Characters / W.I.T.C.H. Main Cast

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This only refers to the characters from the comic books. For their counterparts of the Animated Adaptation, see here.

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As A Whole

W.I.T.C.H.

The group consists of five teenage girls who were chosen by the Oracle to become the new guardians of Kandrakar, which means they protect Kandrakar from people and creatures who wish to cause harm to it. For this purpose, they have been given powers over the five elements; Energy, Water, Fire, Earth and Air. The guardians' names are: Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin, whose initials form the title acronym W.I.T.C.H.

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• Action Girl: Even when they're not in Guardian form, the girls still kick ass and take names.
• Amazon Brigade: In their transformed state, where they all possess super-powers.
• Badass Adorable: They're all cute teenagers with magical powers who can kick serious ass.
• Badass Crew: They are the Guardians of the Veil and know how to kick ass.
• Badass Teacher: They temporarily become teachers to other kids with magical abilities in the eighth saga.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: They are a teem of teenage girls who all wear outfits that show some skin around the belly area in their Guardian forms. In their New Power forms, only Taranee and Hay Lin do.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Cornelia (Blonde); Irma, Taranee, and Hay Lin (Brunette); Will (Redhead).
• Bully Hunter: Initially it was only Will and Cornelia, but the others became involved in keeping Uriah and co. at bay pretty soon.
• Calling Your Attacks: The girls usually call out the name of their element whenever they use them to attack.
• Classical Elements Ensemble: Each main girl represents one of the classical elements and has Elemental Personalities to match. Irma is water and has Making a Splash powers. Taranee is fire and has Playing with Fire powers. Hay Lin is air and has Blow You Away powers. Cornelia is earth with Green Thumb powers. And Will is Element No. 5, with powers related to Pure Energy and Light 'em Up. She's also The Leader and The Heart of the group, literally as she's the only one who has possession of the Heart of Kandrakar and leads them, balancing between their different personalities as she gains more confidence.
• Covert Pervert: Too many instances to list. Just go to the Radar subpage and remember it's not even half of what they've done.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: The Guardian outfits only have in common the wings, purple shoes, leggings striped in two shades of green, and tops and bottoms being coloured either aqua green or purple (pink in the cartoon), plus exposed stomach for the first outfits and some kind of gloves in the New Power outfits.
• A Day in the Limelight: They each get their own personal story in Lene Kaaberbøl's novels, combined with various storyarcs that give them different amounts of focus.
• Dude Magnet: All of them have caught the attention of more than one guy, though whether they reciprocate or not varies.
• Elemental Personalities: Yan Lin explains they all have personality powers: Irma got water because it can't be contained (like Irma when she decides to do something), Taranee got fire because she's the only one reliable enough to be trusted with it (as Cedric points out once, when Taranee gets pissed you must RUN. And he did so), Cornelia got Earth because she tends to function with hard logic, and Hay Lin got Air because she's a dreamer. Will's power remains unexplained until the New Power saga of the comic, when her 'Energy' power is finally defined as that which unites the elements and leads them, balancing between their different personalities. Will fits this archetype after her character develops.
• Flight: When they transform. Initially in the comic, only Hay Lin could fly, but they all get this ability in the New Power arc.
• Five-Token Band: Will and Irma are Ambiguously Brown (Arab and Latina respectively), Cornelia is Caucasian, Taranee is African-American and Hay Lin is Chinese.
• Girl Posse: Amazingly enough, the group started (before Elyon left and Will and Taranee arrived) as the closest thing Cornelia had to one. Closest thing because, just as Cornelia wasn't an Alpha Bitch, the girls were true friends with their own opinions and the only ones to care about fashion were Hay Lin (who makes her own clothes) and Cornelia.
