Winx Club / Tropes A to F

Tropes A-F | Tropes G-L | Tropes M-R | Tropes S-Z

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Winx Club provides examples of:

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Most buildings, Alfea especially, are rendered in 3D.

A

• Aborted Arc:
  • In 'The Tree of Life', the Winx promise the pixies that they will take the last fairy on Earth (Roxy) to Pixie Village so a pixie can bond with her. They make it as clear as possible that this will happen, but it never did.
    Bloom: Whoever the lucky pixie will be, we'll come back to introduce you to the new fairy. The last fairy on Earth.
    Lockette: Is that a promise?
    Bloom: That's a promise. Winx honor.
  • Most of the plot threads brought up in Season 4, mostly dealing with the Winx now being adults, were dropped from Season 5 onwards. This was due to Season 5 being a Soft Reboot that aged the characters down to being teenagers still attending Alfea.
• Academy of Adventure: All three schools. Alfea has many secrets; Cloud Tower turned out to be housing three delinquent teenage witches who never seemed to go to class (and the school was the usual occupying hideout for the season's evil villain); Red Fountain is a school for young heroes and the headmaster is a wizard, but none of the boys have magic.
• Academy of Evil: The Cloud Tower school for witches initially seems like one, but it's subverted as most witches such as Miss Griffin are mostly good-hearted, even if they are mischievous or jerks sometimes.
• Action Girl: All of the Winx. And, to a lesser extent, the pixies and selkies too.
• Adapted Out:
  • In the Nickelodeon specials, Mitzi is absent. Also, the Trix's "Mega Trix" form does not appear in the last special, and instead of being sent to Oblivion, Darkar just sends them back to Lightrock Monastery.
  • In Season 2, Darkar sends one of his minions to pose as Avalon and lure Bloom to him; in the specials, the minions are absent, and Darkar himself poses as Avalon in its place.
  • In 'Bloom Tested', the Trix use dolls in their likeness to astral project themselves into Bloom's simulator test; in the special, the dolls were absent, and they transport themselves into it.
  • The ending of "The Font of Dragon Fire" had a few scenes radically changed to last from the ending of 'Revenge of the Trix' to the beginning of 'The Battle for Magix'. Knut is absent from the scene before the Trix leave Bloom after they steal the Dragon Flame; the final scene where Stella arrives to help Bloom has been removed from the former and used at the beginning of the latter instead.
  • The part where the Winx are punished for sneaking into Cloud Tower to retrieve Stella's scepter has been removed from the special; instead of having their powers taken away for such, it is rewritten as an assignment for new students.
• Adaptational Heroism: The 4Kids dub has Riven's Face–Heel Turn be a product of brainwashing, while it is genuine in every other continuity.
• Aerith and Bob: Some characters have regular run-of-the-mill names (ie. Stella, Flora, Aisha/Layla, Roxy, Brandon, Timmy, Mitzi, Darcy, Daphne), while others have unique and unusual-sounding names (ie. Bloom, Musa, Tecna, Sky, Riven, Helia, Icy, Stormy, Diaspro).
• Affably Evil: It's implied in the first season that the witches of Cloud Tower are more mischievous than evil, excluding the Trix. Sure, they cause trouble and mayhem, but they wouldn't cross the line into trying to kill someone. After Season 1, most of them serve as allies.
• The Alcatraz: The frozen prison planet of the Omega Dimension is where the most evil criminals are sent. Anyone sent there is either frozen or placed in a capsule and then shot down to the surface from space. Anyone that gets out must deal with large ice snakes with an ice breath that can freeze lightning, freezing to death, finding any food and supplies, and avoiding roaming gangs attacking intruders. Without a spaceship, the only way out is a single portal heavily reinforced with magic. Anyone who could get through that would arrive on the ocean planet of Andros and be confronted by the mermaid guards at the portal. When the Trix are sent there, they free another prisoner, Valtor. They locate the portal and manage to break it open while simultaneously brainwashing the mermaid guards.
• Aliens Never Invented Democracy: It seems like most, if not all, of the civilizations outside of Earth are ruled by monarchies. This is a Downplayed example, however, since the Magic Dimension is shown to be a modern, if not advanced, society and aside from the royals and the occasional arranged marriages here and there, the monarchies don't really share the attributes of true feudal systems.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Season four — Cuccioli magici is Italian for "magical pets" or "magical puppies." The Cinélume English dub used the second translation, so all the pets were "puppies" even though there were cats, birds, bears, rabbits and other animals. Of course, most of them acted like dogs anyway.
• All There in the Manual:
  • Riven's backstory is only revealed in supplemental material^note he was abandoned by his mother at a young age and forced to spend most of his childhood alone, yet this is never brought up in either the original series or the revival series.
  • The comics explain some things left unanswered in the show, although they are theorized to be different continuities. For instance, it is explained that Bloom is on scholarship (being a fairy from Earth, and presumably later from being the princess of Domino) and works as a waitress to support herself. It also explains that Bloom still had the Dragon Fire because the Trix could not take ALL of it, which makes a lot more sense than the "believe in yourself" crap in the cartoon, among other things.
• Alpha Bitch: Mitzi, Diaspro, Chimera and Icy!
• Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The 4Kids dub has "We are the Winx! We are the Winx!"
• Amnesiac Lover: Sky briefly becomes one in the fifth season, due to his fall from a pillar in the Magic Archives giving him amnesia.
• Ancient Artifact:
  • The Ring of Solaria is a royal heirloom so old that nobody remembers when it was forged. To make it, ancient Solarians carved a stone from the Spring of Light, a magical fountain born from the Dragon's Flame. It's been passed down for generations and it's the birthright of Solaria's princess of the sun and the moon. In the first season, Stella uses it as her Power Crutch due to its immense sun magic power. It makes her the most powerful Winx for a while.
  • Implied with the Trix's Vacuums (or Whisperian Crystals) as their primary function is to identify and absorb magic signatures to help in the search for the Dragon's Flame. Since the Trix share the same goal as their ancestresses the Ancient Witches (who have existed since near the beginning of the universe), it's very likely they inherited the Vacuums from them.
  • The Agador Box is unique because it can contain any type of magic or spell in it in such a way that it allows the user to endlessly cast them. The user can either learn the magic and store the knowledge or it can directly absorb it from magical sources. Valtor steals it from an exhibition of ancient artifacts in Magix's Museum of Magic.
  • Exploited. To throw people's suspicion of him actually wanting the Agador Box, Valtor publicly announces that he will be stealing the Eye of the Ancestresses. That artifact belonged to the Ancestral Witches but has no known purpose and seems to be more powerful and valuable than the Agador Box.
  • The Winx's only hope to defeat Valtor is the Water Stars, which contain the Dragon's Flame opposite magic and the only substance in the universe able to actually extinguish it. At some point during the early years of the Magix Dimension, the Dragon's Flame and some sort of ancient water magic constantly clashed against each other, unleashing all sorts of destruction in the universe. A group of magical beings then decides to enclose the water magic in a series of containers, the Water Stars, and send them to a timeless dimension: the Golden Realm. The Winx earn them by passing a test of character from the Council of the Elders. Unfortunately for Bloom, the only thing able to activate the Water Stars is the Dragon's Flame, which means she will be affected by their power too.
  • Valtor somehow gets his grubby hands in the Water Stars Catcher, an item able to call back and contain the Water Stars, which is a bit redundant. It's never stated when that thing was created but it's probably not a recent creation, what with the Stars being unaccessible to everyone but the purest of heart.
  • Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure: The Ancestral Witches give the Ancient Hourglass to the traitorous King Erendor so he can't protect his planet from the destructive magic waves the witches plan on unleashing on the neighbor planet Domino. The Hourglass contains a sprout of positive magic from the Tree of Life. Subverted because it's implicit that the Ancestresses crafted it with this express purpose in mind, so it's not actually ancient.
  • In season four, there are two opposite artifacts: the White Circle, created by Earth's fairies as a key to their secluded realm of Tir Nan Og, and the Black Circle, created by the hunter wizards during the Great Fairy Hunt. The former enhances a fairy's magical capabilities and serves as a communication device. Meanwhile, the latter cuts off a fairy's wings to absorb her powers.
  • In the Hallowinx arc of the comics, the High Priestess Lamya carries the Scepter of Apophis as a way to channel the magic of Ancient Egypt's god of chaos. It's unknown how Lamya originally obtained it (or if she crafted it) but it's certainly thousands of years old by the time Earth's restored magic resurrects her.
  • In the fifth season, the girls have to obtain the Sirenix transformation to be able to effectively use their magic underwater. The detailed steps to do so are written in the Sirenix Book, which also summons little Sirenix guardians to help any potential magical being in their quest. It's never said who created the book but since it can be found in Alfea's Archive, it was probably the first fairy who was successful at earning the transformation.
  • The Ancestral Wands are the Transformation Trinkets of the Mythix transformation and one of the few ways to access the Legendarium World. They were retrieved by a septet of ancestral Earth fairies who accessed the Legendarium World. The Wands connect the imaginary with the real world and can only be wielded by worthy fairies.
• And I Must Scream:
  • At the end of Seasons 1 and 3, the Trix are imprisoned in a virtual meadow full of positive things, which is what they hate most and basically Hell for them. The beginning of Season 2 shows it's starting to drive them mad before they're rescued by Darkar.
