History Main / TheMagicComesBack

* ''Literature/KateDaniels'' sees this happening slowly. Tech is slowly losing to magic, which drives as a major driver for social and cultural change.

* The premise of the AlternateHistory fiction ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' is that magic is [[{{Ghostapo}} discovered by the Nazis in World War 2]]. This discovery fails to save the German war machine, but once the allied forces get a hold on it, the United States and the Soviet Union begin a supernatural arms race. At the same time, all kinds of mythological and folkloric entities start popping up everywhere again, together with space aliens and superpowered mutant humans. All of this leads to a drastically different UsefulNotes/ColdWar playing out. Notable events in this timeline include: [[TheNecrocracy a resurrected Ramses XI becoming the new ruler of Egypt]], [[AIIsACrapshoot Robo-Stalin going crazy and nuking Moscow]] (though important infrastructure is unscathed thanks to [[ForceField strategically-placed ward spells]]), the Greek civil war being won by the communists thanks to aid from Prometheus and Typhon, the CIA unleashing {{plague zombie}}s against communists in Cuba and Haiti only for the latter to fight back with {{voodoo zombie}}s, Britain secretly using a time-travelling [[StockNessMonster Nessie]] to [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight prevent the American Revolution]] and inadvertently causing the [[TimeCrash Time Crash of '73]] as a result, and Saloth Sar (A.K.A. Pol Pot) forcibly converting almost everyone in Cambodia into [[SnakePeople Naga]] and then using the mass murder carried out by his regime as a blood sacrifice for an [[GodhoodSeeker Apotheosis Ritual]] (the Americans and the Soviets kill him in a nuclear DecapitationStrike before the ritual was completed, though).

* ''Literature/TheQueenOfIeflaria'': A {{downplayed}} example. Ieflarians largely have stopped worshiping Talcia, Goddess of Magic, as they blamed her for the attacks of dragons against Ieflaria (as they're magical creatures). As a result, until the book she had [[ReligionIsMagic denied most people]] magic. However, some specific magical gifts (of healing, [[PlayingWithFire fire]] or [[ExtraOreDinary metal work]] are connected to other gods, who still blessed followers with them. Magic was thus scarcer, though not gone entirely.

* Downplayed in the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse. [[spoiler:When the Titan's spirit finally departs for the afterlife, all glyph magic ceases to work due to it relying on the BackgroundMagicField he produced. While all other forms of magic continue to function as normal (and a new glyph language come into existance several years later thanks to King's own powers maturing), the original magic that Luz spend the whole series learning is gone for good.]]

* ''The Chronicles of the One'' by Creator/NoraRoberts has a family in Scotland accidentally triggering the last bit of magic in the word, unleashing a MysticalPlague that kills off most of humanity and transforms others into magical beings.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Alternity}}'': In the ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' campaign setting, the level of supernatural activity on Earth is directly linked to the amount of dark matter in the universe, which is likened to a tide pool. The rising tide of dark matter, however, is not a good thing. Not only are many supernatural beings extremely dangerous, but previous risings of the tide have resulted in mass extinction events, as noted in the [[MayanDoomsday Mayan calendar]].

* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'': ''Urban Arcana'' uses a similar idea as ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter''. Here, the tide is actually the Shadow Plane and the supernatural forces are the monsters of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. There's no Apocalypse looming ahead, though.

* In ''ComicBook/JaxEpochAndTheQuickenForbidden'', it's more of a justified trope. After Jax came back from the inter-dimensional portal, somehow the magic starts leaking into her world, causing magical things to happen like a dragon flying through the city of New York.
* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'' has this as a major plot point. The day human beings stopped dying and giving birth is also the day people's wishes started coming true, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor for good and bad]], and it seems most of the supernatural happenings in the series are the result of said wishes.

''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': At the end of Book 2, Korra decides to leave the spirit portals open, allowing the human and spirit worlds to relatively freely intermingle, like they did before Wan closed the portals ten thousand years ago. One side effect was non-benders all over the world spontaneously manifesting the near-extinct ability of [[BlowYouAway Airbending]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'' focuses on a new group of pony friends restoring Equestria’s magic after it was sealed away in what the TV series, ''WeaternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'' revealed was an attempt to stop a powerful dark Alicorn from stealing it all.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': At the end of Book 2, Korra decides to leave the spirit portals open, allowing the human and spirit worlds to relatively freely intermingle, like they did before Wan closed the portals ten thousand years ago. One side effect was non-benders all over the world spontaneously manifesting the near-extinct ability of [[BlowYouAway Airbending]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:magic is restored when Sunny convinces the three races to be friends again and ThePowerOfFriendship gives life to the DismantledMacGuffin, resting the magical abilities of the pony breeds]].

* Wiki/SCPFoundation: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4002 SCP-4002]] reveals that everything the Foundation and the related groups have been dealing with boils down to the start of this trope; monsters and gods were once commonplace and humans used to have magical powers and live for around a thousand years until a Sumerian king named Etana made a DealWithTheDevil and sacrificed all of it in order to have a son. The age of "normalcy" was said to end once the Black Moon howls, but the Overseer council intends to do whatever it can to delay or prevent it and preserve order.
* In ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' story "[[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-last-magician-of-moscow The Last Magician of Moscow]]", this is implied to happen to Russian magic by the end of the story. Rather than the magic ''itself'' fading, the Russian magic tradition died out when most of its practitioners killed each other off in power struggles, but a new generation is beginning to rediscover the art and there's hope that they won't repeat their predecessors' mistakes.

* Among certain groups of Christians such as Pentecostals and Charismatics, there is a "latter rain" (Joel 2:23) outpouring of the Holy Spirit that is supposed to take place before the SecondComing of Jesus Christ, as they consider the first major outpouring of the Spirit to be the "former rain".