Samantha Stephens

**Samantha Stephens** is a one-time and crossover character of the episode, "*Samantha*", featured in the fifth season of the original series *The Flintstones*.

## Background

She is an American housewife who is also a witch. She has a twitch in her nose that has always been her main characteristic when doing magic. Samantha is a precious, cute and brave witch that you should not mess with unless you want to get turned into a frog or something of the kind.

## Physical Appearance

Samantha has large swirling eyes and silky, sleek blonde hair that is shoulder-length. She is slender and a tall cavewoman with fair skin, thick black eyebrows and red lips. She wears a heart-shaped necklace and a purple dress with small, white stars stitched into it.

## Personality

"*If I didn't want these things, I wouldn't be here. I enjoy taking care of myself and my family.*" Samantha to Darrin

Samantha is shown to be a loyal, compassionate and intelligent person. However, she betrayed her own kind and kin to marry a mortal; she was too lenient with Darrin and should have kept her powers from the beginning. However, she is a very endearing person. This was noted by everyone she has significant relationships with. She likes being a housewife and doesn't like overly using her witchcraft. However, no matter how hard she tries not to use it, she does anyway. She can never stray far from her heritage. She has never ever been shown to be an awfully vindictive or cruel person, like most witches are towards humans. This is surprising, considering that Samantha's mother Endora hates mortals and presumably brought her daughter up with this belief. Samantha has also been shown to demonstrate a great deal of intelligence, able to cope well in bad situations and can solve a predicament entirely by herself.

Samantha also possessed a spirited and compassionate nature. She was considered by many in Morning Glory Circle to be very beautiful. She also proved to be beautiful and competent; she was very fiery in nature and also happened to be the only one who would stand up for her choices and beliefs. She was not afraid to be different to other witches and strongly believed in the justice and rightness of her marriage to Darrin. Despite having betrayed her own kind, she did not do it to be cruel or unjust; she even defied the Witches' Council, the head of all witches and even more powerful than the Queen or High Priestess. She would always stand up for what she believed was right.

She was also not always serious; she would, a lot of the time, be humorful. Although Darrin would rarely reciprocate the humor, it didn't stop her. She was also brave willed and possessed a passionate and fiery spirit. The most beautiful natured and intelligent witch on the show, she also lacked a few personality aspects she may have needed. However, she got along with her life without the personality aspects she was missing. She, unlike many other people, possessed both physical and inner beauty. This was rare for witches. She was more unique than any other witch and had her own style, preferring to stay at home rather than just party and be carefree, the normal behavior of her cousin Serena.

## Abilities

Samantha is an extremely powerful witch. Her witchcraft works perfectly without a flaw and only doesn't work if she is sick. She has several magical talents that include things a normal human could not do. The most prominent characteristic she has always had when using witchcraft is the twitch in her nose. She can move objects around, hold them in thin air and make them travel, freeze time or people, cast spells and teleport from one place to another within the blink of an eye.

Physically, Samantha possesses little to no ability. Her strength lies in her magic. She is subject to affectionate envy by those who cannot use proper witchcraft due to her extreme perfect abilities. Samantha can also change someone's mind using magic, casting a spell to make them believe or agree with a certain subject or person. Samantha's charm not only lies in her magic, but her physical appearance and personality. Even without using witchcraft, she can easily charm someone using her beauty and traits.

Samantha does not possess any abilities that other powerful witches wouldn't have, but she does have vastly superior powers. She is more powerful than her aunt Clara and maid Esmeralda but is not stronger in power than her mother Endora, and seems equal in power with her cousin Serena. The only mortal thing stronger than Samantha's witchcraft is love, as Samantha directly stated. Another part of Samantha's powers is that she possesses the ability to fly, something all witches with a moderate to strong level of witchcraft should be able to do.

## Biography

In 1964 she married a mortal named Darrin Stephens, who wanted to live a normal mortal life, so she and Darrin made an agreement that she would not use witchcraft unless it was absolutely necessary. This was much to the dismay of her parents, Endora and Maurice, who don't like the fact that their daughter is "rejecting" her heritage.

Samantha became the Queen of Witches in the fourth season of the series.

However, witchcraft always will be a part of the Stephens family as Samantha's family is always playing tricks on Darrin. Through the years, Darrin would accept that magic always will be a part of Samantha.

Samantha and Darrin have a loving relationship, but they are always battling against people that want to break up their marriage. They have mutually learned to be a part of the other's world.

## Gallery

Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha on *The Flintstones* (left) and in the *Bewitched* opening titles (right).Darrin and Samantha on *The Flintstones*.
## Notes/Trivia

* Samantha is one of the two crossover characters that was featured from the television series, *Bewitched*.