Tropes

These are tropes that apply to *Magicae Amicitiae et Harmoniae*. These tropes have their own pages, however:

* Berserk Buttons
* Trauma Buttons
* Elemental Powers
* Lampshade Hanging
* Tempting Fate
* Expy
* Running Gag
* Heartwarming
* Funny
* Irony
* Shout-Out
* Breaking the 4th Wall
* Tear Jerker

## Multi-Arc

* **Magical Girl AU**: 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**: Nina Starscout, Nanette, Nova, Blissany, and Katy 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.
* **But Now I Must Go**:
	+ This happens to Cherry Lovedream at the final chapter of her arc. Before her soul permanently becomes the Perserver Aiko, she dies, 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.
	+ At the end of *Lillie Magica*, Lillie, Gladion, Lusamine, their Pokémon, and Magearna leave to search for Mohn, but not before saying goodbye to the others and for the former two, taking a group photo with the other Magis.
	+ After the final battle with Event Horizon in "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi" (which is the "Arc Fauxnale"), Nova returns to her true form and goes back to Katrina's heart and mind, but not before thanking her friends and saying goodbye. In the rewritten timeline, this is defied afterwards when Melody decides to use her wish to make her a separate entity from the Light of Hope so she can be with her friends forever.
	+ Cynthia Moonpath is erased from existence at the end of *Katy Magica*.
* **Divinity's Sake, What I Have Done?**:
	+ In the adaption of the GoH episode "The Last Attack of Team Rainbow Rocket," Jessie and James (along with Meowth) finally realize that all this time, they *actually hurt* the magical warriors. Cue their Heel-Face Turn.
	+ The green-haired human girl breaks down crying after being turned into a human and realizing that Queen Vera does not actually care about her and simply views her as a servant, and realizing all the harm and cruelty she has caused to the heroes now that she has emotions.
	+ After Katrina is cleansed of her brainwashing, she wonders where she is and has no memory of *anything* that happened, but is horrified when the heroes tell her she was brainwashed, served an evil queen, caused immense destruction, and even killed several civilians, and starts crying a river.
	+ Behaver is stunned and remorseful after Dragonet tells her that she loves her, but also calls her out for being too overprotective. After she is de-witched, she cries in remorse before Dragonet comes up and hugs her.
	+ Arcturus finally realizes the error of his ways in Part 4 of "Sword and Shield", realizing that being filled with rage and a desire to murder Arcadia is not what Victoria would want (as in "Memories in the Mist!", he deliberately keeps that side of his personality secret from her when visiting her in the mist) if she were still alive. He also says right before his death that he wanted to apologize to Arcadia, but had no time.
	+ In "Pure Hearts," after Katy and Evelyn ask where their friend Cynthia is, Priestess Seren realizes what the Taisha has done: putting the Divinity Herself (who is part of the magic aura of the Shinju's "wife") in danger. As a result, she tells the girls to save her before it's too late. The subversion, however, is that the other Taisha members don't care and only want the Shinkon to go through uninterrupted.
	+ In "Courruption," Rosie regrets requesting that Gemma be enabled to transform when she sacrifices her *soul* to the Shinju after using her Elemaximum to *singlehandedly* purify Chaospale. She gets better, luckily.
	+ When Dragonet gets furious at Pinkie Pie for shipping her with her Trainer, she gets so furious that she *stabs her*, beats her up, and causes her to go into a coma temporarily. However, she immediately regrets it and becomes depressed and guilty until she wakes up and she apologizes to her.
* **Awesome Music**:
	+ Oohana Kanmuri in the following:
		- "Fierce Battle" from *Cherry Magica*
		- "The Power of Us" from *Abigail Magica*
		- "Secrets of the Jungle" from *Abigail Magica*
		- "Freeing The Most Powerful Puella Magi" from *Elizabeth Magica*...in place of the Sailor Star Song. In fact, some things were changed to make the song fit (the most notable one being that even though Elizabeth still believes Katrina can be saved, she now has a furious look on her face, like the canon Yuuki Yuuna in her Dai-Mankai form).
		- "Until The Very End" from *Rosie Magica*
		- The final chapter of *Katy Magica*, which shares the same title as the franchise itself. However, the music pauses a little longer so that Cynthia can state her wish.
* **Wham Episode**:
	+ At the end of chapter 4 of *Tart Magica*, Riz outright tells Tart that Magis 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.
	+ "Freeing The Most Powerful Puella Magi" in *Elizabeth Magica*
	+ "Until The Very End" in *Rosie Magica*
	+ "Pure Hearts" in *Katy Magica*
* **Wham Line**:
	+ *"**Please listen, Elizabeth-sama! I understand that you really care about me and don't want me to get hurt. But... you're taking it WAY TOO FAR. I LOVE YOU. So much. But YOU are being way too overprotective and are going on this stupid rampage! Did you ever think about MY feelings?!**"* (Behaver)
	+ *"**Iroha-chan... it's not that another Magi takes my place when I get hurt. I actually get stronger from the hope of everyone, including all of you.**"* (Unknown early Iroha Magica chapter)
	+ "***Meloetta, do as I say immediately. Or the girl and her Tepig will be very sorry!***" (Undecided chapter)
	+ "***NOOOOOOOO! Give them back... give Marie-chan back to me! Nanette-san, Nina-san, Bailey-san, and Sunflower-san too! AND Yvonne-chan, Jim-san, Coralia-san, and Ryutsuki-san! Give my friends back to me... DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**"* (Destruction Around the Corner)
	+ *"**I have faith... in the fragment of hope that still remains there, somewhere, in your heart. I have faith... in you."*** (Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi)
	+ *"**I WILL SAVE MY MELLIE-CHAN FROM THE CLUTCHES OF YOU! I refuse to accept you as my best friend if you give into Chaos like this. You're not Mellie-chan. Melody Harmadale would be strong enough to not give into her despair."*** (Courrption)
	+ *"**Melissa-senpai, please don't tell anycreature, but... I don't want to live forever anymore. I've lived through countless eras, making a lot of friends and watching new family members be born, but I always outlive them. It gets more and more painful seeing each one die, and I can't take it anymore. I'll always be too short to drive a car and will never be able to marry or get a job. Now I realize my life has gone on way too long and all I want now is to be with them forever in the afterlife.**"* (Undecided chapter)
	+ ***"I have no choice but to break Katrina-senpai's magic will, because... \*takes a deep breath\* I wish the Divinity was brought back to life so that She can erase witches before they're born! Every single witch... from the past, present and future! Everywhere!"*** (Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae)
* **Wham Shot**:
	+ Nina's warped voice, revealed to have been caused by her getting trapped in an impenetrable water bubble by Tapu Fini as punishment for recklessly battling. (Run, Magis, Run!)
	+ Nova standing unharmed with a determined expression after the dark blast bounces off her when Queen Vera attempts to take her soul, only for it to be revealed in this scene that she doesn't *have* a soul. (Destruction Around the Corner)
	+ Elizabeth grabbing Event Horizon's hand after getting close to her. (Freeing The Most Powerful Puella Magi)
	+ Whenever Messiahs express a desire to help, the camera usually focuses on their face with a determined expression.
	+ Whenever a Magi transforms for the first time.
	+ The AoTA showing the Magis their parents' souls in crystals, and then the camera lingers on 20 cyan souls and a pale pink soul for several seconds before cutting to Melody and Rosie's (but also all the Magis') horrified expressions.
* **Ascend into a Higher Plane of Reality**: Magis become Perservers once they die, playing the trope straight. However, *Cynthia Moonpath* takes this farther by becoming erased from existence and thus part of the Divinity.
* **Superhero Chat**: The Magical Warrior app that the Magic of Friendship downloads onto Chosen Ones' phones has a group chat called "Magi Chat" which all active Chosen Ones can freely participate in. It is shown that Katrina is still in the chat despite her going missing shortly prior to *Madoka Magica* and her phone disappearing, but whenever someone attempts to call her or send her a one-on-one message, they will always get a busy signal for the former and a "failed to send" for the latter.
* **Anguished Declaration of Love**:
	+ Cheren confesses his feelings to Bianca while she is witched-out, and she remembers his confession after being de-witched despite the fact that Magis usually have little or no memory of what happened while they were a witch.
	+ Platonic example: Dragonet, who is fed up with Behaver destroying the city and stealing love, makes one of these, but adds that she is also *quite* angry.
	+ Another platonic example: When Chaospale mocks Gemma when she gets an error message on her phone after trying to transform, and asks her what the point is, she says "Because I care about Mellie-chan.... she's my best friend.... AND I LOVE HER! I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU!"
* **Who Wants to Live Forever?**: Despite seeming to enjoy her eternal life, Melody in fact resents it, though she mostly hides this until *Katy Magica*. The pain of seeing every single group of friends and family she has over the years eventually dying starts to take a *huge* toll on her starting in said arc, where she confides to Melissa how painful it is to outlive her friends and loved ones and not being able to pass on to the afterlife with them, and that all she wants now is to die and join them. After *The End of the Princess*, she is much happier in the afterlife.
* **Frilly Upgrade**: The Magis' outfits change and become varying degrees of more detailed and elaborate after getting Stage 3. This is averted in the Japanese version for Nijiko, but it is played straight in the English dub.
* **Kinda Busy Here**: *[phone suddenly starts ringing] "Vertex detected. Please deploy to protect creaturekind."*
* **Eldritch Abomination**: The Vertex. The final battle of most arcs usually includes huge swarms of them.
* **Time Stands Still**: During a Forestize warning, everything and everycreature briefly is frozen in time... except for Chosen Ones and Chosen Ones' Pokémon. Unlike YuYuYu, since Mikos are Chosen Ones and Magis, they are not frozen in time. However, despite not being owned by anybody, Sugar, Pudding, and Carrot Cake are also not frozen in time, most likely because they live with and are associated with a Chosen One.
* **Only the Worthy May Pass**: Non-Chosen Ones, despite the fact that Everyone is a Super and the series is Masquerade-less, can't enter the Jukai - the only way to access it is to be a Chosen One.
* **Supernatural Phone**: The Magis' phones have a magical app that lets them transform and store their Harmony Gems.
	+ If a a Messiah tries to transform when not needed, they get an error message saying "Unable to initiate transformation. Please try again later."
	+ If a member of a duo tries transforming without their partner, an error message appears saying "Sorry, can only transform if you have your chosen partner with you."
	+ If a Magi doubts themselves too much or is too emotionally unstable, a message will say "Unable to establish link with the Divine Tree due to unstable emotional state."
	+ While transformed, the phone is able to be taken out of its carrying case and used as normal.
* **Odango Hair**: There are *several* examples.
	+ Valerie wears her hair like this, but combined with pigtails like Sailor Moon.
	+ Cherry Lovedream initially has this in her transformed state.
	+ Aurora wears her hair mostly down, but with two odango buns on top.
	+ Bailey has this hairstyle in civilian form.
	+ When Elizabeth was a little kid, she wore her hair in this style, combined with pigtails like Sailor Moon.
	+ Holly Yulelog has the combined-with-pigtails variant. Chiffon from the same arc has this in her transformed state.
* **The Odd One Out**:
	+ Jim is the only Puer Magi to not have a Witch form, a Perserver form, and at least one Dream Pixie.
	+ Unlike the Magis who are known to have a witch form, Avvy does not rename herself after witching out.
* **Insistent Terminology**: The Token Adults (since the MoF mainly chooses teens and children, other than Ponies who are usually chosen as adults, to make sure they're as fit and healthy as possible) are still referred to as "magical girls/boys/fillies/colts" both in and out of universe since "magical woman," "magical man," "magical mare," and "magical stallion" don't sound right.
* **Token Nonhuman**:
	+ Jasper (a Dragon) in *Cherry Magica*.
	+ Twilight Twinkle and Sparkle Hope (and possibly another Creature) in *Nina Magica.*
	+ Fern Ashes (a Kirin) in *Cherry Magica 2.* Like Melody, he is *not* a Psuedo-Magi.
	+ Coralia (a Hippogriff/Seapony), the counterparts of the Mane 6 plus Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, and Sunflower Smile, in addition to Flash Sentry, Cheese Sandwich, Spike (who is, oddly, a pure Miko due to his canon counterpart's "muggle" role) and the Young Six, in the present-day arcs (arcs 7-16).
	+ Pound Cake, Pumpkin Cake, Flurry Heart, the children of the Mane 9, and Twinkledee and Twinkledum (a Changeling brother and sister) in *Rosie Magica*.
	+ Sunny Starscout, Mandible, Izzy Moonbow, Neopolitan Swirl, Hitch Trailblazer, Zipp Storm, Pipp Petals, Stargazer, and Neopolitan Swirl in *Amber Magica.*
	+ Sunshine Starblazer, Luke Trailscout, Serenity Moonbow (and possibly two other Creatures) in *Katy Magica.*
* **Unstoppable Rage**: Before turning into Queen Vera and destroying her Harmony Gem and Power Necklace, Valerie furiously rants how she will seize all the power in the Multiverse in order to prove that she shouldn't have had to take "pointless" tests to earn her upgrades and stronger magic.
* **Platonic Declaration of Love**: These are usually reserved for when a character is leaving or dying (such as when Nanette has to leave and move to Pasio, or when Cherry Lovedream is about to die in a few moments), but a few characters such as Nanette and Jim with each other, Dragonet, and Melody make these regularly.
* **Wonder Twin Powers**:
	+ Marie and Yvonne.
	+ Harper and Sarah.
	+ Ava and Ara.
	+ Avvy and Dolores.
	+ Kohri and Amai.
	+ Twinkledee and Twinkledum.