  • Then there's Valtor, who was frozen in the Omega Dimension, and awake the whole time. This was intended to last for eternity, but he is released at the beginning of Season 3.
  • Anyone who enters the Legendarium World could face a fate like this if they stay for too long, becoming trapped there forever as fictional characters. The Trix suffer this when Selena locks the Legendarium for good with the Trix still inside it — at least until the end of Season 7 when Brafilius unleashes a very powerful magic which frees them.
• Angels Pose: Due to having to complete the Sirenix Quest on top of their normal duties, the eponymous six-woman team starts splitting in half in nearly every episode of the fifth season. This leads to at least one of the three-woman cells needing to transform into their fairy forms, for which they pose like this. They can be all standing or have two of them crouched, but they are always making some sort of gesture with their arms. In general, the trios' poses tend to be more symmetrical than the team's "Super Sentai" Stance.
• Animation Bump:
  • The animation of "The Day of Justice" has a darker, more dynamic, comic-book look to it, especially near the end, appropriate since this was the episode where Nabu dies.
  • The four 1-hour Nickelodeon specials, which retold seasons 1 and 2 in a condensed format, were re-animated with Flash animation and some CGI. A lot of little mistakes were fixed when they were re-animated.
• An Ice Person: Besides the most common user Icy, we have Belladona of the Ancestral Witches, background character Alice (or so we're told), Aurora of the Major Fairies of Earth, and Aurora's army the Arctic Fairies.
• Animesque: The show was directly inspired by series like Sailor Moon.
• Anti-Villain: The Earth fairies. After they were freed from their imprisonment, they swore revenge on the Wizards of the Black Circle for imprisoning them and on the people of Earth for forgetting them and treating the planet poorly. Despite their overzealous attitude, they do want to help the planet and were eventually convinced that revenge was not the right path.
• Arc Villain: Each season has one:
  • Season 1: Trix
  • Season 2: Lord Darkar/The Shadow Phoenix
  • Season 3: Valtor
  • Season 4: Wizards of the Black Circle
  • Season 5: Tritannus
  • Season 6: Acheron
  • Season 7: Kalshara and Brafilius
  • Season 8: Valtor (again)
• Arranged Marriage:
  • There was one between Prince Sky and Princess Diaspro but Sky doesn't love her, so he calls off the wedding. Lucky Bloom.
  • Early in season 2, Brandon almost married Amentia, princess of the Underealm, who had a crush on him, much to his and Stella's horror. Fortunately for both, Amentia made up her mind in the last moment thanks to Amore (Stella's bonded pixie).
  • Happens to Aisha when she's paired with Nabu, which turns into a Perfectly Arranged Marriage by the end of the season, and S4 appeared to be heading towards putting the "Marriage" into this pairing...until Nabu died stopping Wizards of the Black Circle form completing their Evil Plan.
  • In Magical Adventure when Sky seemingly breaks off his wedding with Bloom just after proposing to her, Oritel tries to set Bloom up with several other guys, but Bloom manages to blow them all off.
• Art Evolution:
  • Played straight and inverted with Season 5. In the early seasons, the art was good and the animation was pretty average but fairly smooth, though with some obvious Off-Model. In Season 5, the art has gotten even better, but the animation, which seems to be animated with Flash, is rather poor and makes the characters seem stiff or "wavy". Such Flash animation was also used in certain points of the first six episodes of Season 4.
  • The 3D animation also went through this change as well. The first two movies, the CGI segment for the ice show, and the two music videos produced for the Concert CD were animated with an unknown program. The CGI sequences for Seasons 5, 6, and the third movie were animated using Autodesk Maya.
  • The show undergoes a major art shift with season 8, with the characters redesigned to look younger and opting for a slightly more subdued, muted color palette akin to that of its spinoff World of Winx and the faces resembling how they looked in CGI for seasons 5 and 6.
• Art Shift: Done occasionally in seasons five and six when the action moves to the Infinite Ocean and the Legendarium World, respectively, which render everything in CGI.
• Artistic License: According to the citizens of Solaria, until Valtor's manipulation of King Radius in Season 3, the planet has never rained once in it's entire known history, to the extent that its citizens have no idea what a raincoat is. If it wasn't for magic's involvement, the entire planet should've been a dried wasteland.
• Artistic License – University Admissions: Bloom enrolls in Alfea by impersonating a princess who planned to attend but changed her mind at the last minute. The admissions process is also unrealistically simple: Griselda, the Head of Discipline asks for the students' names, then lets them in if their name is on the list, without asking for proof of identification or keeping photographic records of the students to double check. The stunt is made even more egregious by the fact that Bloom was pretending to be royalty, who are all around more recognizable and familiar to more people than commoners are.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The English versions like adding "-us" to normal words to make Latin-sounding spells. It happened most often in the 4Kids dub (e.g.: "Transportus Back Homus," "Getus Outta Hereus," "Cushionus Fallus").
• Aside Glance:
  • In the original version of "Welcome to Magix!", Bloom turns and smiles at the camera just before she and Stella head towards Alfea for the first time.
  • In 'The Fairy and the Beast', Stella wakes Bloom up early in the morning. While Stella is talking about what to wear at her princess ball, Bloom appears to briefly look into the camera.
• Asleep for Days: After her failed attempt to rescue the pixies from Lord Darkar at the beginning of the second season, Aisha sleeps for four days.
• Assumed Win: In "Disloyal Adversary", Bloom has come to Eraklyon's millennium party, expecting to hear Sky announce her as his girlfriend (as he had promised in the previous episode). Bloom starts to walk up while he's making his speech, but then it ends with him introducing Diaspro instead of her. It turns out that Diaspro has secretly given Sky a potion to make him love her instead.
• Audience Shift: The first three or four seasons were aimed at older kids and tweens. After Season 4 however, the target audience shifted younger and younger until Season 7 got the series moved to Nick Jr. and Season 8 turned Winx into an outright preschool program.

B

• Back from the Dead:
  • In season 4 the Winx receive the Black Gift, which is meant to save someone from death, but it can only be used once. It's sadly subverted however, when Nabu sacrifices himself stop the Fairy Hunter's scheme. When Aisha tries to use it on him, Ogron steals the Black Gift and wastes it on a flower. Nabu is still gone at the start of season 5.
  • In the finale of Season 5, Bloom uses her Sirenix wish to break the curse on Sirenix and end its legacy forever, which in turn restores Daphne back to her physical, corporal self.
  • In the same season, Aisha uses her Sirenix wish to heal Nereus and revive him back to life.
• Badass Back: In the 2nd movie, Bloom and Sky passionately kiss in the middle of a fight with doppelgangers. Without even breaking off the kiss, they both backfist punch a doppelganger trying to blindside them.
• Badass Normal: Subverted by most of the Specialists, whose lack of magic abilities makes them very inferior to the fairies in a fight. See also Faux Action Guy below. Played straight by them in the comics, movies, and season 6.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: In the earlier seasons, every female member of the main cast has at some point worn a midriff-baring outfit as either their default clothes, their transformation clothes, or both. This hit its zenith with the Enchantix outfits, which gave everyone a midriff and well as being pretty skimpy to boot. Later seasons, specifically the Harmonix forms in Season 5, would remake them to be Tamer and Chaster.
  • In the 4Kids dub, this is blatantly commented on by one of their professors, who expresses disdain for the look:
  Palladium: Before we can send you, we have to suit you up in the appropriate attire. You see, the weather on Sparx is quite brutal, so I'm afraid open-toe shoes and exposed midriffs simply will not do.
  Griselda: If I had my way, this would be the year-round dress code.
  Faragonda: Oh, Griselda.
• Battle in the Rain: It seems the Trix sometimes like to summon rainstorms before attacking; they do this in their first attack on Alfea and their first attack on Red Fountain in Season 1, then do so again while attacking Alfea in season 3.
• Beach Episode:
  • In 'Charmix Power', Headmistress Faragonda sends the Winx on vacation so they can relax from their recent defeats and, therefore, get more in tune with their fairy magic. She sends them to the Wildlands, an Anti-Magic place. The Winx, accompanied by their boyfriends, decide to chill out in a lake. Some of them remain on the shore while the more outgoing or sports-oriented ones play in the water.
  • "Mambochiwambo" is a music video released in the "Winx in concert" album. After all the conflicts are resolved, the Winx go on vacation to a tropical beach in Domino. They spend the whole day fooling around. Particularly Bloom, who dresses as a shark and gets a good scare out of her friends. The girls also share tropical drinks in their personalized floaters and take a dive to see the submarine life. Tecna builds a magnificent sand castle that completely overshadows Musa's.
  • At the beginning of 'The Emperor's Throne', the Winx are spending the day on Gardenia's beach as a reward for having completed the Sirenix Quest.
  • Episodes 15 and 16 of season 6 also qualify.
  • 'Back to Paradise Bay' opens as one.
• Beam-O-War: The Winx plus Nebula against the Black Circle in "Ice and Fire", the last episode of Season 4. The Wizards are outnumbered and low on magic, so it ends with them being frozen in ice.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Bloom and Aisha are the brawn, Stella and Musa are the beauty, and Flora and Tecna are the brains.
  • Alternatively, especially in the earlier seasons, you could put Musa as the brawn and Bloom as the beauty.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Both played straight and subverted, since there are barely any characters that are remotely ugly. In the entire series, the only 'human' girl who even remotely looks ugly is the witch Lucy, and she's usually a Jerkass.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Riven behaves like a jerk and Musa is prickly.
