Magicae Amicitiae et Harmoniae/Tropes

These are tropes that apply to *Magicae Amicitiae et Harmoniae*.

## Multi-Arc

* **Magical Girl A.U.**: Should be obvious. Males even become magical warriors too.
* **Befriending the Enemy**: Happens in most arcs.
* **The Chosen One**: More than one, actually, but close enough.
* **Fairy Companion**: A Magi's Mini-Self and at least one Dream Pixie both apply.
* **Mentor Mascot**: Kyubey is this for the main Magis.
* **Power Gives You Wings**: Usually when a Magi is transformed.
* **The Power of Friendship**: Friendship is **THE** most powerful magic.
	+ **The Power of Love**: Don't underestimate its close cousin (love), either.
* **Recruit Teenagers with Attitude**: Most of the magical warriors are teenagers.
* **Sailor Senshi Send-Up**: Nanette and Blissany are this in their transformed states, although the trope is downplayed to some extent.
* **Transformation Name Announcement**: Happens for instant transformations.
* **No Hugging, No Kissing**: Downplayed, as there are romantic relationships, but there is an emphasis on platonic love.
* **Talking the Monster to Death**: It is difficult, but not impossible, to reason with a witch and get them to snap out of their despair. However, an Armor-Piercing Question or Wham Line is usually required to make them reconsider. This has happened a few times:
	+ Madoka convinces Oktavia to purify herself after she asks her if Kyousuke would really want to date a gigantic armored mermaid who hurts people and throws wheels, and that he wouldn't want her to feel like this.
	+ Molly saves Bailey from witching out by reminding her of the time the latter saved the former from a deadly Arbok bite when the two were younger, although she cannot purify her herself and another Magi (in this case, Nina Aarden) has to do it.
	+ Cheren is a subverted example, as Duchess Pilut appears to be calmed down by his words (namely his love confession), only to suddenly get angry and try to kill him.
	+ Dragonet calms down Behaver by (angrily) shouting that she still loves her more than anything, and clarifying that she never once said that she hated her, which gives Marina time to purify her.
* **Shout-Out**:
	+ *Madoka Magica*:
		- Creating a Mini-Self is painful, much like how painful it is for a Soul Gem to be created. However, here's the subversion: *Kyubey* is the one feeling the pain, not the Magi whose Mini-Self will be created.
		- Michelle's transformation sequence resembles Yachiyo's in the *Magica Record* anime - her clothes transform into a long dress of light (instead of the typical body glow), and her outfit appears under the dress as she walks.
	+ *YuYuYu*:
		- The Shinkon in Arc 20. However, Cynthia, not Cherry (Yuuna), is the "wife" being "wed."
* **But Now I Must Go**:
	+ This happens to Cherry Lovedream at the final chapter of her arc. After permanently becoming the Perserver Aiko, she disappears, but not before she tells her friends that she still has hope for Valerie's eventual redemption and that she'll always be with them and future Magis that serve the Shinju.
* **Tempting Fate**:
	+ Cherry Lovedream states that her team will never be apart. In the finale of her arc, she dies and becomes a Perserver as a result, while her best friend becomes the evil Queen Vera. As a last resort, Michelle has no choice but to disband their team.

## Movies

*Note: Usually in-between arcs.*

* **Brought Down to Normal**: Happens to Arcturus at the end of *Melody's Trauma*. Unlike other series, he is unable to ask the MoA for dark magic, and he hides himself from others (even his own children) as a result.
	+ It wasn't until the present-day that he stopped being a hermit and apologized to Melody for leaving her alone.

## Cherry Magica

* **Gendered Outfit**: Averted for the warriors' civilian forms, as other than Jasper, they all wear the same garment (other than the color) and geta sandals whether male or female. This makes sense considering that in the Yayoi period (the period the clothes are derived from), men and women wore the same type of outfit. Obviously played striaght in their Magi forms, however.
	+ It is also confirmed by the creator of the six magical warriors that due to humans and Pokémon having yet to bond and form partnerships with each other, and due to modern weaving techniques not existing yet, the fabric of the 5 humans' (and other civilians') normal clothing is made of silk collected from wild Silcoon and Cascoon that are killed, boiled, and unraveled, and the silk is then magically made into fabric by skilled people who possess the magic ability to do so. This is due to them not yet realizing that they can use the move String Shot, so they don't know any better and don't know that they don't have to kill them.
* **Terrible Artist**: Best shown when Cherry goes ***BONKERS*** after Jasper once attempts to draw her using some magically-created paint from a shop... only for the drawing to end up looking like a pink Pony head who has rows of fangs.

## Nina Magica

* **Coming-of-Age Story**: Obvious. After a certain chapter, the Magis have aged 20 years.

## Tale of the Two Non-Magi Cherries

* **Bad\*bleep\* Adorable**: Subverted. While the main characters are not Puella Magis, they still have the strength to fight regular bad guys...using their Pokémon, of course.

