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The plot follows the story of five teenage girls who are chosen to be the new Guardians of Kandrakar. They serve as protectors of the center of the universe from people and creatures who wish to cause harm to it. For this purpose, powers over the five elements have been given to them. The new guardians are Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin, whose initials form the title acronym W.I.T.C.H.

 

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** And there was a 3 part special detailing {{spoiler|Caleb saving Elyon from a curse, and both of them eventually realising that they've fallen in love with each other.}}

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: At the end of the {{spoiler|Ragorlang}} saga, {{spoiler|Edward Folkner, the Ragorlang hunter, is forced to [[Karmic Transformation|fuse himself with the Ragorlangs]], when the magical box he had created to capture the Ragorlangs is threatened to be taken away from him.}} He's going to come back some sagas later as a dangerous foe, right? ''Wrong''! In the next issue, the girls {{spoiler|defeat him quite fast at the end of that issue}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Ari in the third saga and {{spoiler|Cedric}} in the fifth saga.

* [[Big Bad]]: Once a story arc. Some of them even come back!

* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Cornelia, Irma and Will.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: please stop calling Cornelia "Corny"

* [[Empathic Shapeshifter]]: During the Teach 2b WITCH saga, Cornelia meets Leah, a girl whose appearance changes depending on what people around her need. Because she had changed so many times, she had forgotten what she originally looked like. The girls eventually brought her to Yan Lin, who helped Leah change back to her real appearance.

* [[Expanded Universe]]: There have been some books based on the comics. The Adventure books and the Crystal Birds series. It's one book per girl. These books (at least the adventure series which this troper owns) have images from the magazines inserted.

* [[Fallen Hero]]: {{spoiler|Nerissa used to be a Guardian.}}

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: At the end of the second saga Cornelia and Caleb end their relationship because neither are willing to leave their world. A special explored what would've happened if either of them had followed the other (hint, it's not happy).

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Cornelia with plants and Will with animals... and appliances.

* [[Gender Bender]]: In the [[Anvilicious]] football special, Irma and Vicky decide to dress up as boys so that they can join the football try outs.

* [[Genre Blindness]]: the Oracle told them many times that their greatest strength is their unity. Anyway, the girls will often use the [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]] move at the worst moment. Will also told Hay Lin that monsters don't exist ''at the beginning of the Ragorland saga'', ie after 60 issues in a [[All Myths Are True]] series.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Will's baby brother is named William. During a visit from other members of the family, Will got frustrated when they started calling William "Will" while referring to her by her real name, [[Embarrassing First Name|Wilhelmina.]]

* [[The Psycho Rangers]]: In Arc IX, the Runici, a group of five villainous boys with elemental powers show up.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: We!

** And Ew.

{{quote| '''Alessandro Barbucci & Barbara Canepa:''' "We conceived of "W.I.T.C.H." together with Elisabetta Gnone, the then director of girls publications for Disney. We worked for three years in secret on it and she then presented the project to the big bosses at Disney. They thought that this project was crazy, a sure-fire bomb, complete waste of time, and that mangas wouldn't have a chance in Europe anyway (!!!). However, we didn't let ourselves be led astray and worked for another year on it anyway, with a tiny budget and without publicity. And then the series became a worldwide hit. The official version from Disney is, of course, that "W.I.T.C.H." is a product of their brilliant, visionary marketing strategy...the end of the series was then taken out of our hands, we actually had something a lot more intelligent planned for it. Now, as you can see, Elisabetta Gnone and the two of us no longer work for Disney...a really sad story." }}

** {{spoiler|And now we have Nihila}}

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Will tells Matt her secret in the fourth saga, and in the seventh saga {{spoiler|Irma decides to tell her new boyfriend Stephen about her powers after he questions her about her strange behaviour.}}

** [[Breast Expansion]] is present is the comic book, but not as prevalent as in the series.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Hay Lin has a little [[Sailor Moon]] on her monitor, along with a monster that kinda looks like Godzilla. Irma has alots of disney paraphernalia, including a [[Little Mermaid]]. In the Dark Mother Saga, {{spoiler|[[Captain Planet|they combine their powers]] to create a powerful being to defeat her}}