History Main / DoesNotLikeMagic

** The first few books suggest Tom Riddle Senior, Voldemort's father, left his wife and unborn child just because he found out the former was a witch. The sixth book revealed she had him [[SlippingAMickey doped up]] on LovePotion and he just wanted to get away.

* Aleister Crowley in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' despises magic [[spoiler:due to it causing the death of his family]] and founded the science side as a counterpart to the magic side. Ironically, he was responsible for the modern understanding of magic and is arguably the most skilled magician in the setting.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'':

* Throughout ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', it's implied (and eventually confirmed) that [[BigBad Toffee]]'s endgame is the total destruction of magic, which was used by the Butterfly family to hold dominance over monsters for centuries (and is the cause of his [[{{Fingore}} missing finger]]). Shortly before the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:Star herself]] comes to hate magic, and aims to finish what Toffee started, [[spoiler:and succeeds]].

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E14Jaws Jaw$!]]"

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* In ''Anime/{{Jewelpet 2009}}'', [[EraSpecificPersonality Yuku]] hates magic and thinks everyone is overly dependent on it. This is because he himself is terrible at magic, while coming from a world where magic is all-important.

* Chisame Hasegawa from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', doesn't like anything that would come from a FantasyKitchenSink, including magic, because it's weird and disrupts her "normal" non-magical life. However, she is perfectly fine using her ''pactio'' artifact but there she has the excuse of it being, basically, {{magitek}} for data. [[spoiler: Later, certain events reveal that it has grown on her significantly.]]

* Franchise/{{Batman}} fits this trope to a T... but he somehow [[MageKiller beats the crap out of every magical villain ever]]. In the ComicBook/Trinity2008 comic, he mentions why he hates magic. It's unpredictable...just like madness. He further clarifies his position in the Wonder Woman led version of ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark. Among his many skills, he's an occultist who's studied under masters of the art (though he doesn't practise himself) and from what he learnt - the [[RealityWarper only limits to magic is self-imposed]] and that there are dozens of unstable individuals with the power of the gods at their fingertip and held back only by a modicum of restraint.

* Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian, at least in his comic incarnation. Though he uses magic swords and the like when forced, Conan is extremely distrustful of sorcery. To be fair, he occupies a universe where, for the most part, MagicIsEvil.
** This carries over to the film adaptations of Conan, as his parents were killed by the EvilSorceror Thulsa Doom and he is antagonized by the wizard Thoth-Amon in the second film.
---> "What good is a sword against sorcery?"
* ''Creator/DCComics'': Doctor Thirteen doesn't believe in magic and is a professional debunker of magic - in the same universe that has the Phantom Stranger, Zatanna, the Spectre, ''Etrigan'', Doctor Fate...
** Brian Azarello applied the most simple solution to this problem when he wrote the ''Doctor Thirteen'' backup in ''Tales of the Unexpected'' - ol' Doc is in denial of reality. When I, Vampire offhandedly mentions Dr. Fate, Thirteen calls him a cut-rate huckster who uses hypnosis to simulate the supernatural.

** [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]], as demonstrated [[http://knightinironarmor.tumblr.com/post/145814094985 here.]] Though in one story in which he has to wield a magical Excalibur in the future, he does concede to himself that maybe - ''just'' maybe - magic does have its good points.

** [[ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics Hank McCoy]], too. The ''X-Men: Endangered Species'' short series is about him trying - [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption and failing]] - to understand the way ComicBook/ScarletWitch's "no more mutants" spell works and revert it. He even goes on a rant about how, for all the weird magic stuff he found, he always hoped SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic was in effect. That the effect of said spell was the mutant population being reduced to 198 doesn't hurt his case.
*** Ironically, the "Time-Displaced Hank" from ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' ultimately switched from studying science to studying magic after being stranded in the future, because he couldn't catch up to how far science had advanced.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsExodus Exodus]] exhibits this attitude. Being a displaced 12th century knight, it's no surprise. He rebukes the High Evolutionary for his "occult dabblings" and considers the Scarlet Witch to be mutantkind's #1 enemy after she brings about M-Day, referring to her as 'The Pretender'. [[spoiler: He softens on this after the ''Trial of Magneto'', when Wanda uses her death and resurrection to become 'The Redeemer', creating a mutant afterlife and ultimate Cerebro back-up that also a) neatly bypasses the need for the Crucible, b) allows the resurrection of every mutant that ever slipped through Cerebro's sensors, and tells her story alongside her.]]

