History Characters / TheMagicians

* {{Pettanko}}

* ChekhovsLecture: He introduces the concept of Niffins, which comes in handy later in the book.

* NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus: Subverted- Richard believes that magic is "The Tools of God". True to the trope, though, nobody takes this very seriously, partly because Christianity isn't very popular among most Wizards and Witches, but mostly because of the logical problems of the argument.

* NoWizardJesus: Subverted- Richard believes that magic is "The Tools of God". Nobody takes this very seriously, partly because Christianity isn't very popular among most Wizards and Witches, but mostly because of the logical problems of the argument.

* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: From one of the European schools, she's first introduced as the captain of another team during the welters tournament. Her accent is described as Pan-European, and all of the boys of the welters teams and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer some of the girls]] are immediately smitten with her

* CulturedWarrior: Manages the "cultured" part quite well throughout the novel, being very well-acquainted with art and fine wines, but he doesn't get to the "warrior" part until the journey to Fillory.

* TheExile: His reassignment is treated more like exile given that he's essentially banished to a remote outpost, alone except for the fourth-year students that are sent to learn from him, and unable to leave- or at the very least, unable to return to Brakebills' main campus.

* AscendedFanboy: During the final chapter, he's apparently using the Neitherlands to reach [[LordOfTheRings Middle-Earth]], where he hopes to "bone an Elf."

* SquishyWizard
* TookALevelInBadass: In the sequel, he spent lot of his time between the novels on an adventure through the Neitherlands, exploring, falling in love, and even becoming a hero of sorts.

* SorcerousOverlord

* EldritchAbomination: It's believed that the Beast is just a protrusion of something much worse inspecting our world. [[spoiler: This is eventually proven wrong, but to be honest, the reality isn't much better]]

* MadeOfIron

* EnsembleDarkhorse: In-series example. [[spoiler: Out of all the Chatwin children, Jane is a fan-favourite, mainly because her thoughtful attitude sets her apart from the others.]]

* HarmlessVillain: Adult readers of the Fillory books see her as a bit of a joke, with no real villainous actions to her name apart from her goal of freezing time in Fillory. [[spoiler: In fact, the only reason why she's seen as a villain in first place is because her experiments in time travel were ultimately misinterpreted by the Chatwin children.]]

* [[spoiler: AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: after she becomes a demi-goddess, she travels to the other side of Fillory, a world yet to be created that is to Fillory as Fillory is to Earth.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Apparently, [[spoiler: getting very physically, very brutally raped by a ten-foot fox-deity on the much darker side of the TricksterArchetype spectrum makes you turn into a beautiful, otherworldly demi-goddess.]]

** LoveableAlphaBitch: What she is most of the time.

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!! Poppy - an Australian magician

* ObstructiveBureacrat: To Quentin in the second book, anyway.

* TeacherStudentRomance: With Emily Greenstreet.

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* [[spoiler: AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: after she became a demi-goddess, she travels to the other side of Fillory, a world yet to be created that is to Fillory as Fillory is to Earth.]]

* SanitySlippage: Given that the memory wipe only ''partially'' worked, Julia ended up with an entire memory running contrary to both reality and what had supposedly happened on the day of her exam; as a result, she ends up becoming depressive, paranoid, and so fixated on the magical world that she disregards almost all of her college offers. Then, after a brief return to normality, she ended up diving headlong into the deep end of Hedge-Wizardry and joining the Free Trade Beowulf group, which opened her up to further sanity slippage.

As usual, beware the ''MASSIVE SPOILERS'' contained therein for both TheMagicians and it's sequel The Magician King.

* TheLibby: In her less-than-pleasant moments, she can come off as this.

* SpockSpeech: In Quentin's parts of the novel, Julia tends to speak in short, clipped sentences, often without contractions. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that this is one of the side effects of her continuing transformation into a demigod.]]

!!Julia - introduced in the first book as a tertiary character, but becomes a protagonist in the second

* DarkAndTroubledPast: We can tell almost from her introduction that she is pretty badly traumatized, but the full cause is not revealed until close to the end.

* SanitySlippage: Given that the memory wipe only ''partially'' worked, Julia ended up with an entire memory running contrary to both reality and what had supposedly happened on the day of her exam; as a result, she ends up becoming depressive, paranoid, and so fixated on the magical world that she disregards almost all of her college offers.

* TookALevelInBadass: just how she managed to level up is shown in the sequel.

* [[spoiler: AncientConspiracy: Has joined one when Quentin meets him in Book 2.]]

* WaifFu: Alice.

* [[spoiler: BroughtDownToNormal: Without his hands, Penny loses the capacity for spellcasting]]. However, [[spoiler: as of his return, he's learned how to cast spells with the muscles of his body.]]

* {{Goth}}: After she's rejected from Brakesbills and still remembers, she dyes her hair and starts wearing black.

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* [[BroughtDownToNormal: Without his hands, Penny loses the capacity for spellcasting]]. However, [[spoiler: as of his return, he's learned how to cast spells with the muscles of his body.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: during the climax, Martin Chatwin bites Penny's hands off.
* [[BroughtDownToNormal: Without his hands, Penny loses the capacity for spellcasting... [[spoiler: or so we thought.]]

* [[spoiler: AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: after she becomed a demi-goddess, she travels to the other side of Fillory, a world yet to be created that is to Fillory as Fillory is to Earth.]]

* {{Goth}}: After she's rejected from Brakesbills and still remembers, she dies her hair and starts wearing black.

* TookALevelInBadass: just how she managed to level up is show in the sequel