Are supernatural or magical energies or attacks assumed to be non-physical

[SubaruN2000]

Are all supernatural or magical energies or attacks assumed to be unbounded by all laws of physics and spatiotemporal laws? What about in verses where the characters can shoot energy beams of this type of energies and manifest weapons with them? Or ones where the energies can be manipulated in tangible form?

 

[James_Plays_4_Games]

Are supernatural or magical energies or attacks assumed to be unbounded by the laws of physics or spatiotemporal laws?

The words "supernatural" and "magic" refer to the idea that something doesn't follow nature and/or science. What that "something" is varies depending on what's being referred to. In this case, energy is being referred to, and that's something conventionally physical, so it's probably assumed to be physical, in the same way as how a character performing physically impossible feats doesn't lead to the assumption that the character is intangible. This isn't necessarily the case of course, and there could be inherently non-physical aspects about the energy as a result of the magic, such as effects that it may cause. I can imagine that most magic energy based telekinesis is assumed to be non-physical, since telekinesis itself is non-physical.

What about in verses where the characters can shoot energy beams of this type of energies and manifest weapons with them? Or ones where the energies can be manipulated in tangible form?

Those are all specific examples that can have varying answers. I don't know the intricacies of every system of fictional energy, but those ones seem like examples where the magical energy is physical.

 

[Metalballrun]

Are all supernatural or magical energies or attacks assumed to be unbounded by all laws of physics and spatiotemporal laws?

That's like, a super massive leap without any context, lol.

It entirely depends on whatever specific magical/supernatural attack it is from which story it came from. Because the portrayal may vary. But it's imprudent to automatically assume something is unbounded by all laws of physics or even spatiotemporal laws (like, I beg your pardon???) just because.

There are lots of magic and supernatural things that, while break physics or are in a state were certain scientific principles are inapplicable to them, are still subjected to physics or at least a magical iteration of one.
For example: A basic fireball spell might be differentiated from a normal fire in a sense that it doesn't rely on the fire triangle to manifest (therefore it "breaks physics") but still function the same as normal fire, such as it burns and moves at the same speed as flames.
We don't automatically assume this thing breaks the laws of space and time just because it doesn't work like normal fire. That's the powerscaling brainrot you'd best steer clear away from.