History Main / TheMagicGoesAway

* ''FanFic/MGLNCrisis'': Jail Scaglietti's ultimate goal is to set off Relic Bombs that permanently render entire planets incapable of using magic. [[spoiler:He succeeds posthumously on Mid-childa, but it turns out that the effect is only temporary.]]

* ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'': At the end, this serves as a {{Tearjerker}} and BittersweetEnding as Bod [[spoiler:must leave the graveyard and join the living, can no longer see the dead that he grew up with, and loses his ghostly abilities. It's especially heart-wrenching when he tries to embrace his adoptive ghost mother for the last time, but discovers he can't see or touch her, as she's no longer there for him.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'', [[MeaningfulName Sakura]] eventually decides the island no longer needs the magic Sakura tree and stops powering it, so it dies. Everyone's special little ability goes away and they return to normal. No big deal for Junichi -- all he did was [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway make Japanese sweets appear]] and occasionally [[BlessedWithSuck see others' dreams]]. The girls who relied on their powers, on the other hand, suffer breakdowns and only get better [[MultipleEndings if Junichi is in their route]]. In particular, Moe [[spoiler:(could speak to her dead friend in dreams) starts overdosing on sleeping pills trying to see him again]], Kotori [[spoiler:(read minds) reverts to her former StepfordSmiler self]], and Yoriko [[spoiler:[[ShapeshiftingLover turns back into a cat]]]] ([[spoiler:though this is quickly subverted]]).

* At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 3'', Garret activates the final glyph, which causes all of them to stop working forever. This has a rather bad effect on [[spoiler:Gamall, since she had been using them to extend her life for the past few centuries.]] It's possible to interpret the information about the glyphs, especially that they slowly grow more powerful (and may eventually mutate and evolve) through continual repetition and use, to mean that this simply resets the system back to zero. Still wouldn't matter for the next few years or decades.
* Gensoukyou, the setting of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' was created because this started happening. Gensoukyou manages to retain magic and other fantastic things by being in a barrier that absorbs things that have become "illusions", essentially reversing what's happening to the rest of the world. [[spoiler:Maribel's and Renko's abilities subvert this. More so now that Merry appears to be turning into [[RealityWarper Yukari]].]]

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed'': [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. By the time Matthew and Na'el have come of age, the City has taken to improving on and utilizing advanced technology as opposed to continuing research on Ouroboros powers, with only themselves and their grandfather Ghondor possessing Ouroboros powers. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, their powers (along with Nikol and Glimmer's) have been fully awoken in order to defeat [[BigBad Alpha]], and research has resumed on awakening those powers within other people as well]], thus setting the stage for how Ouroboros powers are seen and used in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''.

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* "Cessationism" is a doctrine held by some Christians, claiming that the wonders and miracles of the early church (prophecy, healing, speaking in tongues or foreign languages, etc.) have largely or entirely ceased in the present day. Exactly when and why this is the case varies, as there are various "schools" of Cessationism.

-->-- '''Maester Luwin''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'', magic used to be abundant but has since become rarer and more difficult to practice. By the present day, using any magic at all requires a Philosopher's Stone, a sort of magical battery that can either be carried around in a wand with limited charge, or larger ones that allows functionally unlimited magic use in a large area around it. This turns out to be because magic is powered by belief, but because witch culture is highly isolated and elitist, with the bar of entry for people without magical heritage so high that it is functionally impossible to start their studies, it has created a feedback loop where regular people don't believe in magic because they never see it, and those who can practice magic refuses to show it to regular people.

* The world of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' saw its humans develop magic during the Ice Age between Prehistory and Antiquity, but after the Ocean Palace incident saw the Kingdom of Zeal destroyed, humans lost the ability to lose magic as the source was rendered dormant. After that, only four humans ever gained the ability to use magic: the first four members of the party. [[spoiler:In addition, four others were spared the loss of their magic by being [[TimeTravel displaced in time]] beforehand, one of whom is the OptionalPartyMember]].

* In ''The Death of Chaos'', the chronologically last book in ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce'', this happens when Lerris bonds all the free chaos and order in the world together. Everything infused with extra order or chaos is destroyed.

* Creator/SimonRGreen: Most of Green's Verse/[[TheMultiverse multiverse]] averts it, as magic and science are treated as co-existing rather than the former being extinguished by the latter. The ''Literature/ForestKingdom'' series plays it straight though -- in Book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), the High Warlock claimed this was happening, as the rise of science and logic gradually displaced the fantastic from reality. [[spoiler:In the climax of Book 4 (''Beyond the Blue Moon''), by combining the powers of the Rainbow and the Source, the world of Reverie is destroyed, and with it the Wild Magic and the Transient Beings, though the magic will take some generations to fully disappear]].

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series:

* The trigger for the entire plot of ''[[Literature/TheGreatGodsWar The Seventh Decimate]]'' is sorcery suddenly ceasing to function in the entire kingdom of Belleger, leaving it not only incapable of defending itself against its eternal enemy Amika but also robbing it of the many forms of sorcerous MundaneUtility that it has come to rely on.

* The final book in ''Literature/SixtyEightRooms'' centers on the remaining loose ends surrounding the Key of Christina of Milan. The previous books established how the key worked in relation to the Thorne Miniature Rooms, including access to the time periods represented by each room via a specific artifact, and all the rules of time travel that went with it. [[spoiler:Jack and Ruthie finish it off by meeting Narcissa Thorne herself, who gives them a box that contains a spell to deactivate the key's magic. They use that spell for the sake of keeping time safe, and Ruthie wears the dormant key around her neck after that.]]

** Over the course of the first six films, the once numerous Jedi are all but wiped out by their Sith enemies, leaving only a handful of trained Force-users left alive in the Galaxy with [[MissedTheCall nobody to help the untrained ones realize their potential]]. By the time of ''Film/ANewHope'', Han Solo dismisses the Force as a myth, and even Admiral Motti isn't afraid to tell Darth Vader -- ''[[BullyingADragon to his face]]'' -- that his "sad devotion" to the Sith way of life is just a pathetic attempt to cling to a dying religion. This is reversed in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', as Luke manages to successfully [[OrderReborn revive the Jedi Order]] [[TheMagicComesBack and make them a prominent force in the galaxy once more]].

* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'', the more fantastic races and old gods are slowly but surely vanishing from the world. In modern times, one of the only supernatural beings left in the world is [[spoiler:Gabriel, aka {{Dracula}}, himself.]]

* In ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', the BigBad, Ranna, GoddessOfEvil, siphons away much of the world's magical energy for her own purposes, greatly weakening it. [[spoiler:In the end, an army of the world's strongest magic users gather most of what's left to seal Ranna into a PrisonDimension, leaving little left for magic users and magic items to power their spells. When one mage tries to use a spell, it results only in sparks, and the world's magic users are forced to move on to other fields, with only the absolute strongest still capable of so much as igniting a candle. It is stated that the world's magical energy will replenish over time, but it will take decades, and it will likely not reach the same heights that it did before.]]

* Downplayed with the ending of ''Anime/KillLaKill''. [[spoiler:Senketsu]] burns up on [[AstralFinale re-entry]] after absorbing all of the Life Fibers on Earth, but Ryuko is still infused with them at the end.