History WesternAnimation / WinxClub

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The sixth season wrapped production in 2014 amid a [[TroubledProduction flurry of financial problems]] at Rainbow. [[ScheduleSlip Five years later]], an eighth season premiered which, at Straffi's own discretion, saw the show {{ReTool}}ed to target a much younger audience, while most of the show's crew members had already stepped away after the previous season. A full-on ContinuityReboot, animated in 3D animation, is currently in production.

The seventh season wrapped production in 2014 amid a [[TroubledProduction flurry of financial problems]] at Rainbow. [[ScheduleSlip Five years later]], an eighth season premiered which, at Straffi's own discretion, saw the show {{ReTool}}ed to target a much younger audience, while most of the show's crew members had already stepped away after the previous season. A full-on ContinuityReboot, animated in 3D animation, is currently in production.

The seventh season wrapped production in 2014 amid a [[TroubledProduction flurry of financial problems]] at Rainbow. [[ScheduleSlip Five years later]], an eighth season premiered which, at Straffi's own discretion, saw the show {{ReTool}}ed to target a much younger audience, while most of the show's crew members had already stepped away after the previous season.

A ninth season is currently in production, and it has been confirmed to be a full on ContinuityReboot.

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''Winx Club'' has since spawned several {{Spinoff}}s. The mini-series ''WesternAnimation/PopPixie'' premiered in 2010, set in an AlternateUniverse with the Pixies as the main characters. [[ShortRunners It didn't last long]]. ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' premiered in 2016 with two seasons before being cancelled. Finally, a DarkerAndEdgier live-action reimagining aimed at young adults, titled ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'', premiered on Netflix on January 22, 2021.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[ThemeTune Winx, you're magic now!]][[note]]Clockwise from bottom-center: [[PlayingWithFire Bloom]], [[MagicFromTechnology Tecna]], [[GreenThumb Flora]], [[MagicMusic Musa]], and [[LightEmUp Stella]]. Not pictured: [[MakingASplash Aisha/Layla]] and [[TheBeastmaster Roxy]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[ThemeTune Winx, you're magic now!]][[note]]Clockwise from bottom-center: [[PlayingWithFire Bloom]], [[MagicFromTechnology Tecna]], [[GreenThumb Flora]], [[MagicMusic Musa]], and [[LightEmUp Stella]]. Not pictured: [[MakingASplash Aisha]] and [[TheBeastmaster Roxy]].[[/note]]]]

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''Winx Club'' has since spawned several {{Spinoff}}s. The mini-series ''WesternAnimation/PopPixie'' premiered in 2010, set in an AlternateUniverse with the Pixies as main characters. [[ShortRunners It didn't last long]]. ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' premiered in 2016 with two seasons before being cancelled. Finally, a DarkerAndEdgier live-action reimagining aimed at young adults, titled ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'', premiered on Netflix on January 22, 2021.

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* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Most buildings, Alfea especially, are rendered in 3D.
* AbortedArc:
** In the second episode of season 4, the Winx promise the pixies that they will take the last fairy on Earth (Roxy) to Pixie Village so a pixie can bond with her. They make it as clear as possible that this will happen, but it never did.
-->'''[=Bloom=]''': Whoever the lucky pixie will be, we'll come back to introduce you to the new fairy. The last fairy on Earth.\\
'''[=Lockette=]''': Is that a promise?\\
'''[=Bloom=]''': That's a promise. Winx honor.
** Most of the plot threads brought up in Season 4, mostly dealing with the Winx now being adults, were dropped from Season 5 onwards. This was due to Season 5 being a SoftReboot that aged the characters down to being teenagers still attending Alfea.
* AcademyOfAdventure: All three schools. Alfea has many secrets; Cloud Tower turned out to be housing three delinquent teenage witches who never seemed to go to class (and the school was the usual occupying hideout for the season's evil villain); Red Fountain is a school for young heroes and the headmaster is a wizard, but none of the boys have magic.
* AcademyOfEvil: The Cloud Tower school for witches initially seems like one, but it's {{subverted}} as [[DarkIsNotEvil most witches such as Miss Griffin are mostly good-hearted]], even if they are mischievous or jerks sometimes.
* ActionGirl: All of the Winx. And, to a lesser extent, the pixies and selkies too.
* AdaptedOut:
** In the Nickelodeon specials, Mitzi is absent. Also, the Trix's "Mega Trix" form does not appear in the last special, and instead of being sent to Oblivion, Darkar just sends them back to Lightrock Monastery.
** In Season 2, Darkar sends one of his minions to pose as Avalon and lure Bloom to him; in the specials, the minions are absent, and Darkar himself poses as Avalon in its place.
** In Season 1, Episode 10, the Trix use dolls in their likeness to astral project themselves into Bloom's simulator test; in the special, the dolls were absent, and they transport themselves into it.
** The ending of Season 1, Episode 18 had a few scenes radically changed to last from the ending of "Revenge of the Trix" to the beginning of "The Battle for Magix". Knut is absent from the scene before the Trix leave Bloom after they steal the Dragon Flame; the final scene where Stella arrives to help Bloom has been removed from the former and used at the beginning of the latter instead.
** The part where the Winx are punished for sneaking into Cloud Tower to retrieve Stella's scepter has been removed from the special; instead of having their powers taken away for such, it is rewritten as an assignment for new students.
* AdaptationalHeroism: The 4Kids dub has [[JerkAss Riven's]] FaceHeelTurn be a product of brainwashing, while it is genuine in ''every other continuity''.
* AerithAndBob: Some characters have regular run-of-the-mill names (ie. Stella, Flora, Aisha/Layla, Roxy, Brandon, Timmy, Mitzi, Darcy, Daphne), while others have unique and unusual-sounding names (ie. Bloom, Musa, Tecna, Sky, Riven, Helia, Icy, Stormy, Diaspro).
* AffablyEvil: It's implied in the first season that the witches of Cloud Tower are more mischievous than evil, excluding the Trix. Sure, they cause trouble and mayhem, but they wouldn't cross the line into trying to kill someone. After Season 1, most of them [[HeelFaceTurn serve as allies.]]
* TheAlcatraz: The frozen prison planet of the Omega Dimension is where the most evil criminals are sent. Anyone sent there is either frozen or placed in a capsule and then shot down to the surface from space. Anyone that gets out must deal with large ice snakes with an ice breath that can freeze lightning, freezing to death, finding any food and supplies, and avoiding roaming gangs attacking intruders. Without a spaceship, the only way out is a single portal heavily reinforced with magic. Anyone who could get through that would arrive on the ocean planet of Andros and be confronted by the mermaid guards at the portal. When the Trix are sent there, they free another prisoner, Valtor. They locate the portal and manage to break it open while simultaneously brainwashing the mermaid guards.
* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy: It seems like most, if not all, of the civilizations outside of Earth are ruled by monarchies. This is a Downplayed example, however, since the Magic Dimension is shown to be a modern, if not ''advanced'', society and aside from the royals and the occasional arranged marriages here and there, the monarchies don't really share the attributes of true feudal systems.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Season four -- ''Cuccioli magici'' is Italian for "magical pets" or "magical puppies." The Cinélume English dub used the second translation, so all the pets were "puppies" even though there were cats, birds, bears, rabbits and other animals. Of course, most of them acted like dogs anyway.
* AllThereInTheManual:
** Riven's backstory is only revealed in supplemental material[[note]]he was abandoned by his mother at a young age and forced to spend most of his childhood alone[[/note]], yet this is never brought up in either the original series or the revival series.
** The comics explain some things left unanswered in the show, although they are theorized to be different continuities. For instance, it is explained that Bloom is on scholarship (being a fairy from Earth, and presumably later from being the princess of Domino) and works as a waitress to support herself. It also explains that Bloom still had the Dragon Fire because the Trix could not take ALL of it, which makes a lot more sense than the "believe in yourself" crap in the cartoon, among other things.
* AlphaBitch: Mitzi, Diaspro, Chimera and Icy!
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The 4Kids dub has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZyHW7MF6XI "We are the Winx! We are the Winx!"]]
%%* AmazonBrigade: The Winx again.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Several characters have hard-to-tell ethnicities, especially considering none of them are from Earth.
** Flora can be mistaken for either a light skinned Black or a very tanned Caucasian, but the creator has confirmed that her design was inspired by Jennifer Lopez, so she is meant to be Hispanic.
** Nabu looks like he could be black, white with a tan, or Hispanic, but he's probably black since he's from Andros, the same planet as Aisha. He may also be Indian, based on his clothes and mother's design.
** Anagan from the Wizards of the Black Circle.
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler: Sky briefly becomes one in the fifth season, due to his fall from a pillar in the Magic Archives giving him amnesia.]]
* AndIMustScream:
** At the end of Seasons 1 and 3, [[spoiler: the Trix are imprisoned in a virtual meadow full of positive things, which is what they hate most and basically Hell for them. The beginning of Season 2 shows it's starting to drive them mad before they're rescued by Darkar.]]
** Then there's Valtor, who was frozen in the Omega Dimension, and awake the whole time. This was intended to last for eternity, but he is released at the beginning of Season 3.
** Anyone who enters the Legendarium World could face a fate like this if they stay for too long, becoming trapped there forever as fictional characters. The Trix suffer this when Selena locks the Legendarium for good with the Trix still inside it -- at least until the end of Season 7 when Brafilius unleashes a very powerful magic which frees them.
* AnimationBump:
** The animation in episode 24 of season four had a darker, more dynamic, comic-book look to it, especially near the end, appropriate since this was the episode where [[spoiler:Nabu died]].
** The four 1-hour Nickelodeon specials, which retold seasons 1 and 2 in a condensed format, were re-animated with Flash animation and some CGI. A lot of little mistakes were fixed when they were re-animated.
* AnIcePerson: Besides the most common user Icy, we have Belladona of the Ancestral Witches, background character Alice (or so we're told), Aurora of the Major Fairies of Earth, and Aurora's army the Arctic Fairies.
* {{Animesque}}: The show was directly inspired by series like ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: The Earth fairies. After they were freed from their imprisonment, they swore revenge on the Wizards of the Black Circle for imprisoning them and on the people of Earth for forgetting them and treating the planet poorly. Despite their overzealous attitude, they do want to help the planet and were eventually convinced that revenge was not the right path.]]
* ArcVillain: Each season has one:
** Season 1: Trix
** Season 2: Lord Darkar/The Shadow Phoenix
** Season 3: Valtor
** Season 4: Wizards of the Black Circle
** Season 5: Tritannus
** Season 6: Acheron
** Season 7: Kalshara and Brafilius
** Season 8: Valtor (again)
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Edited out in 4Kids dub (they had Musa make a wart form on Icy's face. Riiiiight...; oddly enough, they kept the sound effect in). In the original version of season 1, Icy torments Musa by saying that Riven thought absolutely nothing of her and Musa retaliates by slapping Icy HARD in the face.
--> '''Icy:''' "She... slapped me! She slapped me in the face!"\\
'''Stormy:''' "Whoa! I can even see the prints of her fingers! Does it hurt?"\\
'''Icy:''' "OF COURSE IT HURTS, DUMMY!"
* ArrangedMarriage:
** There was one between Prince Sky and Princess Diaspro but Sky doesn't love her, so he calls off the wedding. Lucky Bloom.
** Early in season 2, Brandon almost married Amentia, princess of the Underealm, who had a crush on him, much to his and Stella's horror. Fortunately for both, Amentia made up her mind in the last moment thanks to Amore (Stella's bonded pixie).
** Happens to Aisha when she's paired with Nabu, [[spoiler:which turns into a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage by the end of the season, and S4 appeared to be heading towards putting the "Marriage" into this pairing...until Nabu died stopping Wizards of the Black Circle form completing their EvilPlan.]]
** In ''[[TheMovie Magical Adventure]]'' when Sky seemingly breaks off his wedding with Bloom just after proposing to her, Oritel tries to set Bloom up with several other guys, but Bloom manages to blow them all off.
