History Characters / Charmed1998TheCharmedOnes

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* FearfulSymmetry: In "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World", Phoebe and Paige meet their counterparts from a mirror universe where morality is inverted. Their evil selves think and act in near-exact ways, leading to a MirrorMatch when the Phoebes try to fight each other.

* {{Omniglot}}: She's apparently able to understand Latin.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: While the sisters are practising Wiccans during the series (as seen by Piper's wedding and [[spoiler:Prue's funeral]]) it's often indicated that they had some exposure to Christianity during their childhoods. In one episode, Piper freaks out that being a Witch means she's evil and is only consoled when she steps into a church and isn't immediately struck dead. Paige was given to a nun after her birth who selected her adoptive parents from the congregation. She mentions attending services with them and celebrating Christmas and Easter.

* CareerVersusMan: The BadFuture shown in "Morality Bites" portrays Prue as a CorruptCorporateExecutive who owns three additional Buckland's auction houses in London, Paris and Tokyo. She is dismayed to learn that she doesn't have a husband, and resolves to not turn out like that. It's worth noting that it's not just the lack of husband that troubled her - her assistant didn't even know she had another sister and only knew Phoebe from the news. On a broader scale, after she breaks up with Jack in season two she never has a long-term relationship again for the rest of her time on the series. Despite hitting it off with several guys, none of them last as she's too focused on her magic.

* PlayingWithFire: Not one of her regular powers, but Phoebe seems to have an affinity for throwing jets of flame whenever she turns evil. ([[CallBack One episode]] [[FridgeBrilliance shows that she was pyrokinetic and evil in a past life.]])

* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Develops martial arts skills on-par with Phoebe despite not being established as training in them the way her younger sister did.

* NeatFreak: She's the most likely to complain about damage to the Manor and its furnishings. In "House Call" a witch doctor" casts a spell on her which amplifies this, causing her to clean obsessively.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: When the story moved from television to comics the sisters' different witch powers evolved and became much more showy in the comics. Notably, Paige gained the power to make orb forcefields.

* TimeTravelTenseTrouble:
** The sisters (her in particular) in always run into difficulty when trying to get their heads around the concept of tenses when time travel is involved.
--->'''Prue:''' We barely got away as it was... Is. Will be. You know, I've never been good with tenses.

* HiddenDepths: Her magic is supportive and extremely useful as she can both avoid/warn others of any type of danger. This can naturally/literally be seen with premonitions, her empathy can sense the intentions of others, and her levitation allows her to physically move herself and others out the way of danger.

* FormerTeenRebel: All of them but [[WhiteSheep Piper]] went through a "rebellious" phase as teenagers.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: For her it's anger. Phoebe immediately notices and provokes her by mentioning their DisappearedDad to make her angrier.

** Hers is panic, although the awakening is actually quite beneficial, since it allows her to finish an audition recipe and get hired at Quake.
** The explosion power is a straighter example. It awakens while she's in public, and she keeps accidentally making things explode without meaning to. It takes two episodes for her to get to the point where she can use it willingly.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Fear. The first known instance of her orbing was during the car crash that killed her parents. The second was when Shax tried to kill her.

-->'''Piper to Phoebe''' Now there's a freezing power with kick.\\

** Piper is able to blow up beings and objects, The two most blatant examples was when she first manifested the power and she was able to blow up a demon, slightly weaker then Cole Turner/Belthazor and was even able to blow up the Source of Evil himself with one shot, but he could reform.

* CharacterDevelopment: Prue began as an uptight and humourless grudging TeamMom. As her powers increased, she became friendlier to her sisters and less like a nagging parent - not to mention she TookALevelInBadass to become a CombatSnarker.

* BadassFamily: They are the strongest witches in existence and are sisters, who are the descendants