Post-Modern Magik: Difference between revisions

'''Buffy:''' That was then... ''[[Muggles Do It Better|(raises a rocket launcher)]]'' This is now.

(Dru and Angel duck for cover.)

 

Most fantasy is based on folklore, but what if you want to be really creative (or rip off someone who was really creative) and [[Urban Fantasy|set your fantasy in the modern age?]] When you do this, you are forced to update some of the trappings of your fantasy.

** Recent revelations show this ''definitely'' hasn't always been the case- there's a large room full of functional "robots" with no moving or electrical parts, yet which have sockets for microchips (from what we see later, probably added by the golems themselves, back when they were active and [[Recursive Creators|built the next "generations"]]).

** And now it doesn't, since magic is being used ''as'' a branch of technology, connected to computers. Also, robots turned out to have a strange secondary function, as components of magical defenses.

* ''[[Dragon Tails]]'' goes along a similar line of reasoning as [[Buffy]] vs. the Judge. A malevolent legendary creature's only documented weakness involves mirrors and moonlight, but it turns out to have an undocumented weakness to rocket launchers.

** Also, a Gorgon's stare doesn't work if you look at it through a sniper scope and a stinger missle can take out a phoenix before it does the whole "ashes" thing.

 

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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]

[[Category:Magic and Powers]]

[[Category:Urban Fantasy Tropes]]

[[Category:Technology Tropes]]