Friendship is Harmony/Tropes

These are the tropes that apply to the *Friendship is Harmony* franchise.

* **Elemental Powers**: Of the present-day centrals' primary powers (not counting their secondary Elements)...
	+ **Light 'Em Up**: Nanette, Nina, and Elizabeth.
	+ **Making a Splash**: Marina, Jeremy, Jill, and Kendall.
	+ **Playing with Fire**: Aiden and Christine.
	+ **Green Thumb**: Bailey.
	+ **Heart Beat-Down**: Molly (untransformed).
	+ **Non-Elemental**: Mikey.
	+ **Psychic Powers**: Nicole.
* **Idiot Hero**: Amber, the main character of the *Great Blossom* chapter, is rather immature and childish, though she proves herself to be a great leader.
* **The Reveal**: The magical warriors are looking for the missing magical warrior Katrina Moonshade. Where is she, you ask? Event Horizon is her.
* **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.
	+ Leucia and Melanie are based on Nagisa and Honoka from *Futari wa Pretty Cure* and its sequel *Max Heart.*
	+ Elizabeth is based on Usagi Tsukino from *Sailor Moon.*
	+ Samantha and Sam Sewstitch are *very* obviously based on Scooter and Skeeter from *Muppet Babies.*
	+ The Starruby and Starsapphire families are meant to serve as a replacement for the Porters from other series.
	+ Phoebe Stickysnow was inspired by Hermione Granger from *Harry Potter*.
	+ Anabelle Moonpath's transformed appearance is supposed to resemble Abby Cadabby from *Sesame Street*.
* **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. However, there is one exception: Queen Vera hides Event Horizon's true identity from the magical warriors in order to prevent them from knowing who she is and releasing her from her control as a result.
* **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 such as Avvy in the *Heroes' Chapter* 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 and also Jeremy, 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.
	+ Amber and Whitely.
	+ Blake and Shawn.
	+ Bailey and Molly.
	+ Natalie and Zinnia.
	+ Avvy and Dolores.
	+ Leucia and Melanie.
	+ Elizabeth, Fiona, Marie, and Yvonne.
	+ Interspecies example: Elizabeth and Dragonet.
	+ As shown in the Law of Cycles council at the end of the *Great Blossom Chapter*, Katrina and Nicole appear to be this. This makes sense if one remembers that they used to be villainous co-workers serving Queen Vera.
* **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. This is *best* shown when Elizabeth becomes Behaver for being a huge (but well-intentioned) jerk to Dragonet.
* **Mascots Love Sugar**: Kyubey *loves* sweets and childish characters often feed her candy. This is taken too far in "Kyubey's Carb Addiction," where she ends up becoming hooked on junk food and the magical warriors have to forcibly stop her.
* **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.
* **Symbiotic Posession**: Benevolent example and a phenomenon exclusive to the FiH franchise. While the mikos normally voluntarily speak with the Shinju or sentient cosmic forces and relay the messages to their teammates, if the matter is *really* urgent or if they refuse to discuss it, they will temporarily take over the miko's body, give them glowing eyes, and use them as a vessel for speaking through.
* **Benevolent Genie**: Kyubey grants any positive wishes of Chosen Ones and gives them exactly what they want. They can range from being fairly abstract (such as Nanette and Mikey wishing to simply be strong heroes or Bailey wishing for people to not litter), items (such as Marina's wish for a fabulous ocean-themed dress or Molly's wish for a photo album), Pokémon that normally wouldn't be possible (such as Aiden's wish for a giant Torkoal), one's health (such as Avvy wishing to cure Blissany's suicidal depression or Nicole wishing for any bodily functions to come naturally to her), or even affecting the future (such as Kendall's wish that on her 10th birthday, an egg will appear that hatches directly into a shiny Milotic, Anabelle's wish to erase all witches, though she is alive in the Law of Cycles council, or Elizabeth's wish that none of her Pokémon leave her permanently).
* **Parody Sue**: Averted for Rainbow Dash or Elizabeth, as they are not perfect and it is entirely possible somecreature with hair-based magic or something could have made their descendants have hair or manes naturally colored like that. This is played straight in-universe for one of the magical warriors from Kalos (Esmeralda), who is far from perfect, but makes a wish that she becomes a beautiful pink alicorn with a gold costume and a neon rainbow horn whenever she transforms into her magical warrior form and she is meant to evoke this image.
* **The Ace**: Nanette, Nina, Cherry Miles, Madoka, Twilight Sparkle, and Bailey are among the most powerful magical warriors, and of course, Katrina, Angela, and Anabelle are *insanely* powerful.
