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Line 34: '''Kaname:''' Magic, huh? No, I'm afraid it isn't that. This guy isn't using magic but rather... technology... The enemy has it, and it's an integral part of his mecha's defenses. }} * ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' tends to blur the lines between the scientific, esoteric/metaphysical and divine/spiritual. * ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)\|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' uses this to describe their technology. The title includes the word "magic", and everyone there in the anime is running on [[Magitek]]. * In ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'' there are a number of old artifacts in the [[Magical Land\|magical world]] that [[Ordinary High School Student\|the protagonist]] was [[Trapped in Another World\|dumped in]], including a family's heirloom book that can seduce men, a weapon called the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast\|“Staff of Destruction”]], and a tale about a dragon, whose blood was collected. {{spoiler\|The objects are a porn magazine, a rocket launcher, and a plane respectively. The 'blood' was actually gasoline}}. * In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)\|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', the people of Lior view alchemy as being a type of miracle. Since more skilled alchemists can perform alchemy just by thinking about it, it's easy for the audience to write it off as magic, too. * Ichika quotes this in episode 8 of [[Asobi ni Iku yo!\|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]] to explain her "magic" scrolls. Line 89: * Taken to its absurdist extreme in ''The Flying Sorcerers'' by David Gerrold and Larry Niven. A planetary scout gets stranded on a primitive world, and has to enlist the help of the natives to get to a place he can summon help. Said natives have to be taught production technology and how to create certain things in order to do this...which makes them regard him as a high-powered magician The story is also told from the perspective of ''one of the natives'', for added humor. [[The Other Wiki]] even has a [[wikipedia:The Flying Sorcerers\|page]] on the story. * ''[[Enchantress From the Stars]]'': The Andrecians view Imperial technology as magic wands that turn people to stone (stunners), dragons (rock-chewer), monsters with no faces (Imperials in suits) and the examples in the summary. Also, telepathy and psychokinesis among the Federal field agents are stand-ins for advanced technologies humankind can't think of yet. * [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Seekers of the Sky]]'' duology is set in an [[Alternate History]], where [[Jesus]] Christ]] was replaced by a mortal man, known as the Redeemer, who was granted a single divine power, the Word (ability to instantenously transport inanimate matter to and from another dimension known as "the Cold"), to prove that he was God's Stepson. Lukyanenko is primarily known as a rather "hard" SF writer, so his Word falls well within the "too advanced technology" category, and he has a lot of morbid fun subtly playing with the way humans either elevate what they don't understand to the divine status or downgrade it to [[Mundane Utility]]. * In [[H. Rider Haggard]]'s ''[[She]]'', She Who Must Be Obeyed uses magic that she explains is simply knowledge and technology that are completely unknown to the main characters. * In [[Mark Twain]]'s ''A [[Connecticut Yankee]] in King Arthur's Court'', the main characters success relies on the 6th Century folks mistaking his 19th century tech as wizardry.