* ArtEvolution:
** Played straight and inverted with Season 5. In the early seasons, the art was good and the animation was pretty average but fairly smooth, though with some obvious OffModel. In Season 5, the art has gotten even better, but the animation, which seems to be animated with Flash, is rather poor and makes the characters seem stiff or "wavy". Such Flash animation was also used in certain points of the first six episodes of Season 4.
** The 3D animation also went through this change as well. The first two movies, the CGI segment for the ice show, and the two music videos produced for the Concert CD were animated with an unknown program. The CGI sequences for Seasons 5, 6, and the third movie were animated using Autodesk Maya.
** The show undergoes a major art shift with season 8, with the characters redesigned to look younger and opting for a slightly more subdued, muted color palette akin to that of its spinoff WesternAnimation/{{World of Winx}} and the faces resembling how they looked in CGI for seasons 5 and 6.
* ArtShift: Done occasionally in seasons five and six when the action moves to the Infinite Ocean and the Legendarium World, respectively, which render everything in CGI. It's actually rather jarring going from 2-D Flash to 3D and back again so frequently, which isn't helped by the CGI being pure UncannyValley.
* ArtisticLicense: According to the citizens of Solaria, until Valtor's manipulation of King Radius in Season 3, the planet has never rained ''once'' in it's entire known history, to the extent that its citizens have no idea what a raincoat is. If it wasn't for magic's involvement, the entire planet should've been a dried wasteland.
* ArtisticLicenseUniversityAdmissions: Bloom enrolls in Alfea by impersonating a princess who planned to attend but changed her mind at the last minute. The admissions process is also unrealistically simple: Griselda, the Head of Discipline asks for the students' names, then lets them in if their name is on the list, without asking for proof of identification or keeping photographic records of the students to double check. The stunt is made even more egregious by the fact that Bloom was pretending to be royalty, who are all around more recognizable and familiar to more people than commoners are.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The English versions like adding "-us" to normal words to make Latin-sounding spells. It happened most often in the 4Kids dub (e.g.: "Transportus Back Homus," "Getus Outta Hereus," "Cushionus Fallus").
* AsideGlance:
** The original version of season 1 episode 2 had Bloom turn and smile at the camera just before she and Stella head towards Alfea for the first time.
** In the second episode of season three, Stella wakes Bloom up early in the morning. While Stella is talking about what to wear at her princess ball, Bloom appears to briefly look into the camera.
* AsleepForDays: After her failed attempt to rescue the pixies from Lord Darkar at the beginning of the second season, Aisha sleeps for four days.
* AssumedWin: In season 3, Bloom has come to Sky's millennium party, expecting to hear Sky announce her as his girlfriend (as he had promised in the previous episode). Bloom starts to walk up while he's making his speech, but then it ends with him introducing Diaspro instead of her. It turns out that Diaspro has secretly given Sky a potion [[LovePotion to make him love her instead.]]
* AudienceShift: The first three or four seasons were aimed at older kids and tweens. After Season 4 however, the target audience shifted younger and younger until Season 7 got the series moved to ''Creator/NickJr'' and Season 8 turned ''Winx'' into an outright preschool program.
* BackFromTheDead:
** In season 4 the Winx receive the Black Gift, which is meant to save someone from death, but it can only be used once. [[spoiler:It's sadly {{subverted}} however, when Nabu [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] stop the Fairy Hunter's scheme. When Aisha tries to use it on him, Ogron steals the Black Gift and wastes it on a flower. Nabu is still gone at the start of season 5.]]
** In the finale of Season 5, Bloom uses her Sirenix wish to break the curse on Sirenix and end its legacy forever, which in turn restores Daphne back to her physical, corporal self.
** In the same season, Aisha uses her Sirenix wish to heal Nereus and revive him back to life.
* BadassBack: In the 2nd movie, Bloom and Sky passionately kiss in the middle of a fight with doppelgangers. Without even breaking off the kiss, they both backfist punch a doppelganger trying to blindside them.
* BadassNormal: Subverted by most of the Specialists, whose lack of magic abilities makes them very inferior to the fairies in a fight. See also Faux Action Guy below. Played straight by them in the comics, movies, and season 6.
* BareYourMidriff: Many characters in the earlier seasons, even the boys. Every female member of the main cast has at some point worn a midriff-baring outfit as either their default clothes, their transformation clothes, or both. This hit its zenith with the Enchantix outfits, which gave ''everyone'' a midriff and well as being [[HotterAndSexier pretty skimpy]] to boot. Later seasons, specifically the Harmonix forms in Season 5, would remake them to be TamerAndChaster.
** In the 4Kids dub, [[LampshadeHanging this is blatantly commented on]] by one of their professors, who expresses disdain for the look:
-->'''Palladium:''' Before we can send you, we have to suit you up in the appropriate attire. You see, the weather on Sparx is quite brutal, so I'm afraid open-toe shoes and exposed midriffs simply will not do.\\
'''Griselda:''' If I had my way, this would be the year-round dress code.\\
'''Faragonda:''' Oh, Griselda.
* BattleInTheRain: It seems the Trix sometimes like to summon rainstorms before attacking; they do this in their first attack on Alfea and their first attack on Red Fountain in Season 1, then do so again while attacking Alfea in season 3.
* BeachEpisode: An episode features the girls in their swimsuits by a lake in season 2. There's also a 3-D music video called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmt_g35dmZE Mambochiwambo]]" that filled the role, more or less.
** The beginning of season 5 episode 14 is this.
** Episode 15-16 of season 6 also qualify.
** Season 7 episode 16 opens as one.
* BeamOWar: The Winx [[spoiler:plus Nebula]] against the Black Circle in the last episode of Season 4. The Wizards are outnumbered and low on magic, so it ends with them being frozen in ice.
* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Bloom and Aisha are the brawn, Stella and Musa are the beauty, and Flora and Tecna are the brains.
** Alternatively, especially in the earlier seasons, you could put Musa as the brawn and Bloom as the beauty.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Both played straight and subverted, since there are barely any characters that are remotely ugly. In the entire series, the only 'human' girl who even remotely looks ugly is the witch Lucy, and she's usually a {{Jerkass}}.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Riven behaves like a jerk and Musa is prickly.
* BellyDancer:
** A Friendship Sundered/The Day of the Rose
** Princess Amentia/Queen of Perfection
* BerserkButton: According to the 4Kids' dub opening song, "Look all you want, just don't touch the hair..."
* BetaCouple: Several - Stella/Brandon, Flora/Helia, Musa/Riven [[spoiler: save for that time they were broken up]], Tecna/Timmy, Aisha/Nabu [[spoiler: until he [[KilledOffForReal dies]]]], [[spoiler: Aisha/Nex]].
* BetweenMyLegs: Occurs in several episodes.
** Both Stella and Musa in the episode ''Spelled''.
** Flora in ''The Nightmare Monster''.
** Bloom in ''Island of the Dragons''.
** Stella in ''At the Last Moment''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Possibly hinted at in S4 episode 24: [[spoiler:Brandon makes a comment that he should remember never to make Nabu angry after Nabu destroys Duman.]]
* BigBad: The Trix in season one, Lord Darkar in season two, Valtor in season three, the Wizards of the Black Circle in season four, and Tritannus in season five. Then it's the Trix again in season 6 (with Selina as TheDragon and Acheron as the GreaterScopeVillain), then shapeshifting siblings Kalshara and Brafilius in season 7. Season 8 deals with Valtor once more.
* BigDamnMovie:
** {{Subverted}} in ''The Secret of the Lost Kingdom''. While in the previous seasons, the Winx had to save the universe from a BigBad, they only get to save one planet in the first movie. It serves as a WhamEpisode that ''drastically'' changes the status quo.
** The second movie, ''[[NonSerialMovie Magical Adventure]]'' plays it straight, as the Winx had to save the entire Magical Dimension from its greatest enemies, the Ancestral Witches.
* BigNo:
** Icy in the Season 1 finale when Bloom destroys the ice prison she traps her in.
** Darker in the Season 2 finale when he is destroyed by the Winx' Charmix Convergence.
** Bloom does one in season 3 when [[spoiler:Tecna gets stuck in the Omega dimension. Musa also joins in.]]
** Miele does it in Season 3 when Flora sacrifices herself for her.
** Aisha does it in Season 4 when Ogron wastes the Black Gift on a withering flower, leaving Nabu to be KilledOffForReal.
** In Season 5, Lemmy and Phylla scream this when Tritannus steals their powers. Daphne also screams it when Tritannus steals Sirenix from her to give to the Trix.
** In season 6, [[spoiler: Icy after she, Darcy, and Stormy get sealed in the Legendarium by Selina.]]
** Bloom again in season 7 when [[spoiler: Flora is crushed beneath several diamond boulders during a cave-in.]]
* BigNever:
** Musa in Season 3 when she vows never to leave Galatea behind, which in turn earns her Enchantix.
** Daphne does one in Season 5 while being tortured by the Trix and Tritannus for the secret of Dark Sirenix.
* BitchAlert: The Trix in Spades. Chimera. Mitzi.
** Diaspro from season three onwards. Possibly a side effect of Flanderization: in the first two seasons, she was at most bitter and heartbroken that Sky broke off their engagement to be with Bloom, but season three and later straight up turn her into a homicidal PsychoExGirlfriend.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Darcy pulls this on Riven; compare her sweet and cutesy smile in episode 8 to her blatant use of sex appeal and her attempted homicide on a rival for her love interest in the next episode.
* {{Bizarchitecture}}: Cloud Tower.
* BookEnds: Played with. Season 1 ends with Icy and the Trix being dragged off to prison while Icy stares at Bloom with a look of hatred and contempt (which Bloom returns.) Season 8 ends with the Trix leaving under their own power and Icy and Bloom sharing a look of respect and acknowledgement.
* BornFromPlants: The pixies are born from a huge flower called The Tree of Life.
* {{Bowdlerize}}:
** Enchantix's redesign in Season 8 makes the outfits ''far'' less revealing than they were originally (in order to make the show more suitable for younger children), and add a bit of pink details on top of that.
** Matter of fact, all fairy forms after Believix happen to cover the Winx' cleavage and midriff either way, in addition to nearly sharing the exact same outfit design.
** When Mitzi appeared in Season 5, her top was censored to be less revealing, specifically filling in the cutway area near the neck.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:
** [[AdaptationalHeroism Riven]] in the 4Kids dub is brainwashed by Darcy in season 1. In the original, he went with Darcy and the Trix of his own accord.
** Bloom is brainwashed by Lord Darkar twice near the end of season 2. She becomes his loyal servant as Dark Bloom. The first time she's freed by Avalon, [[spoiler:which he could do because he was the one who brainwashed her the first time]], and the second time Sky managed to pull off an IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight.
** Stella's father got brainwashed into declaring her as no longer being a princess. Fortunately he recovered.
** Prince Sky got brainwashed into dumping Bloom and returning to Diaspro.
** In ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'' Riven falls under the control of Mandragora so that he can betray them at a critical time. He breaks free after he hurts Musa.
** In one episode of Season 6, Stella gets brainwashed by a magic mirror under Selina's influence.
* BreakingTheFellowship: During season three, with [[spoiler: Tecna [[DisneyDeath seemingly dead]]]], the Winx decide that it's simply not the same anymore without her, and that there really isn't a Winx Club anymore. [[spoiler: They reform the group after Tecna is rescued.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** In the original version, when Bloom goes to Alfea for the first time with Stella, she stops to turn and smile at the camera.
** Again in the original version, when Kiko makes paper cut-outs of the Winx and Specialists, then uses them like dominos. When the Bloom cut-out falls, it winks at the camera before the iris closes.
* BreatherEpisode:
** "The Lilo" from Season 5 isn't connected to the season's storyline. It was aired as the premiere episode of the Nickelodeon revival seasons. It's not part of the wider story so that Nick could rerun the episode again and again by itself.
** "Dance Contest on Melody" for Season 8 has the Winx take a break from saving the Galaxy from Valtor and enter a dance contest against the Trix.
