History ComicBook / Witch

* TransformationTrinket: The Heart Of Kandrakar, although when they got a power-upgrade in the seventh saga, it appears they can now transform without it.
** Also, unlike other trinkets, there's no risk of losing it, as it's normally dormant inside Will's body, and only appears when needed.
** The Heart Of Kandrakar is not needed for transformation, the Guardians have transformed before the power-upgrade without using it. Cornelia transformed at least while Will was elsewhere.
** Irma also transformed once without it to draw some boy's attention (she hid her wings). More than a TransformationTrinket, it just make them more powerful in their Guardian forms. Also, they no longer use it to transform.
* TrulySingleParent: Caleb is a Murmurer. The closest thing he has to a father is ''Phobos''.
** Though technically, his human form was literally created by Elyon, so you could say she is his mother.

* WingsDoNothing: At first, the guardians wings are pretty much useless and Hay Lin is the only one who can actually fly. [[LampshadeHanging At one point in the third saga, Orube asks why they even have them if they can't actually use them.]] However, in the seventh saga, the girls get a power upgrade which include bigger wings that allow them to fly (but Cornelia is afraid to). {{Justified}} in the New Power story arc, where it's revealed that [[spoiler: the powers of the Guardians were ''incomplete'', and when they get their full power at the start of the arc their wings actually start working]].

* UnPerson: Happens to Cornelia in one comic after Endarno releases some sort of magical butterfly, only the other W.I.T.C.H. girls were able to remember her. The butterfly eventually transforms into a crystal-like clone of Cornelia and shows her visions of her past, and then Cornelia destroys it.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hetherfield appears to be in the US given that the American flag appears several times and US dollars sometimes appear...but other times euros are used instead, which indicates a European location.

* WingsDoNothing: At first, the guardians wings are pretty much useless and Hay Lin is the only one who can actually fly. At one point in the third saga, Orube asks why they even have them if they can't actually use them. However, in the seventh saga, the girls get a power upgrade which include bigger wings that allow them to fly (but Cornelia is afraid to). {{Justified}} in the New Power story arc, where it's revealed that [[spoiler: the powers of the Guardians were ''incomplete'', and when they get their full power at the start of the arc their wings actually start working]].

* LethalChef: Will is on the same level of [[RanmaOneHalf Akane Tendo]], having once put powdered soap in place of the flour. Orube can't cook due lack of familiarity with Earth ingredients and cooking implements (the first time she cooked she set the kitchen on fire, but only that once) and clumsiness outside the way of the warrior, but while she's slowly getting better she still has a long way to go (she once set on fire the ''[[EpicFail water for the pasta]]''!).

** Peter Cook, Taranee's older brother, is an aversion of this trope and out of all of the siblings of WITCH he's the closest to his sibling.
* AlternateContinuity: The comic and the animation

* ExpandedUniverse: There have been some books based on the comics. The Adventure books and the Crystal Birds series. It's one book per girl. These books (at least the adventure series which this troper owns) have images from the magazines inserted.

* DeusExMachina: This is sadly the standard way the Guardians win in each arc- they never actually win by their own merits. Meridian Arc? Elyon beats Phobos while the girls are tossed aside. Nerissa Arc? ''Shagon'' is directly responsible for Nerissa's defeat, damaging her almost fatally. Ari's arc doesn't suffer from this... but the human world situation, which was really bad, is solved by the Oracle(who is just an observer). Endarno Saga? Himerish beats down Phobos off-screen. Then, Phobos' backup plan is foiled by... Napoleon(who in the comic is a mere housecat). The most ridiculous DeusExMachina sequences were the superpower manifestation in the Dark Mother Saga- after the girls get beaten down they somehow let loose a new power they didn't know anything about and it overpowers Dark Mother with ease, and the defeat of the white queen, where the girls literally pull a completely unknown tactic out of their hats- and we never see it in use again. If there was one thing the cartoon improved, this was it.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The comic's first few years really turned poor Will into a major ButtMonkey, to the point where the comic's third year is kicked off with her gambling-addicted JerkAss father trying to ruin her family's livelihood, followed by her dormouse getting ran over.

** In the Ladies vs. W.I.T.C.H. arc, one of the three inimical Ladies is called [[LadyGaga Lady Giga]]. Her weapon of choice is her [[TakeThat repetitive, maddening singing]].

* {{Expy}}: Luba with her red robe, animalistic ears and long, white hair may remind some anime fans of {{Inuyasha}}.

