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* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=govyq9f2djo this] ''[[SSX]]'' 2012 commercial, a jaded snowboarder is given a sacred amulet that takes him on a crazy adventure. Afterwards:

 

 

** Of course, this knowledge doesn't last too long, as they [[Fridge Logic|need a God's powers to strengthen their Digimon.]]

* "[[Bleach|AMAZING HEADBAND OF JUSTICE IN PLACE. AMAZING ARMOR OF JUSTICE PROTECT ME]]." [[Trickster Mentor|Urahara, you sneaky bastard you]]. Subverted in that after Ichigo says it to "activate" the protective gear he was wearing, Urahara snickers that "I can't believe he actually said it."

** In all seriousness, Ichigo's Shinigami powers are a great example. After [[Aloof Big Brother|Kuchiki Byakuya]] removed his Rukia-given powers, it was revealed to him by {{spoiler|Zangetsu}} that he, in fact, already had powers of his own and didn't need Rukia's any more.

* Pretty much the most awesome example ever: in ''[[One Piece]]'', for the Luffy vs. Foxy duel, Usopp hands Luffy a ''[[Funny Afro|giant afro]]'' to give him strength...and then the entire crowd goes wild when he appears sporting it. And when he starts to show his [[Heroic Resolve]], it was apparently because "THE AFRO POWER MADE HIM GO BERSERK!". In short, the [[Magic Feather]] that ''everybody'' (except [[Only Sane Man|Nami]]) believed. Even more confusing is that he effectively won ''because'' of the afro {{spoiler|or rather the piece of glass that was hidden in it}}!

* Played with at the end of ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'', when the club owner gives his "the Devil is in all of us" speech, convincing Kage and JB not to worry about {{spoiler|the pick breaking. Of course, immediately after we discover the club owner is actually Satan, and just wanted the pick to complete himself.}}

* Used on a large scale in ''[[Kingdom of Heaven]]'', where, in response to the Patriarch of Jerusalem asking him how he plans on defending the city with no knights, Balian of Ibilin immediately knights every peasant and commoner within the sound of his voice.

'''Balian of Ibelin:''' (looks around him and notes the newly determined faces on the brand new knights) "Yes." }}

* In ''[[The Luck of the Irish]]'', the protagonist's grandfather ({{spoiler|a leprechaun}}) is watching the protagonist and his [[Black Best Friend]] play basketball against an evil leprechaun. A large part of the plot involves the protagonist losing his lucky coin (stolen by the [[Big Bad]]), with his family suffering bad luck since then. At the game, the grandfather sees that their team is losing and throws his grandson's friend a coin, claiming it's lucky. The guy's game immediately improves. The protagonist confronts his grandfather, as he knows the coin is fake. The grandfather invokes this trope, causing the protagonist to realize that he can make his own luck without relying on some coin. Subverted in that the stolen coin is really magical.

* One episode of ''[[Wonder Showzen]]'', one of the puppets trips out on what is ostensibly 'liquid imagination', but is later revealed to be just water.

* Played completely straight in ''[[Glee]]'' when [[The Ditz|Brittany]] gets "paralyzed with fear" at the thought of having to dance prominently at sectionals. Artie gives her his magic comb and tells her if she combs her hair with it she can't lose. She loses it and causes Artie think she's cheating on him (''[[It Makes Sense in Context]]''). Artie finally revealed that he picked the comb off the floor and was on his way to throw it out when he ran into her.

* ''[[The Suite Life On Deck]]'': Bailey uses a placebo to raise London's intelligence. Subverted in that [[Status Quo Is God|after realizing that it's a placebo]], London [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome|returns to normal]]. Then she [[Too Dumb to Live|takes]] ''[[Too Dumb to Live|another]]'' [[Too Dumb to Live|placebo]].

* ''[[Modern Family]]'': In "Treehouse," Mitchell gives Jay a little pill that supposedly will loosen him up and help him dance. That pill? Turns out to be chewable baby aspirin.

* ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] III'' has Kratos questing to open Pandora's Box a second time in order to obtain the power of Hope and destroy Zeus. When he finally opens the Box, it's empty; Kratos has had Hope within him since opening the box in the first game, without realising it.

* Parodied by the original ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' blog, [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=7072 showering the players with gifts] for "Australian Christmas":

* Much of the early campaign in ''[[Battle Realms]]'' involves Kenji trying to hunt down his family heirloom, the [[MacGuffin|Serpent's Orb]], because of its 'magic power'. In the Dragon campaign, the Dragon eventually reveals to him that the orb itself is little more than a focus and an ancestor of Kenji's who used it to break the world was only able to do so because he (unwittingly) channelled his own [[Ki]] power through it [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|because he believed it had power.]]

* Some stones in ''[[The Game of the Ages]]'' are magical, but focus stones are magic feathers to boost your confidence.

* ''[[South Park]]'' do this in the episode "Bloody Mary." Randy Marsh is diagnosed as an alcoholic, and is convinced it is a disease that only God can cure. He then goes to a bleeding statue of Mary to cure himself, and it works. However, the Pope reveals the miraculous statue to be fake/having its period, and Randy falls back into alcoholism until his son points out that these events show he has what it takes to beat the addiction himself.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' subverts this to the extreme in the episode ''Last Tap Dance in Springfield''. In it, Lisa is part of a Shirley Temple [[Expy]]'s tapdancing class, but is [[Dojikko|extremely clumsy]]. Professor Frink offers to help out by putting the motors from a sound-activated dancing toy in her shoes. At the recital, she does dance well, but the tremendous applause causes her to do things like [[Wall Run]] and even outdance her teacher. After the recital:

'''Homer:''' Oh - OH! Well, now that I look even closer- }}

* An interesting subversion occurs in an episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', in which the titular heroine uses an intelligent driving computer to pass a driving test. When something goes wrong, the computer can't control the car anymore, and Kim needs to drive the car she and Ron are in out of the villain's lair, she protests she can't drive, and the computer tells her that it never did anything - it was her all along. Kim, inspired, drives the car out of the collapsing lair, whereupon the computer tells her it lied - the computer had been doing the driving before, but needed to inspire her.

* A unique version was used in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' when XR's [[Black Sheep]] brother XL attacked him and stole a component from him called an AFD, which was believed to be the most important part of XR. Naturally, XR felt that without it, he was useless. In the end, however, it was revealed that the AFD was merely an Air Freshening Device and that what XR had in him that made him great was not in a robotic sense.

* In the original ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,]]'' Splinter performs an impressive feat of magic with three tiny white spheres, shrinking three inflated turtles back to normal. He explains the spheres were given to him by a wise Sensei for use in an emergency, but they aren't made of anything magical:

'''Raphael:''' Hey! Don't look a gift moth in the mouth! }}

* In ''[[Rekkit Rabbit]]'', Rekkit gives Jake some magical help that makes him a genius(with a giant head) to win a competition. He then loses the effects of the magic, but Rekkit says there WAS no magic and he really IS that smart. So he goes on with the competition...[[Subverted Trope|and basically just drools and blabs incoherently]]. After failing, Rekkit says that unfortunately there really was magic.