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Robots and wizards, spaceships and dragons, lasers and fireballs. [[Mix and Match|Mix these ingredients]] in your cyborg witch's boiling pot of Dark Matter, and you get [[Title Drop|Science Fantasy]].
[[Science Fiction]] and [[Fantasy]] stories can be difficult to tell apart under normal circumstances, as all but the very [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|hardest]] sci-fi introduces some hypothetical technology that one has to take on faith, like [[FTL Travel]] or [[Humanoid Aliens]]. And at the other end of the scale, even [[High Fantasy]] works have consistency requirements like [[Magic
In any event, it's bound to include [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]], [[Magitech]], [[Functional Magic]], and [[Magic From Technology]]. Sometimes, it may contain so much fantasy and science fiction as to be both [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] and [[Sci Fi Kitchen Sink]].
It should be noted that some works may slant towards one or the other, yet still contain elements of both.
Subtrope of [[Speculative Fiction]], under which all [[Fantasy]] and [[Science Fiction]] falls. Compare [[Urban Fantasy]], [[Gaslamp Fantasy]], [[Space Opera]], and [[Planetary Romance]]. Contrast [[How Unscientific]], where the mix of genres seems out of place.
Supertrope of [[Wizards from Outer Space]].
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' blends fantasy and sci-fi elements, with a world seemingly in [[Medieval Stasis]] where magic and [[Tron Lines]] abound. Then adds [[Ruins of the Modern Age]] {{spoiler|and the Skid into the mix and the existences of Xeferis, and Natalie, who're [[Empathic Weapon|dragoons]] that link with their masters. And the Peacemakers, who are a powerful race of alien overlords who can enslave the minds of all who gaze upon them. To say nothing of their true power!}}
* ''[[El
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' seemed to be straight [[Urban Fantasy]] at first, what with the [[Vancian Magic|mages]] and [[
* In ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the Space-Time Administration Bureau that the main characters work for is like ''[[Star Trek]]'''s Federation, except where ''Star Trek'' would have a piece of [[Techno Babble]] to power its futuristic devices, ''Nanoha'' just uses magic. Magical [[Energy Weapon
* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' has spaceships and aliens, but the [[Space Pirates]] use Chi Magic and the most popular [[Pleasure Planet|resort world]] in the galaxy was originally a [[Mana]] mine. The main character's signature weapon is a fireball-flinging [[Magitek]] pistol.
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' technically may be a sci-fi, but essentially all of the aliens are some form of [[Youkai]] from [[Japanese Mythology]]: Lum is from the Planet Oni, Yuki the yuki-onna is from Neptune, etc. In practice, anything from Science Fiction or Fantasy can happen from [[Time Travel]] to [[Onmyodo]] exorcisms, [[Rule of Funny|so long as it's funny]].
* ''[[Wolf's
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' starts out as a new rendition of a fantastic Chinese folk tale, and the titular [[MacGuffin
** The very first chapter of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' has a motorbike-in-a-bottle.
* ''[[Aria]]'' is a subversion. Set in a replica of Venice on the planet Aqua (née [[Mars]]), there are elaborate technological control systems [[Terraform|maintaining the environment]]
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', anyone?! Starts out as a [[Real Robot]] show with some religious symbolism, but quickly goes down the rabbit hole of Christian/Jewish/Kabbalistic prophecy, angels, and a legendary weapon on the Moon. Here's the obligatory link to [[Mind Screw]] which must come with every reference to ''NGE'' under state law.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' features magical girls and witches that really ''are'' magical. However, this entire arrangement was set up by a {{spoiler|hyper-advanced alien race harvesting the energy of magical girls'/witches' emotions in an attempt to hold off the heat death of the universe}}.
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' features a conflict between the science side (espers, cyborgs, [[Powered Armor]], spacecraft, supercomputers) and the magic side (magicians, angels, demons, saints, Valkyries, gods).
