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Some fellow named Naram-Sin commented out a few entries, including the one for Chesterton, with a "Please explain" comment. Don't want to be disobliging, but I'd say that one, at least, speaks for itself and ought to be re-added as is. Anyone have thoughts on the matter?

"She was the kind of dame they write similes about." —Pterodactyl Jones

Can someone tell me in which period "The Mighty Thor and his fellow Asgardians were actually Sufficiently Advanced Aliens"?

Shaggy Dog Story redirects here.

Is a shaggy dog story not better described by this trope in the other wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_God_story ?

Does this trope apply when a franchise or series de-emphasizes magic by simply not bringing it up again, or is that a different trope? I'm thinking of Mass Effect, which used mystical elements in the first game and then pretended they didn't exist in each subsequent instalment, aside from the odd piece of Lampshading.

This happened because Tim had made a mistake.

Would it be appropriate to create a religion section? More specifically using the tale of "Bel and the Dragon" found in both the Catholic and Orthodox Canons of the Bible. And for that matter, even including efforts where the Catholic Church made efforts to refute and disprove things like witchcraft and superstitions (while also making note that it had also done some cases of hijacked by Jesus).

I'm far from completely sure myself, but would people say Lost Girl falls under this trope? As a very brief precis, the main premise there is that the central character's one of the "Fae", an evolutionary offshoot of everyday humanity that encompasses lots of variants and include a whole bunch of traditional supernatural stereotypes. Werewolves, succubi, will-o-the-wisps, etc...

On the one hand it's thought-to-be-supernatural types being ascribed entirely to evolution, which would fit the trope, but on the other hand in-verse they were never supernatural which makes that fit dubious.

If not this trope, any thoughts on what that would fall under?

So what if the Work is and allways will be Both?

With the power of a dragon I can make up for my inability to spill.

I'd love to add Wanted (the movie) to this trope, to me it was a horrible example of taking a Superhero story (which I'm considering Fantasy) and trying to make it more "realistic" for the movie but instead IMO they came up with a plot even more unbelievable and ridiculous than just adapting the comic plot would have been. Any one else agree with me on this one? There may be a better trope for this, so that's why I'm bringing it up in discussion first.

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With the examples of Lost and Heroes (maybe Condemned i'll never play it), It was more than there was Weird Shit going on that was explained later on rather than anything explicit Magical being Re Coned. In both cases the Magical explanations were fan theories and never take as cannon in show.

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