I'd say yes, as long an there's an integration between the two.
If their eyes are just made of magic, that might not count.
What about Rudy Diaz from Crimes Against Nature which is the tenth issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eleven? Rudy Diaz is a cyborg infused with magic.
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I'm trying to figure out what to use as the basis for a Magitek device analogous to a loudspeaker, which plays pre-recorded messages. Anyone got any ideas about where to go with that?
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You might want to ask in the WorldBuilding forum
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Re: Pathfinder Artificer It's hardly the 'patron saint' of magitek, it's a derivative class based on the original D&D 3.5 Artificer from the Eberron setting.
(The PF version also sucks goat balls; it doesn't actually delineate what the class is allowed to do, and therefore the DM has to adjudicate ANY action.)
Removed the Buffy example (Jenny Calendar and technopaganism). Magitek is about magic substituting for technology, not magic and technology interacting. I suspect the Power Rangers example should be axed as well, but I haven't watched Power Rangers so I'll leave it to someone who has.
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The description implies that Magitek IS Magic and Technology interacting. What should be done? A clean-up?
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I think that the point of the trope is that magic is used to re-create modern mundane technologies. That /can/ involve mechanical elements, but it isn't necessary. A magic taxi is magitek whether it's a car powered by a fire elemental or a flying carpet - what's important is that the characters react to it exactly as we would to a (non-magical) taxi.
Would Whateley devises count? They look outwardly like technology, but break the rules of physics, so nobody other than devisors could make them...
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I think the current wording of the movie Thor example is a bit off — to me, it seems entirely consistent with the comics' Kirby Tech depiction of God-power (see the Comics section).
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Maybe I am reading it wrong, but a lot of the literature examples miss the point entirely! Its not so much Magical items fulfilling the purpose of technological ones, but more accurately taking their place, complete with the mundanity that implies. A Magic Carpet isn't magitek, but a Magic Carpet that fulfills the role of a mundane taxi is. A Magic wand isn't magitek, but a magic flashlight or gun is.
It occurs to me that, at least in the case of Tabletop Games and Literature, this trope and it's corralory could go something like this.
"Sufficiently Rare/Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic."
and
"Sufficiently Common Magic is Indistinguishable from Technology."
Would this trope fit a cyborg that has had their bionics components created using magic besides just science and their bionics such as their eyes can mimic magical abilities?
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