Her Mini Dress Of Power must always be cute.
Tropes that are more likely than not to show up in a Magical Girl show.
Tropes:
Related:
- Action Girl
- All-Loving Hero
- Badass Adorable (If she isn't this initially, expect her to become it)
- Befriending the Enemy (A very common tactic of magical girls. It's very likely at some point that a magical girl will at least attempt this)
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Brought Down to Badass
- Brought Down to Normal
- Butterfly of Transformation (particularly as a costume element)
- By the Power of Grayskull!
- Calling Your Attacks
- Care-Bear Stare
- Child Mage (If the magical girl is a pre-teen.)
- The Chosen One
- City of Adventure
- Coming-of-Age Story
- Cute Clumsy Girl
- Cute Witch
- Dangerous 16th Birthday
- Dark Magical Girl
- Eleventh Hour Costume Change
- Everything's Better with Sparkles
- Extraordinarily Empowered Girl
- Fairy Companion
- Fairytale Motifs
- Five-Token Band (a trait of most Western magical girl shows, since Western countries are likely more diverse compared to Japan)
- Frills of Justice
- Frilly Upgrade
- Gemstone Assault
- Girlish Pigtails (especially for the lead character)
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals (keeping some in the main character's room)
- Good Costume Switch
- Gotta Catch Them All
- Growing Up Sucks (at least for older series)
- Henshin Hero
- Idiot Hero (at first)
- I Just Want to Be Normal (mainly in the 90's and early 2000's)
- In the Name of the Moon
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold (a common love interest)
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery (although not always aggressively)
- Leotard of Power (usually with a short skirt over it)
- Loves My Alter Ego
- Magical Girl
- Magical Girl AU
- Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction: dark reflections of Magical girl shows.
- Magical Girl Queenliness Test
- Magical Girl Warrior
- Magical Incantation (used by the Cute Witch)
- Magic Idol Singer
- Magical Land
- Magic Staff (used by some Magical Girl Warriors)
- Magic Wand (usually used by the Cute Witch variety)
- Masquerade
- Mentor Mascot
- Mini Dress Of Power
- Monster of the Aesop
- Monster of the Week
- Muggle Best Friend
- Muggle Foster Parents (for Cute Witches)
- Mysterious Protector
- New Powers as the Plot Demands
- Non-Human Sidekick
- Older Alter Ego (for Magic Idol Singers)
- Pimped-Out Dress (a magical girl's outfit is often very fancy)
- Pink Heroine
- Plot Coupon
- Princess Protagonist (the heroine is often a princess from a magical kingdom)
- Power Crystal
- Power Gives You Wings
- The Power of Friendship
- Recruit Teenagers with Attitude
- Rose-Haired Sweetie (especially for the lead character)
- Rousseau Was Right
- Sailor Senshi Send-Up
- Sealed Evil in a Can
- Sleep-Mode Size
- So Last Season (for outfits and attacks)
- Stock Shoujo Heroine
- Super-Cute Superpowers
- Transformation Name Announcement
- Transformation Sequence
- Transformation Trinket
- Triple Shifter
- Useless Boyfriend
- Villain-Possessed Bystander
- Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World