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{{trope}}
[[File:mgln rune attack 366.jpg|link=Lyrical Nanoha|frame|Young, magical, and about to deliver a world of hurt... and possibly [[Defeat Means Friendship|friendship.]] ]]
{{quote|''Many magical girl shows don't really present too many hard laws. Time? Easily traversed. Light years in space? You can fly that. Black holes, the most inescapably dense gravitational fields around? You can walk out if you try really hard. So if power levels are less important, what do the series focus on, from a meta-contextual sense? What is the point of reading a magical girl series, if it isn't to see characters grow stronger? It's very simple: love. The point of a magical girl series is to see the interaction between characters and the extreme lengths friends and lovers will go to secure those who matter to them.''
|Anthony Gramuglia|[https://www.cbr.com/magical-girls-sailor-moon-madoka-powerful/ Why Magical Girls Like Sailor Moon & Madoka Are So Absurdly Powerful], cbr.com}}
The intersection of [[Magical Girl]] with [[Superhero]](ine).
In Japan, the extended growth-to-maturity metaphor [[Magical Girl]] archetype can mean a variety of things; some do more than use their powers to improve or complicate their lives. Some go out and battle [[Big Bad|Dramatic Evil]], usually with a lot of mystic firepower, weird outfits (usually a [[Pimped-Out Dress|glammed-up]] [[Mini-Dress of Power]], sometimes crossed with [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]), a [[Battle Intro]], and [[Calling Your Attacks|called attacks]]. This is not magic for magic's sake; the character rarely finds this enjoyable but gets morally cowed into it.
The action-oriented '''Magical Girl Warriors''' have the extra bonus of appeal to male demographics, so they can be very lucrative; in this case they often resemble [[Distaff Counterpart]]s of Japanese [[superhero]]es, particularly [[Sentai]] and other [[Henshin Hero]] characters. Importers of [[Magical Girl]] series to the West tend to favor these characters, so
They can also be [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]], if the girl is outright [[Badass]] and her dress is frilly enough.
The [[Dark Magical Girl]] mostly appears in
[[The Other Wiki]] calls [[w:Magical girl|this character type]] a "[[transforming heroine]]".
''[[Cutey Honey]]'' is the [[Trope Maker]], and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Trope Maker|The earliest prototype]] was [[Go Nagai]]'s ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' franchise, which slowly mutated and grew to have an unexpected female fanbase whenever the [[Fan Service]] level fluctuated heavily.
* [[Trope Codifier|Pretty much cemented]] by the enormous popularity of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', which introduced the [[Sentai]] elements to the genre.
* Currently{{when}}, the most popular show of this type in Japan appears to be ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' and [[Pretty Cure|its sequels/spin-offs]].
** [[Darker and Edgier|Taken to the extreme in]] ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]''. The battles looks like something straight out of ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* Parodied in the [[Seinen]] series ''[[Pretty Sammy]]''.
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* ''[[My-HiME]]'' and ''[[Mai-Otome]]''. Both have strong elements of [[Deconstruction]].
* ''[[Cyber Team in Akihabara]]''
* ''[[Black★Rock Shooter (
* ''[[Devil Hunter Yohko]]''
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', which ''viciously'' [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] the idea of young girls fighting [[Eldritch Abomination|eldritch horrors]] [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|in their spare time]].
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* ''[[Sweet Valerian]]'' features three girls who transform into superpowered monster-fighting bunny rabbits.
* ''[[Kämpfer]]'' adds a [[Gender Bender]] twist - main character Natsuru turns into a girl whenever he transforms.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' has elements of this; Sakura's mission is to capture all Clow Cards, sometimes using direct combat, sometimes by using other means. In later seasons after she
* ''[[Shugo Chara]]''
* ''[[Corrector Yui]]''
* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' crosses this with [[Swords and Sorcery]].
* Invoked in ''[[Mao-chan]]'', where
* ''[[Makeruna Makendo]]'' adds a kendo theme.
* ''[[Hyper Speed GranDoll]]'' is a very close follower of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', except with more of a sci-fi feel.
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* Himiko, and Kosumo via organ donation, in ''[[Towa Kamo Shirenai]]''.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* Possibly [[Ur Example|originated]] with comic book superheroine [[Shazam|Mary Marvel]] in 1942.
* ''[[W.I.T.C.H.
* [[Wonder Woman]] has resembled
* [[Zatanna]], especially in recent{{when}} years, has become more like this.
* ''[[Zodiac Starforce]]'' is an American made Magical Girl team. Artist Paulina Gauncheau is a huge fan of the genre (mainly of ''[[Sailor Moon]]''), and it shows.
* The title character of ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Genworld]]''.
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* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Nonoko temporarily acts as one, equipped with Kyon's [[Badass Longcoat|Badass]] [[Clothes Make the Superman|Longcoat]] and [[Morph Weapon]]s.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Most mages from ''[[Avalon: Web of Magic]]'', but Adriane (the designated 'warrior mage') especially.
* Keeah of ''[[The Secrets of Droon]]''.
* Sophie of ''[[Sophie And The Shadow Woods]]''.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[High School Girls RPG]]'', you have the [[Magical Girl]] extension allowing you to play just that type of character.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* If you think about it, ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'' presents a [[Video Game]] example.{{context}}
* Mystica from ''[[Fading Hearts]]''. Ryou meets her in the forest while he is fighting shadow monsters.
* Aqua from [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]] can be considered one being the only female among the trio of main playable characters.
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': In the later comics, {{spoiler|Elliot}} gains a super-heroine spell after already having the ability to shapeshift into virtually any conceivable female human form including transformation of clothes.
* ''[[Magical Girl Neil]]'': Thanks to the a [[Secret Legacy]] from his Japanese immigrant mother, Neil starts [[Super Gender Bender|transforming from a normal teenage boy]] into a Oni-fighting [[Magical Girl Warrior]] on his
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* [[Magical Girl Neil]]: Thanks to the a [[Secret Legacy]] from his Japanese immigrant mother, Neil starts transforming into a Oni-fighting [[Magical Girl Warrior]] on his 16th birthday. He is, needless to say, not partically thrilled by this.
* Fey of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. Down to the backstory, the ancient Faerie who rides along in her head, her ability to summon armor magically, and a magical battle in Boston in which she and The Necromancer spent most of the fight trying to intimidate each other by calling their attacks.▼
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▲* Fey of the [[Whateley Universe]]. Down to the backstory, the ancient Faerie who rides along in her head, her ability to summon armor magically, and a magical battle in Boston in which she and The Necromancer spent most of the fight trying to intimidate each other by calling their attacks.
* Betty Barrett from ''[[Atomic Betty]]''.
* ''[[Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders]]''
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''
* ''[[Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic]]'
* ''[[She-Ra:
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' is an ''academy'' of this.
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[Steven Universe]]''
* ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]''
* ''[[Mysticons]]'' is about a group of teenage girls who transform into legendary magic-powered warriors.
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