be a strong, vigorous man once.
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The Magician / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
The Magician / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: With the hero's power being magic, they never bothered to define it.
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The Magician / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Magician / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Captain Fredricks has a recurring habit of taking things at face value when it comes to people, especially when it comes to his recurring dislike of Ace Cooper. He will immediately think Ace is at fault for the flimsiest of reasons, such as a series of fires make a pattern that form an M and his reasoning for Ace being at fault is "M is for Magician!" As for Black Jack, due this connections with the senator and his running of a casino, he is completely sure that he's a legitimate businessman who has nothing nefarious going on
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The Magician / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
The Magician / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Cosmo.
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The Magician / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
The Magician / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Mona and Ace are in love, but the relationship is constantly in danger since her father is Ace's Arch-Enemy.
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The Magician / int_e658f2a8	type	Death Dealer
The Magician / int_e658f2a8	comment	Death Dealer: Although nonlethal, Ace does throw playing cards at his opponents.
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The Magician / int_e75da3cc	type	Pariah Prisoner
The Magician / int_e75da3cc	comment	Pariah Prisoner: After one pirate-themed Villain of the Week was defeated and arrested for taking artifacts from a museum and trying to drown the protagonists, he was told by another inmate, "In this jail, we don't like people who steal from museums!" causing him to scream in fright!
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The Magician / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
The Magician / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: In the episode "Twin Brothers," a man who looks identical to Ace (well, his nose was different, but he got a nose job to fix it) tries to kill Ace so he can take over his life. This can also be tied with Identical Stranger.
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The Magician / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Magician / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: Ace Cooper, Blackjack and his dragons, Spade and Diamond.
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The Magician / int_fe1ccea	type	Evil Parents Want Good Kids
The Magician / int_fe1ccea	comment	Evil Parents Want Good Kids: At the least, Blackjack never involves his daughter in any of his schemes.
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The Magician	hasFeature	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_4fc8fae
The Magician	hasFeature	Villain: Exit, Stage Left / int_4fc8fae

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