A Wizard Did It: Difference between revisions

{{quote|{{spoiler|"The code libraries from Elysium had all sorts of modules for letting people take their own environments with them and making the rules interact - they spent a lot of time trying to entertain themselves - so I picked one of the standard tools that had a really simple interface, where I just needed to answer a few yes-or-no questions to make it happen automatically -"}}

{{spoiler|"A wizard did it!" shouted a buxom woman in black leather armor with a silver hoop strapped to her thighs. There was widespread laughter, and not a few groans of agony.}} }}

* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', when the four are in the Hunter's world, John tells the others that he thinks the Poison Swamp was created artificially, with magic. Why? “I quit wonderin' about motivations on other planets. I just assume everyone's daft, and that pretty much covers it.”

* Quite a bit of [[The Emiya Clan]] revolves around one of the rather annoying magicians that hang around the family doing something silly to mess things up (and occasionally fix them, but only occasionally). Lampshaded at one point.

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' if something is off, it can easily be explained in-universe as being because the Warp did it. If not the Warp, then the C'Tan did it. If not the C'Tan, then the Eldar did it. (Being the wizards who did it is their [[Planet of Hats|hat]].) If not the Eldar, then the God-Emperor of Man did it. If none of the above did it, it was certainly [[Memetic Badass|Commissar Sebastian Yarrick]]'s fault. And even if any, all, or ''none'' of the above did it, [[The Chessmaster|Tzeentch]] either [[Xanatos Gambit|did it, arranged it, opposed it, or helped it]], and in most cases, he did ''[[Gambit Pileup|all of that at the same time.]]''

** "The Tyranids ate it." Deep-fried Squat, anyone?

** When all else fails, [[Unreliable Narrator|the source of the story is lying or misremembering a detail]].