• Berserk Button: According to the 4Kids' dub opening song, "Look all you want, just don't touch the hair..."
• Beta Couple: Several - Stella/Brandon, Flora/Helia, Musa/Riven save for that time they were broken up, Tecna/Timmy, Aisha/Nabu until he dies, Aisha/Nex.
• Between My Legs:
  • Both Stella and Musa in the "Spelled".
  • Flora in "The Nightmare Monster".
  • Bloom in "Island of the Dragons".
  • Stella in "At the Last Moment".
• Beware the Nice Ones: In "The Day of Justice", Nabu destroys Duman. Brandon comments that he oughts to remember never to make Nabu angry.
• Big Bad: The Trix in season one, Lord Darkar in season two, Valtor in season three, the Wizards of the Black Circle in season four, and Tritannus in season five. Then it's the Trix again in season 6 (with Selina as The Dragon and Acheron as the Greater-Scope Villain), then shapeshifting siblings Kalshara and Brafilius in season 7. Season 8 deals with Valtor once more.
• Big Damn Movie:
  • Subverted in Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom. While in the previous seasons, the Winx had to save the universe from a Big Bad, they only get to save one planet in the first movie. It serves as a Wham Episode that drastically changes the status quo.
  • The [second movie, Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure, plays it straight, as the Winx had to save the entire Magical Dimension from its greatest enemies, the Ancestral Witches.
• Big "NO!":
  • Icy in the Season 1 finale when Bloom destroys the ice prison she traps her in.
  • Darker in the Season 2 finale when he is destroyed by the Winx' Charmix Convergence.
  • Bloom does one in season 3 when Tecna gets stuck in the Omega dimension. Musa also joins in.
  • Miele does it in Season 3 when Flora sacrifices herself for her.
  • Aisha does it in Season 4 when Ogron wastes the Black Gift on a withering flower, leaving Nabu to be Killed Off for Real.
  • In Season 5, Lemmy and Phylla scream this when Tritannus steals their powers. Daphne also screams it when Tritannus steals Sirenix from her to give to the Trix.
  • In season 6, Icy after she, Darcy, and Stormy get sealed in the Legendarium by Selina.
  • Bloom again in season 7 when Flora is crushed beneath several diamond boulders during a cave-in.
• Big "NEVER!":
  • Musa in Season 3 when she vows never to leave Galatea behind, which in turn earns her Enchantix.
  • Daphne does one in Season 5 while being tortured by the Trix and Tritannus for the secret of Dark Sirenix.
• Bitch Alert: The Trix in Spades. Chimera. Mitzi.
  • Diaspro from season three onwards. Possibly a side effect of Flanderization: in the first two seasons, she was at most bitter and heartbroken that Sky broke off their engagement to be with Bloom, but season three and later straight up turn her into a homicidal Psycho Ex-Girlfriend.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Darcy pulls this on Riven; compare her sweet and cutesy smile in "Betrayed" to her blatant use of sex appeal and her attempted homicide on a rival for her love interest in the next episode.
• Bitch Slap: In the original version of "Betrayed", Icy torments Musa by saying that Riven thought absolutely nothing of her and Musa retaliates by slapping Icy HARD in the face. The 4Kids dub edits this out by having Musa make a wart form on Icy's face.
  Icy: "She... slapped me! She slapped me in the face!"
  Stormy: "Whoa! I can even see the prints of her fingers! Does it hurt?"
  Icy: "OF COURSE IT HURTS, DUMMY!"
• Bodyguard Legacy: In the comics, the nymphs of Domino are all tasked to keep an eye on the Great Dragon's physical form in the Royal Palace. This way, its power levels are kept stable and the universe doesn't collapse, Since this is a life-long endeavor, new nymph recruits are hand-picked, tested, and trained by the senior members.
• Book Ends: Played with. Season 1 ends with Icy and the Trix being dragged off to prison while Icy stares at Bloom with a look of hatred and contempt (which Bloom returns.) Season 8 ends with the Trix leaving under their own power and Icy and Bloom sharing a look of respect and acknowledgement.
• Born from Plants: The pixies are born from a huge flower called The Tree of Life.
• Bowdlerize:
  • Enchantix's redesign in Season 8 makes the outfits far less revealing than they were originally (in order to make the show more suitable for younger children), and add a bit of pink details on top of that.
  • All fairy forms after Believix happen to cover the Winx' cleavage and midriff, in addition to nearly sharing the exact same outfit design.
  • When Mitzi appeared in Season 5, her top was censored to be less revealing by filling in the cutway area near the neck.
  • In the 4Kids version of Episode 9 of Season 1, Musa angrily slapping Icy in the face and leaving her handprint visible is replaced with her casting a spell which grows a wart on Icy's face.
  • Season 4, Episode 11 features a romantic moment between Aisha and Nabu; he proposes to her in the original, but in the redub produced by Atlas Oceanic, he asks her to be his "forever girlfriend".
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Riven in the 4Kids dub is brainwashed by Darcy in season 1. In the original, he went with Darcy and the Trix of his own accord.
  • Bloom is brainwashed by Lord Darkar twice near the end of season 2. She becomes his loyal servant as Dark Bloom. The first time she's freed by Avalon, which he could do because he was the one who brainwashed her the first time, and the second time Sky managed to pull off an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight.
  • Stella's father got brainwashed into declaring her as no longer being a princess. Fortunately he recovered.
  • Prince Sky got brainwashed into dumping Bloom and returning to Diaspro.
  • In The Secret of the Lost Kingdom Riven falls under the control of Mandragora so that he can betray them at a critical time. He breaks free after he hurts Musa.
  • In 'Queen for a Day', Stella gets brainwashed by a magic mirror under Selina's influence.
• Breaking the Fellowship: During season three, with Tecna seemingly dead, the Winx decide that it's simply not the same anymore without her, and that there really isn't a Winx Club anymore. They reform the group after Tecna is rescued.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall:
  • In the original version, when Bloom goes to Alfea for the first time with Stella, she stops to turn and smile at the camera.
  • Again in the original version, when Kiko makes paper cut-outs of the Winx and Specialists, then uses them like dominos. When the Bloom cut-out falls, it winks at the camera before the iris closes.
• Breather Episode:
  • "The Lilo" isn't connected to the fifth season's storyline. It was aired as the premiere episode of the Nickelodeon revival seasons. It's not part of the wider story so that Nick could rerun it again and again by itself.
  • The eighth season has 'Dance Contest on Melody', where the Winx take a break from saving the Galaxy from Valtor and enter a dance contest against the Trix to obtain one of the Prime Stars as the grand prize.
• Brick Joke: In "Winx Club Forever!", the girls are out shopping when ninjas attack the shopping mall. At the end of the episode, the girls suddenly remember that they left their groceries behind.
• Broken Angel: In "Alfea Under Siege", the Trix destroy the wings of a fairy (Galatea) to distract Musa from their getaway from Alfea's library; they'd set the library on fire, which forces her to save her friend instead of chasing down the bad guys. This bites them in the ass, as the fairy in question is from Musa's homeworld, and rescuing her lets Musa acquire her Enchantix form, which conveniently gives her the power to repair Galatea's wings instantly.
• Brought Down to Normal:
  • 'Friends in Need': After the Winx break into Cloud Tower without permission, Faragonda strips them of their powers temporarily as punishment. The Nick recaps instead have the removal of powers be a school exercise.
  • After the Trix steal Bloom's power, she has no magic for most of the first season's later half. She regains her magic in "The Ultimate Challenge", the second-to-last episode, thanks to Daphne's courage.
  • The Trix and Ancestral Witches in the 2nd movie do this to every fairy in the Magic Dimension to give themselves exclusive rights to magic-using.
  • "The Power of Harmonix" Invoked by the Book of Sirenix. If the Winx fail to finish the Sirenix Quest within one lunar cycle, they will lose their powers forever.
  • "The Flying School": The girls except Bloom lose their powers courtesy of a trap set by the Trix. They recover thanks to Bloom sharing the Dragon's Flame and then performing an act of true valor. In the meanwhile, they can only use very minor spells and cannot call on their fairy forms.
• The Bus Came Back: In general, season 8 plays this trope to the extreme, being an anniversary season.
  • Riven rejoins the main characters after previously having been written out of the show near the end of season 6.
  • Sirenix and the fan-favorite Enchantix transformations make a return, with the former getting an upgrade and the latter getting a less revealing redesign.
  • Valtor returns after the Winx supposedly vanquished him in season 3.
  • The ogre Knut makes his first reappearance since season 3.
  • Galatea, the princess of Musa's home planet Melody, makes her first reappearance since season 3.
  • Diaspro, who was last seen briefly in two episodes at the beginning of season 6, comes back to stir up trouble for Bloom and Sky (again).
• By the Power of Grayskull!: The Winx call on their fairy transformations by yelling phrases like "Magic Winx!" or "Go Enchantix!". Other fairies use their home planet's names. Witches generally avert this because they can use their powers without transforming or are always transformed.

C

• Call-Back: In 'Shimmer in the Shadows', Stella and the others come to Bloom's rescue at a park in Gardenia. Stella feels that the place looks familiar. Bloom points out that it is the same spot where she and Stella first met five years ago, in the first episode of the series.
• The Cake Is a Lie: Selina forsook her family and friends to serve the season's Big Bad under the promise of being given greater power. Once she backstabs the Trix sisters and releases Acheron, he breaks the deal since he no longer needs her, much to her absolute shock.
