Fantasy is a genre that encompasses stories that somehow violate a law of reality. This can involve the manipulation of matter and energy in some way that is impossible by our understanding of physics (e.g. magic). This can involve the description of creatures that do not exist in our world (e.g. vampires), which must be carefully made distinct from alien creatures in a science fiction sense; the key difference lies in the origin of said creature. Whereas aliens and other creatures might have their evolution and possible interstellar travel explained by some facet of science, fantastic creatures do not require such a rationale that is based in the laws of reality. And there is some overlap here. Vampires can be explained as a series of genetic mutations and natural selection that created a human subrace—a science fiction origin—or they can be described as born of magic or some other mystical source. Thus the determination of fantasy is not distinctly based on the contents of a particular story, but in the overall approach in defining the world and its participants.
Movies: LOTR (who’s not a fan, honestly?), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Golden Compass, etc.
TV Shows: True Blood, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (don’t laugh, I know y’all watched it too)
Games: Dungeons & Dragons-based games, such as the Baldur’s Gate series
Books: Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Music: Murder by Death - Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them? (the whole album, folks... proof for the disbelievers)
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