Movie/Show/Cartoon where characters control elements? Like magic?

Question

Hey guys,

I'm really into shows where a person can control elements like fire, water, ice etc with their hands or create magic balls in their hands for some reason. But, I cannot find anything at all that has any magic in it.

Does anyone know any show/anime/cartoon/movie where the characters control magic (preferablly an "Ice power" I love that)

I know im a nerd for asking lol but please no Harry Potter answers
Any thoughts are appreciated! xox

Answer 1

"Avatar: The Last Airbender" (2005)
When the hostile Fire Nation threatens to enslave the Water, Earth, and Air Nations, a reluctant and irresponsible boy must face his destiny as the Avatar, the Chosen One who can restore the world order. This new animated series centers on twelve-year-old Aang, who must forgo his selfish wandering to learn to master his latent powers over the four elements. Only then can he conquer the Firebenders, the evil magi who threaten the world.
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Windy Tales


Nao, an 8th grader, is one of the only two members of a Digital Camera Club, where she also serves as the manager. It's a mystery that she shoots nothing else but the skies and clouds. One day, she finds a cat on a rooftop where she usually shoots her camera. It's a cat that knows how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Shocked to find a strange animal, Nao loses her footing and falls off from the rooftop!

Miki is the other member of the club, and also Nao's best friend. Mr. Taiki is the teacher who's taught the cat how to manipulate the flow of a wind. Ryoko is a girl who has a huge crush on Mr. Taiki. And there's Jun, who helps Nao and Miki look for a cat that can fly. Then, there's Yukio, who is the widow of Mr. Taiki's deceased brother.

On the outskirts of this big city, a town off the "Wind Handlers," has been formed - and a mysterious Wind Festival is about to begin...

The first episode is pure magic...please avail yourself. And it looks like no anime you have ever seen. Enjoy..
Excellent animated series.
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Dragonball Z.......this anime classic seaks for itself.

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Answer 2

...this might be an extraordinarily odd response to your question, but amazingly enough, it falls, at least somewhat, into the description you mention; an open mind, if you please...

In 1982, director Paul Mazursky produced a very loosely based version of a story originally written by Shakespeare, entitled "Tempest"; in this contemporary version of the story, a burnt-out architect (John Cassavetes), suffering from a middle age crisis, leaves his wife (Gena Rowlands), takes his young & precocious daughter (Molly Rignwald, in her first starring role) to Europe, meets & falls in love with a free-spirited woman (Susan Sarandon) in Greece, and escapes to an uncharted Greek island, populated by a sole, grizzled, enterprising and lustful Greek drifter (Raul Julia).

In the course of the film, at a couple of very intense moments in the film, the rebellious architect truly believes that he can control the elements, and in fact, actually speaks to 'the gods', as he gestures to the sky, during a couple of coincidental lightning & thunder storms.

At the end of the film, when his solitude on the Greek island is threatened by the arrival of his wife, and several of his influential associates, he once again gestures to 'the gods', and appears to summon up a powerful hurricane, thus capsizing the hapless and unwanted visitors, and trapping them on the island.

...a very touching, funny, powerful and almost mystical film, Columbia/Tri-Star recently released the film on DVD; based upon what you're looking for, in a rather odd way, I would highly recommend the film, and would be most curious in your response of the film, again based upon what you seem to be looking for.

...once again, open mind here!!!

...otherwise, a couple of other titles, possibly a lot closer to what you seem to be looking for, off the top of my head, include:

"Dragonslayer" (1981)

A sorcerer's apprentice bravely, but reluctantly takes up the arduous and death-defying task of finding and destroying a firey-breathed dragon, using a jeweled amulet he inherited from his murdered master; with the jewel (and a few hand gestures), the lad finds that he can easily manipulate matter, move objects and make changes in the environment/weather. His master's spirit eventually returns, in the flesh, to assist his student in creating a monstrous, cloud-bursting storm, in an effort to draw out and destroy the dragon.

"The Manitou" (1978)

Being in the wrong place in the right time, a woman gives birth to a 400 year old Indian medicine man, through a cyst-like tumor on her back; using ancient spoken words, and hand gestures, the medicine man invokes the presence of demons, and transforms the surrounding environment to his liking. In the end, the bed-ridden & comatose woman awakens, and in manipulating the forces of time and space themselves, she attempts to defeat the medicine man, and thwarts his plans to release from captivity, an ancient, all-powerful force...possibly the devil himself!!!

Answer 3

Avatar

Answer 4

dungeons and dragons are magic

Lord of the rings have magic in it

As for cartoons....i'm too out of touch with my childhood to think of any right now

Answer 5

Interesting discussion!

Answer 6

W.I.T.C.H. Cartoon Network