• Healing Factor: "Xing-Jing's Gift", which allows them to heal faster than usual, not feel the fatigue from the transformation, and over time healed Taranee's sight.
• Kid Hero: They start off at the ages of 12 and 13.
• Legacy Team: W.I.T.C.H. are simply the most recent team to take up the mantle of Guardians of the Veil. Their immediate predecessors had roles in one of the story arcs, and several others were apparently active in previous generations.
• Magical Girl Warrior: A prominent non-anime example and probably one of the most recognisable in the Western world. They are teenage girls who transform into superpowered versions of themselves called the Guardians of the Veil and are tasked to protect the universe. Unlike what the series' name suggests, they are not witches; that is simply an acronym made from the first letters of their names.
• Older Alter Ego: The Guardian forms appear to be in their late teens or even early 20s. This gets downplayed over time as the girls get older.
• One Degree of Separation: Before ever meeting each other they were connected through the previous generation of Guardians, as Yan Lin personally knew three of them and Kadma and Halinor were keeping tabs on Will and Taranee through the people helped by their charity.
• Physical Goddess: Where Will, as the Keeper of the Heart, had the potential from the start, the whole group reaches this level in the New Power arc, as shown when Hay Lin picked up a hurricane and closed it in a small paper box.
• Power Gives You Wings: Though the wings are mostly useless (except with Hay Lin) until the New Power arc. In the Arkhanta arc they even admitted they had no idea why they have wings.
• Power of Friendship: Justified. The stronger the bond between the Guardians, the stronger they are when fighting evil. A recurring theme in the comics and show.
• Power Perversion Potential: Irma (in the comic book) and Cornelia (in the cartoon) have both noticed how their Guardian forms are useful to get noticed by older boys.
• Purple Is Powerful: Their Guardian uniforms incorporate purple and green as their primary color scheme.
• Sexier Alter Ego: In Guardian form they don't just become older, they get the body they dream of. Made most evident by Will's actual older form (shown in two possible futures) being less busty than the Guardian form, Irma's Guardian form being skinnier than the actual Irma, and the Guardian form of Cornelia, who is the one who is actually happy with her body shape, simply being an Older Alter Ego with longer hair and wings.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While a few of them fall under All Girls Want Bad Boys, all of them really want a sweet guy to be with ultimately.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • The tomboyish but doubtful leader Will is often contrasted against lancer Cornelia, the Lovable Alpha Bitch.
  • Serious and elegant Cornelia is often paired against laid-back and funny Irma.
• Town Girls: Femme - Cornelia, Neither - Will, Taranee and Hay Lin, Butch - Irma.
• True Companions: Even when they fight, that won't stop them from making up later on.
• Underestimating Badassery: Many of their enemies tend to underestimate the girls. Big mistake.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Mildly Deconstructed; all of their personal lives suffer for their Guardianship, especially Will and Cornelia. The former has to deal with leadership and the trials of having a single parent while Cornelia has had to sacrifice time from her figure-skating career to save the world. Taranee actually quit at one point because she didn't like the way Kandrakar treated them and Cornelia has repeatedly shown she'd drop the job if she didn't feel indebted to help the others. Irma and Hay Lin have the least conflicts but even they have their share of problems. Despite these troubles, they still pull together and get the job done while handling their personal lives.
• Western Zodiac: Will is a Capricorn, Irma is a Pisces, Taranee is an Aries, Cornelia is a Taurus, and Hay Lin is a Gemini.
• Wings Do Nothing: Initially, their wings are useless. Upon being asked why they have them if only Hay Lin can fly, they admitted they had no idea and made a note to ask the Oracle.

