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== Comic Books ==
* General comic book example: when DC jump-started the [[Silver Age]] by reinventing a number of their once-popular characters, they tended to replace mystical origin stories with (pseudo-)scientific ones. For instance, the new [[Green Lantern]] got his powers from being a [[Space Police
* The early 1960s ''[[Blue Beetle]]'', Dan Garrett, gained superpowers from a magical beetle-shaped amulet from Ancient Egypt.
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▲* Likewise, [[Hawkman]]'s powers are ever-changing in nature: He's either the reincarnation of an Egyptian Pharaoh, or an alien. Or the reincarnation of an alien pharaoh. For example, the mystic that gave the third/fourth Hawkman his powers was retconned into being a Thanagarian scientist.
** Likewise, the nature of the "Nth Metal" that gives him his powers keeps changing; from a simple anti-gravity material, to all-purpose [[Green Rocks]], either scientific or magical or even angelic in nature and naturally or artificially originating either from Earth, Thanagar or Heaven. Pick one from each column.
* There was a period when [[The Mighty Thor]] and his fellow Asgardians were actually [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] whose exploits inspired Norse mythology, but who weren't actually gods. This has since been completely ignored.
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** The new film also makes the claim that magic and science are in fact one and the same, and Asgard seems to exist physically in another dimension or region of space.
* [[Batman]] has done his fair share of this, usually pointing out people explicitly trying to use smoke-and-mirrors to appear mystical, or some ancient artifact that was thought to be "cursed" or "enchanted" having a rational explanation, like a rage-demon-possessed mask that actually had a few small poison-tipped spikes that drove the bearer mad. That said, he's also explicitly encountered ghosts, wizards, gods and demons, so it's less a case of "There's no such thing as magic" as "I won't believe it's magic until I prove it one way or the other."
== Film ==
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