== Comic Books ==
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*** And speaking of Superman, on ''[[Smallville]]'', not only does magic exist alongside high technology, but it often seems, at least to some viewers, that Jor-El was more wizard than scientist, and that the voice which inhabits the Fortress of Solitude is more ghost than artificial intelligence. Certainly, his actions often seem to follow a more supernatural than scientific logic, as when he tells Clark that the price of his resurrection will be the death of one of his loved ones in exchange, or when he arms Clark with a dagger with glowing runes on the blade capable of killing a Kryptonian.
** Along with everything that has a comic book background: ''[[City of Heroes]]'', ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', ...
* The ''[[Fables]]'' universe contains [[Anthropomorphic Personification
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', a [[Mega Crossover]], fuses many [[Fantasy]] and [[Science Fiction]] sources into a single narrative. For example, a [[Norse Mythology|Norse God]] used ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|dimension door]]'' to get his party onto the [[Star Trek|Klingon]] [[Space Pirates]]' ship, whereupon their sorceress summoned a protective [[Petal Power|wall of roses]] as they hacked the computer to gain control of the ship -- all while a [[Space Battle]] was going between the two ships outside.▼
* ''[[The Conversion Bureau]]'', is set [[Twenty Minutes in The Future]] with A.I. handling most menial tasks, holograms everywhere, cybernetic upgrades readily available, and the early phases of space colonization. With the emergence of Equestria there are also spell casting unicorns, weather controlling pegasi, monsters from across many mythologies, and two [[Physical Gods]] of the moon and sun.▼
* ''[[Glorious Shotgun Princess]]'' is a crossover between the (comparitively) hard [[Sci Fi]] of [[Mass Effect]], and the clearly fantasy (and [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting|Kung-Fu]]) world of [[Exalted]]. ▼
== Fan Works ==
▲* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', a [[Mega Crossover]], fuses many [[Fantasy]] and [[Science Fiction]] sources into a single narrative. For example, in one story a [[Norse Mythology|Norse God]] used
▲* ''[[The Conversion Bureau]]'', is set [[Twenty Minutes in The Future]] with A.I. handling most menial tasks, holograms everywhere, cybernetic upgrades readily available, and the early phases of space colonization. With the emergence of Equestria there are also spell
▲* ''[[Glorious Shotgun Princess]]'' is a crossover between the (
== Film ==
* The genre of ''[[Star Wars]]'' was explicitly stated by [[Word of God|Lucas]] to be space fantasy.
** It's the story of a farmboy who meets an old wizard, learns magic and swordfighting from him, and then fights an evil wizard and a dark knight. [[
* The ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' film series is, at its core, an epic fantasy story told in modern times with [[Humongous Mecha|giant transforming robots]]. It has the usual elements such as a mythical origin story, ancient artifacts of great, ambiguous power, discussions of fate, destiny, and the call to adventure, themes of absolute good versus absolute evil, and messiah and anti-Christ figures.
* ''[[Tron]]'' starts out with what looks like a fairly standard [[
* ''[[The Matrix]]'': Neo is "[[The Chosen One]]", prophecied by an ''oracle'', and he has special powers that allow him to fly, bend spoons, and dodge bullets. Oh, but it's only cause he's in a computer simulation run by intelligent machines.
* The [[Godzilla]] and [[Gamera]] franchises have monsters of both magical and scientific origin fighting or teaming up with each other, sometimes within the same movie.
== Literature ==
* The ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series by [[Diane Duane]], especially from the third book onwards. What do you do with your [[Magic
* In the ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' series, the faeries have both real magic and higher tech than humans.
* Heinlein's ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]'' is a reconstruction of pulp adventure novels with an ordinary modern day man<ref>Well, okay, not all that ordinary, and from the late 1950s/early 1960s.</ref> swashbuckling his way across several savage planets inhabited by "dragons" and other such beasties in search of a device that recorded the memories of all the Emperors and Empresses of the
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series fits perfectly. The setting is one world split across two realities. One of them is called Proton, which is high tech, while the other is known as Phaze, where magic prevails.
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series by Stephen King, set in a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] world where oil refineries, nuclear-powered water pumps, and the music of [[ZZ Top]] co-exist with wizards, succubi, and gunslingers who fight for truth and justice in the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] tradition.
