History TabletopGame / WitchGirlsAdventures

* BleachedUnderpants: The company that publishes the ''Witch Girls'' franchise, [[http://www.myspace.com/mangagraphix MANGA GRAPHIX]], is credited with running ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20010411183322/www.geocities.com/gotiger_1999/Sorc1.html The Shrinking Sorceress]]'', a now dead Geocities site and e-zine dedicated to "tasteful" art and stories centered around the fetish of people being transformed into animals and inanimate objects by sorceresses. (Note the copyright at the bottom of the page.) [[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Malcolm/Harris Malcolm Harris]], the author of ''Witch Girls'' and the owner of Channel M, lists himself as a writer for MANGA GRAPHIX in his resume. Several characters, including Denora [=DeSade=], an NPC named Claudia, and the concept of witch girls (in those words) make an appearance in both mediums. It's become a source of OldShame for the creator it seems, since pointing it out on the internet often results in the creator and his friends jumping into the discussion and denying the connection.

** Pretty big ones to the HarryPotter series as well, but you saw that coming, right? There's even wink-and-a-nudge rules for running Harry Potter games.

* KillItWithWater: The biggest downside to Hag's Syndrome in the modern day is that water makes witches with the syndrome melt -- the prejudices against its sufferers are largely a thing of the past, and those with it can use magic or enchanted items to make their hair, skin, and eyes appear a normal color to mingle with Mundanes.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Gilgamesh really was an epic, superhuman hero and the progenitor of a line of immortals. Vlad Dracula really was an evil vampire. H.P. Lovecraft based his stories on the Horrors. Just for starters.

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Witches who smoke are evil, or at least {{Noble Demon}}s. ''Always.'' They tend to favor cigarette holders, and will frequently turn someone who's annoying them into a cigarette to use.

** The Immortals seem like a nod to PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians. There's a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[GhostBusters the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate zombies]] and [[SouthPark pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[TheTerminator "Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

* YouFailHistoryForever -- Vlad Dracul and Vlad Dracula are not the same person. They just seem to have not realized they were not only two different people, but father and son. A hint is that "Dracula" roughly translates to English as "Son of the Dragon", with "a" being the "Son of" part.

** The Immortals seem like a nod to PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians. There's a [[{{Pokemon}} Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[GhostBusters the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate zombies]] and [[SouthPark pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[TheTerminator "Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

* BalefulPolymorph -- Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[FateWorseThanDeath And nearly always permanently.]] [[NightmareFuel Often followed by casually killing the target.]]

* BalefulPolymorph -- Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[AFateWorseThanDeath And nearly always permanently.]] [[NightmareFuel Often followed by casually killing the target.]]

* BalefulPolymorph -- Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[FateWoseThanDeath And nearly always permanently.]] [[NightmareFuel Often followed by casually killing the target.]]

* BalefulPolymorph -- Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[AFateWoseThanDeath And nearly always permanently.]] [[NightmareFuel Often followed by casually killing the target.]]

* BalefulPolymorph -- Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[NightmareFuel And nearly always permanently.]] [[NightmareFuelUnleaded Often followed by casually killing the target.]]

* ShoutOut -- The rulebooks make references to other witch series like ''[[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]]'' and ''{{Bewitched}}''.

* WalkingTheEarth: The profession of adult Lilians; they have no fixed home, but wander the world healing and teaching {{Muggles}}, and occasionally dropping the hammer on bad ones.

* ComesGreatResponsibility -- The Lilians, though in an unusual way; they believe that it is the duty of witches to elevate humanity from its ignorance. Many turn out to be [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who endanger the Masquerade by toading important humans who are in the way.

* CulturalPosturing -- Quite a bit of it goes on, and is accepted. (The quote above? That's from a ''history textbook''.) Members of the Highbinders (who actually function on the party line that mundanes and otherkin are scum and witches should come out and rule the world) are the most likely to do this.

* MoneyForNothing: Averted and played straight! Witches with high, or even modest, levels of Conjuration can basically summon up precious materials and other valuables at will, making mortal life quite easy if they wish, though doing so is illegal because it can potentially wreck the mundane economy (and thus the Masquerade). Nonetheless, there's a witch economy in place using a currency called Voodollars, since barter systems tended to degenerate into cult worship from mortals and one-upsmanship from other witches.

** The Immortals seem like a nod to PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians. There's a [[MonsterCompendium Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[GhostBusters the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate zombies]] and [[SouthPark pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[TheTerminator "Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

* KillItWithWater: The fact that water makes witches with it melt is the biggest downside to Hag's Syndrome in the modern day -- the prejudices against its sufferers are largely a thing of the past, and those with it can use magic or enchanted items to make their hair, skin, and eyes appear a normal color to mingle with Mundanes.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint, SpoofAesop -- In one story from the second volume of ''Witch Girls Tales'', Lucinda comes to the conclusion that [[NobleDemon helping people can be rewarding and she should do it more often.]] However, the reward she's referring to is the sadistic enjoyment she gains from destroying some bullies through downright horrifying methods, then tricking the boy who needed the help first into serving her for a year, then tricking him into getting out of it by cleaning her mouse cage... by shrinking down smaller than the mice to give it a really thorough cleaning. Without removing the mice. When it's near their feeding time. Notice she's mentioned under HeroicSociopath and CardCarryingVillain.

*** Lucinda at least has the excuse that she's evil -- well, actually more of a HeroicSociopath NobleDemon with a heavy sadistic streak and a shocking disregard for others, but it's [[BalefulPolymorph best not to point this out to her directly]]. ...so, "evil, but [[GodzillaThreshold useful when pointed away from you.]]"

** The Immortals seem like a nod to PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians. There's a [[{MonsterCompendium Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[GhostBusters the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate zombies]] and [[SouthPark pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[TheTerminator "Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

** The Immortals seem like a nod to PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians. There's a [[{{Pokemon}} Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[GhostBusters the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean pirate zombies]] and [[SouthPark pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[TheTerminator "Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

* HeroicSociopath -- Lucinda, when she's not an outright villain -- which is more frequent than you might think, given the astonishingly high volume of examples of her being a petty godling.

* FridgeHorror -- One of the major rules of interaction set by the Witches World Council is that witches cannot interfere with time, the economy, world governments, or the lives of mundanes... on a large scale. It specifically mentions that if you want to use your magic to bully people, that's perfectly fine. Keep in mind that witches can get their powers as young as 6, and the average age of a starting character is 12. Do you remember how the girls in your school were when you were that age? [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5772445/ /tg/]] [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5774945 board]] [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5778327 has]] [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12565600/ had]] no less than 4 threads going over how the world could easily devolve into a WorldOfDarkness-esque hellhole because of this. And the rulebooks don't help, showing multiple instances of witches messing with and even ''killing'' people out of petty spite.