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[[File:All thu mancies.jpg|link=Erfworld|frame|Because names like Flowermancy, Hatomancy, and [[Retconjuration|Retconmancy]] would just be ''silly''.]] |
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{{quote|"I call it[[Beat|...]] Lactokinesis!"|"Brian" from [[Misfits]] on his [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|ability to control dairy based products]].}} |
{{quote|"I call it[[Beat|...]] Lactokinesis!"|"Brian" from [[Misfits]] on his [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|ability to control dairy based products]].}} |
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== Whatevermancy == |
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=== Anime and Manga === |
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* The Necromancer, Serpent Clan's most powerful unit, from ''[[Battle Realms]]''. |
* The Necromancer, Serpent Clan's most powerful unit, from ''[[Battle Realms]]''. |
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* Combined with [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'', resulting in Pyromancers, Auromancers, and Brontomancers. |
* Combined with [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]] in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'', resulting in Pyromancers, Auromancers, and Brontomancers. |
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* ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' and it's [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]] ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' and ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' love this trope. [[Necromancer |
* ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' and it's [[Spin-Off|spinoffs]] ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' and ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' love this trope. [[Necromancer]]s, [[Playing with Fire|pyromancers]], [[Magitek|technomancers]], ''[[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|dracomancers]]'', etc. It's probably only a matter of time before [[Running Gag|baconmancers]] start showing up in ''[[Dragon Fable]]''. |
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* The Flash RPG ''[[MARDEK]]'' has necromancy, pyromancy, aeromancy, elemancy (which uses all four natural elements), and one character even claims to be an ''equillibriumancer''. |
* The Flash RPG ''[[MARDEK]]'' has necromancy, pyromancy, aeromancy, elemancy (which uses all four natural elements), and one character even claims to be an ''equillibriumancer''. |
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** In said game's universe (a rather extensive one, with multiple inhabited planets of various levels of technological development), an equilibriumancer is one who uses the two moral elements, or Light and Dark. Sounds fitting with the balance, doesn't it? |
** In said game's universe (a rather extensive one, with multiple inhabited planets of various levels of technological development), an equilibriumancer is one who uses the two moral elements, or Light and Dark. Sounds fitting with the balance, doesn't it? |
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=== Anime and Manga === |
=== Anime and Manga === |
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* Toshiko Tatsuno of ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'' practices [[ |
* Toshiko Tatsuno of ''[[Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru]]'' practices [[meido]]jutsu, described as the art of "luring men with the illusion of gentleness, and taking their money". |
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* ''[[Naruto]]'' has three main schools of ninja techniques. Ninjutsu (which is basically magic that has some form of substance, like spitting fireballs or manipulating water), Genjutsu (Illusion-casting) and Taijutsu (Martial arts). Many individual ninja moves carry the name [X] no Jutsu, which roughly translates into "Art of the [X]" or "[X] Technique". |
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has three main schools of ninja techniques. Ninjutsu (which is basically magic that has some form of substance, like spitting fireballs or manipulating water), Genjutsu (Illusion-casting) and Taijutsu (Martial arts). Many individual ninja moves carry the name [X] no Jutsu, which roughly translates into "Art of the [X]" or "[X] Technique". |
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