* [[David Weber|David Weber's]] ''[[Hell's Gate]]'' series is about two human. civilizations coming into contact with each other through inter-universal portals. One civilization, The Union of Aracana, is a very [[Magitek]] civilization with wizards, dragons (that are genetically engineered) and the the main fighting weapons are swords and crossbows. The other one, The Empire of Sharona, has [[Psychic Powers]] and other little things like rifles, machine guns, cannons, steam engines, armored personnel carriers, trains, battleships, etc... Neither side reacts well to the existence of the other.
* [[Anne McCaffrey]]
** The ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' books feature intelligent, telepathic, teleporting, and occasionally time-traveling dragons. These are just genetically engineered upgrades of preexisting diminutive "dragons", which have similar powers, though this [[Lost Technology]] aspect isn't explored until the prequels. Later books also feature a supercomputer
** McCaffrey has always maintained that the books are Science Fiction rather than fantasy, as everything is based on hard science, and she has spoken to many authorities in various sciences to work out the specifics of the world and the things that happen on it.
** In ''[[The Ship Who...]] Won'', a [[Role
** ''[[Acorna]]'' and sequels are about a foundling creature who looks like a "unicorn girl," complete with a horn on her forehead, unearthly beauty, and the power to purify water and air. Except she's not exactly magical: she's an alien, and the setting is basic science fiction with spaceships and interplanetary travel. Double subverted when it is revealed that her species is genetically-engineered by aliens who combined their own DNA with that of unicorns they rescued from Earth.
* Julian May's ''Pliocene Exile/Galactic Milieu'' books feature aliens and spaceships, but also planet-shaking psychic powers, elves and goblins. Generally sold as Sci-Fi.
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* [[Orson Scott Card]], in the afterword to an audio recording of ''[[Ender's Game]]'', talks about trying to sell a short story based in the world of ''The Worthing Saga''. He mentions that one of his rejections mentioned that it was a good story, but it wasn't right for the magazine, as it was Fantasy rather than Science Fiction. He said that the reason it was considered Fantasy was because none of the scientific backdrop was present in the story. In the end, he concluded that the only difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction is that "Fantasy has trees, [[Sci Fi]] has rivets."
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Oh, where to begin. The original series was supposed to be firmly grounded in observable
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': Oh, where to begin. The original series was supposed to be firmly grounded in observable reality -- the Doctor himself identified as a scientist on a number of different occasions, because the series was originally intended to be an [[Edutainment Show]] -- but then the more zany science fiction elements took over. By now, it uses elements from all over [[Speculative Fiction]], from [[Eldritch Horror|eldritch horrors]] to Venitian [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] to [[Cyborg|Cybermen]]. And it's all brought together by a [[Time Travel|Time Traveling]] TARDIS that apparently goes where and when it is needed.
* ''[[Lost]]'' has ghosts, immortal people, and sentient Islands that can move...and also well thought out time travel, exotic matter, and electromagnetism as a key plot elements. Though, really, ''[[Mind Screw|no one knows what genre it is]]''.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]''
* [[Babylon 5]] has a number of elements that are more familiar from fantasy such as mysticism and cosmic wars but also has advanced technology.
*The second season of [[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]], has a lot of mysticism and wonder and in one episode a blue gnome giving riddles and an invisible demon wielding a magic sword and even a dungeon crawl through space orc infested caves.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Usually, ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is average fantasy, but whenever [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Phy]][[
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' is the quintessential [[Cyberpunk]] [[Urban Fantasy]].
* ''[[GURPS]] Technomancer''. The first above-ground atomic explosion in the U.S. releases magic into the world. As a result, people can cast spells and weird hybrid creatures are born, but only in the area covered by magical fallout.
* ''[[Dungeons
** Module S3 ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'', set in a spaceship that crashed in the [[Greyhawk]] setting.
