| rdfs:comment | - Mages (or other superpowered beings) get a big advantage against muggles. Even the most trained fighter can be killed or incapacitated by a single spell. Thus, to deal with mages you need these guys. A Mage Killer is basically a Badass Normal whose capabilities of dealing with mages are somehow improved. He can resist harmful spells, prevent enemies from using them or reflect them back to enemies, for example. Anyway, enemies can't possibly defeat him with magic, and as a Badass Normal the Mage Killer has a major physical advantage over mages with no combat prowess (that is, 95% of mages). His additional ablities may involve detecting magic or tracking its users. Sometimes he may even use magic, but very rarely, and not the usual earthquakes and meteors, but something subtle or affecting o
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| abstract | - Mages (or other superpowered beings) get a big advantage against muggles. Even the most trained fighter can be killed or incapacitated by a single spell. Thus, to deal with mages you need these guys. A Mage Killer is basically a Badass Normal whose capabilities of dealing with mages are somehow improved. He can resist harmful spells, prevent enemies from using them or reflect them back to enemies, for example. Anyway, enemies can't possibly defeat him with magic, and as a Badass Normal the Mage Killer has a major physical advantage over mages with no combat prowess (that is, 95% of mages). His additional ablities may involve detecting magic or tracking its users. Sometimes he may even use magic, but very rarely, and not the usual earthquakes and meteors, but something subtle or affecting only mages. If a Mage Killer is a member of an order who specializes in hunting mages, his anti-magic abilities are very likely to be a result of specific training. Anyway, a Mage Killer is usually very similar to a Magic Knight, only with anti-magic instead of magic. When they run into Magic Knights or Kung Fu Wizards, they've got problems. Sometimes is a part of normal arms race or a niche -- if there's a threat, everyone wants to get countermeasures, and if there's something, some critter sooner or later will eat it. Sometimes is added as an element of Fake Balance (situational advantage): instead of nerfing down superpowered entities in question, make up a selectively fearsome enemy for them, so they would not look best in all situations. May take the form of a beast either trained or naturally suited to hunt mages. In the latter case, the creature often feeds on magical power. Note that Anti-Magic is a power and Mage Killer is a character who fights mages and has abilities for that. See also Cape Busters, for the anti-superpower (rather than anti-magic) version, and Demon Slayer, for someone who hunts demons instead of mages. Examples of Mage Killer include:
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