	+ Tsukiko and Honoko.
	+ Aversions: Nanette and Marina, Jeremy and Jill (despite being twins), Homura and Madoka, and Nat(alie/suko), who doesn't have a partner unlike in GoH.
* **Blue-and-Orange Morality**:
	+ While the Shinju-sama is benevolent and protects creaturekind, it thinks in ways that Humans and Creatures can't comprehend (although it *can* speak to Mikos and vice versa), which is most likely why it requires (temporary) sacrifices from the Magis that protect it and why boosting its barrier requires it to essentially eat Cynthia alive.
	+ The Magic of Friendship has a rather broad definition of who is acceptable Chosen One material. While teenagers who are very kind, honest, loyal, etc, and best represent the virtues of the Elements of Harmony, are usually chosen, teenagers who are extremely immature, rude, bratty, or nosy also are among its Chosen Ones.
	+ It is also unknown why the MoF and the Shinju choose certain Chosen Ones but don't allow them to freely transform. When Spike presses the Shinju for an answer about this, it simply says "Don't worry, they're perfectly fine." Most likely, its reason is not one comprehendable by humans, creatures, and Pokémon.
* **Unexpected Berserk**:
	+ In the TotTNMC chapter "Tragic Truth," when the two Cherries finally find out of the Great Multiverse War I and that Melody's father started the Great Rebellion, *Yolanda* loses it, and Lily and Melody stop her before things can go out-of-hand.
	+ When Sugar gets kidnapped by the villains *one week* after her birth, the normal Nice-Girl All-Loving Heroine Elizabeth turns from that into a flaming fireball of pure, raw, unadulterated, unfiltered, all-natural, certified-organic, free-range, grass-fed *anger.*
	+ When Melody witches out in "Corruption," Gemma - who is normally shy and quiet - goes berserk and tells to Chaospale's face that she refuses to accept her as her best friend unless she can stop her rampage all by herself and says she is not Melody since Melody would be strong enough to not give into her despair.
* **Miko**: Certain Chosen Ones have no combat power or Elemaximum but can predict enemy attacks, have the Dimensional Scream, and can have conversations with and receive messages from the Shinju-sama and sentient cosmic forces - for example, Nicole Miles from *Nina Magica,* Spike from the present-day arcs, or Syren Flutterbrook from *Katy Magica*.
* **Messiah**: *Other* Chosen Ones have full combat power and Elemaximum but are unable to transform unless the situation requires it and the Light of Hope lets their Power Necklace and Harmony Gem transform them (indicated by the items glowing while untransformed for the duration their powers are needed, and when the Harmony Gem is inside the phone, a message can be seen saying "transformation is available."). They also have very limited magical ability in civilian form, even less so than normal civilians.
* **Face-Monster Turn**: Katrina technically became evil, but not by choice - she is brainwashed, which is why her returning to normal is usually referred to as being *freed*.
* **Cute Witch**: Raven has this in her Magi form, complete with a little witch hat and buckle shoes.
* **Minidress of Power**: Most of the female Magis wear these, with short above-the-knee skirts. Phoebe's and Nicole's skirts when transformed tread into Dangerously Short Skirt territory, with the former's looking especially odd when combined with her long-sleeved heavy school uniform-like jacket.
* **Pushover Parents**: Replace "parent" with "Trainer," but Elizabeth is definitely this and refuses to punish Dragonet even when she misbehaves or harms somecreature. Best shown in the NaM chapter equivalent to "Childhood Friends Reunited!" - when Dragonet picks a fight with Cheren, instead of punishing her, she blames Cheren for the entire thing and (impulsively) punches him in the jaw and breaks his jawbone, which ends up causing a fight to break out between all the Magis (except her who runs away crying) after Cheren gets sent to the hospital and the Taisha are forced to disable the Magical Warrior System app.
* **Power Floats**: While Magis who lack wings when transformed usually can't fly, a few such as Katrina Moonshade, her daughter Angela, and Phoebe Stickysnow can fly when transformed despite their lack of wings. The Magis with wings also don't usually have to flap them and can hover in the air (and can also still fly where there is little or no air), since their flight is magical.
* **Sentient Cosmic Force**: There are four major ones - the Magic of Friendship, the Magic of Apathy, Chaos, and the Light of Hope. While the MoF is the one responsible for selecting Chosen Ones, reviving ones who are killed, and upgrading their Power Necklaces (as well as granting all of its chosen Chosen Ones semi-immortality from the start in the rewritten timeline), as well as being directly used as a weapon via the Elements of Harmony and a combined beam in "The Ending of the End," the latter two are in everycreature's heart and mind (and the latter can do whatever the heck it wants and sometimes performs miracles, while the former gets stronger with negative emotions and tends to accumulate in the Magis' Harmony Gems). All four of them can also be directly communicated with and conversed with by Mikos, although to be safe, they usually only talk to the two benevolent ones.
* **The Chosen Many**: The Chosen Ones are a group of mostly teenagers and children (with a few Token Adults) specifically selected by the Magic of Friendship to save the Multiverse from evil. Naturally, they are famous celebrities who are constantly followed by the paparazzi, and civilians with the same basic powers as one or more of them tend to be especially huge fans of those particular ones.
* **More Fairies, More Weapons**: Like YuYuYu, (most of) the Dream Pixies that the Magis gain after using Elemaximum get a new weapon from each one. Up to Eleven for Sandra (Sonoko) - she might have *21* weapons due to overusing her Elemaximum.
* **Holding Back the Phlebotinium**: In its "raw" form, the Light of Hope can do stuff like create a fully-fledged human baby, break the Red Chain, or instantly revive all of the victims of Yveltal's Oblivion Wing. This kind of stuff, if done by its wielder, would put a huge strain on them. However, when filtered through its wielder, it can be used for more direct applications such as de-corrupting somecreature, calming somecreature (as done once by Serenity Moonbow), or stopping Nanette's Bulbasaur from evolving since she doesn't want to.
* **Alternate Identity Amnesia**: Katrina is subject to this, as all memories she has made as a villain, as well as her false memories of always having been Event Horizon, are like an organic version of a computer's RAM and disappear as soon as she is returned to normal, leaving her memories of the past *8 years* completely blank. As a result, when she is finally freed, she "wakes up" similarly to an Akumatized villain in ML, is confused, and the first thing she asks is "Huh? Where am I? What am I doing here?"
* **And I Must Scream**: ...and being brainwashed and forced to do a villain's dirty work for 8 years, while the citizens of the Multiverse as well as her parents and Pokémon have repeatedly tried and failed to find her (causing her to be presumed dead), is no less terrifying. Essentially, Queen Vera stole 8 years of her life.
* **A Wizard Did It**: How do the Burst Magis' Burst Partners fit inside a wand that's smaller than their body? How do Nijiko's clothes reappear when she detransforms when she has none while transformed? How do Jim's jetpacks while transformed lift him off the ground when he weighs over 300 pounds? How does the Light of Hope create a fully-formed, clean and dry human baby out of nothing? Where do Katrina's Harmony Gem, Power Necklace, weapons, and phone go as Event Horizon? How does the Shinju use a bodily function as a sacrifice when the sanged body part is still there? It's ***magic***, it doesn't need a further explanation.
* **Big Damn Kiss**:
	+ Bryce and Eric, after the latter confesses to the former. (Cherry Magica)
	+ Victoria and Arcturus, as the former is dying. (Nina Magica)
	+ Catherine and Jim. (Aurea Magica)
	+ Homura and Madoka, after their confessions. (Madoka Magica)
	+ Nanette and Mikey, after the former confesses to the latter. (Madoka Magica)
	+ Bianca and Cheren, after the latter confesses. (Nanette Magica)
	+ Hilbert and Hilda. (Nanette Magica)
	+ Nate and Rosa. (Cherry Magica 3)
	+ Cherry and Teryn, after the latter confesses. (Cherry Magica 3)
	+ Mami and Kyoko, after the latter's confession. (Elizabeth Magica)
	+ Several in flashbacks in the first chapter of *Rosie Magica*.
		- Subverted platonic example: Elis and Jim, after the former tells the later to never forget her. This clearly wasn't the first time they kissed, but it *was* the last.
	+ Amber and Shawn. (Amber Magica)
	+ Blake and Whitely. (Amber Magica)
	+ Izzy and Stargazer. (Amber Magica)
	+ Sunny and Hitch. (Amber Magica)
	+ Katy and Mason. (Katy Magica)
	+ Sky and Holly. (Katy Magica)
* **Disney Death**:
	+ Tart and La Hire at Orléans. Melissa's wish brought them back. (Tart Magica)
	+ This has happened to Nanette plenty of times:
		- When Behaver vacuums up her love, but ends up accidentally vacuuming up her soul along with it. However, she doesn't care. (Bailey Magica)
		- When Starlight Glimmer steals her Harmony Mark, Harmony Gem, Power Necklace, and phone, only to end up stealing her soul as well. She later gets them back. (Nanette Magica)
	+ Melody and her Pokémon die in "Melody's Concert: Queen Vera's Attack" after Queen Vera takes their souls. They are revived after Katrina is freed in "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi," however.
	+ Much like the above, all the Magis and Pokémon and the Perservers, except Elizabeth and Nova (and their Pokémon, who also flee to the Cerise Laboratory) are killed via soul-stealing in the next chapter. Like Melody and her Pokémon, they are luckily brought back to life in "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi."
* **Dreadful Dragonfly**: Mackenzie - she has dragonfly wings, super speed, magic 360 degree vision, and a dragonfly Harmony Mark.
* **Ominous Owl**:
	+ Owlremi, one of the villains and minions of the AoTA (in *Nina Magica*), has an owl motif. After she and Mira see the error of their ways and join the heroes, this trope changes to Cute Owl instead.
	+ The first witch appearing in *Tart Magica*. Unlike the canon manga version, Riz allows Melody to defeat her... *in one shot*.
* **My Significance Sense is Tingling**: Molly's Harmony Mark will glow in response to declarations or acts of non-romantic love.
* **Woolseyism**:
	+ "My precious Baburu-chan" becomes "My little Bubbles" in the English dub.
	+ Event Horizon's nickname of "Nonotarin" for Nonomi is translated as "Nanidiot" or "Nana\*\*\*\*le" in the dub.
	+ Koko calling anycreature she doesn't like an "Ijime-kko" (meaning "bully") or "sakana no atama" (meaning "fish head") are respectively translated as "meanie" and "poopyhead."
* **Gorn**:
	+ Cheren's broken, bruised, bloody jaw immediately after he gets punched. It is so bad that the English dub has to heavily tone it down, and after he gets sent the ER, the Magis, Dream Pixies, and Pokémon get into a huge fight that results in even *more* bruises and the Taisha are forced to temporarily confiscate their Power Necklaces and Harmony Gems and disable the Magical Warrior System app.
		- Nanette, on the other hand, nearly...
	+ Cherry Lovedream's missing arm after she loses one to a Vertex in "You Will Never Be Forgotten." In the dub, a towel is added over the missing arm.
	+ Melody's bleeding body after collapsing in the *Cherry Magica 3* finale. In the dub, this is heavily toned down.
	+ Nina Starscout bleeding all over while she and the others retreat from the Temple of Sinnoh. In the dub, she only faints due to the blood being removed and the scene slightly toned down.
	+ Downplayed example: An untransformed Melody getting a huge cut across her face after Mackenzie gets too excited about transforming and accidentally brushes her wing against her face. The blood is removed in the dub.
	+ A comedic example occurs in the equivalent chapter to "The Ending of the End," where Discord makes Nanette's arm disappear to keep her from slapping him in anger for uniting the villains. No blood is shown, and he makes it reappear moments later anyways.
* **We Can Rebuild Him**: Jim was once a normal young man until an armed gang shot and killed him, causing him to lose all his vital organs except his brain, face, soul, and spinal nerves, and turned into a near-complete cyborg. Despite being super durable and immune to the effects of his drugs, smoking, and alcohol, he is implied to resent being a cyborg, especially with his PTSD.
* **Artifact Title**: The names/parts of the names of many characters' attacks, such as **Harmony** Lightbeat, Lucky **Clover** Splash, and **Supernova** Shrapnel are leftovers from their aliases in older series with secret identities.
* **As Long As There is Evil**: Even after the Law of Cycles retcon, Chaos will always be in everycreature's heart and still causes havoc in the form of Wraiths from the negative emotions of Magis, civilians, and even Pokémon alike. As Katrina mentions, however, the Light of Hope always will be as well.
* **Mind Screw**: Nova. She is the Light of Hope from inside Katrina, and thus is 100 percent made of magic, yet has a physical human body (but with no soul), and despite literally being the LoH, she is a messiah and can only transform when it allows her to, so she essentially has to wait for *herself* to let her transform.
	+ Her true self can also somehow simeltaneously be in the physical form of a human girl yet still be present everywhere else like normal. However, this is most likely due to her being the specific portion *from Katrina*, which is a relatively small amount, though that small amount *is a part of the whole force*.
* **By The Power of Grayskull!**: Zig-zagged. While a voice command is not required to transform, a Magi must say the name of the specific attack they wish to execute in order to execute it. Magis must also verbally say "Elemaximum" to activate their Elemaximum when their Elemaximum Gauge is filled. If they cannot talk for any reason, they cannot use attacks or activate Elemaximum.
* **Fusion Dance**:
	+ When the Messiahs get upset since they want to transform and help the battle, after going berserk and trying to destroy the other Magis' Harmony Gems, Power Necklaces, and phones, they all witch out and fuse into one witch who can disable the Magis' transformation abilities. This shows them how frustrating it is to be a Chosen One but be denied the ability to transform. Said witch ends up accidentally killing Nanette after disabling her items, and the Taisha get so angry that they confiscate the Magical Warrior System and *all* magic (though Nova doesn't disappear for some reason) disappears for two weeks.
