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{{Goth}} girls. They like to wear black, [[ElegantGothicLolita fancy dresses]], [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette makeup that gives an eerie appearance]], and [[ReligionIsMagic religious imagery]]. There also tends to be the themes of supernatural and occult within the works of their subculture. So it's no surprise that they're often portrayed as wielding magic or other supernatural powers in fiction.

This prevalence of this trope lies in the origins of the goth subculture itself. [[GothicHorror Gothic literature]] has writers who have delved into horror and the supernatural like Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, each of whom have influenced the subculture, and their literary works continue to remain highly popular among goths. Gothic artwork from the 18th and 19th centuries that have motifs of mysticism and morbidity influenced the visual taste of Gothic art. The same goes for cult supernatural horror films such as ''Film/{{Dracula|1931}}'' which appealed to early goths.

Since the release of ''Film/TheCraft'', this trope can be tied to real life teenage rebellion. If a teen girl wants to rebel against the status quo of society, it's likely she'll either go Goth, take up some form of paganism, or do both at the same time. Fiction tends to take this farther, with Goth girls automatically casting hexes and flushing the RuleOfThree down the toilet.

May overlap with LadyOfBlackMagic if she's composed and graceful enough. She'll often be a HotWitch if portrayed as beautiful. If she's from a MagicalGirl series, she'll most likely be the DarkMagicalGirl. Usually tend to be the first in line to be DarkIsNotEvil, being aesthetically dark but likely enough to be sympathetic.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Hilda from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}''. She's always dressed in black ElegantGothicLolita, and has vast magical powers as a demon maid who serves under the Demon King.
* Gordon Agrippa from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is a RareMaleExample. He has the look down with grey clothing, pale skin, and black makeup. It's also notable that, among the rest of the cast who are mages, he's an expert in [[{{Curse}} Curse Magic]], adding hexes to his [[PoisonousPerson Poison Magic]].
* Halvir Hroptr from ''Manga/CrimsonSpell'' is another goth guy example. He's one of the most talented mages in the setting and specializes in curses and [[PlayingWithFire offensive fire magic.]] He's also a sardonic loner who dresses mostly in intimidating black robes (complete with shiny leather boots), and if the way he gushes about his lover's SuperpoweredEvilSide is any indication, he [[NightmareFetishist has an appreciation for the darker side of things.]]
* Saki Hanajima from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' only wears black gothic dresses outside of school and is the only character to have supernatural PsychicPowers that allow her to read minds. She actually became a goth ''because'' of her powers after she accidentally made a bully pass out, as she decided to always wear black and paint her nails black to punish herself what happened. Tohru helped her accept and forgive herself for having powers, but she's still a goth out of habit. It's something of a RunningGag that people compare her to a witch for her black dresses and mysterious powers.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' gives us a RareMaleExample in the form of Gaara. His fighting style is based ''entirely'' around manipulation of sand and he rarely moves his own body at all (beyond motioning with his hands to direct the sand), let alone engaging in any conventional martial arts or use of weapons, all of which makes him one of the most "wizard"-like ninjas in the series.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': "Ghost Princess" Perona's Devil Fruit power is more "magical"-themed than average, letting her create ghosts and send an AstralProjection of herself. She wears gothic lolita and, to add to the gothiness, is very lonely, causing her to greatly desire companionship.
* PlayedWith regarding Stocking in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. She dresses in ElegantGothicLolita style and displays goth tendencies, and as an angel she is inherently magical. She is every bit a MagicalGirlWarrior who wields enchanted swords in battle, rather than the expected sorcery.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has this PlayedWith regarding Homura Akemi. She has shades of being goth, what with her darker outfit in comparison to the others and her sardonic and lonely personality, but her [[spoiler:TimeMaster]] powers as a MagicalGirlWarrior aren't as overtly magical as is typical for this trope. However, in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' she fits this to a T when she ascends to [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Homulilly]] and [[SatanicArchetype Akuma Homura]]]], gaining very gothic appearances to match the surge in magical power.
* Sailor Saturn from ''Manga/SailorMoon''. She has a [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette gothic physical appearance]] and usually dresses in purple and black. She's ''by far'' the most magically strong Sailor, [[ApocalypseMaiden able to destroy entire planets]] with the powers of silence and destruction. It's not so much that she's evil but that her role is to cleanse the dead and broken so that life can grow anew.
