![]() ![]() ![]() Also compare Clarke's Third Law, which explains how the unexperienced could see technology and science as a form of magic. See also Sufficiently Advanced Alien, The Magic Goes Away, Magic Versus Science, and Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. When this is a External Retcon to an ancient mythology rather than the franchise's own mythos, it is called Demythification.Ĭompare and contrast with How Unscientific!, as well as Unscientific Science (where the "scientific" explanation is just as nonsensical as the magical one, or even moreso). Another problem this trope might encounter is that, while fans only expect magic to have the same effect while used in the same way, the audience may be less willing to suspend disbelief when converted into hard science, unless it is prefaced with some kind of pseudoscientific material specifically stated not to follow standard physics (of course, doing this still keeps the stuff technically magic, just not, you know, magic). ![]()
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