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See that huge giant on the horizon about to come and eat us? Just close an eye, pick him up between your fingers and drop him in a bottle until he learns his lesson.
'''Perspective Magic''' is a way for characters to play with the [[Fourth Wall]], using the fact that they live in a 2-D world imitating 3-D to their advantage. Characters likely to use Perspective Magic are usually cartoons, wizards, [[Odd Job Gods|gods]], or just someone [[Genre Savvy]] enough to take a step back and manipulate their surroundings.
A few possible techniques used in Perspective Magic:
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== Art ==
* M. C. Escher's artworks make use of this.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111028063239/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Hogarth-satire-on-false-pespective-1753.jpg William Hogarth: Satire on False Perspective (1753)]. Originally intended to show the kind of mistakes an artist can make, but it's a fine example of this trope in its own right.
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* One issue of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''Illuminati'' had the group look for the [[Cosmic Keystone|Infinity Gems]]. When
* In a 2010 ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' storyline, Reed's new man-friends (alternate Reeds) helped saved millions from a sun nova by perspective magic. They "got big" with techno-babble and pulled out the defective parts of a sun.
* One ''[[Mortadelo Y Filemon]]'' comic deals with UFOs that were coming to [[Earth Is the Center of the Universe|Earth in order to invade it]]. One of them appears to be really huge and far away, but in the end it turns out it is very small... and it hits Filemón right in the mouth.
== Eastern Animation ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* A guru in one of the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* A [[David Macaulay]] book had a picture of the "discovery of the vanishing point," a bunch of cowboys standing around looking at a spot where parallel train tracks meet.
* Number four is inverted in E. Rose Sabin's ''A School for Sorcery'' where a girl's vision of a terrible monster is defeated when she looks at it through a reversed telescope.
* Zorya Polunochnaya uses version 1 in ''[[American Gods]]'' to pick the moon out of the sky and give it to Shadow, in the form of a coin.
* In ''[[The Scar]]'', a grindylow magical artifact can give its user this power, and is used by a human spy to impressive effect. However, it comes with the price of [[The Corruption|starting to mutate him into something that doesn't quite seem human or grindylow...]]
* Professor H.M. Wogglebug. T.E. from ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' (the sequel to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'') is a man-sized insect who became so after being projected on a
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Scion]]'', heroes with the "Moon" and "Sun" Purviews can use this trick to, respectively, pluck the moon or the sun out of the sky (and pocket it for later use). The sun can be used to create a Sun Crown, which is basically a halo that will shoot incoming projectiles out of the air with a solar laser, while the moon is a reflective disc that hovers around the user, deflecting energy-based attacks. Combining them both on a single character, either by having both powers, or by having two characters combine their abilities, and you get the rather scary Eclipse Crown...
* In ''[[Godlike]]'', there's a Talent who can use his shadow's hands to move
* ''[[Exalted]]''
** One of the spells in the sourcebook ''The Black Treatise'' creates a giant war machine. The sorcerer builds a miniature model of the device, holds it up so that it looks to him like a big machine on the ground far
** Also, in the Wyld, [[Reality Is Out to Lunch]], resulting in this trope being applied very frequently.
== Video Games ==
* This is basically Lisa's superpower in one ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' videogame.
* ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' could be an example: in 2D things are blocking your way, but if you flip into 3D you can go around.
* It's the major gameplay element on ''[[Echochrome]]''. If it's covered, it doesn't exist. If it appears to be above, below or connected, it is. ''Echochrome 2'' does Perspective Magic with shadows instead of objects.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvGk8Bhasg&feature=g-u This video.] {{context}}
== Western Animation ==
* In ''Chowder'', the titular character [[Exploited Trope|exploit]] this by using glasses and made himself smaller.
* The ''[[Ed, Edd 'n'
* Used on ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' when Montana Max air-drops garbage and toxic waste in Wackyland. Gogo Dodo stops him by picking his airplane out of the air.
* On one episode of ''[[Muppet Babies]]'', Gonzo uses a magnifying glass to make a mouse hole big enough to go through.
* In a ''[[Futurama]]'' episode, Kif tries to pluck the moon for Amy in the Nimbus holodeck. But while he is able to grasp the moon, he is not strong enough to remove it.
* In the ''[[
== Real Life ==
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