[meta] theory of handwavium 'magic'

[robkelk]

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Handwave animating corpses?
I thought handwavium only enhances attributes? How it can animate something that's dead?

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Oh, handwavium can do a lot more than that - just ask Trigon, Gina, Dee, Ryoko, Miyu, Catty, Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Sora, Yayoi, Kohran, Yoriko, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, Fate, Simon-Peter, Buckaroo, Callisto, Gay Deceiver, Brother-Captain Galvius, Hermes, Millie, Vioarr, Durandal, Leela, Excel, Avril, Kasumi, Adonis, Greenpeace, d'Sparil, Harlequin, or Viola.
And those are just the AIs mentioned so far in the stories. If handwavium can make an inert collection of wires and metal talk and move around of its own free will, imagine what it could do with - or to - a once-living body.
(No, I'm not going to write that story. This plotbunny's free to whoever wants it.)

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Also, it's a Hollywood prop which are supposed to look like things, and there's no better enhancement to a prop, than actually doing what it's pretending to do.

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Better not handwave a prop sword, then. (Handwavium might not "do" ranged weapons or explosions, but it does "do" edges...)

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The theory of 'wavium magic I presented wouldn't work on it, because unless you can find a live-action movie or television series prop(for the whole series), i.e Knight Rider, rather than a made-for-TV movie, every person in the world has a different idea of what a flying carpet would look like.

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There are some common elements, though - they're always big enough for one or two people, never larger; they're always Persian rugs; and so on. That might be enough for the 'wavium to key on...

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The made-for-TV movie would be less powerful, i.e have a time limit per year or something.

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The Blue Blazer Irregulars managed to create a few items from a 24-year-old cult film (and an older novel), so a per-year time limit might be too restrictive.

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Pratchett's Law:Cool. I'll just steal his ideas. It worked for Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare stole from Pratchett? Okay, when did the Professor invent a time machine?
(Edit: Changed an absolute to a probable. I'm not God here...)
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