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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Diamonds are supernatural Gem rulers that go by female pronouns. They're technically a quartet, but are usually shown in one trio that excludes White Diamond (in terms of interpersonal dynamics) or another that excludes Pink Diamond (in terms of Homeworld's current rulership).

* In the Creator/VertigoComics joint universe, the Three are the powerful women goddesses of various aspects of reality, and have many incarnations, including as the Moirae, goddesses of fate, and the Furies, goddesses of revenge. They appear often in the ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', in which Dream often consults with them when he is in doubt. Female characters in general often fall into groups of three, which may or may not indicate that they're becoming an aspect of ''the'' Three.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': The Three Fairies from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' appear as fairytale characters banished to Shrek's swamp.

* ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' revolves around a trio of single women who, by their weekly get-togethers, unknowingly form a witches' coven and discover they have the power to make wishes come true when all three of them make the same wish together.

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' combines two witches from the book into one - so there are now three instead of four: The Wicked Witch if the West, her sister the Wicked Witch of the East, and Glinda the Good Witch of the North.

* In the "History of Troilus and Zellandine", an episode from the chivalric romance ''Perceforest'' (France, 14th century), three goddesses attend the birth celebration of princess Zellandine. Lucina (the goddess of childbirth) confers health on Zellandine, the second, Themis (the goddess of divine law), curses her to prick her finger on a distaff and fall in a magical sleep; the third, Venus (goddess of love), promises that she will be released from Themis' curse.

* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': Invoked when Jonathan Harker in his journal refers to the three Brides of Dracula as "those weird sisters". Though otherwise fit the bill, they're powered by dark magic, have displayed some slight magical abilities (flying, hypnosis, etc), are otherwordly beings and likely thousands of years old but still look beautiful.

* ''Literature/NightWorld'': Rowan, Kestrel and Jade Redfern (the title characters of the second book ''Daughters of Darkness'') are a trio of vampire sisters (lamia, specifically). They're not seen as particularly weird on the lamia enclave where they were raised, save for the fact they're a bit more independent and free-thinking than their family would like, but they definitely stand out in rural small-town Oregon, where they're some of the only Night People for miles. They also have witch ancestry, which their father blames for their rebellious ways (witches in ''Night World'' are matriarchal).

* ''Literature/WarrenTheThirteenth'': The villains are three witches named Annaconda, Scalene, and Isosceles who plot to find the magical [[MacGuffin All-Seeing Eye]] and use it for their own wicked purposes.
* In ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' from the second book onwards, Mildred is in a PowerTrio with Maud and Enid. All three are apprentice witches. In the TV series they're in a FiveManBand instead.

* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'': When her boys were young, Agape went to see the three Fates to learn their future. They appear pretty much as described in most Greek and Roman epics. They go by the names Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos and spend their days pulling, spinning, and cutting the threads of life.

* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': "The Tale of Watcher's Woods" features a trio of {{Wicked Witch}}es haunting the titular woods.

* The Fates appear in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' as a six-foot tall warrior valkyrie with one breast visible, a giant, grotesquely fat woman with many arms and breasts and a stick-thin woman that seems to be partially made of darkness. The three are a dark representation of the Greek Moirai.
** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' has the Norns: Urð is an old crone who walks with a stick and [[BrutalHonesty reveals some pretty]] {{Awful Truth}}s to Kratos, Freya and Mimir about [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech their characters]] and [[SelfFulfillingProphecy the fates they write for themselves]]; Verðandi is a tall, slender matron who speaks like [[MetaGuy a narrator who's describing present events]]; and Skuld is a young woman who [[StopCopyingMe reads the protagonists' lines out loud along with them]], which quickly drives them mad with frustration, [[TheGadfly which she will also mimic.]]
* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games include the Fates - Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos - as separate demons that can be recruited. In some games, the three can be fused together in a special process to produce Norn, which is depicted as three goddesses united around a clock.
* Gruntilda and her sisters, Mingella and Blobbelda, in ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]''.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The Dweller, The Nomad and The Ascetic are a trio of ambiguously aged, mysterious women capable of wielding magic, and searching for Sauron. They characters were inspired by the old crones from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.