* The Faceless Men are initially presented as being like this in ''Fanfic/ASongOfIceAndFiresThatWerentAllMyFault'' win regards to Harry Dresden, meaning that they're easily framed for threatening to try get him out of Braavos. As it turns out, though, they only object to necromancy (which isn't exactly unreasonable).

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* ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''. Phillip Lovecraft refuses to use any kind of magic, even though everyone else does. This is repeatedly commented on by other characters. Although, it seems to work according to ''Disney's The Princess and the Frog'' type rules – that is, [[DealWithTheDevil piecemeal bargains with demons that whittle away at the magician's soul until there's nothing left,]] so Phil's smarter than the average bear for not doing that.

* Darren on ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', of course the way Endora treats him probably contributes to this.

* This is the central conflict of ''Series/Merlin2008''. King Uther Pendragon doesn't trust magic due to the circumstances surrounding his wife's death, and seeing as he's the king this results in Camelot living under a BanOnMagic. The young Myth/{{Merlin}} has to train in secret while using his powers to help an almost-as-young [[Myth/KingArthur Prince Arthur]].
* Theresa from ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' even openly admitted to HATING magic. In the movie, that is completely true. In the series, it varies from episode to episode, where sometimes she hates it, sometimes she is just being cautious, and sometimes she enjoys it. She also implied that she wanted to be a wizard too, so much of this inconsistency can be attributed to...let's call it "Wand Envy".

[[folder:Tabletop RPG]]

*** Bedine and Uthgardt barbarians consider arcane magic sort of ignominious trickery. The former used to exile magic-users, the latter may or may not attack a wizard upon identification. At least Bedine has a good reason: spellcasting may attract [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Phaerimm]] inclined to make anyone around "disappear".
** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' campaign setting, the Ashbound sect of Druids feels this way about arcane magic (the sort practiced by Wizards and Sorcerers), although they're generally tolerant of divine magic (the sort practiced by Clerics and-- unsurprisingly-- Druids).
** Most characters in the ''TabletopGame/{{DarkSun}}'' campaign setting do not like arcane magic ''at all'', because it's widely perceived as the reason the world is such a CrapsackWorld (with, admittedly, some justification). And in this setting, divine magic more or less doesn't exist (the place is such a CrapsackWorld even the gods gave up on it). The few practitioners of arcane magic fall into one of two camps: the Veiled Alliance, who survive by being secretive and/or pretending their spells are actually psionic abilities, and the Sorcerer-Kings and their minions, who survive by being so freaking powerful no one dares to say boo about it.

[[folder:Webcomics]]

* The main character of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' hates magic (also ghosts). This is due in part to its mysterious nature, but also stems from a childhood incident involving a ghost wizard. [[spoiler:His grandfather died after casting a spell to contain a ghost wizard trying to curse the young McNinja. As part of the spell's conditions, Doc can't tell anyone his true name or else the ghost wizard will be freed.]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Thor [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1145.html reveals]] that the Northern mortals [[spoiler:from the previous iteration of the world]] became barbarians that put little to no faith in magic, dismissing it as being 'for fools and simpletons'. Given how [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly mortal belief influences the gods]] in this setting, this resulted in Odin, the god of magic for the Northern pantheon, suffering from a sort of brain damage [[spoiler:in this current iteration.]]

* Sokka from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. "I'm just a guy... with a boomerang... didn't ask for all this flying... and magic..."

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':

** The Phantom Blot wants to destroy magic and magic users. [[FreudianExcuse This is because]][[spoiler: Magica de Spell destroyed his village and family, causing him to hate all magic, whether it's good or evil.]]

