Line #68 Characters/WitchMainCast


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3	This only refers to the characters from the [[ComicBook/{{WITCH}} comic books]]. For their counterparts of the AnimatedAdaptation, see [[Characters/Witch2004Main here]].
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8	!!W.I.T.C.H.
9	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witch.jpg]]
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11	The group consists of five teenage girls who were chosen by the Oracle to become the new guardians of Kandrakar, which means they protect Kandrakar from people and creatures who wish to cause harm to it. For this purpose, they have been given powers over the five elements; Energy, Water, Fire, Earth and Air. The guardians' names are: Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin, whose initials form the title acronym W.I.T.C.H.
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13	* ActionGirl: Even when they're not in Guardian form, the girls still kick ass and take names.
14	* AmazonBrigade: In their transformed state, where they all possess super-powers.
15	* BadassAdorable: They're all cute teenagers with magical powers who can kick serious ass.
16	* BadassCrew: They are the Guardians of the Veil and know how to kick ass.
17	* BadassTeacher: They temporarily become teachers to other kids with magical abilities in the eighth saga.
18	* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: They are a teem of teenage girls who all wear outfits that show some skin around the belly area in their Guardian forms. In their New Power forms, only Taranee and Hay Lin do.
19	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Cornelia (Blonde); Irma, Taranee, and Hay Lin (Brunette); Will (Redhead).
20	* BullyHunter: Initially it was only Will and Cornelia, but the others became involved in keeping Uriah and co. at bay pretty soon.
21	* CallingYourAttacks: The girls usually call out the name of their element whenever they use them to attack.
22	* ClassicalElementsEnsemble: Each main girl represents one of the classical elements and has ElementalPersonalities to match. Irma is water and has MakingASplash powers. Taranee is fire and has PlayingWithFire powers. Hay Lin is air and has BlowYouAway powers. Cornelia is earth with GreenThumb powers. And Will is ElementNumberFive, with powers related to PureEnergy and LightEmUp. She's also TheLeader and TheHeart of the group, literally as she's the only one who has possession of the Heart of Kandrakar and leads them, balancing between their different personalities as she gains more confidence.
23	* CovertPervert: Too many instances to list. Just go to the [[Radar/{{WITCH}} Radar]] subpage and remember it's not even half of what they've done.
24	* CustomUniformOfSexy: The Guardian outfits only have in common the wings, purple shoes, leggings striped in two shades of green, and tops and bottoms being coloured either aqua green or purple (pink in the cartoon), plus exposed stomach for the first outfits and some kind of gloves in the New Power outfits.
25	* ADayInTheLimelight: They each get their own personal story in Lene Kaaberbøl's novels, combined with various storyarcs that give them different amounts of focus.
26	* DudeMagnet: All of them have caught the attention of more than one guy, though whether they reciprocate or not varies.
27	* ElementalPersonalities: Yan Lin explains they all have personality powers: Irma got water because it can't be contained (like Irma when she decides to do something), Taranee got fire because she's the only one reliable enough to be trusted with it (as Cedric points out once, when Taranee gets pissed you must RUN. And he did so), Cornelia got Earth because she tends to function with hard logic, and Hay Lin got Air because she's a dreamer. Will's power remains unexplained until the New Power saga of the comic, when her 'Energy' power is finally defined as that which unites the elements and leads them, balancing between their different personalities. Will fits this archetype after her character develops.
28	* {{Flight}}: When they transform. Initially in the comic, only Hay Lin could fly, but they all get this ability in the New Power arc.
29	* FiveTokenBand: Will and Irma are AmbiguouslyBrown (Arab and Latina respectively), Cornelia is Caucasian, Taranee is African-American and Hay Lin is Chinese.
30	* GirlPosse: Amazingly enough, the group started (before Elyon left and Will and Taranee arrived) as the closest thing [[LovableAlphaBitch Cornelia]] had to one. Closest thing because, just as Cornelia wasn't an AlphaBitch, the girls were true friends with their own opinions and the only ones to care about fashion were Hay Lin (who makes her own clothes) and Cornelia.
31	* HealingFactor: "Xing-Jing's Gift", which allows them to heal faster than usual, not feel the fatigue from the transformation, and over time healed Taranee's sight.
32	* KidHero: They start off at the ages of 12 and 13.
33	* LegacyTeam: W.I.T.C.H. are simply the most recent team to take up the mantle of Guardians of the Veil. Their immediate predecessors had roles in one of the story arcs, and several others were apparently active in previous generations.
34	* MagicalGirlWarrior: A prominent non-anime example and probably one of the most recognisable in the Western world. They are teenage girls who transform into superpowered versions of themselves called the Guardians of the Veil and are tasked to protect the universe. Unlike what the series' name suggests, they are not witches; that is simply an acronym made from the first letters of their names.
35	* OlderAlterEgo: The Guardian forms appear to be in their late teens or even early 20s. This gets downplayed over time as the girls get older.
36	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Before ever meeting each other they were connected through the previous generation of Guardians, as Yan Lin personally knew three of them and Kadma and Halinor were keeping tabs on Will and Taranee through the people helped by their charity.
