However, this doesn't completely explain their more supernatural powers, and there's still plenty of other magical and supernatural elements that are never explained away with science. So a lot of what seems 'magical' about them is really Bizarre Alien Biology or extremely advanced technology. Chrono Crusade: Demons are really aliens who crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean and are now living underwater in their mothership.Has nothing to do with the execution of magic users, or targeting them in combat situations. Contrast Magic A Is Magic A and The Magic Comes Back. May overlap with All Just a Dream, Through the Eyes of Madness, and Lotus-Eater Machine, if used to reveal that the removed supernatural only existed in a character's mind and "Scooby-Doo" Hoax and The Masquerade, if it is revealed that the supernatural never existed but was faked by someone, or some group working to some end. Also compare Clarke's Third Law, which explains how the unexperienced could see technology and science as a form of magic.
See also Sufficiently Advanced Alien, The Magic Goes Away, Magic Versus Science, and Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane. When this is a External Retcon to an ancient mythology rather than the franchise's own mythos, it is called Demythification.Ĭompare and contrast with How Unscientific!, as well as Unscientific Science (where the "scientific" explanation is just as nonsensical as the magical one, or even moreso). Another problem this trope might encounter is that, while fans only expect magic to have the same effect while used in the same way, the audience may be less willing to suspend disbelief when converted into hard science, unless it is prefaced with some kind of pseudoscientific material specifically stated not to follow standard physics (of course, doing this still keeps the stuff technically magic, just not, you know, magic).
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