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{{quote|''"When in doubt, shoot the mage."''|'''Keladry of Mindelan''', ''[[Tortall Universe]]''}}
Mages (or other superpowered beings) get a big advantage against [[
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[[Tropes Are Not Bad|Sometimes]] is a part of normal arms race or a
May take the form of a beast either trained or naturally suited to hunt mages. In the latter case, the creature often feeds on magical power.
Note that [[Anti-Magic]] is a ''power'' and
See also [[Cape Busters]], for the anti-superpower (rather than anti-magic) version, and [[Demon Slayer]], for someone who hunts demons instead of mages.
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* Every character in ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'', with a couple of caveats. Only [[Witch Species|witches]] can naturally resist each other's powers, blocking attacks and [[Geo Effects]] are perhaps the only shared abilities by all witches other than having a special ability. This is how Robin and Karasuma [[Hunter of His Own Kind|fight other witches]]. The rest of the human cast has to make do with wearing vials of Orbo and using [[Weaponized Weakness|bullets filled with the stuff]], which naturally cancels witch powers and weakens them on contact.
** In season 2, when the enhanced Orbo suit witch hunters hit the scene we find out that {{spoiler|using living witches as [[Human Resources]] to make the stuff}} has very detrimental effects on the humans using the stuff.
* The [[Shout-Out|Hucke]][[Super Robot Wars|bein]] family in ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' all have powers which make them very good at fighting mages. In fact, the kanji for the name of their signature weapons actually read "
* Asuna Kagurazaka of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' due to her magic cancelling abilities.
* ''[[Medaka Box]]'': To a degree, Zenkichi is this. Since he's the only normal of the main cast, he's an extremely formidable martial artist who can disarm and parry weapons, and prepares for almost any scenario. Abnormals have noted that he shows some resistance to their powers (most notably, Oudo's "Weighted words").
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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has the voxyn, who were made by Yuuzhan Vong to hunt Force users. They could blanket their presence in the Force, but otherwise had no [[Anti-Magic]] powers, but they compensated for it by ability to track Force-sensitives and some other useful abilities like having a neurotoxin for blood, acid breath, etc.
** The terentatek is quite similar in concept, only created by the Sith instead, and specifically meant to hunt lightsiders. Aside from being strong in the Dark Side and possessing deadly venom, their outer hide is also immune to the effects of the Force, and they themselves feed off the blood of Force-sensitive beings. The damn things are so nasty that the Jedi Order routinely held galaxy-wide "Great Hunts" aimed at exterminating them.
* In the ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' book "For Love Of Evil", when Parry tries to escape, the knights hunting them have a magic user on their side. Said magic user acts as a
* John Dart in ''[[The Candy Shop War]]'' has an excellent resistence to magic, a [[Healing Factor]], and is trained in dealing with rogue mages. However, he can't kill anyone, because [[Hostage Spirit Link|any damage he does to someone else will also be delt to him.]]
* [[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]] has the Resistance, humans who are born with a varying degree of Resilience to magic and are using their Resilience to slowly overthrow the Magician Government. Except for the Mercenary, who has the greatest Resilience to the point of being set on fire and being dubbed an [[Implacable Man]] and uses his resilience to make money.
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**** The Character Builder's Guide provides ideas for being a Counterspeller, which isn't a [[Prestige Class]] but merely a Fighter with some levels in magic-using classes.
** While basic [[Eye Beams|beholders]] have anti-magic rays, beholder-kin gauth have more powers that makes it a threat to magic-users, as well as a healthy appetite for enchanted items.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has a lot of
*** ''Al-Qadim'' has Spellslayers with spell-like abilities, one of which temporarily disrupts wizards' spellcasting capability.
** Certain magical weapons were enchanted to be effective against mages and enchanted monsters that could use spell-like abilities.
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== Web Original ==
* [[SCP Foundation]] has Dr. Clef, who specializes in killing [[Reality Warper
** Note though, that they don't have any kind of [[Anti-Magic]]. They mostly deal with humanoid SCPs with a combination of psychology, cleverness, [[We Have Reserves]], and [[More Dakka]]. {{spoiler|Except Dr. Clef. He uses reality warping to cancel reality warping, and ''then'' uses psychology, cleverness, class Ds, and big guns.}}
*** Of course, considering the [[Negative Continuity]] of the site this is [[Mind Screw|only true in some cases.]]
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* Ty Lee from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is able to [[Power Nullifier|block bending]] and temporarily [[The Paralyzer|paralyze]] limbs by hitting the body's [[Pressure Points]].
* In [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' Chi-Blockers use Ty Lee's techniques in their terrorist campaign against benders. Their leader Amon is also proficient in these techniques {{spoiler|and he can apparently energybend to remove a bender's powers permanently.}}
* [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Cad Bane]] claims to specialise in hunting Jedi, and carries a wide variety of equipment designed specifically for counteracting them, such as [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|cortosis]] bullets that short out lightsabers, jet boots to prevent him from being Force-thrown, sniper rifles for taking Jedi down from afar, and probably many others. He relies just as much on strategy to get the job
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