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Florestan
Since: May, 2015
19th Apr, 2020 06:57:04 PM
Perhaps Gave Up Too Soon? (Maybe downplayed)
The main character tries to cast a spell, or undo a curse, or run a robot/machine/whatever, and it doesn't seem to work. so they leave and then the audience sees that it did actually work. I can't think of any specific examples but I know there must be some and I'm going crazy.