History Series / Charmed1998

* DarkWorld: The Charmed Ones had once traveled into a dark version of their world created to keep balance with their 'light' version.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: In the 100th Episode Paige gets transported to a world where she was killed before meeting her sisters and learning she was a witch.

* DeadlyUpgrade: Happens when people who aren't meant to be Empaths take (or are given) a legit one's power anyway. However, Prue really turns it UpToEleven: powers in Charmed are fueled by emotion, and the more emotional you become the stronger your powers become. So, when Prue gets the empathy power she feels more emotions (specifically, those closest to her), so her empathy power becomes stronger. Its area of effect therefore increases, so she feels more (further off) emotions, so her empathy power becomes stronger again, so her area of effect increases again--positive feedback continues ad infinitum. Unfortunately, on top of the fact that these power boosts occur quicker than she has time to adjust to them (making them exponentially unstable), she still has her original powers, which logically "piggy-back" on the gains made by the empathy feedback loop. Given that one of them is telekinesis, the result is ... [[SuperPowerMeltdown interesting]].

* DeadPersonImpersonation: At the end of "Wicca Envy", Andy finds out that Rex and Hannah simply took the identities of two different dead people, and may have been the ones who actually killed them.

* DeceptionNoncompliance: Piper is possessed by a demon without other people being aware that she [[NotHimself isn't herself]]. She warns the demon that her boyfriend "Tom" will see right through it, causing the demon to address said boyfriend as Tom and expose the deception.

* DeliverUsFromEvil: Inverted with Phoebe's pregnancy, where her demonic child was turning her evil.

* DistractedByTheLuxury: Prue gleefuly dons Ms. Hellfire's expensive outfits and marvels at her jewelry while she and Piper investigate.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Another whitelighter, Natalie, briefly serves as this in "Blinded by the Whitelighter" for the sisters when she prepares them for battle. Unlike Leo, she refuses to coddle them, leading them to half-jokingly suggest vanquishing ''[[TheNeidermeyer her]]'' at one point.

* DrunkOnTheDarkside: Phoebe, in the S6 episode "Witch Wars", where she gets a crap-ton of demonic powers and promptly goes on a demon murder spree. [[EvilFeelsGood And she enjoys it]].

* CuttingTheKnot: When Paige wants to take the Book of Shadows, she is told that can't pass the door. So she [[ExactWords throws it out the window.]]

* CuckooNest: "Brain Drain"

* CreepyChild: In "We All Scream For Ice Cream" reveals the existence demonic children who are incredibly powerful.
* CreepyGood: The MirrorUniverse version of Barbas, the Demon of ''Hope''. Despite being good, he's ''still'' creepy as hell.

* CowboyEpisode : "The Good, The Bad, & The Cursed" has Prue and Cole traveling to the Old West.

* CourtroomEpisode: "Crimes and Witch-Demeanors" has the Charmed Ones arguing for Darryl's life before a tribunal that's charged to keep magic secret, and has manipulated reality to frame him for murder in order to do so.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Gammil in "Size Matters" makes statuettes out of witches.

* CloseEnoughTimeline: In "Cat House", Phoebe and Paige go time-traveling through Piper and Leo's past, thanks to a botched spell. They manage to figure out how to fix most of the changes they cause, but they accidentally break Piper and Leo's wedding-cake topper and the episode ends with it still broken.

* ChekhovsGift: The girls receive numerous gifts from the magical community to celebrate Wyatt's birth, including geese that lay golden eggs and a unicorn. When the geese start laying regular eggs, it proves that all magic has disappeared from the world (which was probably unintentional on the gift givers' part), and the unicorn's horn serves as the only remaining source of magic, since unicorns aren't "of this world" and thus are unaffected by the magic drain (which very much ''was'' intentional).

* CaptainMorganPose : Dr. Griffiths takes this stance during his TV interview in "All Hell Breaks Loose."

* BrokenAesop: The episode "Little Monsters" focuses on the sisters finding a baby manticore, an AlwaysChaoticEvil race, and debating what to do about it. Chris insists it has to be [[NeverSayDie vanquished]], Piper and Phoebe aren't comfortable vanquishing an infant, and Paige is firmly in the [[NatureVsNurture "Nurture trumps Nature"]] camp. In the end, Paige is proven to be right when the baby manticore's very human father promises to raise him right to ensure that he grows up to be a good person. This moral breaks instantly when one considers the Cole situation (half-human/half-demon who constantly fought his evil nature only for circumstances to conspire against him, leading to the sisters "rightfully" condemning him as irredeemable), not to mention all the other cases of "Evil" creatures having no choice in their alignment. But even within this one, self-contained episode, the moral can't stand up. The baby manticore is only proven "harmless" when it turns out his father is human, and this inherited humanity is what allows him the chance to be rehabilitated; if he'd had two manticore parents, he probably would have been vanquished alongside the pack. Then there's the fact that it's Paige citing "Nurture over Nature," specifically because she was [[RaisedByMuggles adopted]]. Paige, whose arc is about embracing her magical destiny. Paige, who immediately after stating this position runs off to cast a spell on Darryl. Paige, whose greatest wish is for a world wherein she doesn't have to hide her magic. Paige, who embraced her birthright as a Charmed One to the point that her biological family only warrants a few mentions after her early episodes. If Paige was right, and it was Nurture that always wins out over Nature, she should have a lot more trouble with the craft. At the very least, she wouldn't run to magic as a solution to her problems, instead focusing on more mundane means, like she grew up with.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Shortly after meeting Cole (and having him witness her under the influence of fairy dust, which makes her act like a young child), Phoebe calls him and says she hopes he doesn't think she's "a drunk, or a lunatic, or a drunken lunatic."

* BreastExpansion: Paige, "Hell Hath No Fury", due to her [[PersonalGainHurts misuse of magic]]. She "borrowed" the Book of Shadows in order to right some wrongs, but being a new witch, she didn't get to read the [[PersonalGainHurts No Personal Gain clause]].
-->'''Piper:''' You are so... ''[[GagBoobs busted]]''?

* BodySurf: The Source kept switching between bodies in order to lure Paige to evil. [[IdiotBall Right in front of her, with her seeing the switch in flames every time]].

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: [[KidFromTheFuture Chris]] dies and is then born. (ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* BellyButtonless: "Size Matters" has a demonic construct who demonstrates to Paige that he's not like ordinary people by showing her that he lacks a belly button. [[NotWhatItLooksLike Leo and Piper walk in just as Paige is on her knees, leaning in for a closer look]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In the episode titled "Be Careful What You Witch For", the sisters make simple idle wishes which a JerkassGenie inevitably twists - Piper wishing Dan could get on with his life leads to [[RapidAging Dan aging extremely quickly, for example]].

* BathtubMermaid: The second half of the season 5 premiere had Piper and Paige hide Phoebe (who turned into a mermaid) in their bathtub because Phoebe has a television interview, and they didn't want to risk exposing her as a mermaid.

* BadHumorTruck: Inverted. The Ice Cream Man is actually a good guy, [[SealedEvilInACan and the truck is a prison for demon children]]

* AuthenticationByNewspaper: A photo of Tony Wong holding his own death report.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The episode "The Witch is Back" made the mistake of assuming that people were burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials.

* ArtInitiatesLife: Young witch Kevin and his power of Thought Projection since he uses drawing as a focus.