* BrickJoke:
** In the ninth episode of season 3, Aisha mentions that her parents have set up an ArrangedMarriage for her, which isn't brought up again until episode 18. (Apart from the fact that Nabu is shown stalking Aisha in a few episodes before that.)
** During the 11th episode of season 4, the Winx are out shopping when ninjas attack the shopping mall. At end of the episode, the girls suddenly remember that they left their groceries behind.
* BrokenAngel: In season 3 the Trix destroy the wings of a fairy (Galatea) to distract Musa from their getaway from Alfea's library; they'd set the library on fire, which forces her to save her friend instead of chasing down the bad guys. [[spoiler: This bites them in the ass, as the fairy in question was from Musa's homeworld, and rescuing her let Musa acquire her Enchantix form, which conveniently gives her the power to repair her wings instantly.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal:
** After the Winx break into Cloud Tower without permission, Faragonda strips them of their powers temporarily as punishment. The Nick recaps instead have the removal of powers be a school exercise.
** After the Trix steal Bloom's power, she has no magic for most of the season 1 finale. She regains her magic in the second-to-last episode thanks to Daphne's courage.
** The Trix and Ancestral Witches in the 2nd movie do this to every fairy in the Magic Dimension to give themselves exclusive rights to magic-using.
** Almost happens in Season 5. If the Winx fail to finish the Sirenix Quest within one lunar cycle, they will lose their powers forever.
** In season 6 towards the end of the third episode the girls except Bloom lose their powers. They recover thanks to [[spoiler:Bloom's dragon flame]].
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Magic Winx!"; "Go Enchantix!"
* CallBack: In season 6, when Stella and the others come to Bloom's rescue at a park in Gardenia. Stella feels that the place looks familiar. Bloom points out that it is the same spot where she and Stella first met five years ago, in the first episode of the series.
* TheCakeIsALie: [[spoiler: Selina had forsaken her family and friends to serve Acheron for the promise of being given greater power. Once Selina backstabs the Trix and releases Acheron, he breaks the deal since he no longer needs her, much to her absolute shock.]]
* CallingYourAttacks: This happened less in the early seasons of Cinélume's English dub.
* CareBearStare: The Believix powers fills the target with positive feelings like friendship and serenity.
* {{Catchphrase}}: The English dub by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment gave each girl a catchphrase on the bonus [=DVDs=] that came with the dolls. The phrases were never actually said in any version of the show.
-->Bloom: Earth girls rule!\\
Stella: Style is, like, so always in style!\\
Flora: Peace out!\\
Musa: Royalty rocks! (referring to the dub error that Musa is a princess)\\
Tecna: I'll catch you on the download!
* CatFight: Bloom vs Diaspro. Though it wasn't played for {{Fanservice}}, nor as a DesignatedGirlFight (as most combatants in the show are female), it did get more physical than the usual magic duels common to the series, and men did stand motionless enjoying the fight.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: The Black Willow Tree on Linphea is in a cave behind a waterfall. Its tears are what make the waterfall, which actually flows upward. Darcy lampshades it, wondering why there's always a cave behind a waterfall.
* CelestialDeadline: In the beginning of Season 5, the Winx have until the end of the current lunar cycle to finish the Sirenix Quest to obtain said transformation, otherwise they'll lose their powers forever.
* ChangelingFantasy: Bloom first learns that she's a fairy, and then is revealed that her parents aren't her real parents, and that she's a princess of another world. It's averted, since Mike and Vanessa (Bloom's foster parents) are very loving, caring and supportive.
* CharacterOverlap: Creatures from the ''Winx'' world show up in Iginio Straffi's other series, ''WesternAnimation/HuntikSecretsAndSeekers''. Examples include Aurora's ice minions from the fourth season in Huntik's "The Legacy of Thor", and one of the nightmare monsters from "Cold Spell" in Huntik's "The Secret of Two Generations".
* ChekhovsGun: In season 2 Faragonda gives the guardian pixies of the schools and Pixie Village some jewels, telling them that they know what to do. [[spoiler:These turn out to be parts of the Codex Cypher, an alternate route into the Realix.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: In season 3, before officially debuting in episode 18, Nabu made brief appearances in episodes 11, 12 and 14. Also, Aisha mentions being set up for an ArrangedMarriage in episode 9, before that plot gets under way in 18.
* ChristmasSpecial: Season 5 has "A Magix Christmas", where Bloom teaches the others about Christmas while the Trix try to steal the magic of Christmas.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Lucy, Mirta's friend. Her last appearance in the series is in season 3 (although she is seen in ''Magical Adventure'').
** After season 2, Avalon only had few cameo appearances in season 3. Also, Fake Avalon seemed to vanish after kidnapping Bloom, though it can be presumed he perished after Darkar was defeated.
** Pepe, Icy's duck, stopped appearing after the Season 1 finale when he followed the Trix to their imprisonment. The writers seem to have simply forgotten about him, explaining why he stopped appearing.
** As a retool made without most of the original production staff, Season 8 is missing a lot of prominent characters. The Pixies, Daphne, and Thoren have disappeared without explanation. Even Roxy is absent for the first season since her debut, although she does show up in the season's comic adaptation.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Winx Club's Believix powers are magnified when humans believe in them.
* CoDragons: The Trix in seasons two and three.
* ColorCodedCharacters: The Winx, the Specialists, and every minor character who gets to wear more than one outfit throughout the show's run. Below are the signature colors of the Winx girls:
** Bloom - Blue
** Stella - Orange
** Flora - Pink
** Musa - Red
** Tecna - Purple
** Aisha - Turquoise
** Roxy - Green
* CombatPragmatist: Valtor is willing to use any magic spell that is effective against the Winx, and uses Cloud Tower itself to fight them as well. He also killed Bloom's parents by trapping her mother Marion, and then when Oritel tried to free her, Valtor sneaked up behind and nailed them both. At least that's what he says to Bloom hen the Winx storm Cloud Tower. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that he lied.]]
* ComicBookAdaptation: Has had a comic book series since its premiere (Iginio Straffi was a comic book author before creating the show). Over 145 issues have been produced, including two issues focusing on the movies and three Halloween issues. The first twelve are based directly on the episodes of the first season, while the rest focus on other adventures. Some things, such as the Stones of Memories, appeared in the comics ''years'' before they appeared in the TV series.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: In ''Broken Dreams'', Aisha snaps at Stella for supposedly not taking her ballet class seriously. Never mind that Stella was merely trying to help by being cheerful since they were all tense due to Bloom leaving and it's not exactly the first time she's done this. Eventually, they do make up, but Stella was the one expected to apologize, despite that Aisha snapped at her for no good reason.
* ContinuitySnarl: [[NonSerialMovie Magical Adventure]] is [[UpToEleven full of this,]] as it supposedly takes place after season 4 but started production ''before the fourth season was made''. As a result, Roxy is nowhere to be seen, Nabu is there despite dying late in the season, etc... A common saying among the fandom is that the film makes ''much'' more sense if you imagine the girls in their ''Enchantix'' outfits, as opposed to their ''Believix'' ones.
* CoolSword:
** The Sword of Domino which was used to fight the Ancestral Witches.
** The Sword of Neptune in season 5, which has the power to break curses and can only be wielded underwater.
* {{Cosplay}}: Zing the Pixie has been seen cosplaying as famous movie characters. See ShoutOut list, below.
* CostumeEvolution:
** The Red Fountain uniform the Specialists wear, is replaced with a bulkier uniform from Linphea College in Season 6.
** The Winx's stationary outfits have become less and less {{Stripperific}} and more modest with each new season. The Enchantix transformation has been redesigned in Season 8 to cover the midriffs so it can be more suitable for younger children.
** At first, the Winx's fairy forms each had their own, individual choice of wardrobe, but starting with Harmonix, they wear virtually the same clothing but with different colors and accents. The outfits are also less-revealing, especially in the midriff, to better support a younger audience.
* CulturalTranslation: It is heavily implied that Bloom's hometown is an American city. This is never directly stated, but heavily implied throughout the show (characters with Anglo-Saxon names, English writing, the Halloween episode, among other things). Season 4 further implies this when the show zooms into California when the Winx go to California. In addition, they have to travel to Italy to meet Sibylla, indicating that Gardenia is not there.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Season 3. Once Bloom unlocks her Enchantix form, she immediately proceeds to show the Trix that they aren't a match for her anymore.
** Season 4. The first battle between Winx and the Wizards of the Black Circle, where all the girls are easily defeated. So much for all their training at Alfea.
** In the 2nd movie, the Trix clearly had the advantage over the Winx due to their [[BroughtDownToNormal magicless state]], but once they got their Believix powers back...
* DanceBattler: An episode late into Season 8 has the Winx go to Melody to compete against Icy and Stormy in a dance contest.
* DancePartyEnding: The first three seasons end, usually after the villain's defeat, with an end-of-year party where all the characters dance happy. Season 4 and 5 in addition have the Winx sing.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Some fans have said this about season four due to [[spoiler:the death of Aisha's fiancé, Nabu]], which was [[spoiler:the first [[HeroicSacrifice hero death]] of the series]]. Also, there was a scene at the very end of episode nine with [[spoiler:Bloom and Sky holding hands while sitting on her bed]], in which Sky says, "Sometimes it's better not to talk." Some fans have interpreted this as [[spoiler:sexual innuendo]], but the show doesn't necessarily support this conclusion.
* DarkIsEvil: Practically every major villain is a dark magic practitioner.
** The Trix have darker color schemes and use dark magic frequently. It's even Darcy's specialty.
** Lord Darkar's body is pure black, and he's encased in dark red armor.
** The Wizards of the Black Circle, in addition to having black in their group name, all wear black or dark grey clothes.
* DarkIsNotEvil:
** Mirta may be a witch at first, but her focus on the dark arts doesn't stop her from being a good person. All the witches (other than the Trix) are like this. While they're often jerks, they're not evil.
** While obviously still villainous, Darcy is arguably the least evil of the Trix [[DependingOnTheWriter in the comics]], and is the one specializing in darkness.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Season 3 episode 20 focuses on the pixies, especially Digit.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:Nabu suddenly got a lot more attention leading up to his HeroicSacrifice in episode twenty-four of season four. This episode featured the most badass moments of his entire existence in the show.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Icy in the short story where she falls in love. Of course, [[StatusQuoIsGod re-freezing by the next story is inevitable]].
* DemonicPossession:
** [[spoiler: Near the end of the second movie, the Ancestral Witches take control of the Trix's bodies.]] Also, at an episode of the second season, [[spoiler:Darkar makes Bloom Dark Bloom]], and she does not change back till the end of the season.
** In an episode of Season 4, Roxy is possessed by Nebula through the White Circle.
* DemotedToExtra:
** Roxy only appears in small roles in the fifth and sixth seasons. She eventually plays a somewhat larger part in the seventh season's plot as the MissionControl. She only appears in the eighth season's comic adaptation (not any of the TV episodes). At points, it seems that only reason she's even considered a member of the Winx is because of WordOfGod saying she is.
** The pixies are often subject to this. In season 2, they served as fairly important characters to the plot. In season 3, barring their ADayInTheLimeLight episode, they serve mainly as comic relief alongside Kiko. In season 4, they are reduced to one episode, and are completely absent in season 5. They return in season 6, but as comic relief again, and two of their members are replaced with [[CanonImmigrant new characters]] from [[SpinOff Pop Pixie]]. By Season 8, they're almost completely forgotten.
** Mirta. Despite building a good friendship with the Winx, she doesn't have a speaking role past the third season. She does manage to get a cameo multiple times in the fifth season, establishing she's still around.
** Griffin in ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'' and beyond, though she makes a return in season 6.
* DeusExMachina: Fairy Dust. Fittingly enough, it doesn't appear after season 3, even when the girls are still in Enchantix. Although they ''did'' use it one last time in season 4 after they earned their Believix in order to shrink.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: [[spoiler: At the end of episode 9 in season 4, Bloom and Sky are having a conversation while sitting on Bloom's bed, though there was little to no sexual implication.]]
