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4->'''Aang:''' When Azula shot me with lightning, my Seventh Chakra was blocked, cutting off my connection to all the cosmic energy in the universe.\
5'''Toph:''' You know what I just heard? Blah-blah, spiritual mumbo jumbo, blah-blah, something about space.
6-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
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8[[JustForFun/SciFiCounterpart Like]] TechnoBabble, but about [[FunctionalMagic magic]], typically Rule Magic. This is usually used in series where MagicAIsMagicA, and the rules are defined enough that you can't get away with invoking them in new ways without having to explain it first. See also BlahBlahBlah.
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16* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' frequently has Magi Babble, on the premise that "alchemy is a precise science, really!" The basic rules being that they can't create matter from nothing, leading to the principle of EquivalentExchange, but the energy source for rearranging it is unknown to most people (it seems to come from the earth in various ways). If you want more than that, however, you need a Philosopher's Stone. It's essentially a free gift of ludicrous amounts of energy, which would be necessary to create matter from "scratch." Free, that is, in that [[spoiler:someone had already paid the terrible price in advance]]. It required [[spoiler:Father with Truth inside]] to even master ''nuclear fusion'', let alone matter creation.
17** PlayedForLaughs towards the end, when [[spoiler:Edward Elric]] attempts to use Magi Babble about EquivalentExchange ''as the basis for a WackyMarriageProposal''. It is exactly as dorky as it sounds. [[spoiler: Luckily for Ed, Winry is also kind of a dork at heart, and says yes.]]
18* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' features extensive dialogue on how chakra is summoned and how it is used to walk on water, climb trees, increase damage, etc. Similarly anybody using advanced techniques will inevitably dialogue about how they use their powers to create this specific result. There's an entire arc devoted to Naruto learning one such technique in extreme detail. And that's not even getting into the [[ElementalRockPaperScissors an Elemental nature cycle]].
19* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', there are training arcs just to describe the exact mechanic of MidSeasonUpgrade the heroes have to access, what kind of conditions they have to fulfill and drawbacks the techniques/spells will befall to the users, how the techniques are different between the users' elemental affinity or magic cultures, etc. And as if manga panels are not enough, each of the manga's volumes has its author note filled with nothing but pages of real life references of each spell or magic practice used in the manga.
20* Usage of Nen in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' is very complicated, especially because once an individual chooses a power upon learning Nen basics, they are locked into it permanently, and purposely giving oneself additional rules and drawbacks boosts its potency. There is a story arc revolving mostly around one character's wish-granting powers, with various other characters--good, evil, neutral, and ambiguous--all trying to deduce those powers' rules, limitations, and drawbacks and discussing them with their allies. This arc's dialogue is one of the harder ones to follow.
21* ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'''s manga adaptation had little indexes at the end of each book to explain things like Eidos and decomposition-type magic.
22* A Season 3 episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' features a villain and a hero briefly arguing about what exactly Duel Monsters cards are in relation to the monsters (in-universe, the images that appear during duels are theoretically holograms, but the monsters used in the game are actually real and live in a parallel dimension, with some people gifted with the ability to see and communicate with their spirits in our world). The villain, Giese, believes the cards are basically [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} pokeballs]] that release the monsters contained in them. The hero, Johan, explains that the cards are actually portals that summon the monster from their world to the field when activated. He's proven right when playing his Sapphire Pegasus' card releases his pegasus from the ExtranormalPrison the villain was holding him in.
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26* In ''ComicBook/ToothAndClaw'' #1 a group of wizards discusses dozens of complex-sounding spells that the reader has no idea the effects of.
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30 * The spell matrix in Sweetie Belle's notebook in ''Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments'' tends to be a source of large amounts of Magi Babble any time Sweetie Belle or Twilight Sparkle start talking about it.
31* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
32** Loki, usually, walks the line between Magi Babble and TechnoBabble, and usually has to be reined in by his brother when he gets over-excited and goes into MotorMouth mode.
33** Harry Dresden also does this - as per canon, he loves studying magic, and while his education was spotty to say the least, he's got a fairly wide if eclectic knowledge base.
34** Wanda frequently discusses magic along these lines with Loki, Albus Dumbledore, and her old mentor, Doctor Strange (who does this from time to time himself, when he actually deigns to explain anything).