Wilhelmina/Wilma "Will" Vandom

Wilhelmina/Wilma "Will" Vandom

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The Quintessence Guardian, and the main protagonist. She holds the Heart of Kandrakar, which gives the other girls the power to transform into their guardian forms.

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• A-Cup Angst: She's insecure about her lack of a noticeable bust and prefers being in her Guardian form due to the Breast Expansion it gives her.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Will's friends from Fadden Hills only hung out with her because they felt sorry for her due to her parents being divorced. They didn't even like her. One of her enemies tried to trick her into thinking this would eventually happen with the other Guardians, but the Oracle assured her that even he could not see what the future would be.
• Ambiguously Brown: She's on the slightly dark shade of dark-skinned redhead. With her mother's middle-eastern traits, it's implied that she's half-arab.
• Animal Motifs: Frogs. Will has a passion for the species, great enough to be one of her defining characteristics, and its appearances have become a running gag. Her room is covered in stuffed frog toys and her bed has a frog styled on top it. In her provided image picture, she is seen with what appears to be a frog wallet.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet, shy, not entirely confident girl. She will mess you up if you harm or threaten her inner circle, believe it. Case in point: her treatment of Phobos in the fourth story arc. After he gave her one hell of a Mind Rape, she reacted by nearly torturing him to death, and only spared him because she remembered just in time that he wasn't in his real body and had to fix that situation. He escapes, but in their next encounter he finds himself at her mercy and has barely enough time for a Big "NO!" before she disintegrates his soul. Ouch...
• Big Sister Instinct: She doesn't take threats against her little brother very well. At all.
• Book Dumb: She appears at least as smart as anyone else the rest of the time, but her grades are so bad she tries to hide them from her mother.
• Bully Hunter: Most evident in the comic; when seeing Uriah and his gang tormenting a dormouse she chased them away, and when she thought they had returned she immediately turned violent (it was actually Matt). She and Cornelia will later involve their friends in the activity of keeping Uriah and co. from tormenting people.
• The Chains of Commanding: A recurring theme in both the comic and the show is that Will has the extra burdens of being the Keeper of the Heart in addition to the usual Guardian duties. This becomes more manageable over time as the girls become a stronger team.
• Character Development: Will finally finding out how much of a jerk her father is, is what starts her not being so angry at her mother anymore and their relationship improves.
• Character Tics: Nervously plays with her bangs whenever interacting with Matt.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's really jealous of Matt, causing her to use her powers to sabotage perceived rivals or throw cakes on their heads directly from Kandrakar.
• Cool Big Sis: To William, her half-brother. She was a little hesitant about him at first, but quickly bonds with him after he is born.
• Everyone Hates Mathematics: Her worst subject is math.
• Fangirl: Of Cobalt Blue, the band in which Matt is the guitarist. Mostly due to Matt being in it.
• Fiery Redhead: Can be emotional at times and prone to outbursts. Ironically, she seems to have inherited this from her responsible dark-haired mother than her calmer, but less reliable red-haired father. Averted at times since very often when not bursting out she can get quite easily depressed and insecure.
• Friendless Background: In the comic she came to Heatherfield after effectively losing almost all her old friends when her parents divorced (she just kept one, but that is revealed much later).
• Forgot About Her Powers: Doesn't use any of her machine-speak during the break-in on Takeda's company after discovering Liam kidnapped her baby brother. Then again, the security systems and Cyber Guards would still be loyal to him, and she's not thinking rationally due to the abduction.
• Friend to All Living Things: Her powers give her a strong connection to animals. Even putting apart her powers; she's often stated to be fond of frogs, she saves her pet Dormouse from Uriah's pranks, and later on helps Matt's grandfather working at the pet store. The animals in the store get along easily with her, and in the comics she was the one who gave Napoleon to Cornelia as a cheer-up gift.