37	* PhysicalGoddess: Where Will, as the Keeper of the Heart, had the potential from the start, the whole group reaches this level in the New Power arc, as shown when Hay Lin ''picked up a hurricane and closed it in a small paper box''.
38	* PowerGivesYouWings: Though [[WingsDoNothing the wings are mostly useless]] (except with Hay Lin) until the New Power arc. In the Arkhanta arc they even [[LampshadeHanging admitted they had no idea why they have wings]].
39	* PowerOfFriendship: {{Justified\|Trope}}. The stronger the bond between the Guardians, the stronger they are when fighting evil. A recurring theme in the comics and show.
40	* PowerPerversionPotential: Irma (in the comic book) and Cornelia (in the cartoon) have both noticed how their Guardian forms are useful to get noticed by older boys.
41	* PurpleIsPowerful: Their Guardian uniforms incorporate purple and [[EmeraldPower green]] as their primary color scheme.
42	* SexierAlterEgo: In Guardian form they don't just become older, they get the body they dream of. Made most evident by Will's ''actual'' older form (shown in two possible futures) being less busty than the Guardian form, Irma's Guardian form being skinnier than the actual Irma, and the Guardian form of Cornelia, who is the one who is actually happy with her body shape, simply being an OlderAlterEgo with longer hair and wings.
43	* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: While a few of them fall under AllGirlsWantBadBoys, ''all'' of them really want a sweet guy to be with ultimately.
44	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
45	** The tomboyish but doubtful leader Will is often contrasted against [[TheLancer lancer]] Cornelia, the LovableAlphaBitch.
46	** Serious and elegant Cornelia is often paired against laid-back and funny Irma.
47	* TownGirls: Femme - Cornelia, Neither - Will, Taranee and Hay Lin, Butch - Irma.
48	* TrueCompanions: Even when they fight, that won't stop them from making up later on.
49	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Many of their enemies tend to underestimate the girls. Big mistake.
50	* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Mildly [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]; all of their personal lives suffer for their Guardianship, especially Will and Cornelia. The former has to deal with leadership and the trials of having a single parent while Cornelia has had to sacrifice time from her figure-skating career to save the world. Taranee actually quit at one point because she didn't like the way Kandrakar treated them and Cornelia has repeatedly shown she'd drop the job if she didn't feel indebted to help the others. Irma and Hay Lin have the least conflicts but even they have their share of problems. Despite these troubles, [[{{Reconstruction}} they still pull together and get the job done while handling their personal lives]].
51	* WesternZodiac: Will is a Capricorn, Irma is a Pisces, Taranee is an Aries, Cornelia is a Taurus, and Hay Lin is a Gemini.
52	* WingsDoNothing: Initially, their wings are useless. [[LampshadeHanging Upon being asked why they have them if only Hay Lin can fly, they admitted they had no idea and made a note to ask the Oracle]].
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55	[[folder:Wilhelmina/Wilma "Will" Vandom]]
56	!!Wilhelmina/Wilma "Will" Vandom
57	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_vandom1.png]]
58	[[caption-width-right:305:Normal form]]
59	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_vandom2_6.png[[/labelnote]] to see Guardian form]]
60	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_vandom3_9.png[[/labelnote]] to see New Power form]]
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62	The Quintessence Guardian, and the main protagonist. She holds the Heart of Kandrakar, which gives the other girls the power to transform into their guardian forms.
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64	* ACupAngst: She's insecure about her lack of a noticeable bust and prefers being in her Guardian form due to the BreastExpansion it gives her.
65	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Will's friends from Fadden Hills only hung out with her because they felt sorry for her due to her parents being divorced. They didn't even like her. One of her enemies tried to trick her into thinking this would eventually happen with the other Guardians, but the Oracle assured her that even ''he'' could not see what the future would be.
66	* AmbiguouslyBrown: She's on the slightly dark shade of dark-skinned redhead. With her mother's middle-eastern traits, it's implied that she's half-arab.
67	* AnimalMotifs: Frogs. Will has a ''passion'' for the species, great enough to be one of her defining characteristics, and its appearances have become a running gag. Her room is covered in stuffed frog toys and her bed has a frog styled on top it. In her provided image picture, she is seen with what appears to be a frog wallet.
68	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sweet, shy, not entirely confident girl. She will mess you up if you harm or threaten her inner circle, believe it. Case in point: her treatment of [[spoiler: Phobos]] in the fourth story arc. After he gave her one hell of a MindRape, she reacted by nearly ''torturing him to death'', and only spared him because she remembered just in time that [[spoiler: [[FreakyFridayFlip he wasn't in his real body]] and had to fix that situation]]. He escapes, but in their next encounter he finds himself at her mercy and has barely enough time for a BigNo before she ''[[DeaderThanDead disintegrates his soul]]''. Ouch...
69	* BigSisterInstinct: She doesn't take threats against her little brother very well. At all.
70	* BookDumb: She appears at least as smart as anyone else the rest of the time, but her grades are so bad she tries to hide them from her mother.
