Basic Trope: After a long time of lack of anything supernatural in the world, things fantastic slowly (or suddenly) reappear.
- Straight: Youkai sighted in the abandoned buildings in Tokyo. Some people begin to be able to bend elements to their will.
- Exaggerated:
- Hundreds of Youkai marching in the modern streets of Tokyo. A significant chunk of the population is suddenly capable of flight and mind control and hurling fireballs.
- Youkai never existed in the first place. Due to Phlebotinium, they always did.
- Downplayed: Rumours of working spells floating around in the internet. Those spells might work given certain (complicated) conditions. There seems to be more and more of them appearing everyday.
- Justified:
- Magic in the world has its ups and downs and it's currently going up after a long downtime.
- The ward that sealed the deity of magic is weakening, and his/her power begins to seep into the world.
- Magic is an immune system of the world, and it has been dormant due to lack of serious threat. The return of magic means that an Eldritch Abomination will soon menace the world...
- With religion spreading the fear of magic, humans banished magic from the world. Thanks to modern RPG, Urban Fantasy stories, and so on, humans start seeing magic in a positive way once again, thus enabling them to subconsciously lift the banishment of magic.
- Inverted: The Magic Goes Away.
- Subverted:
- Youkai sighted in the abandoned buildings in Tokyo. These are actually mutants.
- Youkai never existed before, and instead this is the first time they've existed.
- Double Subverted:
- Mutants whose creation requires the work of spells, which is only possible due to magic returning.
- However, Trolls, the Fair Folk, and others were the predecessors to Youkai. Thus, the emergence of Youkai means the return of that same underlying magic.
- Parodied: Magic is returning, and people promptly exploit it for doing crazy sex.
- Zig Zagged: Magic has its own cycle, sometimes it's returning and sometimes it's leaving.
- Averted: Magic has always been there, it's just not many people can endure the training to have rudimentary capability of it.
- Enforced: An easy way to give people super powers and have battles with magical monsters from ancient times is to have some Background Magic Field appear suddenly.
- Lampshaded: "It's the best of times, man... soon we will be able to bend reality at our whims."
- Invoked: Bob stocks up on occult books because he believes that it will give him a head start in the new magical era.
- Exploited: The government immediately recruits anyone capable of magic, for the new era of magical warfare will soon dawn.
- Defied: Upon the first signs of magic returning, some particularly determined people (whose intention might be malevolent or benign) reinforce the seal on the deity of magic.
- Discussed:Bob: "More freaks make their way to the headline. I wonder what's going on in the world."
Alice: "My spiritual senses tell me that magic is returning to the world, and that we'll see even more fantastic things soon."Bob: "Well, I always wanted a Cat Girl as a girlfriend..." - Conversed:Bob: "Hey Dave, what would you do if your were in one of these 'magic suddenly exists' kinds of stories?"
Dave: "Why Bob, of course I'll use spells to get all da bitches."
Bob: "How is that different from what you've always been doing?" - Implied: The show is about the daily lives of scientists studying a Phlebotium. There are many implications for what it can do, but the way people talk and what technology people use indicate that this is a recent development from earth itself.
- Deconstructed:
- The universe has spent so long without magic that its resurgence makes the laws of physics etc behave differently. Scientists then conduct research to determine how the laws interact with magic in order to form new laws. Thus, "magic" becomes one more branch of science.
- Magical creatures spring up and they are either sapient like humans or feral like spiders. Humans and other mundane animals learn how to co-exist with them just like they do with each other. "Species discrimination" soon enters legal lexicon.
- Reconstructed:
- There's an element of Don't Think, Feel, The Chosen One, Wild Magic and other such mystic stuff that remains above science and in the realm of extraordinary.
- Some of the new creatures are Always Chaotic Evil, some are Always Lawful Good, etc.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Magic returning is being played up as a big thing, with new energy, weapons, medicine, and ways of living. It turns out that the magic that returns is heavily confined, and while capable of amazing things, is uncontrolled and only preforms these amazing things at random, and with limited results.
- Played For Laughs: Magic returning becomes even more mundane in society. The scene of somebody sitting on the couch watching TV is replaced by somebody doing the same thing, but using magic to operate the remote, which is within reach.
- Played For Drama: The harrowing tale of a few survivors fighting to escape from a metropolis overrun with unicorns, hydras, dragons, etc.
Go back and feel The Magic, man!
