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6This is an index of tropes relating to all types of characters who have the ability to use magic.
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8This index is a subcategory of MagicAndPowers, obviously enough.
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14'''Related indexes:'''
15* MagicalGirlTropes
16* OurWitchesAreDifferent
17* WitchWorks
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19* AllWitchesHaveCats: Many witches have familiars that are cats.
20* TheArchmage: The leader of a group of magicians.
21* BenevolentMageRuler: A [[TheGoodKing good-natured monarch]] who is also a magician.
22* BlackMage: A sorcerer who specializes in using offensive magic for combat.
23* BlackMagicianGirl: A young, hot-tempered female black mage.
24* BlueCollarWarlock: A warlock or witch who dresses and acts like an average person; often found in modern fantasy settings.
25* BurnTheWitch: People who are accused of witchcraft end up getting executed, usually by being [[KillItWithFire burned at the stake]].
26* CatsAreMagic: Felines who can use magic.
27* ChildMage: A kid who can use magic.
28* ColorCodedWizardry: When wizards use different colors to distinguish themselves, usually denoting rank, the type of magic they use, and so on.
29* CourtMage: A sorcerer who serves a monarch as a member of their royal court.
30* CuteWitch: An adorable witch.
31* CyborgWizard: A {{cyborg}} who has both mechanical implants and magical powers.
32* DarkMagicalGirl: A villainous but conflicted magical girl with a DarkAndTroubledPast; she often ends up making a HeelFaceTurn.
33* {{Druid}}: A mage of Celtic heritage.
34* EthnicMagician: A mage who is a member of some "exotic" nation or race.
35* EvilSorcerer: A wicked wizard who maliciously uses [[TheDarkArts dark]] [[BlackMagic magic]] to terrorize people for personal gain.
36* FakeWizardry: Someone pretends to have magical powers.
37* {{Familiar}}: A witch's magical pet.
38* FlyingBroomstick: Enchanted cleaning tools are a common form of transportation for witches.
39* GentlemanWizard: A cultured male wizard.
40* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: In cases where not all witches are evil, there is often a marked distinction between "good" witches and "bad" witches.
41* GothGirlsKnowMagic: {{Goth}} girls or women depicted with magical powers. Not unusual for them to be witches.
42* TheHecateSisters: What happens when the CuteWitch, HotWitch and WickedWitch appear together.
43* HotWitch: A sexy witch.
44* IneptMage: An incompetent sorcerer who's not very good at using magic.
45* KungFuWizard: A magical fighter who can use both magic and (bare-handed) martial arts.
46* LadyOfBlackMagic: An elegant witch who is a powerful black mage.
47* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: Warriors are {{Crutch Character}}s, but wizards have MagikarpPower.
48* MageBornOfMuggles: Someone who was born with magic powers to [[{{Muggles}} normal]] parents.
49* MageMarksman: A magical fighter who can use both magic and ranged weapons (like bows or guns).
50* MageSpecies: [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Magical powers are hereditary]].
51* MageTower: Magic-users tend to live in towers, or anywhere else higher, typically in fantasy settings.
52* MageInManhattan: When a villainous magic user winds up in a modern part of our world.
53* MagicIsFeminine: Magic is primarily associated with female or feminine characters.
54* MagicKnight: A magical fighter who can use both magic and melee weapons (like swords or shields).
55* MagicalClown: A clown, jester, or mime with (often bright and colorful) magic powers.
56* MagicalGirl: A girl who gains magical powers (and some cool outfits to go with them).
57* MagicalGirlfriend: The LoveInterest of an ordinary man (or less commonly, ordinary woman) who has supernatural powers.
58* MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest: A Magical Girl princess must prove she can also be a queen.
59* MagicalGirlWarrior: A magical girl who uses her abilities to become a superheroine and fight evil.
60* MagicalNativeAmerican: Indigenous Americans (usually tribal shamans of some sort) possess magical powers, or at least a greater awareness of the supernatural world.
61* MagicalRomani: UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} people who possess magical powers, usually for the purposes of [[{{Seers}} fortune-telling]] and/or putting {{gypsy curse}}s on their enemies.
62* MagicalSociety: Magicians live in their own society away from mainstream civilization.
63* MagiciansAreWizards: A stage magician who also doubles as a ''real'' magician, capable of casting genuine magic spells offstage.
64* TheMagocracy: A government led by mages.
65* MerlinAndNimue: A duo consisting of an older mage (like {{Myth/Merlin}}) and his younger apprentice (like Myth/{{Nimue}}).
66* MilitaryMage: A sorcerer who is serving as a soldier in the armed forces, using their magic either for direct combat or other support roles.
67* MuggleBornOfMages: Someone who was born ''without'' magic powers to magical parents.