71	* BullyHunter: Most evident in the comic; when seeing Uriah and his gang tormenting a dormouse she chased them away, and when she thought they had returned she immediately turned violent ([[MeetCute it was actually Matt]]). She and Cornelia will later involve their friends in the activity of keeping Uriah and co. from tormenting people.
72	* TheChainsOfCommanding: A recurring theme in both the comic and the show is that Will has the extra burdens of being the Keeper of the Heart in addition to the usual Guardian duties. This becomes more manageable over time as the girls become a stronger team.
73	* CharacterDevelopment: Will finally finding out how much of a jerk her father is, is what starts her not being so angry at her mother anymore and their relationship improves.
74	* CharacterTics: Nervously plays with her bangs whenever interacting with Matt.
75	* ClingyJealousGirl: She's ''really'' jealous of Matt, causing her to use her powers to sabotage perceived rivals or throw cakes on their heads directly from Kandrakar.
76	* CoolBigSis: To William, her half-brother. She was a little hesitant about him at first, but quickly bonds with him after he is born.
77	* EveryoneHatesMathematics: Her worst subject is math.
78	* {{Fangirl}}: Of Cobalt Blue, the band in which Matt is the guitarist. Mostly due to Matt being in it.
79	* FieryRedhead: Can be emotional at times and prone to outbursts. Ironically, she seems to have inherited this from her responsible dark-haired mother than her calmer, but less reliable red-haired father. Averted at times since very often when not bursting out she can get quite easily depressed and insecure.
80	* FriendlessBackground: In the comic she came to Heatherfield after effectively losing almost all her old friends when her parents divorced (she just kept ''one'', but that is revealed much later).
81	* ForgotAboutHerPowers: Doesn't use any of her machine-speak during the break-in on Takeda's company after discovering Liam kidnapped her baby brother. Then again, the security systems and Cyber Guards would still be loyal to him, and she's not thinking rationally due to the abduction.
82	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Her powers give her a strong connection to animals. Even putting apart her powers; she's often stated to be fond of frogs, she saves her pet Dormouse from Uriah's pranks, and later on helps Matt's grandfather working at the pet store. The animals in the store get along easily with her, and in the comics she was the one who gave Napoleon to Cornelia as a cheer-up gift.
83	* AGirlAndHerX: A Girl And Her Dormouse. More so in the comics, until he dies. Only for a short time in the cartoon.
84	* {{Glamour}}: She has this ability, and has occasionally used it for disguising purpose.
85	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Will often has doubts over her physical appearance, and has said on more than one occasion that she doesn't consider herself beautiful.
86	* HidingBehindYourBangs: Part of her original design was a small forelock, descending over forehead to her nose ridge - and whenever she feels insecure, Will covers large sections of her face with her bangs.
87	* HotBlooded: Prone to being more emotional than rational.
88	* ImprobableAimingSkills: She still has yet to miss a target, but the best instance was when she saw a girl who was hitting on Matt while she was away and [[ClingyJealousGirl hit her with a cake thrown from Kandrakar]], after [[LampshadeHanging remarking she had a good aim]] when Irma doubted her ability to pull it off.
89	* TheLeader: She's the Keeper of the Heart, and therefore the leader of the Guardians.
90	* LethalChef: Her mother and Matt are terrified by her attempts at cooking because she's as bad as [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Akane Tendo]] in her first attempts. Or maybe worse: Akane never confused powdered soap with flour...
91	* MeaningfulName:
92	** Wilhelmina can be interpreted to mean "protector."
93	** Will also counts. There's even a villain who claimed that fifth element is willpower.
94	* MundaneUtility: As the Keeper of the Heart, she can make various machines and appliances work, even without any visible source of energy. Including keeping her fridge, James, operating during a black-out.
95	* NakedOnArrival: In the comic, the first page featuring Will sees her in a [[DreamingOfThingsToCome dream]] where she is trapped inside the Heart of Kandrakar, bursts out of it and into a raging storm. She's naked throughout the entire sequence.
96	* NotAMorningPerson: Frequently in the comics and the supplementary materials mention it, too.
97	* PaintedOnPants: Her Guardian outfit from the New Power saga includes these.
98	* PassionateSportsGirl: She's into competitive swimming.
99	* PinkHeroine: She wears a combination of pink and red, wields the pink Heart of Kandrakar, has a pink transformation sequence, and gains the power of pink lightning.
100	* PureEnergy: Her power source in the comics.
101	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: WordOfGod states that she's the strongest of the five because she has control over Quintessence, and she is the official leader of the team.
102	* RedHeadedStepchild: She's one in the most literal way to Dean in the comics and also to Serena in the TV series. Subverted in that they both actually care about her and don't treat her like the trope. In the show she treats them with distrust until she warms up to them, with one issue of the comics being about her finally calling Dean "Dad!"
103	* RedIsHeroic: She's the leader of the girls and has bright red hair.
104	* RefusalOfTheCall: At first rejects the idea of being a Guardian, but later accepts it.
105	* SheCleansUpNicely: Usually prefers gender-neutral clothing, but she can dress up as easily as any of the other girls.
106	* ShrinkingViolet: Shows tendencies of this. However, she can be outspoken when she wants to be.
