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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'': This is actually reversed with Dr. Destiny, who started out as a man of science before being corrupted by his study of dark alchemical magic.

This character can be expected to be a BadassBookworm due to the [[WizardDuel combat applications magic often has in fiction]].

This can be justified in-universe by [[ClarkesThirdLaw treating magic itself as]] [[FantasticScience a sort of science]]. If the magic is SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic, this trope could also apply.

** ''ComicBook/DoctorFate'': Some incarnations. Kent V. Nelson was a psychologist, while Khalid Nassour is a medical student.

There are characters who study the sciences and there are those who study magic. A Science Wizard is a character who is skilled in both science and magic. [[MagicVersusScience Normally magic and science are treated as two opposing forces]] but it should be noted that magic itself is usually a skill in fiction that people can learn if they dedicate themselves to it just as with any other science.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': Dracula is both a learned scientist and sorcerer. He taught his wife Lisa advanced medicinal techniques, displays powerful magical skill in his fight with the main heroes and lives in a {{Magitek}} castle.
* ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'': Erik is skilled in [[FunctionalMagic stonecasting]] like the other Defenders but his greatest contribution to the team are engineering and inventing abilities. This also applies to his EvilCounterpart Flinch.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'': This version of Nightwolf is this. Like in [[Franchise/MortalKombat the games]] he is a MagicalNativeAmerican but the show also makes him the heroes' computer expert and MissionControl.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The Sith tend to be both skilled wielders of the Force, and consequently to possess extensive supernatural powers, and to make extensive use of advanced technology, often mixing the two with little distinction. Many notable Sith were particularly skilled in the field of biotechnology, using it to extend their own lifespans or create a variety of Force-wielding monstrosities.

** ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Before he became Hougan and a member of the Brotherhood of Evil, Jean-Louis Droo was a computer scientist. He turned to voodoo after it was used to save his father's life from illness were modern medicine failed. As Hougan, Droo combines his knowledge of computer science with voodoo practices -- his weapons are an electro needle stylus and a computerized voodoo doll.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow is the most academically successful of the main trio of herself, Buffy and Xander. Before becoming the team wizard to the Scooby Gang, she was very good with computers and helped Giles with research.

** Plague Knight is an alchemist who specializes in combining magic with mad science to make StuffBlowingUp. Most everyone regards him as a wizard, and he is the Order of No Quarter's resident magician. This even extends to the arranged soundtrack, where the arranged version of his stage theme is entitled "The Science Wizard".
** Tinker Knight is an inventor whose handiwork combines magic with mechanical engineering. Unlike Plague Knight, he isn't dressed or known as a wizard, though the two of them do regard each other as kindred spirits.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': The wizard Merlin is as much a man of science as he is of magic. He decorates his home with all manner of scientific instruments and journals. A large part of his tutoring Wart involves scientific study, sometimes done by using his magic to take the boy on "field trips" around the castle to better learn how the world around him works.

* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Titular character is a Bookworm from a universe like Real Life, with chemistry and stuff, while being Trapped In Another World with magic, which she can study with her MagicalComputer.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Alestiar Crowley is the world's greatest magician who quit magic to study science and technology and eventually became the de facto leader of the Science Side . It is for this reason he is considered Magic Side's greatest embarrassment.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Sosuke Aizen, Kisuke Urahara and Mayuri are skilled in using [[FunctionalMagic Kido]] and both have applied their knowledge of spiritual energy into scientific pursuits. Aizen created the hogyoku, a device that allowed Shinigami and Hollows to acquire the powers of the other race. Urahara figured out how to restore Ichigo's lost Shinigami powers. Mayuri is an expert at body modification which he has used on himself and was able to create the ArtificialHuman Nemu.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'': The version of Nightwolf is this. Like in [[Franchise/MortalKombat the games]] he is a MagicalNativeAmerican but the show also makes him the heroes' computer expert and MissionControl.

* Sosuke Aizen, Kisuke Urahara and Mayuri from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. All three are skilled in using [[FunctionalMagic Kido]] and both have applied their knowledge of spiritual energy into scientific pursuits. Aizen created the hogyoku, a device that allowed Shinigami and Hollows to acquire the powers of the other race. Urahara figured out how to restore Ichigo's lost Shinigami powers. Mayuri is an expert at body modification which he has used on himself and was able to create the ArtificialHuman Nemu.

* Medical ninja in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' combine knowledge of chakra and anatomy to do their jobs as field medics. There is also Orochimaru who is skilled in jutsu and has done a number of twisted experiments.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Brother Voodoo is a voodoo witch doctor with 12 years of education and practice as an accredited psychologist.
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom can rival if not match Reed Richards in just about any form of science and is also a powerful sorcerer.
* Some incarnations of ComicBook/DoctorFate, Franchise/TheDCU's ancient magician. Kent V. Nelson was a psychologist, while Khalid Nassour is a medical student.
* Before he became Sorcerer Supreme, ComicBook/DoctorStrange was a renowned surgeon. He still occasionally provides medical consultation.
* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Before he became Hougan and a member of the Brotherhood of Evil, Jean-Louis Droo was a computer scientist. He turned to voodoo after it was used to save his father's life from illness were modern medicine failed. As Hougan, Droo combines his knowledge of computer science with voodoo practices - his weapons are an electro needle stylus and a computerized voodoo doll.