68* MuggleInMageCustody: When [[{{Muggles}} a normal person without magical powers]] is a slave or a ward to a magician.
69* MuggleMageRomance: When a magician falls in love with a [[{{Muggles}} normal person]].
70* MuggleWithADegreeInMagic: Someone who's an expert on magic, but lacks the ability to actually use it.
71* {{Necromancer}}: A magician with the power to mess around with life and death, [[BackFromTheDead resurrecting dead people back to life]] (or more often, turning them into freaky [[TheUndead undead beings]]).
72* NotThatKindOfMage: When one type of mage or magical tradition is mistaken for another or a pop-culture version.
73* OurLichesAreDifferent: An undead sorcerer, who likely used necromancy on themselves in order to cheat death.
74* OurMagesAreDifferent: The exact nature of mages, wizards, and their magic will vary depending on the story.
75* RabbitMagician: A bunny who can use magic.
76* TheRedMage: A magician capable of casting spells from multiple schools of magic.
77* ReligionIsMagic: When this trope is in effect, expect any priest (or highly devout layperson) to be able to practice sorcery by praying to their deity.
78* RobeAndWizardHat: Standard attire for magicians.
79* RobotWizard: A {{robot}} or other mechanical being who is surprisingly capable of using magic.
80* SalemIsWitchCountry: The town where the infamous witch trials took place has taken on a reputation for witchcraft ever since.
81* ScienceWizard: A sorcerer-scientist who's either trained in both magic and some form of science, or [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic takes a scientific approach to the study of the mystical arts]].
82* SelkiesAndWereseals: Human-seal shapeshifters that are sometimes sea witches.
83* {{Skinwalker}}: A demonic creature from [[Myth/NativeAmericanMythology Navajo mythology]], usually a (formerly human) sorcerer who used occult witchcraft to gain the ability to shapeshift into various animal forms.
84* SolitarySorceress: A witch or other female magician who lives far away from society.
85* SorcerousOverlord: An EvilOverlord who is also a master of the dark mystical arts.
86* SquishyWizard: Magicians who can kick ass using magic, but are physically vulnerable to attacks due to a lack of more mundane fighting skills.
87* StageMagician: AKA an illusionist, a type of entertainer who uses ''fake'' magic tricks while performing in front of an audience.
88* SupernaturalMartialArts: Learning certain forms of fist-fighting will allow you to also use some cool magical powers to kick ass.
89* SwordAndSorcerer: When a warrior and a mage fight together as a pair.
90* TokenWizard: The only mage among this group of people.
91* UnequalRites: Commonly involves feminine "witch magic" being contrasted to masculine "wizard magic".
92* UnSorcerer: When taken to the extreme, this is a powerless person who's completely surrounded by magical people.
93* VainSorceress: A witch who's fixated on her physical beauty, often using magic to maintain/enhance her looks.
94* TheWeirdSisters: When witches form teams of three.
95* WhiteMage: A sorcerer who specializes in using defensive magic or healing spells.
96* WhiteMagicianGirl: A young, kind-hearted female white mage.
97* WickedWitch: An archetypical evil witch; she'll usually be physically unattractive, wear [[EvilWearsBlack black clothes]], ride a FlyingBroomstick, and/or [[BewitchedAmphibians turn people into frogs]] while [[EvilLaugh cackling maniacally]].
98* WidowWitch: Many witches are lonely sorts, usually having suffered a loss in love.
99* WitchClassic: The archetypical witch in black who rides a FlyingBroomstick.
100* WitchDoctor: A tribal shaman who serves as both a healer and wizard.
101* WitchHunt: Can refer to both [[BurnTheWitch literal]] and figurative witch-hunts (any sort of persecution resulting from mass hysteria).
102* TheWitchHunter: Someone who [[HunterOfMonsters hunts]] witches, usually going after the [[EvilSorcerer evil]] [[WickedWitch types]].
103* WitchWithACapitalB: Using the word "witch" as an insult in place of "bitch"; in some cases it's literal ''and'' figurative.
104* WizardBeard: A male wizard with a long, often white, beard.
105* WizardClassic: The archetypical wizard; usually an older man with a long beard, who wears robes, carries a staff, and comes off as both wise and eccentric.
106* AWizardDidIt: Things that don't make sense in the plot are handwaved or explained as "magic".
107* WizardDuel: Two mages duke it out in a fight with magic.
108* WizardingSchool: A school that teaches magic to magicians in training.
109* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Magicians who live in a ScienceFantasy setting.
110* WizardsLiveLonger: Magical people have longer lifespans than [[{{Muggles}} normal people]].
111* WizardsWar: A wide-scale, destructive conflict between magic-users.
112* WizardWorkshop: The working area of a magician, filled with strange instruments and arcane materials.

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