* DirtyCoward: The Trix are classic bullies, only fighting those they know they can either beat or people who aren't able to fight back, but they would run when a fight they started falls from their favor. Played very straight in S5 when after being powered up by Tritannus, they would overpower the Winx and laugh about it. Once the Winx acquired Harmonix and started to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] them, the Trix immediately whine about how the Winx weren't supposed to be stronger than them and immediately retreat.
* DiscOneFinalBoss:
** Cassandra in Season 3.
** Nebula in Season 4.
* DismantledMacGuffin: The Codex is split into four parts (only one in Nickelodeon's version), hidden in the three schools and Pixie Village. All four are necessary to open the portal to the Realix dimension. Despite the Winx's best efforts, [[spoiler:they are unable to stop Darkar getting them]].
* DisneyDeath: Happens to Sky in season 2, and Flora and Tecna in season 3. [[spoiler: Averted in season 4 with Nabu and a straight example would be Sky's father, Erendor in the second movie after [[TakingTheBullet taking an attack that was meant for Bloom]]. Oritel uses some of the remaining magical energy that was still on his sword to revive him.]]
** In season 3, [[spoiler: Tecna preforms a HeroicSacrifice to save Andros.]] For quite a while, she's believed to be dead, until [[spoiler: she's found and rescued from the Omega Dimension.]]
** In Season 3, both Stella and Flora nearly died when protecting relatives of theirs (King Radius and Miele), but because of the bravery and sacrifice they showed for their loved ones, this earns their Enchantix transformations as they come right back to life.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: The Wizards of the Black Circle (except Duman, who was killed earlier)]]
* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: In her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introductory scene]] in a very early episode in the first season, Darcy demonstrates her ability to be in multiple places at once, and takes a moment after "splitting up" to admire and comment on how good-looking she is.
* {{Distressed Dude}}s: The Specialists aren't weak, but their strength has remained stagnant in comparison to their girlfriends, who regularly get power ups every season resulting in a power gap between them. This is most easily noticed when they get overpowered and subdued by an antagonist it seems every season and need to get rescued by their girlfriends.
* {{Distressed Parent}}s: This trope is recurrent across the series.
** Predictably for the main character, Bloom's parents are often on the receiving end of this trope.
*** The first season's main villains, the Trix sisters, endanger Bloom's adoptive parents, Mike and Vanessa, to lure her into a trap since the effort to rescue them would leave her exhausted and in a bad position to defend herself. For context, they throw Mike and Vanessa into a PocketDimension-like abyss, so she has to catch them in time and then fly them back to safe terrain.
*** Bloom's biological parents, Oritel and Marion, are trapped as a statue and inside a sword, respectively, courtesy of the villains who caused their home planet's fall. The plot from late-stage season three to the first [[TheMovie movie]] revolves around finding and rescuing them.
*** Bloom saves her biological parents again in season five. During a royal ceremony to thank the Winx and Sky for restoring Domino, the Trix wait until the Winx are off on a mission to attack. Marion and Oritel are able to fend the Trix off until they are tricked into surrendering; then they are turned into ice statues. After the Winx defeat the Trix, Bloom de-freezes her parents.
** There are quite the examples in the third season:
*** After the BigBad breaks free from the [[TheAlcatraz Omega Dimension]], he defeats the mermaids from Andros' [[UnderwaterCity underwater kingdom]] and turns them into his minions. Except for some fortunate souls who are imprisoned -- among them, the queen. Princess Tressa evades capture and alerts the Winx to go and help free her mother, Queen Ligea. Tressa is initially fearful and not the one doing the heavy work but, after some words of encouragement, she frees her mother while the Winx distract the Kraken guarding the prison.
*** Stella earns her Enchantix by pulling one of these. At the very beginning of the season, Stella's father, the king of Solaria, gets BrainWashedAndCrazy by WickedStepmother, social-climber Countess Cassandra (helped by [[BigBad Valtor]]). Some episodes later, in a royal event, she does an HeroicSacrifice to save her father from being burned by a dragon. Then, the transformation song starts. Bonus points because King Radius seems to recognize his daughter for a brief while.
*** Later, Stella devices a ploy to sneak into and [[WeddingSmashers interrupt]] her still brain-washed father and Cassandra's wedding. This is when she is finally able to lift the curse on him thanks to one of the Enchantix's powers.
*** At mid-season, the Portal to the Omega Dimension is about to implode because the BigBad broke it. As a result, Andros, the planet hosting the portal, will be [[ApocalypseHow destroyed]], starting with earthquakes and floods that worsen as the portal becomes more unstable. Aisha's parents, the queen and king, fight valiantly against the monsters coming from the portal but get ultimately trapped in the flooding Royal Palace. Aisha saves them before they drown.
** As Bloom and Roxy are {{mirror character}}s, Roxy has had to save her distressed parents too:
*** Similar to Bloom's storyline, the plot of the fourth season involves rescuing trapped fairies from fallen realms. In this case, it's the Earth fairies -- relentlessly hunted by the Wizards of the Black Circle and sealed away to be forgotten by humanity. Roxy, the Queen's daughter is not captured due to being too young to manifest magic. When she learns the truth, she gets determined to the Earth fairies. With the help of the Winx, Roxy goes to Tir Nan Og and opens its gates. It's kind of a subverted example because Roxy only learns that Queen Morgana is her mother later in the season.
*** Earlier in the season, Roxy has to rescue her father Klaus because the Wizards of the Black Circle captured and impersonated him to lure her into a trap. She is kidnapped but after her AnimalCompanion and the [[TheBeastMaster magical pets]] locate her and fool the Wizards, she is able to free herself and her father. They are halted when the Wizards realize their mistake and overpower Roxy even after she triggers her fairy transformation. Fortunately, all of these developments provide enough time for the Winx to go to her aid.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The girls are perfectly fine walking around barefooted in their Enchantix forms, whose footwear is barefoot sandals.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** In season 3, when the Winx girls and Specialists were searching for the Water Stars, they get ambushed by monsters. TENTACLED monsters. And yes, the girls DO get tangled up in them. Hmmm... tentacled monsters using their tentacles to ensnare [[{{Stripperiffic}} scantily clad]] girls? The skytower bares a strange resemblance to [[Film/HarryPotter Slytherin house]].
** Season 5 opens with an accident at an offshore oil rig, followed by an oil spill that sets further events in motion. In an article a couple years ago, Iginio Straffi hinted they were inspired by the 2011 BP Oil Spill.
** Late in season two, when Darkar kidnaps Bloom, he has her strapped to a table with a metal piece covering her mouth while her legs are wide open and he's almost standing right in front of them. Think for a minute. A teen girl kidnapped, bound and restrained, her legs are open (and they're strapped that way; she can't close them), and a scary man standing over her. It was likely unintentional, but still...
** The comic story "Infernal Concoction" involves the Trix creating a magic pill that boosts physical and mental activity, which they decide to profit off of by selling it to other witches. However, the pills have dangerous side effects and causes users to be overly dependent on them. The Trix basically started a magical version of an illegal drug trade.
* DraggedOffToHell: At the end of the Season 7 finale, Bloom uses the Stones of Memories to open a portal to Limbo and imprisons the Trix within, so they won't cause any threat to Magic ever again. That is, until Valtor frees them in Season 8.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nebula, but Bloom manages to talk her out of it.]]
* DrunkWithPower: Stella, after she temporarily becomes Queen for one day. Faced with difficult problems, her patience soon runs out and she abuses her newfound power to throw parties and have fun instead of doing her duties as a sovereign. [[spoiler: Darcy's magic mirror intensifies this behavior, eventually fully corrupting her.]]
* DubInducedPlotHole:
** It was also said that Musa was a princess in the season 1 4Kids dub (even had Icy taunt Musa that her father and his "hip-hop palace guards" aren't there to protect her), but was later revealed she and her dad are middle class citizens in the concert episode of season 2. They try to {{Handwave}} this by saying Musa's father gave up his crown to be with her mother, but it's too littl
** In season 2, Professor Avalon turns out to be an evil clone. It's a legitimate twist in the original... but not so much in the 4Kids dub, where the spell that was shot at the teacher in an earlier episode was changed to a Sphere of Truth spell, which should have revealed this.
** 4Kids altered Aisha's personality a little. Originally, she had trust issues due to her strict upbringing. 4Kids kept this, but also emphasized her feminism and had her take a dislike to the guys for no good reason. Thankfully, they did fix this later on.
** Not exactly a "plot hole", but on season 2, Aisha goes away crying after Stella refers to the group as "the five of us" (prompting Aisha to feel rejected) (see MyFriendsAndZoidberg below). In the 4Kids dub, Stella instead suggests having a sleepover that night and talking a bit, which makes Aisha's reaction a WTH moment, though it could be explained as Aisha being nervous and feeling left out because she had no stories to tell (Stella suggested they have a sleepover and tell their best friendship stories. Aisha had none).
* DubNameChange: MANY in the 4Kids dub. The most notable change is Aisha to Layla.[[note]] This name change is actually present in ''every'' third-party dub. Only the original versions overseen by Iginio Straffi (Italian and Nickelodeon English) use the name "Aisha". [[/note]]
** Between the original version and 4Kids, names of the girls' home planets, the 4Kids dub tending to be needlessly long...
** Domino/Sparks
** Linphea/Fifth Moon of Marigold (perhaps by accident, 4Kids called it Lynphea in season three). Since the fifth season, Linphea is officially spelt "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lynphea]]" and is consistent across all versions.
** Melody/Harmonic Nebula
** Zenith/Third Vector of the Binary Galaxy (what a mouthful...)
** Andros/Realm of Tides
** Only Stella's planet of Solaria was spared a needless name-change, but in the game based on Season 1, it was changed to Valeria.
** Other things include Army of Darkness/Army of Decay (presumably to avoid being sued by the makers of ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''), the Trix/the Senior Witches (sheesh... how general...), and the biggest idiocy of all, the Patchamen/Wrong-Righters (UGH!)
** Valtor/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Baltor]]
** Miele/Rose
** Vacuums/Whisperian Crystals
** In Nickelodeon's English dub, Roxy's dad Klaus became "Rick;" and Ron, the pixie cat from the first movie, became "Purr."
* EatTheCamera: Typically done on monsters or mutated characters, though there are a some on the regular cast.
** In the Season 1 finale, Darcy eats the camera twice, first after attacked from behind by Musa, the second time, she tries to retreat from a reflected tornado and swallows the camera as she's sucked in(not in the Nick dub).
** In the Season 7 trailer, Kalshara shapeshifts into a lion and lunges towards the Bloom, while eating the camera in the process.
** Season 2 introduced Aisha by having her fall a great distance, where the camera zooms out of her mouth.
** When Sky turned evil, he attacked Flora by way of dragon fire, causing her to fall onto the camera mouth first. Unlike most instances of this trope, the camera landed on her tongue instead of zooming into her throat.
* ElementalEyeColors: Stella, Flora, Aisha, and Icy.
* ElementalPowers: Although it is less straightforward than most...
** Bloom has dragon powers, which represent [[PlayingWithFire fire]]
** Aisha has power over plasma, which is taken as [[MakingASplash water]]
** Stella has power over stars, which represents [[LightEmUp light]]
** Flora has power over nature which represents [[GreenThumb earth]]
** Musa is sound, which represents [[BlowYouAway air]]
** Tecna is, well, [[{{Technopath}} technology]], which represents [[ShockAndAwe energy]]
* ElementalRivalry: The most obvious case is Bloom (Fire) and Icy ([[ThemeNaming Ice]]).
* EndlessWinter: Domino was plunged into this when destroyed by the Ancestral Witches,
* EnergyBall: This is a common form of attack for any magical character when they aren't shooting one of their ElementalPowers.
* EnergyBow: Sky wields one on Eraklyon when he's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] by Diaspro.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Despite occasional quarrels and insults, the Trix are very close to each other.
