| Role/Occupation Magician |
| Total Entries 211 |
| Representative Shazam |
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You know them: they wear tuxedoes, top hats, swishing satin capes, and fine white gloves. They flourish black batons with white tips and brandish decks of cards, metal rings, rubber balls, paper cups, and silk handkerchiefs. Their favorite words are “Abracadabra”, “Hocus Pocus”, “Presto (change-o)”, “Voila”, “Now you see it—now you don’t” and “Alakazam!” Using their nimble fingers, hidden devices, and deliberate misdirection, they can “Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat”, pull a dove from their sleeve, “Saw a Woman in Half”, and hypnotize hapless audience members or even make them disappear! Sometimes they’re also “Escape Artists”, able to get out of handcuffs and straitjackets and still find out what your card was. Some of them “solve crimes in their spare time”. And maybe, just maybe, some of them can do “real magic”. Or, conversely, they simply use their stage tricks to fake it. “A magician never tells”, but then that’s all part of the mystique. Almost “Always Male” — at least, the person whose name is on the marquee. However, the assistants (almost “Always Female”) are also trained professionals, and the usually female “Fortune Teller” could be considered a stage magician’s “Distaff Counterpart”. Woe betides anyone who tries to “Rummage Fail” through their possessions. A skilled one will usually perform tricks that are impossible in real life, which is handwaved by simply saying a magician never reveals his secret… ~ Stage Magician – TV Tropes
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