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* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', when you hand over the Deep Road maps to Bartrand for his expedition, he asks you how you came by the maps. If Anders (the mage from ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age Origins: Awakening]]'', who gave you the maps in the first place) is in your party, he will quip, "A wizard did it." (Which is technically true, Anders himself being the wizard who did it, i.e. stole the maps.)
* Some of the more bizarre and impossible capabilities of the Bydo in ''[[R-Type]]''—like their ability to infect and mutate machinery as if it were biological material—can be literally chalked up to this, as official sources state they were created with a combination of science and black magic.
* In ''[[Gear HeadGearHead]]'', a [[Roguelike]] with [[Humongous Mecha]], the [[Noob Cave]] is an abandoned mine. The dungeon is character-scale (meaning, you go in on foot rather than take a mech, and the monsters are at your size), but in the character-scale mining elevator at the bottom of the mine, there's a Wolfram mining mech with the keys in the ignition, which you get upon returning to the surface. Quoth [[Word of God]] when questioned on the subject: "[The Wolfram] can fit in a subsurface mine because it's an enormous sci-fi megaproject and a wizard did it. ^_^"
* In ''[[Overlord (series)|Overlord]]'', the [[Hero Antagonist|"Heroes"]] that ended the rule of the previous Overlord had become corrupted and turned the entire kingdom into a [[Crapsack World]] with little explanation other than [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|because they couldn't handle the power]]. {{spoiler|You then learn near the end a wizard really '''did''' do it.}}
 
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