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If something is literally made of Phlebotinum, see [[Made of Magic]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' could nominally be considered this trope, especially a planet like Coruscant, for example. [[Subspace or Hyperspace|Hyperdrive]], [[The Force]], [[Flying Car|levitating vehicles]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser weapons]]...there wouldn't be much left to this [[The Verse|'verse]] if you subtracted the [[Phlebotinum]].
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' seems more [[Made of Phlebotinum]] than most fantasy worlds, what with all its [[Magitek|magically-powered civilizations]] and such. What's also notable is the multitudes of flavors of [[Phlebotinum]]; The Draeni lean towards magic crystals [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|given them by the Naaru]], [[Our Elves Are Better|Blood Elves]] throw around Arcane magic like it's going out of style, the [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|Gnomes]] love their tech, with a healthy dose of Arcane, and the [[
** According to [http://www.viddler.com/rooreynolds/videos/26/ this] video, Azeroth is a sphere about 12 kilometers across, with a density around a hundred times that of Earth. This explains why when you drop an item it disappears; due to the gravity it is crushed into an extremely fine powder spread over a wide area.
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', the magical floating continent of Zeal is this. It completely depends on magical energy to stay aloft and its residents do pretty much everything by magic.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' is pretty much supposed to be where, when [[The Magic Goes Away]] on the rest of the Earth because [[Magic Versus Science|the progress of technology leads to a lack of faith in magic]], all the magic is swept up and kept inside Gensokyo so that all the monsters, demons, and Gods can still live their magically supercharged lives. The technology is generally [[Bamboo Technology]] hybrids with [[Magitek]], or simply stolen from "[[This Is Reality|the Real World]]". It is also worth noting that even the [[Muggles]] have ''some'' kind of superpower in Gensokyo, it's just that you only hear about the [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|world-bendingly powerful little girls.]]
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' and ''[[Tales of Phantasia (Video Game)|Tales of Phantasia]]'' are like this. The main focus for most of both games is preserving the mana flow and thus preventing the collapse of the world. Without it, magic won't work, crops won't grow, etc.
* [[Mass Effect]] uses this as its ''[[Character Title]] [[Title Drop|Drop]]'', despite being one of the [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|hardest]] [[Space Opera|Space Operas]] to date. How does [[Casual Interstellar Travel|Casual]] [[Faster Than Light Travel]] work? [[Applied Phlebotinum|Mass Effect Fields]], generated by [[Unobtainium|Element]] [[Minovsky Physics|Zero]]. How do the [[Flying Car|Flying Cars]] fly? Mass Effect Fields, generated by Element Zero. How do [[Differently
** [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_energy It's till pretty hard], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy all things considering].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[
** No, you can't. That's why attempting to do so is bankrupting Cornelia. Their king is just crazy.
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