	+ Walpurgisnacht is made of a fusion of five witches, though its backstory remains a mystery.
* **Our Merfolk Are Different**: There are four Magis who have merfolk tails when transformed and are designed for underwater battles, so the plot often makes it so either villain, witch, or Vertex attacks conveniently happen near bodies of water. While Kylie is related to Shawn (being the daughter of Amber and him, and the two themselves have no ancestors who were Chosen Ones), Melissa and Chiffon have no ancestors who were Chosen Ones.
* **The Soulless**: Nova manages to avoid getting kidnapped by Ghetsis in the chapter equivalent to "Team Plasma and the Awakening Ceremony," avoids being Shadowified in the chapter equivalent to "The Hour of Doomsday," and avoids getting her soul taken when Queen Vera steals all the Magis' souls except for Elizabeth's in "Destruction Around the Corner." Why? *She has no soul in the first place*.
* **Cooldown Hug**: The spell that only Dragonet is able to use, Warm Love Hug, works this way and makes somecreature feel relaxed and calm and also warms them up. In the final chapter of *Cherry Magica 3*, however, its effects are reversed under Shadowification and instead causes somecreature to feel intense pain and makes them feel cold.
* **Speaks Fluent Animal**/**Pokémon Speak**: Although Pokémon only say their names, all Chosen Ones have the ability to hear them talking. In some chapters, the scene briefly cuts to civilians' perspectives of them just saying their names.
* **Code Name**: It isn't revealed until late, but "Event Horizon" is not said character's real name - it is an alias in order to hide her actual name, Katrina Moonshade.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair**: Many of the Magis naturally have hair colors that don't occur naturally in real life, such as pink, blue, purple, and green, and civilians also often have these hair colors. In civilian form, however, their hair colors tend to be fairly dark and/or dull and brighten when they transform.
* **Power Dyes Your Hair**: Most Magis' hair will change color when they transform. Usually downplayed, however, in that it usually changes to a lighter/brighter shade of their civilian form rather than outright a different color. The most extreme examples include Jasper's head frill (not hair, but it turns from orange to light green), Mira (black to red), Joy (bright red to light cyan with pink streaks, which is likely the most extreme change of all), Princess Ellis (brown to light blue with gold tips), Melody (purple and cyan to bright pink), Aurea (brown to mint green), Abigail (brown to bright pink), Chelsea (also brown to mint green), Whitely (black to blonde with white tips), and Cynthia (dark purple to cyan with mint green and pink), while the least extreme examples include Bryce (light blonde to brighter golden-yellow), Nicole (dull sea green to slightly brighter sea green), Cheren (black to dark midnight blue), Bianca (blonde to the same color but with a fade of green), Julia (black to dark mulberry purple), Elizabeth (rainbow to pastel rainbow), and Chiffon (dirty blonde to a slightly paler blonde).
	+ Most Magis also gain a fade of a theme color in their hair after Stage 3, but a few Magis such as Melody, Bianca, Elizabeth, Lily Porter, Gemma, and Avvy are aversions and do not have the color fade. The most extreme example is Joy who has bright red hair but it gains a fade of mint green after Stage 3.
	+ While not seen in concept art, this trope also applies to eyebrows, as the Magis' eyebrows are also usually shown to match their transformed hair when they transform.
* **Power Makes Your Hair Grow**: Combined with the above, most Magis' hair also grows in length to varying degrees in Magi form. For males, however, it tends only grow a bit longer.
* **Taken For Granite**:
	+ In the equivalent chapter to "Mutiny In the Bounty!", Hunter J turns the Magis' Pokémon into petrified statues to sell, even turning the Magis themselves into statues while they're not transformed so she can sell them. Only Melody and Nova manage to escape.
	+ In the equivalent chapter to "The Ending of The End," Princess Celestia, Discord, and Princess Luna turn Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow to stone after their defeat.
* **I Have The High Ground**: When the Magis are in a pinch, Katrina (in the last chapters of EM leading up to "The Ending of The End" after being freed), Angela, Anabelle, or Cynthia will sometimes show up out of nowhere, complete with them being framed in shadow, standing on a high place such as a building, and delivering an "In The Name of The Moon" speech while the same music as Sailor Moon's speech in *Sailor Moon* plays.
* **Combat Stilettos**: Most female Magis wear high heels in their Magi forms. They vary in style and height, however.
* **Senpai/Kohai**: Katrina is usually referred to by the other characters as "Katrina-senpai" due to being active before many of them and how she helps Creatures and helps protect the Multiverse.
* **"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot**:
	+ Subverted example: If Lovedream didn't decide to overuse her Elemaximum in order to defeat all of the Stardust by herself, she wouldn't have sanged heavily. However, it helps that she gets plenty of useful weapons, and that she wouldn't have gotten them if she relied on her friends to help out.
	+ If Nova hadn't given into the pressure to trade Garnet for a passenger's Raticate and instead had politely refused, and hadn't ended up regretting it and going back despite Madoka's protests, the Magis would have gotten off safely and the events of the next two chapters wouldn't have happened.
	+ If Bailey hadn't immediately transformed and rushed over to help the sick wild Pokémon that were affected by Team Rocket's evolution-inducement wave, she would have not caught Tyson's attention and the kids wouldn't get kidnapped by him.
	+ If Katrina hadn't been too lazy to apply a cloaking spell after assuring herself that no bad guys were possibly going to follow it, Queen Vera would not have tracked her and she would not have been brainwashed.
	+ If Dolores hadn't made a rude, pessimistic remark about how she, Avvy, Kyubey, and the Taisha will never find any Chosen Ones anytime soon, the MoA wouldn't have spiked for a second, which was just long enough to free Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow whose petrification spell is sustained by the Magic of Friendship.
* **Heroic Willpower**: Whenever the Messiahs will themselves to transform or suddenly transform out of fury. *especially* when it causes them to go directly into Elemaximum, although willpower-induced transformations have a chance of causing extreme exhaustion, fainting, or both, and can leave their Harmony Gem tainted afterwards.
* **Rollerblade Good**:
	+ Scootaloo (who debuts in an unknown arc) has rollerskates when transformed.
	+ Sunny Starscout from the far future is very good at rollerskating and often rollerskates around to deliver smoothies.
* **Jedi Mind Trick**: Whenever something happens that could make somecreature suspicious of her true identity, Nova quickly hypnotizes them into forgetting it.
* **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. (Tart Magica)
* **Important Haircut**:
	+ Tart does this upon making her wish. She leaves her cut braid at Catherine's grave. (Tart Magica)
	+ When Katy wakes up in the ER, she realizes that her hair is now shorter. (Katy Magica chapter "The End of the Princess")
* **Sliding Scale of Idealism Vs Cynicism**: The series tends to sit in the middle, as both optimistic and pessimistic characters are protrayed as having equally valid points at times as a compromise between the optimistic writers and the slightly less so ones, and both being too optimistic and being too cynical are both depicted as bad things. In the series finale, Katrina sums this up to Megan perfectly: everycreature has both Chaos and the Light of Hope, which will both always exist and evil will never go away, but expresses hope that the latter will prevail.
* **Barbie Doll Anatomy**:
	+ In the Japanese version, this is in effect when Nijiko is in magical girl form.
	+ Kiawe walks around shirtless in civilian form most of the time, but has no nipples.
	+ In his magical boy form, Shawn also has no nipples. This is also similarly justified in his, Kylie's, Chiffon's, and Melissa's case with them being merfolk when transformed, as their tails are an acceptable substitute for lower clothing.
	+ This trope is also in effect during Cynthia's and Megan's conversation in the series finale.
* **Super Not-Drowning Skills**:
	+ The majority of Water-type Pokémon, such as Ninja Dragonets and other fish Pokémon, naturally have this ability. However, ones based on mammals (or reptiles or birds), such as Popplio, usually have to eventually surface to breathe.
	+ Several Magis, mostly Water Elementals, have this ability when transformed as part of their magic.
	+ Like Shawn and Kylie, Melissa and Chiffon have this ability when transformed, though are not Water Elementals like the former two. The four of them also take it a step further in that they gain *merfolk tails* when transformed and are intended precisely for underwater battles.
* **Killed When Dead**: Perservers have a *major* weakness when entering the living world - their soul also enters the living world, which is how Queen Vera is able to grab them when she kills all the Magis other than Elizabeth and Nova.
* **Foreshadowing**:
	+ One of the splash moments in *Tart Magica* 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.
	+ Bailey once expresses worry about the Magis not being there to help their future children. Come *Rosie Magica*, the present-day Magis get kidnapped by the AotA and put in crystals in suspended animation.
	+ In the equivalent of "Time Warp Heals All Wounds!", Nova isn't shocked like May, her Pokémon, Garnet, and Meowth when the pendant starts glowing, but rather has an excited look on her face.
	+ Nova has the same voice actress as the Light of Hope does when speaking, though the former's voice is higher-pitched and sounds more like a normal person speaking, while the latter's is deeper and more "mysterious," much like the Shinju's and the MoF's voices when speaking.
* **Popular Mascot**: More like "Popular Magical Girl," which goes to Melody. In-universe, she has been the most active Puella Magi before the rewritten timeline. Out-of-universe, this explains why the creators came up with the idea of Valerie saying her last words to the Puella Magi of Destinies.
* **Joke Item**: Nova and Discord sometimes create items out of thin air for laughs, such as when the former creates a Psyduck costume on Madoka during her Gym battle just so she can laugh at her. As a result, Homura becomes furious, but Madoka stops her and calms her down since she understands she was simply trying to have fun.
* **Green Rocks**: The Light of Hope qualifies as this, as its power seems to be unlimited and practically able to create or do *absolutely anything*. When filtered through its chosen user, though, it is much more filtered and its user can heavily sange or go into a coma if they overexert themselves or attempt to do feats that its "raw" form is able to perform without breaking a sweat, as shown when Elizabeth sanges heavily and falls into a coma despite successfully making Necrosis a human permanently, or when Tsukiko and Honoko both fall into a coma after overdoing it using it to (albeit successfully) magically convince a stubborn Pony to change her mind about interspecies friendship. For this reason, to minimize the risk serious consequences like this, all but two (Syrami and Cynthia) of its chosen individuals are Messiahs, or in Elfreda's case, not even a Chosen One.
* **Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!**: Besides just Humans, the Multiverse is also home to Pokémon and many sapient species. However, the Ponyverse in particular is inhabited primarily by non-Humans.
* **Power-Strain Blackout**:
	+ Magis sometimes faint after overexerting themselves using a powerful attack or singlehandedly purifying a witch.
	+ Elizabeth faints and goes into a temporary coma from using a huge amount of power turning Necrosis permanently into a human being.
	+ While she does not faint onscreen, once the Magis and Pokémon are revived and her Dream Pixies and Nova are returned to her, the next scene cuts to Katrina waking up in the hospital with the Magis (who are all back in civilian form), their Pokémon, her parents, and Comet all looking at her with concern, implying that she fainted offscreen.
	+ Gemma ends up sacrificing her *soul* to the Shinju as payment for using her Elemaximum to purify Chaospale singlehandedly, but luckily, she gets better.
	+ Katy and Evelyn II end up dying and becoming Perservers from using up too much of their energy helping to stop the Shinkon.
* **Wonder Child**:
	+ Melody is the first example, being created as a gift for Victoria and Arcturus since the former was dying. Averted in the witch-free timeline, however, and her raw magical ability is lower than in the original timeline.
	+ Unlike her canceled origin series counterpart, this is averted for Sugar, who like her sisters is concieved and born normally.
	+ Non-child example: Mira's Carbink, Quartz, was created as an egg by the Light of Hope after all of the wild Pokémon refused to befriend her.
	+ Come *Rosie Magica*, both Madoka and Homura, possibly Cherry Miles and Teryn, and Mami and Kyoko have magically-created children. In the same arc, Blissany's Tepig Gilda is also the magically-created daughter of Gigi and Volley since they couldn't have a baby Tepig for medical reasons.
	+ In *Katy Magica*, Serenity Moonbow is the magically-created daughter of Izzy Moonbow and Stargazer.
* **Unfortunate Implications**: In-universe example. Often, especially in diary entries, characters refer to doing good things as "being a Hero," as if Mikos and Messiahs are inferior to Heroes. Said two are often shown to be silently annoyed whenever another character makes such remarks, and sometimes voice their frustration.
	+ However, this is finally subverted in An Aesop in "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi" where the diary entry reads that to be a true Hero, it doesn't matter if you can't transform when you want or have no combat power - it is about doing things for others.
* **Not Allowed to Grow Up**:
