History Main / WizardsAndWitches

''Wizards and Witches'' are just two of the names for those fantastic, wonderful individuals who can wield magic and other supernatural powers. There are two specific indexes/subtropes:

* AWitchyIndex -- An index of tropes about witches.
* AWizardingIndex -- An index of tropes about wizards.

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* ''AWitchyIndex'' -- An index of tropes about witches.
* ''AWizardingIndex'' -- An index of tropes about wizards.

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->''"Wizards are SCHOLARS. And they don't do "magic tricks". They are masters of the arcane arts, able to bend the elements to their will! But you knights have fun hitting each other with pointy metal sticks."''
-->-- '''Marina''', ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''

Those wonderful men and women who command a power beyond mortal understanding. Whether as boon or bane of mankind, a wizard or witch has the supernatural tools and weapons to take on whatever is at hand. And if it's not at hand, they can conjure one up to get it.

Note that this is not MagicByAnyOtherName. This is for characters and tropes that use magic and actually call it magic; they don't dance around the issue by claiming it's something other than magic.

Also, this is not about MagicAndPowers; it's about the people who use it, and the tropes they end up involved in.
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!!Tropes:
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!!!'''Characters:'''
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* TheArchmage: The leader of an order of magic-users.
* BenevolentMageRuler: A kind and just ruler who uses magic.
* BlackMage: A character who specializes in offensive magic.
* BlackMagicianGirl: A young, hot-tempered female BlackMage.
* BlueCollarWarlock: A magic-user who dresses and acts like an average person; often found in modern fantasy settings.
* ChildMage: A child who uses magic.
* CourtMage: A magic-user who serves as a royal advisor.
* CuteWitch: An adorable witch.
* DarkMagicalGirl: A villainous but conflicted MagicalGirl with a DarkAndTroubledPast; she often ends up making a HeelFaceTurn.
* {{Druid}}: A WhiteMage with nature-based powers.
* EthnicMagician: The only magic-user in the group is of a different ethnicity from the other characters.
* EvilSorcerer: A person who uses BlackMagic and/or magic for sinister purposes.
* FakeWizardry: Pretending to have magical powers.
* GentlemanWizard: A cultured male magic-user.
* HotWitch: A sexy female magic-user.
* IneptMage: A character who can perform magic, but not very skillfully.
* KungFuWizard: A magic-user who can also kick ass the mundane way.
* LadyOfBlackMagic: A female BlackMage who is elegant, aloof and potentially morally ambiguous.
* MageBornOfMuggles: A magic-user from normal parentage.
* MageMarksman: A character who uses magic to enhance ranged attacks.
* MagicalClown: A clown or jester who has magical powers.
* MagicalGirl: A girl who gains magical powers (and some cool outfits to go with them).
* MagicalGirlWarrior: A MagicalGirl who uses her abilities to become a superhero and fight evil.
* MagicalGirlfriend: The LoveInterest of an ordinary man (or less commonly, ordinary woman) who has supernatural powers.
* MagicalRomani: {{UsefulNotes/Romani}} people are stereotyped as having magic powers, often acting as [[{{Seers}} fortune-tellers]] and putting {{gypsy curse}}s on anyone who provokes them.
* MagicalSeventhSon: Being the seventh son of a seventh son means you'll have magical powers.
* MagiciansAreWizards: A StageMagician who can also do real magic.
* MagicKnight: A knight who can also use magic.
* MagicLibrarian: A librarian who has magical powers.
* MasterOfOneMagic: A character who is an expert at a particular branch of magic.
* MerlinAndNimue: A older male magic user with a younger female apprentice; they may or may not have a romantic relationship, and she may or may not betray him.
* MilitaryMage: A magic-user who serves in the army.
* {{Necromancer}}: A magic-user who can raise the dead (end results vary).
* OccultDetective: A detective who investigates the supernatural; they may have supernatural abilities themselves.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: An undead magic-user; other characteristics vary between individual works.
* TheRedMage: A mage who can use different kinds of magic (if there is such a distinction in the setting).
* SageLoveInterest: A wise and spiritually-enlightened love interest, who is sometimes capable of real magic or has knowledge of the arcane.
* SolitarySorceress: A female magic-user who lives isolated from the rest of society.
* SorcerousOverlord: An EvilOverlord who can use magic.
* SquishyWizard: Magic-users can kick ass using magic, but are physically vulnerable to attacks.
* StageMagician: A person who performs fake magic to entertain an audience.
* VainSorceress: A female magic-user who is fixated on her physical beauty, often using magic to maintain/enhance her looks.
* TheWeirdSisters: A trio of supernatural women.
* WhiteMage: Someone who specializes in healing and defensive magic.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: A young, kind-hearted female WhiteMage.
* WickedWitch: An archetypical evil witch; she'll usually be physically unattractive, ride a broom, wear black and turn people into frogs while cackling.
* WidowWitch: A widowed woman who lives alone is believed (rightly or not) to be a witch.
* WitchClassic: The archetypical witch in black who rides a FlyingBroomstick.
* WitchDoctor: A shamanistic magic-user, often serving as a spiritual teacher and/or healer.
* WizardClassic: The archetypical wizard; usually an older man with a long beard, who wears robes, carries a staff and comes off as both wise and eccentric.