* Arachne from ''Manga/SoulEater''. A luxuriously gothic witch with eccentric tastes and lady-like mannerism. That and her spider-based magic adding a lovely dose of malevolence and creepiness to her true nature.
* Marion Phauna from ''Manga/ShamanKing''. She wears a black gothic lolita dress, and as the daughter of a fortune teller she could already manipulate puppets even as a child, long before she even got her powers to use a Spirit as a Shaman.
* Aki Izayoi of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', especially while she is the Black Rose Witch. She wears a Victorian-style dress, is lonely and angry at the world and her parents for shunning her, and has PsychicPowers that could turn her card's attacks into real [[KillItWithFire fire]] and [[CombatTentacles vines]].
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has Sistah Spooky, a gothy superhero who made a DealWithTheDevil to use black magic. She inverts the trope: she gained black magic powers, then adopted a goth style superhero persona.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' has Elaine Belloc, the half-human daughter of the Archangel Michael, who actually [[DeityOfHumanOrigin becomes God]] at one point.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has Nico Minoru, a Goth girl who ends up wielding the sorcerous artifact known as the Staff of One, which is powered by BloodMagic. In a bit of a tweak on the trope, her parents--both dark sorcerers--adopted the guise of devout Christians and vocally disapproved of Nico's Goth trappings. She's now the trope's page image.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'':
** Death of the Endless appears as a PerkyGoth girl, but in reality, she is a immortal embodiment of the concept of death itself. Needless to say, she knows quite a bit of magic.
** Death's younger brother, Dream of the Endless, is a male example. He's the personification of dreams in the form of a pale man in a black trenchcoat with a black, untameable mop of hair a la Creator/NeilGaiman.
* Black Alice from ''Comicbook/SecretSix'' is a Goth-styled anti-hero with the ability to effectively steal the powers of any magical being and temporarily use them as her own. She quit the team after refusing to join them in Hell, though.
* ''ComicBook/SecretWarps:'' Nico Cage, the Soldier Supreme of 2099, who is a mixed version of Nico Minoru and Danielle Cage (among others). She's a half-vampire magic-wielding supersoldier who dresses in a partial Goth style mixed with Captain America's CaptainPatriotic look.
* In ''ComicBook/StormwatchPHD'', Black Betty is a PerkyGoth who also happens to be a powerful mystic.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' side character ''The Terrible Eye'' (real name: Sarah) is a goth as shown by that chosen name alone. She is also the wizard of the group, first thanks to a magical headpiece which turned out to be an AmplifierArtifact when she actually got into a magic school to develop her own powers.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'':
** Princess Winter Opera. While Winter Opera didn't start wearing gothic [[PimpedOutDress ball gowns]] until she became a professional musician in adulthood, she was already a talented user of dark magic, which she discovered when she was an angry teenage filly bent on [[PayEvilUntoEvil giving her tormentors hell for their bullying]]. This worried a lot of people, as Winter Opera's birth father, War Rock, a depraved supervillain who also used dark magic, and expected her to turn out like him. Fortunately, both [[BigGood Luminiferous]] and [[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Suede Heartstrings]] intervened and helped guide Winter Opera onto a better path, influencing her to use dark magic for good and eventually Ascend as the Alicorn goddess of Dark Magic.
** Winter Opera's adoptive daughter, Princess Witching Hour, is also a {{Goth}} who knows and uses dark magic. In her mortal youth, she was a superheroine, her powers coming from a pact made with [[BargainWithHeaven one of Winter Opera's Angels]]. While she did try to make a DealWithTheDevil to get revenge on her religiously AbusiveParents in the past, Winter Opera fortunately stopped her and adopted her legally. After Ascending, Witching Hour became the Alicorn goddess of ''Witchcraft'', possessing more esoteric powers like curses, divination, and potion-making, in contrast to Winter Opera who embodies Dark Magic in general. Fittingly, she is a tabletop gamer who dresses up like a WitchClassic, her favorite role.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', though Priya doesn't actually have magical powers, she acts like a goth girl who does. She has a tendency to wave her hands as though she's casting a spell when trying to intimidate people and is even heard saying "I banish you!" to Tyler.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Scarlet Witch's look plays this up, she's a [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette pale-skinned, dark-haired girl]] who wears black dresses and nails, ripped-stockings, and ornamental rings. Her eerie PsychicPowers derived from the [[ArtifactOfDoom Mind Stone]] are, according to WordOfGod, magical in nature. After joining the Avengers, her appearances in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' tone it down a bit. She still wears the dark dresses and jewelry, but it doesn't have quite the same edge.
