History Series / Charmed1998

* JiggleShow: The Halliwell sisters have a noticeable preference for wearing [[{{Fanservice}} very low-cut and/or form-fitting tops]]. The actresses have been known to complain about the wardrobe choices in later interviews.

* FamilyThemeNaming: The Halliwell women oten end up with names beginning with "P". Penny (Grams), Patty (the Charmed ones' mother), Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige. In the comics, Phoebe continues the tradition with her own daughters PJ, Parker and Peyton. In "That 70s Episode" a time-travelling Phoebe, who hasn't been born yet, reveals her name to which Grams snarks "Another 'P', what a surprise!"

* GreenLanternRing: More like a ''Pink'' Lantern Ring, but Cupids' love ring functions as this.

** Season 6 introduces a school for young witches to practice their powers. Never seen before or referenced, not even when the sisters were trying to figure out their own powers.
** Season 6 also introduces the Cleaners - whose job it is to cause a CosmicRetcon to prevent magic from being exposed. They would have been really useful in the Season 3 finale.

** Prue at one point mentions to Andy that her children will only be witches if they are girls. Possibly implying that only women can be witches. However the episode "Secrets and Guys" sees her helping a young male witch named Max with his problems, who's mother also had witch powers. Not to mention that later Paige's first charge is a guy named Mitchell Haines. It seems the writers can't agree if male witches are a thing or not.

* SalemIsWitchCountry: The "The Witch is Back" episode shows that one of the Halliwell ancestors was [[CriticalResearchFailure lined up to be burned at the stake in Salem]].

* AmbiguouslyChristian: While the Charmed Ones are practicing Wiccans, its often implied they were raised Catholic, as Piper and Phoebe are seen having a conversation with a man that's implied to be the family's priest on God and witches, and Paige mentioning she and her adoptive parents attending the church where she was found, and the family taking part in holidays such as Christmas and Easter.

* ReReleaseSoundtrack: For all eight seasons, ''Charmed''[='=]s theme song was Love Spit Love's cover of Music/TheSmiths' "How Soon is Now?". However, before the Season 8 [=DVDs=] came out, the song's license expired. The producers were unable to get the license back, and therefore the opening song on the [=DVDs=] was replaced by a generic hard-rock instrumental theme. To make matters worse the song had to be removed from the ''entire series'' when it was added to Netflix. When the series was remastered to HD in 2018 the producers were finally able to get the rights to the song back and restored the credits for the Blu-ray editions.

* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Played Straight with the Elders who, despite leading the Whitelighters and acting for the forces of good, are dogmatic, reckless, and callous in how they treat their protectorate unless forced to do otherwise. The In-verse psychotic Greek Gods exist is because of their meddling. On the other end, you have the Source of all Evil and the various residents of the Underworld who are just as vicious And immoral as they appear.

* HybridPower: A common witch power is telekinesis and a common power for [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Whitelighters]] is [[TeleportersAndTransporters orbing]]. Paige, Chris, and Wyatt, who are all half-witch/half-whitelighter, they each combine these powers into orb-telekinesis.

* BalefulPolymorph: The sisters get turned into other things quite often across the entire series. An evil-powered Piper turns her wedding planners into a pig wearing blanket and a frozen sculpture. Phoebe also turned a particularly chauvinistic advice columnist into a turkey twice and a pig once.

** Season three episode "[[Recap/CharmedS3E2MagicHour Magic Hour]]" is basically the plot of ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'', where two lovers are cursed into [[BalefulPolymorph animal forms]]. A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade is hung]] when Prue mentions having seen the situation before in a movie.

* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Played Straight with the Elders who, despite leading the Whitelighters and acting for the forces of good, are dogmatic, reckless, and callous in how they treat their protectorate unless forced to do otherwise. The In-verse psychotic Greek Gods exist is because of their meddling. On the other end, you have the [[UltimateEvil Source of all Evil]] and the various residents of the Underworld who are just as vicious And immoral as they appear.

** Type 4: [[AllYourPowersCombined The Power of Three]], the Elders, the Cleaners, [[UltimateEvil the Source]], the Triad, the Nexus, Zankou, [[WellIntentionedExtremist individual Avatars]], [[NighInvulnerable the Tall Man]], [[ChosenOne Wyatt Halliwell]], [[RealityWarper Billie Jenkins]], [[PhysicalGod Gods and Titans, Shakti and Shiva individually]].

** "[[Recap/CharmedS4E13CharmedAndDangerous Charmed and Dangerous]]" [[spoiler: where the [[UltimateEvil Source of All Evil]] is vanquished with the new source becoming Phoebe's fiancé.]]

* FourGirlEnsemble: Although not all four Charmed Ones were on the show at he same time (since Prue [[McLeaned died]] before Paige was introduced), the sisters still fit this trope. Paige was TheDitz, Piper was the DeadpanSnarker, Phoebe was the [[InformedAttractiveness sexy one]], and Prue was the wise CoolBigSis. Before Paige, Phoebe played a combination of the sexy one and The Ditz. Once Prue passed away, Piper took on her role as the wise Cool Big Sis but still had her Deadpan Snarker traits intact.
* [[TheSixthRanger The Fourth Sister]]
** Paige
** OneShotCharacter Aviva tries to be this in a season 1 episode with this title. [[spoiler:Of course, she was under MoreThanMindControl…]]

* SinisterMinister: Averted with most of the clergy on the show. However, Cole's marriage to Phoebe following his accession as the Source has to be a "Dark Ceremony" officiated by a "Dark Priest", who remarks <creepy voice>"It is a long time since I had a human soul dropped in my collection plate."</creepy voice>

* EmptyBedroomGrieving: After Prue was McLeaned in the Season 3 finale, her room was kept as a shrine for the first several episodes of Season 4. When Paige moves into the room at the end of her sixth episode, it's used to show that Piper and Phoebe are beginning to move on.