• Calling Your Attacks: Most of the time, villains and heroes alike will yell the name of the spell they are about to use, especially if it's the first time. It happens regardless of the spell's nature (strategic, offensive, or defensive). Recurring spells, like Bloom's "Dragon Fury" are an exception because of how recognizable they've become. Others, like Stella's "Sun Flare" just get recycled under different names.
• Care-Bear Stare: The Believix powers fill the target with positive feelings like friendship and serenity so they can resolve their conflicts peacefully and from a more empathetic stance.
• Catchphrase: The English dub by 4Kids Entertainment gave each girl a catchphrase on the bonus DVDs that came with the dolls. The phrases are never actually said in any version of the show.
  Bloom: Earth girls rule!
  Stella: Style is, like, so always in style!
  Flora: Peace out!
  Musa: Royalty rocks! (referring to the dub error that Musa is a princess)
  Tecna: I'll catch you on the download!
• Cat Fight: In "Royal Heartbreak", Bloom duels Diaspro because she believes Diaspro is Icy in disguise. It's not played for Fanservice nor it is a Designated Girl Fight (as most combatants in the show are female). It gets more physical than the usual magic duels common to the series and men do stand motionless enjoying the fight.
• Cave Behind the Falls: Linphea's Black Willow Tree is in a cave behind a waterfall. Its tears are what make the waterfall, which actually flows upward. Darcy lampshades it, wondering why there's always a cave behind a waterfall.
• Celestial Deadline: In "The Power of Harmonix", the Winx have until the end of the current lunar cycle to finish the Sirenix Quest to obtain said transformation. Otherwise, they'll lose their powers forever.
• Changeling Fantasy: Bloom first learns that she's a fairy. Then, in "A Great Secret Revealed", she discovers her parents aren't her biological parents but found her in a building on fire. In "The Font of the Dragon Fire", the Trix tell her that she's a princess of another world. Fortunately for Bloom, Mike and Vanessa (her foster parents) are very loving, caring, and supportive. So she gets two sets of Good Parents.
• Character Overlap: Creatures from the Winx world show up in Iginio Straffi's other series, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers. Examples include Aurora's ice minions from the fourth season in Huntik's "The Legacy of Thor", and one of the nightmare monsters from "Cold Spell" in Huntik's "The Secret of Two Generations".
• Chekhov's Gun: In 'The Mysterious Stone', Faragonda gives the guardian pixies of the schools and Pixie Village some jewels, telling them that they know what to do. These turn out to be parts of the Codex Cypher, an alternate route into the Realix.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In 'The Heart and the Sword', Aisha mentions that her parents have set up an Arranged Marriage for her, which isn't brought up again until "Valtor's Box", the eighteenth episode of the season. Apart from the fact that Nabu is shown stalking Aisha in a few episodes before that (namely, 'A Trap for Fairies', "The Black Willow's Tears", and "Fury!"), of course.
• Chores Without Powers: In 'Grounded', the main heroines are punished for sneaking into Cloud Tower in the previous episode. Griselda and Headmistress Faragonda order them to clean the whole school without their magic. They even have their powers temporarily taken away to make sure they stick to the punishment.
• Christmas Special: Season 5 has "A Magix Christmas", where Bloom teaches the others about Christmas while the Trix try to steal the magic of Christmas.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome:
  • Lucy, Mirta's friend. Her last appearance in the series is in season 3 (although she is seen in Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure).
  • After season 2, Avalon only has a few cameo appearances in season 3. Also, Fake Avalon seemed to vanish after kidnapping Bloom, though it can be presumed he perished after Darkar was defeated.
  • Pepe, Icy's duck, stopped appearing after the Season 1 finale when he followed the Trix to their imprisonment. The writers seem to have simply forgotten about him, explaining why he stopped appearing.
  • As a retool made without most of the original production staff, Season 8 is missing a lot of prominent characters. The Pixies, Daphne, and Thoren have disappeared without explanation. Even Roxy is absent for the first season since her debut, although she does show up in the season's comic adaptation.
• City Shout Outs: From "A Virtual World" onward, the Winx form a music band to help Musa pursue her dreams. Whenever they are performing in Gardenia, Bloom salutes the city at the beginning of the gig.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The Winx Club's Believix powers are magnified when humans believe in them.
• Co-Dragons: The Trix in seasons two and three.
• Color-Coded Characters: The Winx, the Specialists, and every minor character who gets to wear more than one outfit throughout the show's run has a main hue. Bloom's is blue (often with pink added), Stella's is orange (sometimes mixed with purple), Flora's is pink (and some green motifs), Musa 's is red (with yellow or soft purple), Tecna's is purple (and sci-fi green or blue), Aisha's is turquoise (light blues and greens are present too), and Roxy's is green.
• Combat Pragmatist: Valtor is willing to use any magic spell that is effective against the Winx, and uses Cloud Tower itself to fight them as well. He also killed Bloom's biological parents by trapping her mother Marion. And, when Oritel tried to free her, Valtor sneaked up behind and nailed them both. At least that's what he says to Bloom when the Winx storm Cloud Tower in "Fury!". It's later revealed that he lied.
• Comic-Book Adaptation: Has had a comic book series since its premiere (Iginio Straffi was a comic book author before creating the show). Over 145 issues have been produced, including two issues focusing on the movies and three Halloween issues. The first twelve are based directly on the episodes of the first season, while the rest focus on other adventures. Some things, such as the Stones of Memories, appeared in the comics years before they appeared in the TV series.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: In 'Broken Dreams', Aisha snaps at Stella for supposedly not taking her ballet class seriously. Never mind that Stella was merely trying to help by being cheerful since they were all tense due to Bloom leaving and it's not exactly the first time she's done this. Eventually, they do make up, but Stella is the one expected to apologize, despite that Aisha snapped at her for no good reason.
• Continuity Snarl: Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure is full of this, as it supposedly takes place after season 4 but started production before the fourth season was made. As a result, Roxy is nowhere to be seen and Nabu is there despite dying late in the season. A common saying among the fandom is that the film makes much more sense if you imagine the girls in their Enchantix outfits, as opposed to their Believix ones.
• Cool Sword:
  • Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom: The Sword of Domino contains a spark of the Dragon's Flame and is powerful enough to deter the Ancestral Witches from even touching it. For nearly two decades, it also hosts Queen Marion. It's a broadsword with jagged borders and a golden and red, dragon-themed grip.
  • The Sword of Neptune, introduced in "The Spill", has the power to break curses and can only be wielded underwater. It's golden from hilt to blade, has a blue gem in the pommel, and its scabbard is purple.
• Cosplay: Zing the Pixie has been seen cosplaying as famous movie characters. See Shout-Out list, below.
• Costume Evolution:
  • The Red Fountain uniform the Specialists wear, is replaced with a bulkier uniform from Linphea College in Season 6. It goes from being made of cloth and, in the comics, small metallic plates in the knees to being made of a sturdier material arranged in plates.
  • The Winx's stationary outfits have become less and less Stripperific and more modest with each new season. The Enchantix transformation has been redesigned in Season 8 to cover the midriffs so it can be more suitable for younger children.
  • At first, the Winx's fairy forms each had their own, individual choice of wardrobe, but starting with Harmonix, they wear virtually the same clothing but with different colors and accents. The outfits are also less-revealing, especially in the midriff, to better support a younger audience.
• Crazy Workplace: In the fourth season, the Winx start their own pet shop (plus vet) business on Earth. The thing is, the animals are created out of nothingness by a magitek program and they are all tiny and with fairy (aka insect) wings on them. Basically, stuffed animals that are given life. Adoption is free but healthcare, training, and cosmetic products are charged. The staff themselves are not humans but fairies from another dimension.
• Cultural Translation: It is heavily implied that Bloom's hometown is an American city. This is never directly stated, but heavily implied throughout the show (characters with Anglo-Saxon names, English writing, and the Halloween episode, among other things). Season 4 further implies this when the show zooms into California when the Winx go to California. In addition, they have to travel to Italy to meet Sibylla, indicating that Gardenia is not there.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • "Fury!": The Winx go to Cloud Tower to fight Valtor to avenge Tecna's supposed death. It does not end well for any of them. Musa gets trapped in a noiseless bubble, Flora is severely weakened by a spell from a lifeless planet, and Bloom's iconic fire Dragon spell is countered by an Oppositus spell which turns it (and her) into ice.
  • "From the Ashes": Once Bloom unlocks her Enchantix form, she immediately proceeds to show the Trix that they aren't a match for her anymore.
  • "The Fairy Hunters": The Winx's first fight against the Wizards does not go well for them, as despite all their years of training at Alfea, they are immediately outmatched. Their offensive spells don't have any effect on their enemies or are easily dodged, while their defensive spells can't protect them from any hits.
  • Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure: The Trix clearly have the advantage over the Winx due to their magicless state. However, once they got their Believix powers back, the fairies make quick work of the witches.

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• Dance Battler: In 'Dance Contest on Melody', the Winx go to the planet Melody to compete against Icy and Stormy in a dance contest.
• Dance Party Ending: The first three seasons end, usually after the villain's defeat, with an end-of-year party where all the characters dance happily. Seasons 4 and 5 in addition have the Winx sing.
• Darker and Edgier: Some fans have said this about season four due to the death of Aisha's fiancé, Nabu, which was the first hero death of the series.