* **Another Ret-Chance**: Anabelle gets this. Megan is exteremly confused when she wakes up in the hospital with her and Radiant holding her hand. Perhaps maybe the Divinity played this straight...
* **Five-Man Band**: There are more than five in the core group, but it is the same idea.
	+ **The Leader**: Nanette and Bailey.
	+ **The Lancer**: Nina and Marina.
	+ **The Big Guy**: Jill and Aiden.
	+ **The Smart Guy**: Jeremy.
	+ **The Chick**: Molly and Elizabeth.
	+ **The Taglong Kid**: Kendall.
	+ **The Love Interest**: Mikey.
	+ **The Sixth Ranger**: Nicole.
* **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 or Elizabeth, who are *extremely* optimistic, nice, and forgiving, are often way too trusting, and are prone to tears easily. Perhaps best shown by their horrified and tearful reactions to Queen Vera revealing the truth about Event Horizon, looking similar to the scene in *Madoka Magica* of Kyubey reveling the truth about Soul Gems. Molly is also definitely this, though instead of being a cheerful and happy Genki Girl, she has a much calmer and gentler personality.
* **The Clan**:
	+ The Daisies usually have dull blue hair, wear purple, and have a daisy-shaped birthmark.
	+ The Starsapphires all have dark blue hair and eyes, wear blue, and have a sapphire key birthmark.
	+ The Starrubies all have dark red hair and eyes, wear red, and have a ruby gem crown birthmark.
* **Platonic Declaration of Love**:
	+ Molly says this to Bailey after she is de-corrupted in Part 2 of "The Iron-Masked Maurader's Revenge."
	+ After her Trainer is de-witched, and she tells her that she loves her, Dragonet replies that she loves her as well.
	+ Marina sometimes makes these to Jeremy, as the two are very close platonic friends.
	+ Sam has said this to Samantha on a few occasions.
	+ After Avvy witches out and Dolores is left unable to transform as a result, the villains ask the latter why she would even care about someone who is extremely immature and silly. Her reply? "BECAUSE I LOVE AVVY!"
* **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:
	+ Leucia and Melanie (who are Mikos)
	+ Samantha and Sam.
	+ Avvy and Dolores.
	+ Tsukiko and Honoko (who are Messiahs)
	+ Harper and Sarah.
	+ Marie and Yvonne.
	+ 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.
	+ Despite being twins like Samantha and Sam, Jeremy and Jill avert this, as they can still transform independently of each other. Nanette and Marina as well as Madoka and Homura also usually transform together with a dual transformation sequence, though they can transform independently of each other.
* **Odango Hair**: Plenty of examples.
	+ Christine wears her hair in two odango buns combined with pigtails, resembling Usagi's hair in *Sailor Moon* but not as long.
	+ Bailey wears her hair in two odangos as well, though without the pigtails.
	+ Avvy has her hair in twin buns, though since her hair is curly, the buns are rather puffy and thick. In her magical warrior form, she instead has long pigtails with thick puffy tufts tied at the ends.
	+ Fitting her being a Sailor Senshi Send-Up, when Elizabeth was young as shown in "The Harmony Mark Chronicles", she wore her hair in odango buns combined with pigtails.
* **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 or Jeremy's raincoat and rainboots to Esmeralda turning into an alicorn with a gold costume and 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 Bailey's anklet, Bianca's flower earring, or Kendall's star-shaped hairpin. 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.
* **The Chosen of the One**: Subverted example. In "Countdown to Destruction: The Magical Warriors' Last Battle," (starting the mini-arc of freeing Event Horizon, which takes place *before* the episodes leading up to "The Ending of the End"), everycreature has their soul taken by Queen Vera and her minions and thus are killed. The ones who are responsible have a problem they're unaware that they're going to face: Zekrias, after her final two major battles in her home Pokéverse, has made Nina the Heroine of Ideals, thus leading the Guardian of Aspirations to, along with Elizabeth, get revived in the next episode ("The Teamwork of Elizabeth and Nina"). However, after Katrina is freed the episode after *that* ("Cracking the Pink Shell"), she revives everycreature including the Pokémon, though *she* faints from exaustion and the magical warriors have to carry *her* to safety.
	+ The only ones whose souls they couldn't take are Elizabeth's and Nina's Pokémon and by extension Dragonet's daughters, due to their wishes: when they attempt to rip their souls out, the wishes make the blast bounce off them as if nothing happened.
* **Anguished Declaration of Love**:
	+ At the beginning of "The Teamwork of Elizabeth and Nina," the Kynaverse counterparts of Cheren and Bianca rush over to check on Nina, but after a moment...