35** And Thor, surprisingly, though usually when people least expect it. As he points out, he spent just over twenty years as a wizard in the form of James Potter, and spent the last 1,500 years as the brother of Loki. It's safe to say that he's picked up a few things.
36* ''Webcomic/FateGagOrder'' has "FGO Prequel: Gudao's Job Interview for Chaldea" which features how the protagonist was convinced to join Chaldea. The titular interview mostly consisted of Dr. Roman filling his dialogue with magecraft terminology and a partial TitleDrop or two.
37-->'''Dr. Roman:''' [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Ghost Liner.]] [[Literature/AngelNotes Types.]] [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Rayshift. Pruning Theoretical Phenomenon.]] [[{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}} Blue glass moon.]] [[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Ataraxia.]] College credit and dental.\
38'''Gudao:''' ...[[WesternAnimation/CloneHigh I like your funny words, magic man!]]
39* Naruto coins the term "jutsubabble" when he fails to grasp most of Jiraiya's long-winded explanation of a complicated seal in ''Fanfic/NarutoTheSecretSongsOfTheNinja''.
40* In ''Fanfic/OpeningDangerousGates'', Levy and Urahara have a discussion on how to take down a forcefield blocking the group's way. The other characters are incredibly confused by their magical terms and think they are talking in another language.
41* ''Fanfic/FateRevelationOnline'': More and more players slip into this as they are taught magecraft on a grand-scale. However, since they still think it's all just a game, they tend to mess up minor terms (such as using the term "magic" instead of "magecraft"). The ''actual'' mages from the real world are easy to spot because their terminology is always perfect and even the advanced players can rarely keep up with what they're saying.
42* The ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' FanFic ''Fanfic/{{Visiontale}}'' utilizes extensive magibabble to explain how magic works. Monsters created their magibabble so they could discuss magic with equal rigor to humans discussing science on the surface.
43* In ''Fanfic/TheMeaningOfHarmony'' Twilight has a tendency to do this, usually when trying to explain how the Forges work. Sunset invokes that tendency at one point, when she name-drops a magical term knowing that Twilight would explain it to the others, so she herself wouldn't have to.
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47* Subverted in ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy''. The [[PowerCrystal obelisks]] and other magical artifacts created by the ancient {{precursor}} civilization are the product of SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic. As such, characters who know a lot about magic describe them in [[TechnoBabble technical terms]] rather than mystical.
48* In Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' the magician Telemain speaks almost entirely in Magi babble when describing how various spells and enchanted objects work. He becomes irate when people tell him to explain things with less technical terminology, usually claiming he can't think of a simpler way to explain whatever he's talking about precisely. The only exceptions occur when he is asked to explain things normally by Kazul, the gigantic King of the Dragons, whose intimidating appearance inspires him to somehow find a perfect clear, much easier to understand explanation.
49** Morwen, who has a similar level of experience, naturally understands his terminology. But weirdly, Mendanbar also understands, despite having an intuitive grasp of magic sketchy with technicalities at best, while Cimorene, who is very magically literate and has invented or modified several spells, is always at sea with what he says.
50*** Cimorene admitted her knowledge of magic was limited because her parents were quick to cut off her secret magic lessons. Besides, it's more that Telemain just talks really fast and only Mendanbar, who is used to it from his elf steward, can catch what he's saying, and he's also far more knowledgeable about all sorts of magic as the King of the Enchanted Forest is than Cimorene, whose talents tend to be more practical than magical.
51* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
52** Ponder Stibbons, a {{Magitek}} {{Geek}}, uses a combination of Magi Babble and TechnoBabble to describe the devices created in the High Energy Magic Building (or more often, to hide the fact he's got no idea how they work, even though he built them). Wizards, and indeed some others, also use the catch all explanation of 'It's probably Quantum' or something being weird "'cos of Quantum" to explain anything significantly baffling. It appears to fullfil the same function as saying 'It's magic' in RealLife, though it is usually incorporated with other Magi Babble.
53** Eric, the demonology hacker in [[Literature/{{Eric}} the book of the same name]], uses Magi Babble that sounds suspiciously like computer babble. "You see, if you rewrite the source codex and, this is the difficult bit, you route it through a high-level..."
