Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: The term "witch" is applied to people capable of building or piloting Gundams, which use the GUND-Format to link a pilot's body directly to the machine, enabling unsurpassed performance at the cost of potentially fatal physical and mental strain on the pilot.It is also suggested that there were further artificial witches besides Ellis (possibly including L.A.) but they all died/were killed off. Jodie, on the other hand, is a pure-blood witch but has about as much magical potential as any baseline human. Ellis is an artificial witch, created in an attempt to restore the magical bloodline. In El Cazador de la Bruja, witches are a Mage Species-type of Human Subspecies who mostly lost their powers in modern times.The "green witch" is actually a title of a military project. Sieglinde Sullivan is an ordinary human girl with extraordinary intellect. Witch Works is the index for all works that have witches as a central character. Then there's Witch Doctor, for a tribe's resident shaman, healer, and wizard. For the cases where they are also literally called witches, then it overlaps with this trope, likely playing with the femininity of this trope by making them a One-Gender Race. The Mage Species trope only sounds related, it's actually for species where all its members have a species-specific power. The Witch Hunter: The grim, fanatical and often evil hunter of witches.Widow Witch: Many witches are lonely sorts, usually having suffered a loss in love.The Weird Sisters: Witches are in groups of 3.Salem Is Witch Country: The town where the infamous witch trials took place has taken on a reputation for witchcraft ever since.Good Witch Versus Bad Witch: In cases where not all witches are evil, there is often a marked distinction between "good" witches and "bad" witches.Burn the Witch!: Superstitious communities who believe Magic is Evil will often resort to burning would-be witches at the stake after a classical Witch Hunt.All Witches Have Cats: Many witches have familiars in the form of cats.Other sub-tropes of the general "witch" concept, are:
For example, if witches possess Facial Markings, along with being guaranteed young and female, then the facial markings make witches different beyond just being a Cute Witch. Those sub-subtropes can overlap with their super-super-trope if there's something special about their definition of "witch", such that the more specific tropes don't totally describe what makes a witch. Which has its own sub-tropes, of Cute Witch, Hot Witch, and Wicked Witch, the last of which is about witches that are clearly presenting as evil, in obvious/stereotypical villain fashion. Magic Cauldron and potion-based witchcraft.Some connection to femininity, nature, and the number 3.The Sub-Trope of Witch Classic notes how broad and widespread the concept of a witch is, since "witchcraft beliefs - the folkloric that people work malicious magic on their neighbors - are found in virtually every culture", but "Classic" means the stereotypical Western idea, for witches that have a combination of: This trope, like the other Our Monsters Are Different tropes, is about how the term "witch" is used for specifically designating certain groups of beings, usually, these are humans, in the case of witches. Speaking of inclinations of its appearances, given Wicked Witch and similar portrayals, witch also has a relation to being for evil female magic users, while mage or magician, with its clear connection to magic, is used for magic users in the general. That connection to femininity sometimes makes witchcraft into a Gender-Restricted Ability. The word, witch, is, as Wicca notes, derived from the Old English, wicce, for "female magic-user". "Witch", like "Wizard", is a word that is sometimes used to name a specific kind of magic user, usually female.
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