Witch Protagonist

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Witches are certainly odd things.

Once upon a time, they were viewed as vile creatures. The moment somebody suspects anyone of the slightest supernatural feat, they journey on a massive Witch Hunt and Burn the Witch.

Now they're viewed as pretty chill creatures helping around the community. Granted, there are still works depicting wild witch hunts, but now we have a lot more media showing witches as friendly beings with a supernatural ability. Regardless of how witches are depicted, this trope is when the witch is the protagonist of the work. She may be looked down upon, or looked to upon. Whatever the attitude towards the witch is, it's pretty clear that having a witch as a main character opens up some pretty amazing possibilities. There's endless ways of exploring how magic can fit into your work.

For example, you can tell a coming of age story about a witch learning magic and moving onto the wider world. You can explore how magic interacts with technology in the modern world. Is magic opposing technology? Is magic working together alongside technology? How has magic changed to accommodate for the new technology? Having a witch protagonist is a great way to establish a likeable and endearing character. Oh, it's also really fun to play as a witch in a game and cast spells everywhere.

Probably used alongside Cute Witch. This is common in Anime and Novels.

Also see the list of Witch Works. Witch Protagonist is a subset of that category: all works in Witch Protagonist belongs there, but not all works there belong here. This is because the list only requires witchcraft to play a major role in the story. The main character do not have to be a witch, whereas this trope requires the main character to be a witch. For example, Spirited Away and Stardust belongs on the list of witch works because witchcraft appears in the story, but they do not belong here because the main characters are not witches.

When adding examples, please add something about what kind of witch a character is. Add something about what they do, or what they're like. Do not add the name of a character and leave it at that. No real life examples, please; Real life does not have protagonists, and real life does not have witchcraft.

Examples of Witch Protagonist include:

Anime and Manga

• The absolute monolith of a franchise that is Little Witch Academia features perhaps the least competent (and most enthusiastic) witch out of any on this list: Atsuko Kagari. Thus, the trope is used in the following works:
  • Little Witch Academia (2017 series)
  • Little Witch Academia (2013 film): Akko is still incompetent, just a little less incompetent than herself in the 2017 series.
  • Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade.
• The thirteen year old Kiki in Kiki's Delivery Service is an enthusiastic witch protagonist setting out on her coming of age journey.
• Mary in Mary and the Witch's Flower is a borderline example. Mary is not a witch. Period. However, she does acquire the Fly-by-Night flower which allows her to become a witch, with amazing powers rivalling the top students at a Wizarding School.

Literature

• In Howl's Moving Castle, Sophie Hatter is a witch. She spends the majority of the book not realising it, and when she does she is certainly an odd witch at that. She has the ability to speak life into things via very angry words.
• Tiffany Aching in the Discworld series is certainly an odd one, learning from other odd witches as well. Thus, the trope is used in:
  • The Wee Free Men
  • A Hat Full of Sky
  • Wintersmith
  • I Shall Wear Midnight
  • The Shepherd's Crown
• The Kiki's Delivery Service novel, from which the two films are adapted, features Kiki as a witch going on episodic adventures. The trope also applies to the book's sequels, which are only available in Japanese. No Export for You!

Video Games

• You know Akko from the Little Witch Academia entries above? You know how she is perhaps the least competent witch listed here? Well, she returns again, in Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time!

Web Comics

• Pepper in Pepper&Carrot (portrait as trope image) is a witch of Chaosah. The official wiki explains her the best: "Pepper practices Chaosah magic, the base magic of the chaos. She is the sole living member of Chaosah (The other Chaosah witches were re-animated by Zombiah after their deaths in The Great War). Her tools: entropy, gravity, time paradox, space deformations. She has the fabric of the universe law in her hands. She finds reversing time for a second or creating miniature black holes easier than creating fire or healing someone. She can also switch multi-verses and dimensions. Summoning demons or creatures from other worlds is possible to her."

Western Animation

• The Owl House is a borderline example. The Protagonist Luz Noceda is not a witch. She cannot cast spells in the conventional way, as she lacks a bile sac for magic. However, she is quite quick at picking up magic and learning magic using her own methods by observing the Geometric Magic engraved in the Another Dimension Boiling Isles.