History Main / GothGirlsKnowMagic

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* ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' is a particularly notable example of this, given that, in [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} the original 1976 film]] (and in [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book it was based on]]), not only was the [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] [[CreepyLonerGirl teen outcast[[ Carrie White not a goth in the slightest, but her ultra-religious upbringing meant that, outside her [[IconicOutfit prom dress]] during the finale (which is ''pink'', at least before it gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress covered in blood]]), she wore [[LightIsNotGood extremely modest, earth-colored clothes]]. Some of her tormentors wore far more black than she did, particularly the {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} Billy and his friends. By 1999, however, goths had become ''the'' stereotypical teen outcasts, often associated with witchcraft and PsychicPowers in the popular imagination, and so the new protagonist Rachel Lang was made a sexy goth chick.

* ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' is a particularly notable example of this, given that, in [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} the original 1976 film]] (and in [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book it was based on]]), not only was the [[MindOverMatter telekinetic]] teen outcast Carrie White not a goth in the slightest, but her ultra-religious upbringing meant that, outside her [[IconicOutfit prom dress]] during the finale (which is ''pink'', at least before it gets [[BloodSplatteredWeddingDress covered in blood]]), she wore [[LightIsNotGood extremely modest, earth-colored clothes]]. Some of her tormentors wore far more black than she did, particularly the {{Greaser Delinquent|s}} Billy and his friends. By 1999, however, goths had become ''the'' stereotypical teen outcasts, often associated with witchcraft and PsychicPowers in the popular imagination, and so the new protagonist Rachel Lang was made a sexy goth chick.

* ''Film/TheHotChick'': Subverted. After the main character, a ditzy AlphaBitch teenager, suddenly [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with a local crook]], she immediately suspects the goth chick in school to be responsible. She's not, though she does admit that she tried to curse her with smaller boobs.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has this PlayedWith regarding Homura Akemi. She has shades of being goth, what with her darker outfit in comparison to the others and her sardonic and lonely personality, but her [[spoiler:TimeMaster]] powers as a MagicalGirlWarrior aren't as overtly magical as is typical for this trope. However, in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' she fits this to a T when she ascends to [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Homulilly]] and [[SatanicArchetype Akuma Homura]]]], gaining very gothic appearances to match the surge in magical power.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' gives us a RareMaleExample in the form of Gaara. His fighting style is based ''entirely'' around manipulation of sand and he rarely moves his own body at all (beyond motioning with his hands to direct the sand), let alone engaging in any conventional martial arts or use of weapons, all of which makes him one of the most "wizard"-like ninjas in the series.
* Arachne from ''Manga/SoulEater''. A luxuriously gothic witch with eccentric tastes and lady-like mannerism. That and her spider-based magic adding a lovely dose of malevolence and creepiness to her true nature.
* PlayedWith regarding Stocking in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt''. She dresses in ElegantGothicLolita style and displays goth tendencies, and as an angel she is inherently magical, she is every bit a MagicalGirlWarrior who wields enchanted swords in battle, rather than the expected sorcery.

* Black Alice from the ''Comicbook/BirdsOfPrey'' and ''Comicbook/SecretSix'' series is a Goth-styled anti-hero with the ability to effectively steal the powers of any magical being and temporarily use them as her own.

* ''ComicBook/NicoMinoru'' (pictured above) from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' is a Goth girl who ends up wielding the sorcerous artifact known as the Staff of One, which is powered by BloodMagic. In a bit of a tweak on the trope, her parents--both dark sorcerers--adopted the guise of devout Christians and vocally disapproved of Nico's Goth trappings.

* DC/Vertigo's Death of the Endless appears as a goth girl, although in reality is a immortal embodiment of the concept of death itself. Needless to say, she knows quite a bit of magic.
** Her brother [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream]] is a male example, the personification of dreams in the form of a pale man in a black trenchcoat.
* Another Vertigo example is Elaine Belloc, the half-human daughter of the Archangel Michael, who actually [[DeityOfHumanOrigin becomes God]] at one point.