• A Girl and Her X: A Girl And Her Dormouse. More so in the comics, until he dies. Only for a short time in the cartoon.
• Glamour: She has this ability, and has occasionally used it for disguising purpose.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Will often has doubts over her physical appearance, and has said on more than one occasion that she doesn't consider herself beautiful.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Part of her original design was a small forelock, descending over forehead to her nose ridge - and whenever she feels insecure, Will covers large sections of her face with her bangs.
• Hot-Blooded: Prone to being more emotional than rational.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: She still has yet to miss a target, but the best instance was when she saw a girl who was hitting on Matt while she was away and hit her with a cake thrown from Kandrakar, after remarking she had a good aim when Irma doubted her ability to pull it off.
• The Leader: She's the Keeper of the Heart, and therefore the leader of the Guardians.
• Lethal Chef: Her mother and Matt are terrified by her attempts at cooking because she's as bad as Akane Tendo in her first attempts. Or maybe worse: Akane never confused powdered soap with flour...
• Meaningful Name:
  • Wilhelmina can be interpreted to mean "protector."
  • Will also counts. There's even a villain who claimed that fifth element is willpower.
• Mundane Utility: As the Keeper of the Heart, she can make various machines and appliances work, even without any visible source of energy. Including keeping her fridge, James, operating during a black-out.
• Naked on Arrival: In the comic, the first page featuring Will sees her in a dream where she is trapped inside the Heart of Kandrakar, bursts out of it and into a raging storm. She's naked throughout the entire sequence.
• Not a Morning Person: Frequently in the comics and the supplementary materials mention it, too.
• Painted-On Pants: Her Guardian outfit from the New Power saga includes these.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She's into competitive swimming.
• Pink Heroine: She wears a combination of pink and red, wields the pink Heart of Kandrakar, has a pink transformation sequence, and gains the power of pink lightning.
• Pure Energy: Her power source in the comics.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Word of God states that she's the strongest of the five because she has control over Quintessence, and she is the official leader of the team.
• Red-Headed Stepchild: She's one in the most literal way to Dean in the comics and also to Serena in the TV series. Subverted in that they both actually care about her and don't treat her like the trope. In the show she treats them with distrust until she warms up to them, with one issue of the comics being about her finally calling Dean "Dad!"
• Red Is Heroic: She's the leader of the girls and has bright red hair.
• Refusal of the Call: At first rejects the idea of being a Guardian, but later accepts it.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Usually prefers gender-neutral clothing, but she can dress up as easily as any of the other girls.
• Shrinking Violet: Shows tendencies of this. However, she can be outspoken when she wants to be.
• Spider-Sense: In the comic books, Will gets dizzy whenever something of dark magic is in motion or near her.
• Super-Strength: One of her abilities includes superhuman strength.
• Teleporters and Transporters: Caleb actually teaches her and the others how to do this.
• Tomboy: Enjoys sports (competitive swimming is her main interest) and frogs. Except for her Guardian form, you can count instances of Will not wearing trousers on your fingers.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Cornelia's Girly Girl.
• Tomboyish Name: Justified given how embarrassingly dated her full name is.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Will dresses casually, has messy hair, and is an active swimmer; but she has a passion for cute animals and crushes hard on the attractive Matt.
• Unkempt Beauty: Her hair is the messiest of the Guardians and her boyfriend doesn't seem to mind in the least. There's a lot of scenes in the comics where Will is shown getting out of bed and her hair is a complete rat's nest... and she looks adorable.
• Visit by Divorced Dad: In both the series and comic. Played very darkly in the comics.
• You Are Grounded!: Seems to get this even more than the others, maybe because she's the only child of a single mother.

