History Main / PerspectiveMagic

* [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Hogarth-satire-on-false-pespective-1753.jpg William Hogarth: Satire on False Perspective (1753)]]. Originally intended to show the kind of mistakes an artist can make, but it's a fine example of this trope in its own right.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "1 + 1 = Ed" did this when they ended up taking apart parts of their cartoon reality (causing the perspective thing to actually be literal).

* The Mad Hatter has this power in the game version of Tim Burten's ''VideoGame/AliceInWonderland''. Its mainly a way to fix {{Broken Bridge}}s, but can also be used to crush enemies between his fingers.

* The a significant part of ''VideoGame/MonumentValley'' is making continuous paths by clever use of perspective.

* One puzzle in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' involves you seeing through the eye of a statue; you solve the puzzle by moving stairways and bridges around so that from the statue's perspective they ''look'' like they should form a continuous path for Kratos to escape the area, and then you just walk out along the path. Since you're not able to switch back to your usual third-person camera until the puzzle is finished, it's not clear what a different point of view would actually show.

See also DepthDeception. Often used in the form of GraspTheSun.

* [[spoiler:Missile the Pomeranian]] eventually gains the powers of the dead in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', but unlike Sissel's, his are based on switching objects with the same shape according to the game's static camera angle. Even if it isn't actually the same shape, it can be swapped at long as it ''looks'' the same shape from the player's viewpoint.

* One puzzle in VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' involves you seeing through the eye of a statue; you solve the puzzle by moving stairways and bridges around so that from the statue's perspective they ''look'' like they should form a continuous path for Kratos to escape the area, and then you just walk out along the path. Since you're not able to switch back to your usual third-person camera until the puzzle is finished, it's not clear what a different point of view would actually show.

Perspective Magic is a way for characters to play with the FourthWall, using the fact that they live in a 2-D world imitating 3-D to their advantage. Characters likely to use Perspective Magic are usually cartoons, wizards, [[OddJobGods gods]], or just someone GenreSavvy enough to take a step back and manipulate their surroundings.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/AtFirstSight''. When ValKilmer's character regains his sight after having been blind since childhood he's incapable of distuingishing distance. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os50D-aOZQo the trailer a 1:37]].

* One puzzle in GodOfWar 3 involves you seeing through the eye of a statue; you solve the puzzle by moving stairways and bridges around so that from the statue's perspective they ''look'' like they should form a continuous path for Kratos to escape the area, and then you just walk out along the path. Since you're not able to switch back to your usual third-person camera until the puzzle is finished, it's not clear what a different point of view would actually show.

* One issue of MarvelComics' ''Illuminati'' had the group look for the [[CosmicKeystone Infinity Gems]]. When professor X, Namor and Dr. Strange seek the gem of mind they appear on a vast, featureless blue plane... the gem itself seen from real up close. They retrieve it by changing their perspective to make it small.

->''It's all about perspective.''

* Played with in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Jack looks at Davy Jones through a telescope. He then puts down the telescope, only his view hasn't changed, because Davy teleported to the exact right location in the instant the telescope was moved.
** Parodied in the LEGO video game, where Jack then puts Davy Jones back onto his ship by looking through the telescope backwards.

* A David Macaulay book had a picture of the "discovery of the vanishing point," a bunch of cowboys standing around looking at a spot where parallel train tracks meet.

** ''VideoGame/DmC:DevilMayCry'' has the demon Phineas, who is able to warp his local environment by making it resemble his own perspective. He uses this to [[NobleDemon aid Dante]] in crossing a [[EldritchLocation twisted hellscape of scattered debris]].

* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' features a character who uses the webcomic format this way. She can strike multiple opponents at range because the panel's viewpoint angle makes her strike appear to hit them all. She can look across panel borders to see what happens in the "future," and then jump between panels to teleport across time and space. She also knocks [[NinjaProp a chunk out of the panel border]] to use as a projectile.

* Number four is inverted in E. Rose Sabin's ''A School for Sorcery'' where a girl's vision of a terrible monster is defeated when she looks at it through a reversed telescope.