** Subverted with Valtor: Once the Trix realize that he has toyed with them all along [[spoiler: not to mention that he is in fact a demon]], they don't even bother fighting the Winx with him in the final battle and comment on how stupid it was to let him get between them.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Griffin used to work for the coven, but balked when she learned that they were planning to destroy whole worlds.
* EverybodyCries: In Season 3 after [[spoiler:Tecna sacrifices herself and disappears into the Omega Dimension,]] it causes the Winx and Specialists to burst out crying upon returning from Andros.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: The outfits the girls wear in their fairy forms, the Enchantix have slightly less sparkles than their original outfits (their wings are pretty sparkly in that form, though), while the Believix outfits have both sparkly outfits and sparkly wings.
* EvilOverlord: Lord Darkar.
* EvolvingCredits: Crossed with ReplacedTheThemeTune, though the themes for current seasons tend to update slightly.
** In the original version, after Aisha earns her Enchantix in the sixth episode, the theme song is updated to contain scenes of the Winx in their Enchantix.
** Season 5 changes the title sequence completely once the Winx earn their Sirenix, giving a completely 3D sequence of the Sirenix transformation and the Winx in the Infinite Ocean.
** The Season 6 theme changes a bit giving new scenes after the Winx meet Eldora and earn their Mythix transformation.
* ExpandedUniverse: The comics that are more of an AlternateContinuity.
* ExposedToTheElements: Cold in general doesn't seem to bother the Winx even when they're in their skimpy clothes.
** In season 1, the girls went to a snowy Domino in full winter gear. Even when transformed in their skimpy outfits in Fairy form, the arctic conditions don't hamper them. Seasons 3 and 4 have something similar in the frozen Omega Dimension. The Winx, the Trix, and the Earth Fairies wear skimpy outfits there and aren't bothered by the cold. The most likely explanation is that they're using magic to warm themselves.
** In season 4, [[spoiler: the Winx fight against Aurora and her warrior fairies in her arctic base of operations]] in their Lovix form, which protects them from the cold. Roxy is unaffected by the cold as well, even though she doesn't have Lovix. When the temperature drops drastically, the Winx are only mildly affected, but Roxy doesn't have their protection and suffers from hypothermia.
** In season 8, while [[spoiler: visiting Icy's home planet, Dyamond]], the icy waters of the planet transform the Winx's Sirenix into a winter variation called Crystal Sirenix. With the exception of some decorative frills and fur, the outfits don't appear to add much to effectively protect them from the cold.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: The Trix provide the page image.
* EyeColorChange:
** Since the 2011 revival, Bloom's powers manifest by having her eyes turn from blue to amber.
** When Bloom is corrupted by Darkar, her eyes turn yellow with cat eye pupils.
** When Roxy was possessed by Nebula in Season 4, her eyes turn an infernal red.
* FaceHeelTurn:
** Riven supports the Trix in season 1 after growing frustrated with the Winx and his fellow Specialists. He went evil again in ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'', but that was due to MindControl. He took [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor ''yet another one'']] in the comics, but it turns out that this was for an undercover mission.
** Bloom twice in season 2 serves Lord Darkar, but that was because of MindControl.
** [[spoiler:Aisha in season 4 when she joins Nebula's fairies for revenge against the Wizards of the Black Circle after Nabu's death.]]
** Helia also took one in the comics, but this was also for an undercover mission.
* TheFairFolk: Earth fairies are quite prone to DisproportionateRetribution...
** Also, witches are basically wingless fairies with a dark alignment.
* FairyCompanion:
** The Pixies. The pixie pets serve as fairy companions to the pixies.
** The Fairy Pets in S4.
** The Selkies of S5.
** The Fairy Animals in S7.
** The Lumens in S8.
* FairySexy: The titular Winx all dress in a very risqué manner and are depicted as pretty. It's caused some controversy regarding just how much of the {{Fanservice}} may or may not [[ParentalBonus fly over the kids' heads]].
* FallenHero: Morgana, and Nebula even more until their HeelFaceTurn.
* FallenPrincess:
** Bloom was born a Princess but had to live as a normal Earth girl when her family's kingdom fell. [[spoiler:No longer applies after she saves her kingdom in ''The Secret of the Lost Kingdom''.]]
** Diaspro was exiled for her role in Prince Sky being brainwashed, which was [[ContinuitySnarl somehow reversed]] in Season 5.
* FantasticNamingConvention: All the fairy forms end with "-ix".
* FantasyKitchenSink: The universe has fairies, witches, sorcerers, pixies, warriors, nymphs, ghosts, dragons, ogres, trolls, mermaids, [[WizardingSchool Wizarding Schools]], and magic trees in the Magic Dimension. That doesn't even count the fact that the main characters are all aliens from different worlds, or all the [[ScienceFantasy sci-fi]] elements present.
* {{Fanservice}}: Sometimes the Winx's transformations and clothes can get very {{Stripperific}}, such as Tecna's [[http://www.casimages.com/img/jpg/07080611341810855963991.jpg Omega Suit]] on a frozen planet. Also the beach episode from season 2 Bloom and Musa wears skimpy bikini and Stella a red lifeguard costume.
* [[FauxActionGirl Faux Action Guy]]: ZigZagged with the Red Fountain Specialists. It's not uncommon to see them easily get beaten by the main villains or monsters even though they go to a military academy. However, they usually can hold their own against {{Mooks}} and can occasionally even take on the Trix or the Wizards of the Black Circle. This seems to be completely inverted as of season 6.
* FemmeFatalons: The Trix all have long nails that match their outfits.
* FictionalZodiac: The official site has a fictional zodiac using mythical creatures such as Pegasus, Gryphon, Dragon and Triton.
* FightingYourFriend:
** The Winx vs. Bloom twice in Season 2, after Darkar brainwashes her into becoming evil.
** Season 4 does this twice. First the Winx vs. Roxy when she was possessed by Nebula, then [[spoiler:the Winx vs. Aisha when she sides with Nebula to avenge Nabu.]]
* FillingTheSilence: Taken to an extreme in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbocrb_winx-club-comparisons-cold-spell_shortfilms this video]], in which all the previously silent nightmares of the Winx have had plenty of dialog added to them.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
** Near the end of the first season when the girls go to Domino, Bloom, who's currently powerless, falls into a chasm. Stella was transformed at this time and could've easily flown over and grabbed Bloom, yet she didn't!
** In season three, the crooks in the Omega Dimension manage to force the Winx off a cliff. The girls' Enchantix wings, which some episodes back were able to withstand gale-force winds, are suddenly useless.
** [[spoiler: Apparently, Bloom forgot she had healing powers in S4 episode 24. Sure, it might not have worked under those circumstances, but she could at least have tried to save Nabu.]]
** When Aisha sacrificed her chance to heal her eyesight for the sake of the dying Queen Ligea to earn her Enchantix, she could've waited until the next sunset to use the Coral Gem to heal her then. Then again, Faragonda reveals she has the power of the Fairy Dust, which she does use.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum:
** An episode has a double dip of this: A segment of a season 3 episode opens with Icy boasting about a new fire power Valtor gave her. In the Trix's battles against the Winx, including the one just a few minutes later, she doesn't use it (and in fact, it's ''Darcy'' who sets a library on fire in a later episode, not Icy). And during the battle in the same episode, Aisha sneaks up behind Darcy and Stormy to tie them up, even though way back in the second ever episode, she sensed Bloom's presence behind a garbage can, even though Bloom was well out of her view. (However, the [=non-4K=] version does mitigate the stupidity in both cases somewhat.)
** A season 1 episode saw Icy destroy Red Fountain by freezing it with a nifty ice dragon. Season finale, Icy doesn't even make any effort to use it to freeze Alfea, or to take on Bloom, who has an fire-energy dragon of her own.
** Bloom was shown to be able to use her powers to revive the dead. It's not explained why [[spoiler:Nabu]] is still dead. This was changed to breaking a sleeping spell in the 4Kids dub, which removes the contention entirely.
** In early season 3, there's nothing stopping a blind Aisha from waiting to use Queen Ligea's healing staff the next sunset after she uses it on its owner.
** The Charmix from season 2. Sure, it was SoLastSeason, but there's nothing else preventing the fairies who hadn't earned their Enchantix from using it in season 3, especially when they're battling the Trix. Yet the only time it's even mentioned in season 3 is when the school headmistress talks about Enchantix.
** In the 21st episode of the third season, Nabu claimed that the reason he had stowed away on the Specialists ship was so he could practice his invisibility spells against monsters living in the area the Winx were travelling to. Nabu's ability to turn invisible hasn't been seen again since this episode. (Although it's possible that he used this ability off-screen during season 4's episode 20 when he went to the nature fairy Diana's castle to try to save the Specialists, but this is just a theory...)
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Bloom's obtained a crown in her magic Winx transformation [[spoiler: probably hinting at her being of royal descent.]]
** Bloom's fairy form [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly appears]] in the first episode, several episodes before she transforms for the first time.
** The episode after Bloom earns her Enchantix, she's slightly feeble and tired after using a spell on the ice snake. It's revealed in the next episode that her Enchantix is incomplete because she didn't earn it through sacrifice like the others.
** In the PreviouslyOn recap at the beginning of Season 4, Episode 6, the narrator says the Winx are close to finding the last earth fairy while simultaneously showing a close-up of [[spoiler: Roxy]].
* {{Frankenslation}}: Nickelodeon streamlined Seasons 1 and 2 into specials, combining old and re-done footage from multiple episodes into one slightly-altered story:
** "Winx Club: The Fate of Bloom" combined episodes 1, 2, 7, 8, 10 and 22 from Season 1, ending with Bloom unlocking her fairy transformation (which originally happened at the end of episode 3).
** "Winx Club: Revenge of the Trix" combined episodes 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18 of the same season, and "Winx Club: The Battle for Magix" combined episodes 19, 20, 22 23, 24, 25 and 26.
* FriendToAllLivingThings:
** Roxy, the fairy of animals, loves all sorts of creatures.
** Flora, who shows a lot of care and concern for various plants and animals.
* FrillyUpgrade: Subverted and not. Their Enchantix are all new outfits and wings. Their Believix falls under this as well, but their Charmix in season two qualifies; it's the same outfit as Winx mode, just with a brooch and a purse. Also the Trix' Gloomix.
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: The Winx were as themselves in their transformation outfits to a Halloween party.
* FountainOfYouth:
** In "The Gem of Empathy", the subplot revolves around Stella finding a pin with an age changer spell in it, which turns her into a 3-year old.
** In "Baby Winx", Brafilius uses a spell which turns the Winx into toddler versions of themselves.
* FusionDance:
** The Trix fused together into a single being in the Season 2 finale. Averted on the Nickelodeon special, however.
** Another, much weirder example happens in the first movie, where Bloom fuses with ''Daphne's Spirit''.
** In an even weirder example, the Trix fuse with their Fairy Animals near the end of Season 7.
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[[folder:Tropes G to L]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Both Tecna and Timmy qualify, since they both created rather useful devices.
* GeckoEnding: Necessitated in an episode through dub editing.
* GeneHunting: Bloom's main goal in the early seasons, upon learning she was adopted, is to find her missing birth parents Oritel and Marion, and find out what happened to them.
* GirlPosse: The Trix - Icy, Darcy, and Stormy. Icy being the leader, or aka the AlphaBitch, of course. Mitzi's friends. Chimera's friends.
* GlowingEyes:
** Since the 2011 revival, Bloom's eyes glow amber when she uses her strongest magic. The Trix also get these often when they steal her Dragon Flame.
** When the Trix are turning against Riven in Season 1 Episode 19, their eyes turn completely orange (purple in the remake) as they hover around him.
** Roxy gets glowing red eyes when possessed by Nebula.
* GoBackToTheSource: In Season 5, once the Winx have earned all the gems to obtain Sirenix, their quest is not yet over and they must find the Source of Sirenix, which can only be found if they "look within themselves". Upon realizing the riddle, Bloom summons her Guardian, who tells them the Source is in the same place where their quest began: Lake Roccaluce.
