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* The [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' card]] has a Trap Card called [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rainbow_Life "Rainbow Life"], similar to the ''Magic'' example.
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' adventure "'The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. The Maxwell-Effect Moleculokinesic Field Device is basically a Pyrokinesis gun (e.g. it acts like a flamethrower). 50% of the time it fires at reverse polarity and freezes the target.
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== Video Games ==
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* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' franchise has [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Reverse_Polarity a recurring ability] by this name, which switches the 'rows' that the party occupies - front row characters are moved to the back row and vice versa.
* The video game adaptation of the ''[[Death Gate]]'' novels uses [[Magi Babble]] instead of [[Techno Babble]], but the principle remains the same. There's no point to casting a spell that sets you on fire—but reversing the order of the spell runes casts it on your [[Doppelganger]].
* ''[[Star Trek Online]]'' actually has a skill called "Reverse Shield Polarity" that causes energy weapons to increase the shields instead of damaging them.
* At the end of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]] 2'', {{spoiler|Angela's anti-Protopet weapon turns the Protopet into a giant monster. When she attempts to figure out what went wrong, Clank points out that the battery is in backwards.}}
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'' makes a reference to this trope in a [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Itermerel%27s_Notes certain mage's notes]:
{{quote|By reconfiguring the polarity of the daedron fields, it is possible to manipulate and trace the streams in the following cases...}}
* Your [[Mission Control]] in ''[[Vanquish]]'' says this word for word. But in that case, you're just trying to make a [[Humongous Mecha]]'s giant energy cannon blow up.
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== Web Comics ==
* At least ''[[Narbonic]]''{{'}}s [[Genre Savvy]] Dave Davenport knows he's appealing to the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101032008/http://www.webcomicsnation.com/users/narbonic/111005about_for.jpg Sometimes it helps, for some reason]".
* Referenced in [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/6/6/ this] ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' comic.
* [[Irregular Webcomic|Serron]] suggests reversing the polarity [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2201.html of something].
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