Jim and Ellie's Magical Adventure/Tropes

These are the tropes that apply to the *Jim and Ellie's Magical Adventure* franchise.

* **Elemental Powers**: Of the centrals' primary powers (not counting their secondary Elements)..
	+ **Light 'Em Up**: Nanette and Nina.
	+ **Making a Splash**: Marina.
	+ **Non-Elemental**: Mikey.
* **Expy**:
	+ Nanette is based on the canon Pokémon character of the day named Nanette, but without glasses.
	+ Marina is also based on another canon Pokémon character of the same name.
* **Masquerade**: Averted. Like other series, magic is a common thing among creaturekind, so there is no need to hide it.
* **Secret Identity**: Also averted like other series.
* **Selfless Wish**: Deconstructed. Unlike Madoka Magica, Kyubey makes it clear there is nothing wrong with making a wish for themselves and doesn't shame them for it, since that is the whole purpose of the wish. However, a few characters do use their wishes for the benefit of others.
* **True Companions**: The main characters are a group of tight-knit friends who would do anything for each other.
* **Recruit Teenagers With Attitude**: The main cast consists almost entirely of teenagers, though there is the Token Adult here and there, such as Nina (though she is technically both). According to Kyubey, the Magic of Friendship mainly picks teenagers and children because it wants those who fight to be as fit and healthy as possible.
* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: Known ones so far...
	+ Nanette and Nina.
	+ Hilda and Bianca.
	+ Cheren and Nate.
* **A\*\*\*\*le Victim**: Mild example: While witching out is horrible, there have been some instances where a character is entirely at fault for becoming a witch, usually due to their own personality flaw.
* **Mascots Love Sugar**: Kyubey *loves* sweets and childish characters often feed her candy.
* **The Corruption**: Harmony Gems become tainted when their owner experiences extreme negative emotions, due to the sentient force Chaos that is within everycreature just like the Light of Hope. However, unlike *Madoka Magica*, Grief Seeds are not required to clean them, they do not darken when their owners use their powers, and if the negative emotions die down, the darkness will be cleansed.
* **Benevolent Genie**: Kyubey grants any positive wishes of Chosen Ones and gives them exactly what they want. They can range from being fairly abstract, items, Pokémon that normally wouldn't be possible, one's health, or even affecting the future.
* **The Ace**: Nanette, Nina, Cherry Miles, Madoka, Twilight Sparkle, and Jim are among the most powerful magical warriors.
* **Five-Man Band**: There are more than five in the core group, but it is the same idea.
	+ **The Leader**: Nanette amd Jim. (Talk about a very close friendship...)
	+ **The Lancer**: Nina and Marina.
	+ **The Smart Guy**: Ellie.
	+ **The Love Interest**: Mikey.
* **The Power of Friendship**: Friendship is *the* most important thing in the series, and is literally magical.
* **The Power of Love**: While friendship is the most powerful magic there is, don't underestimate its close cousin, love. In particular, when Nanette has to leave her friends for Pasio in order to rule the Pokéverse, all of the magical warriors, Pokémon, and Kyubey break down crying and tell Nanette that they love her, even the rude snarkers like Cheren.
* **All-Loving Heroine**: While Nanette is this most of the time, this doesn't *compare* to characters like Madoka, who are *extremely* optimistic, nice, and forgiving, are often way too trusting, and are prone to tears easily.
* **The Clan**:
	+ The Daisies usually have dull blue hair, wear purple, and have a daisy-shaped birthmark.
	+ The Porters all have electric blue hair and eyes, wear electric blue, and have a Poké Ball-shaped birthmark. This is subverted with Chloe Porter, who has the birthmark despite having different hair and eye colors.
* **Wonder Twin Powers**: A few pairs of magical warriors must be with each other to transform. If one of them is unavailable, witches out, or they have a severe argument, they cannot transform at all. Known ones so far include:
	+ Harper and Sarah.
	+ A variation on this is used with the Burst Warriors, such as Aurea and her teammates as well as Mikey, Lydia, and Chelsea, who require a specific Pokémon of theirs to help them transform. If the Pokémon is unavailable they cannot transform.
	+ Averted examples: Nanette and Marina as well as Madoka and Homura/Sayaka. They usually transform together with a dual transformation sequence, though they can transform independently of each other.
* **Frills of Justice**: Each magical warrior gets his/her own fancy costume. The designs vary *very* wildly, from Nanette's purple, pink, and white Senshi-esque costume to Clemont's outfit resembling a shiny, technology-themed suit of armor... with wings.
* **Magical Accessory**: When not in use, Harmony Gems are stored inside a piece of jewelry with their owner's name on it in runes, for safekeeping. While this is most commonly a ring, this is not always the case, as is the case with Bianca's flower earring. As they get older, the piece of jewlery magically changes size to accomodate them.
