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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' had a MagicVersusScience contest between Dr. Venture and Dr. Orpheus (a parody of Dr. Strange), reaching its climax as Orpheus produces fire from his hands. Dr. Venture's scientific one-up? A match.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' overall tends to adhere closer to a more traditional fantasy (or at least, a fantasy anime) aesthetic. However, technology known as 'Blastia' exist in the setting, which do everything from empower fighters to projecting barriers over entire cities. The Blastia are essentially the setting's version of {{Magitek}} and causes it to lean more toward this trope in places.

* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos is considered an example of DarkFantasy, and it's not [[CrapsackWorld without]] [[CosmicHorrorStory reasons]]: it revolves around a pantheon of [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible gods]], many of whom are worshipped by cultists who wish to summon them through occult means. There are also {{Spell Book}}s, most notably the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]], as well as [[EvilSorceror malevolent wizards and witches]], with one god in particular- Yog-Sothoth -often serving as their patron. However, [[OurGodsAreDifferent the gods in question]] [[AlienFairFolk are actually aliens from different parts of the universe]] (such as Yuggoth), and the "magic" is implied to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens be a case of]] ClarkesThirdLaw.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': While it started out as straightforward dystopian sci-fi and still leans towards that way, more and more fantasy elements have been introduced over the years, including ghosts, demons, zombies, and forms of magic.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' is ''nearly'' pure fantasy, but it's set in a world that used to be much higher-tech, and a couple of characters use guns that shoot magic. ''XII'' is something of a PrequelInTheLostAge.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''
* In ''VideoGame/WarWind'' futuristic technology (such as [[BioAugmentation bio-upgrades]] and [[RayGun ray guns]]), magic, and supernatural entities coexist quite well.

{{Superhero}} comic universes in general, such as the ones published by {{Creator/DC|Comics}} and {{Creator/Marvel|Comics}}, don't so much straddle the line as obliterate it, in that ray-guns and magical spells coexist quite comfortably. Superheroes and supervillains tend to have widely-varying explanations for their superpowers, ranging from genetic mutations to outright magic.
* [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Universe]]

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' is set several thousand years into the future, contains nanotechnology, flying robots, and a galactic society... and also contains lots of creatures that run off of soul-based magic, including vampires, djinn, and zombies. [[FurryComic Also, furries.]] It's labeled {{Cyberpunk}} -- but it's about as Cyberpunk as, say, TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' itself occasionally dabbles in more fantastical elements. While usually a SciFiKitchenSink, ''Fallout'' games have featured [[VideoGame/Fallout2 an actual ghost and an InnBetweenTheWorlds]], [[VideoGame/Fallout3 a haunted office building]] with a TomeOfEldritchLore and [[VideoGame/Fallout4 ancient cults that worship abominations.]]
%%* Averted with the first two ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' games which were were straight fantasy. ''VideoGame/FableIII'' however was in the industrial revolution, while the magic and swords were kept, the two [=DLCs=] Understone and Traitor's Keep featured steampunk robots with latter even including a potion to turn your dog into a robot.

*** ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin'' is a prequel that goes full Science Fantasy. Corneria being technologically advanced compared to the original game is a plot point.

* ''Literature/ImTheEvilLordOfAnIntergalacticEmpire'': The main character is a noble in a FeudalFuture full of advanced technology like mechas, cloning, or artificial intelligences, but there's also magic, alchemy, and the BigBad is an evil spirit that feeds on people's negative emotions.

* ''Literature/{{Illium}}'', by Dan Simmons, in breathtaking style. There are space robots [[CallARabbitASmeerp called Moravecs]], exotic rocket propulsion, planetary rings, teleportation, a space plane that is the essence of a [[RetroRocket UFO]], and the ''entire Greek Pantheon''. Throughout the book and its sequel, ''Olympos'', the Moravecs are skeptical that these gods are genuinely gods and not some high-tech trickery.

* ''Literature/FeralTheStoryOfAHalfOrc'' runs on this. While magic does exist, 'wizard' may well be the same as 'scientist', with use of scientific thought and processes throughout the story. The story takes place after its worlds creation of the printing press, and it's stated multiple times that its creation is more important than anything other device. Char, the main character, uses science and magic to create armor and weapons, including a blunderbuss whose gunpowder is lit by a fire rune.

* The ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories by Randall Garrett are a ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''-style mystery series set in an alternate history with very rule-based magic. While technology (and politics) has barely equaled the gaslight-era by the 1970s, magic has effectively reached a bit higher than modern day technology. And magic isn't just useful, it's carefully codified, requiring as much study, repeatability and dedication (and certification, licensing and taxes) as modern engineering or medicine. Though now commonly billed as fantasy, most of the stories originally saw the light of day in either ''Analog Science Fiction'' or ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''. Randall Garrett once stated that Lord Darcy’s world and ours shared the same laws of physics. He defined the “magic” of Darcy’s world as a form of psionics, which he thought of as a real-world phenomenon.

