A favorite comic series of mine, Planetary, once described magic in technological terms as "the cheat codes of the universe."
Another Marvel comic character, the Scarlet Witch, used her mutant "hex power" to locally alter physics in unpredictable ways, usually in such a way as to hamper the bad guys in some unanticipated but predictably useful way.
Mutants. Now there's an SF element ripe for discussion...
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