Quotes / Wrong Context Magic

Pete: Watch out! Stay away from their magic!
Pirate: What for?
Pete: Weren't you listening to me before?
Sora: Hey, Pete. Thanks for the tip!

— Kingdom Hearts II

"How disappointing. So this is all they meant when they said "heart". We've been chasing the wrong box this whole time!"

— Vexen, Kingdom Hearts III

Lalli: He's not my ally, he's some strange foreigner! And he's rude! He broke into my area! Like he did just now to you!
Onni: A foreign mage. That explains it.
Lalli: How do I keep him out? I don't like him!
Onni: I doubt you can. That's a thing I've been told they just... do. I don't know what else they are capable of, if anything. I hear they're mostly defenceless.

— Stand Still, Stay Silent

"Great miracle cast by advance clerics. Return to last bonfire rested at.

Would normally link to one's homeland, only the curse of the Undead has distorted its power, redirecting casters to a bonfire. Or perhaps for Undead, this serves as home?"

— Homeward description, Dark Souls

"What? Hey! You reek of foreign magick. Sweet Nanna's nethers, what are those? I've never seen the like."

— Brok's reaction to the Blades of Chaos, God of War (PS4)

"The weapons of Mesopotamia cannot hurt it. I was the one who said that. However, I am a Divinity of a distant mystic land! The Primordial God of Mesopotamia, you are nothing to me!"

— Quetzalcoatl on Tiamat, Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia

Marasi: Wow. That's... magic?
Moonlight: Is Allomancy magic?
Marasi: Of course not.
Moonlight: Neither is this. To repair something, I merely rewrite the past...

— The Lost Metal

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