Witches and Wizards

This index is a subcategory of Magic and Powers, obviously enough.

Tropes:

• The Archmage: The leader of a group of magicians.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: A good-natured monarch who is also a magician.
• Black Mage: A sorcerer who specializes in using offensive magic for combat.
• Black Magician Girl: A young, hot-tempered female black mage.
• Blue-Collar Warlock: A warlock or witch who dresses and acts like an average person; often found in modern fantasy settings.
• Burn the Witch!: People who are accused of witchcraft end up getting executed, usually by being burned at the stake.
• Cats Are Magic: Felines who can use magic.
• Child Mage: A kid who can use magic.
• Color-Coded Wizardry: When wizards use different colors to distinguish themselves, usually denoting rank, the type of magic they use, and so on.
• Court Mage: A sorcerer who serves a monarch as a member of their royal court.
• Cute Witch: An adorable witch.
• Cyborg Wizard: A Cyborg who has both mechanical implants and magical powers.
• Dark Magical Girl: A villainous but conflicted magical girl with a Dark and Troubled Past; she often ends up making a Heel–Face Turn.
• Druid: A mage of Celtic heritage.
• Ethnic Magician: A mage who is a member of some "exotic" nation or race.
• Evil Sorcerer: A wicked wizard who maliciously uses dark magic to terrorize people for personal gain.
• Fake Wizardry: Someone pretends to have magical powers.
• Familiar: A witch's magical pet.
• Flying Broomstick: Enchanted cleaning tools are a common form of transportation for witches.
• Gentleman Wizard: A cultured male wizard.
• Goth Girls Know Magic: Goth girls or women depicted with magical powers. Not unusual for them to be witches.
• The Hecate Sisters: What happens when the Cute Witch, Hot Witch and Wicked Witch appear together.
• Hot Witch: A sexy witch.
• Inept Mage: An incompetent sorcerer who's not very good at using magic.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: A magical fighter who can use both magic and (bare-handed) martial arts.
• Lady of Black Magic: An elegant witch who is a powerful black mage.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Warriors are Crutch Characters, but wizards have Magikarp Power.
• Mage Born of Muggles: Someone who was born with magic powers to normal parents.
• Mage Marksman: A magical fighter who can use both magic and ranged weapons (like bows or guns).
• Mage Species: Magical powers are hereditary.
• Mage in Manhattan: When a villainous magic user winds up in a modern part of our world.
• Magic Is Feminine: Magic is primarily associated with female or feminine characters.
• Magic Knight: A magical fighter who can use both magic and melee weapons (like swords or shields).
• Magical Clown: A clown, jester, or mime with (often bright and colorful) magic powers.
• Magical Girl: A girl who gains magical powers (and some cool outfits to go with them).
• Magical Girlfriend: The Love Interest of an ordinary man (or less commonly, ordinary woman) who has supernatural powers.
• Magical Girl Queenliness Test: A Magical Girl princess must prove she can also be a queen.
• Magical Girl Warrior: A magical girl who uses her abilities to become a superheroine and fight evil.
• Magical Native American: Indigenous Americans (usually tribal shamans of some sort) possess magical powers, or at least a greater awareness of the supernatural world.
• Magical Romani: Romani people who possess magical powers, usually for the purposes of fortune-telling and/or putting gypsy curses on their enemies.
• Magical Society: Magicians live in their own society away from mainstream civilization.
• Magicians Are Wizards: A stage magician who also doubles as a real magician, capable of casting genuine magic spells offstage.
• The Magocracy: A government led by mages.
• Merlin and Nimue: A duo consisting of an older mage (like Merlin) and his younger apprentice (like Nimue).
• Military Mage: A sorcerer who is serving as a soldier in the armed forces, using their magic either for direct combat or other support roles.
• Muggle Born of Mages: Someone who was born without magic powers to magical parents.
• Muggle in Mage Custody: When a normal person without magical powers is a slave or a ward to a magician.
