Magical Girl: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Magic Girls, no matter how frilly their dresses, high their screams, or incompetent their sidekicks, will be treated as the credible and dire threats they are, and I will direct as many, if not more resources to their destruction as I would for a more classical Hero."''~~|''[http://nift.firedrake.org/EEmpress.htm Evil Empress Guide]''}}~~

{{quote|''"Magic Girls, no matter how frilly their dresses, high their screams, or incompetent their sidekicks, will be treated as the credible and dire threats they are, and I will direct as many, if not more resources to their destruction as I would for a more classical Hero."''

|''[http://nift.firedrake.org/EEmpress.htm Evil Empress Guide]''}}

Known as ''mahou shoujo'' (魔法少女, "magical girl") in Japanese, or simply ''majokko'' (魔女子, "witch girl"), '''Magical Girls''' are empowered by various means with fantastic powers that both assist and complicate their lives, but manage to persevere despite this.

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=== Asian Animation ===

* ''[[Petit Petit Muse]]'' is a Korean Magical Girl tv show.

* ''[[Petit Petit Muse]]'' is a Korean Magical Girl TV show.

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* ''[[Sky Dancers]]'', a French series.

* ''[[Trollz]]'', a Canadian series.

* ''[[Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir]]'', a French-Italian-Japanese-Korean production about a half-French/half-Asian girl in Paris who with the help of a Magical Boy fights the transformations and manipulations of the evil Hawk Moth.

== Magical Girl trope referred to in other works ==

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=== [[Fan ~~Fiction~~]] ===

=== [[Fan Works]] ===

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Nonoko<ref>[[No Name Given|Kyon's little sister]] from the original</ref> [[Daydream Believer|believes]] she will become a Magical Girl after her school trip. It actually happens even earlier, with Kyon's [[Badass Longcoat]] and [[Morph Weapon]] substituting for a dress and [[Magic Wand]], and [[Fun Size|Achakura]] for [[Mentor Mascot]].

* Every single [[Fuku Fic]] in ~~existance~~.

* Every single [[Fuku Fic]] in existence.

** For that matter, all the [[Pretty Cure Fanfics]] ever written (especially the ones composed entirely of [[Sailor Earth]]s.), and all the [[Pretty Cure All Stars/Fanfic Recs|Pretty Cure All Stars]] fics.

** For that matter, all the ''[[Pretty Cure Fanfics]]'' ever written (especially the ones composed entirely of [[Sailor Earth]]s), and all the [[Pretty Cure All Stars/Fanfic Recs|Pretty Cure All Stars]] fics.

* In ''[[A Hero]]'', [[Doctor Who|Dalek Sec]] implies that [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Kyubey]] and the Incubators have been manipulating humanity behind the scenes, and are responsible for the rise of the Magical Girl genre, in order to make it seem like a good idea to become a magical girl. If you know ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]],'' you'll know why this is very much the ''opposite'' of true. {{spoiler|It turns you into a soulless Lich, and worse, you will eventually turn into a monster. All while your emotions are harvested by aliens to prevent the heat death of the universe.}}

* [[Family Guy|Meg]] {{spoiler|as well as her daughter Rosie}} in ''[[The Spellbook]]''.

* In [[Keepers of the Elements]], [[Total Drama Island|Gwen, Bridgette, Izzy, Heather and Lindsay]].

* In ''[[Keepers of the Elements]]'', [[Total Drama Island|Gwen, Bridgette, Izzy, Heather and Lindsay]].

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* ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]''

* The toku series ''[[Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie]]'', which appears to have been inspired by ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]''.

=== Music ===

* In the 2009 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU video for her 2009 cover of "Turning Japanese"], [[Kirsten Dunst]] prances through Akihabara in Tokyo dressed as a magical girl.