Irma Lair

Irma Lair

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The Water Guardian. Known for being the class clown at her school, she and Cornelia have a long-standing rivalry. She is close friends with Hay Lin. Despite displaying some jealousy over his friend Martin's girlfriend (who previously had a crush on her), she was starting a relationship with Joel, Matt's bandmate. Ultimately, she chose neither and instead dates a new character named Stephen.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: In the form of moody, punkish Andrew Hornby.
• Ambiguously Brown: In the comic, she has notably darker skin than Cornelia, and the adaptation gives her a Latina accent.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Downplayed. In her normal form, Irma is typically depicted as chubby, and has a noticeably fuller figure when combined with her large breasts. She's never depicted as unattractive for it though, and gets just as much attention paid to her as the rest of the group.
• Big-Breast Pride: Irma has a bigger chest than the other girls, in human form and Guardian form, and is rather prideful about it. Too bad the one girl she tries to get jealous is Proud Beauty Cornelia...
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She's described as an "early bloomer" due to her buxom figure and both Will and Taranee display jealousy of her due to it.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Inherited thick eyebrows from her father.
• Book Dumb: She gets average grades at school, as she often refrains from reading books or studying out of sheer laziness.
• Charm Person: One of her powers is a basic form of mind control. Irma telepathically relays a command to her target, who inexplicably feels compelled to execute it.
• Class Clown: Irma loves to joke around in school.
• Cool Big Sis: Though she thinks of her brother as an Annoying Younger Sibling, she really does care for him.
• Cool Teacher: A possible future shown in the comics is that she becomes this.
• Foil: To Cornelia's stoicism, due to being an energetic gadfly.
• Fun Personified: The most willing to make her Guardian duty as fun as possible, as she recurringly cracks jokes, taunts villains and pokes fun at the heroines' predicaments even as the tide of battle turns against them.
• Genki Girl: She's quite excitable and never drops her energetic optimism.
• A Girl and Her X: In the comics, Irma has a pet turtle, Leafy, who she tells all her secrets to.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Irma likes cute clothes, music, and crushes often on guys, but also loves junk food, has a crass sense of humor, and is a couch potato in regards to physical activity.
• Happily Adopted: In the comics, her birth mother is missing since she was a child, with Anna Lair adopting her after marrying her father. Though between their close relationship and how similar they look, one wouldn't even suspect it if it hadn't been mentioned in a couple occasions.
• An Ice Person: In the comics, Irma's control over water enables her to freeze (and unfreeze) anything she wants.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Her curls manages to stay up regardless what situation she's in.
• Making a Splash: Irma is the Guardian of Water.
• Mirror Character: With Cornelia. Both are stubborn and can be insensitive at times, but are jerks with heart of gold. They also go through Break the Haughty moments in the cartoon version.
• Missing Mom: In the comics, Anna Lair is her stepmother. It's still a mystery of what happened to her birth mom.
• Most Common Super Power: Easily the largest of the girls in both her forms, at least in the comics.
• Power Incontinence: It has more to do with the power in question than Irma's actual inability to control it. She can wish people do things, all while being a somewhat ditzy teenage girl. If that wasn't enough, Irma has no issues whatsoever about her lack of control over her ability, leading to few times where Will had to call her out on clearly abusing her power. She gradually grows out of it.
  • Played for Laughs with her other power - turning people into frogs - as it kicks in when she's overstressed or when she's cornered and ends up acting on instincts.
• No Indoor Voice: Irma might not know the definition of keeping her voice down.
• The Prankster: Her usual mindset is basically that of a Gadfly and Troll when she's in the bad mood. In fact, when she descends into trolling, it usually means things are going very sour.
• Quirky Curls: The tips at the end of her hair are curled.
• Rapid Hair Growth: Her new costume gives her longer, curlier hair.
• Really Gets Around: A non-sexual version as she's had the most romances in the comics. Not at the same time, mind you.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The energetic, always cheerful red to Cornelia's stoic and grounded blue.
• Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy: In the form of Andrew Hornby, a Big Man on Campus.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: Downplayed. She has this sort of dynamics with Cornelia, whom she calls "Corny" and relentlessly trolls. This is mostly because Irma is The Gadfly rather than meaning a single word of her taunts. The few times their rivalry went serious, the girls quickly realised something was off.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: Instantly goes "boy crazy" to the guy she likes.
• Snark Knight: Makes sassy comments when she's on and off the job of being a Guardian. She snarked to allies and enemies alike, and she can get people really annoyed with her words. But, she'll always protect the world with her friends.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Irma loves to eat chocolate ice cream.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Cornelia, as they form a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo and always squabble.