107	* SpiderSense: In the comic books, Will gets dizzy whenever something of dark magic is in motion or near her.
108	* SuperStrength: One of her abilities includes superhuman strength.
109	* TeleportersAndTransporters: Caleb actually teaches her and the others how to do this.
110	* {{Tomboy}}: Enjoys sports (competitive swimming is her main interest) and frogs. Except for her Guardian form, you can count instances of Will ''not'' wearing trousers on your fingers.
111	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Tomboy to Cornelia's Girly Girl.
112	* TomboyishName: Justified given how embarrassingly dated her full name is.
113	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Will dresses casually, has messy hair, and is an active swimmer; but she has a passion for cute animals and crushes hard on the attractive Matt.
114	* UnkemptBeauty: Her hair is the messiest of the Guardians and her boyfriend doesn't seem to mind in the least. There's a lot of scenes in the comics where Will is shown getting out of bed and her hair is a complete rat's nest... and she looks adorable.
115	* VisitByDivorcedDad: In both the series and comic. [[spoiler: Played very darkly in the comics]].
116	* YouAreGrounded: Seems to get this even more than the others, maybe because she's the only child of a single mother.
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119	[[folder:Irma Lair]]
120	!!Irma Lair
121	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/witch_irma_norm.jpg]]
122	[[caption-width-right:305:Normal form]]
123	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irma_lair2.png[[/labelnote]] to see Guardian form]]
124	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/irma_lair3.png[[/labelnote]] to see New Power form]]
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126	The Water Guardian. Known for being the class clown at her school, she and Cornelia have a long-standing rivalry. She is close friends with Hay Lin. Despite displaying some jealousy over his friend Martin's girlfriend (who previously had a crush on her), she was starting a relationship with Joel, Matt's bandmate. Ultimately, she chose neither and instead dates a new character named Stephen.
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128	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: In the form of moody, punkish Andrew Hornby.
129	* AmbiguouslyBrown: In the comic, she has notably darker skin than Cornelia, and the adaptation gives her a Latina accent.
130	* BigBeautifulWoman: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. In her normal form, Irma is typically depicted as chubby, and has a noticeably fuller figure when combined with her large breasts. She's never depicted as unattractive for it though, and gets just as much attention paid to her as the rest of the group.
131	* BigBreastPride: Irma has a bigger chest than the other girls, in human form and Guardian form, and is rather prideful about it. Too bad the one girl she tries to get jealous is ProudBeauty Cornelia...
132	* BuxomBeautyStandard: She's described as an "early bloomer" due to her buxom figure and both [[ACupAngst Will and Taranee display jealousy of her due to it]].
133	* BigOlEyebrows: Inherited thick eyebrows from her father.
134	%%* BoobBasedGag She's quite shapely, especially given her age, but it's often used for laughs and teasing. To the point of getting {{Lampshaded}} by the ''Italian advertisement of the comics and the official site''.
135	* BookDumb: She gets average grades at school, as she often refrains from reading books or studying out of sheer laziness.
136	* CharmPerson: One of her powers is a basic form of mind control. Irma telepathically relays a command to her target, who inexplicably feels compelled to execute it.
137	* ClassClown: Irma loves to joke around in school.
138	* CoolBigSis: Though she thinks of her brother as an AnnoyingYoungerSibling, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther she really does care for him]].
139	* CoolTeacher: A possible future shown in the comics is that she becomes this.
140	* {{Foil}}: To Cornelia's stoicism, due to being an energetic [[TheGadfly gadfly]].
141	* FunPersonified: The most willing to make her Guardian duty as fun as possible, as she recurringly cracks jokes, taunts villains and pokes fun at the heroines' predicaments even as the tide of battle turns against them.
142	* GenkiGirl: She's quite excitable and ''never'' drops her energetic optimism.
143	* AGirlAndHerX: In the comics, Irma has a pet turtle, Leafy, who she tells all her secrets to.
144	* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Irma likes cute clothes, music, and crushes often on guys, but also loves junk food, has a crass sense of humor, and is a couch potato in regards to physical activity.
145	* HappilyAdopted: In the comics, her birth mother is missing since she was a child, with Anna Lair adopting her after marrying her father. Though between their close relationship and [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals how similar they look]], one wouldn't even suspect it if it hadn't been mentioned in a couple occasions.
146	* AnIcePerson: In the comics, Irma's control over water enables her to freeze (and unfreeze) anything she wants.
147	* ImprobableHairstyle: Her curls manages to stay up regardless what situation she's in.
148	%%* LifeOfTheParty: Knows how to throw a party.
149	* MakingASplash: Irma is the Guardian of Water.
150	* MirrorCharacter: With Cornelia. Both are stubborn and can be insensitive at times, but are [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerks with heart of gold]]. They also go through BreakTheHaughty moments in the cartoon version.
151	* MissingMom: In the comics, Anna Lair is her stepmother. It's still a mystery of what happened to her birth mom.
152	* MostCommonSuperPower: ''Easily'' the largest of the girls in both her forms, at least in the comics.