	+ Due to an error in her genes, Melody does not age past 12. In the rewritten timeline, however, she becomes an adult like usual due to Arcturus never establishing his family's semi-immortality (thus meaning Melody's gene error never existed) since all Chosen Ones are semi-immortal from the start.
	+ Dragonet's daughters do not age past infancy due to the serum their mother was injected with also contaminating them. Although her backstory is retained in the rewritten timeline, the Divinity removed the serum's effects, allowing her daughters to become adults like her but also allowing her and her daughters to be semi-immortal (which is due to the MoF's power) like their fellow Pokémonmates and all other Pokémon owned by Chosen Ones.
* **Animation Anatomy Aging**:
	+ A mild case come EM, as in addition to obviously being taller, the Magis are shown to have sharper facial features and slightly smaller eyes due to now being in their 20s.
	+ In the series finale, this is very noticeable with Melody, who is physically a short preteen in the original timeline but is a full-grown (physically) 24 year-old adult in the Law of Cycles timeline.
	+ This is also noticeable with Arcturus with his 30 year-old self in the present in contrast to his 10 year-old self in *Nina Magica*. In the series finale, however, he is physically 23 rather than 30 due to him being possessed and then returned to normal rather than losing his sanity and turning semi-evil.
	+ Compared to her 9 year-old self in *Abigail Magica*, the next time Katrina is actually seen in-person, she is 23 years old and is a lot taller with sharper facial features. She is, however, sometimes seen in flashbacks as a teenager, which resembles an intermediate between the two.
* **Veganopia**: Downplayed. Whenever food like burgers or Torchic nuggets appears, they aren't made from Pokémon - they are confirmed to be made from tofu or similar substitutes. However, products such as Moomoo Milk and Chansey eggs, and other Pokémon byproducts still appear, because the Pokémon willingly allow their products to be harvested.
	+ This is perhaps best shown in the *Bailey Magica* chapter equivalent to "A Better Pill to Swallow," where Bailey mentions she got a stomachache after binging on *way* too many veggie burgers earlier until the old man cures her with one of his pills.
* **Loose Lips**: Queen Vera accidentally calls Event Horizon by her real name when telling her to kill Melody next after already killing her Pokémon. As a result, the Magis are naturally horrified and demand she elaborate, and try to find a way to save her since they now know who she is. *Oops.* However, before explaining, she quickly erases Event Horizon's memory of what she just said and sends her off so she's out of earshot.
* **All Your Powers Combined**:
	+ In the *Lillie Magica* chapter equivalent to "Securing the Future!", the people and Pokémon of Alola, as well as Lillie and the other Magis, their Pokémon, and Kyubey, send out their Light of Hope to Necrozma to help restore its light. Unlike the canon episode, however, the stream of light is emitted from their chest (or equivalent in the case of Pokémon and Kyubey) rather than their hands/limbs.
	+ In *Katy Magica*, this might have been a bit too literal, as Cynthia in her final form not only has the powers of the Dream Stones and Celestial Stones (thus making Kyubey different due to being close to her at that time), but also an enhanced version of her usual powers and the powers of *all* the Magis.
* **Kicking \*bleep\* In All Their Finery**: The Magis (both male and female) fight evil while looking fabulous, with things like brightly colored hairstyles, wings, jewels, bows, dresses/fancy outfits, gloves, high heels, and accessories. This also may be another reason why mostly youth are chosen instead of adults, since such outfits are more appealing and fun to teenagers and children than a 30 year-old, who is likely to dismiss the idea of such costumes as looking ridiculous on them.
* **Stealth Pun**:
	+ Elizabeth and also Nova are ***Light*** Elementals who represent the Element ***of*** ***Hope***.
	+ When commenting on Phoebe's magical girl outfit, a Taisha priest says that "it would have looked even better with the addition of loose socks." As in... her costume looks like something straight out of the kogal fashion culture.
	+ Ishida's English name is Mason. He has the power to manipulate glass... as in *Mason* jars.
* **Aren't We Going to Detransform Now?**: Sometimes, after battles, the Magis stand around or converse while still in their Puella/Puer Magi forms, much like how the Senshi often do in ''Sailor Moon'' or how the magical girls often do in PMMM, before detransforming offscreen. Oddly, it is rare to see them voluntarily detransform onscreen after a battle.
* **Reality Warper**: Discord is this, and Nova also is to a lesser extent. Both of them can conjure objects (and even life forms) out of absolutely nothing. The latter has to exercise *extreme* restraint and use her powers very sparsely and almost never to avoid giving herself away, but can also allow Messiahs to transform and cleanse Harmony Gems, though this is only shown once in "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi." In the rewritten timeline, after Melody wishes for her to be her own person, she doesn't have all these abilities anymore, but does still have her Chosen One powers.
* **What Could Have Been**:
	+ Originally, attacks were to be referred to as Magias. However, this was scrapped since it would be considered weird when said.
	+ The Magis were originally going to discover Event Horizon's true identity on their own, but it was changed to the usual way of it being revealed by Queen Vera due to it being extremely difficult to guess her true identity in-universe, especially combined with the fact that most have no reason to believe that she isn't evil by choice. However, it is partly changed to Queen Vera accidentally saying her real name, and the shocked Magis demand that she elaborate.
	+ Arcturus originally wasn't going to steal the Magi Diary and write an entry about his true feelings before sacrificing himself.
	+ Rei and Akari were originally not going to be part of the first Magi team.
	+ The magical girl outfit Katrina's creator designed for her was originally going to be her starting outfit, but it was changed to it being her post-Stage 3 outfit instead due to it looking too weird on a 9 year-old.
* **Golbatman Can Breathe In Space**: Magis who are Space Elementals can magically breathe in the vacuum of space when transformed without the assistance of the Space Elemental bottle. Other Magis require the effects of said bottle or the Space Elemental Spirit in order to have this ability.
* **Immortality Begins at Twenty**:
	+ The Porters have this as a genetic trait inherited from Arcturus. Thus, Melody is also semi-immortal due to being his daughter, although due to an error in her genes, she prematurely stopped growing at 12.
	+ In the original timeline, Magis gain semi-immortality upon reaching Stage 4. In the rewritten timeline, however, all Chosen Ones past, present, and future, along with implied-offscreen-and-never-shown "future Magis" that Katrina mentions, are gifted with semi-immortality from the start regardless of stage. Their Pokémon also have semi-immortality.
	+ Queen Vera has semi-immortality as part of her dark powers, and has remained physically 25 for over 3,000 years, predating Melody and her parents by over a milennium. In the rewritten timeline, after she was instead revived once she redeemed herself, Valerie is physically 25 in the series finale.
	+ This is implied to be the case for Nova in the original timeline - as she is a small portion of the Light of Hope in disguise, she allows her physical body to naturally age into a young adult come EM, although she likely could "adjust" her disguise at will if she wanted to (though this never happens). After becoming human thanks to Melody's wish in the rewritten timeline, she is physically 22 in the series finale.
* **Clothing Reflects Personality**: A Magi's transformed costume as well as appearance (such as hairstyle and wing style) is based on their subconscious tastes and desires. For example, Cherry Lovedream's top in Puella Magi form is sleeveless since she enjoys spring and fresh air, while Nanette doesn't have heels on her boots since she thinks they would look weird on her at her age.
	+ As another example, Eric and Gemma have costumes that cover all or most of their bodies, representing their shy natures.
	+ Michelle's dress has a *Heartcatch Pretty Cure*-like petal motif, which represents the fact she enjoys nature, especially freshwater.
	+ Lydia has a bodysuit since she reads a lot of in-universe superhero comics and thinks that's what superheroes should look like.
	+ Jim has jetpacks instead of wings (at least prior to Stage 3) because he thinks wings are too girly.
	+ Phoebe's outfit is fairly simple and is very school uniform-like without wings because despite being a Chosen One, she is still somewhat skeptical of interspecies friendship and unused to magic, and thinks frilly costumes are for toddlers.
	+ Melody's outfit has both purple and cyan accents since she wants to honor both sides of her heritage equally.
* **Adults Are Useless**: Downplayed. Adults, with a few exceptions such as Marian, most ponies, Nina, Jim, the Primarchs, and Melissa, are generally ineligible to become Chosen Ones unless they were chosen in their teens and grew to adulthood, in which case they are allowed to keep their Chosen One status. However, the adults in the series such as the Taisha, the Magis' parents, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, and the professors genuinely do their best to be helpful and assist the Magis.
* **"It" Is Decreatureizing**: Played with. Nova is referred to as feminine pronouns, but her true self, being magic, does not have a gender and is always referred to as "it." Lampshaded when she reveals who she really is - Queen Vera calls her "it" several times after this, much to her annoyance, while Elizabeth still calls her "she" since she actually cares about her as a person despite the revelation.
* **Loophole Abuse**:
	+ Despite the series being a kids' show, any magical weapons wielded by Chosen Ones or that are naturally part of a Pokémon's body are exempt from being censored in the dub, no matter how closely they resemble real weapons. Weapons used by non-Chosen Ones, however, are censored in the English dub.
	+ Dragonet technically fulfills the nickname requirement for Pokémon... by simply dropping the word "Ninja" from her species name, or in the original Japanese version, simply adding "-chan" to her species name. This is a subversion, however, as her real name is actually Bubbles, but her nickname for *that* is Dragonet.
	+ The sentient cosmic forces are unable to directly communicate with living beings except for Mikos... unless they take on a disguise, that is, in which case they can speak with and interact with everycreature freely. This is best shown with Nova, though in the equivalent chapter of "Uprooted," the Magic of Friendship disguises itself as Twilight Sparkle in order to congratulate the Creatures for honoring the Tree of Harmony's memory.
	+ Queen Vera is well aware that Katrina would never willingly work for her. However, there is nothing stopping her from simply brainwashing her into being evil and giving her fake memories of having worked for her her entire life.
	+ Kissing is usually censored in the English dub... unless it is platonic, that is, such as one on the forehead (as shown, for example, with Nina and Irida or sometimes with Trainers and Pokémon as well as parents and children). This also applies even if the kissing looks completely identical to romantic kissing but the characters in question have a platonic relationship.
	+ Dragonet got kidnapped and her soul taken prior to *Rosie Magica* due the fact her Trainer's wish specifies that none of her Pokémon will leave *her* permanently - the wish would have gone into effect if they were targeted first, but there is nothing preventing them from getting kidnapped right *after* her.
	+ The LoH has been shown creating life forms in rare circumstances as gifts and doing amazing magical stuff. However, there is no rule according to the laws of the Multiverse that says its opposite, Chaos, can't also create life forms and do evil "miracles," as shown by the fact that the AoTA and Discord (though the latter redeems himself in *May Magica*) were made by it.
* **Crystal Dragon Jesus**: A mild example. Despite the series being a fantasy series, there *are* some elements here and there which take inspiration from real-world religions, such as the Taisha, prayers, Mikos (from Shintoism), the Divinity, and to a slight extent, Nova. The AoTA also count, as they are a group of angels with vaguely Biblical-sounding names, though they are heavily fantasyized to avoid religious controversy.
	+ The Multiverse's calender system, BH/HE, is also based around the birthdate of the four Divine Siblings.
* **Either/Or Offspring**:
	+ Whenever two Pokémon of different species have offspring, they will be either parent's species.
	+ If a member of the four Divine Families has children, the other parent's lineage is irrelevant and the child will always have the appearance, pure last name, and birthmark of the Divine Family parent. When a member of a DF has children with a member of *another* DF, however, they will have both families' birthmarks, both last names, and almost always have two-toned hair.
* **Never Bareheaded**: It is an unwritten rule that most female Magis must have some sort of hair accessory in their Magi forms, an idea which was based off of *Pretty Cure*.
* **One Steve Limit**: Magis with the same dub name usually have different Japanese names, though confusion is not an issue since the characters with the same name tend to live in different time periods. However, there are a few exceptions to the different Japanese names:
	+ Cherry Lovedream, Cherry Thurne, Cherry Fuller, Cherry Yolanda, Cherry Akamine and Cherry Miles *all* have the same Japanese first name, Yuuna.
	+ Nicole Miles and Nicole Messerli have the same Japanese first name, Niku.
	+ Nina Starscout (who isn't a Magi) and Nina Aarden have the same Japanese first name (which is the same as their English name).
	+ Aurora Starsapphire and Holly Yulelog have the same Japanese first name, Fuyuka.
	+ Molly Lovelace and Marie Fragrans come very close, as their Japanese names are respectively Momoko and Momoka.
	+ Flipped example: Mira Freedman and Phoebe Stickysnow respectively have the Japanese surname Kagamine and the first name Kagami.

