->'''Aang''': When Azula shot me with lightning, my Seventh Chakra was blocked, cutting off my connection to all the cosmic energy in the universe.\\
'''Toph''': You know what I just heard? [[BlahBlahBlah Blah-blah]], spiritual mumbo jumbo, blah-blah, something about space.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

[[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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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' often has Touma frustrated when Index or another magical character starts explaining things this way.
-->'''Touma''': It feels like you're just throwing all this weird terminology at me.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' frequently has MagiBabble, on the premise that "alchemy is a precise science, really!" The basic rules being that they can't create matter from nothing, but the energy source is unknown to most people. This is where the Philosopher's Stone comes in. 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'', not to mention matter creation.
* ''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]].
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* The spell matrix in Sweetie Belle's notebook in Fanfic/TheSweetieChroniclesFragments tends to be a source of large amounts of MagiBabble any time Sweetie Belle or Twilight Sparkle start talking about it.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'' the magician Telemain speaks almost entirely in Magibabble 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.
* Ponder Stibbons, a {{Magitek}} {{Geek}} in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels, uses a combination of MagiBabble 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 fulfill the same function as saying 'It's magic' in RealLife, though it is usually incorporated with other MagiBabble.
* This is literally Bob's entire purpose in ''TheDresdenFiles''. He knows the rules better than any mere mortal like Harry could ever know them.
** 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 inherit 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.
* This comes up quite often in the ''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.
* Earlier, in a scene in ''Blood of the Fold'', a character's MagiBabble is interrupted and it is explained (via more MagiBabble) that the character he's talking to already knew everything he was telling her.
-->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-"
-->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."
* The MagiBabble in L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s ''[[SagaOfRecluce Recluce]]'' saga is extremely convincing; it almost feels like real physics.
* 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 ''MagicTheGathering'' novels set during the Brothers' War (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.
* Taken to the logical extreme in ''TheDeathGateCycle'' by MargaretWeis and Tracy Hickman: the magi babble is literally indistinguishable from TechnoBabble and ''almost makes sense''.
* 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!
** 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.
* The Bob Howard / [[TheLaundrySeries Laundry]] stories by CharlesStross are *made* of this trope. The magic in this setting 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.
* The ''HarryPotter'' books have a fair bit, especially ''DeathlyHallows''. 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.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* {{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.
* {{Dragonlance}} DungeonsAndDragons 3.5 sourcebooks explain the difference between High Sorcery and Primal Sorcery, and Clerical magic and Mysticism.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''[[GuiltyGear Guilty Gear 2: Overture]]'' is almost ''entirely'' this. Bet you never expected that from a PowerOfRock fighting game, huh?
* ''{{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 ''Aria of Sorrow'', and Genya [[spoiler: (aka once-proud series hero Alucard)]] is largely there just to grease the plot with this stuff.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' 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 and 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.
* 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''.
* Small example from Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion, from a mage who has turned a whole village invisible:
-->'''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!
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''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.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* The "Kesandru's Well" arc from ''SluggyFreelance'' positively brims with this trope. Particularly [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030408 one of the Rayths]].
* ''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]].
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Mr. Verres tends to lapse into this as seen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-11-13 here]].
* Parodied in [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=458 this]] ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' strip, taking place in a ''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".
* 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).
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Given the amount of TechnoBabble in the WhateleyUniverse, it shouldn't be surprising that the authors let the wizards in the stories dump loads of MagiBabble too. Most of the stories that have one of the teachers from the Magical Arts Department have at least ''some'' MagiBabble cropping up.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* 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]].
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