		- *Queen Vera: **I'm sorry, but it is no use. You'll never be able to see your friend again.***
		- *Kynaverse!Bianca: **That is wrong!***
		- *Kynaverse!Cheren: **Yeah, I agree!***
		- *Queen Vera: **Why do you think so?***
		- *Kynaverse!Cheren: **BECAUSE I LOVE NINA!***
	+ After seeing how distressed Behaver is but being torn between loving her and being upset at her, Dragonet makes a platonic variant of this.
		- *Dragonet: Listen, Elizabeth-sama! I know how much I mean to you. I understand that you care about me and that you want to protect me. But you're taking it too far. **I LOVE YOU.*** *More than anycreature. But... **YOU** are being unreasonable! **YOU** are throwing a tantrum and destroying the city! **YOU** are not giving me any freedom! And **YOU** did not consider **MY** feelings!*
* **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 Molly's and Homura's sole "weapons" (shields), 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.
* **Girl with Psycho Weapon**: Anabelle, who is ultra-feminine, cheerful (not childish), and dresses in bright pink, in her magical warrior form has a microphone, a pair of nunchucks... and a pistol.
* **Magic Versus Science**: Obviously, both magic and technology coexist. However, Nanette and Nicole both are obviously magical but play this trope straight, While Nanette can detect magic trails from others and track them that way, Nicole tracks others by (magically) sensing *biological* signs such as their heartbeat and muscle movements. Her weapons, a scalpel blade and a pair of foreceps scissors, also look considerably more technological.
* **Story-Breaker Power**: While Katrina may be the most powerful magical warrior in the present-day, the writers made her conveniently go missing all of a sudden since she would be a huge help to the main cast. Nanette and Bailey may also both be among the two most powerful warriors of the core group, but 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**: Kendall is this trope initially, as she is a year too young to have her own Pokémon. However, she does state that her wish (for an egg that will hatch directly into a shiny Milotic) will only take effect once she turns 10. Max and Bonnie are also this, as they are also initially too young to have their own Pokémon.
* **Tomboy and Girly-Girl**:
	+ Nanette (downplayed tomboy) and Marina (girly-girl).
	+ Kailee is the (downplayed) tomboy of Aurea's team, and Fennel is the girly-girl.
	+ Amber (tomboy) and Whitely (girly-girl).
	+ Yvonne (tomboy) and Marie (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, as shown with Nijiko's nudity when transformed in the Japanese version being a representation of her purity of heart (and Barbie Doll Anatomy is in effect).
* **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, Natalie having a rainbow as part of her Harmony Mark, the Starsapphires all having sapphire-themed Harmony Marks, and the Starrubies all having ruby-themed Harmony Marks.
* **Only Divine Child**: Like ASML and unlike other crossover series, as seen in FiH:LEGENDS, Victoria is the only child that the Divinity creates. Okay, this trope was eventually averted when, in the S2 finale of FiH:LEGENDS, Victoria finds out that the first Starsapphire and Starruby were created a *day* after she was taken in by the orphanage workers...and that she couldn't meet them until now. Even her friends were surprised at this relevation...nearly leading *her* to disbanding the team.
* **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.
	+ Nicole enjoys watching *Green's Cadaver's*, a parody of *Gray's Anatomy* which helps her learn about organic bodies, but hides it in order to not gross the others out.
* **Talking the Monster to Death**:
	+ Dragonet does this with Behaver after she witches out. She manages to calm her down after clarifying that she still loves her and never *once* said she hated her, and as a result, she subsequently lets herself be purified by Marina without a fuss.
	+ 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.
	+ Non-witch example: Elizabeth does this with Event Horizon in "Cracking the Pink Shell" after she refuses to kill or harm her for almost the entirity of it and the previous episode, and keeps talking to her nicely despite it becoming obvious she is not listening. However, it ends up succeeding when she cleanses her of the brainwashing and returns her to normal.
* **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.
* **Darkest Hour**: The beginning of "Cracking the Pink Shell." Nina and Elizabeth are exhausted and are lying down in defeat, after Event Horizon still doesn't remember who she really is. Their Harmony Gems are almost completely full, and if it weren't for the Kynaverse counterparts of two (four if counting spirits) certain characters having the Light of Hope intervening at the last second to cleanse their Harmony Gems and restore their strength, the villains would have won, Katrina would have remained trapped in her brainwashing, the other warriors would have faded away after their souls were out of their bodies for too long, and the two women would have become witches with no hope of being purified.
* **Convenient Ability**: Stargazer's ability to temporarily summon apparitions of the deceased, after magic is restored. This ability is very useful as it allows Amber and friends to talk to and get advice from the past magical warriors. It is *so* convenient, in fact, that Stargazer is the only one of Foody's characters who exists in the Cheerfulverse (which they aren't a part of).