** The ''Odyssey - Tale of the Comet'' boxed set, which also involved a crashed spaceship.
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* ''[[D20 Modern]]''. The standard setting is [[Urban Fantasy]], but there's plenty of options for adding sf into the mix. The bodak, for example, is a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]] [[The Greys|Grey]].
** Technically, the game is "whatever the GM wants". The only explicitly Science Fantasy campaign setting is "From the Dark Heart Of Space" from d20 Future. Though Dark Matter comes close.
* ''Dragonstar'' is a D20 [[Role
* ''[[Feng Shui]]'' takes place in a universe where robot monkeys coexist with sorcerers and demonic creatures.
* The universe of the tabletop roleplaying game ''[[The Chronicles of Fate (Darth Wiki)|Chaos]]''. You know you're in for a case of
* Similarly, the tabletop RPG ''[[Rifts]]'' is set a few centuries after the high tech world of tomorrow is utterly trashed by the return of magic. Human supremacist armies of cyborgs and [[Humongous Mecha]] traipse across the landscape. Atlantis has risen. Sorcerers summon demons and raise the dead. Rifts in spacetime spew out critters from other dimensions more or less at random. Elves and dragons and goblins (oh my) roam the wilderness. Killer cyborgs from another dimension want to kill all humanoid life on Earth. Gods battle Alien invaders. Vampires openly run entire cities. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
== Video Games ==
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** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' had steampunk-esque technology and Edgar's tools, which included a chainsaw and drill. The [[Sand Is Water|sand-diving]] Castle Figaro was treated as using science rather than magic, although it's really not physically possible.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' had near-modern cities, guns, genetic engineering (sort of), electricity, and power plants. However, those power plants ran on the literal lifeblood of the planet, which also produced magic crystals that could teach you magic.
*** The spinoff game ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'' and the ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children|Advent Children]]'' film display that the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' world also has television and cell phones.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' has [[Summon Magic]], magical [[Time Travel]], schools that convert into ancient moving fortresses, and a ship that got lost in space while launching an evil sorceress into a space prison. It also has Esthar, a [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]-like futuristic country.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' is mostly fantasy, but includes quite a lot of [[Steampunk]] technology and {{spoiler|a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Sufficiently Advanced]] [[Magitek]] alien race to which both the protagonist and the [[Big Bad]] belong}}.
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** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' has guns and more science fiction like airships than previous titles, but the airships are powered by magical [[Applied Phlebotinum|phlebotinum]]. And all the other magical elements.
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' appears to be [[Science Fiction]] at first, with guns, more "realistic" airships, mecha, and genetic engineering. But most, if not all, of the tech is powered by fal'cie, magical beings. Who can also grant magical powers to chosen humans, [[Blessed with Suck|although it sucks to be chosen this way for the human]].
* The ''[[Star Ocean]]'' franchise is typically a science fiction one, but it still pays homage to many fantasy tropes. Underneath it all is a lot of science-fiction used to give "rational" explanations for many of the more fantastical elements.
** ''[[
* ''[[Xenoblade]]'' tends to mix the two so thoroughly that it can make one dizzy. It prologue starts with two warring [[Our Titans Are Different|titans]] whose dead bodies make up the entire world, then transitions to advanced humans fighting a war against relentless killer robots. The robots can only be stopped by a [[Cool Sword|legendary ancient sword called the Monado]], which somewhat resembles a [[Laser Blade|light-saber]]. Then the Monado starts granting the protagonist visions of the future, but that turns out to have a reasonable scientific explanation. Then it turns out that {{spoiler|the Monado is the manifestation of an evil god}}. <ref>And by the end of the game, you're fighting {{spoiler|[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant robot ghosts]]</ref> [[Mind Screw|in outer space]]}}.▼
** ''[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]'' stays pretty far into sci-fi like the other entries, but dips a few more toes into fantasy than usual with the {{spoiler|Grigori}}, who come off more like something right out of [[Lovecraft]] and are never fully explained.