* The film version of ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'' has a Goth witch (played by Mary-Kate Olsen) cursing the lead to "Embrace the suck," effectively turning him into [[AdaptationalAttractiveness the most rad Beast ever]].
* Downplayed with Lydia in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}''. Apparently being a Goth is enough to get around ghosts' InvisibleToNormals rule.
* Kim in ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'', a goth chick who turns out to have more genuine psychic powers than Erica, the actual Wiccan among the group.
* ''Film/TheCraft'', as mentioned above, wherein teenage rebellion and Goth style leads to magical terrorism.
* ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' has the titular Chuck (played by Creator/DaneCook) cursed to have female troubles all his life by a Goth chick he turned down for a round of "Seven Minutes in Heaven" during his youth.
* Bellatrix Lestrange (played by Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter) wears distinctly Gothic clothing in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' series along with black corsets and dark eyeliner and lipstick. And, like her literary counterpart, she's the NumberTwo of the Death Eaters as an extremely powerful witch well-versed in the Dark Arts and deadly in a duel. Her favorite curse also happens to be the [[ColdBloodedTorture Cruciatus curse]].
** The movie adaptation of [[WhiteSheep Narcissa Malfoy]] as well looks the part, in a classier sense than her insane sister.
* ''Film/TheHotChick'': Downplayed. After the main character, a ditzy AlphaBitch teenager, suddenly [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with a local crook]], she immediately suspects the goth chick in school to be responsible. She's not, though she does admit that she tried to curse her with dandruff, make her hair fall out and give her smaller boobs (which means that she attempted magic, but failed--most likely because the only known supernatural thing in this movie's universe are the earrings that transform the bodies of two people into the other person's appearance. Which is kind of ironic, due to how the main plot is caused by in-universe magic).
* ''Film/MirrorMirror1990'': After several unexplained events, {{Goth}} girl Megan becomes convinced that the mirror in her bedroom possesses magic powers. Megan begins harnessing them herself, using them to manipulate Jeff into developing a crush on her, and then to kill Charleen [[DeadlyBath in the girls' showers]].
* ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' is a particularly notable example of this, given that, in [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} the original 1976 film]] (and in [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book it was based on]]), not only was the [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] [[CreepyLonerGirl teen outcast]] Carrie White not a goth in the slightest, but her ultra-religious upbringing meant that, outside her [[IconicOutfit prom dress]] during the finale (which is ''pink'', at least before it gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress covered in blood]]), she wore [[LightIsNotGood extremely modest, earth-colored clothes]]. Some of her tormentors wore far more black than she did, particularly the {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} Billy and his friends. By 1999, however, goths had become ''the'' stereotypical teen outcasts, often associated with witchcraft and PsychicPowers in the popular imagination, and so the new protagonist Rachel Lang was made a sexy goth chick.
* In ''Film/TheWitchFiles'', Jules is the goth girl who introduces the other girls to magic, and induces them to form a coven. She claims the women in her family have a history of spell casting stretching back to pre-Revolutionary times.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Some of the young witches, especially in the Tiffany Aching series, try to look and act more gothic. Tiffany herself is an exception (she prefers to wear blue and green) but Annagramma's coven are obsessed with black clothes and occult jewelry, as was Diamanda's clique in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' (one of whom also had a skull tattoo -- except it was in ordinary ink and she always washed it off before her mum saw). In this case the trope might actually be inverted; knowing magic (or wanting to learn it) makes you Goth.
** If what Susan Sto Helit does counts as magic, then she's also an example, at least in ''Literature/SoulMusic''. Although in her case it's an EnforcedTrope; she doesn't ''want'' to look like "idiots who write poetry in their rooms and dress like vampires and are vegetarians really", but apparently a certain amount of gothyness is required when your powers come from being Death's granddaughter.
* Molly from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. PlayedWith in that she actually ditches more of the Goth trappings as she develops her magic more.
* Leonor from the Costa Rican children's novel of the same name. She knows a couple of spells even as an 11 year-old, though in her case it helps that her grandma is a witch, to her best friend Nazareth's dismay.
