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* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' has the young(ish) chanteuse Martine, the pudgy, motherly Elinor, and the old, acerbic Julia competing against one another. During her de-aging at the vanity mirror, Julia regresses through mother and maiden forms before ending up as a hapless infant.

* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' has the young(ish) chanteuse Martine, the pudgy, motherly Elinor, and the old, acerbic Julia competing against one another.

* The H-Manga OYAOYAKODON somewhat [[InvertedTrope inverted]]. Freya (the male protagonist's girlfriend) is the maiden, Devita (Freya's mother) is the mother, and Ratna (the grandmother) is the crone who, ironically, has [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the body of a young girl]].

* ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'':, Martha Harter is the maiden, being the youngest sister; Lettie Hatter is the mother/matron archetype; and Sophie Hatter, the eldest, becomes a literal crone upon being cursed.

* The three female inhabitants of Radiator Springs from ''{{Franchise/Cars}}'': Sally Carrera is the Maiden, Flo is the Mother, and Lizzie is the Crone.
* The three female dinosaur characters from ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}'': Neera is the Maiden, Baylene is the Mother, and Eema is the Crone.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' tales by Creator/AAPessimal, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14124129/5/Alexandra-The-Making-of-an-Air-Witch a particularly nasty solitary Elf takes residence in a home]] in the Discworld's ''Russia''. Witch Olga Romanoff thinks about what needs to be done to eject the kikimora before this lone Elf, a potential Queen, opens further doorways to enable others to enter. She looks down at the iconograph on her desk, of her own young children, and reflects she has an older local Witch and her eleven-year-old pupil to assist. She then specifically asks old Barbara about the health of her grandchildren.
--.Dear Gods, Olga. you're goin;' for some ''serious'' magic here, aren't you?

* In RealLife, while there have since been several triple-goddesses, most notably [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hecate]] as she's the TropeNamer, the idea of Maiden, Mother, and Crone is almost certainly modern, invented in the 20th century. In ancient times, goddess triplets were depicted as [[TheWeirdSisters equally old]]. The trope's widespread application to numerous goddesses from multiple pantheons is certainly entirely modern.

** The three female Great Knights: Fierce Dryya is The Maiden, Kindly Isma is The Mother, and Mysterious Ze'mer ([[spoiler: The Grey Mourner]]) is The Crone.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the three titular characters are all the same age, but otherwise, they fit the trope pretty well. Blossom is the Mother; she's the most level-headed and sensible of the girls and frequently has to keep her sisters on the right track, and because of this she can come across as bossy and overbearing on occasions. Bubbles is the Maiden; she has the most youthful and cheery attitude of the three, and her naivety is sometimes taken advantage of by some of the recurring villains. Buttercup is the Crone; she's bad-tempered, abrasive and sarcastic, and acts as something of a skeptic to Blossom's plans from time to time, but she'll always come through for her sisters and loved ones in the end.

** The Bouvier women. Lisa is the Maiden, Marge is the mother, twins Patty and Selma are the crones.
** The Simpson women. Maggie is the maiden, Marge is the mother, and Lisa is the crone (as the aforementioned Patty and Selma note “the bitterness is strong in this one.”)

* The three female dinosaur characters from ''{{WesternAnimation/Dinosaur}}: Neera is the Maiden, Baylene is the Mother, and Eema is the Crone.

* The three female inhabitants of Radiator Springs from ''{{Franchise/Cars}}: Sally Carrera is the Maiden, Flo is the Mother, and Lizzie is the Crone.

* ‘’Manga/FairyTail’’: Lucy Heartfilia, a newcomer to the guild, is the Maiden, Erza Scarlet, who is rather no nonsense yet reliable, is the Mother and Mirajane Strauss whose power is considerable is the Crone.

** The 2003 anime adaptation has a villainous example in the form of the three women on team Homunculus. [[BrokenBird Lust]] is the Maiden, being a beautiful woman desperate to find meaning in her existence; [[TheStoic Sloth]] is the Mother, tasked with caring for the Homunculi's resident CreepyChild Wrath and effectively the resurrected remains of [[spoiler: the Elric Brothers' mother]]; [[BigBad Dante]] is the Crone, a centuries-old woman who treats her enemies and allies alike with condescending pettiness.

* In the anime movie ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', Kiki the Witch (Hecate is the Goddess of Witches) is befriended by three women -- Osono (a pregnant woman -- "Mother"), the college-student/artist Ursula (young woman in her late teens/early 20's -- "Maiden") and "Madame", a sweet old lady (quite elderly -- "Crone"). Whether or not the authors intended it, there it is.

* Danu, the mother goddess of the Sessair tribe in ''ComicBook/{{Slaine}}'', often appears such way with Morrigu (the Morrigan) as Maiden, Blodeuwedd as Mother, and Cerridwen as Crone.

* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAChristmasCarol'', a GenderFlipped [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol retelling]] of the Dickens story, uses this trope for the three Spirits of Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Past (Maiden) is a youthful, energetic GenkiGirl; the Ghost of Christmas Present (Mother) is a heavyset, [[BigFun jolly]] TeamMom; and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Crone) is a slender, [[GoodIsNotNice stern-but-caring]] SilverVixen.