54** Computer babble is also used by the druids of ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'', in reference to the ritual and astronomical functions of stone circles. ("It can't be software incompatibility, the Chant of the Trodden Spiral was ''designed'' for concentric rings!")
55* This is literally Bob's entire purpose in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. He knows the rules better than any mere mortal like Harry could ever know them, being a spirit of intellect centuries, if not millennia, old.
56** Additionally, the Archive, a single human whose purpose is to be the physical containment of the entirety of humankind's body of written knowledge. This includes everything that has been written about the usage of magic. While a normal human with no inherent gifts, she is still probably the most adept magic caster on Earth, knowledge that doubtlessly includes not only how to cast any spell, but how they work, and why they work.
57** Harry's no slouch at either, partly because he's a FirstPersonSmartass narrator who happens to be a powerful wizard who genuinely knows his stuff - this is shown best in ''Literature/TurnCoat'' when he discusses magic with Morgan as an equal, despite the other man being around four times his age. He also shows on several occasions that he really does love studying magic, and will do so simply for the sake of it.
58** Butters, once he's introduced to Bob, quickly dives into this trope, mingling Magi Babble ''with'' TechnoBabble in an epic display of geekiness.
59* This comes up quite often in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. In the earlier books, the in-world magic system seems fairly standard for a fantasy series; i.e., one uses their "gift" to achieve the desired results. After perhaps the third or fourth book, the author [[DoingInTheWizard does in the wizard]] with an ever-increasing amount of magispeech to explain an ever more convoluted system.
60** Earlier, in a scene in ''Blood of the Fold'', a character's Magi Babble is interrupted and it is explained (via more Magi Babble) that the character he's talking to already knew everything he was telling her.
61-->Warren sighed and at last nodded. "I guess I should tell you, but understand that this is a very old and obscure fork. The prophecies are clogged with false forks. This is doubly tainted, because of its age, and its rarity. That makes it suspect even if it weren't for the rest of it. There are crossovers and backfalls galore in tomes this old, and I can't verify them without months of work. Some of the links are occluded by triple forks. Back-tracing a triple fork squares false forks on the branches, and if any of them are tripled, well then, the enigma created by the geometric progressions you encounter because of the-"
62-->Verna put a hand to his forearm to silence him. "Warren, I know all that. I understand the degrees of progression and regression as they relate to random variables in bifurcations of a triple fork."
63* The Magi Babble in L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s ''Literature/SagaOfRecluce'' is extremely convincing; it almost feels like real physics.
64* Comes up often when Jeff Grubb gets his hands on franchise fiction. Notable works include the Warcraft novel ''[[Literature/WarcraftTheLastGuardian The Last Guardian]]'', and his ''Franchise/MagicTheGathering'' novels set during Literature/TheBrothersWar (the Antiquities and Urza's Saga sets) and the Ice Age. Seeing as how Grubb often produces some of the better novels in these franchises, his tendency towards magi babble is either forgivable or awesome, especially since the rules he sets down tend to make magic more consistent in later works by others.
65* Taken to the logical extreme in ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'' by Creator/MargaretWeis and Tracy Hickman: the magi babble is literally indistinguishable from TechnoBabble and ''almost makes sense''.
66* Either {{Lampshaded}} or justified in the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories, in which Master Sean's attempts to explain the metaphysics of his spells regularly cause Darcy to remark that he'll have to take his associate's word for it, as such concepts are always baffling to non-sorcerers. Whether this is a lampshading or a justification depends on whether the ''reader'', a non-sorcerer, got the gist of Sean's explanation!
67** As that world's leading expert in magical theory is established to have no magical talent at all himself, it's most likely simply meant to show the mutual respect and trust in their relationship.
68* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' by Creator/CharlesStross, the magic is based on mathematics and computer science--Alan Turing invented the local {{Magitek}}--and it reads like a cross between MIT's 6.001 and Abdul Alhazred.
69* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books have a fair bit, especially ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''. In it, we learn that "food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration". When Ron repeats this tidbit later on, others are amazed by his SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.