## Tart Magica

* **Amazon Brigade**: Tart's magical girl group. The villainous English magical girls are also this.
* **Anachronism Stew**: The magical girl outfits the main cast and the antagonists wear get a bit of an Artistic License here, as while everyone wears clothing that is appropriate for the time period of the story's setting, the magical girl outfits look like modern cosplay costumes that would be tailor-made in the 21st Century. And even then, the design styles of these outfits would fit more in the 1800s than they would in the 1400s. Likely justified because they're magical by nature and can be changed on a whim.
* **Animal Motifs**: The enemy magical girls working against Tart and co have French animal names and wear masks corresponding to that animal.
* **Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever**: A giant witch made out of vines appears in the fourth chapter. Tart obliterates it with *one blast* of her magic. Another giant witch appears as big as the fort of Orléans.
* **Beethoven Was an Alien Spy**: The entire premise of the story.
	+ And not just Joan of Arc. Apparently both Pernelle Flamel (wife of Nicholas Flamel) and Elisabeth of Baravia (the *queen of France*) were magical girls.
* **Bound and Gagged**: Tart after being captured.
* **Brainwashed and Crazy**: The English magical girl trio has a squad of them. One of them, named Fléche, mortally wounds La Hire and Tart at the battle of Orléans.
* **Crouching Moron, Hidden Bad\*bleep\***: A lot of the nobles, from both French and English, are more badass than they look. Both Gilles de Rais and Arthur de Richmont are very foppish and flamboyant, but they hold their own in battle and good in court intrigue. John Talbot looks like a standard Aristocrats Are Evil Fat Bastard, but he shows himself as a strong warrior who swings BFS one-handed, a competent general, Father to His Men, a Worthy Opponent, and Graceful Loser.
* *Curb-Stomp Battle'*: The three sisters completely take over Orléans, blasting all the French soldiers into pieces, and wounds Jean de Dunois in the leg.
* **Disney Death**: Tart and La Hire at Orléans. Melissa's wish brought them back.
* **Doomed Hometown**: Domrémy-la-Pucelle is ransacked by invaders after Riz departed. They were waiting for her to leave.
* **Flashback**: Chapter 4 begins with Tart and Riz leaving their village before flashing back to Catherine's funeral.
* **For Doom the Bell Tolls**: The very first witch Tart encounters in her flashback is a butterfly with its bell rung by fairy familiars.
* **Foreshadowing**: One of the splash moments is showing the three England magical girl sisters, with a script of The Marriage of Figaro in French written on about the banter between Figaro and Suzanne discussing about love. Apparently, too much love is never enough, not too mention too little, as Corbeau finds out.
* **Giant Enemy Crab**: One of the Witches Tart and Riz face while traveling from Vaucoulears to Chinon is a giant crab with a dinning table for a back and a girl (presumably the original magical girl of the Witch) kneeling on top of it.
* **Hard-Work Montage**: When Riz and Melody begin training Tart.
* **Heroic Sacrifice**: Tart defends Melissa from Corbeau and Fléche's attacks and left a hole in her. Melissa then decides to become a magical girl.
* **Historical Domain Character**: Everywhere! Our main characters are Joan d'Arc, the granddaughter of John Hawkwood, daughter of La Hire, and Elizabeth of Luxembourg, and it's still discounting other characters, major or minor, that appear in the story.
* **Historical Fantasy**: It's a story about magical girl Joan of Arc. What do you expect?
* **Important Haircut**: Tart does this upon making her wish. She leaves her cut braid at Catherine's grave.
* **Killed Off for Real**: Catherine is the first to die.
* **Last-Name Basis**: Kyubey and the magical girls simply call Joan "Tart," while Melody calls her "Tartie-san."
* **Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!**: For a definition of hero, as Kyubey is a loyal companion of Tart's group. Ever wonder if a Chosen One gets too curious about the magical warrior system and wishes for something that screws the system badly after knowing the context? Queen Isabeau, the Woman Who Sold Her Nation, did just that and transcended the magical warriors, the witches, and the Incubators to become a personification of evil because of multiple events that she arranged. It's possible that she transcended the Vertex, too...
* **Ominous Owl**: The first witch appearing in the arc. Unlike the canon manga version, Riz allows Melody to defeat her... *in one shot*.
* **Real Event, Fictional Cause**: Because of the amount of magic present in the story and of magical girls fighting out in open, there are a lot of things that are interpreted differently by the story because of it. Both Charles VI and Charles VII were driven mad because their wife/mother Isabeau's magic is playing with their lives, William Glasdale was found dead in Loire River not because he fought with Jeanne d'Arc but because he spoke out against Corbeau and she killed him as an example, and *Minou* was the one executed due to Tart becoming a Perserver.
* **Our Fairies Are Different**: Tart is introduced to the world of magical girls by fairies — most of which are actually a witch's familiars. Melody has to point this out by saying she has fairy *wings* after a moment of confusion.
* **Sacrificial Lamb**: Catherine again. She takes down one of the ransackers with the sword skills she learned from Riz. Unfortunately, she was stabbed from behind, and Tart witnesses it all.
* **Spell My Name with an "S"**: "Tart" is one of the alternate spellings of Joan of Arc's surname. This actually comes up in story; Kyubey asks Tart to write her name, and she writes it as "Jehanne Tart" after admitting that she's not sure if it's correct. Melody facepalms at this.
* **Threatening Shark**: A witch assumes the form of a hammerhead shark, complete with a giant crossbow on its head. Elisa of the Order of the Dragon shoots it down with one blast.
* **Time Passes Montage**: After Riz decides to stay at Tart's village, there are several scenes of her and Tart before revealing that three years have passed.
* **Wham Chapter**: At the end of chapter 4, Riz outright tells Tart that magical warriors become witches, while Melody adds that they can be purified. That's not the surprising part. What's surprising is that Tart *accepts* this without falling into despair, and reaffirms her vow to save France.
* **You Have Failed Me**: Subverted. When one of the brainwashed magical girls is incapable of defeating Tart and co., Minou immediately turns her into a witch with her branding iron, which makes her a much bigger threat.

## Abigail Magica

* **All-Loving Heroine**: Abigail is this.

## Madoka Magica

* **Go-Go Enslavement**: G-rated example. If Madoka doesn't get the Super Potion in time, the Squirtle Squad threatens to dress her friends in clown suits and clown makeup... which they proceed to do, much to *Homura's* extreme humiliation. This results in her witching out in the next episode.