* **You Mean Xmas**: Several real holidays have Multiversal counterparts, such as Hearth's Warming Eve (though with more of an emphasis on friendship and celebrating the founders of Equestria), Hearts and Hooves Day, Nightmare Night, and the holiday that Stargazer's birthday falls on that seems to be the equivalent of Day of the Dead, There are also other ones such as the Summer Sun Celebration that celebrates the summer solstice, and the equivalent chapter of "Winter Wrap-Up" seems to be about the vernal equinox.
	+ July 10th is celebrated as a holiday called "Holy Day," which falls on the date of the four Divine Siblings' creation. Its traditions, however, are completely original and are not like Christmas.

## 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 end of *Tart Magica* (before the timeskip scene) that he stopped being a hermit and apologized to Melody for leaving her alone.
* **Bada\*\* Normal**: In the adaptation of "Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea," after putting May, Manaphy, Chompy, and her Dream Pixies in a mini submarine, Marina also accidentally puts her phone, Dream Pixies, and Power Necklace inside, but it is too late to go back and get them once the temple starts flooding. As a result, she has to dive down and gather all the crystals to save the temple herself, without her increased speed or strength, invulnerability, or the ability to breathe underwater, and is forced to periodically surface and take breaths, eventually even *drowning* until Manaphy uses Heart Swap to save her.

