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== Film ==

* Parodied in the movie ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', where Latrine is apparently putting together a scrying spell with all sorts of gooey ingredients, including "eyeballs of a crocodile". A moment later we learn she's not a witch at all; [[Squick|she's the cook]].

* ''[[Warlock]]'' used the body fat of a non-baptised child as a levitation potion. Baptise your children, people!

* ''[[Warlock (comics)|Warlock]]'' used the body fat of a non-baptised child as a levitation potion. Baptise your children, people!

* You know that song the choir's singing near the beginning of ''[[Harry Potter]] 3''? Taken directly from [[The Scottish Trope|The Scottish Play]]. "In the cauldron boil and bake fillet of a fenny snake..." and of course the inevitable [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|something wicked this way comes]] finish.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* A number of spells in many versions of ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~ Dragons]]'' (AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, and D&D 3.x) require use of material components. For standard spells, like ''fireball'', this requires something trivial and commonplace (like bat guano and sulfur rolled into a ball) that one can BS away by having a spell pouch on them. For more powerful spells, like Raise Dead, you're expected to pay cash money to use them (in the form of a pile of diamonds worth 5000 gp).

* A number of spells in many versions of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (AD&D 1e, AD&D 2e, and D&D 3.x) require use of material components. For standard spells, like ''fireball'', this requires something trivial and commonplace (like bat guano and sulfur rolled into a ball) that one can BS away by having a spell pouch on them. For more powerful spells, like Raise Dead, you're expected to pay cash money to use them (in the form of a pile of diamonds worth 5000 gp).

** Still, if that sort of thing isn't easy enough for you, there are feats like Eschew Materials (which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], for material components that don't mention a money cost), prestige classes like the runecaster, which allow you to replace expended material components with permanent rune-carved objects (one wonders what the replacement for ''fireball'' is...a little stone ball with "bat poo and sulfur" carved in Draconic?), and others.

*** Why not "Burn!" or "[[Girl Genius|Everything goes boom!]]" on Ignan?

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* One of the ways you can gain more magic in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' is by refining [[Vendor Trash]] into usable spells via a special ability.

* A potion in ''[[A Vampyre Story]]'' requires a nightshade blossom, a gargoyle's breath, a virgin's bone, and a literal eye of newt. The first three she manages to scrounge up, but it's the middle of winter, meaning no newts. So she uses the eye from a picture of a newt in a coloring book. This works perfectly.

* ''[[~~Runescape~~]]'' has lots of odd ingredients for spells, though baby blue dragon scales, red spiders' eggs, and (what else?) the eye of newt are some of the body parts necessary for potions. Then you get the Rag and Bone Man, who asks for some really strange bones. Shoulder bone of a of giant? Tail bones from nine kinds of dragon? Pelvis of a four-legged, magic-casting water creature that dwells in caves? Fibula bone of the third leg on an '''adult''' three-legged creature? He wants them all and more. {{spoiler|He serves an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that wants to rebuild itself with all the bones. [[Squick]].}}

* ''[[RuneScape]]'' has lots of odd ingredients for spells, though baby blue dragon scales, red spiders' eggs, and (what else?) the eye of newt are some of the body parts necessary for potions. Then you get the Rag and Bone Man, who asks for some really strange bones. Shoulder bone of a of giant? Tail bones from nine kinds of dragon? Pelvis of a four-legged, magic-casting water creature that dwells in caves? Fibula bone of the third leg on an '''adult''' three-legged creature? He wants them all and more. {{spoiler|He serves an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that wants to rebuild itself with all the bones. [[Squick]].}}

== Webcomics ==

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