History Main / MageInManhattan

* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''{{Fables}}'', in which fairy tale characters have fled from their magical homelands, which were conquered by the evil Adversary, to the mundane world, with most settling in New York. [[spoiler:Eventually played straight when the Adversary sends the witch Baba Yaga leading an army of wooden soldiers to New York to conquer Fabletown.]] The Mundies never notice, because they think they are marching young Republicans.

* TheDCU villainess the Queen of Fables is the WickedStepmother from SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs. The twist is that in TheDCU, (a [[{{Grimmification}} bloodier version of]]) the events of the fairytale [[AllMythsAreTrue actually happened]], but then Snow White used a magic book to RetGone the whole thing into fiction, so the Queen is also a sort of SealedEvilInACan. When the magic book is reopened, the Queen takes over Manhattan and becomes convinced that WonderWoman is Snow White.

* OlderThanRadio in that it occurs in Chapter 8 of the early TimeTravel children's novel ''The Story of the Amulet'' by ENesbit: a queen from ancient Babylon (who doesn't have magical powers, though they do exist in the novel) ends up in "modern" (1900s) London.

* OlderThanRadio in that it occurs in Chapter 8 of the early TimeTravel children's novel ''The Story of the Amulet'' by [=~E. Nesbit~=]: a queen from ancient Babylon (who doesn't have magical powers, though they do exist in the novel) ends up in "modern" (1900s) London.
** A lift of this occurs in the {{Narnia}} prequel, ''The Magician's Nephew'' when the wicked Jadis (a.k.a. the White Witch) invades London (of roughly the same time period as ''The Story of the Amulet''). Or at least she tries. Magic is inherent to a dimension here, and so she had no power in our world - but did have SuperStrength. She threatens to invade our world in ''The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'', but that's a clear bluff.

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* {{Mercedes Lackey}}'s modern fantasies usually involve some version of this, with the monster usually being one of the [[TheFairFolk Unseleighe Sidhe]] (Dark Court Elves). Most representative of this trope is ''Mad Maudlin'', in which Aerune, self-styled Lord of Death and Pain, tries to open a Nexus to [[MagicalLand Underhill]] in Central Park and a Sidhe driven mad by the presence of cold iron turns into a literal Bloody Mary, murdering people left and right.
** How does an alcoholic tomato juice beverage slaughter people left and right? It certainly ''sounds'' entertaining...
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore) Not that Bloody Mary]].
*** Neither this [[MyImmortal B'Loody Mary]].

** To elaborate and oversimplify, the [[{{Satan}} Lone Power]] comes to New York and tries to turn it evil. When they try to stop It, It [[spoiler: puts out the Sun.]]

* In one episode of {{Charmed}}, a warlock was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed inside a locket]] and was accidentally released by one of the Halliwell sisters.
** That describes every episode of charmed, and has little to do with this trope.
** Yeah, a better example from Charmed would be the "Evil Enchantress" clone of Paige, from the S4 episode title, appropriately, "Paige from the Past."

Not involving J-Lo in any way, unless she's playing the person doing it, a Mage In Manhattan situation where an evil character from a fantasy dimension enters our own with the intent of causing destruction. VillainsBlendInBetter, but they ''do'' still want to TakeOverTheWorld, so such an appearance has a tendency to [[TheUnmasquedWorld blast any masquerade to pieces]].

* [[spoiler: The squid ]]in ''{{Watchmen}}'', or that's what[[spoiler: Ozymandias ]]would have you believe.

Not involving J-Lo in any way, unless she's playing the person doing it, a Mage In Manhattan situation where an evil character from a fantasy dimension enters our own with the intent of causing destruction. AntagonistsAssimilate, but they ''do'' still want to TakeOverTheWorld, so such an appearance has a tendency to [[TheUnmasquedWorld blast any masquerade to pieces]].

* [[spoiler: The squid ]]in ''Watchmen'', or that's what[[spoiler: Ozymandias ]]would have you believe.

* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''{{Fables}}'', in which fairy tale characters have fled from their magical homelands, which were conquered by the evil Adversary, to the mundane world, with most settling in New York. [[spoiler:Eventually played straight when the Adversary sends the witch Baba Yaga leading an army of wooden soldiers to New York to conquer Fabletown.]] The Mundies never notice, because they think they are marching young Republicans. Ssrsly

* [[spoiler: The squid ]]in ''Watchmen'', or that's what[[spoiler: Ozymandias ]]would have you believe.

** To elaborate and oversimplify, the [[{{Satan}} Lone Power]] comes to New York and tries to turn it evil. When they try to stop him, he [[spoiler: puts out the Sun.]]

* TheFairFolk in ''Discworld/{{TheScience of Discworld}} II: The Globe'' and the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Auditors]] in ''The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch''. Both set to slow down human progress so that we can't create a colony ship before the world becomes a giant snowball again.

* TheFairFolk in ''Discworld/{{Science of Discworld}} II: The Globe'' and the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Auditors]] in ''Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch''. Both set to slow down human progress so that we can't create a colony ship before the world becomes a giant snowball again.

* TheFairFolk in ''Science of {{Discworld}} II: The Globe''. And the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Auditors]] in ''Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch''. Both look set to retard human progress so that we can't create a colony ship before the world becomes a giant snowball again.

* Jadis from TheChroniclesOfNarnia comes into modern England and wreaks havoc trying to TakeOverTheWorld. This is one of the few examples where the Narnia books have any adventurous incidents of any kind taking place in the world of Earth.

* Semi interestingly done in ScoobyDoo and the Cyber Chase, where the evil character who enters the 'real world' is a computer virus. Who then chases the characters into another game, and then proceeds to cause havoc in each level of the video game world.

* Inverted in Bill Willingham's ''{{Fables}}'', in which fairy tale characters have fled from their magical homelands, which were conquered by the evil Adversary, to the mundane world, with most settling in New York. [[spoiler:Eventually played straight when the Adversary sends the witch Baba Yaga leading an army of wooden soldiers to New York to conquer Fabletown.]]

** The [[TheMovie Super Mario Brothers]] movie '''[[{{Discontinuity}} NEVER HAPPENED]]'''

** That describes every episode of charmed, and has little to do with this trope