diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2021-08-22-11-45-31.bpo-44978.QupKV3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2021-08-22-11-45-31.bpo-44978.QupKV3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c7a844c1230e2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2021-08-22-11-45-31.bpo-44978.QupKV3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow the Argument Clinic tool to handle ``__complex__`` special methods.
diff --git a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
index b52ac3b00de9ee..ed17fabf8d2a14 100755
--- a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
+++ b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
@@ -2181,7 +2181,6 @@ def __repr__(self):
 __and__
 __bytes__
 __call__
-__complex__
 __delitem__
 __divmod__
 __eq__