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** It's now being used in the newer ''Ivalice'' titles; the remake of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' spells "magick", and also in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. This is rather jarring for people who played the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' and prefer "magic" over "magicks."

* In the French translation of ''FinalFantasy'' games, in EVERY game that features summoners, this word is translated as "invokeur", which is horribly un-French, instead of the more accurate "invocateur".

* In UnknownArmies adepts, people who can actually perform magic, tend to use the "magick" spelling when referring to what they do. Yet most of them seem to think that the people who believe in the stuff Crowley advocated are stupid. Go figure.

* The surprisingly high-quality Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Board Game had one absurd little flaw: the spelling of magic, unsupported by the source material, as 'majik'.

* The {{Heroclix}} figure of XMen character [[XtremeKoolLetterz Magik]] is misspelled 'MAGICK'.

* In Postmodern Studios' ''Bloodsucker: the Angst'', a parody of TheWorldOfDarkness and Goth culture, the Crowley clan uses "Magic(k)". The game consistently spells the word like this, even in its adjectival form "Magic(k)al". Other [=RPGs=] from Postmodern tend to use "magick", with varying degrees of irony.

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* A few years back ''MagicTheGathering'' had an April Fools joke saying they'd been sued by the Orlando Magic and had to change their name to "Majique."
* The surprisingly high-quality BuffyTheVampireSlayer Board Game had one absurd little flaw: the spelling of magic, unsupported by the source material, as 'majik'.
* In ''[[WorldOfDarkness Mage: the Ascension]]'', "True magick" was always referred to with a k, until the "Revised" edition, wherein all magic was sans-k - and then they hung a lampshade on it with a sidebar titled "Special K".
** ''[[SeriousBusiness Flame wars]]'' resulted on the relevant forums.

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' has fun with this, with one quest item being the "boock of darck magicks."

* In ''FinalFantasyXII'', the writers use the "magick" spelling and turned "technique" into "technick". It was tragick.
** It's now being used in the newer ''Ivalice'' titles; the remake of ''FinalFantasyTactics'' spells "magick", and also in ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. This is rather jarring for people who played the original ''FinalFantasyTactics'' and prefer "magic" over "magicks."
*** ''Final Fantasy Tackticks A2'' also features "tecknologies". Gah.

*** Oddly enough, this was [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in ''FinalFantasyX-2'', where a group of Al Bhed deliberately eschew the word "machina" in favour of "machine", because it has ''less'' mystical connotations.

** Well, at least in the DS version of ''FinalFantasyIV'', it's averted.

* Between "Magyk" (of course), "Flyte", "Physik", and "Xqq" (just checking to see if you were paying attention - not that "Queste" is any better) the individual titles of the ''SeptimusHeap'' series seem to have been designed to make a teacher's life that much harder.

* Aleister Crowley called his teachings "magick" in order to distinguish his "real" magic from "cheap parlor tricks". (He also added the K for numerological reasons, with lots of predictably sexual symbolism: the letter can stand for ''kteis'', ancient Greek "vagina.") He is in essence the originator of this trope, or at the very least, the popularizer of it.

* Comic book example: The most recent volume of DCComics' ''BooksOfMagic'' was ''Books Of Magick: Life During Wartime''. WordOfGod has it that this spelling was used to make it clear the series was set in a separate continuity to the ''Books Of Magic'', and not because the writer was a pretentious dumbass.

* ''{{RuneScape}}'' has the "Ancient Magicks" spells. Especially weird because they usually spell magic normally.
** In {{RuneScape}}, it appears to be that it is just c for singular and ck for plural. as in magic vs. magicks. not sure if it works this way, but thats what it looked like.
** It could just be an archaic spelling, considering that knowledge the Ancient Magicks was locked away in a pyramid for who knows how many years.
* In ''FinalFantasyXII'', they use the "magick" spelling and turned "technique" into "technick". It was tragick.
** It's now being used in the newer Ivalice titles; the remake of ''FinalFantasyTactics'' spells "magick", and also in ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2''. This is rather jarring for people who played the original Final Fantasy Tactics and prefer "magic" over "magicks."
*** Final Fantasy Tackticks A2 also features "tecknologies". Gah.
*** The PSP port of Tactics is actually justified considering that the entire script is in arcane English.
*** Oddly enough, this was [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in FinalFantasyX-2, where a group of Al Bhed deliberately eschew the word "machina" in favour of "machine", because it has ''less'' mystical connotations.
* In the French Translation of ''FinalFantasy'' games, EVERY game that features summoners, this word is translated as "invokeur", which is horribly un-French, instead of the more accurate "invocateur".

