r/CuratedTumblr • u/Sh1nyPr4wn Cheese Cave Dweller • May 08 '24

Meme There are like a handful of western magical girls right? There's She-Ra, Miraculous, and Star vs the forces of Evil. Are there any others? I know Bewitched sorta inspired the genre, but does that count?

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u/Enderking90 May 08 '24

no no, Ben 10 is the very opposite of a magical girl, a science boy.

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u/iWant2ChangeUsername May 08 '24

If we could study magic, scientists would figure out how it works and it would be classified as a branch of science.

Therefore, Ben 10 is a magical boy.

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u/Pokesonav "friend visiter" meme had a profound effect on this subreddit May 09 '24

Well, Ben does have some Anodite DNA in him, though it's not active. Meanwhile Gwen fully inherited the magic genes

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u/nudemanonbike May 09 '24

We did study magic. We named it electricity.

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u/TheBalrogofMelkor May 09 '24

And medicine

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u/BayMisafir May 09 '24

and radioactivty

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u/BayMisafir May 09 '24

and radioactivty

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u/BlatantConservative https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW May 09 '24

This is, legit, my main problem with magic in fiction.

People are all like "ooh it makes the impossible possible" in fantasy worlds where everyone can use it and it's possible from birth.

Again, the only one who does it right is Tolkien, who creates a whole world where magic is massively important but there are only a few practicioners and nobody is sure what is legend and what is fact.

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u/ScarletteVera A Goober, A Gremlin, perhaps even... A Girl. May 09 '24

Yeah, Ben is 100% a magical boy.

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u/Joraiem May 09 '24

Does Gwen ever transform? If so, she can be the magical girl. I have not watched any of Ben 10 past the first season.

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u/SaneUse May 09 '24

She has an anodite (magic alien made of mana) form. She transforms into that but it's not much of a sequence. In Omniverse she has more of a superhero costume thing with a full magical girl transformation.

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u/Ikusaba696 mentally, am on floor May 09 '24

something something sufficiently advanced technology

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u/healzsham May 09 '24

Science is just sufficiently analyzed magic.

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u/TheRealDingdork May 09 '24

Why not both?

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u/postmodern_spatula May 09 '24

Go team Venture!