• Muggle–Mage Romance: When a magician falls in love with a normal person.
• Muggle with a Degree in Magic: Someone who's an expert on magic, but lacks the ability to actually use it.
• Necromancer: A magician with the power to mess around with life and death, resurrecting dead people back to life (or more often, turning them into freaky undead beings).
• Not That Kind of Mage: When one type of mage or magical tradition is mistaken for another or a pop-culture version.
• Our Liches Are Different: An undead sorcerer, who likely used necromancy on themselves in order to cheat death.
• Our Mages Are Different: The exact nature of mages, wizards, and their magic will vary depending on the story.
• Rabbit Magician: A bunny who can use magic.
• The Red Mage: A magician capable of casting spells from multiple schools of magic.
• Religion is Magic: When this trope is in effect, expect any priest (or highly devout layperson) to be able to practice sorcery by praying to their deity.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: Standard attire for magicians.
• Robot Wizard: A robot or other mechanical being who is surprisingly capable of using magic.
• Science Wizard: A sorcerer-scientist who's either trained in both magic and some form of science, or takes a scientific approach to the study of the mystical arts.
• Selkies and Wereseals: Human-seal shapeshifters that are sometimes sea witches.
• Skinwalker: A demonic creature from Navajo mythology, usually a (formerly human) sorcerer who used occult witchcraft to gain the ability to shapeshift into various animal forms.
• Solitary Sorceress: A witch or other female magician who lives far away from society.
• Sorcerous Overlord: An Evil Overlord who is also a master of the dark mystical arts.
• Squishy Wizard: Magicians who can kick ass using magic, but are physically vulnerable to attacks due to a lack of more mundane fighting skills.
• Stage Magician: AKA an illusionist, a type of entertainer who uses fake magic tricks while performing in front of an audience.
• Supernatural Martial Arts: Learning certain forms of fist-fighting will allow you to also use some cool magical powers to kick ass.
• Sword and Sorcerer: When a warrior and a mage fight together as a pair.
• Token Wizard: The only mage among this group of people.
• Unequal Rites: Commonly involves feminine "witch magic" being contrasted to masculine "wizard magic".
• Un-Sorcerer: When taken to the extreme, this is a powerless person who's completely surrounded by magical people.
• Vain Sorceress: A witch who's fixated on her physical beauty, often using magic to maintain/enhance her looks.
• The Weird Sisters: When witches form teams of three.
• White Mage: A sorcerer who specializes in using defensive magic or healing spells.
• White Magician Girl: A young, kind-hearted female white mage.
• Wicked Witch: An archetypical evil witch; she'll usually be physically unattractive, wear black clothes, ride a Flying Broomstick, and/or turn people into frogs while cackling maniacally.
• Witch Classic: The archetypical witch in black who rides a Flying Broomstick.
• Witch Doctor: A tribal shaman who serves as both a healer and wizard.
• Witch Hunt: Can refer to both literal and figurative witch-hunts (any sort of persecution resulting from mass hysteria).
• The Witch Hunter: Someone who hunts witches, usually going after the evil types.
• Witch with a Capital "B": Using the word "witch" as an insult in place of "bitch"; in some cases it's literal and figurative.
• Wizard Beard: A male wizard with a long, often white, beard.
• Wizard Classic: The archetypical wizard; usually an older man with a long beard, who wears robes, carries a staff, and comes off as both wise and eccentric.
• A Wizard Did It: Things that don't make sense in the plot are handwaved or explained as "magic".
• Wizard Duel: Two mages duke it out in a fight with magic.
• Wizarding School: A school that teaches magic to magicians in training.
• Wizards from Outer Space: Magicians who live in a Science Fantasy setting.
• Wizards Live Longer: Magical people have longer lifespans than normal people.
• Wizard Workshop: The working area of a magician, filled with strange instruments and arcane materials.