Taranee Cook

Taranee Cook

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The Fire Guardian, Taranee's hobbies include dancing, math, and photography. She later starts liking Nigel, a former delinquent.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: She gets increasingly frustrated with her life as a Guardian and comes to feel that she's being manipulated and used by the Oracle, and as such she quits the team, stays out of action and refuses to use her powers for several issues (though she still hangs out with the other girls and helps provide cover stories and alibies when needed). Her place on the team is temporarily filled by Orube, a warrior woman from the planet Basiliade, though the Oracle and the other girls make it clear to Taranee that she is welcome back on the team at any time.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Mainly Nigel, though she insists he isn't the bad guy her mother thinks he is.
• Ambiguously Brown: She's officially half-Asian, yet her skin tone is much darker than the full-blooded Asian Hay Lin and even the Latin Irma. Coincidentally or not, she has rastas in her Guardian form. This might be meaningful given that she is adopted.
• And You Thought It Was a Game: Inverted. She oftentimes deliberately approach dangerous situations as if they were a quiz or a game, since this allows her to better focus.
• Asian and Nerdy: She is half-Asian from her mother's side whom puts great focus on education. Although Taranee is adopted and she might not be half-Asian at all.
• Badass Bookworm: She occasionally uses her smarts to defeat her enemies.
• Bespectacled Cutie: She's a cute, young girl with big, round glasses. She even keeps them on after transforming!
• Beware the Nice Ones: Tends to become a pyromaniac when she snaps. Cedric was rather wary of provoking her since the start, but Elyon, in the first saga, managed to get her to snap, and only survived because Cedric grabbed her and ran like hell while Taranee broke free from a bubble made specifically to keep her in.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: The most reserved of her friends. But when she snaps, she snaps hard.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Inherited her thick eyebrows from her dad.
• Black and Nerdy: Taranee is so nerdy that she can't wait for summer vacation to end!
• Braids of Action: In the Dreadlock Rasta version.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: A mother variant. Her mother didn't approve of Taranee dating Nigel. Nigel is a reformed juvenile delinquent, but Taranee's mother viewed him as a criminal. She comes around though.
• Dreadlock Rasta: Only in her Guardian form.
• Dreadlock Warrior: In her guardian form.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: The only one whose hair changes after transforming.
• Fake Mixed Race: In-Universe. Taranee seems like this at first, since her mother is Asian. It's later revealed that she's adopted.
• Fiery Stoic: Her powers are mainly revolved around fire, but she's one of the quieter, more sensitive members of W.I.T.C.H.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Defied. Not only does she keep her glasses in Guardian form, she's pissed when due to a Healing Factor, her regular self no longer needs glasses, a gift she never asked for - despite formerly being Blind Without 'Em. Even once she no longer needed prescription lenses, she kept plain glasses to keep up the Masquerade.
• Goggles Do Nothing: After the Xing-Jing's Gift heals her sight in the comic, she takes off the corrective lenses from her glasses and replaces them with plain ones, as just ditching her glasses would be suspicious.
• Good Girl Gone Bad: This is what her mother thinks when Taranee starts to date Nigel.
• Good with Numbers: Her favorite subject is mathematics. As a result, she routinely helps Will with her math homework and tutors her in their free time.
• Hair Color Dissonance: The only one with blue hair. Similarly to Hay Lin, they are in-universe black.
• Happily Adopted: The comics reveal that Taranee was adopted after a fire destroyed her biological parents' home and they couldn't care for her properly.
• In-Series Nickname: In the comics, her friends sometimes refer to her as "Tara".
• Lovable Nerd: She'd rather have school than summer vacation.
• Meaningful Name: Taranee Cook.
• Nerd Action Heroine: Taranee is the nerdiest girl of the group. And her wits and peripheral knowledge are often just as important as literal ass-kicking, especially when the girls have to solve a riddle or some sort of a puzzle.
• Nerds Are Sexy: She's a cute girl and has no problem attracting love interests. Her possible future selves are all in good shape due to her professions (dance instructor and runner). Her Guardian forms are definitely this, as she keeps her glasses in them.
• Number Two: Often becomes this when Will, for some reason, can't lead the group.
• Only Sane Woman: Sometimes has to be this, especially when Irma and Cornelia start their antics.
• Playing with Fire: Taranee is the Guardian of Fire.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: In her Guardian form.
• The Quiet One: The most reserved of her friends.
• Running Gag: Her glasses are routinely damaged, left behind or given to someone. Upon returning home, Taranee is scolded by her mother for simply losing them once again, while the girl can't tell the truth what really happened.
• Shrinking Violet: Taranee is the most passive of the girls and starts off a nervous wreck. She eventually learns to be more assertive.
• Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She has blue-black hair and is a timid and reserved teenager.
• Specs of Awesome: Wears glasses even when kicking butt.
• Telepathy: One of her powers and the reason why the Guardians don't need telephones to talk between them.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Taranee isn't fond of bugs, except for butterflies, grasshoppers, and crickets. She often groans when the girls have to deal with something bug-shaped.

