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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.
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* 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]].
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* We might as well include a description for our [[Real Life]] Mysterious Waif who's pictured up there. She's the Afghan Girl, real name Sharbat Gula. She was photographed in an Afghan refugee camp. At the time the picture was taken, the photographer didn't know her name, and in 2002, she was successfully located and formally identified. Her photograph is the most recognized in [[National Geographic]] history.<ref>And in case you're wondering how being moderately famous improved her life...it didn't. At the time the picture was taken, Gula had just been driven from her home, so she was understandably pissed off. And when she was found in 2002 and asked how she felt about being famous, she found that it was hard to care when your husband was working for a dollar a day and your asthma made it hard to breathe within your own polluted city.</ref>▼
* More than one young female Catholic saint is represented like this in media. A good example would be [[wikipedia:Solange|Saint Solange]]; she's depicted as a beautiful young shepherdess blessed by God to the point of having [[Healing Hands]] and exorcising demons with a sole touch. Too bad the poor kid ended up [[Off with His Head|decapitated]] [[Attempted Rape|by a would be rapist]]... but then Solange performed her last miracle: [[Losing Your Head|calmly picking up her own severed head and walking back home]].▼
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Our very own [[Mysterious Waif-tan]].
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* We might as well include a description for our [[Real Life]] Mysterious Waif who's pictured up there. She's the Afghan Girl, real name Sharbat Gula. She was photographed in an Afghan refugee camp. At the time the picture was taken, the photographer didn't know her name, and in 2002, she was successfully located and formally identified. Her photograph is the most recognized in [[National Geographic]] history.<ref>And in case you're wondering how being moderately famous improved her life...it didn't. At the time the picture was taken, Gula had just been driven from her home, so she was understandably pissed off. And when she was found in 2002 and asked how she felt about being famous, she found that it was hard to care when your husband was working for a dollar a day and your asthma made it hard to breathe within your own polluted city.</ref>
▲* More than one young female Catholic saint is represented like this in media. A good example would be [[wikipedia:Solange|Saint Solange]]; she's depicted as a beautiful young shepherdess blessed by God to the point of having [[Healing Hands]] and exorcising demons with a sole touch. Too bad the poor kid ended up [[Off with His Head|decapitated]] [[Attempted Rape|by a would be rapist]]... but then Solange performed her last miracle: [[Losing Your Head|calmly picking up her own severed head and walking back home]].
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