* GoldDigger: Countess Cassandra and Chimera try to marry into Stella's family to gain the influences and power of Solaria.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Before Nabu died, he smiled at Aisha while telling her that he would always be with her and that he loved her.]]
%%* GondorCallsForAid
* GoodColorsEvilColors: Fairies normally wear multiple bright and vibrant colors, while witches wear darker, more muted colors.
* GoodGuyBar: The Frutti Music Bar for the Winx Club.
* GratuitousEnglish: All the fairy transformations are based on English words, as is the word ''Winx'' itself (from "wings"). Then there's the main character Bloom and minor things like "Love & Pet" in season four.
* GratuitousPrincess: Most of the main characters are some kind of princess:
** Stella is the princess of Solaria. Aisha is the princess of Andros. Bloom is revealed to be the princess of Domino at the end of season 1. Roxy is revealed to be the crown princess of Tír na nÓg at the end of season 4.
** Musa is not a princess, but 4Kids incorrectly called her one, so when her ''not'' being a princess became important, her dad was stated to be a former prince. Flora is not a princess, despite her saying she is the princess of Linphea in ''Magical Adventure''. Tecna was originally a princess in the comics, but this was retconned later on. They all spend most of their time at school or on some adventure so their titles are rarely relevant.
** There is also princess Diaspro of Eraklyon, who is a major {{Jerkass}} and occasionally evil.
* GreenAesop: Season five.
** To a lesser extent, season seven.
** A mini arc in the second half of season four involving Diana, a powerful fairy who unleashes her wrath on humans for destroying nature, also qualifies.
* GreenThumb:
** Flora, the fairy of nature. She controls plants and many of her attacks involve wrapping her opponents with vines.
** Ninfea, the leader of the pixies at Pixie Village, uses nature powers in her fight against Icy.
** In the fourth season, there was also Diana and her warrior fairies.
* GuessWhoImMarrying: Stella's dad to Chimera's mom.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The Winx girls usually blast their opponents with magic while the Specialists have to fight with swords and other weapons.
* HalloweenEpisode: Once, in season two.
* HarmlessFreezing:
** For the most part, people frozen by Icy are merely immobilized and are only slightly cold when they get out.
** When Valtor froze Bloom, the Winx had to save Bloom quickly before she died, but otherwise she was fine afterwards.
** Icy can easily break herself out of being sealed into ice and sent to the Omega Dimension. {{Justified|Trope}} because [[AnIcePerson controlling ice and cold is her power]].
** {{Subverted}} with Valtor: he was frozen in the Omega Dimension for 17 years and seems no worse for the wear when he's freed. Keyword: ''seems'': it's repeatedly pointed out he's far weaker than before being sealed into ice, and needed the Sun of Solaria to bring himself back to full power (after losing it in the second-to-last episode of season 3, him going OneWingedAngel in the last episode has him ''weaker than in human form'' in the rest of the series).
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: The Light Haven is a re-education facility inside an inescapable PocketDimension where criminals are taught to live a peaceful life. It works wonders with "normal" delinquents, but woe to Trix style villains and other kind of darksider that these monks get their hands on! With these, they show their KnightTemplar side: turning them good is not enough, but they will try to reeducate every bit of darkness out of them, by any means. Cue CoolAndUnusualPunishment, GoodHurtsEvil-style[[note]]Lounging in bright and colorful {{arcadia}}-style meadow while an intercom encourages thinking happy thoughts[[/note]]. The Trix didn't burst into tears for no reason when they were told that they would be brought there ''again'' at the end of season 3.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Riven has ''two''. In season 1, he grows frustrated with the Winx and his fellow Specialists, and eventually abandons his group, starts dating Darcy, and feeds the Trix information about Bloom. But, after his BreakTheHaughty moment, he joins back up with the good guys and tries to make amends for his mistakes. In the first movie, he joins briefly with the villain due to being BrainwashedAndCrazy, but snaps out of it when Musa is injured by [[TheDragon Mandragora]].
** Knut, Trix's ogre, in Season 1. When the Trix took over the Magical Dimension, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he realizes]] that they are mad and are dangerous and decides to flee with Pepe to Red Fountain. He becomes Alfea's new janitor.
** All the witches (sans the Trix) after season 1.
** Morgana has this in season 4. [[spoiler: After Bloom defeats Nebula, she agrees to put her revenge against humanity to the side for Roxy's sake.]]
** Griffin. In Season 3, it is revealed that as a young witch, she had once teamed up with Valtor to work for the Ancestral Witches. By her own admission, she wasn't willing to cross the line to mass genocide and planetary destruction.
** At the Climax of Season 6, Selina realizes that she was wrong in following Acheron and helps the Winx seal him away in the Legendarium.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: Sky got a huge crush on Bloom upon meeting her and now is deeply in love with her. Diaspro too, though she's not exactly a "hero".
* [[SuperheroesWearTights Heroes Wear Tights]]: The Specialists are heroes in training and their Red Fountain uniform is a really tight body suit that outlines their body and muscle contours, with each of them having well developed V-Shapes (broad shoulders, slim waist) complete with [[SuperheroesWearCapes a cape]].
* HeroicBuild: The Specialists are heroes in training and when they are in their skin tight Red Fountain uniforms, they all look like very sculpted young men (Timmy after season 3).
* HeroicSacrifice:
** In the fourth season [[spoiler:Nabu, already proven by single-handedly defeating Duman, exhausts himself to close the dark abyss, and dies as a result.]]
** This is generally how Enchantix is earned in the third season. To earn it, the Winx have to rescue someone from their home worlds (or in Tecna's case, the whole universe), and it would require great risk for themselves. Bloom is the only exception to this, earning hers through pure force of will, thus resulting in it being incomplete. This lasts until she saves Domino at the end of the first movie.
* HeyYouHaymaker: In the final battle of season 1, Icy encased Bloom in an ice boulder and shattered it to the ground, laughing cruelly at supposedly killing her foe. Her laugh was cut off by Bloom's own giddy laugh when she suddenly appeared behind her, in which Bloom smacks Icy into the lake.
* HiveMind: The comic mentioned under Ungrateful Bastard below hints that the Trix are mentally connected in some way.
* HopeSpot:
** [[spoiler: Near the ending of S4 episode 24 Nabu manages to close the dark abyss that the Fairy Hunters had created to seal away the Earth fairies, but dies in the process. Bloom reminds Aisha that they still have the Black Gift, which can be used to bring Nabu back to life. However, as soon as Aisha takes out the Black Gift, Ogron steals it and wastes it on a dead flower.]]
** [[spoiler: In the Season 8 finale, Icy uses one of the Prime Stars to turn Sapphire human, but its power wasn't strong enough to break the curse, and she reverts back to fox form seconds later.]]
* HostageForMcGuffin: Twice. Bloom lets the witches take Stella's ring in S1 to save Stella, and the Winx let the season's BigBad take a magic box in S3 to save a guy who's interested in Aisha, [[spoiler:who later turns out to be Nabu.]])
* {{Hoverboard}}: The Specialists use these to fly around when they need to.
* HumanAliens: Almost everyone.
* HypnoticEyes: This is one of Darcy's powers.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Icy calls out on Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Aisha ganging up on her (after she had snuck-attacked Bloom seconds earlier). Never mind the fact that she, Darcy, and Stormy had ganged up on Bloom A LOT in the past when she was alone, one of those times Bloom wasn't even able to fight back. Tecna also calls Icy out on this, saying a convict like her has no right to gripe about fairness when she fights dirty anyway.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
** The climax of Season 2 has the fight against Dark Bloom, in which Sky tries to talk Bloom back to her senses just as Darkar is close to winning. For a moment it appears to fail, but just as Darkar is trying to absorb the power he was after, Bloom manages to use her healing powers on herself to return to normal and prevent Darkar from absorbing the Realix power.
** The fifth episode of Season 5 [[spoiler: has Nereus try to talk his mutated twin brother Tritannus out of trying to take over the ocean, telling him that he knows Tritannus' heart is still the same. Tritannus simply responds that yes, his heart is still exactly the same and then proceeds to turn Nereus into one of his monster slaves.]]
** Bloom tries this with Selina during their duel in season 6, telling her she believes Selina still has goodness inside her. It doesn't work, as Selina responds by ripping a piece of the Dragon Flame from Bloom.
* ISurrenderSuckers: [[spoiler: The Wizards of the Black Circle's surrender and regret of their past actions in the second half of S4 is revealed to be all a plot to ultimately cast a spell that could seal the Earth fairies forever. Nabu stops this but [[KilledOffForReal pays a high price.]] ]]
%%* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Through dub editing.
* IceQueen: Icy, taken to its literal extreme, both has powers over ice and is a very cold person. In the sixth season, [[spoiler:she literally becomes (for two episodes) the mythological Snow Queen thanks to the Legendarium, a magical artifact.]]
* ImportantHaircut: Inverted. In the third season, Musa gets an important hair growth.
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: All of the Winx (and most female characters) have really wide hips supported by narrow waists. Their hips get even wider from seasons 5 onward, when the show shifted to Flash animation.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: In the first movie, the Ancestral Witches blackmail Bloom by showing a supposed live feed image of Mike and Vanessa, unaware of Mandragora looming behind them ready for the kill. Bloom was at first horrified that her adoptive parents were unknowingly being held hostage, but then calms down when she noticed something off; Mike was seen petting Ron the cat without any problem. If that really was them, Mike would've had an allergy attack from being near Ron, thus exposing the bluff.
* InconsistentColoring: Used constantly with Stella, as her eyes constantly change their hue. Either they're bright gold, pale gold, or dark brown depending on the animation.
* InconsistentDub:
** The Cinélume English dub correctly referred to Bloom's home world as "Domino" for the first 3 seasons, but switches to "Sparks" for season 4 to match the 4Kids English dub, which had been calling it that from the beginning. In addition, the Dubbing Brothers USA dubs of the first two movies also use "Sparks". Since it was overseen by Iginio Straffi himself, the Nickelodeon English version fortunately ignores all this, and just calls it "Domino".
** In the first season of the Norwegian dub, the witch/fairy Mirta was called "Mista", but in season 2 they started referring to her as Mirta.
** This also happened in the Cinélume English dub in the episode where Mirta was introduced. It was fixed afterwards.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan:
** "''Mini Winx!''". Once the Winx gain their Enchantix, they are able to use their Miniaturization power except Bloom (whose Enchantix was incomplete since she gained it out of her will, not by saving someone) until season 4.
** The Winx’ Tynix Power allows them to shrink and explore the [=MiniWorlds=].
** Whenever the Winx use their Mythix power to enter the Legendarium World, they become smaller. This is shown when Bloom gets the Fantasy Emerald which is much bigger than her hand when there, yet when the Winx return to the real world the emerald is the same size of her hand.
%%* InsultBackfire
%%-->'''Mirta''': You're mean!\\
%%'''Icy''': Just mean? Try diabolical!
* InvisibleToAdults: When the fairies travel to Earth in one episode and take their pixies along, we learn that on Earth, only children and animals can see Pixies.
** This is inverted in later seasons, as when magic returned to Earth, magical beings like the pixies became visible to everyone regardless of age.
* IntroductoryOpeningCredits:
** The season 1 opening shows all the girls and their names, one by one, in a coloured background followed by a scene for each of them (oddly enough, the protagonist, Bloom, is the fourth Winx introduced out of five). This was removed from season 2 onwards.
** The alternative Nickelodeon opening theme also shows all the girls and their names in a coloured background for the first three seaons. This was removed from season 4 onwards.
* IronicFear: Early in season 2, Stella is shown to be afraid of heights, despite being a fairy. Later, she seems to overcome it.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The third Gift of Destiny, the Black Gift, which has the ability to resurrect the dead, can only be used once.
%%* KickTheDog: The Trix do this so many times it's not even funny. Considering that their crimes have bordered on attempted murder you have to wonder why they were never expelled until episode 16.
