Basic Trope: A character who can manipulate water and its different forms.
- Straight: Misty Aqurain can create tsunamis, floods, and turn into steam.
- Exaggerated: Misty can take on the form of water and act as a worldwide tsunami to engulf the entire planet.
- Downplayed: Misty can only conjure a maximum of 50 mL of water.
- Justified: Misty comes from an oceanic world.
- Inverted:
- Misty can manipulate fire.
- Misty gets killed with water.
- Misty can remove water from her surroundings.
- Misty can be controlled by water.
- Subverted:
- Misty's powers are not water, but they are connected to water (e.g., ice, snow).
- Misty looks like she's manipulating water, but it turns out there's a Water Float-inator nearby.
- Double Subverted:
- But she eventually trains herself to be able to control water.
- The Water Float-inator is broken, so she has to use her powers.
- Parodied: Misty can manipulate fire to behave as water.
- Zig Zagged: Misty is supposedly able to control water, but she is An Ice Person, though she can use her ice powers to do what water supposed to do like extinguishing fire.
- Averted: No water powers are present.
- Enforced: The water mage Misty doesn't fit within the setting of the story (i.e., a desert world), but the producer ordered the writers to include Misty because they wanted to make a Classical Elements Ensemble.
- Lampshaded:
- "Well, of course we have a water mage! It's one of the four elements! Someone is bound to have it as their power!"
- "Look on the bright side... At least when I'm done with you, nobody will know that you wet yourself."
- "Those of you in the splash zone will wish you'd stayed home today."
- Invoked:
- Misty gains water powers by touching a mystic water crystal.
- Misty has no magic whatsoever... But she does have access to a fire hose. Good enough.
- Exploited: Misty's rival learns to Shock and Awe to have an advantage.
- Defied: Misty has water powers, but refuses to use them.
- Discussed:
- She sure can use water, can't she?
- On a hot day, Misty wonders how great it would be to be able to manipulate water.
- Conversed: At a fan convention Misty - a powerless Muggle - cosplays as Aquarain from Water Comics! and spends hours talking with other fans of the show.
- Implied: Archeologists find an old temple full of images of women controlling water.
- Deconstructed:
- Water doesn't have the immediately-obvious destructive nature of fire, so even though Misty is capable of being a world-destroying Black Magician Girl, she gets lumped into being The Medic for entire arbitrary reasons.
- Misty is actually a master swordswoman who wields water as her element. For similar reasons, nobody puts her on the frontlines where her skills would be most useful...
- Misty can create giant tidal waves, firehose-like sprays with insane water pressure, floods, and storms, and that's when she's not even trying to think outside the box. It's not entirely clear if she realizes she could cause a drought, but other people have, and they're not exactly thrilled at the prospect. Not to mention that the human body is made up of mostly water. Because of this, she's treated as a Person of Mass Destruction.
- The sheer destructive potential of Misty's powers is not immediately obvious to Misty herself, and she kills someone by being careless with her abilities.
- Reconstructed:
- She decides to take advantage of water's sheer versatility, becoming The Red Mage.
- ... Until she shows them all up by making tidal wave-esque Sword Beams and begins conjuring weapons and hadoukens out of water; whereupon she is promoted to The Big Girl.
- Despite the sheer destructive/cruelty potential inherent to her abilities, Misty also has a strict honor code that prevents her from her crossing that line, which in turn manages to gain the trust and respect of people, as they know she'll only use that kind of power when it is absolutely necessary.
- Played For Laughs: "Misty, take a showe-" *splash!* "I meant in the bathroom, not right here..."
- Played For Drama: Misty has troubles controlling her powers, which results in her hometown being wrecked by tsunamis on semi-regular basis.
Stop Making a Splash! You're getting water everywhere!