* **Super Mode**: In Season 10, all the warriors gain a powerup known as Rainbow Power, which has the side-effect of giving them longer hair in its normal color but with stripes of their theme color.
* **Miko**: Certain magical warriors, known as "Mikos," have no combat power or weapons, and no Elemaximum, but can still transform whenever they want and can have direct conversations with and receive messages from the Shinju, the Magic of Friendship, and the Light of Hope.
* **The Messiah**: There is another category of magical warriors whose Harmony Gems and Power Necklaces literally do nothing unless their powers are needed in specific situations, when it would be logical to transform (such as if there's a bridge and everycreature else just flies over), or during very intense or difficult battles.
* **Magic Weapon**: Each warrior (unless they're a pure Miko, a support fighter, or has extreme superhuman strength) gets a maximum of four weapons, though they usually have two or three. One is typically required for a purification finisher and often for sub-attacks, but are more often than not also used to deliver blows or damage on the enemy in their own right. However, weapons that function more like tools, such as Homura's sole "weapon" (a shield), are also counted as weapons, and regardless of style, all weapons are excused from being censored in the English dub (even ones such as guns) even if they would be if used by a non-warrior.
* **Story-Breaker Power**: While Nanette and Jim may both be among the two most powerful warriors of the core group, the writers have to sometimes put them in realistic situations such as being inexperienced and getting the hang of their powers, becoming exhausted from using too much power, having to face an enemy that is strong against their attacks, or getting their transformation items stolen, in order for the show to not be 3 episodes long.
* **Taglong Kid**: Max and Bonnie are this, as they are initially too young to have their own Pokémon.
* **Tomboy and Girly-Girl**:
	+ Nanette (downplayed tomboy) and Marina (girly-girl).
	+ Kailee is the tomboy of Aurea's team, and Fennel is the girly-girl.
	+ Rainbow Dash and Applejack (tomcolts) and Pinkie Pie and Rarity (fillyish-fillies).
* **Bowlderize**: Smoking, drinking, violence, and nudity (except during transformation sequences) are usually toned down or altered in the English dub. Scenes as romantic kissing are usually censored to show only the partners' legs, though platonic kissing such as a forehead kiss by a parent or Trainer is never censored. This is a case of Values Dissonance since Japanese media has a higher threshold of what is appropriate for kids.
* **Power Tattoo**: Harmony Marks (and Cutie Marks) are a variation on this. The former appear on humans' clothes and are related to their powers - if the Harmony Mark is removed, so are their powers. Whenever somebody is not wearing clothes, the Harmony Mark moves to their hip, and it reappears in the same spot whenever they change clothes. Children may also (but not always) have similarly-themed Harmony Marks to their parents or family members, as shown with Mikey and his brothers all having Eevee-themed Harmony Marks.
* **Closeted Geek**:
	+ Whitely, despite being 14, secretly plays with dolls and plushies, and doesn't want to admit it out of embarassment.
	+ Nina is secretly a fan of the show *Birdseed Boulevard,* which is a parody of *Sesame Street.*
	+ When in the privacy of her own home, Aurea, despite being an adult, wears fuzzy Wigglytuff onesies and Buneary slippers, but is too embarassed to wear them in front of anycreature.
* **Talking the Monster to Death**:
	+ When Sayaka witches out, Madoka and Kyoko talk to Oktavia von Seckendorff and attempt to get her to remember. Unlike her canon counterpart, it actually works - Oktavia remembers Madoka and with sheer willpower, *purifies herself*. Also unlike her canon counterpart, Kyoko doesn't cut off her hand since witchification isn't permanent.
	+ Subverted example with Duchess Pilut. After Cheren confesses to her while she's witched out, she appears as if she has calmed down and is going to let herself be purified without a fight... until she then suddenly gets angry and tries to kill Cheren before he manages to actually purify her.
* **Heart is An Awesome Power**: Characters with ridiculously specific powers, such as Mikey's ability to create magical clones of Eevees that he can command to attack and charm enemies, still find ways to make them useful.
* **Forgot About Their Powers**: In "Battle Abord the St. Anne" and "Pokémon Shipwreck," it is unknown why the warriors don't think of just using a teleportation spell to get off. Marina *does*, however, use a magic bubble to encase everyone so they can float up to the surface.
* **Next-Tier Powerup**: The Power Necklaces upgrade when the warriors do a specific task. It is currently unknown, however, how exactly Stage 5 is earned, though after being earned, it only appears when necessary and gives the warrior a *huge* boost of power.
* **Recursive Ammo**: After being revived, the first thing the Divinity does is shoot a magic blast that travels through time and space, sending out mini-Divinities that fly down and heal despairing magical warriors. While the green-haired girl that Madoka saves in the canon episode is not seen, she *can* briefly be seen, in modern clothing, as a member of the Law of Cycles council.