▲* ''[[Xenoblade]]'' tends to mix the two so thoroughly that it can make one dizzy. It prologue starts with two warring [[Our Titans Are Different|titans]] whose dead bodies make up the entire world, then transitions to advanced humans fighting a war against relentless killer robots. The robots can only be stopped by a [[Cool Sword|legendary ancient sword called the Monado]], which somewhat resembles a [[Laser Blade|light-saber]]. Then the Monado starts granting the protagonist visions of the future, but that turns out to have a reasonable scientific explanation. Then it turns out that {{spoiler|the Monado is the manifestation of an evil god}}.
* ''[[Albion]]'', a game where a spaceship in the future lands on a world with magic instead of technology. A lot of the time is spent in primarily fantastic or scifistic settings, but they eventually mix, and both elements are present at least a little most of the time.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'': An apocalyptic future with destroyed [[Domed Hometown|domed cities]] caused by a [[Cosmic Horror]], combined with a medieval [[Sword And Sorceror|sword-and-spell]] setting in the past. And it's all connected by [[Time Travel]].
* ''[[Touhou]]'': Stupid fairy vs. [[Humongous Mecha]]. [[Shrine Maiden]] vs. tanks. {{spoiler|[[Shrine Maiden]] wins.}} Magical aliens vs. Apollo 13. Nuclear reactor powered by a magical crow that ate a dead deity. Laser-blasting witch whose ally is a kappa with stealth suit. The list goes on...
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series has magic, souls ("hearts"), fantastic creatures, and a prophecy involving a hero of destiny... alongside spaceships armed with lasers, [[Mad Scientist
* The ''[[Might and Magic]]'' series (which includes the first four ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' games) takes place in fantasy worlds but with SF-elements (mostly involving [[Lost Technology]].) Not many people who haven't played ''M&M6'' knows that the Kreegan/Inferno town of ''Heroes 3'' is in fact populated not by demons but by hive-minded aliens (except for when the Inferno town is used to represent the ''non''-Kreegan demons that are also around in the setting). For those that only know the ''HoM&M'' series: one of the third game's expansion packs was supposed to add a cybernetic army but they changed their mind after receiving [[Fan Dumb|threats of boycotting the series and death threats from 'fans' angry at the intrusion of science fiction into their fantasy setting]].
* Similarly, the primarily high fantasy ''[[Ultima]]'' and ''[[Heretic]]''/''[[Hexen]]'' series briefly skirted with SF on a number of occasions, resulting in the occasional raygun, spaceship, time machine, or {{spoiler|demonic}} supercomputer.
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* For a game-series with a fundamentally magic premise (books that act as portals, scribed in an ancient arcane language), the ''[[Myst (series)|Myst]]'' games incorporate an awful lot of sci-fi trappings: transport pods, electronic viewers, spaceships, submarines, giant mechanical engines, alien ecologies, orbital observatories, etc.
* Alongside it's many [[Standard Fantasy Setting|standard fantasy elements]] ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' also feature spaceships used by gods; time traveling, terminatorish robots with laser weapons; and astronauts (the mananauts and Sunbirds of Alinor), and in extension: more spaceships. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
** Also, the realms of Aeterius and Oblivion were originally presented as simply this world's equivalent of Heaven and Hell. Then ''The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard'' featured an observatory where the realms of Oblivion appeared as planets orbiting Nirn (the mortal world) and the gods as even more distant planets at the edge of a solar system. So, the Oblivion Gates? Those may or may not be [[
* ''The Unholy War'' was a strategy game that took this to an extreme, with an army of fantasy creatures fighting an army of science fiction characters.
* In the ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' series, magic and technology once coexisted. Past misues of the two brought the [[Powers That Be]] to separate the two into Stark (technology, "our" world) and Arcadia (magic/medieval world). Attempts to alter this balance are what drives the plot.
* Starting around the sixth game in the series, the ''[[Wizardry]]'' games dove head-first into combining fantasy and sci-fi, where spells, magical creatures, and arcane artifacts are found hand-in-hand with spacefaring aliens, starships, and advanced energy weapons.
