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6 | This is an index of tropes relating to all types of characters who have the ability to use magic. |
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8 | This index is a subcategory of MagicAndPowers, obviously enough. |
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11 | !!Tropes: |
12 | [[index]] |
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14 | '''Related indexes:''' |
15 | * MagicalGirlTropes |
16 | * OurWitchesAreDifferent |
17 | * WitchWorks |
18 | ] |
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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