* **Well-Intentioned Extremist**: Discord admitting in "The Ending of the End: Part 1" that he disguised himself as Grogar the whole time and united the villains is a well-intentioned but terribly misguided attempt to boost the warriors' confidence when they defeat the villains. Nanette and Jim, as well as Celestia and Luna, ***CHEW HIM OUT*** for this.
* **Shout-Out**: The series is inspired by a composite of several franchises, each adding a core element to the series.
	+ *Madoka Magica*: Kyubey, Harmony Gems, witches, and wishes.
	+ *Pokémon*: The series takes place mostly in the Pokémon world.
	+ *Pretty Cure*: Hair and eye colors changing when transformed, purification finishers, sub-attacks, and the phrase "Miracle Engage!" is based on the transformation phrase "Princess Engage!" from *Go! Princess Pretty Cure*. Almost all those chosen to fight evil are also young people in their teens or preteens - old enough to understand what they're doing, but not too old that they're past their physical prime for running and jumping around. Some redeemed villains even become Chosen Ones and heroes in their own right.
	+ *My Little Pony*: Magic of Friendship (a sentient cosmic force that selects Chosen Ones based on their positive personality traits and kindness for others, and grants upgrades when they have been earned, and sometimes restores things and revives dead warriors/others), Chosen Ones, and each Chosen One is connected to an Element of Harmony. Personalized symbols, which are Harmony Marks for humans and Cutie Marks for ponies, also appear on everyone.
	+ *Sailor Moon*: Light of Hope (a sentient cosmic force that sometimes performs miracles and is within everycreature), Chaos (an evil sentient force that is the opposite to the Light of Hope and is also in everycreature), and souls resembling Star Seeds.
	+ *Winx Club*: No aliases, Masquerade, or secret identities, everycreature's powerset (besides basic species-specific powers, such as Pegasus flight, Changeling shspeshifting, Dragon fire breath, or enhanced physical abilities in the case of magical warriors) both transformed and untransformed, and their transformed appearance, being unique to them alone and most specific attacks and spells cannot be used or learned by others. Most characters also have wings and the ability to fly when transformed.
	+ *Miraculous Ladybug*: Magical warriors are immune to physical damage such as bruises, cuts, broken bones, or other injuries, while transformed, even on bare skin. Warriors also require food after each transformation, much like Kwamis. After activating Elemaximum, a 5-minute countdown starts ticking, indicated by one part of the Elemaximum Gauge disappearing per minute, just like the five sections/dots on the heroes' Miraculouses disappearing with each passing minute in the canon show. After the timer is up, the warrior will automatically detransform. There are also plenty of male warriors.
	+ *YuYuYu*: Mikos, sanging, Elemaximum, and the Shinju.
* **Platonic/Romantic Juxtaposition**: This occasionally pops up, such as when Bianca hugs and tells her father she loves him after the episode's conflict involves her and Cheren becoming a romantic couple and confessing their feelings (though it is heavily modified from the GoH version).
* **Deadpan Snarker**: Countless examples.
	+ Cheren tends to be this *a lot*, something even getting into fights with others who have similar personalities.
	+ Two words: Twilight Sparkle. **ENOUGH SAID**.
	+ Nanette is this occasionally, especially when the others act stupid or fight.
	+ Rainbow Dash snarks commonly, though not as much as Twilight.
	+ Iris tends to do this whenever she calls another character a "little kid."
	+ Bonnie, whenever her brother's inventions explode.
	+ Kyoko is definitely one of these, especially combined with her Lady-Swears-a-Lot tendencies.
	+ Homura is a rare cold-personalitied example.
* **Yandere**: In his witch form, Sandstone, Brock is dangerously obsessed with *any* female character (even Pokemon and Kyubey), trying to capture all the females and hold them captive (though since it is a kids' show, this doesn't go any farther than that) and attempts to kill any male in sight, seeing them as "competition." This stems from him being rejected by a *very* pretty Nurse Joy and not taking it well. In the same episode, however... Let's just say Nanette goes ***BONKERS*** when she finds out her mother is held captive. Jim's reaction? He goes berserk as well.
* **The Chosen Many**: The main characters are a group of teens and kids specifically selected by the Magic of Friendship to save the Multiverse from evil. Jim, however, is the only adult of the Chosen.
* **Clear My Name**: In "Where Did You Go, Audino?", Officer Jenny and her two young assistants accuse the warriors of stealing the missing Audino, but they prove they didn't after showing them their Harmony Gems as proof they're the famous magical warriors.
* **Sleep Cute**: Non-romantic examples sometimes happen with two best friends sleeping together, Trainers and Pokémon, siblings, etc.