• Dark Is Evil: Practically every major villain is a dark magic practitioner.
  • The Trix have darker color schemes and use dark magic frequently. It's even Darcy's specialty. Icy is the queen of metallic and dark blues, Darcy wears dark purples, and Stormy prefers dark fuchsias and magentas.
  • Lord Darkar's body is pure black, and he's encased in dark red armor.
  • When Darkar corrupts Bloom, her fairy outfit goes from cyan to dark blue-colored. Her hair also darkens from orange to red.
  • The Wizards of the Black Circle, in addition to having black in their group name, all wear black or dark grey clothes.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • Mirta may be a witch at first, but her focus on the dark arts doesn't stop her from being a good person. All the witches (other than the Trix) are like this. While they're often jerks, they're not evil.
  • While obviously still villainous, Darcy is arguably the least evil of the Trix in the comics, and is the one specializing in darkness.
• A Day in the Limelight: As the title indicates, 'The Pixies' Charge' focuses on the pixies, especially Digit, successfully facing off and making fools of the Trix sisters.
• A Death in the Limelight: Nabu suddenly gets a lot more attention leading up to his Heroic Sacrifice in "The Day of Justice". This episode features the most badass moments of his entire tenure in the show.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Icy in the short story where she falls in love. Of course, re-freezing by the next story is inevitable.
• Demonic Possession:
  • Near the end of Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure, the Ancestral Witches take control of the Trix's bodies.
  • In "Spy in the Shadows", Darkar's minion, Avalon, turns Bloom into a dark version of herself. She does not change back till the end of the season.
  • In 'Nebula', Roxy is possessed by Nebula, the fairy of war, through the White Circle.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • Roxy only appears in small roles in the fifth and sixth seasons. She eventually plays a somewhat larger part in the seventh season's plot as the Mission Control. She only appears in the eighth season's comic adaptation (not any of the TV episodes). At points, it seems that the only reason she's even considered a member of the Winx is because of Word of God saying she is.
  • The pixies are often subject to this. In season 2, they served as fairly important characters for the plot as their village held one-fourth of the Codex and their bonding with the Winx helps the girls mature. In season 3, barring their A Day In The Lime Light episode, they serve mainly as comic relief alongside Kiko. In season 4, they are reduced to one episode and are completely absent in season 5. They return in season 6, but as comic reliefs again, and two of their members are replaced with new characters from the Spin-Off Pop Pixie. By Season 8, they're almost completely forgotten.
  • Mirta. Despite building a good friendship with the Winx, she doesn't have a speaking role past the third season. She does manage to get a cameo multiple times in the fifth season, establishing she's still around.
  • Griffin in The Secret of the Lost Kingdom and beyond, though she makes a return in season 6.
• Deus ex Machina: Fairy Dust. Fittingly enough, it doesn't appear after season 3, even when the girls are still in Enchantix. Although they did use it one last time in season 4 after they earned their Believix in order to shrink.
• Did They or Didn't They?: At the end of 'Nebula', Bloom and Sky are having a conversation while sitting on Bloom's bed, though there was little to no sexual implication.
• Dirty Coward: The Trix are classic bullies, only fighting those they know they can either beat or people who aren't able to fight back, but they run when a fight they have started falls from their favor. This is the case in the fifth season when after being powered up by Tritannus, they easily overpower the Winx and laugh about it. Once the Winx acquire the Harmonix and start to curb-stomp them, the Trix immediately whine about how the Winx weren't supposed to be stronger than them and immediately retreat.
• Disc-One Final Boss:
  • Countess Cassandra in Season 3.
  • Nebula in Season 4.
• Dismantled MacGuffin: The Codex is split into four parts (only one in Nickelodeon's version), hidden in the three schools and Pixie Village. All four are necessary to open the portal to the Realix dimension. Despite the Winx's best efforts, they are unable to stop Darkar getting them.
• Disney Death:
  • "Crypt of the Codex": Icy shoots an ice spell right at Sky's heart, freezing it and causing his death. A devastated Bloom finds him and attempts to use her recently-learned healing spells to help him. It works.
  • In "Disloyal Adversary" and "The Black Willow's Tears", Stella and Flora (respectively) nearly die when protecting relatives of theirs —King Radius for the former and Miele for the latter. But because of the bravery and sacrifice they display, this earns them the Enchantix transformation and they come right back to life.
  • "One Last Fluttering of Wings": Tecna pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save Andros from the imploding Omega Portal. For a few episodes ("Fury!" and "The Island of Dragons"), she's believed to be dead, until she's found and rescued by her friends and boyfriend.
  • "The Day of Justice" Averted. Giving his all to kill Duman has left Nabu so drained of magic that he's left with nothing after closing the Black Circle's abyss. This causes his death and he never comes back. Not even in the dubs that said he's just entered a magical coma.
  • Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure: To atone for his betrayal, Sky's father, Erendor, takes an attack that was meant for Bloom and dies. Oritel uses some of the remaining magical energy that is still on his sword to revive him.
• Disney Villain Death: While they are being pursued by both the Winx and the vengeful Earth faries, the Wizards of the Black Circle (minus Duman, who was killed earlier) fall to their deaths in a ravine in the Omega Dimension.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: In her introductory scene in "Welcome To Magix!", Darcy demonstrates her ability to be in multiple places at once and takes a moment after "splitting up" to admire and comment on how good-looking she is.
• Distressed Dudes: The Specialists aren't weak, but their strength has remained stagnant in comparison to their girlfriends, who regularly get power-ups every season resulting in a power gap between them. This is most easily noticed when they get overpowered and subdued by an antagonist and need to get rescued by their girlfriends in what it seems to be every season.
• Distressed Parents: This trope is recurrent across the series.
  • Predictably for the main character, Bloom's parents are often on the receiving end of this trope.
    • "The Font of Dragon Fire": The first season's main villains, the Trix sisters, endanger Bloom's adoptive parents, Mike and Vanessa, to lure her into a trap since the effort to rescue them would leave her exhausted and in a bad position to defend herself. For context, they throw Mike and Vanessa into a Pocket Dimension-like abyss, so she has to catch them in time and then fly them back to safe terrain.
    • Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom: Bloom's biological parents, Oritel and Marion, are trapped as a statue and inside a sword, respectively, courtesy of the villains who caused their home planet's fall. The plot from late-stage season three to the first movie revolves around finding and rescuing them.
    • Bloom saves her biological parents again in "Test of Courage". During a royal ceremony to thank the Winx and Sky for restoring Domino, the Trix wait until the Winx are off on a mission to attack. Marion and Oritel are able to fend off the Trix until they are tricked into surrendering; then they are turned into ice statues. After the Winx defeat the Trix, Bloom de-freezes her parents.
  • There are quite the examples in the third season:
    • "Valtor's Mark": After the Big Bad breaks free from the Omega Dimension, he defeats the mermaids from Andros' underwater kingdom and turns them into his minions. Except for some fortunate souls who are imprisoned —among them, the queen. In "Layla's Choice", Princess Tressa evades capture and alerts the Winx to go and help free her mother, Queen Ligea. Tressa is initially fearful and not the one doing the heavy work but, after some words of encouragement, she frees her mother while the Winx distract the Kraken guarding the prison.
    • Stella earns her Enchantix by pulling one of these in "Disloyal Adversary". At the very beginning of the season, Stella's father, the king of Solaria, gets Brain Washed And Crazy by Wicked Stepmother, social-climber Countess Cassandra (helped by Valtor). Some episodes later, in a royal event, Stellas does an Heroic Sacrifice to save her father from being burned by a dragon. Then, the transformation song starts. Bonus points because King Radius seems to recognize his daughter for a brief while.
    • "At The Last Moment": Stella devices a ploy to sneak into and interrupt her still brain-washed father and Cassandra's wedding. This is when she is finally able to lift the curse on him thanks to one of the Enchantix's powers.
    • "One Last Fluttering of Wings": The Portal to the Omega Dimension is about to implode because the Big Bad broke it. As a result, Andros, the planet hosting the portal, will be destroyed, starting with earthquakes and floods that worsen as the portal becomes more unstable. Aisha's parents, the queen and king, fight valiantly against the monsters coming from the portal but get ultimately trapped in the flooding Royal Palace. Aisha saves them before they drown.
  • As Bloom and Roxy are mirror characters, Roxy has had to save her distressed parents too:
    • Similar to Bloom's storyline, the plot of the fourth season involves rescuing trapped fairies from fallen realms. In this case, it's the Earth fairies —who have been relentlessly hunted by the Wizards of the Black Circle for centuries and sealed away to be forgotten by humanity. Roxy, the Queen's daughter is not captured due to being too young to manifest magic. When she learns the truth, she gets determined to save them even before knowing about her mother. With the help of the Winx, Roxy goes to Tir Nan Og in "The Enchanted Island" and opens its gates.
    • "Dad! I'm a Fairy": Earlier in the season, Roxy has to rescue her father Klaus because the Wizards of the Black Circle captured and impersonated him to lure her into a trap. She is kidnapped but after her Animal Companion and the magical pets locate her and fool the Wizards, she is able to free herself and her father. They are halted when the Wizards realize their mistake and overpower Roxy even after she triggers her fairy transformation. Fortunately, all of these developments provide enough time for the Winx to go to her aid.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • "Darkar's Prisoner": When Darkar kidnaps Bloom, he has her strapped to a table with a metal piece covering her mouth while her legs are wide open and he's almost standing right in front of them. Think for a minute. A teen girl kidnapped, bound, and restrained, her legs are open (and they're strapped that way; she can't close them), and a scary man standing over her. It was likely unintentional, but still...