70* Shows up several times in [[Franchise/TheWitcher the Witcher series]]. It sounds a bit like a professional slang sprinkled with mathematical and scientific terms.
71* Rick Cook's ''Literature/WizBiz'' books has a computer programmer brought into a fantasy world creating a magical programming language, with a spell compiler and other things. This leads to a lot of programmer-speak being used as Magibabble. It's done well, since the author actually is a computer programmer. It still manages to be mystifying to programmers in a lot of instances, since he also chose a very obscure programming language to base it on.
72* Magic in ''Literature/TheInheritanceCycle'' has a lot of rules which are explained in a fair amount of detail. It's vitally important for magicians in the series to know them because misuse of magic can easily be harmful or downright fatal.
73* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Annala tries to explain magic theory or monster behavior to her friends, Revas and Oito, but because she always uses technical terms, they don't get it. Instead they rely on Eric for the LaymansTerms.
74* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
75** Touma Kamijou is often frustrated when Index or another magical character starts explaining things this way. In turn, the magical character often complains that Touma must be an idiot for not being able to understand something they have known since childhood.
76--->'''Touma''': It feels like you're just throwing all this weird terminology at me.
77** Touma has an advantage over the rest of the Science-side characters, since [[LockedOutOfTheLoop most of them don't even know magic exists]]. Whenever a magician tries to explain anything, they're inevitably mistaken for a weird [[PsychicPowers esper]] who is insisting on using meaningless fantasy terminology for some random reason. Mikoto listens patiently to a burst of Magi Babble and then tries to translate it into scientific terms (causing the magician to just give up), and when Accelerator witnesses a necromancer cast a spell with InstantRunes, he wonders if she's using the historical symbolism to strengthen her [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Personal Reality]].
78* A common occurrence in ''Literature/MagicForLiars''. Non-magic Ivy receives a lot while talking with magic-using Rahul as the latter is a high school teacher who doesn't know she doesn't have the background to understand.
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82* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': There are arts, mystery cult initiations, exotically named spells, different types of vis, and a dozen or more exotic traditions to speak about in character. The magic rules are so closely linked to the in-setting magic concepts that it becomes difficult not to talk in magi babble.
83* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': Thaumatology has a perk that allows your character to spout an endless amount of meaningless but authentic sounding nonsense at the drop of a hat.
84* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 sourcebooks explain the difference between High Sorcery and Primal Sorcery, and Clerical magic and Mysticism.
85* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is rife with this whenever the setting's metaphysics are discussed. A lot of it has a sort of internal consistency but it can be so difficult to wrap one's head around that it starts sounding like utter nonsense before too long. The Shinma may be one of the worst examples, as principles/things/concepts that exist/not-exist in the Wyld and define everything by embodying their antithesis. One makes existence possible by embodying non-existence, and is thus technically not even there to do what it does and agggghh.
86* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' loves to do this, often quite consciously.
87* ''TabletopGame/{{TORG}}'' has a lot of this in its Aysle setting. It also features a spell design system which is heavily tied in to the in-setting magic concepts, leading to the same effect as for Ars Magica above, that players may find themselves speaking in magi babble.
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91* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear2Overture'' is almost ''entirely'' this. Bet you never expected that from a PowerOfRock fighting game, huh? Mostly spouted by the badass warrior-scientist protagonist to show off what a GeniusBruiser he is.
92* This can reach excruciating levels in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. Characters banging on, at length, over aetherial properties and such is frequently either a justification for how the PlayerCharacter is to solve the current problem by fighting it, or as an excuse to send the player off on quests to pad for time before the actual plot relevant fight
93* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' avoided this for most of its history, with the nuts and bolts of Dracula's constant [[BackFromTheDead resurrections]] and his [[ChaosArchitecture haunted castle]] elided or [[HandWave hand-waved]], but then along comes ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'', and Genya [[spoiler: (aka once-proud series hero Alucard)]] is largely there just to grease the plot with this stuff.
94* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' official {{manga}} ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' has a number of the cast using ''Shinto-Babble'' to power a three-stage rocket that will take them to the moon. The explanation of the three-stage rocket and its power source are very much in-character for the series: ''real'' logic can go take a hike. While a cursory glance at other source material does imply there are certain rules to using magic in the ''Touhou'' universe, ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve and [[FauxSymbolism What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic]] seem to be the only things that really matter in the long run.