153	* PowerIncontinence: It has more to do with the power in question than Irma's actual inability to control it. She can [[MindManipulation wish people do things]], all while being a somewhat ditzy teenage girl. If that wasn't enough, Irma has no issues whatsoever about her lack of control over her ability, leading to few times where Will had to call her out on clearly abusing her power. She gradually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it]].
154	** PlayedForLaughs with her other power - turning people into frogs - as it kicks in when she's overstressed or when she's cornered and ends up acting on instincts.
155	* NoIndoorVoice: Irma might not know the definition of keeping her voice down.
156	* ThePrankster: Her usual mindset is basically that of a [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] and {{Troll}} when she's in the bad mood. In fact, when she descends into trolling, it usually means things are going ''very'' sour.
157	* QuirkyCurls: The tips at the end of her hair are curled.
158	* RapidHairGrowth: Her new costume gives her longer, curlier hair.
159	* ReallyGetsAround: A non-sexual version as she's had the most romances in the comics. Not at the same time, mind you.
160	* RedOniBlueOni: The energetic, always cheerful red to Cornelia's stoic and grounded blue.
161	* SingleGirlSeeksMostPopularGuy: In the form of Andrew Hornby, a BigManOnCampus.
162	* SitcomArchnemesis: Downplayed. She has this sort of dynamics with Cornelia, whom she calls "Corny" and relentlessly trolls. This is mostly because Irma is TheGadfly rather than meaning a single word of her taunts. The few times their rivalry went serious, the girls quickly realised [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling something was off]].
163	* SmittenTeenageGirl: Instantly goes "boy crazy" to the guy she likes.
164	* SnarkKnight: Makes sassy comments when she's on and off the job of being a Guardian. She snarked to allies and enemies alike, and she can get people really annoyed with her words. But, she'll ''always'' protect the world with her friends.
165	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Irma loves to eat chocolate ice cream.
166	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Cornelia, as they form a RedOniBlueOni duo and ''always'' squabble.
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169	[[folder:Taranee Cook]]
170	!!Taranee Cook
171	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/150px-Taranee_6014.jpg]]
172	[[caption-width-right:305:Normal form]]
173	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taranee_cook2.png[[/labelnote]] to see Guardian form]]
174	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taranee_cook3.png[[/labelnote]] to see New Power form]]
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176	The Fire Guardian, Taranee's hobbies include dancing, math, and photography. She later starts liking Nigel, a former delinquent.
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178	* TenMinuteRetirement: She gets increasingly frustrated with her life as a Guardian and comes to feel that she's being manipulated and used by the Oracle, and as such she quits the team, stays out of action and refuses to use her powers for several issues (though she still hangs out with the other girls and helps provide cover stories and alibies when needed). Her place on the team is temporarily filled by Orube, a warrior woman from the planet Basiliade, though the Oracle and the other girls make it clear to Taranee that she is welcome back on the team at any time.
179	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Mainly Nigel, though she insists he isn't the bad guy her mother thinks he is.
180	* AmbiguouslyBrown: She's officially half-Asian, yet her skin tone is much darker than the full-blooded Asian Hay Lin and even the Latin Irma. Coincidentally or not, she has rastas in her Guardian form. [[spoiler:This might be meaningful given that she is adopted.]]
181	* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Inverted. She oftentimes ''deliberately'' approach dangerous situations as if they were a quiz or a game, since this allows her to better focus.
182	* AsianAndNerdy: She is half-Asian from her mother's side whom puts great focus on education. [[spoiler: Although Taranee is adopted and she might not be half-Asian at all]].
183	* BadassBookworm: She occasionally uses her smarts to defeat her enemies.
184	* BespectacledCutie: She's a cute, young girl with big, round glasses. She even keeps them on after transforming!
185	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Tends to become a pyromaniac when she snaps. Cedric was rather wary of provoking her since the start, but Elyon, in the first saga, managed to get her to snap, and only survived because Cedric grabbed her and ran like hell while Taranee broke free from a bubble made specifically to keep her in.
186	* BewareTheQuietOnes: The most reserved of her friends. But when she snaps, she snaps '''hard'''.
187	* BigOlEyebrows: Inherited her thick eyebrows from her dad.
188	* BlackAndNerdy: Taranee is so nerdy that she can't wait for summer vacation to end!
189	* BraidsOfAction: In the DreadlockRasta version.
190	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A mother variant. Her mother didn't approve of Taranee dating Nigel. Nigel is a reformed juvenile delinquent, but Taranee's mother viewed him as a criminal. She comes around though.
191	* DreadlockRasta: Only in her Guardian form.
192	* DreadlockWarrior: In her guardian form.
193	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The only one whose hair changes after transforming.
194	* FakeMixedRace: InUniverse. Taranee seems like this at first, since her mother is Asian. It's later revealed that she's [[spoiler:adopted]].
195	* FieryStoic: [[PlayingWithFire Her powers are mainly revolved around fire]], but she's one of the quieter, more sensitive members of W.I.T.C.H.
196	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Defied. Not only does she keep her glasses in Guardian form, she's ''pissed'' when due to a HealingFactor, her regular self no longer needs glasses, a gift she never asked for - despite formerly being BlindWithoutEm. Even once she no longer needed prescription lenses, she kept plain glasses to keep up the {{Masquerade}}.