  • "The Red Tower": When the Winx girls and Specialists are searching for the Water Stars, they get ambushed by monsters. TENTACLED monsters. And yes, the girls DO get tangled up in them. Hmmm... tentacled monsters using their tentacles to ensnare scantily clad girls?
  • The comic story "Infernal Concoction" involves the Trix creating a magic pill that boosts physical and mental activity, which they decide to profit off of by selling it to other witches. However, the pills have dangerous side effects and cause users to be overly dependent on them. The Trix basically started a magical version of illegal drug trade.
  • "The Spill": The episode opens with an accident at an offshore oil rig, followed by an oil spill that sets further events in motion. In an article a couple of years ago, Iginio Straffi hinted it was inspired by the 2011 BP Oil Spill.
• Dragged Off to Hell: At the end of 'The Power of the Fairy Animals', Bloom uses the Stones of Memories to open a portal to Limbo and imprisons the Trix within, so they won't cause any threat to Magic ever again. That is, until Valtor frees them in 'Valtor's Shadow'.
• Driven to Suicide: Nebula after being defeated by Bloom in 'The Frozen Tower'. Fortunately, Bloom manages to talk her out of it.
• Drugs Are Bad: In the comic story, "Infernal Concoction", while it's not explicitly stated, it deals with drug abuse. Icy creates a pill from a formula she found in an ancient text that can amplify brain activity severalfold so that she could use it to cheat on an upcoming exam. She decides to use a witch as a guinea pig to test if it works and if there are any side effects. The witch manages to pass her test, but she soon began to get addicted to the pills. More witch students go to the Trix for more of the pills, prompting them to sell the pills at hiked-up prices. Unfortunately, the pills do have side effects in which users suddenly become physically drained and sickly. The Winx discover this and reports the pill usage to Griffin, who confiscates all the pills. The Trix managed to hide pills for themselves to use for their exam, but they instantly become fatally ill. The Winx were called in to save their lives. Unlike the Trix, the other witches apologize to the Winx and thank them for kicking them of their habit.
• Drunk with Power: Stella, after she temporarily becomes Queen for one day. Faced with difficult problems, her patience soon runs out and she abuses her newfound power to throw parties and have fun instead of doing her duties as a sovereign. Darcy's magic mirror intensifies this behavior, eventually fully corrupting her.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole:
  • In 'Bloom Tested', the Trix initially are trying to test whether Bloom's powers come from the Dragon's Flame by sabotaging her virtual reality test. In the 4Kids dub, the Trix are already sure Bloom had the Dragon Fire and try to steal it there, only to fail at the last moment. Since this ending is tacked on with Recycled Footage, Icy is shown in her witch outfit despite having been in her civilian clothing a second ago.
  • It's also said that Musa was a princess in the season 1 4Kids dub —even having Icy taunt Musa that her father and his "hip-hop palace guards" aren't there to protect her. But it's revealed in 'The Show Must Go On' that she and her dad are working-class citizens whose income wasn't enough to pay for Musa's mother's treatment. They try to Handwave this by saying Musa's father gave up his crown to be with her mother, but it's too little too late.
  • In "The Time for Truth", it's revealed that the Professor Avalon everyone in Alfea has been interacting with is actually an evil clone. This is a legitimate twist in the original but not so much in the 4Kids dub, where the spell that is shot at the teacher in an earlier episode is changed to a Sphere of Truth spell, which should have revealed this.
  • 4Kids alters Aisha/Layla's personality a little. Originally, she has trust issues due to her strict upbringing. 4Kids keeps this, but also emphasizes her feminism and had her take a dislike to the guys for no good reason. Thankfully, they fix this later on.
  • Not exactly a "plot hole", but in "Win-x Together!", Aisha goes away crying after Stella refers to the group as "the five of us" (prompting Aisha to feel rejected). In the 4Kids dub, Stella instead suggests having a sleepover that night and talking a bit, which makes Aisha's reaction a "what the hell?" moment. It could be explained as Aisha being nervous and feeling left out because she has no stories to tell —Stella suggests they have a sleepover and tell their best friendship stories. Aisha, as the new girl, has none.
• Dub Name Change:
  • The most notable one is when the English dub changes Aisha's name to Layla. As proof that the most influential dub tends to be the English one, every third-party dub introduces her as Layla. Only the original versions overseen by Iginio Straffi (the original Italian and the Nickelodeon dubs, which came later) use the name "Aisha".
  • 4Kids
    • This dub changes the names of the girls' home planets in a feeble attempt of making them sound more Sci-Fi-ish. Domino (Bloom's) becomes Sparks, Linphea (Flora's) is now called the Fifth Moon of Marigold^note in the third season, 4Kids tries to fix the problem but ends up misspelling it as Lynphea. From the fifth season onward, all official dubs adopt Lynphea as the planet's true name, Melody (Musa's) is the Harmonic Nebula, Zenith (Tecna's) is named the Third Vector of the Binary Galaxy, and Andros (Layla's) is renamed Realm of Tides. Or just Tides, for short.
    • To avoid being sued by the makers of the film Army of Darkness, the dub changes the name of the Trix's Zerg Rush of an army. It goes from having the epithet "of Darkness" to being the "Army of Decay".
    • The Trix themselves are collectively referred to as the Senior Witches. And their main magical artifacts from the first season are called Whisperian Crystals instead of Vacuums.
    • Another victim are the Quirky Miniboss Squead introduced in "Battle On Planet Eraklyon". Their team name is the Wrong-Righters instead of the Patchamen.
    • The dub also modifies the names of a few characters just because. Miele, who is Flora's little sister, is called Rose and Valtor, the third season's villain, becomes Baltor.
  • While Solaria (Stella's planet) is spared by the 4Kids dub, the first PC game calls it Valeria for some reason.
  • In Nickelodeon's English dub, Roxy's dad Klaus became "Rick;" and Ron, the pixie cat from the first movie, becomes "Purr."

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• Eat the Camera:
  • Typically done on monsters or mutated characters as they are screaming in pain or roaring while preparing to attack.
  • 'The Witches' Downfall': Darcy eats the camera twice. First, after being attacked from behind by Musa. The second time, she's trying to retreat from a reflected tornado and swallows the camera as she's sucked in by it^note this doesn't happen in the Nick dub.
  • [["The Shadow Phoenix" introduces Aisha by having her fall a great distance, where the camera zooms out of her mouth.
  • In the seventh season's trailer, Kalshara shapeshifts into a lion and lunges towards the Bloom, while eating the camera in the process.
  • "Disloyal Adversary": When Sky turns evil thanks to Diaspro, he attacks Flora by way of dragon fire, causing her to fall onto the camera mouth first. Unlike most instances of this trope, the camera landsed on her tongue instead of zooming into her throat.
• Elemental Eye Colors:
  • As the fairy of the sun and the stars, Stella's eyes are golden.
  • Aisha's irises are a deep blue that reminds of the ocean. This ties to how her powers, although initially over a viscous liquid called Morphix, also cover water and tides.
  • Flora has nature magic, with an emphasis on plant spells. Her eyes are a matching green.
  • Icy, as her name indicates, controls ice and cold. Her eyes are light blue.
  • Bloom's eyes are usually cyan, which has nothing to do with her fire and dragon magic. However, since the Nick Revival, they briefly change to a fiery orange on two occasions —during her Transformation Sequences and when she casts her Dragon Fury spell.
• Elemental Powers: Although it is less straightforward than most...
  • Bloom's powers origin from the Top God of the setting and are called the Dragon's Flame. This means that she has fire magic.
  • Aisha has power over plasma, called Morphix, which is taken as water and general control over liquids.
  • Stella has power over the sun, the moon, and the stars, which represents light.
  • Flora has power over nature (plants, in particular) which represents earth.
  • Musa's magic revolves around sound and music, which represent air
  • Tecna's powers are based on a combination of technology and magic which is called Technomagic. It often manifests oas energy and electricity.
• Elemental Rivalry: The most obvious case is Bloom (Fire) and Icy (Ice).
• Endless Winter: Domino was plunged into this when destroyed by the Ancestral Witches,
• Energy Ball: This is a common form of attack for any magical character when they aren't shooting one of their Elemental Powers.
• Energy Bow: Sky wields one on Eraklyon when he's brainwashed by Diaspro.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite occasional quarrels and insults, the Trix are very close to each other and stick to their coven no when it truly matters. They often abandon the season's Big Bad if he/she betrays them even if one of them takes a while to see reason.
  • "Witches' Revelation": Once the Trix realize that Valtor has been toying with them all along (not to mention that he is, in fact, an unattractive demon) they don't even bother fighting the Winx with him in the final battle and comment on how stupid it was to let him get between them.
  • Double Subverted with Tritannus. Icy is so amazed by him and so Drunk with Power, that she initially dismisses her sister's warnings and even drives them away in 'The Shark's Eye'. Once the whole mess is over, Icy admits her mistake and asks for forgiveness (which she gets).
  • 'Dyamond on Ice' reveals that Icy commits evil deeds and seeks the Dragon's Flame so she can get powerful enough to lift the curse on her home planet, defeat the Shaman Witch that put it in the first place, and free her sister. Darcy and Stormy know this and have stuck with Icy despite everything because of the close friendship they three share.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Griffin used to work for the coven that worships the Ancestral Witches, but balked when she learned that they were planning to destroy whole worlds.