** ''Wizardry VII'' was the first of the series to embrace this trope-while the party is firmly grounded in fantasy, and the world seems to be with the full range of usual fantasy creatures and items, there's also the fact that the party arrived on the world by a starship, the [[Big Bad]] has a robotic army, two more alien races are engaged in a power struggle over the planet from their landing zones, and one of the native races travels around in rocket-powered aircraft.
** ''Wizardry 8'' takes this to an even more extreme bent, where powerful magic and advanced technology happily coexist-you'll see sophisticated artificial intelligences talking happily with wizards, flamethrowers and rocket launchers wielded by elves, and an alien airbase guarded by potent technological and magical defenses.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' takes place in a [[Constructed World]] full of magical creatures, [[Patchwork Map|impossible geography]], and polytheistic gods…and computers and electric power plants and psychic powers and spaceships.
* ''[[Warcraft]]'' 'verse's technology is roughly at pre-industrial level, where guns are getting common, but swords and bows are still viable. However, the range of technology available is quite large. [[Rock Beats Laser|Rock axes]] can down [[Magitek|demonic]] [[Humongous Mecha]], and [[Death Ray
* ''[[Septerra Core]]'' wandered back and forth between the two, blending such elements as [[Steampunk]] technology, magic fueled by the planet itself, genetic engineering and a pantheon of gods.
* The ''[[Ar
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' features an invasion by demons from hell ... thwarted by a ''space marine'' on ''Mars'' with a ''plasma rifle.''
** Demons with cybernetic implants. One of them is called Cyberdemon.
* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' universe also combines elements of both science-fiction (cyborgs, advanced weaponry, parallel dimensions, spaceships) and fantasy (magic, dragons, gods, demons).
* ''[[Arcanum:
* ''[[Metro 2033]]'' takes place in a fairly standard [[Grimdark]] version of [[After the End]], with hostile mutants, scattered human survivors, and a climax that involves using pre-cataclysmic weapons. There are also enough murderous ghosts for one of the characters to have a theory on them (Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory were ''also'' atomized), including a bona fide [[Afterlife Express]].
* ''[[Cave Story]]'' takes place on a [[Floating Continent]], which is inhabited by fantastic creatures such as [[Funny Animal|bunny-shaped Mimigas]], ([[Non-Human Undead|undead]]) [[Sand Is Water|sand-dwelling crocodiles]] or humanoid cockroaches, ruled over by an old witch who's responsible for an abomination that keeps the island afloat from inside a chamber protected with terminals and water control. There's also an incubator corridor that keeps dragon eggs and [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]].
* The ''[[Megami Tensei]]'' meta-series is made of
* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' IS this trope with a [[Hindu Mythology|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] twist.
* ''[[Phantasy Star]]'', though as the series progressed, it more thoroughly embraced the sci-fi side of things.
* ''[[Cosmic Fantasy]]''.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is [[Steampunk]] combined with fantasy. Most of the weird stuff can be explained by technology, but not everything. The magic includes stuff like the river Dyne (which is an apparently natural spring the waters of which make the drinker a mad genius, though in most cases it's instantly lethal), Geisterdamen (ghost-like beings), Frankenstein-esque reanimated corpses, Jaegermonsters (non-human beings with superhuman strength and [[Long Lived|lifespans]] who are former humans who drank the [[Super Serum|"Jaegerdraught"]]), multiple cases of [[Brain Uploading]], the [[Genius Loci|castle Heterodyne]]'s seemingly telekinetic ability to move chunks of itself...
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. There are robots and other advanced tech in the Court, while the Gillitie Wood is full of magic-users (including [[Physical God]] Coyote). Transformation to/from forest creatures is an accepted part of the universe, and the Court has students and teachers skilled in "etheric sciences".
* ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'' is a sequel to ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' that takes place 700 years later in the interstellar age. At that point most Racconnans rely on [[Magitek|technology]] for most of their Lux use.
* ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' make heavy use of magic, but always use it rationally and scientifically (their leader even calls herself a "Magical Scientist"). [[Lego Genetics]] are referenced at one point as being only possible with the use of magic to treat traits as conceptual objects.