[[folder:Real Life/Meta]]
* It's not uncommon for a roleplayer, GM, or writer in a SharedUniverse to downplay or discourage any sort of magic or even mysticism, despite operating within a HighFantasy setting.
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', "Jaw$"

** [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Exodus]] exhibits this attitude. Being a displaced 12th century knight, it's no surprise. He rebukes the High Evolutionary for his "occult dabblings" and considers the Scarlet Witch to be mutantkind's #1 enemy after she brings about M-Day, referring to her as 'The Pretender'. [[spoiler: He softens on this after the ''Trial of Magneto'', when Wanda uses her death and resurrection to become 'The Redeemer', creating a mutant afterlife and ultimate Cerebro back-up that also a) neatly bypasses the need for the Crucible, b) allows the resurrection of every mutant that ever slipped through Cerebro's sensors, and tells her story alongside her.]]

** [[Characters/XMenAcolytes Exodus]] exhibits this attitude in his dealings with the High Evolutionary (who he accuses of "occult dabblings") and the ComicBook/ScarletWitch. Being a time-displaced KnightTemplar, it's not hard to guess why.

* In the ''{{Film/Halloweentown}}'' movies, Gwen is a [[WitchSpecies witch]] who married a human and prefers to live magic-free in the human world even after he's passed away. Her oldest son, Dylan, shares this outlook, while her mother and two daughters do not. As the series goes on Gwen and Dylan both warm up to magic to various degrees, depending on the situation [[DependingOnTheWriter and writer]].

** The Nords, a ProudWarriorRace of HornyVikings, as a rule of thumb, have an inherent distrust of magic and those who practice it. Though they will make an exception for practitioners of Restoration magic (since more healers is always good), Enchanting (using magic to make weapons and armor more useful), and the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]] ([[LanguageOfMagic The Magic of the Voice]], of which early Nords were the first human practitioners). Nords who choose to pursue magical interests are often ''disowned'' by their families. However, it is revealed in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' that this is true only for the ''modern'' Nords. Ancient Nords considered magic to be "the Clever Craft" and held magic users in high regard. Several ancient Nord heroes used magic to supplement their formidable combat skills, making them {{Magic Knight}}s. Countless wars against the various WitchSpecies [[OurElvesAreDifferent races of Mer (Elves)]] soured the Nords to magic over time, and more recent events, such as the collapse of much of the city of Winterhold being blamed on the local [[WizardingSchool College of Winterhold]], have only made things worse. In fact, the College questline [[spoiler:involves an ArtifactOfDoom which nearly destroys the entire ''world'']]. Despite this, most of the Jarls of Skyrim still retain the services of [[CourtMage Court Wizards]] who advise them in matters of magic, though they are still [[KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect rather disrespected]]. Another example of the difference between the ancient and modern Nords views toward magic can be seen in their treatment of Jhunal, the old Nordic aspect of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric Divine]] Julianos. Jhunal was the god of mathematics and language to the ancient Nords, and (as both Jhunal and Julianos) has an association with magic. As time passed, however, Jhunal had a "falling out" with the other gods of the Nordic pantheon and is no longer present in modern Nordic religious tradition.
** The Redguards, another ProudWarriorRace made up of ScaryBlackMan [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordsmen]], likewise have a similar dislike of magic users. According to lore, the Redguards believe that magic is for the weak and the wicked and their children are taught cautionary stories of men who [[YourSoulIsMine steal souls]] and tamper with minds. Necromancy is especially frowned upon, as the Redguards' religion leaves their warriors forbidden to raise arms against the honored dead; there is a specialized society dedicated to fighting the undead, but they are shunned despite the necessity of their role and mostly wander the Alik'r desert as exiles. Any warrior who uses magic is considered not a ''true'' warrior in Redguard culture. The one exception is for Destruction magic, which isn't believed to have the nastier effects of other schools of magic and because [[NoKillLikeOverkill dealing more damage]] is always appreciated in Redguard culture. Like the Nords, they have some historical justification for it as well. Their ancestors fought a devastating war in their ancient homeland of Yokuda against the magically inclined Sinistral Mer (aka the Left-Handed Elves) in which the ancient Yokudans [[FinalSolution drove them to extinction]]. It was so bad that even modern Redguards [[UnPerson refuse to speak of them to this day]]. Upon migrating to Tamriel, the Redguards have often found themselves in conflict with the neighboring [[WitchSpecies magically-inclined]] [[UnevenHybrid Bretons]] of High Rock as well.

