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== Anime
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** Not really, as his Imagine Breaker is definitely anti-magic, it is also anti-
* There are [[Bash Brothers|a couple of characters]] in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' who fit this trope to a T. Didn't help them to deal with Natsu, as they chose the worst possible tactics.
* {{spoiler|Jeremiah Gottwald}} in ''[[Code Geass]]'' is given a Geass Canceller in the second season, which can be activated manually to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|cancel a Geass]] active on anyone else (incidentally, this circumvents the once-per-person limit on Lelouch's Geass), as well as activating automatically if someone tries to Geass him, blocking the effect. He was also made into a cyborg for squashing Lelouch the [[Squishy Wizard]].
* Every character in ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'', with a couple of caveats. Only [[Witch Species|witches]] can naturally resist each other's powers, blocking attacks and [[Geo Effects]] are perhaps the only shared abilities by all witches other than having a special ability. This is how Robin and Karasuma [[Hunter of His Own Kind|fight other witches]]. The rest of the human cast has to make do with wearing vials of Orbo and using [[Weaponized Weakness|bullets filled with the stuff]], which naturally cancels witch powers and weakens them on contact.
** In season 2, when the enhanced Orbo suit witch hunters hit the scene we find out that {{spoiler|using living witches as [[Human Resources]] to make the stuff}} has very detrimental effects on the humans using the stuff.
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** The terentatek is quite similar in concept, only created by the Sith instead, and specifically meant to hunt lightsiders. Aside from being strong in the Dark Side and possessing deadly venom, their outer hide is also immune to the effects of the Force, and they themselves feed off the blood of Force-sensitive beings. The damn things are so nasty that the Jedi Order routinely held galaxy-wide "Great Hunts" aimed at exterminating them.
* In the ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' book "For Love Of Evil", when Parry tries to escape, the knights hunting them have a magic user on their side. Said magic user acts as a Mage Killer for the church by helping in tracking Parry down. He is also the indirect cause of Jolie's death.
* John Dart in ''[[The Candy Shop War]]'' has an excellent resistence to magic, a [[Healing Factor]], and is trained in dealing with rogue mages. However, he can't kill anyone, because [[Hostage Spirit Link|any damage he does to someone else will also be delt to him.]]
* [[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]] has the Resistance, humans who are born with a varying degree of Resilience to magic and are using their Resilience to slowly overthrow the Magician Government. Except for the Mercenary, who has the greatest Resilience to the point of being set on fire and being dubbed an [[Implacable Man]] and uses his resilience to make money.
** {{spoiler|Actually subverted with the Resistance, as they are quickly decimated when confronted with a truly powerful magical spirit.}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Aredian, the titular character of the ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' episode "The Witchfinder."
* Appears in the [[Forever Knight]] episode "Bad Blood", where we learn that a mortal who isn't completely killed or turned by a vampire gets enhanced senses and intuition that they often use to kill vamps.
* The [[The Vamp|Mord'Sith]] in [[Legend of the Seeker]], who have the ability to turn magic against whoever wields it.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[War Machine]]'' has the Mage Hunters of Ios, a group of elves specializing in assassinating enemy magic users. Most of them don't actually have anti-magic powers, but they are highly trained to fight against mages.
* ''[[Warhammer
* [[Dungeons
** D&D 3.5 has a few prestige classes suited to this: the Mage Slayer, which gains a lot of damage potential against spellcasters but gets no magical powers of its own, and the Suel Archanamach, which is more like a special policeman who uses his limited [[Anti-Magic]] spellcasting power and martial prowess to keep mages in line.
*** Also the Occult Slayer, a Mage Killer prestige class that is given lots of bonuses against casters and can eventually bat projectile spells right the hell back at the caster.
**** The Character Builder's Guide provides ideas for being a Counterspeller, which isn't a [[Prestige Class]] but merely a Fighter with some levels in magic-using classes.
** While basic [[Eye Beams|beholders]] have anti-magic rays, beholder-kin gauth have more powers that makes it a threat to magic-users, as well as a healthy appetite for enchanted items.
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** Golems in general in 3.5 are immune to magic. They can only be purchased as squaddies at epic levels for just this reason.
** Some Warlock builds work this way. Warlocks can use their invocations whenever they like, and one of them is treated as ''Dispel Magic'', the universal counterspell. While not exactly a ''fun'' strategy, hold action to counter will effectively lock down an enemy caster.
** Although casters themselves, divine casters tend to be good at dealing with arcane casters with their arsenal of protective spells and their fighting skills they can improve with their own spells. The oracle in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' (basically a spontaneous caster version of the cleric) allows for a strong magic-countering build : a halfling oracle with the reclusive curse can develop a spell resistance so high that no mortal can overcome it without the help of feats or class features that boost their caster level for certain spells. Add to the mix the antimagic field spell available to high-level clerics and oracles and an oracle mystery that improves fighting prowess with non-magical means and even a self-boosting battle mage who normally doesn't care about spell resistance is screwed.
* The Banishers of ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' are mage killers who are, irony of ironies, also mages. Difference is, while most mages consider their Awakenings a wonderful trip to the higher realms of experience, they considered it a ticket to hell and a mark of damnation. So they try to make up for it by using their magic to kill other mages, usually in ways that involve polluting and tainting the magic of others.
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** Felhunters in [[Warcraft]] are demonic beasts that feed on magic and hunt magic users. They are highly resistant to spells and can drain a mages mana and prevent his spellcasting.
** Magina the Anti-Mage from ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]''. While he can be and often is built as a DPS machine, his passive [[Mana Burn]] attack bonus, added resistance to magic damage and ability to damage a target based on its lack of mana all point to this trope.
*** The Silencer, from ''[[Dota 2]]''. His backstory states that he's the end product of centuries of carefully picked pairings to create the most powerful mage to ever live. Growing up, he showed no special talents or abilities, causing other children to mock him. And on the day of testing he used the one spell he developed, [[Anti-Magic|Silence]], [[Brought Down to Normal|bringing all the other students down to normal]] so he could kick their asses in single combat.
* Kassadin in ''[[League of Legends]]'' is specifically designed with that in mind, seeing as he has a distance closing spell, a silence and a built in magic resistance mechanism - storywise he specifically hunts down mages to prevent them to opening a gate to the Void. Interestingly and ironically, developers wanted him to be a [[Magic Knight]] with majority of his damage being physical and the spells only acting for utility purposes, but it turned out he's much more effective being built as a mage himself.
** Veigar acts as one as well despite being a mage himself, since his ultimate relies on the amount of Ability Points (basically the game's version of magic damage) the opponent has to deal any noticable damage. On characters like [[Mighty Glacier|Rammus]], it barely does a thing. On [[Squishy Wizard|Cassopeia]] or even [[Mirror Match|himself]] it tends to do more than ''half their HP''.
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** Addendum: [[Robotic Psychopath|HK-47]] was well versed in the assasination of Jedi, [[Catch Phrase|meatbags.]]
* ''Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' uses bounty hunters to counter Jedi.
* [[Casting a Shadow|Dark]] [[Combat Pragmatist|type]] [[Pokémon]] were introduced in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' to counter the [[Game Breaker]] [[Psychic Powers|Psychic]] type. They are outright [[
** To elaborate, almost no Dark-type attacks use [[Casting a Shadow|shadowy magic]] or the like (exceptions including Night Daze and Dark Pulse). Instead they rely mostly on [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|trickery]] and more [[Combat Pragmatist|underhanded moves]].
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