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Magic is an effect that is a result of a supernatural or divine process. It's a part of the World of DreamWorks Trolls.
About[]
There have been several instances of "magic" in Trolls, all of which are rarely directly stated to be a product of said occurrence.
- In The Art of DreamWorks Trolls, the power of Troll hair is said to be a form of magic.
- The loss of color or gaining "True Colors" is a result of magic.
- Some Tribe families from the Trolls era such as Fuzzlings and Trollimals were suggested to have a form of magic of some kind.
- In the Trolls: TrollsTopia episode "Stop the Presses", several events - such as Synth's water powers, Wormholes, and the random announcer voices and letters heard throughout the series - are suggested to be a result of "magic".
The franchise hasn't gone into depth or explained how magic works in the Trolls' world. At the same time, there is logic to their universe, as seen with the Funk Trolls' "Funk science".
Artifacts[]
In "The Troublesome Trio", the character Marshtato Mary presumed Poppy's ball was magic, as the instructions Poppy gave was the person with the ball only has the ability to talk, so Mary presumed that was the power of the orb of silencing. This was a misunderstanding on Mary's part. Regardless, because of the presence of "magic" in the Trolls world, characters like Mary expect there to be magical artifacts, and anything with such power then becomes a source of power to those individuals, since such artifacts are not that common.
When they do exist, they are indeed very powerful, as shown by the Strings which have the power over all music, music itself being a type of magical power in the Trolls world. The Strings' power were a type of domineering magic that could control other Trolls.
Other artifacts include the Rainbow maker in "Bellow Bug Day" and the Fountain of Glitter from "Glitter Loss".
Examples[]
In addition, in "Once Bitten, Twice Guy", when Guy Diamond receives a bite from bats, he gets the supernatural urge to wear clothes as he was becoming a "glampire". However, Guy came to the conclusion he never had actually become a Glampire; he just was experimenting with a new approach to himself.
Trivia[]
- Magic is part of a number of concepts within Trolls that have not been fully fleshed out or defined by DreamWorks.
- This was also faced with concepts like the hinterlands and the Multiverse.
- Alongside Magic, Music is a driving force and source of power in the Trolls' world. Again, it too is not fully explained.
- Since it's vague, it's unknown just what else is classified in the franchise as "magic" (e.g. Wind Breeze's powers of levitation, healing or crystal viewing).
- Troll hair being magical is a reference to the original Troll Dolls, who were sold as good luck charms, with the intention of bringing comfort to children. More specifically, it was rubbing a Troll Doll's hair what supposedly brought good luck.
- The magic seen in the franchise so far is based on the "soft magic" archetype; this means that it has loose rules instead of fixed ones (a trait of the opposite "hard magic" archetype), and thus allows for flexible story writing, as the characters themselves usually have a poor understanding of how magic works, and often it's not clear to the viewers how such a power operates either.
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