History Main / MagiBabble

* Taken to the logical extreme in ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'' by MargaretWeis and Tracy Hickman: the magi babble is literally indistinguishable from TechnoBabble and ''almost makes sense''.

*** Cimorene admitted her knowledge of magic was limited because her parents were quick to cut off her secret magic lessons. Besides, it's more that Telemain just talks really fast and only Mendanbar, who is used to it from his elf steward, can catch what he's saying, and he's also far more knowledgable about all sorts of magic as the King of the Enchanted Forest is than Cimorene, whose talents tend to be more practical than magical.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' often has Touma Kamijou frustrated when Index or another magical character starts explaining things this way. In turn, the magical character often complains that Touma must be an idiot for not being able to understand something they have known since childhood.
-->'''Touma''': It feels like you're just throwing all this weird terminology at me.

* Given the amount of TechnoBabble in the WhateleyUniverse, it shouldn't be surprising that the authors let the wizards in the stories dump loads of MagiBabble too. Most of the stories that have one of the teachers from the Magical Arts Department have at least ''some'' MagiBabble cropping up.

* Sequel Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim allows you to have a conversation with Riften's resident court mage [[AbsentMindedProfessor Wylandriah]] about her investigation into a magical construct and a reagent that will allow said construct to maintain a field of permanent harmonic energy. Expressing interest in the topic results in a discussion on theoretical applied harmonics and Ralston's constant of universal inversion and how to apply them to hold magic fields in place while simultaniousely counteracting complete universal collapse... If that doesn't make much sense to you, but you don't want to admit it, don't worry... you can [[InsaneTrollLogic talk your way out of it]]...

** Additionally, the Archive, a single human whose purpose is to be the physical containment of the entirety of humankind's body of written knowledge. This includes everything that has been written about the usage of magic. While a normal human with no inherit gifts, she is still probably the most adept magic caster on earth, knowledge that doubtlessly includes not only how to cast any spell, but how they work, and why they work.

* The Bob Howard[=/=][[TheLaundrySeries Laundry]] stories by Creator/CharlesStross are *made* of this trope. The magic in this setting is based on mathematics and computer science -- Alan Turing invented the local {{Magitek}} -- and it reads like a cross between MIT's 6.001 and Abdul Alhazred.

* {{GURPS}}: Thaumatology has a perk that allows your character to spout an endless amount of meaningless but authentic sounding nonsense at the drop of a hat.

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': In spades. There are arts, mystery cult initiations, exotically named spells, different types of vis, and a dozen or more exotic traditions to speak about in character. The magic rules are so closely linked to the in-setting magic concepts that it becomes difficult not to talk in magi babble.

** Butters, once he's introduced to Bob, quickly dives into this trope, mingling MagiBabble ''with'' TechniBabble.

** Computer terminology is also used by the druids of ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', in reference to the astronomical functions of stone circles.

* The "Kesandru's Well" arc from ''SluggyFreelance'' positively brims with this trope. Particularly [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030408 one of the Rayths]].

* Parodied in [[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=458 this]] ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' strip, taking place in a ''DungeonsAndDragons''-inspired AlternateUniverse. A shoptalk conversation between a mage and a cleric is peppered with what the reader may recognize as RPG terms. Another character calls it "mystical magic-speak".

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' often has Touma frustrated when Index or another magical character starts explaining things this way. In turn, the magical character often complains that Touma must be an idiot for not being able to understand something they have known since childhood.

* {{Dragonlance}} DungeonsAndDragons 3.5 sourcebooks explain the difference between High Sorcery and Primal Sorcery, and Clerical magic and Mysticism.

* ''[[GuiltyGear Guilty Gear 2: Overture]]'' is almost ''entirely'' this. Bet you never expected that from a PowerOfRock fighting game, huh?

* ''TabletopGame/TORG'' has a lot of this in its Aysle setting. It also features a spell design system which is heavily tied in to the in-setting magic concepts, leading to the same effect as for Ars Magica above, that players may find themselves speaking in magi babble.

'''Toph''': You know what I just heard? [[BlahBlahBlah Blah-blah]], spiritual mumbo jumbo, blah-blah, something about space.