* KilledOffForReal:
** As far as villains go, Lord Darkar in season 2, Valtor in season 3, [[spoiler:Duman in season 4, and the Ancestral Witches in ''[[NonSerialMovie Magical Adventure]]'', though there is debate if the last is canon or not.]]
*** Promos of season 8 show that [[spoiler:Valtor]] is back and is going to antagonize the fairies again.
** [[spoiler:Nabu in season 4, where he pulled a HeroicSacrifice to stop the Wizards of the Black Circle. He shows up in ''[[TheMovie Magical Adventure]]'' for some reason even though it though it supposedly happens after season 4, but season 5 confirms that he's still dead.]]
* KingIncognito: Prince Sky and his squire were living each other's lives until the middle of Season 1.
* KissingDiscretionShot:
** The first "real" kiss between Bloom and Sky in the Season 2 finale.
** At the very end of Season 4, Episode 13, Bloom and Sky share a tender moment on the beach and lean in to kiss, but then Belle arrives and blocks their faces with a photobomb as the camera clicks.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: The other Earth Fairies kneel to Roxy in gratitude for freeing them.
* LastDayOfNormalcy: The first episode begins with Bloom having a normal morning in her hometown before discovering that she's a fairy and deciding to study magic at [[WizardingSchool Alfea]]. The opening scenes establish her dissatisfaction with her boring, average life in contrast to the magical adventures she'll later have.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: In season 3, viewers expected that Chimera being a fairy studying at Beta Academy would become important, and complained about [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot plot waste]] when it proved otherwise. During the same season, Aisha briefly mentions that some places still have [[ArrangedMarriage Arranged Marriages]], and later she discovers that she's been placed into one.
* [[LethalJokeCharacter Lethal Joke Characters]]: The Patchamen, Techno ninjas with no magic hired to kidnap Diaspro on Eraklyon.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Notably used repeatedly in the Sirenix quest arc of season 5 (to the point it became a subplot in and of itself), presumably to better divide the spotlight among the six main characters and keep two parallel storylines running concurrently.
* LetsYouAndHimFight:
** In episode 22 of the third season, Riven mistakenly believes that Nabu (at the time using the fake name Ophir) is trying to steal Musa from him due to a NotWhatItLooksLike situation, and when he arrives at the Red tower where the others are, everyone but Nabu has been knocked unconscious after a fight with the guardians of the Red tower, and Riven assumes that Nabu was responsible for that as well. Before Nabu gets a chance to explain what is going on, Riven attacks him and Nabu has to fight back. Luckily, the others regain consciousness, stop the fight, and clear up the misunderstanding.
** Also in the third season, Valtor creates illusions that make the various schoolmasters fight one another, to everyone's shock and confusion.
* LightEmUp: Cosmix, a new transformation that made its debut in season 8, allows the fairies to use light-based magic for attacking opponents and restoring light cores.
* LikeGoesWithLike: [[spoiler: Averted with Aisha's LoveTriangle in season 6. She ended up choosing Nex, who is light-skinned, instead of Roy, who is dark-skinned.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: Although everyone's single casual outfit did change some time in season two; [[UnlimitedWardrobe subverted]] in season four.
* LivingProp: The fairies of Alfea, especially in later seasons. They are used for classroom and big battle scenes, and not much else. Some of them, such as minor character Amaryl, are apparently still attending Alfea years after they should have graduated.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Bloom does not know about herself and her powers until the Trix mention it.
* LongRunner: The show started in 2004 and is currently in its eighth season.
* LoveAtFirstSight: In the very first episode it's clear that Bloom and Sky develop feelings for each other after their first meeting.
** Musa gets the same later when first meeting Riven.
* LoveConfession: Sky pulls one of these at the end of season two [[spoiler: [[IKnowYoureinTheresomewhereFight while fighting a brainwashed Bloom]] and trying to protect the [[StoryBreakerPower Ultimate Power]]]]
* LoveTriangle:
** Mitzi in Season 4 falls in love with Brandon and attempts to ruin his relationship with Stella, but her efforts ultimately prove useless.
** With Kiko of all characters. In season 4, he's the sign of affection for Aisha's Pixie pet, Milly the Rabbit, and Stella's Pixie pet, Ginger the poodle. More of a comical thing, though, as the two Pixie pets would fight each other for Kiko's attention.
** After [[spoiler: Nabu's death, Aisha is pursued by Roy and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Nex]]. Nex wins]].
** Subverted with Flora/Helia/Krystal in season 5. At first it seems like Krystal is coming onto Helia despite him being in a relationship with Flora, but later clears up the misunderstanding with Flora, claiming she only sees Helia as a friend and never intended to get between them.
** And, of course, there's the most obvious one: Bloom/Sky/Diaspro, which spanned multiple seasons.
* LukeIAmYourFather:
** [[spoiler:Roxy discovers that Morgana is her mother]].
** Sort of subverted in season 1, where Bloom finds out she is not related to the ancestral witches at all.
* LiveActionAdaptation: Series/FateTheWinxSaga, a ''very'' loose adaptation of the animated series.
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[[folder:Tropes M to R]]
* MageSpecies: All girls from the magic dimension are born with power over an element, and given the choice to be a fairy or a witch, and some (Mirta) can change their position. The exceptions are when their element can only be bad (darkness) or purely good (light, Dragon Fire). However, people usually choose their family's position. To be more specific, since Bloom has the Dragon Flame (the "flame of life"), she would automatically be a fairy; a fairy with power over mundane fire could become a witch.
* MageTower: The Cloud Tower school for witches is a tall tower. It can change its own structure, and the presence of dark magic in it makes Cloud Tower bad for fairies to stay in for a long time.
* MagicIsFeminine: Most of the magic users seen in the series are female. The most prominent male magic users are Nabu (the TokenWizard of the Specialists) Lord Darkar (the main villain of season 2) and Valtor (the main villain of season 3).
* MagicSkirt: All the girls who wear miniskirts (especially in their fairy forms). Despite the action, panties are usually not visible (with few aversions in the first season).
* MagicWand: The Mythix scepters.
** Lockette, Bloom's bonded pixie, uses one to navigate.
* MagicalGirl: Fairies and Witches are these. They get several sets of transformation sequences of course.
* MagicalLand: Most kingdoms/planets, though most of them have advanced technology.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Whenever Darkar sends his pet Kerbog to fight the Winx, expect this trope to happen.
* MaleGaze: The early transformations were full of these, perhaps climaxing with Enchantix. Then the show was retooled to appeal to a younger crowd, and the costumes understandably become much more conservative.
** In one episode, one scene cuts from a close up of a supporting character to a shot of Stella's rear as she is trying out a skirt.
* MaleSunFemaleMoon: Stella's parents currently provide the page image. Her father King Radius has a sun motif while her mother Queen Luna has a moon motif.
* MamaBear: Somewhat off-screen in Winx Club and crossing with PapaWolf is Marion (Bloom's Mom). After both she and her husband think both their daughters to be dead, they, according to one account, went completely berserk at the ones responsible; the Ancient Coven. Considering how high they are in among others', [[NeverMessWithGranny Faragonda's]] and even [[BigBad Valtor's]] regard, that says something about the power which was unleashed. Ouch...
* ManipulativeBastard: Darcy, and later Valtor.
* MeaningfulName:
** Stella means "star" in Italian, and she has sun and moon based powers (or could be a take on "stellar"). Flora means "flowering," and she has plant-based powers. Musa is Italian for "Muse," a Greek goddess of the arts, particularly music. Tecna has technology-based powers.
** Icy has ice based powers, Darcy has powers based on darkness, and Stormy has storm / weather and electric-based powers.
** Bloom's name is more of a pun, though, as her fairy heritage started to "bloom" once she met Stella and enrolled at Alfea.
** The fifth season has the subtitle "Beyond Believix". Fittingly, as it is the first to introduce new higher fairy forms after Believix.
* MechaMooks: Hagen has a guard made up of these in his castle. They're fairly tough, but go down when Bloom destroys their control unit.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Every season has the Winx receiving a new fairy form halfway through.
* MillionMookMarch: The Trix's Army of Darkness during Season 1.
* MindControl:
** Darcy has hypnotic powers that she uses frequently to control people.
** In the 4Kids dub, Riven is controlled by Darcy in season 1. He follows the Trix of his own accord in all other continuities.
** Bloom is controlled twice by Lord Darkar in season 2.
** Diaspro makes Sky fall in love with her in season 3 with a LovePotion.
** Riven gets brainwashed by Mandragora in ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]''.
** Nebula does this to Roxy in season 4.
** Stella is a victim of this in season 6, courtesy of Darcy's magic mirror.
* MindRape: Darcy does this to Riven when they imprison him in Cloud Tower once he outlived his usefulness. She had him think six dopplegangers appeared in his cell, seemingly taunting him, then they melt and merge to form a horrifying monster, scaring the crap out of Riven. He then noticed the monster was copying his actions, like a mirror reflection. This was basically forcing Riven to take a long HARD look at himself as the monster served as a reflection of his soul, considering his past actions against his real friends.
* MindScrew: The first part of season 3's episode 24 somewhat feels this way with the way the scenes keep switching between dream and reality, to the point where it's a bit difficult to tell which one is which until the Winx get to Cloud Tower.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Done to Riven by Darcy in season one where he was imprisoned in Cloud Tower. See Mind Rape above.
* MissingMom: Musa's mother passed away, [[spoiler:Roxy's mother is later revealed to be none other than Morgana.]] and, for the first three seasons, Bloom's birth mom, Marion.
* ModestyTowel: Helia is seen wrapped up in one during "[[Recap/WinxClubS3E21TheRedTower The Red Tower]]" in season 3. Perhaps it was a little {{Fanservice}}, since we hadn't seen him much in that season.
* TheMole: In season 2, [[spoiler:the new teacher Avalon is actually Darkar's spy in Alfea. The real Avalon is locked up in Darkar's dungeon. In the TV special "The Shadow Phoenix," Nickelodeon's summary/remake of season 2, Avalon ''is'' Darkar.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Any time an episode ends darkly, followed by the cheerful, happy credits music, but not before an "OnTheNext" sequence first.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Bloom thought she was Mike and Vanessa's daughter, but the truth is that Mike found her in a burning building. Bloom's actually the princess of a dead planet. Her older sister, Daphne, took her to Earth to save her from their planet's destruction.
* MouthScreen: Happens several times throughout the show, sometimes accompanied by the characters' uvula.
** Season 1: When the Trix are expelled, Icy lets out a frustrated yell, with the camera staring into her mouth. Icy also demonstrates this trope when noticing the pumpkin on Mirta's shirt, prior to turning her into one.
** Season 2: Happens the most often as part of the Charmix transformation. For whatever reason, Flora doesn't have one and Musa is the only one to show her uvula. Stranger still is that the 4Kids dub removed this part of the sequence altogether.
** Season 3: When Aisha yells "Enchantix" when Sky turns evil. Done twice in "Tecna's Sacrifice", first on Bloom yelling NO(along with an animation error where she's in Enchantix form before obtaining it herself), then on Musa screaming at the camera and showing her uvula before the camera zooms away from her.
** Season 4: Furious Stella yelling at the fairy pets about a secret party in her room.
** Magical Adventure: While reaching for food, a student accidentally picks up her bewitched frog friend, then screams as the camera focuses on her mouth.
* TheMovie: Three CGI movies. They were aired on TV in most countries, but did manage to get some theatrical releases in Europe.
