Nevertheless, there were still plenty of fantasy elements, and the sci-fi aspect was downplayed in later stories. Even Kami, who was for all practical purposes a god, was demoted to a strange visitor from yet another planet.
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Him transforming into a giant monkey after looking at the full moon was given a delightfully preposterous "explanation" in terms of electromagnetic waves and hormones. Goku's previously inexplicable talents (and his tail) were retconned as the product of his alien biology.
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Inukai's Corrector software to counter and reverse Grosser's influence. In Corrector Yui, the "magic" is actually a part of Dr.Also, the anime adaptation didn't do this and played the supernatural elements straight the whole way through. The reason why this happened, according to the mangaka BigCutieMiley at an anime con in Seattle, is that he was criticized during the manga's run for not having the demons be accurate to Christian mythology, so he pulled an Author's Saving Throw. However, this doesn't completely explain their more supernatural powers, and there's still plenty of other magical and supernatural elements that are never explained away with science. So a lot of what seems 'magical' about them is really Bizarre Alien Biology or extremely advanced technology. Chrono Crusade: Demons are really aliens who crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean and are now living underwater in their mothership.Has nothing to do with the execution of magic users, or targeting them in combat situations.
Contrast Magic A Is Magic A and The Magic Comes Back.
May overlap with All Just a Dream, Through the Eyes of Madness, and Lotus-Eater Machine, if used to reveal that the removed supernatural only existed in a character's mind and "Scooby-Doo" Hoax and The Masquerade, if it is revealed that the supernatural never existed but was faked by someone, or some group working to some end. Also compare Clarke's Third Law, which explains how the unexperienced could see technology and science as a form of magic. See also Sufficiently Advanced Alien, The Magic Goes Away, Magic Versus Science, and Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. When this is a External Retcon to an ancient mythology rather than the franchise's own mythos, it is called Demythification.Ĭompare and contrast with How Unscientific!, as well as Unscientific Science (where the "scientific" explanation is just as nonsensical as the magical one, or even moreso). Another problem this trope might encounter is that, while fans only expect magic to have the same effect while used in the same way, the audience may be less willing to suspend disbelief when converted into hard science, unless it is prefaced with some kind of pseudoscientific material specifically stated not to follow standard physics (of course, doing this still keeps the stuff technically magic, just not, you know, magic).
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