Poor Image: Blondes Are Witches

The image for Blondes Are Witches is pretty bad. For starters the picture is unsourced (and I'm not familiar with the show). Second the woman on the right doesn't look like a witch but more like a belly dancer IMHO. And third the picture is grainy.

Any suggestions?

Just Two Faces And A Caption. I'd say pull it.

Nothing there that even remotely says "witch"...pull it.

edited 9th Jul '12 6:54:19 AM by Willbyr

If that is supposed to be a witch ...

Pull it.

Just pull it.

Pull it. It's also on I Dream Of Jeannie and it's not even an example.

edited 9th Jul '12 8:35:15 AM by jkbeta

Just off the top of my head, how about we use Marisa Kirisame? She's blonde and heavily involved with the whole "witch" look.

Even just the image we have for the Touhou character sheet would probably work. There are other options, though.

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Looks pretty good; not having played Touhou, I'm not sure if she fully fits the trope.

Either of those is fine with me.

The one in the post is better, a broom being a common witch attribute.

Her usual Boss Subtitle is "Ordinary witch", if that helps. She rides a broom, brews potions with magic mushrooms, etc. etc.

She was orange-haired in her first appearance, but has been blond for a long time since.

edit: So, if you like the one in the post itself, I have a question: It is okay to recycle a picture used in a Character Page for another page's image, right? If not, I can hunt down another picture of her. Wouldn't be hard.

edited 9th Jul '12 8:43:29 AM by Enlong

Duplicate trope-work is okay, though not preferable. I'd say that duplicate trope-character page is fine because there are also multiple images on the character page.

That one is cute, but here is a picture of Vanilla◊ just for fun

Does it work now?

edited 9th Jul '12 9:26:03 AM by animeg3282

Hosted on whatevernet isn't showing up.

For the record, I Dream Of Jeannie is an example becaues this trope is not just about witches but "magical women in general."

From the description:

• In recent years, it has also become increasingly common for witches (or magical women in general) to be blonde in works, regardless if they are good or evil.

edited 9th Jul '12 9:13:21 AM by Catbert

True. On the other hand, the "in recent years" makes me think it still doesn't really fit. Anyway, the new proposals are clearly better, so this point is moot anyway.

Also, she doesn't look magical in the image.

Marisa is a good example. Most pictures of her would probably work, as she usually does look like a classical witch. Well, one without warts and a crooked nose.

Well, the Cute Witch trope is rather well known, so I don't think warts are a problem.

The Touhou character's a good suggestion...is it possible to get more of the broom in the shot, or a pic where the broom is more evident?

edited 9th Jul '12 11:51:40 AM by Willbyr

Marisa's official art isn't the best for the trope, unless there's some good manga scan. She's got her profiles way down on her page on the wiki, but those don't show off her broom that well.

Or, I could hit up Danbooru and check if there's any good fanart... This is just a quick check on a few pages. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]^note Both Marisa and Alice qualify for the trope., or [8].

I thought that was for trope pages, not forums.

Girls are editing... Ding!

edited 9th Jul '12 6:07:54 PM by Feather7603

Feather, you probably don't know this, but we're not allowed to link to Danbooru pages, specifically because of those ads. Can you just link to the image sources themselves instead?

Having said that, 3,4,8, or a crop of 1 would be good.

edited 9th Jul '12 5:58:51 PM by Enlong

I'm the creator of the page and I'm going to explain my actions:

• As someone pointed out, the trope is concerning magical women in general, not just witches. Blondes Are Witches just sounded catchier than Blondes Are Women And Occasionally Men With Supernatural Powers Of Various Sorts. Also, it is what we would call an Artifact Title, which Tv Tropes has a page on.
• The image is from I Dream Of Jeannie, about a blonde genie, which qualifies as a blonde woman with magical powers. The show is fairly well known, and possibly more well-known than Tohou. Also, Jeannie (the blonde genie) was made a witch in some foreign versions, so the trope applies literally as well.
• The caption is important because it refrences Bewitched, which also concerns a blonde witch named Samantha. Samantha and Jeannie are the Trope Codifiers for this trope.
• 1960's is somewhat recent considering witches have been around since at least the Bible.

I'm sad no one commented on my vanille pic :( Those shows may be well known, but you have to show the characters using their powers or else it's JAFAAC

edited 16th Jul '12 8:37:16 PM by animeg3282

Maybe some examples of the original: [1]◊ or [2]◊ or [3]◊

Not keen on any of those, though they do show the trope.