In most instances from genuine mythology or folklore, the Weird Sisters are either all of the same or similar age, ''or'' one of them is distinctly older or younger than the other two. Only when each of the three has their own distinct profile, they may be the TheHecateSisters. TheThreeFacesOfEve usually does ''not'' apply, because a Weird Sister may be a maiden, a mother, or a crone, but almost never a child. May be a PowerTrio or TheDividual.

A third reincarnation of the three women of fate is a trio of {{seers}} who predict fate, but do not interfere with it directly. When the Weird Sisters are more specifically embodying or invoking the goddesses of fate, they will be equipped with spinning or weaving tools.

* ''Film/TheCraft'' has Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle who - although searching for a fourth witch to create a FourElementEnsemble - are still separate from Sarah. [[spoiler:They become the film's antagonists in the third act.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': The Three Fairies from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' appear as fairytale characters banished to Shrek's swamp.

Supernatural women often form [[PowerTrio teams of three]]. The most common variant types are witches, {{fairy godmother}}s, and female {{seers}}. They may or may not be [[SiblingTeam actual sisters]].

* In the Creator/VertigoComics joint universe, the Three are the powerful women goddesses of various aspects of reality, and have many incarnations, including as the Moirae, goddesses of fate, and the Furies, goddesses of revenge. They appear often in the ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', in which Dream often consults with them when he is in doubt.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1765 SCP-1765]] are three sisters that look like ghosts who have [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] abilities. One day, they appeared at Area-37 and took control of the whole place, claiming that they were going to help the Foundation with their own research, with the whole place being transformed to accomodate their experiments and everyone inside used as test subjects. There were attempts to reclaim the area but they failed, so the Foundation just hopes the sisters stay there.

The TropeCodifier for the modern era are the three prophetic witches of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', who have also supplied or reinforced other [[WitchClassic classic witch stereotypes]] like warty noses, bubbling cauldrons, and animal {{familiar}}s. Shakespeare's magical trio, however, is itself based in folklore with roots in pre-Christian mythology, namely, the belief in a trinity of goddesses whose job in the greater order of things is to assign fate to us mortals. This notion can be traced back to the Moirai or "Fates" of Myth/GreekMythology (though probably not much further).

In most instances from genuine mythology or folklore, the Weird Sisters are either all of the same or similar age, ''or'' one of them is distinctly older or younger than the other two. Only when each of the three has their own distinct profile, they may be the TheHecateSisters. TheThreeFacesOfEve usually does ''not'' apply, because a Weird Sister may be a maiden, a mother, or a crone, but almost never a child. May be a PowerTrio.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The Weird Sisters from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' are recurring characters, though they're members of [[TheFairFolk the Third Race]] rather than witches. They usually look like young women, identical except for their hair color, but can also appear as children, old women or gargoyles; sometimes AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder. WordOfGod says that they're the InUniverse inspiration for the Furies, Graces and Fates: each represents one of those roles, but they [[SingleMindedTriplets act in concert]] to bring about all three at once.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The Weird Sisters, apparently the actual ones from ''Macbeth'', are shown as inhabitants and guardians of the enchanted island of Avalon. They all take the same form at the same time, [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder but different people see them differently]]: Depending on who they are speaking to at the time, they may look like a trio of creepy little girls, old crones, aged female gargoyles, or voluptuous young 20-somethings. The latter is their preferred form and the one the audience usually sees.

* Winnie in ''Series/FreeSpirit'' is the central of three witch sisters. Only one of them appears in the show though; the major one Cassandra.

* In the Creator/VertigoComics joint universe, the Three are the powerful women goddesses of various aspects of reality, and have many incarnations, including as the Moirae, goddesses of fate, and the Furies, goddesses of revenge. They appear often in the ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', in which Dream often consults with them when he is in doubt.

*** ''Njal's Saga'': On the day of the Battle of Clontarf, a Scottish clairvoyant watches twelve valkyries weaving on a loom made of weapons and human body parts, singing a song that predicts the outcome of the battle.

* ''Literature/DresdenFiles'': The villains in ''Literature/BloodRites'' are a trio of evil ex-wives attempting to use an EvilEye ritual curse to murder their ex-husband's possible suitors, to protect their alimonies. A magical ritual requires at least three participants to work properly, and Dresden notes that this is where the Weird Sisters "three witches cackling around a cauldron" stereotype comes from.