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* The ''[[Tintin]]'' series' ''[[Main/Tintin/Recap/The Seven Crystal Balls/Recap|RecapThe Seven Crystal Balls]]'' and ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/Prisoners Of The Sun|Prisoners Of The Sun]]'' have a real-world voodoo curse in effect, albeit attributed to Incas.

== [[Film|Films]]s -- Live-Action ==

* The film ''[[Constantine (Film)|Constantine]]'' does this for [[Christianity Is Catholic|catholicism]]. In contrast to the original ''[[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|Hellblazer]]'' comic book where [[All Myths Are True]].

* ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'' to Christianity (mostly of a heavily Milton-influenced variety)

** Also by [[Neil Gaiman]] (but not Terry Pratchett) was [[Anansi Boys (Literature)|Anansi Boys]], focusing on the concept that West African mythology (and all named spiders and panthers that go along with it) do exist in the modern day. Unless they're dead.

*** [[Anansi Boys (Literature)|Anansi Boys]] takes place in the same continuity as the earlier [[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]], which makes the same assumption about ''all'' mythology-some gods have died, others have wandered off and forgotten who they were, but all of them existed at one point, with greater or lesser degrees of being anything like the way myths paint them.

* [[JRRJ. R. R. Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]]'s early drafts of ''[[The Silmarillion (Literature)|The Silmarillion]]'', published in ''Lost Tales I&II'', are a clever inversion of this: Through a series of events and battles that are echoed mainly in Norse and Finnish mythology {{spoiler|Middle-earth becomes our world. Tol Eressea becomes England, Kortirion especially is identified as Warwick, and Elves still exist. The tales that Aelfwine/Eriol is told are the true pre-history of the world and later fictionalized among humans.}} This was toned down significantly to the point of near-abandonment in later drafts, though the fading of the Elves and the gradual dominion of humans remains a prevalent theme. Also impossible to get rid of completely: Some cunning linguists pointed out that a huge number of Tolkien's Eldarin word roots are built to act as predecessors of reconstructed Indo-European, theoretically transporting the idea of early humans using language they were taught by the Elves into the real world. See Faramir's quote on all speech of the world being Elvish in origin.

* ''[[Percy Jackson and& Thethe Olympians (Literature)|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' to ancient [[Greek Mythology]].

** Also, the Roman gods exist as well, just as alter-egos to the Greek ones. There's evidence that the two series exist in the same universe, and that ''all'' pantheons exist (ignoring each other for the most part) creating a kind of [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]].

* ''Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming'', by [[Robert Sheckley]] and [[Roger Zelazny]], to Christianity -- orChristianity—or its [[Theme Park Version]]. Mostly [[Played for Laughs]].

* ''[[Jonathan Strange and& Mr. Norrell]]'' at the very least presents as true English legends concerning [[The Fair Folk]], and Merlin is referenced as being a real person. At least, because in the story collection ''The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories'', there is a [[Crossover]] with ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]'', and [[Neil Gaiman]] at least has placed ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]'' within his [[All Myths Are True]] 'verse.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is an interesting case which can't decide whether it's this trope or [[All Myths Are True]]. Earlier seasons seem to imply the latter, with the characters explicitly stating that "almost all cultures" have lore of some kind about the [[Monster of the Week]], with only slight variations. However, later seasons seem to run on the basis of Christianity (with God, angels, and Lucifer).

* ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'' to [[Greek Mythology]].

* Lampshaded in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''.

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