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* MissingReflection: Weaponized in ''Vengeance of the Dancing Gods'': a sneaky demon sets a "mark" on the master thief Macore: henceforth he will cast no shadow or reflection. [[spoiler:Macore later uses this mark to slip into the wizard Ruddygore's treasure vault and initiate Hell's newest plan for taking over Earth.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: A master thief gets hit with a curse that takes away his reflection; when he looks in a mirror, he sees nothing. Later on, when he riddles his way through Ruddygore's vault, the final trap is a magical mirror that creates evil duplicates to slay intruders -- but can't do a thing to someone with no reflection.

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* ChekhovsGun: A master Master thief Macore gets hit with a curse that takes away his reflection; when he looks in a mirror, he sees nothing. Later on, when he riddles works his way through Ruddygore's vault, the final main trap is a magical mirror that creates evil duplicates to slay intruders -- but can't do a thing to someone with no reflection.



* EngineeredPublicConfession: The villain is defeated with a two-step plan. First, edit the script of a speech being given by TheDragon to contain the phrase "I wish you could all see what the world will be like when we win." Then, conceal a MagicLamp in the podium he's speaking from. All of the BigBad's previous dupes find out ''exactly'' what they've been supporting.

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* EngineeredPublicConfession: The villain is defeated with a two-step plan. First, edit the script of a speech being given by TheDragon to contain the phrase "I wish you could all see what the world will be like when we win." Then, conceal a MagicLamp [[GenieInABottle magic wish-granting Lamp]] in the podium he's speaking from. All of the BigBad's previous dupes followers find out ''exactly'' what they've been supporting.



%%* GenieInABottle: The Lamp of Lakash.

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%%* * GenieInABottle: The Lamp of Lakash.Lakash is a classic "magic lamp" right out of the Arabian Nights, but with a twist: it does have a genie living inside it, but the genie is the last person who used the Lamp more than once. So you get one wish for free, but the second time you exchange places with the previous genie.



%%* HighFantasy: Ruthlessly parodied.

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%%* * HighFantasy: Ruthlessly parodied.parodied in just about every way you can imagine, and a few you can't. To start with, most of the tropes that make a work High Fantasy are explicitly written into the basic Rules of reality, just like, say, gravity.

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