Cornelia Hale

Cornelia Hale

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The Earth Guardian, Cornelia is from a wealthy family and is easily one of the most popular girls at school. She enjoys figure skating. At first was head-over-heels for Caleb, but later on realized that they were Just Friends. Later, she falls for Peter, Taranee's older brother. Close friend with Will and best frenemy with Irma.

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• The Ace: Seems like this at first: she's a beautiful blonde from a well-off family who's popular (the novelizations cite her as being one of the "Infielders" at Sheffield Institute) and a gifted figure-skater. Even her friends are a little jealous of her at times.
• Agent Scully: Doesn't believe in magic at first, and that's after about a year of strange events in her presence, effectively controlling everything that happens in her class with her will, telekinetically cleaning her room without meaning, finding out that Irma can manipulate interrogations, seeing Taranee redirect a firework and stop an explosion and Yan Lin putting the Heart of Kandrakar in Will's hand, and only accepts they're doing magic after plants respond to her mood, but may have been in denial due her preference for normality.
• Broken Ace: She is just as inexperienced in romance as the other girls and has major confidence issues when it comes to dating an older boy, at least at first. It's also shown she doesn't enjoy the spotlight as much as she thinks she would.
• Bully Hunter: Her first encounter with Will (and possibly Taranee) in the comic has her chasing away a gang of bullies and it's implied that she does it often.
• The Cynic: For being the most grounded, she can also verge into being the most cynical.
• Deadpan Snarker: Often pointing out other people’s bad fashion tastes, as well as making jokes and sarcastic remarks.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Especially in the show. Cornelia is pretty high-strung and can be really dismissive, but as the events unfold, she learns to lose a bit of her strict demeanor and open up to her friends.
• Dishing Out Dirt: The Guardian of Earth obviously has geokinesis as her main power.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first appearance in the comic: in quick succession she muses that Irma unwittingly using magic to make sure the teachers only ask her what she has studied is something for beginners, makes an annoyed face as she asks who is the girl that Hay Lin just saluted (it's Taranee, who is at her first day at school), admits that Elyon knows more about the other transfer student (Will, who is in their class), leaves Elyon (her best friend) at the mercy of Irma and Hay Lin's crazed attempts at finding a good penitence for her bad grade, then notices that Uriah and his gang are bullying Will and Taranee and sends the bullies running with a single phrase before effectively adopting Will and Taranee in her group of friends.
• The Fashionista: Loves shopping and nice clothes. And especially shoes.
• First Love: In the comics, for Caleb before he became a couple with Elyon.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Cornelia is elegant, logical, comes from a wealthy family, is involved in a "fairy-tale"-like romance and dresses nicely, but she's also very argumentative, cynical, and doesn't mind getting her feet dirty when there's hard labor.
• Green Thumb: Provides the trope picture.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Cornelia can be a jerk, arrogant, and selfish...she also is loyal, doesn't like bullies, and will kick the ass of anyone that hurts the people she loves.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: When the Guardians were temporarily Brought Down to Normal at the start of the New Power Saga she was the only one who wasn't freaking out, feeling finally normal. She instead freaks out when they get the titular power up, and had an Oh, Crap! face when she saw it descending from the sky (again in contrast with the girls, who were happy of seeing the incoming magic and getting the power up). It resurfaced in issue #131: when the Guardians were told they were supposed to give up their powers or face a series of tasks to get a new power-up she was for giving them up, and accepted to take the tasks only in exchange for Irma's not making any joke on her for a year (Irma later succeeded in getting permission to joke as much as she wanted).
• Improbable Self-Maintenance: She is capable of always looking glamorous and well-groomed, no matter what. Will even points out that if Cornelia was given mud-stained rags to wear, she would still be able to make a fabulous outfit out of them and also style her hair - without any magic involved.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Under the mask of overconfident popular girl is a shrinking violet that oftentimes realises she really doesn't enjoy to be in the center of attention. She's also incredibly insecure about her own fashion choices and dating, the two things everyone assumes she's perfect at.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After the aforementioned defrosting. She can still be mean and self-absorbed, but her heart is as brave and selfless as her companions.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Both her Guardian outfits are based on cocktail dresses.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her name is the female form of the name "Cornelius," meaning "the horned one" - a reference to her astrological sign, Taurus (which is by extension an Earth sign).
  • There's some rather amusing official chibi art of her cosplaying as Taurus, complete with horns.
  • In the New Testament, Cornelius was directed by an angel to seek a man named Peter.
• Mind over Matter: Her telekinesis. Her first use of it was to clean her room.
• Mundane Utility: The most often application of her telekinesis is lockpicking. To the point she stops carrying keys around.
• Proper Lady: In the original comics, she's a mature and refined young lady.
• Rapid Hair Growth: She has long blond hair in human form, but it grows out so that it almost reaches the floor in Guardian form. At times she can even use it as a weapon.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The serious and grounded Blue to Irma's humorous and fun-loving Red. This is the main source of their conflicts.
• Rich Bitch: She comes from a rich family and she has her standoffish moments.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She has this characterization in the comics, appearing as a refined young lady but is not to be underestimated.
• Sitcom Archnemesis: With Irma, without ever meaning any of it beyond playful banter. Few times their rivality went serious, the girls quickly realised something was off.
• Sizeshifter: One of her powers is to grow bigger.
• Small Name, Big Ego: She has a serious case of overconfidence, believing she can handle almost anything on her own.
• Snark Knight: Like Irma, Corny won't hesitate at her job of being a Guardian. She'll make snippy and witty one-liners.
• Statuesque Stunner: The tallest of WITCH and can grow even taller thanks to her powers.
• Talking to Plants: Comes with controlling them.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • Girly Lovable Alpha Bitch Cornelia is often The Lancer to the tomboyish but doubtful leader Will.
  • Serious and elegant Cornelia (girly girl) is often paired against laid-back and funny Irma (tomboy).
• Valley Girl: Downplayed. She talks exactly like one, has an obsession with shopping, and enjoys flaunting her beauty and wealth. But she's also perceptive and down-to-earth, not to mention more emotionally sensitive than the other guardians; to the point that she's clearly The Lancer and often ends up butting heads with Will as a result.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Irma, as they form a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo and always squabble.

Hay Lin

Hay Lin

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The Air Guardian, Hay Lin is a bit of an airhead. She enjoys art and comic books. Her family manages the Silver Dragon restaurant. She falls in love with Eric Lyndon.

