The New Adventures of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch/Tropes

A comprehensive list of tropes associated with this series. Character and episode tropes should be listed separately.

## Tropes

* **Animesque:** Not so much the character designs themselves (which look more like The Wizard Dude's art style, but still have some anime qualities in them), but the animation style is *very* Japanese.
* **Blonde, Brunette, Redhead:** The Spellman Girls from Seasons 2 to 4: Sabrina (blonde), Hilda (brunette) and Zelda (redhead). Just like in the original series, the roles are palette-swapped, with Zelda being the Brainy Redhead, Hilda the Dumb Brunette and Sabrina the Fiery Blonde.
* **Butt-Monkey:**
	+ Salem, as per usual. It's usually his fault,
* **Early-Installment Weirdness:** Enough to warrant its own section, especially Season 1.
* **Heel-Face Turn:** Gem *finally* does this in "Stone Cold Friendship," after seeing the errors of her ways and standing up to her mother.
* **Limited Wardrobe:**
	+ Averted for the most part, as per Big C Productions tradition. Most characters wear different outfits between episodes, and if you look closely in some later ones, you can see they mix and match different clothes.
	+ Played straight for some characters, such as Norma and Uncle Quigley.
* **Suddenly Voiced:** Madison Simons (the brunette cheerleader), who was mute in the previous series apart from cheers and group chants.

## YMMV

* **Awesome Music:** The theme song, *You've Got the Magic* by Kay Hanley, certainly qualifies.
	+ Several of the songs sung by the characters, whether licensed or written for this show, are amazing as well. So much so that they have
* **Ensemble Dark Horse:**
	+ Pi reprises this from the original series, which is one of the reasons Mr. Wizard and Melissa brought him back.
	+ Shelby Luong, introduced in the second half of the show, is this across many fanbases.
	+ Due to their more distinct personalities than their portrayals in the original series, the cheerleaders have become this.
	+ Pretty much *all* of the genderbent counterparts in the direct-to-video movie *Sebastian, the Teenage Wizard,* particularly some Serafina, the Uncles (Zane and Hugo), Girl Pi (whose real name is Penelope or Penny), Norman and even Bastian himself. So much so, in fact, that they got their own miniseries.
* **Relationship Voice Actor:**
	+ *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:* Preteen Sabrina is Sweetie Belle, Hilda is Princess Cadence, Harvey is Shining Armor, Gem and Pi are Diamond Tiara, Norma is Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, Spella is Celestia, Nicole is Silver Spoon, Enchantra, Scheherazade and Rainbow are Trixie, Cassandra is Sunset Shimmer, Shinji is Flash Sentry and Shelby is Adagio Dazzle.
	+ Chantal Strand and Andrea Libman previously worked together on *Dragon Tales,* being Cassie and Emmy respectively. Jason Michas and Kathleen Barr also voiced Zak and Wheezie.
	+ Carly McKillip and Andrew Francis previously voiced Sincerity and Buddy, respectively, in *What About Mimi?*
* **Surprisingly Improved Sequel:** To *Sabrina's Secret Life.* Notably, fan-favorites such as Chloe, Gem, Uncle Quigley and Pi are brought back (despite two of them leaving the show past a certain point), the morals are not forced on the viewers, and overall the show's stories are much better thought out, with an actual Greater-Scope Villain and three secondary antagonists (two, Scheherazade and Charles Embeeay, were previously one-off characters). Most importantly, however, Sabrina has become her likeable characterization from the original comics and *STAS.*
* **The Woobie:**
	+ Norma commonly gets hit with this, especially as a preteen.

## Trivia

* **Acting For Two:**
	+ Gem and Pi are both voiced by Chantal Strand.
	+ Kathleen Barr pulls *triple* duty, voicing Enchantra, Scheherazade and Rainbow.
	+ Andrea Libman voices both Norma and Ashley.
* **Cross-Dressing Voices:** Just like in the original series, Chantal Strand voices the male Pi.
* **Dawson Casting:** Nearly every teen or preteen character is voiced by an adult. Even Claire Corlett is in her 20's.
* **Exiled From Continuity:** Due to The Wizard Dude and Melissa streamlining the comics and original animated series, some things from *Secret Life* and the Holly G comics are changed around and/or outright excised.
	+ Don't expect to see Maritza from *Secret Life* at all in this series, due to Chloe not being put on a bus midway through the show.
		- On a related note, while Llandra de Silva does appear in this show, her role as Chloe's replacement is practically nonexistent.
* **Fake Nationality:**
	+ In general, Vancouver-based actors play American characters.
	+ Kathleen Barr uses a Cockney accent to play Enchantra and a Hungarian accent for Scheherazade.
	+ Bob Bergen puts on a hammy British accent for Tim.
* **The Other Darrin:**
	+ The Spellman Girls: Emily Hart is replaced by Caitlynne Medrek (teenager) and Claire Corlett, while Melissa Joan Hart is replaced by Carly and Britt McKillip (Zelda and Hilda, respectively).
	+ Nick Bakay is replaced by Maurice LaMarche as Salem.
	+ Bill Switzer is replaced by Andrew Francis as Harvey, as both a teen and preteen.
	+ Alexandra Carter is replaced by Shannon Chan-Kent as Nicole, due to the former's retirement from acting.
	+ Tifanie Christun is replaced by Rebecca Shoichet as Cassandra.
* **Playing Against Type:**
	+ Nicole Oliver usually voices heroic characters, such as Princess Celestia. Here, she voices the evil Spella.
	+ Chantal Strand is usually known for voicing sweet little girls. Here, she voices two completely different characters from that, one of which isn't even a girl!
* **Recycled Script:** C'mon, it's a *Sabrina* show. What did you expect?
	+ "Something to Sneeze At" mixes elements from both "Witchitis" and " J'achoo", the two Sick Episodes from the previous shows.
* **Role Reprisal:**
	+ Jay Brazeau returns to play Uncle Quigley.
	+ Kathleen Barr reprises her roles of Enchantra, Scheherazade and Rainbow.
	+ Bob Bergen stays on as Tim the Witchsmeller.
	+ Chantal Strand reprises her roles of Gem and Pi.
	+ Erin Fitzgerald reprises her role of Calista.
	+ Andrea Libman returns to her roles of Norma and the previously-unnamed Ashley (the blonde cheerleader).
* **Write What You Know:** The Wizard Dude, LeAnn and Melissa often write different plots that come into their heads, sometimes sharing ones with episodes they watched before.

## Early-Installment Weirdness

* In terms of storytelling and season length, Season 1 has become the odd duck in the series: it does not open or close with a two-parter,