!!'''Other tropes:'''
* AllWitchesHaveCats: Witches frequently have pet cats.
* ApothecaryAlligator: Mages, alchemists, apothecaries and the like tend to have taxidermied alligators to show how worldly and eccentric they are.
* ArmorAndMagicDontMix: Magic-users tend to not wear armor in battle.
* BewitchedAmphibians: A person is magically turned into an amphibian.
* BurnTheWitch: People who are accused of witchcraft end up getting executed, usually by being [[KillItWithFire burned at the stake]].
* CatsAreMagic: Cats that can do magic.
* CelestialDeadline: The effects of a magic spell depend upon a certain deadline (e.g. the spell will wear off at midnight).
* ColorCodedWizardry: Magic-users use different colors to distinguish themselves, usually denoting rank, the type of magic they use and so on.
* EyeOfNewt: Magical potions can contain unusual or downright ''bizarre'' ingredients.
* {{Familiar}}: The magical animal companion of a witch or wizard.
* FantasticScience: Magical or supernatural occurrences are studied like a real science.
* FlyingBroomstick: A common form of transportation for witches.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: Conflict between a witch who uses her powers for good and a witch who uses her powers for evil.
* GothGirlsKnowMagic: {{Goth}} girls/women have magical powers.
* LimitedUseMagicalDevice: A magical item that can only be used a set number of times.
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards
* MageTower: Magic-users tend to live in big towers.
* MagicOrPsychic: Magical powers and psychic powers may or may not be considered different abilities (if the setting has both).
* MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest: A MagicalGirl must pass a test to prove herself worthy of the throne.
* MagicalLibrary: A library that is supernatural in nature and/or holds supernatural content.
* MagicalSociety: Magic-users live in their own society.
* MagicCauldron: A cauldron used to create spells and potions.
* MagicStaff: A staff that allows the user to perform magic.
* MagicWand: A wand that allows the user to perform magic.
* TheMagocracy: A government of magic-users.
* MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle: A love triangle in which one suitor is a magic-user/supernatural being, while the other suitor is an ordinary person.
* MuggleMageRomance: A relationship between a magic-user and a normal person.
* MysticalHighCollar: Magic-users tend to wear clothing with high collars.
* NotThatKindOfMage: One kind of magic-user is mistaken for another kind.
* OurMagesAreDifferent: How magic-users are depicted varies between individual works.
* RabbitMagician: A rabbit that can do magic.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Common attire for magic-users.
* SalemIsWitchCountry: Salem, Massachusetts is strongly associated with the Salem witch trials of 1692, and often portrayed as being home to real witches.
* ScienceCocktail: Extensive arcane equipment used to make an unexpectedly mundane drink.
* ScienceWizard: A sorcerer who is trained in both magic and some form of science or takes a scientific approach to the study of the mystic arts.
* ShootTheMageFirst: Taking out the magic-wielding enemy first to gain a tactical advantage.
* SimpleStaff: Magic-users, especially wizards, tend to use a staff. May double as a MagicStaff.
* SorcerersApprenticePlot: A young ward's attempts to be like his boss become too much for him to handle.
* SpellBook: A book filled with magic spells, incantations, rituals and so forth.
* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: TheProtagonist(s) accidentally finding a character of great importance when they become lost themselves.
* SupernaturalIsGreen: The color green associated with witches, evil ones in particular.
* SupernaturalTeam: A team comprised of magic-users.
* TokenWizard: The only magic-user in the group.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: People are born with the ability to use magic, but must also be trained to use it properly.
* UnEqualRites: Differents types of magic-users have a rivalry between them.
* WitchHunt: Can refer to both [[BurnTheWitch literal]] and figurative witch-hunts (any sort of persecution resulting from mass hysteria).
* TheWitchHunter: Someone who {{hunt|erOfMonsters}}s wizards and witches (usually going after the {{evil|Sorcerer}} [[WickedWitch types]]).
* WitchSpecies: Magic is hereditary.
* WitchWithACapitalB: Using the word "witch" as an insult in place of "bitch"; in some cases it's literal and figurative.
* WizardBeard: Male magic-users tend to have long beards.
* AWizardDidIt: Things that don't make sense in the plot are handwaved or explained as "magic".
* WizardDuel: Two magic-users duke it out with magic.
* WizardingSchool: A school that teaches magic.
* WizardsFromOuterSpace: {{Fantasy}} elements in a predominantly ScienceFiction setting.
* WizardsLiveLonger: Magic-users live longer than normal people.
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* BurnTheWitch: Burning a suspected witch at the stake.

* SalemIsWitchCountry: Salem, Massachusetts is depicted as having a large population of witches.

* UsefulNotes/{{Walpurgisnacht}}: A Germanic, summer-celebrating festival/holiday.

* MagicalRomani: Romani people are stereotyped as having magic powers.

* DarkMagicalGirl: A villainous but conflicted MagicalGirl with a DarkAndTroubledPast; she often ends up making a HeelFaceTurn.

* GreenIsUnnatural: The color green associated with witches, evil ones in particular.

* ScienceCocktail

* SorcerersApprenticePlot

* StumblingUponTheLostWizard

* UsefulNotes/{{Walpurgisnacht}}

* MagicalLibrary: A library that is supernatural is nature and/or holds supernatural content.
* MagicalSociety: Magical-users live in their own society.

* MagiciansAreWizards: A StageMagician who can also do real magic.

* ApothecaryAlligator
* ArmorAndMagicDontMix
* BewitchedAmphibians

* CatsAreMagic
* CelestialDeadline

* {{Familiar}}
* FantasticScience

* LimitedUseMagicalDevice

* MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest
* MagicalLibrary