Magic and Powers

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Tropes about powers and mystical abilities accessible to characters. Take a look at the article on Magic and consider what it is; some claim it's usually a kind of Applied Phlebotinum.

* Adaptive Ability

  • Alchemy
  • Animate Dead
  • Anti-Magic
  • Armor-Piercing Attack
  • Art Attacker
  • Art Initiates Life
  • The Assimilator
  • Barrier Warrior
  • Black Mage
  • Black Magic
  • Blood Magic
  • Call on Me
  • Came Back Strong
  • Celebrity Power
  • Chain Lightning
  • Clarke's Third Law
  • Combined Energy Attack
  • Curse
  • The Dark Arts
  • Electronic Telepathy
  • Elemental Punch
  • Emotion Bomb
  • Emotion Eater
  • The Empath
  • Energy Absorption
  • Energy Ball
  • Enlightenment Superpowers
  • Entropy and Chaos Magic
  • Functional Magic
  • Fusion Dance
  • Geas
  • Hellfire
  • Hollywood Voodoo
  • Holy Hand Grenade
  • Identity Absorption
  • I Know What You Fear
  • I See Dead People
  • Intangible Man
  • Invisibility
  • Ki Attacks
  • Kill One, and the Others Get Stronger
  • Kung Fu Wizard
  • Living Battery
  • Made of Phlebotinum
  • Magic by Any Other Name
  • Magic Kiss
  • Magic Enhancement
  • Magic Hair
  • Magic Is Mental
  • The Magic Touch
  • Magitek
  • Make a Wish
  • Marionette Master
  • Master of Your Domain
  • Mental World
  • Merlin Sickness
  • Mundane Utility
  • Musical Assassin
  • No Eye in Magic
  • Open Sesame
  • Parody Magic Spell
  • Power Copying
  • Power Nullifier
  • The Power of Creation
  • The Power of Love
  • The Power of Trust
  • Power of the Void
  • Psychic Link
  • Psychic Powers
  • Psychic Radar
  • Psychic Surgery
  • Pure Energy
  • The Red Mage
  • Sentient Cosmic Force
  • Solar and Lunar
  • Speak of the Devil
  • Spell Construction
  • Sphere of Destruction
  • Summon Magic
  • Summon to Hand
  • Supernatural Sensitivity
  • Technopath
  • Turn Undead
  • Unblockable Attack
  • Unholy Nuke
  • Utility Magic
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting
  • Walking Wasteland
  • Whatevermancy
  • White Mage
  • White Magic
  • Wild Magic
  • Wizards and Witches
  • Yin-Yang Bomb

  • * Aura Vision

    * Addiction-Powered

  • Addictive Magic
  • Bad Powers, Bad People
  • Bad Powers, Good People
  • Black Magic
  • Cast from Hit Points
  • Celestial Deadline
  • Curse Escape Clause
  • Death-Activated Superpower
  • Defence Mechanism Superpower
  • Equivalent Exchange
  • Fighting Spirit
  • Fights Like a Normal
  • Flight, Strength, Heart
  • Glamour Failure
  • Gods Need Prayer Badly
  • Good Powers, Bad People
  • Healing Magic Is the Hardest
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power
  • Heroic RROD
  • Hour of Power
  • Hulking Out
  • Inept Mage
  • Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Lethal Harmless Powers
  • Long-Range Fighter
  • Magic Is a Monster Magnet
  • Magic Misfire
  • Malfunction Malady
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
  • Mind Over Manners
  • Muggles Do It Better
  • Mutually Exclusive Magic
  • No Self-Buffs
  • Only the Pure of Heart
  • Power Crutch
  • Power Incontinence
  • Power Limiter
  • The Power of Blood
  • Power Strain Blackout
  • Psychic Block Defense
  • Psychic Static
  • Psychoactive Powers
  • Randomly-Gifted
  • Required Secondary Powers
  • Restraining Bolt
  • Situational Sword
  • Squishy Wizard
  • Superpower Meltdown
  • Superpower Silly Putty
  • Swiss Army Tears
  • Sympathetic Magic
  • Un-Sorcerer
  • Useless Superpowers
  • Virgin Power
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
  • Willfully Weak
  • Wishplosion
  • Words Do Not Make the Magic

  • * As Lethal as It Needs to Be

  • Apothecary Alligator
  • Cats Are Magic
  • Children Are Special
  • Cosmic Entity
  • Fantasy Character Classes
  • The Force Is Strong with This One
  • Genie in a Bottle
  • Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality
  • Inverse Law of Complexity to Power
  • I Thought Everyone Could Do That
  • Made of Magic
  • Mage Killer
  • Magic Carpet
  • Magical Girl
  • Magical Native American
  • Magic Mushroom
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
  • Power Levels
  • Power Perversion Potential
  • Reality-Changing Miniature
  • Ring of Power
  • Secret Art
  • A Wizard Did It
  • Wrong-Context Magic