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* In ''You can do it Desmond Dragon'', an educational children's book about an asthmatic young dragon, Desmond is given a 'magic' satchel to wear during a smoke-blowing contest. Of course, when he opens it after the contest it just holds a note saying he could do it all along if he believed in himself. And used his inhalers... |
* In ''You can do it Desmond Dragon'', an educational children's book about an asthmatic young dragon, Desmond is given a 'magic' satchel to wear during a smoke-blowing contest. Of course, when he opens it after the contest it just holds a note saying he could do it all along if he believed in himself. And used his inhalers... |
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* The Lenses used by the ''[[Lensman]]'' are usually your average [[Applied Phlebotinum]], but for the more advanced characters (Kimball Kinnison and his children, among others) they become little more than a Magic Feather. |
* The Lenses used by the ''[[Lensman]]'' are usually your average [[Applied Phlebotinum]], but for the more advanced characters (Kimball Kinnison and his children, among others) they become little more than a Magic Feather. |
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** They seem to have some function beyond that, as the children know they have the power innately, but they actually |
** They seem to have some function beyond that, as the children know they have the power innately, but they actually ''create'' Lenses at one point to help them in particularly high-powered work. |
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* In ''[[Captain Underpants]] and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman'', even though Captain Underpants' powers came from [[Super Serum|alien super power juice]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), he's convinced they come from cottony soft underpants. When [[Captain Underpants]] is depowered by spray-on starch, the boys have to come up with a magical feather, so they [[Retcon]] a powerful crystal he swallowed as a child on his home planet (even though [[Captain Underpants]] is actually the boys' principal). |
* In ''[[Captain Underpants]] and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman'', even though Captain Underpants' powers came from [[Super Serum|alien super power juice]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), he's convinced they come from cottony soft underpants. When [[Captain Underpants]] is depowered by spray-on starch, the boys have to come up with a magical feather, so they [[Retcon]] a powerful crystal he swallowed as a child on his home planet (even though [[Captain Underpants]] is actually the boys' principal). |
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* A large number of ''[[Wild Cards]]'' characters require a "psychological focus" to use their powers, most notably The Great And Powerful Turtle's armored Shells, to the point where he eventually becomes so cripplingly dependent on them that he loses his powers entirely when outside them. |
* A large number of ''[[Wild Cards]]'' characters require a "psychological focus" to use their powers, most notably The Great And Powerful Turtle's armored Shells, to the point where he eventually becomes so cripplingly dependent on them that he loses his powers entirely when outside them. |
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* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere: An Autumn Tale|Miserere an Autumn Tale]]'', Lucian tells Lindsey that the Psalter is magical; later, when he says it helped her focus and the power was hers, she was annoyed. |
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere: An Autumn Tale|Miserere an Autumn Tale]]'', Lucian tells Lindsey that the Psalter is magical; later, when he says it helped her focus and the power was hers, she was annoyed. |
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* Used in the [[J. T. Edson]] short story "Dusty Fog's Gun" when Waco gives a young deputy a gun and tells him it once belonged to Dusty Fog, giving him the confidence to win an upcoming gunfight. |
* Used in the [[J. T. Edson]] short story "Dusty Fog's Gun" when Waco gives a young deputy a gun and tells him it once belonged to Dusty Fog, giving him the confidence to win an upcoming gunfight. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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