[[HotWitch was]] [[BrainyBrunette based]] [[BoobsOfSteel on]].
* BabiesEverAfter: Paige and Phoebe are revealed to have three children of their own. And Piper finally gets the daughter she'd foreseen all the way back in Season 2.

** Season one episode "[[Recap/CharmedS1E4DeadManDating Dead Man Dating]]" is one of ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', where Piper helps a murder victim she loves [[GhostlyGoals take revenge on his murderers]] [[UnfinishedBusiness and pass on to the afterlife.]]

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* RapunzelHair
** Piper's hair grew to waist length during the second season and stayed that way for the rest of the series.
** Prue's future self got waist-length blonde hair.
** Paige got Rapunzel Hair when she was turned into Snow White and again into a wood nymph.
** Phoebe also got Aphrodite's floor-length tresses when she was turned into a Goddess of Love. Her future self from season 7 onwards was portrayed with hair past her waist, to signal her character's motherly nature.

** How about the girl who felt herself get executed in an alternate future timeline where she used her powers for vengeance against a human being and came back realizing before her older sisters that everything that led up to that execution started with the spiteful use of magic to punish a man for his dog's defecation, being the same girl who years later was met at gunpoint by a mortal she used to be friends with in high school and could've easily told her younger sister to orb the freaking gun away so they could subdue him but instead had said younger sister glamour him into their future nephew so he could get killed by demons? Easily goes under both this and TookALevelInJerkass, and really approaches MoralDissonance territory.

*** Prue started out as a responsible and humorless [[TheWorkaholic workaholic]], who might not have gottten over [[PromotionToParent having to raise her sisters after their mother's death]] and barely knew how to have fun. While she remained a workaholic by Season 3 (albeit now more focused on her Charmed duties than her job), her DefrostingIceQueen phase was over, and she now didn't mind being a {{Troll}} from time to time.

** Seasons 1 and 2 have a drastically different tone. Season 1 is rather bleak, with a lot of melodrama. Season 2 nearly phases out the magic completely, with emphasis on SliceOfLife episodes. Both seasons were a bit dark and brooding, with a lot of the material being played very seriously. Seasons 3 and 4 were more action-packed, with more witty one-liners and LampshadeHanging (not to mention more {{Fanservice}}).

** Alyssa Milano's acting in the first two seasons is remarkably different to how she portrays Phoebe later on. She functions more as TheHeart and often delivers her lines a lot more dramatically. By Season 3, they realised Alyssa's gift for comic timing and retooled Phoebe slightly to make her a bit of a GenkiGirl. It's a similar case with Piper; while she retained more dramatic moments than Phoebe in later seasons, her DeadpanSnarker persona wasn't really touched upon until Season 3.

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* TwentyFourHourPartyPeople: Done a few times. First with Piper's baby shower and later would be done for every birthday party Piper's children had. You could probably also count Prue's funeral and [[spoiler:the funeral Piper, Phoebe, and Paige had when they faked their deaths]].

* AbortedArc: Season 8 got rid of the subplot of the sisters faking their deaths by having them exposed to the government, which was also neglected as a plot line. The government discovered that the sisters were witches and they offered to help cover up their faked deaths as a Homeland Security mission if they came to work for them. They spent a couple episodes performing a few missions for them and, despite the collaboration being extremely successful, they parted ways due to the sisters apparently being too hard to work with and the government's knowledge of the magical world is never acknowledged again.

** Paige was introduced with an artistic side in Season 4 - her room in the manor having paintings displayed for instance. Come Season 5 and this trait never appears again.
*** She was also introduced as a lawyer and a social worker. By Season 5, seems she forgot she had a degree and went on a series of temp jobs because she supposedly had no career possibility outside of being a witch.

* FeministFantasy: A show about 3 badass sexy witches who save San Francisco from (mostly) male demons on an episode by episode basis? You bet your ass! Complete with lots of cleavage and hooking up with the hot guy of the day probably included.

* {{Flanderization}} / EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / SeasonalRot: ''Something'' changed after Constance M. Burge left. Originally the show tried to hang on to the spirit of Neopaganism and Wicca, with various levels of success, whereas afterward it became much more about simple "Hocus Pocus" magic (see FantasyKitchenSink), alongside other things. It's just hard to classify what it would be called since it was very abrupt (Flanderization is usually more gradual) and fairly evenly balanced (three seasons on one side, five on the other.) And while Burge tried to focus on the relationship between the sisters, the show became more and more about their various romantic relationships.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[RhymesOnADime The Power of Three will set you free.]]''[[note]]From left to right: Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, and Paige Matthews. Not pictured: [[KilledOffForReal Prue Halliwell]] and Leo Wyatt.[[/note]]]]