W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Adaptation Displacement: Just look at how many tropes here are about the cartoon series instead of the original comics.
    • Averted in Europe, where the comic is still more well-known, since Disney comics are big in Europe.
  • Anticlimax Boss (After a, for the most part, spectacular second season, things climax with a final battle against Cedric, who was defeated, like, 100 times before, and even with his new powers, this didn't turn out any different.
    • Mainly because the Guardians went One-Winged Angel as well, while Cedric's new form wound up being more clipped than anything. Otherwise, Cedric would have gone Godzilla on Heatherfield. Poor Cedric; he just can't catch a break.
  • Anvilicious: Some of the latest comics can come off as this.
  • Badass Decay: Cedric and Elyon suffered this in the cartoon series.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Has its own page; the comic itself is just filled with these.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: "We are, we are, we are, W.I.T.C.H.!/We are, we are!"
    • The European version is arguably even better.
  • Deus Ex Machina: This is sadly the standard way the Guardians win in each arc- they never actually win by their own merits. Meridian Arc? Elyon beats Phobos while the girls are tossed aside. Nerissa Arc? Shagon is directly responsible for Nerissa's defeat, damaging her almost fatally. Ari's arc doesn't suffer from this... but the human world situation, which was really bad, is solved by the Oracle(who is just an observer). Endarno Saga? Himerish beats down Phobos off-screen. Then, Phobos' backup plan is foiled by... Napoleon(who in the comic is a mere housecat). The most ridiculous Deus Ex Machina sequences were the superpower manifestation in the Dark Mother Saga- after the girls get beaten down they somehow let loose a new power they didn't know anything about and it overpowers Dark Mother with ease, and the defeat of the white queen, where the girls literally pull a completely unknown tactic out of their hats- and we never see it in use again. If there was one thing the cartoon improved, this was it.
  • Evil Is Sexy: Phobos, young Nerissa, Cedric in human form.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple (At the beginning of the television series premiere, Will/Caleb was far more favorable than Cornelia/Caleb...but that seemed to die out pretty fast.)
    • It still has a strong following in fanfiction, to say nothing of the Girls Love slash shipping.
  • Foe Yay: Orube and Cedric.
  • I Am Not Shazam: We're not witches! That's just our initials!
  • Les Yay: "E is for Enemy" has Irma and Cornelia sleeping together, with Cornelia's hand on Irma's breast, as you can see in this image [dead link].
    • Well, Word of God has said that Irma is bisexual...
    • The comic also has a lot of "moments" for Irma. A recent comic had this comment from her: "Oh, Will. I love when you take command."
    • According to Cornelia, Ellyon describes her ideal partner as tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. How would you describe Cornelia's appearance?
      • In the comic, Cornelia says that Elyon always was "more than a friend, but more than a sister".
  • Magnificent Bastard: Nerissa.
    • Phobos is a contender too but usually ends up as a Smug Snake no matter how impressive his efforts are.
  • Mondegreen: Prior to the point where Will's element in the Transformation Sequence became "quintessence", it was variously heard as "it worked", "big hook", and various other odd phrases. Closed captioning programs had particular difficulty with it.
    • It's changed so that it's audible as "the heart" eventually.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Take your pick as to when Nerissa crossed the line.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The astral drops exist in some kind of limbo. There's nothing on this place except for the astral drop, who is alone, can experience feelings like anyone else and... she's trapped there unless the Guardian that created her takes her out of there.
  • Periphery Demographic
  • Tear Jerker: This troper remember crying when Will's pet squirrel died, of all things.
  • The Scrappy: Blunk, though it's not so bad as people make it out to be, especially once he's toned down by the end of Season 1.
  • Seasonal Rot: To some fans, some of the latest comics aren't as good as the first few sagas; mostly due to the fact there are no real villains that stick around longer than a couple of issues, and the stories can sometimes come off as Anvilicious. Where it started varies heavily between fans.
  • Squick: Will's reaction in "T is for Trauma" when Cornelia accidentally brings up the subject of Parental Incest. Also Irma and Hay Lin's response to Minion Shipping with Cedric and Miranda.
    • The second is pretty understandable, as it is both bestiality and pedophilia. Miranda is a little girl that transforms, Cedric is a monster disguised as a man.
  • Too Good to Last: Seriously, does Disney just hate Greg Weisman? In A Slap Slap Kiss way?
  • Toy Ship: Lillian and Christopher in "W for Witch".
  • Ugly Cute: Blunk. According to Hay Lin he's "sort of cute."
  • Unfortunate Implications: On some of the merchandise, the only ones who get excluded are Hay Lin and Taranee.
    • The revelation that Matt was Kandrakar's agent from the beginning, even though he could have helped in previous saga, and it ruins the Secret Keeper intrigue in the fifth saga. But the Squick part is: a Really Seven Hundred Years Old agent sent to keep an eye on the guardians, being the boyfriend of a pubescent girl?
      • It's also implied that Matt was reincarnated and didn't actually know until his memories were awakened at the start of the New Power saga, due the fact that Orube and him have no idea who the other is when they first meet and repeated appearances of Matt's grandfather and mother, plus a girl who went at grade school with him.
  • Villain Decay: In season 2, in the same episode that he was freed from prison for the first time, Elyon forces him back in, without even an onscreen fight.)
    • Possibly justified; in the first season, Phobos was explicitly leaching life energy out of Meridian to fuel his powers, but since he'd spent the last ten or so episodes imprisoned he would have had no oppurtunity to do that. With just his native powers as an Evil Sorcerer, it's not much of a stretch to say that he's stronger than any Guardian, but enough weaker than Elyon that she could handle him with little difficulty (after all, she is very explicitly the more powerful of the royal siblings).
    • Inverted in the last few episodes of the season, where Phobos steals the Seal of Nerissa, making him far more formidable than he was in Season 1- in theory, anyway. In practice, Cedric eats him.
    • Cedric plays this totally straight, getting easier and easier to defeat each time he shows up. Even when betraying Phobos and absorbing ultimate power in the end, he winds up not knowing how to properly use it and is defeated yet again.
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