• Everybody Cries: In "One Last Fluttering of Wings", Tecna uses up all of her magic to close the Omega Portal and is possibly dead. Initially, Musa is the only one crying angry tears — everyone else is still too stunned. However, after Talboc explains the gravity of the situation, the remaining Winx girls soon accompany her in her Death Wails, seeking comfort by hugging each other. This grieving continues in the next episode, "Fury!", with all five reminiscing about their beloved friend. Said friend's boyfriend is also present and joins them in crying to utter an Anguished Outburst about how his girlfriend is not dead, coping with his loss by denying it.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: The outfits the girls wear in their fairy forms, the Enchantix have slightly fewer sparkles than their original outfits (their wings are pretty sparkly in that form, though), while the Believix outfits have both sparkly outfits and sparkly wings.
• Evil Overlord: Lord Darkar.
• Evolving Attack: Bloom's Signature Move is her Dragon Fury —a dragon made of fire that coils around her before launching itself at people— which gets stronger with each new fairy transformation she obtains. For instance, she throws it at Valtor while in her base fairy form and it's easily countered by said Big Bad. Implied when, after earning her Enchantix, she uses a simple beam of fire and is able to knock him back rather easily. Made explicit in the second movie, in which she has the next transformation, the Believix, and is seriously depowered, her dragon is able to match Belladona's Obsidian Dragon (she is fused with Icy and has the negative side of the Tree of Life powering her) — Belladona is a lot more powerful than Valtor even on her base form.
• Evolving Credits: Crossed with Replaced the Theme Tune, though the themes for current seasons tend to update slightly.
  • In the original version, after Aisha earns her Enchantix in "The Mermaid Queen", the theme song is updated to contain scenes of the Winx in their Enchantix.
  • Season 5 changes the title sequence completely once the Winx earn their Sirenix, giving a completely 3D sequence of the Sirenix transformation and the Winx in the Infinite Ocean.
  • The Season 6 theme changes a bit giving new scenes after the Winx meet Eldora and earn their Mythix transformation.
• Expanded Universe: Other than the video games, Winxverse licensed media is located in its own Alternate Continuity. They offer useful tidbits of lore and characterization but have to be taken with a grain of salt when it comes to their canonicity.
  • While the comics initially retold the first and second season's plots, incompatible differences start to appear. Bloom, Musa, and Mirta getting jobs or Magix looking less futuristically magic and more as an urban magic setting are excusable. However, the Shaab Stone arc, the Trix being readmitted into Cloud Tower after losing their memories, and the presence of several comic-only transformations are quick to disabuse the fans of that notion.
  • The Spin-Off World of Winx is set in a continuity where the Winx never restore Earth's magic in the public way they did. Therefore' Earth is plagued with hidden magic that most humans are unaware of and, for the sake of catching their enemies by surprise, the Winx cannot reveal to anyone that they are fairies. Another difference is that Earth not only used to host fairies but also witches. There's also Neverland replacing Tir Na Nog as Eath's primary magical location. The Winx's boyfriends and old enemies (particularly, the fairy hunters) are nowhere to be seen.
  • Pop Pixie, the second Spin-Off, rehauls most of the lore behind the Pixies (the mini fairies that the Winx bond with). For starters, they are not a unisex species anymore and have transformations of their own. And Digit is male, for some reason.
  • Fate: The Winx Saga is a Live-Action Adaptation that tweaks a massive amount of lore details, particularly in regard to Adaptational Mundanity. For one, the Magix Dimension (composed of several planets and embedded dimensions) is replaced by the Otherworld, a single planet with ten or so kingdoms sharing its territory. The Otherworld has much the same technology as Earth in The New '20s, which causes portals to be the main long-distance method and the Specialists' weapons to be made of steel. Most of the characters undergo severe AdaptationalPersonality and Superpower changes. The composition of the Winx Club is different —what with Flora appearing in the second season and having been replaced by her cousin Terra until then, and Tecna not having appeared yet. Also, Aisha is present from the first season. Finally, the girls battle witches, including some that look more like vampires than anything else.
• Exposed to the Elements:
  • In "Mission To Domino"1, the girls go to a snowy Domino in full winter gear to protect themselves from the elements. However, once transformed into their skimpy fairy outfits the freezing conditions stop bothering them. Seasons 3 and 4 have something similar in the frozen Omega Dimension. The Winx, the Trix, and the Earth Fairies wear skimpy outfits there and aren't bothered by the cold. The most likely explanation is that they're using magic to warm themselves.
  • In 'The Frozen Tower', the Winx fight yet another major fairy, Aurora, and her warrior fairies. Aurora's turf is a giant, mobile, frozen tower located in the Arctic. Seeing that their movements have become cumbersome due to the cold, the Winx upgrade their Believix with the second Gift of Destiny, thus obtaining the Lovix. Roxy, as an immature fairy, cannot do the same and starts suffering from hypothermia. This contradicts what has been previously established.
  • 'Dyamond on Ice': While visiting Dyamond, Icy's home planet, the frozen waters of the planet transform the Winx's Sirenix into a winter variation called Crystal Sirenix. With the exception of some decorative frills and fur, the outfits don't appear to add much to effectively protect them from the cold. The transformation seems to be geared to giving them a boost rather than working as protection against the low temperatures.
• Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: The Trix provide the page image.
• Extraordinary World, Ordinary Problems: In the comics, Mirta, Bloom, and Musa get very mundane, part-time jobs —respectively, hairdresser, waitress, and library assistant. Mirta wants to learn a trade in case magic doesn't turn out to be profitable and Bloom and Musa are struggling with money because the come from working-class families and don't get that big of an allowance.
• Eye Color Change:
  • Since the 2011 revival, Bloom's powers manifest by having her eyes turn from cyan to flaming orange.
  • When Bloom is corrupted by Darkar, her eyes turn a sickly yellow with cat-eye pupils.
  • When Roxy is possessed by Nebula Nebula, her eyes turn from purple to an infernal red.

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• Face–Heel Turn:
  • The events of "A Friendship Sundered" are all orchestrated by Darcy. As Riven is unaware of it, he decides to switch sides in the hopes of getting appreciated as a team member. So, in "Betrayed!", he goes on a date with Darcy and allies with the Trix, who are the Winx's (and by extension, his Specialist squad's) enemies.
  • In the comics, Riven appears to throw all of his Character Development to the trash and acts again like a jerk toward everyone, even going as far as skipping his Red Fountain classes. Musa and the Specialists are left befuddled and try to reach out to him. They discover that Riven is putting on an act to infiltrate a criminal group for an undercover mission.
  • During "Morgana's Secrets", Layla/Aisha and Nebula (plus her warrior fairies) are left unsatisfied with the punishment doled to the Wizards of the Black Circle, so they all ally to kill the imprisoned villains. Layla/Aisha is especially incensed and vengeful because of the death of her lover.
  • Helia also took one in the comics, but this was also for an undercover mission.
• The Fair Folk:
  • Earth fairies are quite prone to Disproportionate Retribution.
  • Also, witches are essentially wingless fairies with a dark alignment and a massive mischievous streak.
• Fairy Companion:
  • The Pixies. The pixie pets serve as fairy companions to the pixies.
  • The Fairy Pets in S4.
  • The Selkies of S5.
  • The Fairy Animals in S7.
  • The Lumens in S8.
• Fairy Sexy: The titular Winx all dress in a very risqué manner and are depicted as pretty. It's caused some controversy regarding just how much of the Fanservice may or may not fly over the kids' heads.
• Fallen Hero: Morgana, and Nebula even more until their Heel–Face Turn.
• Fallen Princess:
  • Bloom is born a royal princess but had to live as a normal Earth girl when her family's kingdom fell. No longer applies after she saves her kingdom in Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom.
  • Diaspro, princess of the vassal kindgom of Isis, is exiled from Eraklyon because of her role in Prince Sky's brainwashing. This was somehow reversed in Season 5.
• Fanservice: Sometimes the Winx's transformations and clothes can get very Stripperific, such as Tecna's Omega Suit◊ on a frozen planet. Also, in the second season's Beach Episode (aka 'Charmix Power'), Bloom and Musa wear skimpy bikinis and Stella a red lifeguard costume.
• Fantastic Naming Convention: All the fairy forms end with "-ix" —Charmix, Enchantix, Believix, Sophix, Lovix, etc. Some of the witch transformations follow this pattern too, such as the Gloomix and the Dark Sirenix. There are also a few other things like the Searchix, a technomagic device.
• Fantastical Social Services: The comics expand on the more mundane side of the Enchanted Dimension, most relevantly including the members of the Council of Rocalucce; i.e., the almost clean-from-corruption entity overseeing Magix's three magical schools.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The universe has fairies, witches, sorcerers, pixies, warriors, nymphs, ghosts, dragons, ogres, trolls, mermaids, Wizarding Schools, and magic trees in the Magic Dimension. That doesn't even count the fact that the main characters are all aliens from different worlds, or all the sci-fi elements present.
• Faux Action Guy: It's not uncommon to see the Red Fountain Specialists easily get beaten by the main villains or monsters even though they go to a military academy. They might hold their own against Mooks and occasionally even take on the Trix or the Wizards of the Black Circle for a short while, but that's about it.
• Femme Fatalons: The Trix all have long nails that match their outfits.