* Throughout ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', it's implied (and eventually confirmed) that [[BigBad Toffee]]'s endgame is the total destruction of magic, which was used by the Butterfly family to hold dominance over monsters for centuries (and is the cause of his [[{{Fingore}} missing finger]]). Shortly before the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:Star herself]] comes to hate magic, and aims to finish what Toffee started.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] in his ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' incarnation hates magic. Scrooge considers magic "a shortcut to hard work," according to Webby. He doesn't even allow spellbooks in his mansion. Then again, considering how often Scrooge deals with the supernatural, he's probably just being cautious.
** The Phantom Blot is even worse, since he wants to destroy magic and magic users. [[FreudianExcuse This is because]][[spoiler: Magica de Spell destroyed his village and family, causing him to hate all magic, whether it's good or evil.]]
* Throughout ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', it's implied (and eventually confirmed) that [[BigBad Toffee]]'s endgame is the total destruction of magic, which was used by the Butterfly family to hold dominance over monsters for centuries (and is the cause of his [[{{Fingore}} missing finger]]). Shortly before the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:Star herself]] comes to hate magic, and finishes what Toffee started.

Compare FlatEarthAtheist. Both are about supernatural settings where one character is set apart by preferring the mundane, whether by choice or ignorance - but it is still much closer related to NayTheist: Both FlatEarthAtheist and NayTheist refuse to believe/worship, while someone who Does Not Like Magic just thinks it is bad, evil or dangerous.

{{Muggle}}s (the trope, not the common folk like the word is used in ''Franchise/HarryPotter'') are typically suspicious of magic because they are AllOfTheOtherReindeer.

* Glom the human fighter in the second season of ''Podcast/DarkDice'' refers to all magic users as "witches", distrusts one of the other party members just for mentioning the god of magic (along with being a divine spellcaster), and is so shaken by seeing his sister cast a spell that he takes sanity damage and has to be convinced that it was just an illusion.

** The first few books suggest Tom Riddle Senior, Voldemort's father, left his wife and unborn child just because he found out the former was a witch. The sixth book revealed she had him doped up on love potion and he just wanted to get away.

* Chisame Hasegawa from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', doesn't like anything that would come from a FantasyKitchenSink, including magic, because it's weird and disrupts her "normal" non-magical life. However, she is perfectly fine using her ''pactio'' artifact but there she has the excuse of it being, basically, {{magitek}} for data. [[spoiler: Later, certain events reveal that it has grown on her significantly.]]

* Franchise/{{Batman}} fits this trope to a T... but he somehow [[MageKiller beats the crap out of every magical villain ever]]. In the ComicBook/{{Trinity2008}} comic, he mentions why he hates magic. It's unpredictable...just like madness. He further clarifies his position in the Wonder Woman led version of ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark. Among his many skills, he's an occultist who's studied under masters of the art (though he doesn't practise himself) and from what he learnt - the [[RealityWarper only limits to magic is self-imposed]] and that there are dozens of unstable individuals with the power of the gods at their fingertip and held back only by a modicum of restraint.

** The [[ComicBook/New52 New 52]] interpretation of Doctor Thirteen has him more of a magical scientist... while the skepticism went to ''his'' father, the ''original'' Doctor Thirteen. Heck, the former is berated by the latter's ''ghost'' for believing in such things.

** [[ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics Hank McCoy]], too. The ''X-Men: Endangered Species'' short series is about him trying - [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption and failing]] - to understand the way ComicBook/{{Scarlet Witch}}'s "no more mutants" spell works and revert it. He even goes on a rant about how, for all the weird magic stuff he found, he always hoped SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic was in effect. That the effect of said spell was the mutant population being reduced to 198 doesn't hurt his case.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Monstress}}'', most humans are this. Even the ones who aren't actively against magical beings such as the Arcanics (i.e. [[TheResistance the Edenites]]) are wary around them.
* ComicBook/NickFury, at least as imagined in ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}''. He's willing to work with Comicbook/DoctorStrange but does not trust him or his art. A little odd, considering he does trust [[ComicBook/XMen Carlos Javier's team]], when he would have no basis for distinguishing between their disparate power sources.