* **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 Katrina, 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), souls resembling Star Seeds, a villain who is directly inspired by Sailor Galaxia, and occasional artistic nudity.
	+ *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, and the Parisian heroes appear as supporting magical warriors.
	+ *YuYuYu*: Mikos, sanging, Elemaximum, the Jukai 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**.
	+ Christine is this *a lot*. Not surprising for someone who represents the Element of Honesty.
	+ Nanette is this occasionally, especially when the others act stupid or fight.
	+ Elizabeth (normally a Nice Girl) is this at times. Unlike GoH, however, she doesn't have glasses.
	+ Yvonne is a *huge* one.
	+ Of the villains, Black Hat is unquestionably the biggest one out of the four, especially when Demencia fangirls over him too much.
	+ 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.
	+ Dragonet is a ***HUGE*** one.
* **Eye Scream**: In the Season 9 premiere "Nicole's New Life," which takes place a few weeks after the previous season, Elis is shown teaching Nicole how to use a knife to cut food. However, she is confused and accidentally stabs her adoptive mother in the eye with it, resulting in her having to go to the ER and wear an eyepatch for the rest of the episode.
* **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.
	+ Platonic example: Behaver, after misinterpreting Dragonet's frustration as meaning she doesn't love her anymore, is obsessed with capturing Dragonet to make her love her again and throws a citywide tantrum destroying buildings. She also steals others' love to attempt to make up for the love she feels she isn't getting.
* **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.
* **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.
* **Unstoppable Rage**: After Event Horizon *murders the Burst Warriors by using her death beam to turn them into pertrified statues*, in one instance to get the warriors to surrender, this is Nanette's reaction. Luckily, they get revived by the MoF afterwards.
* **Fountain of Youth**: Played straight and also exaagerated. In "Get the Show on the Road!", Ella misfiring her age spell accidentally causes all the warriors to become turned into babies, and *another* misfire causes them to become *DNA strands*. She later manages to reverse the spell...and an angry Aurea scolds her.
* **New Parent Stress**: Not a baby, but in "Nicole's New Life," Elis is shown to be quite stressed adjusting to having a third daughter. Her lacking much knowledge of human items or social norms causes her to accidentally break several dishes and decorations, get herself electrocuted from the electrical sockets, accidentally stab Elis in the eye with a kitchen knife, use every curse word she had picked up as a robot, almost take medication that isn't hers after thinking it's candy, nearly trip down the stairs, smear food on her face while thinking it's makeup, and put drinking straws in her *nose*. All of this nearly causes Elis to *witch out* after she furiously lashes out at Nicole for being so naiive, causing her to cry and lock herself in her room before she apologizes to her and promises to do better teaching her.
* **Loony Fan**: Exaagerated in "Challenge of the Samurai," where a kid who calls himself Samurai dresses up as the magical warriors, complete with numerous replica costumes, wigs, and merchandise such as weapons. He is shown to have, for example, a replica of Nanette's wings and staff, Mikey's Eevee ears and tail, Christine's flamethrower. Fennel's Burst Wand complete with a Musha plushie inside, a wig of Fennel's untransformed hair, *gigantic life-sized* transformed Bailey, Marina, and Molly plushies, temporary tattoos of the warriors' Harmony Marks, replica Power Necklaces and Harmony Gems, and a Kyubey doll. Even more exaagerated when he asks for the exasperated warriors' autographs, and is so obsessed with them that he *locks them, their Pokemon, and Kyubey in the basement of his parents' home* not out of malice, but because he is such a huge fan of them he wants them to stay forever, and the kidnapping part is based on the *iCarly* episode "iPsycho." He is forced to set them free, however, when the villainous quartet attacks and he realizes that they have a duty to fight evil.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Many characters, both Chosen Ones and non-Chosen Ones alike, naturally have hair colors that don't occur in real life without dyeing, such as blue, pink, green, and purple. These appear to be genetic, as several warriors' parents have the same hair colors, and the warriors' children also often have their parents' hair colors. However, this is also slightly downplayed as the colors tend to be dark/dull in civilian form and brighten when transformed.
	+ This can also run in *entire* families (not counting the Daisies since Whitely and Mark have black hair, thus averting this trope), such as every Starruby having dark/medium red hair and every Starsapphire having dark blue hair (though unlike the Daisies, it is not dull blue).
* **For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself**: Subverted in "A Festival Trade! A Festival Farewell?" All of the warriors *do* consider just transforming and having their warrior outfits be their "costumes," but some decide that is too boring and say it's better to wear actual costumes. Nanette exagerrates this trope by finally refusing to go with either option...and eventually gets herself and Clemont's Chespin captured. She lives to regret it.
