Special effect
Special effect noun - An effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film).
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Trick and special effect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trick" instead a noun phrase "Special effect".
Trick
Trick noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Special effect and trick are semantically related. You can use "Special effect" instead a noun "Trick".
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Take an attack power with multiple alternate modes (which generally come at a significant discount for only being usable one at a time), give it the special effect "bow and trick arrows", add the necessary drawbacks if it's actual equipment that can be taken away, and you're basically done.
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Stop Trick: The first unique-to-the-camera special effect Méliès discovered, and almost certainly the one he called into play the most.
Source: Creator / Georges Méliès - In Olsen-bandens sidste stik ("The Olsen Gang's last trick") Egon accidental open a door to a room where two old men are writing on typewrites: Erik Balling and Henning Bahs, the creators of the series as well as director and special effect maker respective.
Source: Film / Olsen-banden
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