197	* GogglesDoNothing: After the [[HealingFactor Xing-Jing's Gift]] heals her sight in the comic, she takes off the corrective lenses from her glasses and replaces them with plain ones, as just ditching her glasses would be suspicious.
198	* GoodGirlGoneBad: This is what her mother thinks when Taranee starts to date Nigel.
199	* GoodWithNumbers: Her favorite subject is mathematics. As a result, she routinely helps [[EveryoneHatesMathematics Will]] with her math homework and tutors her in their free time.
200	* HairColorDissonance: The only one with blue hair. Similarly to Hay Lin, they are in-universe black.
201	* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:The comics reveal that Taranee was adopted after a fire destroyed her biological parents' home and they couldn't care for her properly.]]
202	* InSeriesNickname: In the comics, her friends sometimes refer to her as "Tara".
203	* LovableNerd: She'd rather have school than summer vacation.
204	* MeaningfulName: Taranee ''Cook''.
205	* {{Nerd Action Hero}}ine: Taranee is the nerdiest girl of the group. And her wits and peripheral knowledge are often just as important as literal ass-kicking, especially when the girls have to solve a riddle or some sort of a puzzle.
206	* NerdsAreSexy: She's a cute girl and has no problem attracting love interests. Her possible future selves are all in good shape due to her professions (dance instructor and runner). Her Guardian forms are ''definitely'' this, as she keeps her glasses in them.
207	* NumberTwo: Often becomes this when Will, for some reason, can't lead the group.
208	* OnlySaneWoman: Sometimes has to be this, especially when Irma and Cornelia start their antics.
209	* PlayingWithFire: Taranee is the Guardian of Fire.
210	* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: In her Guardian form.
211	* TheQuietOne: The most reserved of her friends.
212	* RunningGag: Her glasses are routinely damaged, left behind or given to someone. Upon returning home, Taranee is scolded by her mother for simply losing them once again, while the girl can't tell the truth what really happened.
213	* ShrinkingViolet: Taranee is the most passive of the girls and starts off a nervous wreck. [[CharacterDevelopment She eventually learns to be more assertive.]]
214	* ShyBlueHairedGirl: She has blue-black hair and is a timid and reserved teenager.
215	* SpecsOfAwesome: Wears glasses even when kicking butt.
216	* {{Telepathy}}: One of her powers and the reason why the Guardians don't need telephones to talk between them.
217	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Taranee isn't fond of bugs, except for butterflies, grasshoppers, and crickets. She often groans when the girls have to deal with something bug-shaped.
218	[[/folder]]
219
220	[[folder:Cornelia Hale]]
221	!!Cornelia Hale
222	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cornelia.gif]]
223	[[caption-width-right:305:Normal form]]
224	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cornelia_hale2.png[[/labelnote]] to see Guardian form]]
225	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cornelia_hale3.png[[/labelnote]] to see New Power form]]
226
227	The Earth Guardian, Cornelia is from a wealthy family and is easily one of the most popular girls at school. She enjoys figure skating. At first was head-over-heels for Caleb, but later on realized that they were JustFriends. Later, she falls for Peter, Taranee's older brother. Close friend with Will and best frenemy with Irma.
228	----
229	* TheAce: Seems like this at first: she's a beautiful blonde from a well-off family who's popular (the novelizations cite her as being one of the "Infielders" at Sheffield Institute) and a gifted figure-skater. Even her friends are a little jealous of her at times.
230	* AgentScully: Doesn't believe in magic at first, and that's after about a year of strange events in her presence, effectively controlling everything that happens in her class with her will, [[MundaneUtility telekinetically cleaning her room]] without meaning, finding out that Irma can manipulate interrogations, ''seeing'' Taranee redirect a firework and stop an explosion and Yan Lin putting the Heart of Kandrakar in Will's hand, and only accepts they're doing magic after plants respond to her mood, but may have been in denial due [[IJustWantToBeNormal her preference for normality]].
231	* BrokenAce: She is just as inexperienced in romance as the other girls and has major confidence issues when it comes to dating an older boy, at least at first. It's also shown she doesn't enjoy the spotlight as much as she thinks she would.
232	* BullyHunter: Her first encounter with Will (and possibly Taranee) in the comic has her chasing away a gang of bullies and it's implied that she does it often.
233	* TheCynic: For being the most grounded, she can also verge into being the most cynical.
234	* DeadpanSnarker: Often pointing out other people’s bad fashion tastes, as well as making jokes and sarcastic remarks.
235	* DefrostingIceQueen: Especially in the show. Cornelia is pretty high-strung and can be really dismissive, but as the events unfold, she learns to lose a bit of her strict demeanor and open up to her friends.
236	* DishingOutDirt: The Guardian of Earth obviously has geokinesis as her main power.