* **Morphic Resonance**: Sayaka's Stage 5 outfit is of a blue Elizabethan-era dress, complete with very thick and puffy long sleeves, a neck ruff, various elaborate jewelry, and velvet shoes. This bears a vague resemblance to her witch form, who has a gigantic behind-the-neck-collar resembling the ones from said era.
* **Forced to Watch**: In "Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony!" and "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!", the warriors (who are put in an anti-magic cage) are forced to watch Team Plasma control a tied-up Nanette, Hilda, and Nina while neither is able to do anything. Aurea, Mikey, Elis, Marina, and Nicole are **ESPECIALLY** furious and desperately try to escape... except that the bars are also electrified. They only manage to escape the cage after Cherry manages to prevent the anti-magic from affecting *her* by activating Elemaximum just to destroy the cage, but Team Plasma is still in the way of them getting to the three girls.
* **Big Damn Heroes**: In "Coming Apart at the Dreams!", Aurea comes and rescues Bailey, Nina, Madoka, Kyubey, Esmeralda, and their Pokémon at Prism Tower by *bashing their restraints with a sledgehammer* that she stole from a tool shop after they were taken captive in the previous episode, due to the fact that they are anti-magic and thus her attacks wouldn't work, so she has to use something mundane. Elizabeth and Dragonet manage to break free by using their Bond Phenomenon, while Nanette activates her Stage 3 (as a power-up at the time) just to break herself free.
* **You Didn't Ask**: Non-evil example. In *Madoka Magica*, this is the excuse the canon Kyubey uses for why he/they doesn't tell the magical girls the horrifying terms of their contract. In the series, however, the warriors are told the terms of their contract (which does *not* involve taking their soul out), but this is the reason they sometimes don't get the powers or costume they wanted - if they want a specific costume or specific powers, they have to specifically request Kyubey for it using their wish.
* **Big Eater**:
	+ Kyoko, after her poor family nearly starved, eats constantly and is obsessed with food as a result. She threatens to kill anycreature who dares to waste food.
	+ Pinkie Pie is a sweet-toothed variation. As shown in "The Ending of the End," she can down an *entire* stack of donuts in mere seconds.
	+ Katrina, as she mentions in the last few episodes of S10, needs quite a bit of food to fuel her strong powers, so she loves eating and eats a lot.
	+ The Team Rocket trio PLAYS. THIS. STRAIGHT. While they are normally in Perpetual Poverty and out of money, whenever they do get the chance, they will happily Tepig out.
* **Hour of Power**: After activating Elemaximum, the warrior will have five minutes before automatically returning to their civilian form, indicated by one part of the Elemaximum Gauge disappearing per minute much like *Miraculous Ladybug*, so they must use it wisely. The only exception is a one-time instance with Marina, and the removal of this limitation is never seen again after this.
* **What Do You Mean It's For Kids?**: During "Cracking the Pink Shell," a scene similar to this YuYuYu3 clip occurs. Right after Nina collaspes, *Elizabeth* briefly loses her sainity, yet manages to free Katrina from her brainwashing. When the magical warriors end up having to carry her, however, they all faint before they could even do so, and the first one to do so...
	+ The next scene after the magical warriors faint shows Nina waking up in the hospital, but she is heavily blinded and deaf. Her world's Cheren lost his use of one arm, and her world's Bianca lost the use of her legs, though, so technically the Kynaverse *wasn't* even safe during the arc. Luckily, this sange wore off in the next episode.
* **Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person**: Ian (formerly Ivory) Fortissimio in the *Heroes' Chapter* both averts this and plays this straight. While, as Ivory initially, he (then she) had already used his wish for a freshly baked pizza - since he is very fond of it - and thus can't wish to become a boy, when she decides to finally identify as male and take the name Ian in an undecided episode after considering it for several episodes, he is initially unwilling to transform when the villains attack the next episode due to being afraid he might still have a dress and long hair. However, when he transforms, he is surprised to discover that his magical warrior outfit has changed from a dress to a tuxedo suited for a male and his hair still changes color but now only grows slightly longer.
* **Loophole Abuse**: Non-magical weapons - even things like knives for cutting traps as shown in "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" and any weapons used by non-Chosen Ones - are censored in the English dub. However, magical weapons, no matter how closely they resemble real weapons, as well as weapons naturally wielded by Pokémon, are exempt from this rule. Thus, the magical warriors can be shown using guns, swords, nukes, chainsaws, and other such weaponry in a kids' show, but civilians cannot.
* **Uneitting Instigator of Doom**: In S10, when Sugar unintentionally pisses off all of the magical warriors and causes them to all witch out, Dragonet is forced to purify all of them herself (though with Elfreda's help via her Crystal Heart Power) by using Transform to transform into a copy of Nanette. However, many Shining Star Origin Hurricanes later after they are purified, she ends up temporarily falling into a coma from exhaustion for a few episodes, leaving her daughters and Trainer depressed and refusing to talk to anycreature except Marie and Yvonne until she wakes up.
