History Main / PhysicalMysticalTechnological

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The first trio of Homeworld Gems to appear in the show (Jasper, Lapis Lazuli and Peridot).
** Jasper is a [[SuperSoldier Quartz]] gem that can give a hard fight simply with her innate strength. In Season 3, she becomes a BeastMaster, capturing and taming corrupted Gems useing nothing but her own brute strength.
** Lapis Lazuli is not [[SquishyWizard physically tough]], and [[MakingASplash her water powers]] could be considered useless in her homeworld, due to the shortage of water, but [[LethalHarmlessPowers NOT on Earth]].
** Peridot, before discovering her [[ExtraOreDinary ferrokinesis]], heavily relied on Homeworld's gadgets and her own limb enhancers for protection.

** Jasper is a [[SuperSoldier Quartz]] gem that can give a hard fight simply with her innate strenght.
** Lapis Lazuli is not [[SquishyWizard physically tough]], and [[MakingASplash her powers]] could be considered useless in her homeworld, but [[LethalHarmlessPowers NOT on Earth]].

* ''Videogame/ChronoTrigger'': For the PowerTrio, Lucca's role pretty much defined as the Technological, but the other two can have different interpretations.
** Crono as the MasterSwordsman and Marle as the WhiteMage.
** Crono ([[MagicKnight swordsman who eventually uses Light magic]]), Marle (a SquishyWizard until you get her the [[FixedDamageAttack Venus Bow]])
** Later additions include Ayla (purely physical fighter), Robo (a robot whose tech attacks use the Shadow element), Frog (a water MagicKnight), and possibly [[spoiler:Magus, who has the best Shadow magic]].

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' begins with the player choosing a career as a Marine specialising in weapons, a Navy agent capable of hacking into technology or an OSA agent specialising in PsychicPowers.

A [[PowerTrio trichotomy]] of character/faction archetypes that expands the MagicVersusTechnology dichotomy with the CharlesAtlasSuperpower: one archetype learns magical spells, another builds crazy gadgets, and the third perfects their own body (and any powers that come with it) to reach levels of personal power comparable to the first two. They may be standing against each other in a triangle of TacticalRockPaperScissors, or they may instead be part of the same team/group, using their distinct set of abilities to solve various problems together. In games, they can form the basis of a ThreeStatSystem.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Each of the three movies' villains have this, which overlaps with FighterMageThief to provide {{Contrasting Sequel Antagonist}}s.
** Tai Lung is Physical, trained to be a master of kung fu and expected to become the Dragon Warrior.
** Lord Shen is Technological, inventor of the cannon in a world mostly protected by martial fighters.
** Kai is Mystical, a long-dead warrior returned from the Spirit World who can steal the chi of others.

* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld" has three types of weapons that fit this theme. Melee weapons represent physical strength, guns technology, and magic represents mystical. Technically, all of these are anima powered, but how that power appears fits the theme.

** The Humans and Godzilla Earth are the physical with the former being normal earthbound people and the latter's usual use of claws and atomic breath on top of being a {{Planimal}}.
** The Bilusaludo and Mechagodzilla are the technological with the former favoring science and logic above all things and the latter being entirely composed of nanometal and is later converted into a city.
** The Exif and King Ghidorah are the mystical with the former being religious clergies and the latter being a creature from another dimension that is worshipped as a god and needs to be summoned.

** Physical: Barugon, Showa Gyaos, Legion, and Zedus.
** Technological: Viras and Zigra.
** Mystical: Gamera himself, Jiger, Heisei Gyaos, and Irys.

* The various ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' kaiju, like Godzilla below, can be divided up like this (but ''unlike'' Godzilla, tend to fall more on the Mystical side):

* The [[Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters Godzilla Anime Trilogy]] has both a species and corresponding kaiju antagonist of each film that fits this trio type compared to the below Live-Action example.
** The Humans and Godzilla Earth are the physical with the former being ones who can fight off monsters and the latter's usual use of claws and atomic breath on top of being a {{Planimal}}.
** The Bilusaludo and Mechagodzilla are the technological with the former favoring science and the latter being entirely composed of nanometal and is later converted into a city.
** The Exif and King Ghidorah are the mystical with the former being religious clergies and the latter being a creature from another dimension that worshipped as a god and needs to be summoned.

* ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'' offers the player a choice of three affinities - ways of human development [[SettlingTheFrontier in the new world]]. At the heart of [[HumanityIsSuperior Purity's]] philosophy is a celebration of the human form and history, which its adherents are willing to defend with reinforced [[PowerArmor Battlesuits]] and a variety of heavy armored vehicles. Adepts of [[BioPunk Harmony]] set themselves the goal of achieving a [[InHarmonyWithNature symbiotic relationship with the environment of the new planet]], to protect which they use genetically enhanced local life forms, as well as a [[DeadlyGas miasma]] that is poisonous to all but themselves. Finally, [[CyberPunk Supremacy]], while believing in technology as the greatest gift of mankind, capable, if properly used, of making civilization completely independent of the environment, or giving society [[BrainUploading immortality]], uses robotics, cybernetics, and other similar technologies to protect its vision of a better future.