* This is the central conflict of ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. King Uther Pendragon doesn't trust magic due to the circumstances surrounding his wife's death, and seeing as he's the king this results in Camelot living under a BanOnMagic. The young Myth/{{Merlin}} has to train in secret while using his powers to help an almost-as-young [[KingArthur Prince Arthur]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

* The Chaos god Khorne in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is a brutal WarGod who considers magic the tool of weaklings incapable of winning their own battles, which naturally makes him the eternal rival of [[TheArchmage Tzeentch, Chaos God of Sorcery]] (though they're not complete opposites, that would be Slaanesh, the Chaos god(dess) of desire, who Khorne sees as even more of a cowardly effeminate weakling). Note that Khorne has no problem with magical wargear or summoning his daemons to fight alongside you, but it's probably unwise to discuss the potential hypocrisy of this.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* The game VideoGame/TalesOfMajEyal includes the town Zigur, comprised almost entirely of violent and obsessive magic haters, hunting down those who either use magic or items powered by magic without regards to personality or history. Semi-justified as one of the biggest disasters of the setting, the Spellblaze, was caused by magic (although not on purpose). While their creed is extreme, several of the settings' worst threats are magic abusers, thus there is at least SOME cause for their existence.
* Yog from ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' hates magic even more than the average Barbarian. While studying magic always bored him, he only really started to hate magic after a fellow student he loved, Vidomina, unwittingly opened a TomeOfEldritchLore and became an evil Necromancer as a result. Ironic since he's a half-genie with a talent for lightning magic similar to Solymr. In his personal ''Shadow of Death'' campaign "Birth of a Barbarian", Yog is still technically a Wizard with the Chain Lightning specialization, but his stat growth is more in line with Barbarians. More importantly, this Campaign specific version of him cannot acquire a spellbook or learn any magic at all (rendering his own specialization completely useless). This can make his campaign a bit challenging for players accustomed to casting spells. He apparently lightens up on this attitude later in life, since the "normal" Barbarian Hero version of him can buy a spellbook and learn magic like any other Hero.

* Kokonoe of ''Videogame/BlazBlue'' has low opinions on magic (including the MagiTek of the setting), believing that science is superior. And she is a renowned scientist of Sector Seven, who held the belief that [[MagicVersusScience as long as magic isn't properly understood (by science), people will be at the mercy of mages]]. Ironically, Kokonoe was the daughter of Nine, one of the ten greatest sorcerers in the world (called the Ten Sages), and also inherits her magic potential.

* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Thor [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1145.html reveals]] that the Northern mortals [[spoiler:from the previous iteration of the world]] became barbarians that put little to no faith in magic, dismissing it as being 'for fools and simpletons'. Given how [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly mortal belief influences the gods]] in this setting, this resulted in Odin, the god of magic for the Northern pantheon, suffering from a sort of brain damage [[spoiler:in this current iteration.]]

* Princess Bubblegum from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is very anti-magic. She fully believes all magic [[ClarkesThirdLaw is science that is not understood yet]] and vents this belief each time it is brought up, even when just acknowledging magic would have gotten her, Finn and Jake free from prison. However, the very setting of the show proves her wrong since she is friends with a half-vampire/half-demon girl whose father is a demon lord who likes to steal souls, a ghost princess, Death being an actual character in the show, numerous afterlives known as "Dead Worlds" are confirmed to exist, and [[spoiler: Bubblegum herself being the reincarnation of a Candy Elemental, making herself a magical being.]]

Compare FlatEarthAtheist. Both are about supernatural settings where one character is set apart by preferring the mundane, whether by choice or ignorance - but it is still much closer related to NayTheist: Both FlatEarthAtheist and NayTheist refuse to believe/worship, while someone who DoesNotLikeMagic just thinks it is bad, evil or dangerous.

Compare MagicIsEvil (the magic hater may consider it to be), AntiMagicalFaction (where a whole society feels this way), BanOnMagic, and ObsessivelyNormal (a particularly potent motivation for this trope). Often overlaps with AntiMagic.