237	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first appearance in the comic: in quick succession she muses that Irma unwittingly using magic to make sure the teachers only ask her what she has studied is something for beginners, makes an annoyed face as she asks who is the girl that Hay Lin just saluted (it's Taranee, who is at her first day at school), admits that Elyon knows more about the other transfer student (Will, who is in their class), leaves Elyon (her best friend) at the mercy of Irma and Hay Lin's crazed attempts at finding a good penitence for her bad grade, then notices that Uriah and his gang are bullying Will and Taranee and [[BullyHunter sends the bullies running with a single phrase]] before [[LovableAlphaBitch effectively adopting Will and Taranee in her group of friends]].
238	* TheFashionista: Loves shopping and nice clothes. [[AllWomenLoveShoes And especially shoes]].
239	* FirstLove: In the comics, [[spoiler:for Caleb before he became a couple with Elyon.]]
240	* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Cornelia is elegant, logical, comes from a wealthy family, is involved in a "fairy-tale"-like romance and dresses nicely, but she's also very argumentative, cynical, and doesn't mind getting her feet dirty when there's hard labor.
241	* GreenThumb: Provides the trope picture.
242	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Cornelia can be a jerk, arrogant, and selfish...she also is loyal, doesn't like bullies, and will ''kick the ass'' of anyone that hurts the people she loves.
243	* IJustWantToBeNormal: When the Guardians were temporarily BroughtDownToNormal at the start of the ''New Power Saga'' she was the only one who wasn't freaking out, feeling finally normal. She instead freaks out when they get the titular power up, and had an OhCrap face when she saw it descending from the sky (again in contrast with the girls, who were happy of seeing the incoming magic and getting the power up). It resurfaced in issue #131: when the Guardians were told they were supposed to give up their powers or face a series of tasks to get a new power-up she was for giving them up, and accepted to take the tasks only in exchange for Irma's not making any joke on her for a year ([[StatusQuoIsGod Irma later succeeded in getting permission to joke as much as she wanted]]).
244	* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: She is capable of always looking glamorous and well-groomed, no matter what. Will even points out that if Cornelia was given mud-stained rags to wear, she would ''still'' be able to make a fabulous outfit out of them and also style her hair - ''without'' any magic involved.
245	* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Under the mask of overconfident popular girl is a shrinking violet that oftentimes realises she really doesn't enjoy to be in the center of attention. She's also incredibly insecure about her own fashion choices and dating, the two things everyone assumes she's perfect at.
246	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After the aforementioned defrosting. She can still be mean and self-absorbed, but her heart is as brave and selfless as her companions.
247	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Both her Guardian outfits are based on cocktail dresses.
248	* MeaningfulName:
249	** Her name is the female form of the name "Cornelius," meaning "the horned one" - a reference to her astrological sign, Taurus (which is by extension an Earth sign).
250	** There's some rather amusing official chibi art of her cosplaying as Taurus, complete with horns.
251	** In the [[Literature/TheBible New Testament]], Cornelius was directed by an angel to seek a man named [[spoiler: [[SecondLove Peter]]]].
252	* MindOverMatter: Her telekinesis. Her first use of it was to [[MundaneUtility clean her room]].
253	* MundaneUtility: The most often application of her telekinesis is lockpicking. To the point she stops carrying keys around.
254	* ProperLady: In the original comics, she's a mature and refined young lady.
255	* RapidHairGrowth: She has long blond hair in human form, but it grows out so that it almost reaches the ''floor'' in Guardian form. At times she can even use it as a weapon.
256	* RedOniBlueOni: The serious and grounded Blue to Irma's humorous and fun-loving Red. This is the main source of their conflicts.
257	* RichBitch: She comes from a rich family and she has her standoffish moments.
258	* SilkHidingSteel: She has this characterization in the comics, appearing as a refined young lady but is ''not'' to be underestimated.
259	* SitcomArchnemesis: With Irma, without ever meaning any of it beyond playful banter. Few times their rivality went serious, the girls quickly realised [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling something was off]].
260	* SizeShifter: One of her powers is to grow bigger.
261	* SmallNameBigEgo: She has a serious case of overconfidence, believing she can handle almost anything on her own.
262	* SnarkKnight: Like Irma, Corny won't hesitate at her job of being a Guardian. She'll make snippy and witty one-liners.
263	* StatuesqueStunner: The tallest of [=WITCH=] and can grow even ''taller'' thanks to her powers.
264	* TalkingToPlants: Comes with [[GreenThumb controlling them]].
265	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
266	** Girly LovableAlphaBitch Cornelia is often TheLancer to the tomboyish but doubtful leader Will.
267	** Serious and elegant Cornelia (girly girl) is often paired against laid-back and funny Irma (tomboy).
268	* ValleyGirl: Downplayed. She talks exactly like one, has an obsession with shopping, and enjoys flaunting her beauty and wealth. But she's also perceptive and down-to-earth, not to mention more emotionally sensitive than the other guardians; to the point that she's clearly TheLancer and often ends up butting heads with Will as a result.
269	* VitriolicBestBuds: With Irma, as they form a RedOniBlueOni duo and ''always'' squabble.
270	[[/folder]]
271
272	[[folder:Hay Lin]]
273	!!Hay Lin
274	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1432942797.jpg]]
275	[[caption-width-right:305:Normal form]]
276	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hay_lin2.png[[/labelnote]] to see Guardian form]]
277	[[caption-width-right:305:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hay_lin3.png[[/labelnote]] to see New Power form]]
278
279	The Air Guardian, Hay Lin is a bit of an [[{{Pun}} airhead]]. She enjoys art and comic books. Her family manages the Silver Dragon restaurant. She falls in love with Eric Lyndon.
