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* ''Literature/SwansBraidAndOtherTalesOfTerizan'': The wizard has one that lets someone move into other worlds. [[spoiler:However, it works both ways-something came out of the mirror and [[ForcedTransformation turned him into a doll]] before taking him into another world. Terizan's sent in to get him back.]]

* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoriesOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': Magdelene has one which lets her see Zayd from miles away as he comes for Joah.

* Gauche Adlai from ''Manga/BlackClover'' uses Mirror Magic, in which he uses magical mirrors to reflect light into powerful beams to use against his foes, and to access {{Mirror Universe}}s to bring alternate versions of himself to help him in combat. He has another one hidden under his PeekABangs that can clone one person dozens of times in an instant.

* A real-world equivalent is a modern-day cell phone or Apple's Siri.

* The magic mirror in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' shows Lord Farquaad prospective princesses to marry, in the style of a [[TheSeventies 70s dating game show]]. In the first sequel, it's used as a television set. Its appearance is the same as in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', or a parody thereof.

* Kanna's soul-sucking mirror in ''Manga/InuYasha''. It's also a crystal ball for the BigBad.
* In ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', the God of Peace has the reflection of a demon.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'':

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Villain Mirror Master doesn't so much have "magic" mirrors but he uses a technology-based "mirror gun" that allows him to channel power from a Mirror Dimension; it effectively gives him control over an entire AlternateUniverse that he can bend to his will any way he pleases, not matter how vaguely it connects to mirrors. With this, he can do all sorts of different things up to and including instant teleportation via 'mirror portals', shapeshifting, power deflection, creating artificial doppelgangers of himself or others, releasing creatures made of broken glass, and even create entirely fabricated alternate universes. The original Mirror Master, Sam Scudder, was brainy but unimaginative so he never made full use of it, but his SuperiorSuccessor Evan [=McCulloch=] was an uneducated but ''highly'' imaginative person, and kept coming up with and imaginative uses of the power. Wally West once had an ImagineSpot where he realised that if Evan ever ''trully'' realised the full scope of what he could do, he'd be a PhysicalGod that nobody could touch.

* Despair from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has a domain full of windows. Each represents a mirror in our world, and she can look through them to watch the suffering of humanity. Sometimes she'll catch the eye of a person looking in a mirror and he'll experience dread and heartache.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989 The Legend of Zelda]]'' animated series episode "Doppelganger", Ganon secretly delivers a magic mirror to Zelda that, when moonlight strikes it, acts as a portal between the underworld and the castle. What's more, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the episode's title]], another feature it has is creating an [[EvilDoppelganger evil clone of whoever is in front of it]], in this case, Princess Zelda herself. The real Zelda's scream awakens Link when the clone attacks and kidnaps her. Although the real Zelda is taken back to the underworld, Link is able to stop the Moblins and the clone from stealing the Triforce of Wisdom by breaking the mirror, at which point the clone tricks Link into going on a mission to defeat Ganon. Link is fooled, at first, when the clone kisses him, but while venturing to Ganon's lair on horseback, he notices [[MissingReflection the clone is not casting a reflection]] while passing a nearby lake, making him realize the truth, but plays along to stage a rescue mission.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989 The Legend of Zelda]]'' animated series episode "Doppelganger", Ganon secretly delivers a magic mirror to Zelda that acts as a portal between the underworld and the castle. What's more, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the episode's title]], it has created an [[EvilDoppelganger evil clone of Zelda]]. The real Zelda's scream awakens Link when the clone attacks and kidnaps her. Although the real Zelda is taken back to the underworld, Link is able to stop the Moblins and the clone from stealing the Triforce of Wisdom by breaking the mirror, at which point the clone tricks Link into going on a mission to defeat Ganon. Link is fooled, at first, when the clone kisses him, but while venturing to Ganon's lair on horseback, he notices [[MissingReflection the clone is not casting a reflection]] while passing a nearby lake, making him realize the truth, but plays along to stage a rescue mission.

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' has lots of these. Besides the main set of mirrors that the Evil Queen has ("mirrors to travel, mirrors to spy, mirrors to remember, mirrors to forget, mirrors to rule the world!"), people can use them like videophones. The Huntsman even has a small pocket mirror that acts as a video cellphone! At one point, the heroes are shown to a mirror which answers questions, and finds that it's so old that not only is it half-deaf, but it won't understand a question unless it's spoken in rhyme.

** The Evil Queen from Snow White has, of course, got a magic mirror [[spoiler: when the Genie of the Lamp inadvertently trapped himself in it]].
** In Season 4, part of this mirror is used by the Snow Queen to create a mirror which lets her cast the Spell of Shattered Sight, a HatePlague based on her broken mirror in the original story.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'': The opening scene from the 1936 MickeyMouse short "Thru the Mirror", in which Mickey has fallen asleep reading ''[[Literature/AliceInWonderland Through the Looking-Glass]]'' and his dream self decides to go check out the mirror above his fireplace mantle, is used in the intro of ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' as an explanation for how Mickey ended up in Yen Sid's tower and [[spoiler:accidentally created [[EldritchAbomination the Shadow Blot]] and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero caused the Thinner Disaster]]]]. The short itself is also featured as a 2D "travel zone" level in-game.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* ''Literature/OfFireAndStars'': Zumordan soldiers commonly fight with both magic and ordinary weapons.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd's mom [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-160 created one]] out of a regular mirror built into a door which was intended to save time and magic somehow but never worked right and was eventually forgotten about until recently.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Villain Mirror Master doesn't so much have "magic" mirrors but he uses a technology-based "mirror gun" that allows him to channel power from a Mirror Dimension; it effectively gives him control over an entire AlternateReality that he can bend to his will any way he pleases, not matter how vaguely it connects to mirrors. With this, he can do all sorts of different things up to and including instant teleportation via 'mirror portals', shapeshifting, power deflection, creating artificial doppelgangers of himself or others, releasing creatures made of broken glass, and even create entirely fabricated alternate universes. The original Mirror Master, Sam Scudder, was brainy but unimaginative so he never made full use of it, but his SuperiorSuccessor Evan [=McCulloch=] was an uneducated but ''highly'' imaginative person, and kept coming up with and imaginative uses of the power. Wally West once had an ImagineSpot where he realised that if Evan ever ''trully'' realised the full scope of what he could do, he'd be a PhysicalGod that nobody could touch.

* In ''Literature/TheMermaidsMirror'', the titular mirror can show people their loved ones who are separated from them [[spoiler:After Lena's biological mother became a mermaid again, returned to the ocean, and lost all memories of her life on land, Lena's dad spent hours staring into the mirror, watching her. Eventually he realized he was wasting his life, so he hid the mirror and everything else associated with her in a LooseFloorboardHidingSpot. Years later, Lena finds the mirror, sees her mother, and realizes that she's half mermaid.]]