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* The Dane Cook vehicle ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' has the titular Chuck cursed to have female troubles all his life by a Goth chick he turned down for a round of "Seven Minutes in Heaven" during his youth.
* Downplayed with Lydia in ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', apparently being a Goth is enough to get around ghosts' InvisibleToNormals rule.
* Bellatrix Lestrange wears distinctly Gothic clothing in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' series along with black corsets and dark eyeliner and lipstick. And, like her literary counterpart, she's the NumberTwo of the Death Eaters as an extremely powerful witch well-versed in the Dark Arts and deadly in a duel. Her favorite curse also happens to be the [[ColdBloodedTorture Cruciatus curse]].

* Kim in ''Film/BookOfShadowsBlairWitch2'', a goth chick who turns out to have more genuine psychic powers than Erica, the actual Wiccan among the group.
* ''Film/TheHotChick'': Subverted. After the main character, a ditzy AlphaBitch teenager, suddenly [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with a local crook]], she immediately suspects the goth chick in school to be responsible. She's not, though she does admit that she tried to curse her with smaller boobs.
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Scarlet Witch's look plays this up, she's a [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette pale-skinned, dark-haired girl]] who wears black dresses and nails, ripped-stockings, and ornamental rings. Her eerie PsychicPowers derived from the [[ArtifactOfDoom Mind Stone]] are, according to WordOfGod, magical in nature. After joining the Avengers, her appearances in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' tone it down a bit. She still wears the dark dresses and jewelry, but it doesn't have quite the same edge.

* Some of the young witches in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' especially the Tiffany Aching series try to look and act more gothic. Tiffany herself is an exception (she prefers to wear blue and green) but Annagramma's coven are obsessed with black clothes and occult jewelry, as was Diamanda's clique in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''. In this case the trope might actually be inverted; knowing magic (or wanting to learn it) makes you Goth.

* In ''Series/TheHauntingHour'', there's a typical-looking goth girl in the episode "Wrong Number", but she actually has an uncle [[spoiler:and grandmother]] who use magic and such. She knows of this, and uses their help to eventually [[spoiler:delete a video that Steffani is trapped in, deleting Steffani forever]].

* [[PunnyName Oka Ruto]] from the PC stealth sandbox game ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' is a gothy-looking character, fascinated by the paranormal and leader of the Occult Club. In fact, one of her club's activities is trying to summon a demon. While she's certanly interested in it, whether or not she ''actually'' knows magic is unknown though.
** At least according to the ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''-styled battle with her, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X13K_DozK8 she does]].

* In the interval between the two ''Videogame/ObsCure'' games, Shannon, who was the GirlNextDoor in the first game, gains both gothiness (including both a HotterAndSexier makeover and [[TookALevelInJerkass a level in jerkass]]) and, due to her exposure to the [[TheCorruption mortifilia plant]], magic powers allowing her to control her infection and suck away dark auras blocking her path.

* "Midnight Mares" has Nightfall Nod, the local [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]] expy. She's an EmoTeen [[GodOfEvil Nightmare Goddess]] with a dyed black mane with a pink SkunkStripe, a calavera skull hairpin, and wears a glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume from the neck down.

* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' plays with this during season 2. [[PerkyGoth Julian]] (who's a [[GenderInvertedTrope male example]], mind you) wants to be a magician, but he kind of sucks at it. He eventually get his hands on the Sorcerer's magical orb that Randy and Howard had previously snagged, which does grant him legitimate mystical powers. He's brought back to normal, but in the process of this, an [[EvilCounterpart evil version of Julian]] is created, who has powers of his own.
* ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz'': Goths probably don't exist in Oz, but West, the group's resident witch, certainly ticks most of the boxes: dresses in black, in a style that is a mixture of old and modern; has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair violet hair]] worn in a punkish; pale skin; DeadpanSnarker...
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' the main trio meets Tabitha and Courtney, two teenage goth girls who hang around their stump at night. The kids see them lighting candles and reading tarot cards and jump to the conclusion they're witches. What's worse, one of the girls decides to mess with them and tells the kids they're cursed, which coincidentally proceeds the three of them having a chain of bad luck.