## 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 straight in their Magi forms, however.
	+ It is also confirmed by the creator of six of the 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 8 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.
* **Dark is Not Evil**: Eric has a darkness-themed name, shadow-based powers, and a dark purple magical boy costume, but is not evil at all.
* **Gag Nose**: Bryce's witch form, Giorno, has the ability to place a curse on somecreature that causes their nose/snout to grow longer or bigger with each lie they tell. Jasper's snout ends up looking the most ridiculous (becoming a Donphan's trunk), but Cherry's nose ends up becoming a huge Probopass nose that grows bigger with each lie (minus the mustache, obviously, since she's a girl), Michelle's becomes a Cubchoo's snout, Kyubey's face (or rather, where her nose would be if she had one) becomes a *Pelipper beak*, Valerie's becomes a Spritzee beak, and Eric's becomes a Dewgong snout.
* **One-Girl Army**: When Bryce witches out, Akari ends up being the only one who manages to not tell a single lie...and she singlehandly purifies him in *one shot*, resulting in her falling into a coma.

## Nina Magica

* **Coming-of-Age Story**: Obvious. After a certain chapter, the Magis have aged 20 years.
* **Will They or Won't They?**: Although they never get together as a couple, not even in the rewritten timeline, this is zigzagged to an infuriating degree with Brandon and Aurora. Sometimes, they kiss on the cheek which usually signifies a friendly, platonic relationship, but more often they hug.... though their hugs are sometimes full hugs and sometimes side hugs. When Brandon gives Aurora a gift, she blushes, but at the same time, he is complimenting her - and since she is usually rather stoic and has difficulty dealing with strong emotions, it is unclear whether she is blushing from the compliment or from *him*. After one of them witches out, the other becomes *shocked* and immediately springs into battle while simply ambiguously saying they "really care" about the other... and often refer to each other as "bro" and "sis," although like Victoria and Arcturus (who clearly have romantic feelings for each other), they aren't blood siblings.

## Cherry Magica 2

* **Bewildering Punishment**: The Taisha once punish all the Magis with no explanation and completely disable their phones, which causes them to get furious since they have no idea what they're being punished for.

## 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.
* **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.
* **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.
* **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?
* **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...
* **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.
* **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.
* **Name's The Same**: Melissa shares her name with the English name of a certain bee-themed magical girl with a mermaid tail from *Katy Magica*.

## Karyll Magica

* **Take Flight**: Tengu Man is flying at the sky.
* **Spark-tastic**: Elec Man and Spark Man are doin' a spark attack.

## Iroha Magica

* **Classical Hunter**: Iroha's lace-up boots, hooded cape, and crossbow in magical girl form give her hunter/hiker-like vibes.

## 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.
* **The Descendants**: Of the four Divine Families - Jim, Nanette and Marina, Jill and Jeremy as well as Kendall, and Christine and Aiden.
* **Groundhog Day Loop**: Prior to the arc, Homura turned back time a total of four times in order to stop the Magis from either dying or becoming witches. However, she eventually decides to never turn back time again even if Madoka witches out.
* **Screaming Birth**: This happens in the chapter where Sugar is born, and all the Magis try to help Dragonet and calm her down. The camera, however, does not show her body past her midsection and keeps the "action" out of sight.

## Bailey Magica

* **Morton's Fork**: Dragonet has one of these in "Behaver." She has two choices - stay with her Trainer but have little freedom and be smothered, or run away to find a new Trainer and have more freedom but also lose the person she cares about most. Ultimately, she Takes a Third Option and gets Behaver to realize she is being too overprotective.
* **Love-Hungry**: Behaver is a platonic example. She is extremely desperate for love and forcefully steals it from anyone when the opportunity arises to attempt to ease her pain from Dragonet (supposedly) hating her. Her destroying buildings and stealing love even from her friends is also from being blinded by grief and frustration rather than out of malice. When she tells her the three words she is so desperate to hear and hugs her, however, she calms down completely and this causes her to be purified.
* **Greens Precede Sweets**: Played with. In one scene, Bailey's mother Heidi tells her that she doesn't get any dessert unless she eats her peas and broccoli first. However, she isn't bothered and only gives her mother an annoyed look since unlike most little kids, she actually likes eating vegetables. Played straight with Molly, however, who tries to secretly steal a slice of the cake without eating her vegetables, but gets caught.
* **Anti-Interference Lockup**: In the chapter equivalent to "Rage of Innocence," Tyson and the other Team Rocket members kidnap the Magis (other than Aurea and her teammates) and imprison them in restraints in an anti-magic cell, with their Harmony Gems and Power Necklaces confiscated.... and all of this could have been avoided in the previous chapter if Bailey hadn't screamed from being startled at the wild Pokémons' sudden appearance, transformed, and immediately rushed over to try and heal all the seemingly-sick Pokémon.

## May Magica

* **Watch the Paint Job**: When Team Rocket decides to paint Arcturus' new car pink with balloon patterns on it, May goes *on a rampage*... and since Pinkie Pie gets framed for it, she gets forced by May to repaint the car until she proves her innocence. They also dye May's hair blue in her sleep and Elizabeth gets framed for it, while all her muffins are gone and Nova gets framed for it.
* **Fixing Song**: In the adaptation of "Apple Family Reunion," Applejack suggests that everyone help the Apple Family rebuild the barn after Applejack ends up making the reunion not very fun, which May decides is a good idea, and they all sing as they do so (and May even lets Max help despite being reluctant to).
* **Age Swap**: In the first chapter, Ella misfiring her age spell accidentally causes May and Max to switch ages, making May 7 and Max 14. She quickly reverses it, however.