* ''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'': Goofy was born to be a wizard - literally, as everyone in his family is fated for a certain job, which in his case is wizardry - and is fairly adept at magic when he needs to be, but he tends to favor science and technology up to building a flying Humongous Mecha.
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Forge's mutant power gives him a natural intuitive for inventing mechanical devices. He also has some knowledge of Native American magic though he rarely uses it.
** After a meeting with Doctor Strange, the time-displaced younger Beast has mastered a combination of science and magic which allows him to return himself and his four teammates to the past for a few minutes.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19621 Making Magic]] by icepixie (and its remix, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/100249 Gone With the Wand]] by Gray Cardinal) reveal that Stargate SG 1 scientist Samantha Carter is also a wizard and graduate of Hogwarts.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDark'': This is actually reversed with Dr. Destiny, who started out as a man of science before being corrupted by his study of dark alchemical magic.

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* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': Zordon the BigGood from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' throughout ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. He is described as a space wizard but has been known to rely more on technology he creates with his RobotBuddy Alpha. Some of the technology is powered by magical items.

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': The [[MagicalSociety Order of Hermes]] has a strong scholarly tradition, so almost all magi have training in Artes Liberales (the core of medieval higher education) and Philosophiae. In addition to their mundane applications, these skills [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman add power]] to RitualMagic.

* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has a PointBuildSystem and an UrbanFantasy setting, so many mages invest in skills like Academics and Science to support their magical abilities. Certain powerful mages are excellent academics and researchers in their own right, looking for supernatural insights in the material world.

* ''TabletopGame.{{Rifts}}'': It is possible to create items where [[{{Magitek}} a semi-technological device is imbued with magic]], and several of the setting's more advanced societies (such as the Splugorth, most of the power-players of the Three Galaxies, and most primarily magic-using nations) use a combination of magic, Magitek and tech with little to no distinction. In the Palladium [[TheMultiverse Megaverse]], extremism one way or the other is the wrong answer - pro-tech, anti-magic nations to be [[FantasticRacism speciesist]], [[ANaziByAnyOtherName militant totalitarian regimes]], while pro-magic, anti-tech nations tend to be [[HellOnEarth literal demonic hell-holes]].

* TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': The Imperial [[WizardingSchool Colleges of Magic]] require their students to train in Academic Knowledge skills alongside their magical studies. In particular, Celestial Wizards and Alchemists often specialize in Astronomy and Science, respectively.

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* Dracula in ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' is both a learned scientist and sorcerer. He taught his wife Lisa advanced medicinal techniques, displays powerful magical skill in his fight with the main heroes and lives in a {{Magitek}} castle.

* Erik from ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'' is skilled in [[FunctionalMagic stonecasting]] like the other Defenders but his greatest contribution to the team are engineering and inventing abilities. This also applies to his EvilCounterpart Flinch.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'': There once was an evil warlock called Galen Nycroft who terrorized Eternia for years. When Time began to catch up to him and his powers started to wane, he began seeking other methods to regain his abilities. Learning the ways of science, especially gene modification, he experimented on himself, eventually becoming the evil scientist and rival to Man-At-Arms; Modulok.

* The version of Nightwolf from ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'' is this. Like in [[Franchise/MortalKombat the games]] he is a MagicalNativeAmerican but the show also makes him the heroes' computer expert and MissionControl.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Twilight Sparkle is incredibly adept at casting spells with unicorn magic, but also frequently displays interests in scientific research, such as conducting research to find a scientific explanation for Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" in "Feeling Pinkie Keen."

* The Alchemist from ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperForceGo'' sought to use his knowledge of both magic and science. Unfortunately, he was corrupted by the Dark Ones and became the Skeleton King.

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'''Alternative Titles(s)''': Magician Scientist

This can be justified in-universe by [[ClarkesThirdLaw treating magic itself as a sort of science]]. If the magic is SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic, this trope could also apply.

Contrast MagicVersusScience, ScienceDestroysMagic and TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar. See also {{Magitek}}, a common result of this practice and BoxingLessonsForSuperman, where a character learns mundane skills to improve their supernatural abilities.

* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' has Kokonoe Mercury. She is a brilliant scientist the daughter of Konoe Mercury one of the most powerful mages in the [=BlazBlue=] universe. Kokonoe's prominent feats have been the reviving Tager through cybernetics and the activation of Lambda by bonding soul to the empty homunculus.