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* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=govyq9f2djo this] ''[[SSX]]'' 2012 commercial, a jaded snowboarder is given a sacred amulet that takes him on a crazy adventure. Afterwards:

{{quote|'''Shaman:''' Bro, what are you talking about, man? I was just messing with you. I got this for like 35 cents at a garage sale. The real adventure - was in your heart all along.}}

== Anime and Manga ==

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* [[Terry Pratchett]] uses several of these in his ''[[Discworld]]'' Novels.

** Headology, the main branch of Witch magic relies mostly on the application of common sense with a light sprinkling of Magic Feathers, once handily supplied by the patient himself.

** In ''[[~~Discworld/Thief of Time|~~Thief of Time]]'', Lobsang is wearing a portable procrastinator to enable him to continue walking around after time has been stopped. {{spoiler|He panics after Susan tells him it stopped a while ago.}} Not a standard magic feather as the device would work as described, it just turns out that {{spoiler|Lobsang doesn't need it, as he's the son of (or rather [[Split At Birth|half of the son of]]) the anthropomorphic personification of Time.}}

** In ''[[Thief of Time]]'', Lobsang is wearing a portable procrastinator to enable him to continue walking around after time has been stopped. {{spoiler|He panics after Susan tells him it stopped a while ago.}} Not a standard magic feather as the device would work as described, it just turns out that {{spoiler|Lobsang doesn't need it, as he's the son of (or rather [[Split At Birth|half of the son of]]) the anthropomorphic personification of Time.}}

** In ''[[~~Discworld/Lords and Ladies|~~Lords and Ladies]]'' Magrat finds the ancient armor of Queen Ynci the Short-Tempered, and believes that her spirit is with her and gives her an extra capacity for violence and determination. As it turns out, Ynci was completely made up, and her armor had been made a few decades ago to give the royal house a little more color.

** In ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'' Magrat finds the ancient armor of Queen Ynci the Short-Tempered, and believes that her spirit is with her and gives her an extra capacity for violence and determination. As it turns out, Ynci was completely made up, and her armor had been made a few decades ago to give the royal house a little more color.

* In [[Incarnations of Immortality|On A Pale Horse]], while fighting [[Satan]], [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] realizes that he doesn't actually need his scythe and cloak to use his powers, reasoning that if that had been true, Satan would have attacked him earlier while he was off duty.

* Subverted in ''[[Mistborn]]'', where the Magic Feather given to Yeden's army by Kelsier (a promise that his mistborn abilities could be channeled into others) {{spoiler|leads Yeden to send out his still unprepared army prematurely out on a raid because of overconfidence, killing them all}}. Kelseir gets a serious [[What the Hell, Hero?]] by his entire crew for his efforts.

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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.

== Live Action TV ==

== Live-Action TV ==

* Unsurprisingly for the series, ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' has an example in "Samurai".

* On ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Hawk and B.J. give placebos to a shy, nebbish soldier, telling him they're Confidence Pills. They also give the same pills to Klinger, telling him they're a new drug that will help keep him cool—later, during a boiling hot day, he walks around in a fur coat, warning everyone else that they would freeze to death.

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* ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' once got a "magic coin" from Henry.

== Tabletop ~~RPG~~ ==

== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'', characters need to focus their magick through various means, but sufficiently high-level characters will realize that the magick comes from them and can cast spells without foci with no penalty. At this point, the mage starts becoming obscenely powerful and even Werewolves and centuries-old Vampires keep their distance.

** Some mages also use 'unique foci' for some of their magic, which if lost render them partially or wholly incapable of casting anything.

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* In ''[[Mana Khemia]]'', one of the characters' familiar spirits doesn't actually do anything and isn't actually magical at all; they're just a psychological crutch for the character, who is magically quite powerful and not human, but doesn't know it.

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== Web ~~Comic~~ ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501022332/http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000293.html One strip] from ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' has it all go wrong.

* ''[http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/ Cheshire Crossing]'' plays this straight with Dorothy's ruby slippers; however, the slippers do possess some intrinsic power, since other characters can use them normally.

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'''Murtaugh''': Shhh... as long as ''they'' think I can, I get pretty good results. }}

== Web ~~Originals~~ ==

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' article on [[Poe's Law]]: "[http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-cant-tell-if-movies-are-being-serious-anymore You didn't even need those cars, Vin.] The violence was inside you ''the whole time.''"

* In ''[[Baman Piderman]]'', the Happy Winter Friends' wish was inside him all along! (Like, literally, inside him. He had a drawer in his chest.)

== Western Animation ==

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