History TabletopGame / WitchGirlsAdventures

* MarySue: Poked fun at with the "Mary Sue" character trait, which gives the character a roll bonus for when they're in situations where they need to show off and prove how special they are. [[invoked]]

* AuthorAppeal: Transformation. BleachedUnderpants or not, the game and comics repeatedly showcase Alteration magic and Princess Lucinda.

* BlackComedy: Very much so -- Creator/PaulDini compared it to the work of Creator/CharlesAddams in an introduction he wrote to one of the original comics.
* BleachedUnderpants: The company that publishes the ''Witch Girls'' franchise, [[http://www.myspace.com/mangagraphix MANGA GRAPHIX]], is credited with running ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20010411183322/www.geocities.com/gotiger_1999/Sorc1.html The Shrinking Sorceress]]'', a now dead Geocities site and e-zine dedicated to "tasteful" art and stories centered around the fetish of people being transformed into animals and inanimate objects by sorceresses. (Note the copyright at the bottom of the page.) [[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Malcolm/Harris Malcolm Harris]], the author of ''Witch Girls'' and the owner of Channel M, lists himself as a writer for MANGA GRAPHIX in his resume. Several characters, including Denora [=DeSade=], Claudia, and Ebony, as well as the concept of witch girls (in those words) make an appearance in both mediums. It's become a source of OldShame for the creator it seems, since pointing it out on the internet often results in the creator and his friends jumping into the discussion and denying the connection.
* CanonWelding: Princess Lucinda started in her own separate series, and as mentioned in BleachedUnderpants, a lot of the characters from ''The Shrinking Sorceress'' have also [[CanonImmigrant immigrated]]. Essentially, the ''Witch Girls Adventures'' [[TheVerse verse]] is a puree of MANGA GRAPHIX, ''Princess Lucinda'', and ''Witch Girls Tales'', along with new OriginalGeneration characters and far more sociology and background development.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint[=/=]SpoofAesop: In one story from the second volume of ''Witch Girls Tales'', Lucinda comes to the conclusion that [[NobleDemon helping people can be rewarding and she should do it more often.]] However, the reward she's referring to is the sadistic enjoyment she gains from destroying some bullies through downright horrifying methods, then tricking the boy who needed the help first into serving her for a year, then tricking him into getting out of it by cleaning her mouse cage... by shrinking down smaller than the mice to give it a really thorough cleaning. Without removing the mice. When it's near their feeding time. Notice she's mentioned under HeroicComedicSociopath and CardCarryingVillain.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Most vampires are evil and conniving and only help others if it would benefit them in some way. They also tend to organize themselves into medieval style kingdoms. They have all the usual aversion to sunlight and are weak to Necromancy. They also have SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, are immortal, can reproduce normally or by biting others, and are physically numb (they cannot feel, taste, or have a heartbeat) if they don't have blood in their system. Lookswise, they range from LooksLikeOrlok to [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] (without the sparkling) depending on their heritage. {{Dhampyr}} also exist.

* OffModel: The art in the rulebooks. Some of the artists hired are... better than others...

* BalefulPolymorph: Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[FateWorseThanDeath And nearly always permanently.]] Often followed by casually killing the target.

* DeathIsCheap: Well, magical death, anyway. Restoring a mostly-intact body from magical death is only a rank 5 Healing spell (out of 10), and although restoring someone who was say, turned into a pile of ash to life isn't actually listed, it's likely not that much harder -- the amazing task of resurrecting someone from non-magical harm is Rank 7. Restoring from a BalefulPolymorph is even more trivial. Thus, all the witch girls who have little experience with mundane life or have become too used to the magical world not quite realizing that killing and transforming people is kind of a big deal for ordinary humans.

* DisintegratorRay: Second only to BalefulPolymorph in the girls' favorite fates for petty annoyances.

* KidsAreCruel: Most of the major characters don't think twice about inflicting permanent {{Baleful Polymorph}}s and {{Body Horror}}s on mortals who slightly irritate them and other witches with whom they have petty rivalries, or even just killing them outright. Even the nicer ones (who only ''temporarily'' turn mildly annoying people into dumb animals, inanimate objects, and Things That Should Not Be) stand idly by while others do this. In the first incarnation, it was hinted that they didn't fully understand the gravity of permanent curses, with one girl reflecting on the lesson she'd taught - and not in an ironic sense - to a woman she'd ''melted''. The current characters give no real sense of this, though; they're just little bitches. And then Lucinda is [[CardCarryingVillain evil and proud of it]].

* {{Masquerade}}: There is one. But the Witches World Council doesn't mind if it's broken as long as it isn't on a large scale. Witches telling {{Muggles}} about the secret is vaguely okay, {{Muggles}} who spread the secret or are security risks either get LaserGuidedAmnesia...or the [[BalefulPolymorph usual]] [[FateWorseThanDeath fates]].

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The dark side of the Lilians. The Lilians believe that witches must lift humanity out of their ignorance, providing magical aid and education to the {{Muggles}}, but some Lilians are willing to take a more active role, such as [[BalefulPolymorph toading]] corrupt politicians. This is called out as a bad thing; among other things, it endangers the {{Masquerade}}, though some of these Lilians really don't care.

* KidsAreCruel: Most of the major characters don't think twice about inflicting permanent {{Baleful Polymorph}}s and {{Body Horror}}s on mortals who slightly irritate them and other witches with whom they have petty rivalries, or even just killing them outright. Even the nicer ones (who only ''temporarily'' turn mildly annoying people into dumb animals, inanimate objects, and Things That Should Not Be) stand idly by while others do this.
** In the first incarnation, it was hinted that they didn't fully understand the gravity of permanent curses, with one girl reflecting on the lesson she'd taught - and not in an ironic sense - to a woman she'd ''melted''. The current characters give no real sense of this, though; they're just little bitches.
*** Lucinda at least has the excuse that she's evil -- well, actually more of a HeroicComedicSociopath NobleDemon with a heavy sadistic streak and a shocking disregard for others, but it's [[BalefulPolymorph best not to point this out to her directly]]. ...so, "evil, but [[GodzillaThreshold useful when pointed away from you.]]"