* Subverted in the ''Literature/ShiversMDSpenser'' novel ''Ghosts Of Camp Massacre''. The goth girl claims to know white magic, and uses it to try and summon the ghosts that are haunting Camp Wil-He-Waha. While the ghosts do appear, it is made clear that they came on their own and were not summoned by the goth girl babbling nonsense and throwing some kind of sparkly dust around in the hope that something would happen (nothing does, since the ghosts were only capable of interacting with the protagonist).
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', while the whole family have some supernatural elements, only the women are depicted as explicitly magical. While neither Morticia nor Grandmama consider themselves to be ''witches'' in the 60s series (Grandmama ''is'' a witch in the 90s live-action TV reboot, however), they have mentioned female ancestors who were witches (and were burned as such), and both have performed seances, while Morticia also displays abilities such as hypnotism and lighting candles by touching them, and Grandmama reads fortunes in a crystal ball and makes potions. Broomsticks are also occasionally shown by the entrance to the house and appear to belong to Grandmama. When the men participate in the seances at all, they're silent while the women recite incantations, generally giving the impression that it's the women of the family who have magical abilities: Gomez and Pugsley never attempt to perform spells or rituals themselves, and while Fester tries to teach himself to cast spells in one episode, he has no success (and none of the others expected him to succeed, either). The 90s live-action TV show even has Wednesday casting a spell to reanimate the dead in the very first episode, and later casting another spell to undo it. And of course, the whole family is very much goth, with Morticia and Wednesday in particular always being dressed in black and fascinated with death and anything dark.
** ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'' plays this up still further, with Wednesday (unsuccessfully, but only because she's interrupted) trying to hold a seance, and both her and Morticia having psychic visions, along with various other references to witchcraft from both of them. There's also Wednesday's ancestor Goody Addams, explicitly described as both psychic and "a witch of great power" by Morticia, whose spirit appears to Wednesday at various points in the series. Again, while there are apparently male psychics in the setting, Gomez, Fester and Pugsley aren't depicted as performing spells or rituals or as having psychic visions, though they're still not entirely normal humans.
* A self-described witch in an episode of ''Series/FirstWave'' looks like a typical goth. While her "powers" are initially only shown in the form of baking cookies that poison Gua but are harmless to humans. She claims to have found the recipe in an old book, which then gets destroyed by a Gua. However, during Cade's fight with the Gua, the girl and a few other girls use some sort of ritual that possibly causes the Gua to be split in half by a falling axe.
* In ''Series/TheHauntingHour'', there's a typical-looking goth girl in the episode "Wrong Number", but she actually has an uncle [[spoiler:and grandmother]] who use magic and such. She knows of this, and uses their help to eventually [[spoiler:delete a video that Steffani is trapped in, deleting Steffani forever]].
* Subverted in ''Series/TheLibrarians2014''; when dark magic breaks out during a STEM fair, the initial suspects are a bunch of goths who've been hanging around despite not having exhibits, but it later turns out that they're only there because their leader is secretly pursuing one of the participants.
* Gender-flipped in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' episode "Nannageddon". Vince (excuse me, [[DarknessVonGothickName Obsidian Blackbird McNight]]) borrows some magic from Naboo in order to impress some goth girls and prove he's a real goth. He accidentally summons a formidable demon.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Jade is a Goth who shows some interest in the occult. Notably, she joins Cat and Tori on their trip to pay their last respects to a dead actress because she believes she'll be able to absorb the actress's essence, though it's moot when she turns out to be alive. Rex calls her a witch, but that might be a reflection of her personality.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* {{Subverted|Trope}} by The Coven of Shine Wrestling. The only "goth" of the group is Chelsea Durden, while the "secret" knowledge they know that you do not comes from the witch Erica Torres. The Coven all take fashion cues from Durden, however, making them look more like a gothic gathering than a "coven".[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* The Hollow Ones from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' are often shorthanded as the "Goth Tradition." While their history is linked to subcultures reaching back to the flappers and Bright Young Things, and their magic style is basically [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve chaos magic]], they're tightly linked in with Goths in the present day.
