History Main / TheMagicComesBack

* ''Fanfic/TheWesterosi'' combines this trope with a novel subversion of DoingInTheWizard, in that it's the shipwrecked Starfleet Ranger who takes the old folktales seriously while the medieval scholars and aristocrats are a lot more skeptical... But Jade Hasegawa is a firm believer in Arthur C. Clarke's famous adage about sufficiently advanced technology, ''and'' [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Agatha Heterodyne's]] less famous one about SufficientlyAnalysedMagic.

* Magic comes back in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' when two brothers find that their father had rediscovered it before he died and left him his MagicStaff. The ending shows Ian teaching it to a class of students.

* Magic comes back I ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'' when two brothers find that their father had rediscovered it before he died and left him his MagicStaff. The ending shows Ian teaching it to a class of students.

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war being won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, the CIA unleashing {{plague zombie}}s against communists in Cuba and Haiti only for the latter to fight back with {{voodoo zombie}}s, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in Cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war being won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, the CIA unleashing {{plague zombie}}s against communists in cuba and Haiti only for the latter to fight back with {{voodoo zombie}}s, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war being won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, the CIA unleashing {{plague zombie}}s against communists in Haiti only for the latter to fight back with {{voodoo zombie}}s, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war being won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything the CIA making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba]], Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war is won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything the CIA making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba]], Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), Typhon rising from Mount Etna and helping the Greek communists overthrow the monarchists, [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything the CIA making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba]], Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets nuke his house before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything the CIA making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba]], Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets nuke his house before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the United States military employing "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent the American Revolution]] and causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets nuke his house before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the United States military employing "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to prevent the American Revolution and causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets nuke his house before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised to begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up all over the world, together with superpowered mutant humans and martians. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (it gets better thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed wards]]), the United States military making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to prevent the American Revolution and causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets nuke his capital city before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised to begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up all over the world, together with superpowered mutant humans and martians. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (it gets better thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed wards]]), the United States military making "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to prevent the American Revolution and causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime to complete an [[AGodAmI Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets [[TheNuclearOption nuke his capital city]] before he could do the latter, though).

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised to begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up all over the world, together with superpowered mutant humans and martians. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Differences include, among other things: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becomes the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin goes crazy and nukes Moscow]] (it gets better thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed wards]]), the United States military makes "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, and so on.

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union are poised to begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up all over the world, together with superpowered mutant humans and martians. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNoted/ColdWar playing out. Differences include, among other things: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becomes the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin goes crazy and nukes Moscow]] (it gets better thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed wards]]), the United States military makes "acceptable use of zombies" in Cuba, and so on.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the comics, the magic returns in the ninth season. However, the rules of magic have changed significantly, resulting in some changes. For example, a new breed of [[DaywalkingVampire vampires]] has emerged that are immune to daylight.

* In ''Literature/TheWizardOf4thStreet'', by Simon Hawke, magic was once a driving force in the world, based around those descended from [[OurElvesAreBetter a long-lived magical race]]. But some went [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]] and had to be [[SealedEvilInACan locked away]]. Cut to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: after Merlin comes BackFromTheDead and those of [[WitchSpecies magical bloodlines]] are found and trained as new wizards, the world becomes a better place, and [[{{Magitek}} magic-powered technology]] replaces the old polluting resource-hogs of today. But it still has its problems, especially when some of the [[TheFairFolk more troublesome immortals]] are revived by the sudden increase in magic.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': while the Earth's recovery from [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Sundering]] , which led to the destruction of the {{World Tree}}s and the fall of {{Atlantis}}, was a gradual process taking thousands of years (or maybe millions, DependingOnTheWriter), at the start of the 20th century the process began to speed up, and by the early 21st century the world's Essence has been restored sufficiently for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Sidhe]] and other [[TheFairFolk Faerie]] to begin reincarnating as human mutants in increasing numbers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': At the end of Book 2, Korra decides to leave the spirit portals open, allowing the human and spirit worlds to relatively freely intermingle, like they did before Wan closed the portals ten thousand years ago. One side effect was non-benders all over the world spontaneously manifesting the near-extinct art of [[BlowYouAway Airbending]].

* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': Implied. Mixed with FeudalFuture, AfterTheEnd, {{Magitek}} / MagicPoweredPseudoscience, and {{Magick}}.

** The episode "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E2JakeTheDog Jake the Dog]]" is based around [[spoiler:an alternate timeline created when the Lich [[RetGone was never created]], which resulted in a lesser disaster where humanity survived but lost most technology and the magic never returned. [[SealedEvilInACan For a while, at least]].]]

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Although magic is still around, it's a pale shadow of what it once was and comes with so many disadvantages that it can never be {{functional|Magic}}. The plot of ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'' is about the old wild magic of the Sourcerers coming back, and ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt why wizards gave it up in the first place]]''.

To summarize briefly: thousands of years ago, the Almighty aids the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ten Heralds]] in leading humanity and the [[MagicKnight Knights Radiant]] in the wars against the Voidbringers, called Desolations. Almost 4000 years ago, the Heralds declared the war won and the Desolations over. Two thousand years after that, the Knights Radiant abandoned their post and disappeared from the world. Humanity continued on, believing the knights gone and the war won until it comes to light that the Heralds lied, abandoning one of their members to escape their burden. The Voidbringer's god [[GodOfEvil Odium]] [[spoiler: killed the Almighty]], and the Voidbringers break free from their prison. The ancient orders of Knights Radiant are being refounded and are sorely needed as the Final Desolation is upon humanity.

* The famous "Occult Renaissance" happening between mid 19th century and early 20th century with the creation of the different Occult schools like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the UsefulNotes/TheosophicalSociety and the Ordo Templi Orientis, among others, all over Europe and The Americas, is for many Esotericists this in real life, as the Occult knowledge was allegedly hidden due to persecution during the Dark Ages turning only accesible again once society became more secular.
* Among certain groups of Christians such as Pentecostals and Charismatics, there is a "latter rain" outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is supposed to take place before the SecondComing of Jesus Christ, as they consider the first major outpouring of the Spirit to be the "former rain".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'' a rogue planet's passing cracked the moon in half, destroyed civilization and somehow led to functional magic. Though a time-traveling episode showed magic working in TheEighties, so it may be more of a case of rediscovering magic after the cataclysm.