History PlayingWith / TheMagicComesBack

** With religion spreading the fear of magic, humans [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve banished magic from the world]]. Thanks to modern RPG, UrbanFantasy stories, and so on, humans start seeing magic in a positive way once again, thus enabling them to lift the banishment of magic.

** Hundreds of Youkai marching in the modern streets of Tokyo. Significant chunk of the population suddenly capable of flight and mind control and hurling fireballs.

** The ward that sealed the deity of magic is weakening, and his/her power begin to seep into the world.

** Mutants whose creation require the work of spells, which is only possible due to magic returning.

* '''Enforced''': Easy way to give people super power and have battle with magical monsters from ancient times.

** Youkai never existed in the first place. Due to Phlebotium, [[CosmicRetcon they always did.]]

** There's an element of DontThinkFeel, TheChosenOne and other such mystic stuff that remains above science and in the realm of extraordinary.

* '''Subverted''': Youkai sighted in the abandoned buildings in Tokyo. These are actually mutants.
* '''Double Subverted''': Mutants whose creation require the work of spells, which is only possible due to magic returning.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Magic returning is being played up as a big thing, with new energy, weapons, medicine, and ways of living. It turns out that the magic that does return is heavily confined, and while capable of amazing things, is uncontrolled and only preforms these amazing at random, and with limited results.

** There's an element of DontThinkFeel, TheChosenOne and other such mystic stuff that remains above science and in the realm of extradordinary.

* '''Played For Drama''': The harrowing tale of a few survivors fighting to escape from a metropolis overrun with [[{{Berserk}} unicorns, hydras,]] dragons, etc.

* '''Invoked''': Bob stocks up occult books because he believes that it will give him head start in the new magical era.
* '''Exploited''': The government immediately recruit anyone capable of magic, for the new era of magical warfare will soon dawn.

'''Alice''': "My spiritual sense tell me that magic is returning to the world, and that we'll see even more fantastic things soon."

-->'''Bob''': "Hey Dave, what would you do if your were in one of these 'magic suddenly exists kinds of stories?"\\

* '''Implied''': The show is about the [[FunctionalMagic daily lives of scientists studying a Phlebotium]]. There are many implications for what it can do, but the way people talk and what technology people use indicate that this is a very recent development from earth itself.

** The universe has spent so long without magic that its resurgence makes the laws of physics etc behave differently. Scientists then conduct research to determine how the laws interact with magic in order to form new laws. Thus,[[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic 'magic' becomes one more branch of science]].
** Magical creatures spring up and they are either sapient like humans or feral like spiders. Humans and other mundane animals learn how to co-exist with them just like they do with each other. 'Species discrimination' soon enters legal lexicon.

** There's an element of DontThinkFeel, TheChosenOne and other such mystic stuff that that remains above science and in the realm of extradordinary.

* '''Deconstructed''': The universe has spent so long without magic that its resurgence makes the laws of physics etc behave differently. Scientists conduct research to determine how the laws interact with magic in order to form new laws. Thus,[[SufficentlyAnalyzedMagic 'magic' becomes one more branch of science]].
* '''Reconstructed''': There's an element of DontThinkFeel, TheChosenOne and other such mystic stuff that that remains above science and in the realm of extradordinary.

* '''Downplayed''': Rumours of working spells floating around in the internet. Those spells might actually work given certain (complicated) conditions. There seems to be more and more of them appearing everyday.

** Magic in the world has its ups and downs, it's currently going up after a long downtime.
** The ward that seal the deity of magic is weakening, and his/her power begin to seep into the world.

** With religion spreading the fear of magic, humans [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve banished magic from the world]]. But thanks to modern RPG, UrbanFantasy stories, and so on, humans start seeing magic in a positive way once again, enabling them to lift the banishment of magic.

* '''Double Subverted''': Mutants which creation require the work of spells, which is only possible due to magic returning.
* '''Parodied''': Magic is returning, and people promptly exploit it for doing crazy sex. [[{{Squick}} Bye bye fursuit, welcome... umm... the real thing.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': Magic seems to have its own cycle, sometimes it's returning and sometimes it's leaving.
* '''Averted''': Magic has always been there, it's just not many people can endure the training to even have rudimentary capability of it.

* '''Invoked''': Bob stocks up occult books, believing that it will give him head start in the new magical era.

--> '''Bob''': "Well, I always want a CatGirl as a girlfriend..."

-->'''Bob''': "Hey Dave, what would you do if one day, magic suddenly exist in the world?"\\

* '''Implied''': The show is about the daily lives of scientists studying a Phlebotium. There are many implications for what it can do, but the way people talk and what technology people use indicate that this is a very recent development from earth itself.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The magical beings promptly slaughter the magic-less humans, and make this world their own.
** The universe has spent so long without magic that its resurgence breaks apart the laws of physics [[ApocalypseHow and is replacing the magic-less reality.]]
* '''Reconstructed''': Humans fight back those magical beings, with spells they hastily learned.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Magic returning becomes even more mundane in society. The scene of somebody sitting on the couch watching TV is replaced by somebody doing the same thing, but using magic to operate the remote. Which is within reach.

** The universe has spent so long without magic that its resurgence [[DivideByZero breaks apart the laws of physics]] [[ApocalypseHow and is replacing the magic-less reality.]]

* '''Played For Laughs''': Magic returning becomes even more mundane in society. The scene of somebody sitting on the couch watching TV is replaced by somebody doing the same thing, but using magic to operate the remote. Which is within reach.
* '''Implied''': The show is about the daily lives of scientists studying a Phlebotium. There are many implications for what it can do, but the way people talk and what technology people use indicate that this is a very recent development from earth itself.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Magic returning is being played up as a big thing, with new energy, weapons, medicine, and ways of living. It turns out that the magic that does return is heavily confined, and while capable of amazing things, is uncontrolled and only preforms these amazing at random, and with limited results.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Hundreds of Youkai marching in the modern streets of Tokyo. Significant chunk of the population suddenly capable of flight and mind control and hurling fireballs.

* '''Deconstructed''': The magical beings promptly slaughter the magic-less humans, and make this world their own.

* '''Justified''': Magic in the world has its ups and downs, it's currently going up after a long downtime.

--> '''Bob''': "More freaks make their way to the headline. I wonder what's going on in the world."
--> '''Alice''': "My spiritual sense tell me that magic is returning to the world, and that we'll see even more fantastic things soon."

--> '''Bob''': "Hey Dave, what would you do if one day, magic suddenly exist in the world?"
--> '''Dave''': "Why Bob, of course I'll use spells to get all da bitches."
--> '''Bob''': "How is that different from what you've always been doing?"

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* '''Inverted''': {{Gotterdammerung}}, or: TheMagicGoesAway.

* '''Played For Drama''': The harrowing tale of a few survivors fighting to escape from a metropolis overrun with {{[[Berserk}} unicorns, hydras,]] dragons, etc.