* The Matriarch (Lilian Merle Corvus) from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' was a normal child going through a pretty normal teenage rebellious phase, and yes, was pretty much a goth. Until she found a feathered masquerade mask at a flea market, bought it, and gained TheBeastmaster abilities related to CreepyCrows from it, and became one of the game's [[FromNobodyToNightmare difficulty 4 villains]], a honor she shares with The Chairman (an [[TheAgeless unaging]] mafia boss with an army of thugs, assassins, informants and [[DirtyCops crooked police officers]] from the wretched hive that is Rook City), [[FallenHero Iron Legacy]] (a Franchise/{{Superman}} expy turned KnightTemplar), and Progeny (a [[BlobMonster liquid metal creature]] literally created to kill superheroes).
** The Harpy (The Matriarch, post HeelFaceTurn), a hero from the same game, is TheBeastmaster commanding CleverCrows and using eldritch magic to deal [[BlackMagic Infernal damage]] to villains while trying to atone for her misdeeds.
* One of the two sample "Inspired" characters in the ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'' core book is literally "Goth Girl". She awoke to her powers when zombies attacked a rave she was attending, and is under the impression that if zombies are real, [[VampiresAreSexGods vampires have to be too, right]]?
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'': [[DudeLooksLikeALady Catalyst]] parodies this trope, with her belief in Witchcraft and Mysticism. Although her actual ability is more scientific, being based on manipulating [[ExtraOreDinary Ferrofluid]]. She believes people who misunderstand mystical concepts mistake it for "Magic". Which makes it all the more easier, for her to mimic the traits of an actual Witch.
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Rachel Alucard is dressed in black ElegantGothicLolita and has a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] personality to boot. She's a master sorceress as well as one of the few people in TheVerse to use actual magic.
* The resident PerkyGoth Ophelia from ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' shows aptitude for the heavy metal magic. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the setting, as [[spoiler:goths seem to be a separate ethnicity descended from the members of the ill-fated Black Tear Rebellion, who drank from the Sea of Black Tears and were granted ancient powers.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Catti is a student in Hometown's school who dresses in a black tee shirt and spiky black eyeliner, has a purple streak in her otherwise black hair, and responds to the world around her with a mix of indifference and annoyance when she isn't being a NightmareFetishist. She also previously studied magical/occult matters with Kris and Noelle, apparently separately, and says she taught Noelle "protection spells". Monsters are inherently capable of doing magic, but Catti seems to be a particular enthusiast.
* ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'': Samarie is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette donning a black dress and with black lipstick. She is also naturally gifted with magic, to the extent that she was subjected through TrainingFromHell in an attempt to harness her skills.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has [[LadyOfBlackMagic Lulu]], a [[IceQueen cold]] BlackMage with an obviously gothic-inspired outfit who begins the game with [[ElementalPowers elemental spells]] and goes on to learn many other black magic spells provided you stay on her Sphere Grid Path.
* Tharja is the darkest of the females in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and usually brooding and grim. She ''is'' a Dark Mage after all, and can cast dark magic along with standard elemental spells.
** Rhajat in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' is a DarkMagicalGirl who is very similar in appearance, personality and abilities to Tharja, and indeed is strongly implied to be either her {{reincarnation}} or past self.
* ''VideoGame/GolfStory'': The [[BigBoosHaunt Oak Manor]] sections feature a duo of goth girls who use magic to mind-control an army of mole rats and raise an army of skeletons. They also recruit the player to help them defeat a wizard ruling the Oak Manor area so they can usurp his role.
* [[RavenHairIvorySkin Miranda]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Morinth]], and [[AxCrazy Jack]] are the gothier ladies of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and all have [[MindOverMatter biotic powers]]. The gothiness is particularly evident in their Loyalty uniforms.
* In the interval between the two ''Videogame/ObsCure'' games, Shannon, who was the GirlNextDoor in the first game, gains both gothiness (including both a HotterAndSexier makeover and [[TookALevelInJerkass a level in jerkass]]) and, due to her exposure to the [[TheCorruption mortifilia plant]], magic powers allowing her to control her infection and suck away dark auras blocking her path.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' has Chidori, who's dressed in a white gothic dress and has a lonely and icy temperament to match. She has PsychicPowers to go along with the [[SummonMagic Persona summoning]] that the main cast possesses.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
** Gothita, Gothorita and Gothitelle are a family of feminine-looking Psychic type Pokémon, with designs based on both goth fashion and fortune tellers. 25 percent of them are male though.