!!WITCH provides example of the following tropes:

* ShoutOut: Hay Lin has a little Franchise/SailorMoon on her monitor, along with a monster that kinda looks like Godzilla. Irma has plenty of Disney paraphernalia, including a Disney/LittleMermaid. In the Dark Mother Saga, [[spoiler: [[CaptainPlanet they combine their powers]] to create a powerful being to defeat her]]

* SexierAlterEgo - The titular ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'' are fairly average (albeit skinny) teenagers in their normal form. When transformed however, the are changed to look much more.. adult. Lampshaded on more than one occasion.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Whether Yan Lin is Hay Lin's paternal or maternal grandmother. At the very beginning of the story (before going to Kandrakar permanently), Yan Lin addresses Chen as her son. But later in the comic, Joan mentions Yan Lin telling her bedtime stories when she was a child. Later again, Joan's parents are shown, and her mother is definitely not Yan Lin. Also, Lionel Cook's job. Depending on the issue, he's either a lawyer, a psychologist or a fireman.

* RacistGrandma: Implied with Cornelia's overly snobbish grandmother, especially considering her UnfortunateImplications-ridden comments about Peter Cook's hair.

'''''W.I.T.C.H.''''' is an Italian fantasy comic series created by Alessandro Barbucci, Barbara Canepa, and Elisabetta Gnone and published by Disney Italia. First published in April 2001, the series ended with October 2012's issue.

* AccompliceByInaction: Ari of Arkhanta, who possesses a slave he uses only for his greedy motives, has a massive grudge against the oracle of Kandrakhar, the benevolent figure who saves everyone's life once a week. Why ? Unlike the man, who obsessed about changing his son, the Oracle didn't ever try to "cure" the child's autism.

* FishOutOfWater: Subverted with [[SixthRanger Orube]]. She's sophisticated enough to realize that tv sets are machines, not magic, but she still needed to be explained that romantic melodrama movies aren't RealLife.
* [[FiveManBand Five-Girl Band]]: There are five main girls and without a doubt TheLeader is Will and TheLancer is Cornelia... the other three don't have a the traditional positions associated with the trope, and each can embody parts of TheSmartGuy, TheBigGuy or TheChick: Taranee is the smartest on their daily lives, but in battle she is the strongest, but due to the nature of her power, she mostly uses it in the most basics forms. Irma is a happy-go-lucky girl who isn't very book smart, but is rather perceptive and always try to make fun of any situation(sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't) and is the one who experiments more with their magical powers. Hay Lin is a Cloud Cucko lander, but she is very creative and her quirks have proved useful on more than one occasion(Particularly, she once defeated a BigBad[[spoiler: By taking notes on her hand. She was reminded she had still things to do in life and broke a spell that took all her friends]]. The team also has a TeamPet in the form of We, and basically a SixthRanger per saga, which includes Caleb, Elyon, Orube, [[spoiler: And even the original Oracle, Himmerish, got in the fun]]

!!Tropes:

* ADayInTheLimelight: One special followed Elyon [[spoiler: in her duties as a queen.]]
** And there was a 3 part special detailing [[spoiler: Caleb saving Elyon from a curse, and both of them eventually realising that they've fallen in love with each other.]]

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: No, Taranee isn't an African name. Hay isn't a Chinese name, either. (though it's possible that the writers got it mixed up with the name "Hui" - not to be confused with the term for Chinese Muslims - which means "intelligent", "bright".)

* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Hell Is Heatherfield]]: Most people seems to agree it's somewhere in Europe... and that's as far as the guessing goes...There's one issue where there is the flag of the USA in either the Principal's office or somewhere within the girls' school, but in another issue they use euros.
** The confusion continues. In yet another issue, they use dollars.
*** There is almost certain confirmation that the girls are actually supposed English. They believe in the Father Christmas version of "Santa", not the typical american view. They have to fly to get to Rome. The Magical Bus journey more or less pinpointed Britain as the only reasonable choice due to the timeframes it took for it to reach Italy and then America. Some inconsistencies exist, but really, Britain, or possibly Ireland is the only logical possibility.
*** Or the United States of America: the Star and Stripes flying everywhere and other hints point out to that, except that the authors [[CriticalResearchFailure failed to do the research on American culture or how American cities actually look]], resulting in a setting that to Italians look like America and to Americans look like Europe.

* ShoutOut: Hay Lin has a little SailorMoon on her monitor, along with a monster that kinda looks like Godzilla. Irma has plenty of Disney paraphernalia, including a Disney/LittleMermaid. In the Dark Mother Saga, [[spoiler: [[CaptainPlanet they combine their powers]] to create a powerful being to defeat her]]

* HeroicSacrifice: I believe there has been several of these...
** Luba giving up her immortality in order to save Caleb from Nerissa. (If I remember correctly, I think that's why she did it...)

*** Or the United States of America: the Star and Stripes flying everywhere and other hints point out to that, except that the authors [[CriticalResearchFailure failed to do the research on how American cities actually look]], resulting in a place that to Italians look like America and to Americans look like Europe.

* PowerGivesYouWings: The ''only'' reason the girls have wings. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the third arc.

* WingsDoNothing: At first, the guardians wings are pretty much useless and Hay Lin is the only one who can actually fly. At one point in the third saga, Orube asks why they even have them if they can't actually use them. However, in the seventh saga, the girls get a power upgrade which include bigger wings that allow them to fly (but Cornelia is afraid to).