Mysterious Waif: Difference between revisions

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[[File:afghan-girl 4073.jpg|frame|Mysterious [[National Geographic|from June 1985]] [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2002/04/afghan-girl-revealed/ until April 2002].]]

 

{{quote|''"I've [[Genre Savvy|seen enough movies to know]] I'm safer siding with the mystery girl with the crazy powers than the army of dudes trying to kill her."''|'''Jacob Freeman''', ''[[Shadownova]]''}}

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. She is mysterious, ready for a self-sacrifice, and wears unusually dark clothes; she also has several mysterious powers even outside of her Sailor Senshi identity (although many of the other girls did too). Her situation is somewhat different, as there are [[Eviler Than Thou|three sides]] involved: Sailor Moon, who wants to save her; the Guardians of the Outer Solar System, who want to get rid of her as she poses a threat to the world; and the evil Death Busters, who want to destroy the world with her help. A couple seasons later, she joins the main cast, and her powers overlap somewhat with those of the [[White Magician Girl]] [[Cool Big Sis]], Sailor Pluto.

* Kari Kamiya/Yagami Hikari from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', the human lightbulb. Also an [[Ill Girl]] at times (really, she gets sick twice during the series and twice offscreen as backstory - a lot compared to the ''zero'' of most of the rest of the cast, but that adds up to a minuscule portion of her screentime - [[Never Live It Down|far from the invalid she's remembered as by fans]].), she is the only one to have a Crest (Light) that ''doesn't'' refer to an innate virtue or trait. The powers of this Crest usually manifest themselves in weird ways, and she has been shown as both 1) unusually self-sacrificing and 2) drawn to the Dark Ocean, because of her powers and walled-in emotional problems. She's also empathetic to the point of being borderline psychic, which sends her into two [[Heroic BSOD]]s in 02 (and during the last one, her best friend Miyako has to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|literally bitchslap her]] back to sanity).

** She can also be possessed by the mysterious whatevers that are running the digital world (apparently, in rank, they're the one step that exists between [[The Obi-Wan]] Gennai and ''[[The Four Gods]].'') And once talked like her possessed self while apparently ''not'' possessed, and could grant healing and a recharge ''by glowiness alone.'' She's got some serious clout, and we never get any kind of explanation for it, not even something like "Light is just that awesome a Crest trait."

* Kisara of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', the [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|white-haired]] and blue-eyed Egyptian and homeless, quiet, vaguely psychic, mysterious keeper of the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon who [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificed herself]] to protect the only person who ever showed her kindness, High Priest Seto... even [[Reincarnation|3,000 years later]].

* Clare from ''[[Claymore]]'' starts out like this, until it becomes obvious that she is seriously [[The Stoic]] mixed with [[Badass Abnormal]], a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], [[Kuudere]], and a bit of [[Deadpan Snarker]].

** Ophelia at first appears like this, but she is just liberal amounts of [[Ax Crazy]].

* C.C. from ''[[Code Geass]]''. Personality-wise she's more of a [[Deadpan Snarker]], though, and can't be considered exactly naive.

** {{spoiler|Except when she loses her memory, then she fits the trope perfectly.}}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Kes from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' though her past is well-explained ({{spoiler|if not her subsequent [[Face Heel Turn]]}}) given that she's only lived a couple of years when the crew encounters her.

** After Serenity, it seems she's getting better. Not 100% better (she still reads minds) but better than before.

* Natsuki in ''[[Go Go Sentai Boukenger]]'' has a couple of [[Spider Sense]] moments, so far a part you wonder if [[The Powers That Be]] ''forgot'' about the skull thingy way back in episode one, but when her powers are used against the Boukengers by bad guys, you get mass destruction. It's... really more trouble than it's worth.

* Freya from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', a Druid runaway who is under a [[Curse]].

 

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Our very own [[Mysterious Waif-tan]].

 

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