Basic Trope: Using magic makes you easier for bad things to find.
- Straight: Whenever Alice uses magic, monsters find her.
- Exaggerated: If Alice uses even her weakest spells, every monster withing 100 miles comes looking for her.
- Downplayed: When Alice uses too much magic at once, monsters start coming. This can be avoided by moving on.
- Justified:
- Most of the monsters eat magic, and have senses which are practical for finding prey.
- The monsters are some kind of Clock Roaches trying to stop reality from being warped by magic.
- The greatest users of magic habitually absorb the powers of other weaker magic users they detect, they send out monsters as minions to assist in this.
- Inverted:
- Even if that wasn't the intent of the specific spell, using magic drives monsters away.
- Monsters are the source of magic that Alice can use. Solving the monster threat permanently would lead to the loss of magic.
- Subverted: The monsters don't care or don't notice when Alice casts weak magic; however, they all come in swarms and hordes should she cast her Fantastic Nuke.
- Double Subverted: Alice later casts a mass enchantment with even more power than her Fantastic Nuke and none of the monsters care or show up. It wasn't the power itself so much as users of a Fantastic Nuke being scary enough to be viewed as a threat to be killed immediately.
- Parodied: Every time Alice pulls a rabbit from her top hat or saws another lady in half, monsters instantly fill up the empty seats off screen. Then, they give her some Sarcastic Clapping before attacking.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Monsters can't detect magic.
- Enforced: Preserves dramatic tension by discouraging magic use, or preserves Competitive Balance the same way.
- Lampshaded: Alice casts a spell. The monsters arrive almost immediately, and her partner Bob says "And this is why Heroes Prefer Swords."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice uses magic to draw huge numbers of monsters, then uses more magic to wipe them out and make the area safe again.
- Defied: Alice finds a way to mask her magic so it doesn't attract monsters.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice the witch seems to be ambushed by monsters and targeted more aggressively by them.
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