* ''TheElderScrolls'' mostly uses the pseudo-Latin "magicka" (the actual Latin spelling is ''magica,'' according to dictionary.com), but sometimes says "magicks" or even (gasp!) "magic."
** It's worth noting, however, that "magicka" does not replace "magic", but is instead a term for {{Mana}}. "Magicka" is actually a term for "Magic" in the language of an ancient civilization that once ruled Cyrodiil.

See also: YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe, XtremeKoolLetterz, PhantasySpelling and PostModernMagik.

* It's worth noting that when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel to a root ending in "c", the correct grammatical action is to add a "k" after the "c". Thus, just as "picnic" becomes "picnicking", "magic" (when used as a verb) would become "magicking".

* In TheObsidianTrilogy High Magic, the newer and more formalised magic is often shortened to magick, while Wild Magic tends to get shortened to simply magic.

* Parodied in ''{{X-Play}}'' when Adam and Morgan go to New Mexico searching for the hole they buried the [[Game/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T. video game]] cartridges in, and meet Aleister Crowley. When asked if he new any spells, he said he was "Founder of Modern Magic'''k'''". When asked why he added a K instead of replacing the C with one, he said that was an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_%28comics%29 X-Men character]]. He could apparently do hat tricks, but he called them "hat ''moves''".

** One suspects that he would have changed his mind, if he had realized how overused this trope would become. Or maybe it would have amused him; who knows?
** Crowley in his day was a glory hound, headline grabber, drama queen, and lived up his celebrity as best as he could. He would be amused and delighted at any reference still connected to him through time.

Magick means, in fact, magic. "Magick" is an archaic spelling, dating back to Early Modern English where it appeared in the works of poets such as Edmund Spenser. AleisterCrowley revived this spelling to add an air of archaism, distinguishing actual magic from stage shows. {{Wicca}}ns and other Neo-Pagans, influenced by Crowley (though they would often deny it), have picked up the Crowleyan spelling. Other use newer idiosyncratic spellings like "magique" and "majik." For whatever reason, this casual approach to spelling seems to have taken off in the mass media, especially things trying to be [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]]. The constant misspelling of "magic" has been known to drive {{Grammar Nazi}}s up the wall, but it is recommended you [[MST3KMantra don't worry about it too much]]. [[AnyoneRememberPogs It's probably just a passing fad anyway]].

* Parodied in ''{{X-Play}}'' when Adam and Morgan go to New Mexico searching for the hole they buried the [[SoBadItsHorrible E.T. video game]] cartridges in, and meet Aleister Crowley. When asked if he new any spells, he said he was "Founder of Modern Magic'''k'''". When asked why he added a K instead of replacing the C with one, he said that was an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_%28comics%29 X-Men character]]. He could apparently do hat tricks, but he called them "hat ''moves''".

* In Postmodern Studios' ''Bloodsucker: the Angst'', a parody of TheWorldOfDarkness and Goth culture, the Crowley clan uses "Magic(k)". The game consistently spells the word like this, even in its adjectival form "Magic(k)al". Other RPGs from Postmodern tend to use "magick", with varying degrees of irony.

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See also: YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe, XtremeKoolLetterz, PhantasySpelling and PostModernMagik. Nothing to do with [[MagicAIsMagicA Magic K Is Magic K]].

** Except the actual scripts for the show used "majik" quite frequently.

Magick means, in fact, magic. AleisterCrowley coined the new spelling, which ''looks'' archaic, to distinguish between actual magic and stage shows. {{Wicca}}ns and other Neo-Pagans, influenced by Crowley (though they would often deny it), have picked up the Crowleyan spelling. Other use newer idiosyncratic spellings like "magique" and "majik." For whatever reason, this casual approach to spelling seems to have taken off in the mass media, especially things trying to be [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]]. The constant misspelling of "magic" has been known to drive {{Grammar Nazi}}s up the wall, but it is recommended you [[MST3KMantra don't worry about it too much]]. [[AnyoneRememberPogs It's probably just a passing fad anyway]].