Western Animation television series have plenty of Magical Girls to go around.
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Examples of Magical Girl works:
- DC Nation's animated short Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. Amethyst can be considered an early combination of both the Cute Witch and Magical Girl Warrior types.
- Angel's Friends
- Abby Hatcher
- Bee becomes a Sentai-esque one in Bee and Puppycat.
- Gwen from Ben 10. In the first series she found a magical trinket which granted her magic powers, donned a costume and called herself "Lucky Girl". The only thing she was missing was the Transformation Sequence. In Omniverse she replicates the costume with her Andodite powers.
- Ben himself could be considered a male, more sci-fi-themed version of this trope, complete with his own transformation sequences.
- Butterbean's Cafe
- Manny Rivera, the hero of El Tigre, is essentially a Magical Boy.
- When The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy had their Underfist: Halloween Bash special, Irwin pretty much was this trope. In the special, upon Bun Bun's provocation, he transforms into a mummy-vampire and gains dark powers.
- Lily the Witch, an adaptation of a German book series about a girl who discovers a spell book and uses it to learn about the history of the world first-hand.
- Little Charmers
- LoliRock, a French show about three girls who are publicly rockstars and secretly Magical Girl Warrior Princesses.
- Miraculous Ladybug, despite looking head-to-toe a CGI superhero anime and is even made by the company that made one of the biggest Magical girl anime today, is created by a French studio and follows superhero tropes along with magical girl ones in the style of a Magical Girl Warrior series. It even has a Magical Boy in the mix as well. Multiple in fact, as the powers in series are by no means restricted to just girls, or even to the young at that. In fact we even learn in the fifth season that these powers aren't traditionally given to teenagers or kids, but adults, and that Ladybug and co are unusual and non-traditional in universe.
- Miss Tickle from Mission: Magic!.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic starts with a two-part episode in which the six main characters become friends. They use a powerful ancient artifact to become magical girls and permanently defeat a Sealed Evil in a Can. However, despite gaining fashionable magical jewelry and the gratitude of the god-princess of the realm, the trope is almost completely absent from the rest of the show. Word of God from the show's creator (Lauren Faust, worked on her husband Craig McCracken's Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and The Powerpuff Girls (1998)) is that good action-adventure episodes are harder to produce on a deadline and budget, and Myth Arcs have to be watched in a specific order, thus the series is more Slice of Life. This oddly means that Friendship Is Magic is probably closer to a "classical" Magical Girl series.
- The My Little Pony: Equestria Girls franchise plays this much closer, featuring human versions of the ponies gaining powers from magic leaking in from Equestria. From the second movie onwards the cast form a rock band and frequently transform during performances, the same applies to the Dazzlings who assume their siren forms in the climax. In the third movie, the human version of Twilight Sparkle of all characters becomes a Dark Magical Girl.
- Mysticons
- The Owl House: While the series is more of a Deconstruction, the Book within the show, “The Good Witch Azura” fits the bill.
- Penny Crayon: Penny, in a fashion - the delivery is very different but she basically has the same power set as Magical Idol Pastel Yumi. Also this makes Tara a Dark Magical Girl albeit a rather petty one.
- PJ Sparkles: PJ becomes a magical girl who can bring love and happiness back to Twinkle Town.
- Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders: The Jewel Riders are magical defenders of Avalon and have their equally young male counterparts, the three wolf-riding knights known as The Pack (who are however not much more than just sidekicks).
- Rainbow Brite: Rainbow leads the "Color Kids", who control colors and nature, and she has magic, rainbow-themed powers. The Market-Based Title in Japan was even Magical Girl Rainbow Brite.
- Rainbow Rangers
- The Sabrina portion of Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies was an early western magical girl show, notable for its inclusion of a Laugh Track, unusual among other magical girl shows.
- She-Ra: Princess of Power, coming in the mid 1980s. While her brother He-Man is considered is an early Sci-fi Barbarian version of the Magic Knight. Although several fans suggest he is a Spear Counterpart to a Magical Girl Warrior, given he never actually uses his sword as a sword.
- The Continuity Reboot, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power also counts as one.
- SheZownote is a Deconstructive Parody of both superheroes as well as magical girls, as well as the legacies of both genres. The main character, Guy, even has two deliberately outlandish transformation phrasesnote . Furthermore, the equipment and powers he uses (e.g., a lipstick Laser Blade, and a super "slap" attacknote ) reflect various female social stereotypes as well. The creator claims that this wasn't his (yes, "his") intention, but whether or not this is in fact the case is up for debate.
- Shimmer and Shine
- Sky Dancers, a French series.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil is about the princess of another dimension who has a magic wand powerful enough to destroy the universe. As a sort of Parody of the Magical Girl Queenliness Test, she's sent to Earth just to keep her from harming her home kingdom, since she's a somewhat ditzy Girly Bruiser. The show is mostly Slice of Life, but as the title suggests, evil forces sometimes intrude. One of the main antagonists is also a very obvious Sailor Senshi Send-Up, but with darker elements to her character.
- Steven Universe, about a young, half-human boy with magic powers being raised by magical thousands-of-years-old, mineral-based aliens who just happen to look like women or girls and act as Magical Girl Warriors, defending Earth from the rest of their species and having a lot of emotional struggles. As Rebecca Sugar is an admitted fan of Magical Girl shows, the series includes a lot of shout outs to genre classics like Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic
- Trollz. The Trollz are of the Cute Witch variety, using magic to make life less boring, though they also use it to fight against Simon when necessary.
- True and the Rainbow Kingdom
- Reggie of Twelve Forever has magical powers, but ONLY when she's on Party Island. She has the power to turn her friend Shane into different things, and can use magical weapons given to her by a flying octopus to fight.
- Winx Club where fairies and witches are these. They get several sets of transformation sequences of course.
- W.I.T.C.H., which is based off of the comic.
Examples of the Magical Girl trope referred to in other works:
- Happy Peach Flower and her friends from Exchange Student Zero.
- Sugarsugar Pangpang from Hero Inside, who fights using a wand that grants her fruit-based powers at random.
- During the second Superhero Episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes, Heloise becomes Trouble Bubble Girl, a parody of this.
- The second season premiere of Megas XLR features a parody of the Sailor Moon model (complete with an Overly Long Gag of a Transformation Sequence and a blonde Odango haired leader). Interestingly enough, they fight by summoning Humongous Mecha that look just like them instead of anything that can be construed as "magic".
- South Park parodies this in "A Song of Ass and Fire" and "Titties and Dragons" when Kenny becomes one.
- Suki from ToonMarty is a parody of the kinds found in anime, as well as the love interest of Marty himself.