95* In ''VideoGame/TriangleStrategy'', Corentin wants to create never-melting ice so he can [[MundaneUtility make weapons without needing iron]] (he hails from Hyzante, which has very little iron of its own). However, when he tries to explain how he made never-melting ice to Erador, it goes way over Erador's head, which forces Corentin to use LaymansTerms.
96* The magical laws of physics on Auldrant are integral to the plot of ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', so we get a lot of this from Jade and/or Tear as they explain why certain things have to be done a certain way, or can't be done at all. Expect to hear the word "[[MinovskyParticle Fonons]]" a ''lot''.
97* Small example from ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', from a mage who has turned a whole village invisible:
98-->'''Ancotar''': You're about to quote Vanto's Third Law... don't worry! I have not actually found a way to violate the Conservation of Perception!
99** The same mage's journal also contains a reference to "Galerion's Ninth Law", which is apparently immutable.
100** ''Liminal Bridges'' is an in-universe book which consists almost entirely of this. Funnily, if you look at the meanings behind the component words, most of it actually makes perfect sense; it explains why summoning spells are usually only temporary, and how sigil stones and Oblivion gates get around that.
101* ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' allows you to have a conversation with Riften's resident court mage [[AbsentMindedProfessor Wylandriah]] about her investigation into a magical construct and a reagent that will allow said construct to maintain a field of permanent harmonic energy. Expressing interest in the topic results in a discussion on theoretical applied harmonics and Ralston's constant of universal inversion and how to apply them to hold magic fields in place while simultaneously counteracting complete universal collapse (and [[MetaGuy observing the mysterious disappearance]] [[NoodleImplements of calipers]] from Tamriel since the beginning of the 4th era)... If that doesn't make much sense to you, but you don't want to admit it, don't worry... you can [[InsaneTrollLogic talk your way out of it]]...
102* Prepare for [[http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/Wave_Theory a whole lot of this]] if you want to know how magic works in ''[[VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia Ar tonelico]]''. The bulk of the really detailed stuff is only found in supplementary materials, though.
103* In ''{{VideoGame/Mabinogi}}'' if you start playing and ''then'' decide to learn magic (instead of starting as an already-trained mage), the first teacher you'll come across is Lassar. Her teaching method involves lectures in mildly mind-numbing detail, book study, homework, and oral quizzes (and trying to get you - and everybody around - into school uniforms). As her lessons go on for a number of in-game days, many players skip over the lectures or take other routes to learning magic just to avoid the whole process. For those who don't, their content is entirely consistent and mostly relevant to an adventurer. Some find it a nice change from the usual MMO approach of just handing your character spells.
104* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has a bit here and there; some young mages wandering around Stormwind chat about their studies in magi-babble terms (and drop some Ghostbusters references in the process -- bonus points also for their conversation being randomised, so you can be sure it doesn't mean anything since it can be in any order), while Kalecgos gives us the following during the Dragon Soul raid; what it actually ''means'' is unclear, but it's a good excuse for another boss fight:
105-->'''Kalecgos:''' The Focusing Iris within the Eye of Eternity may allow us to converge the magical matrix contained within the Dragon Soul!
106* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' uses this on some occasions, especially since it has a tendency to introduce terms early and then explain what they mean later. This does mean that the 'babble' effect decreases over time as the audience starts to get their head around what characters mean when they say certain things. To give [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift an example]], saying that [[DeusEstMachina the Takamagahara system]] can perform Phenomena Intervention to travel between the various alternate timelines created by the Continuum Shift event that happened when Noel lost control over her power as the Successor of the Azure, is a very complicated way of saying 'the bad guys can do RealityWarping by exploiting the heroine's PowerIncontinence'.
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110* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' takes MagicAIsMagicA very seriously. The visual novel contains lengthy segments of exposition on how the rules of magic work and how summoning and Noble Phantasms are connected to it. In the end, the rules exist to be twisted, bent and broken.
111** This is underselling it a tad, frankly: if you took all the Magi Babble out, you would be left with a fairly short visual novel.