* **Free-Range Children**: The magical warriors - most of whom initially aren't even old enough to drive - travel around with little adult supervision, although a Token Adult such as a professor, Nurse Joy, or Officer Jenny, usually helps the kids out in most episodes. Averted for those younger than 10, however, such as Kendall, Max, Bonnie, Mimo, Amantia, Harper, Sarah, Samantha, or Sam, as it is made clear that despite being magical warriors, they are only allowed to travel because they are accompanied by someone older than 10. In some episodes, adult characters also dismiss them from helping out because of their youth, and they have to remind them that they are *the freaking magical warriors.*
* **Vague Age:** It is clear that Queen Vera (then Valerie) and her friends were teenagers and kids in their day, though after turning evil, it is unclear exactly how old she is supposed to be physically. She is clearly an adult, perhaps physically in her early 30s or late 20s, but it isn't known for sure. However, after she returns to her civilian appearance before dying, she resembles a slightly older, young adult version of her teenage self.
* **Magical Makeup**: Some female warriors gain makeup such as lipstick or eyeshadow in their transformed states. A few are also shown to have (usually color-coded) nail polish while transformed, although this is often covered by gloves.
* **Unsensable Disguise**: In "Pokémon Scent-sation!", after Erika refuses to let any magical warrior, regardless of gender, enter the Gym, Kyubey risks herself by using a disguise spell she learned from Queen Cosmica to shapeshift into a boy named "Kyle." Not even Erika could detect "his" true form...until Team Rocket attacks, causing Nina to scold her.
* **Silk Hiding Steel**: Phoebe in the *Great Blossom Chapter* is a shy, aloof, and tsundere girl of shorter than average height with the power to create healing potions out of plants. She also has the powers of a Miko, and has a school uniform-like magical warrior outfit. Not much of a threat, right? That is, until she reaches into her Harmony Gem and pulls out a ***CHAINSAW***. Not just that, but also a ***ROCKET LAUNCHER***.
* **Madoka Reference**: Occasionally, before a character's first transformation, they break the fourth wall and appear floating inside the transformation space (while covered in a colored glow) while lamenting to themselves about how they have no way to help and are useless, only for Kyubey to then appear and explain that they're not useless.
* **Used to Be a Sweet Kid**:
	+ Homura was once shy, meek, and clumsy, until all the suffering she she saw during her time-looping turned her cold and cynical, but still a good person at heart.
	+ Queen Vera, a cruel and power-hungry villainess hellbent on ruling the Multiverse, used to be a friendly and music-loving girl named Valerie Harper.
	+ Involuntary example: Event Horizon, who is arrogant, sadistic, and can shoot death beams, was a kind, helpful, and friendly girl with light-based powers named Katrina Moonshade before being brainwashed.
	+ Downplayed example: Dragonet, as a baby, lived a happy life with her mother and their old Trainer in another part of Alola, until she was kidnapped one day and used for testing personal care products on. When the lab was shut down, raided, and all the Pokémon rescued, she spent some time in the shelter before finally being adopted, but the whole thing left her with PTSD and a short temper.
* **Hostage for MacGuffin**: In "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad," Nanette offers to be the one to go buy a Super Potion to heal Marina's poisoning. ***NOPE.*** The Squirtle say, that as part of the deal, *Molly* must be the one to go get it - in order to make it more difficult since she has no combat power to fight, Not surprisingly, she gets knocked out (but not injured) when Gary slams the door on her, has hard time fighting off the townspeople with guns (though she is luckily invulnerable since she does the whole mission transformed), and just barely gets away with the potion. Their punishment (also in the Japanese version unlike the canon episode) if she fails? Forcing them to wear clown suits and clown makeup.... which unlike the canon episode, *the Squirtle **ACTUALLY DO***. They end up looking insanely ridiculous, with Nanette's and Bailey's looking the most ridiculous.
* **Wham Line**: This line said by Nanette, Bailey, and Twilight piece by piece when the present-day warriors first discover and use the Elements of Harmony: "You see... when these Elements are ignited by... the spark.... that resides in the heart of us all... they combine... to create.... OUR FRIENDSHIP!"
* **Terrible Table Manners**: Katrina is normally a polite and gentle Nice Girl who is famous and well-respected by civilians... except when eating, that is. As shown in the next episode after she is freed, after she is reunited with her parents and a scene then shows Princess Celestia then inviting her and the main magical warriors to a televised feast (unaware that the villains aren't done yet), Celestia and Nanette are visibly *very* embarassed when the Warrior of the Cosmos takes a huge plate of food, talks with her mouth full, and messily eats like a pig while thousands of civilians are watching. As a result, she has to cancel the livestream early to prevent any further embarassment.
