Magical Native American: Difference between revisions

Line 10:

== Anime ==

Line 17:

* Laughing Bull doles out sage wisdom on ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', making him a...[[Magical Native American|Magical Native Martian]]? Laughing Bull qualifies on the grounds that his people are from Earth originally. Actually, just about any indigenous people sufficiently [[Closer to Earth]] can fit this trope.

* In ''[[Midori no Hibi]]'' the Native American medicine man is the only one of the spiritual experts called in for Midori's "illness" to actually have some idea of what's going on.

* Devo the Cursed In ''[[Jo ~~Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', who is an assasain that kills people via "cursing" them (He uses his Stand, [[Captain Ersatz|Ebony]] Devil, who looks like the deranged love child of Chucky and the Suni Fetish Doll, (which is triggered by wounds directed to Devo) to kill the victims.

* Devo the Cursed In ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', who is an assasain that kills people via "cursing" them (He uses his Stand, [[Captain Ersatz|Ebony]] Devil, who looks like the deranged love child of Chucky and the Suni Fetish Doll, (which is triggered by wounds directed to Devo) to kill the victims.

* Sara Nome in ''[[Macross Zero]]''. She gets fought over ''because'' of her magical power ({{spoiler|Which is actually just that Protoculture technology recognizes and reacts to her because of her blood type}}). The Mayans have a rich belief system, but many of their traditions have been forgotten with westernization (something that had already been started many years prior to the events of the OVA, as opposed to happening immediately). {{spoiler|Sara comes to hate the rest of the world when the Unification War between the UN and anti-UN decide to make their village the latest battlefield}}.

Line 77:

** Skinwalkers, or yee naaldlooshi, are sort of the villains of Navajo tradition. It's a real [[Body Horror]] to be the victim of one.

* Whiskey Jack in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]''. Though he actually ''is'' magical, being a culture hero from Native American mythology, most of the time he acts like an average Joe. Subverted with Samantha Black Crow. She's part Cherokee, and one of the few characters who is ''not'' magical in any way.

* Two Bears/O'olish Amaneh from ''[[The Word and The Void]]'' novels by [[Terry Brooks]]. While he is wise and magical, he isn't above violence and in fact is a dangerous killer for the [[Lawful Good]] force in the universe, as well as being a [[Shell Shocked Veteran|shell shocked]] [[Vietnam War|Vietnam vet]]. He's also heavily implied to be some manner of supernatural being in the form of a [[Magical Native American]]- note that as of his last appearance he's been alive for centuries, always appears ''exactly'' where and when he's needed, and actually ''scares'' [[Big Bad|Findo Gask]], who is [[The Stoic]] in addition to being arguably the most powerful demon on earth.

* Two Bears/O'olish Amaneh from ''[[The Word and The Void]]'' novels by [[Terry Brooks]]. While he is wise and magical, he isn't above violence and in fact is a dangerous killer for the [[Lawful Good]] force in the universe, as well as being a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|shell shocked]] [[Vietnam War|Vietnam vet]]. He's also heavily implied to be some manner of supernatural being in the form of a [[Magical Native American]]- note that as of his last appearance he's been alive for centuries, always appears ''exactly'' where and when he's needed, and actually ''scares'' [[Big Bad|Findo Gask]], who is [[The Stoic]] in addition to being arguably the most powerful demon on earth.

* Sylvia and Zoey Redbird from ''[[The House of Night]]''.

* [[Tad Williams]] likes to use this trope, although it's not as heavy handed as in some other examples. Binabik, Simon's friend in ''[[Memory Sorrowand Thorn]]'', is one of the [[All Trolls Are Different|troll-like]] Qanuc, rides a wolf, fights with a blowgun, and solves a lot of problems with his traditional knowledge. Similarly, !Xabbu, Renie's [[Love Interest]] in ''[[Otherland]]'', is an African Bushman who was raised partly in the Bush and partly in a modern setting. His natural sensitivity to his surroundings comes in very useful once they become trapped in the Grail Network - this would be ironic considering it's really a vastly sophisticated ''simulation'', but it turns out that the [[AI Is a Crapshoot|operating system]] knows about this trope and is deliberately feeding him extra information.

Line 177:

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had an episode where Bart is shown his somewhat unpleasant future (as a drunken, washed-up rock star living with Ralph Wiggum) by the head of a Native American casino after he tries to sneak into the casino in The Great Gabbo's dummy case.

** At first, this is [[Doubly Subverted]]: When they meet, Bart is very surprised that the casino owner knows his name and thinks he's this trope, before revealing he knows it because Homer put Bart down as collateral while taking out a second mortgage on the house. He then reveals he really is this trope.

* John Redcorn of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' moves between being a subversion of or playing with this trope. He has a leitmotif of being introduced with spiritual noise and blowing leaves even on [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Awesome|mundane occasions]], has for years been nailing Dale's wife (with Joseph as proof of that, despite Dale's claim that Joseph's brown skin is from a Jamaican grandmother Dale allegedly has), and some of his spiritual talk comes across as simply B.S. as part of his profession as a masseur/faith healer. His job is mostly a front for bedding women; when Hank goes in for treatment, it's revealed that make-out music and mood lighting automatically activate in his "treatment room". However, some episodes do portray him as genuinely spiritual and advocating for his tribe, more in line with the traditional [[Magical Native American]].

* John Redcorn of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' moves between being a subversion of or playing with this trope. He has a leitmotif of being introduced with spiritual noise and blowing leaves even on [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|mundane occasions]], has for years been nailing Dale's wife (with Joseph as proof of that, despite Dale's claim that Joseph's brown skin is from a Jamaican grandmother Dale allegedly has), and some of his spiritual talk comes across as simply B.S. as part of his profession as a masseur/faith healer. His job is mostly a front for bedding women; when Hank goes in for treatment, it's revealed that make-out music and mood lighting automatically activate in his "treatment room". However, some episodes do portray him as genuinely spiritual and advocating for his tribe, more in line with the traditional [[Magical Native American]].

** This seems to work with the show's theme of mocking romantic, exotified views of other cultures and instead focusing on undercutting racism by showing characters' fundamental similarity. When played straight, Redcorn's "love for the land" is shown to be no fundamentally different from the love Hank Hill has for his home (and propane), and is appealed to in similar terms.

** Being "genuinely spiritual and advocating for his tribe" doesn't put him in line with this trope, the whole ''point'' of which is that spiritual beliefs and traditions aren't the same as mystical powers.

Line 207:

[[Category:Romance Novel Tropes]]

[[Category:Magical Native American]]

[[Category:Trope]]

[[Category:Trope]][[Category:Pages with comment tags]]