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Film — Live-Action
Some Jerk with a Camera: When you try to shoehorn science into magic, all you do is make it less fun for the fantasy lovers, and even more infuriating for the science nerds!
The Nostalgia Critic: We don't need to know the science of the flux capacitor, we don't need the engineering manual for the Ring of Power. Do you want midichlorians? Because this is how you get midichlorians!
The Nostalgia Critic: We don't need to know the science of the flux capacitor, we don't need the engineering manual for the Ring of Power. Do you want midichlorians? Because this is how you get midichlorians!
Literature
"Science was taking the magic out of everything."
Music
I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies.
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies.
—Styx, "Come Sail Away"
Video Games
"I believe that the Traveler and its Light are advanced technology. I refuse to accept that this diminishes me."
"The latest research has produced startling revelations about Inkling ink! Once thought to simply disappear after a while, Inkling ink is actually rapidly disintegrated by airborne microbes!"
— Sunken Scroll 14, Splatoon 2
"Long ago, the Mudmouth was thought to be a spirit who haunted the depths of the Splatlands seas. Now, thanks to courage and quick thinking of Splatsville youths who thought to start throwing bombs into their mouths, we know they're just Salmonids who got stuck in a pipe and coated in mud."
— Salmonid Field Guide, Splatoon 3
Web Animation
"Church, there's no such thing as ghosts. You're one of them. You're an AI. You... are the Alpha."
— Washington, Red vs. Blue
Web Original
It's like finding out that pixie dust is just a fungus which grows in the brain.
— The Distressed Watcher on The Phantom Menace's "midichlorian" explanation of the Force
Okay while I admit I’d hate physically fighting an actual demon, why the fuck can’t family curse irl be more cool like they are in fiction. Like I got thrown the “lol you have 25 years to figure out what drives every man in your family to drink himself to death and every woman to go insane, before it gets you too” and all fucking along it was a chemical imbalance that can better be medicated by small pills invented like a few decades ago, and the reason every single fucking generation before me failed it was because the answer was literally out of their reach the whole time.
Like what kind of bullshit game is that.
Like what kind of bullshit game is that.
— pakastekaappihomo, Tumblr
Western Animation
(After finding "robot ghosts")
Farnsworth: Just as I suspected. These robots were buried in improperly shielded coffins. Their programming leaked into the castle's wiring through this old, abandoned modem, allowing them to project themselves as holograms.
Hermes: Of course! It was so obvious!
Farnsworth: Yes, that sequence of words I said makes perfect sense.
Farnsworth: Just as I suspected. These robots were buried in improperly shielded coffins. Their programming leaked into the castle's wiring through this old, abandoned modem, allowing them to project themselves as holograms.
Hermes: Of course! It was so obvious!
Farnsworth: Yes, that sequence of words I said makes perfect sense.
—Futurama, "The Honking"
Miscellaneous
"You got your crappy sci-fi all over my fantasy RPG."
— Lewis, Full Frontal Nerdity
"My old maths teacher used to say: 'Magic doesn't show the working.'"
We are not exploring the Moon or any other more improbable region. No analysis in any laboratory would discover chemical properties of lembas that made it superior to other cakes of wheat-meal.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter #210
