"We're Maple Sugar and Gosling! MAGICAL GIRLS! And we're going to protect this city FOREVER!"
— Gosling, Episode 10: Magical Girls
Maple Sugar and Gosling: Magical Girls is a Canadian Magical Girl webcomic written by Timmo Warner. The comic stars Angel and Samantha, two girls from Toronto, Canada with the power to transform into Magical Girl Warriors to protect their city.
The comic can be read here.
This comic provides examples of:
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Gosling is a magical girl whose powers are themed around, as her name implies, geese. Those powers include flying via a pair of magical birdlike wings, control over wind, and summoning a magical construct in the form of a goose.
- Blow You Away: Gosling has the power to control wind.
- The Cameo: In the epilogue, Bud, Gwen, and Zoe from Sleepless Domain can be seen hanging out together at the coffee shop.
- Combination Attack: In the girls' first outing, Gosling combines her wind powers with Maple Sugar's maple syrup to create a powerful vortex that stops a runaway dump truck in its tracks.
- Moose and Maple Syrup: It's a Magical Girl series that takes place in Canada, and it incorporates all sorts of Canadian cultural icons — the two main characters are magical girls themed around maple syrup and the Canada goose, and they fight a massive mutant grizzly bear as a Monster of the Week, just for example. In particular, Sam pokes fun at how stereotypically Canadian her partner Angel is, seeing as she plays lacrosse and her favorite snack is ketchup chips."You're not just Canadian, you're some kind of HIPSTER Canadian!"
- Switch to English: When Québécois businessman Monsieur Bernard first arrives, he introduces himself to Maple Sugar in French, which she is fluent in. However, Maple asks him to speak English instead, as she doesn't want Gosling to be left out of the conversation.
- Transformation Sequence: The girls get a full-page sequence in "Transformation!", complete with a Transformation Name Announcement.
- Transformation Trinket: Each of the girls has a hairclip in the shape of a maple leaf, which is what allows them to transform.
- Wham Line: At the end of Chapter 2, M. Bernard congratulates the two girls on their latest victory, and then asks Gosling to leave the room so that he can speak with Maple privately in her "native tongue." He then proceeds to say something to her in an unintelligible Starfish Language, immediately prompting her to grab Gosling's hand and run.