* **Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing?**: Despite Cilan being a member of the main cast (though he doesn't drive), in "Crisis From the Underground Up!" and "Batttle For the Underground!", *Nina* has to drive the train at the two Subway Bosses' insistence (since they are busy and have to deal with the rest of the hacked subway system) since she is the only magical warrior old enough to drive. However, despite her age, she is *very* inexperienced driving and nearly crashes it before managing to get the hang of it and using her electricity to speed it up.
* **Cynic-Idealist Duo**: After the spirit of Zekrias takes over her body, Nina goes berserk and believes Event Horizon is beyond saving, while fully intending to kill her despite knowing that she would be killing Katrina herself. Despite their teamwork in the previous episode, this conflicts with Elizabeth who is an optimist and refuses to attack or harm her at all since she still believes that she can be saved.
* **Butt-Monkey**: In "Ingorance Is Blissey," Jill is taking a shower when Blissey offers to scrub her back. When she agrees, Blissey ends up scrubbing way too hard and leaves her back all scratched up... and then pours rubbing alcohol onto her to try and fix it. In the next scene, poor Jill is seen covered in bandages from head to toe, which turns on Jeremy's berserk button.
* **Clever Crows**: The Murkrow in "All That Glitters" not only steal the magical warriors' badges, but also their Power Necklaces and Harmony Gems, which forces them to go after them without flying. An unexpected effect of this trope occurs when, since the magical warriors' *bags (which had their phones)* also got stolen unknowningly, the magical warriors are transported to the Jukai... with no way to fight back. If it weren't for Twilight quickly getting them out...
* **Humanity Ensues**: Inverted in "Hocus Pokémon," where a girl named Lily (who has the magic power to transmute things into other things) accidentally misfires her magic and ends up turning Jill, Nanette, Bailey, and (while unaware due to her not being near her) Elis into *Pokémon*. It wears off in a flashback from the next episode, luckily.
* **Reality Warper**: Accidental and unintentional example. In "Hocus Pokémon," Lily accidentally distorts reality into a version of the Jukai. This easily sets up Aurea's berserk button... right after realizing that Elis turned into Quilina (confirming her previous suspicions that she may be hiding something).
* **Divinity's Sake, What Have I Done?**:
	+ After discovering the truth, Abigail R.M. blames herself for Katrina being brainwashed and corrupted, lamenting to herself that she should have been there to protect her.
	+ After punching Cheren in the jaw and causing Kyubey to get so angry that she temporarily strips the Magis of their items as punishment (only to have to give them back when they encounter the villains and the Unovian Magical Warriors transform for the first time) after they get into a huge fight, Elizabeth becomes depressed at hurting one of her friends and refuses to talk to anycreature until he wakes up.
	+ In the MLP:ANG adaptation, Amber and Sunny blame themselves for embarassing themselves trying to make magic reappear in front of everycreature by putting the crystals together yet nothing happens.
	+ In an undecided episode of the third season of *Friendship is Harmony: LEGENDS*, after she, her friends, and Kyubey get banished fom Jubilife Village, Nina is somehow possessed by the AotA after she fails to get help from the Diamond and Pearl Clans and she plans to give up. A horrible incident ensues, and Kamado quickly regrets expelling her from the village.
* **Died Happily Ever After**: At the end of "The Ending of the End" after the battle, the spirits of the pre-FiH:LEGENDS magical warriors (as well as the FiH:LEGENDS magical warriors) watch the magical warriors enjoy donuts in the Pokémon Center while planning for the future... and Valerie is also among the spirits, symbolizing that her spirit is now finally at peace. In the GBC finale, however, she is shown to have remained alive and regained her Chosen One status after redeeming herself.
* **Frying Pan of Doom**: Dragonet gets a miniature frying pan and whacks Bouncee and Snowy with it after catching them licking spoons and placing them back in the container *in a restaurant where they're serving food*. While it is certainly a very dumb choice, she yells at them extremely harshly and causes them to run away crying.
* **Red Eyes, Take Warning**: When Nina Starscout got possessed, her eyes were red all over.
* **The Benchwarmer**: The Messiahs are this most of the time, sitting out of battles and staying out of witch barriers. This once even frustrates Esmeralda and Elizabeth *so much* that the two of them throw a massive tantrum out of frustration despite being grown women by that point since they want to transform whenever they want, even trying to destroy the other Warriors' Harmony Gems and Power Necklaces to make it fair, much to Nanette's humiliation as she has to drag two kicking, screaming 20/21 year-olds away while the paparazzi is recording the whole thing, and the two both witch out and fuse into one witch who has the power to disable Harmony Gems and Power Necklaces, which makes their owner unable to transform, in order to make them see how it feels to have their Transformation Trinkets not work.