* [[Megatokyo]] has both light fantasy elements (mostly [[Magical Girl|MagicalGirls]]) and soft sci-fi (stuff related to the TPCD mostly). A [[Dark Magical Girl]] is best friends with a [[Robot Girl]] and said DMG used to control people's emotions through an MMORPG.
* Thanks to its [[Planet Eris]] and [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] setting, ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is filled with this trope. Santa Claus is infected with alien DNA. Witches and [[Talking Animal
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]'' has both magic and futuristic technology, and combinations of the two.
* The ''Crushed'' subseries of ''[[Supermegatopia]]'' is technically {{spoiler|the result of a space explorer using [[Sufficiently Advanced Technology]] to make}} a medieval fantasy world. This later gets ruined by {{spoiler|the Ragnaracoon}}, and mixed into an unapologetic mishmash of high technology and high fantasy called Meshworld.
* ''[[Webcomic/Broken Space|Broken Space]]'' ([http://brokenspacecomic.com site]) features aliens, demons, clockwork, [[Steampunk|steam-power]], magicians, guns, swords, strange Magitek weapons, and divinely powered starships.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has genetically altered super-mutant assassins, aliens, mad scientists and many magic users, several of whom are main characters. Oh yeah, and one of the magic users can create a fairy version of herself, and Tedd's been hacking a [[Magitek]] [[Gender Bender|transformation ray gun]] since 2002.
* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' is set several thousand years into the future, contains nanotechnology, flying robots, and a galactic society... and also contains lots of creatures that run off of soul-based magic, including vampires, djinn, and zombies. [[Furry Comic|Also, furries.]] It's labeled [[Cyberpunk]]
== Web Original ==
* [[Limyaael's Fantasy Rants|Limyaaels Fantasy Rants]] has tips for writing [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307073850/http://limyaael.livejournal.com/577404.html science fiction/fantasy hybrids].
* Animated [[Urban Fantasy]] web series ''[[Broken Saints]]'' uses a lot of the technology from (probably) [[Twenty Minutes in The Future]], and just labeled "state-of-the-art" in-story. However, it also includes [[The Empath|Shandala]]'s powers of healing and... [[Beware the Nice Ones|not-so-healing...]], and Kamimura's ability to [[Soul Jar]] his pupil, holding a [[Soul Fragment|fragment]] of said pupil's consciousness within his own mind. While the first ability {{spoiler|is revealed to be part of her genetic design}} (very sci-fi), they are both firmly in the fantasy realm.
* While most of ''[[Chaos Fighters]]'' novels are fantasy with minor science fiction elements inserted in the magic system, ''Chaos Fighters II'' and ''Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors'' are science fiction with significant fantasy style battles.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' has goblins, futuristic robots, princesses, wizards, hologram projectors, magic, and mini-anti-gravity chambers. All in a post-apocalyptic Earth.
== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', everyone is a [[Ambiguous Robot|mostly machine cyborg]], they all live inside a {{spoiler|giant robot}} made of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], and they sport some pretty sweet tech, but the most common way for the [[Hobbits|powerless Matoran]] to defend themselves are with [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|frisbees that can freeze, shrink, or teleport whatever they touch]], and the main heroes, Toa, [[Elemental Powers|control the elements]] with no explanation other than "elemental energy" and wear [[Cool Mask|magic masks]] that have an ever growing list of options.
** Energized Protodermis, the universe's most powerful substance that can either transform or destroy whatever it touches. What you get is based on [[Because Destiny Says So|destiny.]] Oh, and it's sentient.
** The [[Big Bad|Makuta]], a race designed to be genetic engineers, but do so by ''mixing potions in a cauldron.''
*** The origin of the Makuta. They come from a pool of slime containing their unborn, bodiless
* [[Space Opera]] like fantasy often thrives on the same forms of social organization that most readers do not associate with the present world. Furthermore a [[Space Opera]] can often easily be made into a fantasy by the simple expedient of telling about a low-tech planet in that universe that is however in contact with some element that can be made effectively magical. Or by the equally simple alternative of having sci-fi characters that [[Nested Story|tell fantasy stories.]]
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