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superslinger2007
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10:17:27 PM Mar 11th 2010
About "Suzumiya Haruhi: any inconsistencies, contrivances, or really just anything could be explained with "Haruhi did it", or Kyon being an Unreliable Narrator." You mean the deblurred Mikuru picture?
skeith
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06:58:36 AM Apr 16th 2010
Alt title suggestion: "Wand Wave". Good/bad?
Supergamer81
10:38:55 AM Aug 20th 2011
bad

Nezumi
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07:23:18 PM Sep 6th 2010
Can someone do something about the duplicate Touhou entry? I don't want to wipe either of them out, because they both have something to add, but I can't think of a way to elegantly merge them, either.
MCE
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11:04:54 AM Mar 24th 2011
edited by MCE
Does Mass Effect belong here?. FTL,cheap dropships and biotic powers all use mass effect fields, some weapons too.
MrDeath
11:37:47 AM Mar 24th 2011
No. Read the trope. A Wizard Did It is when the explanation of something is just "It's magic" in the sense that the writers aren't really bothering to explain.
deadguy
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12:36:23 PM Aug 6th 2011
The trope explanation seems to imply that this is a fantasy only trope, literally saying "It's magic" or "Something magic happened off screen" to explain plot holes and continuity errors. But then a lot of examples are more in the way of "whenever Fanon/the creators (it's about 50/50 in so far as who does it) decides that continuity errors or out of character moments are the result of contrived plot devices that may or may not have shown up in more than one panel of a comic". For instance Doom's out of character moments all being Doombots and/or anal skrulls, or anything out of place in DC being explained as "Superboy punched reality, and this is the result".

Do we delete all examples that don't involve wizards, or should someone change the explanation to make it clear that this isn't a fantasy show only trope, that wizards aren't required for it, and that it's not about whenever it's reviled that a wizard did something that earlier didn't have an explanation beyond "This isn't the real world, things are different here".
jkxs
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03:59:44 AM Feb 6th 2012
edited by jkxs
There really ought to be a link to Clarke's Third Law, which is fairly close in effect and execution.
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