## Dawn Magica

* **Catch A Falling Star**: In the equivalent chapter to "Mutiny In The Bounty!", after Hunter J drops her henchmen, Melody, and Nova off her ship to their deaths, Melody transforms so she can fly and avoid falling, but Nova attempts and fails to transform and continues falling. As a result, Melody has to save her since her phone, oddly, does not start glowing as expected.
* **Power Nullifer**: Non-evil example in the adaptation of "Equestria Games," where Magis, non-Magis (such as the Unicorn citizens at the event), and also any magic-using Pokémon of theirs must have an anti-magic spell applied to them by the unicorn official to prevent them from cheating. The Magis must also leave their Harmony Gems, phones, and Power Necklaces at the gate. Bailey even complains that she can't heal somecreature if they get hurt, but the unicorn official points out that it's way less likely somecreature will get hurt if magic isn't used to cheat. Oddly, Nova doesn't disappear despite the anti-magic spell being placed on her.

## Nanette Magica

* **Train Escape**: In the equivalent chapter to "Crisis From the Underground Up!," Team Rocket not only manages to steal all the Magis' Pokémon and the Pokémon in the vault after loading them into the subway car and speeding away, but also steals Kyubey, the Dream Pixies, the Magis' phones, Harmony Gems, Power Necklaces, and the Elements of Harmony. Unlike other series, Melody is forced to take over as the main character of the chapter and the next one...after realizing Nanette has been kidnapped (unlike other series where she is left intact other than her items being stolen).
* **Life Drain**: In the chapter equivalent to "Scare at the Litwick Mansion!", the Litwick try to drain not only the magic from the Magis' Harmony Gems and Power Necklaces, but also they and their Pokémons' life energy. Nova, however, becomes *severely weakened* and is at risk of fading away for reasons unexplained at that point, but quickly reapplies a coating of fresh hypnosis on the Magis to make them forget that they saw that almost happen to her.
* **Dragged Into Drag**: The male Magis and male Pokémon have to disguise themselves as females in order to get into the Flower Garden Troupe's headquarters. After the Magis win the battle, however, the males' disguises fall off, causing the Magis to get kicked out at the end of the chapter by a furious Moira (as unlike GoH, the three girls are not Chosen Ones due to being too arrogant and self-centered to make the cut).
* **Uncanny Village**: Starlight Glimmer's village with all the creepy smiling ponies, with Madoka lampshading this by saying "it gives off very cold vibes. I don't know why, but I just know." Pinkie Pie then adds that their smiles look a bit *too* creepy.
* **Body Horror**: The Magis' Harmony/Cutie Marks being painfully ripped off their clothes/flanks, resulting in them gaining an equal sign in its place and gaining duller colors. Starlight *also* forcibly rips their Power Necklaces, Dream Pixies, and phones off them so they can't transform and escape the village, and traps Kyubey in her own little sealed box. It is also *quite* chilling to see the ones who are normally cheerful depressed with their colors duller.

## Serena Magica

* **People Puppets**: After Nova witches out and turns Serena and her Pokémon into zombies after they win the Princess Key, Victoria possesses Nanette's body just to spite the witch. She even forces Nanette to *flip her off*.
* **Unwitting Pawn**: Alain is tricked into working for Team Flare by Lysandre, though he is Nanette's rival instead since Ash doesn't exist.
* **Deadly Prank**: Subverted. In the equivalent of "28 Pranks Later," Rainbow Dash makes "tainted" cookies that is supposed to cause a zombie apocalypse... except that everyone (even the Pokémon) is actually just faking it and playing along, complete with cupcake-smeared mouths.
* **Minimalist Cast**: The only Magis who participate in the plot of the adaptation of "Rotom's Wish!" are Serena, Clemont, Bonnie, and Nina, as well as their Pokémon and Kyubey, due to the fact that 30 + Magis and Pokémon can't fit in the elevator. The rest are either in their rooms or presumably in the battle room offscreen.
* **Waking Up Elsewhere**: All the high-aptitude Magis, as well as "of interest" ones such as Serena herself and Elizabeth, and their Pokémon and Kyubey, get taken by Lysandre in "A Towering Takeover." When they wake up, they are all *very* confused to find their hands and feet bound in spheres and stuck to a wall, and for obvious reasons, Lysandre also takes their Power Necklaces, phones, and Harmony Gems, which also confuses them when they wake up.
* **Forceful Kiss**: Serena's witch form can force others to fall in love and kiss against their will regardless of sexuality or relationship - for example, when affected by her magical perfume, Dragonet and Cerisey end up kissing despite neither of them being lesbians and the former being aro, as do Twilight and *Spike* despite them being adoptive siblings, and Marina and Clemont as well as Ryutsuki and Calem also end up kissing. All the forced couples, however, are horrified and disgusted once they snap out of it and find themselves kissing each other.
	+ Before Mikey, Melody and Nova purify the witch, a subverted example is shown when Nanette and Jim manage to trick her by kissing each other.

## Lillie Magica

* **Foul Cafeteria Food**: Actually inverted - whenever Lillie and the others are seen in the Pokémon school cafeteria, the food seen on their trays is shown to be delicious (though since it is a Japanese show, it tends to be Japanese foods but slightly altered to fit the Alolan setting). Each Pokémon of theirs is also given a bowl of food as well and the ponies even get trays of hay while Spike gets gemstones on his tray.
* **Only Fatal to Adults**: In the equivalent chapter of "Filling the Light with Darkness!", around Alola people's and Pokémons' Light of Hope is strangely being drained, leaving them dull, lazy, and lethargic. Oddly, this only affects adults - including the few adult Magis such as Jim, the ponies, and Nina, and adult Pokémon - and Nova despite her being a teen. Since the rest of the Magis are kids/teens, they are unaffected, but the Taisha members in Alola at the time as well as Arcturus are also affected.
* **Swapped Roles**: In the equivalent of "The Old Raise and Switch!", some Magis are assigned to swap their partner Pokémon as part of the class assignment. While the rest are fine with it (and Lillie and Marina also swap Snowy and Chompy and she battles with her in the absence of Thunders), Elizabeth and Elio are assigned to swap Dragonet and Fuego, but the former is naturally extremely upset with this and simply runs off from school crying before Yvonne gently convinces her to hand her over without a fight and assures her it's only for the weekend.
	+ As part of a request, however, Nanette is forced to leave all of her Pokémon with another Trainer - one per Trainer (Jessica being with Lillie; Gigi with Lana; and Bouncee with Kiawe for example) - and help out Aurea with her research for the weekend. While her Pokémon are fine with their part, Nanette herself isn't and goes into a mental breakdown, only for Marina to calm her down and, like what Yvonne did with Elizabeth, assures her it's only for the weekend.
* **Human Resources**: In the equivalent of "Lulled to La-Land!", the hungry Morelull *drain the Magis*' and Pokémons' energy (but not magic) and leave them hungry... except Lillie, who sprays herself with Repels to avoid making contact with Pokémon. As a result, Kyoko then has Lillie and Mallow cook massive amounts of food so that the Morelull only drain her.

## Melody Magica

* **Ontological Inertia**: As implied by the arc finale "Sword and Shield" and later confirmed, Nicole will remain a human regardless of whether Elizabeth is dead, alive, not transformed, or has her magic drained, as her own body keeps her alive, not magic. While the *effects* are permanent, the LoH itself is not keeping her alive. This is also the exact same reason Melody is still alive even after magic has long disappeared, as she was *created* by it and its effects remain but she is still biologically like any other human.

## Cherry Magica 3

* **Would Hurt A Child**: The Magis themselves could technically count (being teenagers), but what *really* takes the cake in the equivalent of "The Hour of Doomsday" is the villains having no qualms about shadowifying Sugar, Pudding, and Carrot Cake and then forcing them to *haul giant stone blocks*.
* **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 Creatures 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.
* **Grand Platonic Gesture (Grand Romantic Gesture)**: When Rogal builds a big pink castle for Melody to try and make her happy, she dismisses it as too ridiculous. However, despite his usually calm and levelheaded personality, her rejecting his well-intentioned gift devastates him so much that he *witches out*.

## Elizabeth Magica

* **Not So Different**: As shown in the adaptation of "A Horse Shoe-In" (which is in the last few chapters between "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi" and TEoTE) during the brief "meanwhile" scene before cutting back to the main plot, Katrina's parents have gotten so worried that they have locked their adult daughter in the house, taken away her phone and Power Necklace, taken away Comet's Poké Ball from her, and forbidden her from being a Puella Magi or a Trainer due to not wanting her to be brainwashed again, which is similar to how Queen Vera enslaved her. The obvious difference, however, is that their actions are out of genuine love, while Queen Vera only cares about her powers, and they eventually understand and realize the importance of her duties.
* **No Body Left Behind**:
	+ In "Destruction Around The Corner," the Magis' (sans Elizabeth and Nova) bodies fade away after Queen Vera steals their souls. After EH is freed near the end of "Freeing The Most Powerful Puella Magi," their bodies reappear after their souls are freed from the broken crystal, though like the *Sailor Moon* episode, they are not confused afterwards.
	+ Nova's physical body disappears (and her clothing also is turned into the pillar of light along with her despite them being actual clothes) when she turns into a pillar of light and flies back inside Katrina after thanking the revived Magis and giving Garnet to Madoka. However, it is unknown what happens to her phone, Harmony Gem, and Power Necklace after this.
	+ In part B of TEoTE, Black Hat and Demencia are purified into thin air by the MoF blast due to having no intention of reforming. In the same part, after she redeems herself, Valerie is severely injured by the blast despite it purifying her back to normal, and fades away after thanking the Magis for helping her see the light.
* **I'm Not Gay!**: In the equivalent chapter of "Magical Detectives," Yabashi's Kecleon falls in love with Dragonet, who is bewildered and says that she's not a lesbian.
* **Cheaters Never Prosper**: In the adaptation of "The Sweet Taste of Battle!", Nanette wins the Alcremie-ful Decoration Tournament because the following cheated:
	+ Lydia is disqualified for using her own whipped cream powers to decorate the cake. Before Opal finds this out, however, she judges her cake the most delicious and declares her the winner.
	+ Nova is disqualified for buying a perfectly decorated cake from a bakery (actually creating one out of the others' sight).
	+ Elizabeth and Pinkie Pie are disqualified for the latter fixing the former's cake after Dragonet loses control and eats half of it.
* **Woman Bites Woman**: When Queen Vera becomes thrilled and grabs Nova after she explains that she has no soul and reveals that she is the Light of Hope from Katrina's body disguised as a human, she bites her arm to force her to let go due to her gripping her arms.