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• All Chinese People Know Kung-Fu: Has prior martial arts training, and can at least defend herself. Later complements it with Capoeira.
• Asian Airhead: It has less to do with her being dumb, and more about being a hyperactive ditz. Also, while can still appear to be a complete airhead, she's much smarter than she looks, especially in the comics. Her "having her head in the clouds", so to speak, is also a play on her air theming and motif, as those are traits often associated with air aligned individuals.
• The Baby of the Bunch: The youngest member of W.I.T.C.H., even if just by a year.
• Badass Pacifist: Hay Lin defeated a villain in the comics just by using her optimism.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She is the most cheerful, quirky, and eccentric member of W.I.T.C.H. She's also the one who put a hurricane in a paper box small enough to be kept in a pocket.
• Beware the Silly Ones: The goofiest of the group, but is just as effective in a fight. When Phobos calls her the weakest guardian, she responds by trapping him in a tornado, leaving him vulnerable to her melee attacks.
• Big Eater: Implied in "S is for Self". And despite the amount of food she consumes, Never Gets Fat.
• The Big Girl: Sometimes. She also has previous martial arts knowledge, good enough to knock down a Capoeira practitioner.
• Blow You Away: Hay Lin is the Guardian of Air.
• Catchphrase: "Yap!", "Spacious!", "Out of this world"
• Cheerful Child: A teenager variant. Always a smile on her face.
• Chinese Girl: She is one of the two Asian protagonists on the team. The other being Taranee, who is half-Japanese.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She has a quirky personality, which includes a peculiar fashion sense, a penchant for writing on her palms, and a tendency to make up her own words.
• Cloudcuckoolanguage: Sometimes she makes up words like "weirdific" or "rockalicious".
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Very cute and very clumsy, but still capable.
• The Cutie: She's cute and adorably ditzy.
• Dork Knight: Hay Lin is the most dorky and happy-go-lucky Guardian of W.I.T.C.H.
• Dream Walker: In a sense. Hay Lin is capable of Empathic Precognition; if she's thinking strongly of someone before she sleeps, she can see what will happen to them in the future, like she did with Elyon before her coronation.
• The Fashionista: In a more artistic sense than Cornelia, though, as she makes her own clothing.
• Friend to All Living Things: In the comics, she rescued all the dogs in a not so great shelter.
• Full-Name Basis: Lin is actually her family name.
• Genki Girl: She loves life, designing clothes, painting, and sending armies of mooks flying with a wave of her arm.
• Gift-Giving Gaffe: She's next to impossible to find a good birthday gift for, as whatever her friends are planning to give her she somehow manages to always buy herself shortly before her birthday.
• Girlish Pigtails: Has very long pigtails.
• Girly Bruiser: Hay Lin is a cute fashionista who's also got some martial arts skills.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Hay Lin is creative, free-spirited, and loves both fashion and the arts, but she's also a huge nerd obsessed with comic books/anime, space and sci-fi stuff.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Wore them often in the earlier issues, but seemed to grow out of it.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Her hair are clearly and consistently purple, being the most prominent example of animesque hair color among main characters. Yet in-universe, they are described as simply black.
• Hulking Out: After she's cursed by a Ragorlang, she becomes one herself when she feels fear or anger. The rest of the Guardians soon break the curse.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her New Power outfit wouldn't be out of place at a formal event.
• Kid-Appeal Character: The most childlike and fun-loving of the girls.
• Ms. Imagination: Her favorite class is even art.
• Motor Mouth: Comes with being a Genki Girl.
• No Indoor Voice: She's not as bad as Irma though and at least know when to stop talking.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Like the other Guardians, she becomes drunk with power in the New Power Arc and so overconfident that Yan Lin notices it's not like her.
• Otaku: She dreams of meeting aliens and has replicas of the Enterprise.
• Perpetual Smiler: About 98% of the time. You should be worried when she's not smiling. To the point where in one arc of the Ragorlang arc her optimism allows her to save her friends, defeating the villain by her sheer optimism.
• Rapid Hair Growth: Since the New Power story arc, her already long hair gets even longer in Guardian form.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Technically, she's shown with blue hair.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Her personal clothing style is very random. Cornelia, who's a more traditional fashionista, is often puzzled how exactly Hay Lin assembles her clothes and, more importantly, make them look good on her.
• Token Flyer: Hay Lin is the only one of the Guardians who can fly thanks to her having power over air.

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