• Fictional Zodiac: The official site has a fictional zodiac using mythical creatures such as Pegasus, Gryphon, Dragon, and Triton. It contains the corresponding interpretations, too, but employs the same months as Real Life.
• Fighting Your Friend:
  • Lord Darkar's minion corrupts Bloom's fairy essence in "Spy in the Shadows", where she switches from nice to mean until the transformation sticks and she attacks Alfea's Archive. The remaining Winx try to reason with her but as it becomes clear that won't work (courtesy of Bloom attacking and relentlessly mocking them), they call for their fairy forms and engage in battle. Afterward, it looks as if Bloom has been healed but, as revealed in "Darkar's Prisoner", Darkar just has to renew the spells. When the Winx infiltrate Darkar's lair, they find Dark Bloom chanting a spell to open the Realix dimension. They attack her to halt the portal summoning but are interrupted by Darkar in his Shadow Phoenix form.
  • In Nebula', the titular fairy of war (still trapped in Tir Na Nog) possesses Roxy through the White Circle. To cleanse their newest member, the rest of the Winx have to defeat her first.
  • In Morgana's Secret", a vengeful Layla/Aisha sides with Nebula and several other Earth fairies to hunt down and kill the Wizards of the Black Circle, who have been whisked away to the Omega Dimension. The other Winx truly understand their friends hurt but they also know that revenge would only corrupt her, won't solve anything, and would be a regret for later. Therefore, they follow her and try to defuse her, which doesn't work and they trade blows until she sees reason.
• Filling the Silence: Taken to an extreme in this video, in which all the previously silent nightmares of the Winx have plenty of dialogs added to them.
• Five-Man Band Concert: "A Virtual World" starts a whole subplot in the fourth season about the girls creating a band because it's Musa's dream. Neither of them was previously stated to be able to play a musical instrument. Barring Musa, of course, who is the fairy of music and proficient in several musical instruments as well as having an angelic singing voice. The band, named Winx Club, is arranged as follows: Bloom, The Leader, is the main vocalist. Something that, curiously enough, enraged several fans because the spotlight should have belonged to Musa. Stella, The Lancer, plays the guitar. Musa, The Big Girl (she's a slim heavy-hitter), is also on the guitar and provides the backing vocals. Flora, The Heart, plays the bass. Tecna, The Smart Girl, plays the keytar. Very fitting for the fairy of technology. And Layla, the Sixth Ranger, is on the drums. From this season onward, they perform at least a couple of concerts per season: one at the beginning and one at the ending. Their most iconic song, however, remains to be "Heart of Stone".
• The Flame of Life: The Great Dragon is the ancient being who created all life and magic in the universe. This is represented by the planet the Great Dragon decides to rest on being filled to the brim with jungles and rich sea life. Additionally, users of the Dragon's Flame, the crystallized power of the Great Dragon, can heal people on the brink of death and suffuse a spark of life onto inanimate constructs.
• Forgot About Her Powers:
  • "Mission to Domino":
    • Bloom, who's currently powerless, falls into a chasm while Stella is transformed. She could've easily flown over and grabbed Bloom, yet she didn't!
    • Icy destroys Red Fountain by freezing it with a nifty ice dragon in this chapter. During the season's finale, Icy doesn't even make any effort to use it to freeze Alfea or to take on Bloom, who has a fire-energy dragon of her own.
  • "In the Snake's Lair": The freed crooks of the Omega Dimension manage to force the Winx off a cliff. The girls' Enchantix wings, which are perfectly capable to withstand gale-force winds, are suddenly useless.
  • In "The Day of Justice", Bloom forgets that she has healing powers. Sure, they might not have worked under those circumstances, but she could at least have tried to save Nabu.
  • A third-season episode has a double dip of this. It opens with Icy boasting about a new fire spell that Valtor has gifted her. In the Trix's battles against the Winx, including the one just a few minutes later, she doesn't use it and in fact, it's Darcy who sets a library on fire in a later episode, not Icy. On Darcy's part, Aisha sneaks up behind her and Stormy to tie them up. This disregards how way back in "Welcome to Magix!", Darcy could sense Bloom's presence behind a garbage can, even though Bloom was well out of her view.
  • Bloom is shown to be able to use her powers to revive the dead. It's not explained why Nabu is still dead. This was changed to breaking a sleeping spell in the 4Kids dub, which removes the contention entirely.
  • Darcy has proved herself strong enough to open a fissure in the ground by stomping and capable to create fires that Bloom (who has the explicit power as the most powerful fire user of the series) can't put off (the only other time this happens it's by use of the fire part of the all-powerful Spell of Elements). She never repeated either performance.
  • In "The Red Tower", Nabu claims that the reason he stows away on the Specialists ship is so he could practice his invisibility spells against monsters living in the area the Winx were travelling to. Nabu's ability to turn invisible hasn't been seen again since that episode.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum:
  • "Layla's Choice": Layla giving up her chance to heal her eyesight for the sake of the dying Queen Ligea is regarded as a sacrifice big enough to earn her the mythic Enchantix. The thing is, she could've waited until the next sunset to use the Coral Gem and heal her blind eyes then.
  • The Charmix from season 2. Sure, it was So Last Season, but there's nothing else preventing the fairies who hadn't earned their Enchantix from using it in season 3, especially when they're battling the Trix. Yet the only time it's even mentioned in season 3 is when the school headmistress talks about Enchantix.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Bloom's obtained a crown in her magic Winx transformation probably hinting at her being of royal descent.
  • Bloom's fairy form briefly appears in "An Unexpected Event", a couple of episodes before she properly transforms for the first time.
  • 'From the Ashes' takes place right after Bloom earns her Enchantix. She's slightly feeble and tired after using a spell on the ice snake. It's revealed in the next episode that her Enchantix is incomplete because she didn't earn it through sacrifice like the others.
  • In the opening Previously on… recap of "A Fairy in Danger", the narrator says the Winx are close to finding the last earth fairy while simultaneously showing a close-up of Roxy.
• Frankenslation: Nickelodeon streamlined the first and second seasons into specials, combining old and re-done footage from multiple episodes into one slightly-altered story:
  • 'The Fate of Bloom' merges "An Unexpected Event", "Welcome to Magix!", 'Friends in Need', "A Friendship Sundered", 'Bloom Tested', and 'Storming Cloud Tower' from the first season, ending with Bloom unlocking her fairy transformation (which originally happened at the end of the third episode).
  • 'Revenge of the Trix' combines 'Friends in Need', "A Friendship Sundered", "Betrayed", "A Great Secret Revealed", "Bloom's Dark Secret", "Honor Above All", "Secrets Within Secrets", and "The Font of the Dragon Fire" of the first season.
  • 'The Battle for Magix' merges "The Fall of Magix", "Mission of Domino", 'Storming Cloud Tower', 'Power Play', 'The Witches' Siege', "The Ultimate Challenge", and 'The Witches' Downfall'.
  • 'The Shadow Phoenix' mixes bits of nearly every episode of the second season.
• Friend to All Living Things:
  • Roxy, the fairy of animals, loves all sorts of creatures. She's always empathized more deeply with animals because she can understand them and, if she does the right spell, even give them the ability to talk back. Things like poaching or animal abuse enrage her.
  • Flora, who shows a lot of care and concern for various plants and animals. Her Establishing Character Moment has her display a vast collection of plants (some sentient). She knows how to care for every last one of them and asks the other girls to make accommodations for them. Flora is always deeply saddened whenever an ecological catastrophe occurs.
• Frilly Upgrade:
  • The Charmix fairy transformation adds fancy brooches and purses to their Winx outfit. The brooches are silver jewelry holding a gem that matches each girl's color scheme. Meanwhile, the purses are much more varied but still match each character's personality —Bloom's is heart-shaped and stuffed; Stella's is rounded and looks like a sun with a half-crescent moon within; Flora's is a red rose flower made purse; Musa's is a Discman; Tecna's resembles a communication device or old radio; and Aisha's is somehow bottle-shaped and seems made of a seashell.
  • The Trix are granted the Gloomix by Darkar. It essentially adds pretty pieces of jewerly on their hands or necks. Both the color of the gem and the shine are color-coded for each Trix.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: In "Hallowinx!", Bloom gets invited to Alpha Bitch Mitzy's Halloween party. She decides to go along with her friends. They decide that their fairy transformation outfits are going to be their costumes.
• Fountain of Youth:
  • In "The Gem of Empathy", the subplot revolves around Stella finding a pin with an age changer spell in it, which turns her into a 3-year-old.
  • In 'Baby Winx', Brafilius uses a spell that turns the Winx into toddler versions of themselves.
• Fusion Dance:
  • In "The Phoenix Revealed", the Trix fused together into a single being known as the Megatrix. Megatrix controls ice, darkness, and storms as well as being far more powerful than each of them individually. Averted in the Nickelodeon special, however.
  • In Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom, Bloom fuses with Daphne's Spirit by means of the nymph's mask. This way, Bloom can circumvent the limitations of her incomplete Enchantix and fend off the Ancestral Witches with a more potent brand of the Dragon's Flame.
  • In 'The Power of the Fairy Animals', the Trix fuse with their Fairy Animals near the end of Season 7. Their witch outfits change to include the features of their companions' pelts. They also gain animal-like legs and, in Stormy's case, fangs. Icy and Darcy gain tail and Stormy becomes a Winged Humanoid.

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