## Rosie Magica

* **Tragic Stillbirth**: Subverted in Gemma's backstory. She *was* born stillborn, but after Christine and Jeremy held her, grieved, and then the hospital's morgue cart came to collect her body, the Magic of Friendship suddenly made her alive. If it weren't for Melody requesting the MoF to save her life (as the *Warrior of Destinies* is part Miko), she would've been a goner.
* **Darker and Edgier**: The main characters have to deal with their parents being held captive essentially dead, and their resulting bouts of depression, Blissany permanently sanges one eye and considers committing suicide, Nanette and Jim are trapped in their corrupted forms, and one character was born *stillborn*. Luckily, however, the sanged eye part is averted when Blissany gets fully healed as a reward from the Shinju... once she and all the other Magis wake up from their week-long coma.
* **Klatchian Coffee**: While a pure Miko and thus unable to use it for combat, untransformed most of Kohri's spells revolve around *coffee*, such as when she causes Kai, Miles Mchale (Sonia's son), and Pound Cake to go crazy from one drop... and then asks the Light of Hope to create a giant teapot filled with 200 gallons of coffee, a request it denies for obvious reasons.
* **Kiddie Kid**: Up to Eleven for Avvy. Despite being 15 years old, she is extremely energetic, childish, and immature, and often causes problems (such as when she makes up various songs about Rosie's head exploding or her kissing *Mistralton Tower* and causes her to witch out). However, it is shown she does truly care about her friends and doesn't intend to cause trouble.
* **Tantrum Throwing**: Avvy also once throws a giant tantrum in frustration over wanting Stages 3 and 4 *now*, while screaming and crying and trying to grab and throw the other Magis' phones and Power Necklaces. As a result, she witches out, and has the ability to steal others' powers. As a result, Dolores is left unable to transform.
* **Stone Wall**: Up to Eleven for Angela Moonshade. She obviously has very strong healing and revival abilities and has a huge amount of power in her untransformed spells... *yet is a pure Miko.* To make up for it, she can summon an extremely large, spherical shield to block even very strong attacks over a wide area.
* **Baguette Beatdown**: Autumn can manipulate bread, so naturally, she uses this trope.
* **Power Parasite**: As a witch, Avvy can steal others' powers and freely use them, which renders the power's original owner unable to use it. Naturally, as she is upset that all the Magis haven't gotten their later stages yet, she targets the most powerful Magis first. She also steals Kyubey's ability to grant wishes and grants herself a wish to have Stages 3, 4, and 5, and even steals numerous civilians' powers, causing her to become *drunk with power*. She even is about to use the wish-granting power to surpass Angela in power and become the absolute most powerful being in the Multiverse, only for Dolores to confront her before she can.
* **Suspiciously Similar Substitute**: While she doesn't have a black body (her body is bright bluish-purple/indigo, especially since she and her brother were born quite a while after the Changelings reformed), Twinkledum's outfit in magical girl form is known to be black and she has the power to manipulate gravity. This is rather similar to Annie from older secret identity series.
* **Universal Donor**: Cordial Heart's (the mermaid girl) magic ever since she awakened it and earned her Power Necklace makes it so that her blood can be safely transfused to anycreature regardless of their blood type. This *does* end up becoming important when some of the Pokémon get extremely beat up after a battle (as in beyond a normal beat-up since the Trainer is rude and doesn't seem to care) and immediately afterwards, the screen quickly cuts to them recovered mentioning they had a transfusion.
* **Spin-Offspring**: This arc features the children of the present-day Magis, as well as several new Magis with no connection to any prior Magis. Despite appearing in the present-day arcs, Dragonet's babies and their youngest sister Watermelon also appear under the care of Natalie due to their mother pushing them away and shoving them into her arms before she got kidnapped.
* **Crystal Prison**: Sort of. The present-day Magis and their Pokémon, prior to the arc, had their souls stolen by the AoTA and trapped in crystal orbs, essentially killing them. They are freed and brought back to life at the end, luckily, and are seen attending the concert in the arc finale.
* **Dance Party Ending**: A variation - the Magis decide to host a concert after the final battle and freeing their parents.

## Allison Magica

* **Automated Automobiles**: Starting from this arc, due to it being the far future, self-driving cars/vehicles are sometimes seen. However, in *Nanette Magica* and *Cherry Magica 3*, completely self-driving subway trains are also shown.
* **Overly Long Scream**: A positive variant. This is Amber's reaction when the girls find out that Melody was created by magic.

## Amber Magica

* **Idiot Hero**: Amber is quite childish and often acts like an excited 5 year-old, though she matures over the course of the arc.
* **Minor With Fake ID**: When the group's Pokémon end up getting startled by Honoko and end up running into a bar (or a disco dance club that sells soda in the English dub) and the Magis run after them, the humans, Stargazer, and Mandible get stopped and asked for their ID, while the other ponies and Melody are let in. The solution? Blake makes crude fake IDs out of paper to try and fool him, but it doesn't work since he is well aware they aren't 21.
* **Video Arcade**: Anabelle is sometimes seen at the arcade in Celadon (which is updated for a much more futuristic look) playing a game resembling *DanceDanceRevolution*.
* **Cynic-Idealist Duo**: Amber and Sunny (the Idealists) and Whitely and Phoebe (the Cynics).
* **Cool House**: The Magis live in a giant crystal lighthouse (called exactly that) created by the Magic of Friendship for them to live together in. It is unknown what happened to it after *Amber Magica*, however.

## Katy Magica

* **The Final Page**: Katy writes the final entry of the Magi Diary before being deployed to the Jukai one final time.
* **Flip-Flop of God**: Holly's Harmony Mark went through *several* concept ideas, ranging from a chocolate bonbon to a yule log cake to a chocolate bar being splashed in milk. It was eventually settled, however.
* **Identical Cousin**: Averted. Phoebe and Holly originally had the latter written as the former's younger cousin, but since the original plan was to have then unrelated, they were made to be unrelated again. Their similar appearances and theme colors as Magis are a coincidence.
* **Fletchette Storm**: Benevolent example. In the final chapter, after being revived, the Divinity releases a magic blast that forms into an orb, which then fires numerous miniature Divinities in all directions that travel through space and time.
* **Drowning My Sorrows**: After Kenny's death (along with Sky) and having already witnessed Melody's death, Cynthia plans to commit suicide for the second time - this time by stealing a bottle of high-proof liquor (since she can't legally buy it due to being a minor) from a liquor store and giving herself alcohol poisoning. She pours herself a shot and is seconds away from drinking it before the remaining Puella Magis and Pokémon manage to talk her out of it at the last second.
* **Divine Intervention**: The Divinity's first rescue after being revived is Syren. She is shown falling down and then detransforming. She then glances at her Harmony Gem in her hand which is corrupted from her exhaustion and pain, and it starts to crack, about to become a Grief Seed and corrupt her into a witch. The 9 year-old child is naturally terrified knowing what is going to happen in moments and cries, but before she can become a witch, a golden beam shoots down from the sky, turns into the Divinity, and She cleanses her Harmony Gem of the corruption. Relieved, she gets up and happily runs to group hug her friends.
* **Deus Exit Machina**: After Melody's death, the aftereffects of the witch that killed Melody severely reduce the effectiveness of Cynthia's healing powers.
* **Mixed-Age Group**: Compared to most arcs, *Katy Magica*'s Magis have a rather wide variety of ages.
	+ Sky, Kylie, Holly, Evelyn, and Chiffon are the typical 13/14.
	+ Katy, Serenity, Luke, and Sunshine are older teenagers, at 16/17.
	+ Melody and Mason are preteens, at 12 and 11, respectively.
	+ Melissa is a 24 year-old adult.
	+ Syren is the Token Mini-Moe, at 9.
* **Dwindling Party**: Starting with Melody, the Magis are killed one by one by witches, and even Katy and Evelyn eventually die and become Perservers from using up too much of their energy helping to stop the Shinkon.
	+ Melody's death starts the trope, as she is choked to death to by a witch after being rendered vulnerable by it.
	+ In particular, Syren's death is arguably the saddest since she is only *9* and has no means to fight back against the witch since she is a pure Miko.
	+ By the time of Melissa's death, besides the supporting Magis, only Katy, Sky, Kylie, and Evelyn II are left.
* **Child Bride**: Cynthia, who forces herself to believe that she actually wants to go through with the Shinkon. Katy and Evelyn, however, force her to stop lying to herself.
* **I Choose to Stay**: As shown in the final chapter, Nova is now seen as a real human and a member of the Law of Cycles council, as Melody wished for her to be brought back and become an actual human. While she is confirmed to no longer possess powers such as hypnosis, healing like Katrina's family, Sayaka, and Bailey, creating life-forms, and conjuring objects out of nothing, she does still have her henshin items and her Chosen One powers.
* **Darker and Edgier**: Along with *Rosie Magica*, this is one of the darkest arcs in the entire franchise.
* **It's All My Fault**: With every one of the other Magis who die, Melissa blames herself for it due to seeing herself as their guardian of sorts, up until her *own* death... and conversely, the remaining Magis are devastated by the death of their guardian/Cool Big Sis/mother figure.
* **Improbable Hairstyle**: Kylie has this trope. Her hairstyle consists of two braids whose ends are held up at her temples. As shown when she is seen styling it, she uses this style to hold back her knee-length hair, and since the braids are rather heavy due to how much hair she has, she uses hair glue *in addition* to clips to keep the loops attached.
* **Same Character, But Different**: In the new timeline in the series finale, Arcturus is shown to be just as much of a loyal gentleman as he was when he was a child, as Nina, Victoria, Brandon, and Aurora never died, though the Federal Starter Trio still did. He and Victoria also married shortly after their kiss (though a year before the point where the latter would have died in the original timeline), and Melody was conceived the usual way instead of via magic.