* The ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' lean even more heavily on the "fantasy" side of science fantasy than the series did (while ''Literature/DoctorWhoTheNewAdventures'' mostly went the other way, a few oddities like ''Witch Mark'' aside). This is especially notable in the Amnesia Arc, possibly because TheMagicComesBack in the absence of the Time Lords, possibly because the amnesiac Doctor isn't able to say "Here's why this fire elemental is scientific ''really''", or possibly due to a combination of the two.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' to an extent. Magic is described in terms reminiscent of nuclear physics or quantum mechanics, {{golem}}s are very much like Asimovian robots, and some Igors have progressed from MixAndMatchMan to "[[BioAugmentation bio-artificing]]". In ''Literature/TheLastHero'', the local ClockPunk genius even builds a vehicle that allows the characters to visit the Moon and meet {{Lunarian|s}} dragons.

* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' by Creator/PhilipPullman has plenty of things that should go well with science fiction (the fact that Dust is a particle, the numerous technologies that look as if they came from various degrees of civilization, from SteamPunk worlds to things akin to those you'd see on hard science fiction (especially in the last book), the alternate evolutionary paths of life on Earth seen in some worlds like that of the mulefa, etc.), but there are plenty of themes that should connect it to at least LowFantasy (the witches, the fact that Dust is conscious, the armoured polar bears, etc.)

* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': The trailer for the film presents it as a science fiction / medieval world of knights and lasers.

Robots and wizards, spaceships and dragons, lasers and fireballs. [[MixAndMatch Mix these ingredients]] in your cyber-witch's boiling pot of dark matter, and you've got yourself Science Fantasy.

Science Fantasy works, on the other hand, take traditional Fantasy and Science Fiction tropes and throw them in a blender, purposely creating a setting that has the [[MixAndMatch feel of both]]. Expect to see a lot of classic Fantasy tropes (e.g. [[SwordFight warriors with swords]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], {{wizards|AndWitches}}, [[BrightCastle castles]], and [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]]) ''and'' a lot of standard Science Fiction tropes (e.g. [[CoolStarship spaceships]], [[AlienTropes aliens]], [[EnergyWeapon lasers]], [[TropesOnScienceAndUnscience scientists]], {{robot}}s, and TimeTravel).

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is set in a world filled with wyverns, oversized and incredibly dangerous beasts, and dragons that can range from the mundane 'fire breath' to being outright [[EldritchAbomination terrifyingly unexplainable]]. The humans of said world hunt them with BambooTechnology weapons made out of the bodies of dead monsters, [[BadassNormal and no special powers except strength and willpower.]] Some of said weapons include gigantic swords, complex axe-swords hybrid weapons, bowguns (which are really just guns that vaguely resemble crossbows), glaives which allow the controls of a giant insect, and more. Said dragons and wyverns also tend to have a semi-scientific explaination for their ElementalPowers rather than just 'magic'.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' uses this same juxtaposition. In the 'waning' world of Sylvarant, the technology and overall aesthetic matches a more traditional fantasy setting, with a steam powered ship being considered a marvel of technology. Meanwhile, in the 'prospering' world of Tethe'alla, connected to Sylvarant through a cyclical system of mana, the people of this world enjoy high tech conveniences such as trams, teleporters, and even rollercoasters powered by {{Magitek}}. In addition, the "Desians", a rogue faction of half-elves, possess similar levels of magitek including autonomous robots and personal jet-propelled flying vehicles powered by magic.

** ''VideoGame/TalesofVesperia'' overall tends to adhere closer to a more traditional fantasy (or at least, a fantasy anime) aesthetic. However, technology known as 'Blastia' exist in the setting, which do everything from empower fighters to projecting barriers over entire cities. The Blastia are essentially the setting's version of {{Magitek}} and causes it to lean more toward this trope in places.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' tends to mix the two so thoroughly that it can make one dizzy. The prologue starts with two warring [[OurTitansAreDifferent titans]] whose dead bodies make up the entire world, and then it transitions to advanced HumanAliens (Homs) fighting a war against relentless killer robots. The robots can only be stopped by a [[CoolSword legendary ancient sword called the Monado]], which turns out to be equipped with a LaserBlade. Then the Monado starts granting the protagonist visions of the future, but that turns out to have a reasonable scientific explanation. Later on the team finds the High Entia, who are a race capable of manipulating [[MagicByAnyOtherName ether]], yet that didn't stop them from advancing their technology to great levels. It concludes with [[spoiler: a flashback to when their world was created by two scientists from our world trying to create a new one, destroying their own in the process and turning them into the two titans and their computer system into the Monado]].
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* '' Manga/Dandadan'' features yokai and aliens.

* In ''Literature/ATasteOfHoney'', fantasy versions of AncientRome and AncientAfrica are combined with interstellar travel, so-called gods using sci-fi gadgets and superpowers that seem like magic but are actually science. The people fight with spears and swords and the gods use tablets.