** The female "Hex Maniac" trainers in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' might be one of these.
* Feli from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''. The series already features the characters doing magic spells a lot, but Feli is unique in that she specializes in divination and fortune telling.
* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls2'' has Blaire who fits this role to a tee. She's a creepy witch who lives alone in the woods and is responsible for Marian's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind control under the yakuza]]. But it turns out she's just a frustrated goth girl who's OnlyInItForTheMoney. That doesn't not make her crazy gifted in magic though, as you'll see in her boss fight.
* While Henrietta from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' generally averts this besides some very occasional dabbling with her other goth friends, it's played straight in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' when she's added as a party member in the DLC ''From Dusk to Casa Bonita''. She uses Satanic magic to buff and heal her allies in various ways and burn her enemies with cigarette smoke (though it's uncertain if that particular ability is magical in nature), and her LimitBreak has her summon Satan himself to steal her enemies' souls, damaging all enemies and healing all allies.
* [[PunnyName Oka Ruto]] from the PC stealth sandbox game ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' is a gothy-looking character, fascinated by the paranormal and leader of the Occult Club. In fact, one of her club's activities is trying to summon a demon. While she's certainly interested in it, whether or not she ''actually'' knows magic is unknown... but according to the ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''-styled battle with her, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X13K_DozK8 she does]].
* Raven from ''VideoGame/TwistedMetalBlack'' practices tarot cards and gets revenge on the bullies who killed her best friend by using voodoo dolls.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/CoolCatStudio'' features Liz, a Goth Girl who naturally has magical powers and knows everything about supernatural creatures.
* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'' has Inkshadowblood, the high-strung teenager who dresses in black, red, and studs, and doesn't have the best grasp of what magic(k) actually entails.''
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', the PerkyGoth Jenny is an [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1407 apprentice witch]] who can use GeometricMagic to produce things like {{Tracking Spell}}s... and land mines.
* Rose Lalonde, one of the main characters of ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a gothic young girl (though not to ElegantGothicLolita levels) who studies the [[TomeOfEldritchLore lore]] of the [[EldritchAbomination Noble Circle of Horrorterrors]] in her spare time, and eventually comes around to actually channeling their power through a pair of wands.
* ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'': The trope is {{averted|Trope}} and somewhat {{deconstructed|Trope}} by PerkyGoth Esther de Groot. She's not notably any more effective than anyone else at dealing with the FantasyKitchenSink weirdness of the comic's stories, and when she and her boyfriend The Boy have a brief run-in with fairies on a trip to Wales, and he comments on her (lack of) response, she responds with embarrassment and irritation.
-->'''The Boy:''' I thought you were dark, Esther. Of the night and hip to spells.\\
'''Esther:''' Um... Fairies...\\
'''The Boy:''' Yes?\\
'''Esther:'''...are like wasps in camisoles.
* ''WebComic/TheWotch'': Cassie, whose earlier dabbling with magic often ended with Anne having to bail her and the others out of danger while trying to avoid being outed as The Wotch.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Midnight Mares'' has Nightfall Nod, the local [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]] expy. She's an EmoTeen [[GodOfEvil Nightmare Goddess]] with a dyed black mane with a pink streak, a calavera skull hairpin, and wears a glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume from the neck down.
* During the "Dark Nella" arc, ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the trope (and uses it as an excuse to review ''The Craft'') by picking up a random Goth girl off the street to try to fix Nella via magic.
* In a student-created CGI short film called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyjw0ZLyzpE&feature=kp The Colors of Evil]],'' a goth girl named Vivian summons a demon in an attempt to get rid of the annoying AlphaBitch bullying her.
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': A number of Wizard students[[note]]whose power naturally inclines them to collecting [[{{Mana}} Essence]], often combined with some sort of inherent magical ability[[/note]] fit this to varying degrees, most notably Carmilla and Nacht (with Maledicta being more of a send-up of the character type). Several of the non-Wiz Goths want to learn magic, such as Screech, and are frustrated that the Mystic Arts department generally refuses to teach magic to anyone who doesn't have that mutant power and/or some other existing mystical ability.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' the main trio meets Tabitha and Courtney, two teenage goth girls who hang around their stump at night. The kids see them lighting candles and reading tarot cards and jump to the conclusion they're witches. What's worse, one of the girls decides to mess with them and tells the kids they're cursed, which coincidentally proceeds the three of them having a chain of bad luck.
