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Basic Trope: A clown, jester, or mime with magical powers.

  • Straight: Magico the Clown has magical powers such as Teleportation, Me's a Crowd, Shapeshifting, and more.
  • Exaggerated: Magico is the most powerful being in existence.
  • Downplayed: Magico is shown doing Offscreen Teleportation and other tricks that are Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane.
  • Justified: Magico got a job as a clown to make his real magic look like an illusion.
  • Inverted: Magico is the only muggle in a cast of magical beings.
  • Subverted: ???
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: Bob asks Magico to solve every mundane problem for him, because Bob assumes that all clowns can do anything.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Magico does not do anything magical.
  • Enforced: It's a Sword and Sorcery story, and the creators feel it would be jarring to see a clown use medieval weapons.
  • Lampshaded: "Oh boy, a clown. He's gonna make some freaky stuff happen. Turning into monsters and hovering above the ground, that kind of stuff."
  • Invoked: Magico is a Stage Magician whose illusions are very convincing, but nothing more than illusions.
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Magico, despite his name, hates magic and wants nothing to do with it.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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