112** This also extended to the rest of the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'', like how people gain [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]], why [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Akiha's power]] makes you feel hot even though it's not fire or heat-based, or why [[Literature/AngelNotes humanity goes extinct in the future]] [[VideoGame/FateExtra if the Six Sisters ritual is done]].
113** This is heavily combined with TechnoBabble in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Understandable, given the protagonists work for [[HeroesRUs Chaldea Security Organisation]], a UN-backed group that makes heavy use of {{Magitek}} to summon Servants and save the world through [[TimePolice time travel]]. For example, SHEBA, the machine that they use to watch out for instabilities in the timeline, was created through a combination of [[spoiler:King Solomon's]] magic, as well as the founder's astral magic. However, it's also connected to an impressive computer network manned by a group of BridgeBunnies. The result is technicians or MrExposition babbling on about magic in a way that sounds vaguely like computer science.
114** In ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', whenever anyone speaks this way around Ayaka Sajyou, someone who didn't even know the supernatural was real until she was dragged into the Holy Grail War, she complains that she can't understand what they are saying.
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118* The "Kesandru's Well" arc from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' positively brims with this trope. Particularly [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030408 one of the Rayths]].
119* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' uses a PowersAsPrograms / {{Magitek}} system mentioned above. We hear some of the explanation, but the more complicated parts are explicitly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=519 in this strip.]]
120* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Mr. Verres tends to lapse into this [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-11-13 as seen here.]]
121* Parodied in [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=458 this]] ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' strip, taking place in a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-inspired AlternateUniverse. A shoptalk conversation between a mage and a cleric is peppered with what the reader may recognize as RPG terms. Another character calls it "mystical magic-speak".
122* At the end of the ''[[OffToSeeTheWizard Oz arc]]'' of ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' Jareth pulls an almost full page "Little Jareth's Magic Lecture" stunt to explain some rules of his magic (boiled down to: "I can't teleport between magic and non-magic places without someone [[WordsCanBreakMyBones saying the right words]] (which I'm not allowed to tell), sorry."[[note]]It's partially true at best, as he ''has'' some means of transport between the "Underground" (magical place) and the Building (non-magical place).[[/note]]) just to prove that he didn't subject the cast to the whole thing [[ItAmusedMe for his own amusement]] (he probably did).
123* ''Webcomic/AmongTheChosen'' has a ''lot'' of this with some military jargon and UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics tossed in.
124* Used in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' by GadgeteerGenius Vienne [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_17.html here,]] to demonstrate how she tricks the highly logical FunctionalMagic system into doing something completely unprecedented.
125* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Used when Thor tries to explain to two of his clerics how divine power works.
126-->'''Thor:''' What your eyes are seeing as the color yellow is a succession of psychically charged theosophic particles--escaping the event horizon of my divine singularity at a specific wavelength determined by our shared pantheonic quiddity.\
127'''Durkon:''' Yer... Yer gonna haf ta make tha at least two degrees dumber fer me.\
128'''Minrah:''' Three would be nice.\
129'''Durkon:''' Aye, let's go wit three.
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134* Given the amount of TechnoBabble in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, it shouldn't be surprising that the authors let the wizards in the stories dump loads of Magi Babble too. Most of the stories that have one of the teachers from the Magical Arts Department have at least ''some'' Magi Babble cropping up.
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138* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', where Aang explains to Toph why he can no longer activate the Avatar state. She listens to his explanation, and [[DeadpanSnarker the page quote ensues]].
139* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "Bright Lights," victims who have their shadow stolen become weak and sick. As Galaxy explains, "That makes sense. No doubt they feel empty and incomplete -- the loss of their shadows being an outward sign of some loss of substance." Good luck trying to understand ''that'' last sentence when you're 5-years-old.
140* Used by pony!Twilight in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' to explain how she was able to reopen the portal to the human world ahead of its regular CelestialDeadline. Apparently using Equestrian magic to travel between dimensions requires understanding advanced mathematics. The ponies don't get one letter of it, except for Pinkie Pie who is able to give a layman's explanation.
141* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' episode "Rupert In Timeland," Father Time explains to Rupert and Podgy that they weren't frozen when he stopped time because eating peppered pickles and sneezing at the same time as someone else while inside a tent protects you from the time freezing effect.
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