* Dylan from ''WesternAnimation/GolanTheInsatiable'' was able to summon the titular creature because of this.
* [[DarkActionGirl Ming-Hua]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. She wears a slate-gray outfit, has a [[LeanAndMean scrawny build]] and [[StringyHairedGhostGirl long stringy hair that make her resemble an onryo]], rarely displays any facial expression that's not either "[[KubrickStare glower]]" or "[[SlasherSmile malicious grin]]," and is prone to [[DeadpanSnarker bitter snark]]. She's also the most overtly [[AxCrazy temperamental]] and [[BloodKnight vicious]] of the [[BadassCrew Red Lotus]]. Easily one of the most powerful [[MakingASplash waterbenders]] in the series, she's also the only bender shown to not even need the use of arms—just as well, seeing as she [[HandicappedBadass was born without them]]—and can create as many [[CombatTentacles water whips]] and [[BladeBelowTheShoulder ice blades]] as she wants.
* ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz'': Goths probably don't exist in Oz, but West, the group's resident witch, certainly ticks most of the boxes: dresses in black, in a style that is a mixture of old and modern; has violet hair worn in a punkish; pale skin; DeadpanSnarker...
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Queen Chrysalis. She has an eerie and broken appearance that sticks out like a sore thumb in a cheerful cartoon and is a capable magic caster, able to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshift]] and fire magic beams from her horn.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
** In one episode, Masha is a goth that [[spoiler:Vee (in Luz's disguise)]] met, but all they do is a Tarot reading for [[spoiler:Vee]]. That said, the Tarot reading is quite accurate. Both [[spoiler:Vee]] and Luz are running away from a past that is now catching up to them, and that their regrets may soon overwhelm them. This later turns out to be downplayed since while they present as feminine, they are nonbinary and go by they/them pronouns.
** Lilith is very well-versed in magic theory [[WeakButSkilled (even if's she not as powerful a spellcaster as her sister Eda)]], she wears black like the stereotypical colonial or medieval witch, and she dyes her hair navy blue (although ironically she was once a nerd).
** Amity's primary color scheme in her clothing is black, and or a dark purple, made all the more pronounced once she [[spoiler:dyes her hair lilac]]. This dark color scheme can even be seen in the magic that Amity uses, as the Abominations and Abomination Goo that she summons and uses to fight are all dark purple in coloration, while Amity herself is one of the strongest and most skilled practitioners of the craft on the Boiling Isles.
* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' plays with this during season 2. [[PerkyGoth Julian]] (who's a [[GenderInvertedTrope male example]], mind you) wants to be a magician, but he kind of sucks at it. He eventually get his hands on the Sorcerer's magical orb that Randy and Howard had previously snagged, which does grant him legitimate mystical powers. He's brought back to normal, but in the process of this, an [[EvilCounterpart evil version of Julian]] is created, who has powers of his own.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost''. The Hex Girls (an eco-goth rock band) "ritual" turns out to be for show and the "potion" they were seen making was just an herbal treatment for their vocal cords. DoubleSubverted when one of them turns out to be part Wiccan, [[ReligionIsMagic which is treated like a]] MageSpecies.
* Invoked and subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Rednecks and Broomsticks" where Lisa befriend three young wicca. When the three teen girls are arrested, suddenly, half the town becomes blind and the girls are blamed. Turn out that they are innocent; some of the hillbillies' moonshine mixed in with the water that goes into the reservoir the town uses and thus caused them to go blind.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has two notable examples.
** Raven fits the typical traits of a {{Goth}} with her reclusiveness and taste in dark things in general, but there are [[BlessedWithSuck circumstances]] that push her to act in a gothy way. As the HalfHumanHybrid daughter of Trigon she can use spells demonic and magical in nature.
** Jinx also has the general style of goth and a [[BadPowersBadPeople gloomy outlook on life]] in spite of her [[PerkyGoth perkiness]], and can use magical hexes that cause bad luck.
* A somewhat less surprising (and less "rebellious", as it's actually the "family business") example is Triana Orpheus of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. The Goth girl daughter of necromancer extraordinaire Dr. Byron Orpheus, Triana is studying magic with her mother, also an accomplished sorceress.
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