* The three women of the TenLittleMurderVictims tale in ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' by Creator/AgathaChristie. Vera is the maiden (the youngest, prettiest, and most romantic), Mrs. Rogers is the mother (middle-aged, married, and domestic), and Emily Brent is the crone (an elderly, bitter spinster with contempt for anyone who doesn't fit her standards).
* In ''Literature/TheArtsOfDarkAndLight'', the nameless goddess worshiped by the [[PathOfInspiration Witch Cult]] appears this way, as the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. At least one aspect of the deity also seems to masquerade as a saint in TheChurch.

* In Piers Anthony's ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' series, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Fate is like this; three individuals who take on the roles of Clotho (maiden), Lachesis (mother), and Atropos (crone). One character actually gets to be both Clotho and Lachesis at different times. In the seventh book of the series, ''And Eternity'', Fate needs a new Atropos, and circumstances combine to make a male candidate the best choice. Even the remaining Aspects, Clotho and Lachesis, comment that this is highly unusual.
** In keeping with Piers Anthony, in the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series, there's the character Chameleon, who shifts between the three (though in appearance rather than age) with the phases of the moon. In her first appearance, the protagonist thought he had met three different women until he realized that she had shifted from Maiden to Mother over the course of days, and he hadn't noticed until the transformation was complete due to change blindness.
* In Thomas De Quincey's prose poem, "Literature/LevanaAndOurLadiesOfSorrow", the narrator describes three women who, like the Fates, Graces, and Muses, are personifications of human abstraction, and in this case sorrow. Here, the mother theme is dominant, with ''Mater Suspiriorum'' (the Mother of Sighs, representing despair), ''Mater Tenebrarum'' (the Mother of Darkness, representing insanity), and ''Mater Lachrymarum'' (the Mother of Tears, representing grief). In terms of age, Lachrymarum is described as the eldest (crone), and Tenebrarum the youngest (maiden).

* Pamela L. Travers, author of the ''Mary Poppins'' books, describes Mary Poppins herself this way, as a mixture of a vain young lady, a wise mother, and a sharp-tongued old lady. This was probably deliberate.

* The three Webster sisters from the ''Tales from the Wyrd Museum'' series by Creator/RobinJarvis are this -- it's eventually revealed they ''are'' [[TheWeirdSisters the Nornir]], the goddesses of fate from Myth/NorseMythology.
* Also by Mercedes Lackey (in a collaborative effort with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton) is ''Tiger Burning Bright'', a tale of three women who rule the city-state of Merina: the Dowager Queen Adele (the crone), Queen Lydana (the mother), and her daughter, the warrior princess Shelyra (the maiden).
* The witch families in Anne Bishop's ''Tir Alainn'' trilogy appear like this. Usually, a grandmother, mother, and daughter live together. None ever seem to be able to keep the men around. Well, at least not at the start of the story anyway.

* Played with in the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "Duel", which takes place on a planet made barren by the radiation from a ForeverWar. The two SufficientlyAdvancedAliens who survive take the form of the Maiden and the Crone, but [[ChildlessDystopia there is no Mother]].

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' has Kapp'n's family: his daughter Leila (Maiden), his wife Leilani (Mother), and his grandmother (Crone). The imagery is even mentioned in one of Katrina's "good luck in love" fortunes.

* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'' has the young(ish) chanteuse Martine, the pudgy, motherly Elinor, and the old, acerbic Julia competing against one another.

* The Norns in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' appear as [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2341 differently-aged versions]] of [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder whoever looks at them]] (which so far has just been women), with Skuld appearing as child versions of Annie and Kat and a teenage version of Anja; Verdandi as the characters are now; and Urd as grown-up versions of Annie and Kat and an elderly version of Anja. The particular way Anja sees them fits the trope. Kat questions why Skuld, the Norn of the future, looks like her past self, and Urd, the Norn of the past, as her future one, and [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=2344 is told]] she's looking at it from the wrong perspective; Skuld appears as someone who ''has'' a future to look forward to, and Urd as someone with a long past to remember. (This seems to be the way Myth/NorseMythology saw it, in contrast with the Greek Fates, who are generally seen as the other way round.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The Bouvier women. Lisa is the Maiden, Marge is the mother, twins Patty and Selma are the crones.

Compared with TheThreeFacesOfEve, the maiden combines the naïvety of the child with the sexuality of the seductress, the mother combines the liveliness of the child with the maturity of the wife, and the crone maps most closely to the wise, levelheaded wife. However, the sexuality of the Hecate Sisters is mutable -- if the Maiden is a young girl, then the mother might take on the role of [[StacysMom an experienced and sensual woman,]] who happens to be maternal as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' features the Dazzlings; Adagio Dazzle as the matron, Aria Blaze the crone, and Sonata Dusk the maiden.

* The PAL Girl Trio in ''WesternAnimation/SpiritRidingFree'' somewhat fit this trope in a way: Lucky Prescott, being a natural born leader and quite level headed, is the Matron, Abigail Stone, with her sweet, ditzy, naive demeanor, is the Maiden and Pru Grainger's relatively tomboyish and rough-and-tumble attitude makes her the Crone.

If, as is often the case, [[TheWeirdSisters the three are witches]], the maiden will usually be a CuteWitch or, if a bit older, a HotWitch, the mother will be a HotWitch in the maiden isn't, while the crone almost always conforms to [[DarkIsNotEvil at least the visual stereotype]] of the WickedWitch.

''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'': Sweet and naive [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel Rosa]] is the Maiden, serious and stern [[OnlySaneWoman Bianca]] is the Matron and brash and outspoken [[FieryRedhead Giulia]] is the Crone.