Schmendrick: "The Red Bull came for a unicorn, so she had to become something else. Played particularly and expressly straight when Schmendrick transforms the unicorn into a human woman to protect her from the Red Bull: He can't make it do a single thing, but he can let it do what it wants. The Last Unicorn: Schmendrick's quest is to learn to use his magic.Enemy Glory: very active in the North Country, where reality seems to be on a constant quest to turn into the most grandiose metaphor for itself that it can come up with.Magics in general seem to enjoy being used and providing for humans and display signs of stress when they're unable to latch onto a city or other hub of human life. Most magics inhabit cities, providing a general magical aura, and the central conflict of the trilogy is how Wellmet's magic is stretched too thin and is draining away trying to provide for everyone, while the magic of a neighboring city was forced out when the city was abandoned and is so desperately lonely that it's begun attacking the Wellmet magic in hopes of displacing it and taking over. In The Magic Thief, "magics" are quite literally alive, to the point of being able to speak (in certain cases) and have wants.The drops in the anime adaptation of Puzzle & Dragons X act as a Background Magic Field that tends to act strangely whenever a monster is about to appear and start rampaging, though there are also benign examples such as giving a village elder who passed away a sendoff by putting on a light show during his funeral.
Crazy Slots is notable for being a case of this trope in a series otherwise full of Magic A Is Magic A, though powers is Hx H become stronger when the user willingly creates limitations, so Kite making it harder to get what he wants also makes his weapons better. Crazy Slots has a mind of its own and honestly doesn't care much about Kite's well-being. In Hunter × Hunter, Kite's Crazy Slots ability takes the form of a jester-like being that will spin a wheel on its tongue and turn into whatever supernatural weapon corresponds with that number.The Lord of Nightmares is a very capricious being, and her mind always follows her power, so it really all depends on how she's feeling. As Chaos is both powerful beyond everything, and more than a little chaotic, there's the minor problem that a miscast Giga Slave could destroy the entire world. The Giga Slave is a version of a powerful theurgic spell, modified to call upon Chaos itself. Most magic in Slayers is either rule magic or theurgic, but Lina's Dangerous Forbidden Technique is wild magic.