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* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Jade is a Goth who shows some interest in the occult. Notably, she joins Cat and Tori on their trip to pay their last respects to a dead actress because she believes she'll be able to absorb the actress's essence.

** Winter Opera's adoptive daughter, Princess Witching Hour, is also a {{Goth}} who knows and uses dark magic. In her mortal youth, she was a superheroine, her powers coming from a pact made with [[BargainWithHeaven one of Winter Opera's Angels]]. After Ascending, Witching Hour became the Alicorn goddess of ''Witchcraft'', possessing more esoteric powers like curses, divination, and potion-making, in contrast to Winter Opera who embodies Dark Magic in general. Fittingly, she is a tabletop gamer who dresses up like a WitchClassic, her favorite role.

** Winter Opera's adoptive daughter, Princess Witching Opera, is also a {{Goth}} who knows and uses dark magic. In her mortal youth, she was a superheroine, her powers coming from a pact made with [[BargainWithHeaven one of Winter Opera's Angels]]. After Ascending, Witching Hour became the Alicorn goddess of ''Witchcraft'', possessing more esoteric powers like curses, divination, and potion-making, in contrast to Winter Opera who embodies Dark Magic in general. Fittingly, she is a tabletop gamer who dresses up like a WitchClassic, her favorite role.

* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'' has Princess Winter Opera. While she didn't start wearing gothic [[PimpedOutDress ball gowns]] until she became a professional musician in adulthood, she was already a talented user of dark magic, something she discovered when she was an angry teenage filly bent on [[PayEvilUntoEvil giving her tormentors hell for bullying her]]. In fact, the fact that she was talented in dark magic worried a lot of people since her birth father, War Rock, was a villain who also used dark magic, and both feared and expected her to turn out like War Rock. Fortunately, [[BigGood Luminiferous]] and [[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Suede Heartstrings]] would intervene and help guide her onto a better path, influencing her to use dark magic for good and eventually Ascend as the Alicorn goddess of Dark Magic.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} by The Coven of Shine Wrestling. The only "goth" of the group is Chelsea Durden, while the "secret" knowledge they know that you do not comes from the witch Eric Torres. The Coven all take fashion cues from Durden, however, making them look more like a gothic gathering than a "coven".[[/folder]]

* Subverted in the ''Literature/{{Shivers}}'' novel ''Ghosts Of Camp Massacre''. The goth girl claims to know white magic, and uses it to try and summon the ghosts that are haunting Camp Wil-He-Waha. While the ghosts do appear, it is made clear that they came on their own and were not summoned by the goth girl babbling nonsense and throwing some kind of sparkly dust around in the hope that something would happen (nothing does, since the ghosts were only capable of interacting with the protagonist).

** Lilith wears black like the stereotypical colonial or medieval witch and dyes her hair navy blue, although ironically she was once a nerd.

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has Sistah Spooky, a gothy superhero who made a DealWithTheDevil to use black magic.

** In one episode, Masha is a goth that Vee (in Luz's disguise) met, but all they do is a Tarot reading for Vee. That said, the Tarot reading is quite accurate. Both Vee and Luz are running away from a past that is now catching up to them, and that their regrets may soon overwhelm them. This later turns out to be downplayed since while they present as feminine, they are nonbinary and go by they/them pronouns.
** Lilith wears black like the stereotypical ''colonial'' or ''medieval'' witch and dyes her hair ''navy blue'', although ''ironically'' she was once a ''nerd''.
** Amity's primary color scheme in her clothing is black, and or a dark purple, made all the more pronounced once she dyes her hair [[spoiler:lilac]]. This dark color scheme can even be seen in the magic that Amity uses, as the Abominations and Abomination Goo that she summons and uses to fight are all dark purple in coloration, while Amity herself is one of the strongest and most skilled practitioners of the craft on the Boiling Isles.

** In one episode, a goth that Vee (in Luz's disguise) met, but all they do is a Tarot reading for Vee. That said, the Tarot reading is quite accurate. Both Vee and Luz are running away from a past that is now catching up to them, and that their regrets may soon overwhelm them. This later turns out to be downplayed since while they present as feminine, they are nonbinary and go by they/them pronouns.

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* ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls2'' has Blaire who fits this role to a tee. She's a creepy witch who lives alone in the woods and is responsible for Marian's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mind control under the yakuza]]. But it turns out, she's just a frustrated goth girl who's OnlyInItForTheMoney. That doesn't not make her crazy gifted in magic though, as you'll see in her boss fight.

** ''Series/Wednesday'' plays this up still further, with Wednesday (unsuccessfully, but only because she's interrupted) trying to hold a seance, and both her and Morticia having psychic visions, along with various other references to witchcraft from both of them. There's also Wednesday's ancestor Goody Addams, explicitly described as both psychic and "a witch of great power" by Morticia, whose spirit appears to Wednesday at various points in the series. Again, while there are apparently male psychics in the setting, Gomez, Fester and Pugsley aren't depicted as performing spells or rituals or as having psychic visions, though they're still not entirely normal humans.