* **A Taste of Their Own Medicine**: The fusion witch in Season 10 mentioned above has the power to disable Harmony Gems' and Power Necklaces' transformation abilites, making them completely useless - this is to force the Heroes and Mikos to experience themselves what it feels like to be a Chosen One who got a free wish and will never grow old, yet the Transformation Trinket they received doesn't work most of the time. The witch herself even screams, ***"NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, HUH?! NOW EVERYTHING WILL BE FAIR! IF WE CAN'T TRANSFORM, NOBODY CAN!!!!!!!"*** The only problem is... even though she's no longer alive, Victoria didn't get the exact message, especially after Nanette gets killed in the process.
	+ To quote her: ***"YOU DARE KILL MY DESCENDANT LIKE THAT?! YOU. WILL. PAY! HOW ABOUT A TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE?!"***
* **Totally Not Miraculous**: Alondra, as Owlremi, wouldn't be too out of place in *Miraculous Ladybug* and was most likely inspired by it, considering how she has an owl-themed bodysuit and her name would fit perfectly on a character from said show.
* **Our Merfolk Are Different**: Shawn, unusually for magical warriors, has a merboy tail in his magical warrior form and is designed for underwater battles. As a result, his Elemaximum, Rainbow Power, and Stage 5 forms have to be heavily modified from the traditional designs and after getting Stage 2, his markings instead go down his tail. However, he is the only magical warrior with this unusual transformed state, as Melissa, Chiffon, and Kylie don't exist.
* **Clingy Costume**: Event Horizon's clothes are not removeable due to them being magic and made out of her magical warrior clothing.
* **Our Zombies Are Different**: Rarity once gets so upset that Serena got picked at tryouts to be a Performer and she didn't (despite the fact she's not a human and can't own Pokémon which is the whole point of performances) that she witches out and gains the ability to curse the Princess Key so that anyone who wins it will have their life force drained - and when Serena wins it, she and her Pokémon have their life force drained and *turn into zombies*.
* **Emotional Powers**: Most witches' powers are directly or indirectly related to the cause of their distress. For example...
	+ Sayaka wanted Kyousuke (who plays the violin) to fall in love with her, but Hitomi confesses to him instead, and therefore Oktavia's barrier contains hordes of familiars that drive anycreature insane with their endless violin playing.
	+ Elizabeth mistakenly believed that Dragonet didn't love her anymore and didn't appreciate her concern for her, and therefore Behaver has the power to steal love.
	+ Brock was rejected by a pretty Nurse Joy, and therefore Sandstone has the power to kidnap any females and can also track down females.
	+ Bailey is upset when a person carelessly crushes a young tree sapling that she planted and has been tending for months. Thus, as her witch form, she has the ability to turn anything or anycreature she touches into wood, even covering almost the *entire Pokéverse* in wood due to how strong her magic is.
	+ Molly hates that sadness still exists. As her witch form, therefore, she has the power to give people/creatures giant angel wings and can also force them to dance and fly to her liking.
	+ Jeremy becomes furious that a man doesn't believe his weather predictions despite him trying to explain that he wished to be able to know what the weather will be even untransformed, and therefore his witch form, he can summon catastrophic lightning bolts, floods, storms, and earthquakes that cause mass devastation.
	+ Lydia becomes furious after Lusamine rejects her gift of a box of cream puffs. As her witch form Sweetie Sparkles who is a giant pink unicorn, she thus has the ability to vomit candy, rainbows, and glitter and force others to be happy against their will.
	+ Avvy becomes depressed that the Warriors haven't earned their later stages yet, and as her witch form, she can steal others' powers.

* **Spoiled Brat**: In "A Bout With Sprout," a kid named Zack becomes jealous after catching a Bellsprout and attempts to steal Cerisey, Blaze (despite him being huge), and Dragonet. At the end, however, he becomes happy after the Magic of Friendship causes his Bellsprout to evolve fully.
* **Deliberately Cute Child**: Or rather foal, as Cozy Glow takes advantage of Elizabeth's trusting nature to gain her trust and pretends to be a sweet, innocent young filly. When the Student Six find out her true plans (since she reveals her true nature to them out of Elizabeth's sight to keep her in the dark) and confront her while the human is holding her in her arms, Cozy plays dumb and the oblivious Warrior of Hope has no idea what is going on since she sincerely believes she is her friend and isn't aware of her actual nature.