280	----
281	* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: Has prior martial arts training, and can at least defend herself. Later complements it with UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}.
282	* AsianAirhead: It has less to do with her being dumb, and more about being a hyperactive ditz. Also, while can still appear to be a complete airhead, she's ''much'' [[SmarterThanYouLook smarter than she looks, especially in the comics]]. Her "having her head in the clouds", so to speak, is also a play on her air theming and motif, as those are traits [[ElementalPersonalities often associated with air aligned individuals]].
283	* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest member of W.I.T.C.H., even if just by a year.
284	* BadassPacifist: Hay Lin defeated a villain in the comics just by using her optimism.
285	* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is the most cheerful, quirky, and eccentric member of W.I.T.C.H. She's also the one who put a hurricane in a paper box small enough to be kept in a pocket.
286	* BewareTheSillyOnes: The goofiest of the group, but is just as effective in a fight. When Phobos calls her the weakest guardian, she responds by trapping him in a tornado, leaving him vulnerable to her melee attacks.
287	* BigEater: Implied in "S is for Self". And despite the amount of food she consumes, NeverGetsFat.
288	* TheBigGirl: Sometimes. She also has previous martial arts knowledge, good enough to knock down a Capoeira practitioner.
289	* BlowYouAway: Hay Lin is the Guardian of Air.
290	* CharacterCatchphrase: "Yap!", "Spacious!", "Out of this world"
291	* CheerfulChild: A teenager variant. Always a smile on her face.
292	* CloudCuckoolander: She has a quirky personality, which includes a peculiar fashion sense, a penchant for writing on her palms, and [[{{Neologizer}} a tendency to make up her own words]].
293	* {{Cloudcuckoolanguage}}: Sometimes she makes up words like "weirdific" or "rockalicious".
294	* CuteClumsyGirl: Very cute and very clumsy, but still capable.
295	* TheCutie: She's cute and adorably ditzy.
296	* DorkKnight: Hay Lin is the most dorky and happy-go-lucky Guardian of W.I.T.C.H.
297	* DreamWalker: In a sense. Hay Lin is capable of Empathic Precognition; if she's thinking strongly of someone before she sleeps, she can see what will happen to them in the future, like she did with Elyon before her coronation.
298	* TheFashionista: In a more artistic sense than Cornelia, though, as she makes her own clothing.
299	* FriendToAllLivingThings: In the comics, she rescued all the dogs in a not so great shelter.
300	* FullNameBasis: Lin is actually her family name.
301	* GenkiGirl: She loves life, designing clothes, painting, and sending armies of mooks flying with a wave of her arm.
302	* GiftGivingGaffe: She's next to impossible to find a good birthday gift for, as whatever her friends are planning to give her she somehow manages to ''always'' buy herself shortly before her birthday.
303	* GirlishPigtails: Has very long pigtails.
304	* GirlyBruiser: Hay Lin is a cute fashionista who's also got some martial arts skills.
305	* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Hay Lin is creative, free-spirited, and loves both fashion and the arts, but she's also a huge nerd obsessed with comic books/anime, space and sci-fi stuff.
306	* GogglesDoNothing: Wore them often in the earlier issues, but seemed to grow out of it.
307	* HairColorDissonance: Her hair are clearly and consistently purple, being the most prominent example of animesque hair color among main characters. Yet in-universe, they are described as simply black.
308	* HulkingOut: After she's cursed by a Ragorlang, she becomes one herself when she feels fear or anger. The rest of the Guardians soon break the curse.
309	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Her New Power outfit wouldn't be out of place at a formal event.
310	* KidAppealCharacter: The most childlike and fun-loving of the girls.
311	* MsImagination: Her favorite class is even art.
312	* MotorMouth: Comes with being a GenkiGirl.
313	* NoIndoorVoice: She's not as bad as Irma though and at least know when to stop talking.
314	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Like the other Guardians, [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism she becomes drunk with power]] in the New Power Arc and so overconfident that Yan Lin notices it's not like her.
315	* {{Otaku}}: She dreams of meeting aliens and has replicas of the [[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]].
316	* PerpetualSmiler: About 98% of the time. [[{{Tearjerker}} You should be worried when she's not smiling.]] To the point where in one arc of the Ragorlang arc her optimism allows her to save her friends, defeating the villain by her sheer optimism.
317	* RapidHairGrowth: Since the New Power story arc, her already long hair gets even longer in Guardian form.
318	* RavenHairIvorySkin: Technically, she's shown with blue hair.
319	* RummageSaleReject: Her personal clothing style is very random. Cornelia, who's a more traditional [[TheFashionista fashionista]], is often puzzled how exactly Hay Lin assembles her clothes and, more importantly, make them look ''good'' on her.
320	* TokenFlyer: Hay Lin is the only one of the Guardians who can fly thanks to her having power over air.
321	[[/folder]]

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