* "Midnight Mares" has Nightfall Nod, the local [['WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]] expy. She's an EmoTeen [[GodOfEvil Nightmare Goddess]] with a dyed black mane with a pink SkunkStripe, a calavera skull hairpin, and wears a glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume from the neck down.

* {{Vampire}} {{Ojou}} Rachel Alucard from ''Franchise/BlazBlue''. She's dressed in black ElegantGothicLolita and has a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] personality to boot. She's a master sorceress as well as one of the few people in TheVerse to use actual magic.

* ''Cool Cat Studio'', from Creator/TCampbell, features Liz, a Goth Girl who naturally has magical powers and knows everything about supernatural creatures.

* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', the PerkyGoth Jenny is an [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1407 apprentice witch]] who can use GeometricMagic to produce things like {{Tracking Spell}}s... and land mines.
* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'' has Inkshadowblood, the high-strung teenager who dresses in black, red, and studs, and doesn't have the best grasp of what magic(k) actually entails.''
* ''WebComic/TheWotch'': Cassie, whose earlier dabbling with magic often ended with Anne having to bail her and the others out of danger while trying to avoid being outed as The Wotch.

* ''Webcomic/{{Bobbinsverse}}'': The trope is {{averted|Trope}} and somewhat {{deconstructed|Trope}} by PerkyGoth Esther de Groot. She's not notably any more effective than anyone else at dealing with the FantasyKitchenSink weirdness of the comic's stories, and when she and her boyfriend The Boy have a brief run-in with fairies on a trip to Wales, and he comments on her (lack of) response, she responds with embarrassment and irritation.

* ''Webcomic/Bobbinsverse'': The trope is {{averted|Trope}} and somewhat {{deconstructed|Trope}} by PerkyGoth Esther de Groot. She's not notably any more effective than anyone else at dealing with the FantasyKitchenSink weirdness of the comic's stories, and when she and her boyfriend The Boy have a brief run-in with fairies on a trip to Wales, and he comments on her (lack of) response, she responds with embarrassment and irritation.

** At least according to the ''VideoGame/UnderTale''-styled battle with her, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X13K_DozK8 she does]].

* "Midnight Mares" has Nightfall Nod, the local [[Main/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Nightmare Moon]] expy. She's an EmoTeen [[GodOfEvil Nightmare Goddess]] with a dyed black mane with a pink SkunkStripe, a calavera skull hairpin, and wears a glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume from the neck down.

* ''Main/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Queen Chrysalis. She has an eerie and broken appearance that sticks out like a sore thumb in a cheerful cartoon and is a capable magic caster, able to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshift]] and fire magic beams from her horn.

* Some of the young witches in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' especially the Tiffany Aching series try to look and act more gothic. Tiffany herself is an exception (she prefers to wear blue and green) but Annagramma's coven are obsessed with black clothes and occult jewelry, as was Diamanda's clique in ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies''. In this case the trope might actually be inverted; knowing magic (or wanting to learn it) makes you Goth.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': A number of Wizard students[[note]]whose power naturally inclines them to collecting [[{{Mana}} Essence]], often combined with some sort of inherent magical ability[[/note]] fit this to varying degrees, most notably Carmilla and Nacht (with Maladicta being more of a send-up of the character type). Several of the non-Wiz Goths want to learn magic, such as Screech, and are frustrated that the Mystic Arts department generally refuses to teach magic to anyone who doesn't have that mutant power and/or some other existing mystical ability.

* ''WebComic/TheWotch'': Cassie, who's earlier dabbling with magic often ended with Anne having to bail her and the others out of danger while trying to avoid being outed as The Wotch.

* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'' has Inkshadowblood, the high-strung teenager who dresses in black, red, and studs, and doesn't have the best grasp of what magic(k) actually entails.

* ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz'': Goths probably don't exist in Oz, but West, the group's resident witch, certainly ticks most of the boxes: dresses in black, in a style that is a mixture of old and modern; has [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair violet hair]] worn in a punkish; plae skin; DeadpanSnarker...

May overlap with LadyOfBlackMagic if she's composed and graceful enough. She'll often be a HotWitch if portrayed as beautiful.