* MythologyGag: In season 6, Bloom's flashback with [[spoiler: EvilFormerFriend Selina]] in a version of her Season 1 outfit, which hasn't appeared since earlier in season 2. In the Nick continuity, it's the first time that it's ever appeared.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Fairly early in season two, Stella used the phrase "the five of us" to refer to the group.... AFTER Aisha joined them. The next scene shows Aisha crying at a tree, so you can guess how well she took it.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Oritel in the 2nd movie. He banishes Sky from Domino for supposedly toying with Bloom's feelings and breaking off the engagement (for reasons known only between Sky, his dad, and Bloom), even forbids Bloom from ever seeing him again. Bloom angrily storms off, leaving her kingdom to stay at her Earth home as she can't stand being with Oritel for the time being. He again blames Sky for Bloom's abandonment, but then Marion shows him the confession letter of Sky's father that explained everything, which Sky tried to show him earlier but refused to look. Once Oritel finally read it, he realized that he screwed up BIG TIME. Not only did he condemn an innocent young man for something he didn't do, he also may have permanently damaged his relationship with his daughter he had so longed to see due to his irrational overprotectiveness. Now Oritel fears that Bloom may never want to speak to him again for what he's done. This could have be avoided if Oritel had simply read the letter...
* MythArc: Bloom's origins and the search for her parents is the overarching arc for the series in earlier seasons. In season 1 she learns she is the princess of the now dead planet Domino and has the mythical Dragon Flame, which is the source of her powers. It takes a backseat during season 2, where the she continues to study her past. It takes front stage during season 3, particularly in fighting Valtor, who fought her parents during the fall of Domino and may know something about their fate. In the first movie, ''The Secret of the Lost Kingdom'', she manages to revive Domino and reunite with her birth parents. The second movie, ''Magical Adventure'', deals with her getting to know her parents while finishing off the Ancestral Witches who destroyed Domino in the first place. Afterwards, the myth arc is done and is not part of the plot aside from a few references in seasons 4 and beyond.
* NeverSayDie:
** We have Flora trying to find a pulse on Prince Sky, [[spoiler: and Morgana promising to look after Nabu until he wakes up.]] The show is willing to use die and kill sparingly though.
** Averted in season 5 episode 15, as the script didn't shy away from outright saying "die". When Stella receives news that Solaria's sun is going out, she tearfully exclaims that her father could die as a result, using those exact words.
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: The comic book version has a story where the Winx girls travel to the future. The scientist who invented the TimeMachine discourages them from meeting their future selves because of this trope.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Happens twice to Bloom. In season one, she spontaneously develops psychic powers that lets her see a person's true nature, just in time for a subplot involving her mother almost being scammed by a couple of men. The power is subsequently only used once. Similarly, in season two, Bloom conveniently gains healing powers in time to resurrect Sky after the latter is killed by Icy. These powers remain a minor plot point throughout season two and are used a few more times in it. Her healing powers are also used several times during season 4, before seemingly being forgotten by the writers.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Locking the Trix in Light Rock Monastery for treatment to their remaining insanity ended up making them ''more'' crazy and evil out of the sheer trauma of the monks [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul trying to force all negative feelings out of them]].
** In ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'', [[spoiler:Bloom and Sky managed to accidentally free the spirits of the Three Ancestral Witches by destroying their prison dimension. This frees them up to seek out and possess (or team up) their descendants the Trix at the very end of the movie. This ends up being the SequelHook for the 2nd movie, rather than S4.]]
** [[spoiler:In season four, the girls manage to free the imprisoned Earth fairies... and Queen Morgana immediately declares war on mankind!]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Trix and the Ancestral Witches sealed off all magical ability in everyone in Magix. Near the end, Icy, [[spoiler: in her obsession with wanting to kill Bloom, is tricked into accidentally destroying the tree sapling that sealed off said magical abilities, thus the Winx regained their powers back again. Icy's ancestral counterpart was ''PISSED'']].
--> [[spoiler: Ancestral Witch: "YOU STUPID WITCH! Destroying the sapling releases all of the positive magic at once!"]]
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: According to the creators, Sirenix turns the Winx into "mermaid fairies."
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: According to an interview that appeared on an Italian magazine, each one of the Winx is partly based on a celebrity:
** Bloom is Music/BritneySpears
** Stella is Creator/CameronDiaz
** Flora is Music/JenniferLopez
** Musa is Creator/LucyLiu
** Tecna is Music/{{Pink}}
** Aisha is Music/{{Beyonce}}
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Bloom in season six. After her friends lose their powers, she splits her Dragon Flame among them -- which nearly kills her three episodes later, since she doesn't have enough to sustain herself.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Aisha during the season two premiere.
* NoSell: OnceASeason, the Winx discover their current fairy form is not strong enough to fight the season's ArcVillain, and Faragonda tells them of a new fairy form which is the only thing strong enough to match their power.
* NoLovesIntersect:
** Six couples, but virtually no jealousy? Only twice did that actually happen in the first few seasons; in the first season Riven/Bloom/Sky (never even gets mentioned and Riven was just being a jerk anyway), in the second season Bloom/Sky/Aisha (In the non-4K version, due to Sky helping out and complimenting Aisha during the rescue mission, which causes Bloom to be slightly antagonistic towards her, but Sky was just being a gentleman) and in the third Riven/Musa/Nabu (it was a NotWhatItLooksLike situation compounded by lousy camera angles anyway.)
** {{Subverted}} in Season 4, to the point where it's become a secondary storyline.
* NoManOfWomanBorn: The first movie. According to the prophecy of the Ancestral Witches, the Sword of Oritel cannot be removed by anyone but a "crownless king" and survive as well as restore Domino to its former glory. [[spoiler:Turns out Sky had already fulfilled those prerequisites back in the beginning of the film, where it was revealed he had just finished his coronation as the new King of Eraklyon]].
* NonSerialMovie: ''Magical Adventure'', in stark contrast to ''[[WhamEpisode The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]'', which ended the MythArc of Bloom's missing birth parents. It feels like an AlternateContinuity to season 4, but that just raises up even more questions, like where the girls got their Believix powers, or why Nabu's even here [[spoiler: as he's supposed to be [[KilledOffForReal dead]]]]. There's a ''reason'' many fans say that makes much more sense if you imagine the girls in their ''Enchantix'' outfits, as opposed to their ''Believix'' ones.
* NotAGame: In Paradise Bay, when the place is swarming with zombie pirates, Riven brags to Sky that he's killed more zombies than him. Sky gets angry at his laid-back attitude and tells him this trope verbatim, as they have to focus on protecting the locals.
* NotHimself: By way of dubbing with Stella, plus a few instances that were also there in the original.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Season 8 retcons the fact that Valtor had been killed when Bloom extinguished his fire with her fairy dust, allowing him to be the BigBad of season 8]].
* NotWearingTights: Inverted in the fourth season. The Winx do superhero things without superhero personas and no one takes them seriously. Tecna researches Earth Culture and decides they have to market themselves as superheroes to get people to believe in them.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: This happens in episode 21 of the third season after Aisha caught Nabu having snuck on the ship. While Flora was filming a message for Helia, Musa was putting shackles on Nabu. The camera angles made it look like Musa was kissing Nabu, and Riven saw the message and got the wrong idea. The misunderstanding was quickly cleared up in the next episode after a brief fight between Riven and Nabu, and seeing that Riven really cared about her, Musa decided not to break up with him.
* ObliviousAdoption: In most versions, Bloom is unaware of her fairy heritage after being sent to Earth as a baby and Mike and Vanessa adopted her, believing ''they'' were her parents. The 4Kids dub instead has Bloom already knowing she was adopted, but instead not knowing the ''how'' of it.
* OddballInTheSeries:
** Out of all the fairy forms, Charmix, Enchantix, and Bloomix were the only ones that were earned individually rather than as a group.
** Charmix is the only fairy form that is not an outfit change, and is instead just a pair of accessories.
** Mythix is the only transformation seen only in CGI.
** Season 4 is the only season in which the Trix don't appear.
** Enchantix is the only transformation not seen in the Flash animation style from the specials and Seasons 5-7.
* OddNameOut:
** Bloom is the only one of the Winx whose name does not end with an A, and until Aisha's introduction, the only Winx whose name isn't based on her power source.
** Darcy is the only one of the Trix with a common name.
** Likewise with the Winx's families; Stella and Flora are the only members of their respective families with regular names. In Bloom's biological family, only Daphne has a common name.
* OffModel:
** Not so often in the cartoon, though it was obvious when it happened, but in the earlier comics some of the panels are just plain [[http://winxcomics.livejournal.com/181529.html#cutid1 hideous]].
** For the original four seasons, the characters' mouths were matched to the Italian audio tracks, so the characters' mouths didn't always match what they're saying in foreign dubs. Averted since Season 5 now that their mouths are animated to match the English tracks.
* OffhandBackhand: In the second film during the fight against the doppelgängers, Bloom and Sky do this against fake doubles of themselves. Double points as Sky and Bloom were passionately kissing when they did that.
* OminousObsidianOoze: In ''Secret Of The Lost Kingdom,'' a black goo makes up the gate to a dimension in which the people of Domino are imprisoned. Said dimension is literally called Obsidian Circle.
* OneGenderRace: Fairies are implied to be this, as all fairies introduced within the universe are female. Somewhat subverted with the second movie, Magical Adventure, where what looks like male fairies can be seen in the background of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot. However, due to multiple plot discrepancies with the rest of the franchise, the status of Magical Adventure in the canon timeline has been disputed at length, and it remains uncertain whether it counts as part of the Winx canon universe or not (thus this trope still applies).
* OneSteveLimit: Musa's magic pet Pepe and Icy's pet duck Pepe, who went with the Trix to Light Rock but [[LongBusTrip hasn't been seen since season one]].
* OnlySaneMan: Timmy takes up this role in the middle of Season 3, as he's the only one of the group who did not believe Tecna was dead.
* OnlyOneFemaleMold: About the only physical differences between the females are in the hair styles, clothing and colors. It only got worse as the series went on -- come season five, it's clear they just reused the same CG model for each Winx girl. The Sirenix and Harmonix outfits themselves all look very similar to each other, much more so than in the past transformations, starting a tread that continued all the way up to season 8.
* OnlySixFaces: Several background personages come back in different roles you can't possibly combine without having actual doppelgangers running around.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Only the person who unlocked the Legendarium can re-lock it, in this case, Selina is the only one who can turn the Legendarium key and lock it for good.
* OnTheNext: Every episode ends with a teaser of the next episode's events (except the finale of the season).
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Darkar fits this trope to a T.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Ours are [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] with trendy outfits! They are from different planets all around the Magic Dimension. Though they're not always nice, they usually try to help people and protect the realms from evil. They also only have wings when they're transformed.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Andros' realm has a winged version of mermaids and tritons. They have powerful voices and the ability to fly. Some have also magical powers.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: Pixies serve as the titular Winx Club's companions. They are inhabitants of the magical dimension and are small winged creatures who have fairly large heads in comparison to their baby-like bodies. They are able to bond with fairies in order to help them in their quest to become fully successful.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In season 6, Selina summon the "Children of the Night", a group of mythical vampires from Earth. These creatures look exactly like humans, but they are much more pale skin, have sharp fangs and reddish brown eyes. They have super strength and speed and MindManipulation powers. They don't change into bats like the common myth and were not shown sucking any blood of their prey.
* OurWitchesAreDifferent: Witches are their own species and the EvilCounterpartRace to [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fairies]]. Both are all-female.
* OutOfFocus: Tecna ''easily'' gets the least focus and development, especially in later seasons. Sometimes it feels like she's a minor character rather than one of the main ones.
* OverlyLongGag: From season 3 episode 20:
-->'''Digit:''' Now I'm going to teach those three to have a little respect for little creatures like us!\\
'''Tune:''' Little you say? But you are much bigger than usual! You are [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment huge! Massive! Enormous! Gigantic! Immense! Humongous! Titanical! Colossal! Monumental! Totally disproportionate!]]\\
'''Digit:''' All right, Tune! I get the point!\\
'''Tune:''' Well, I was just trying to be precise, Digit!
* PaperTiger: The Specialists can be considered this. They are young men with [[HeroicBuild tall, athletic and muscular bodies]] and attend an elite paramilitary boarding school where they are trained to fight against the forces of evil. Having said that, their win ratio is actually abysmally low as they seem to do anything but win, and more often than not display mediocre athletic ability and combat performance when they are in action.
* PepTalkSong: Several of the transformation songs for each season talk about Believing In Yourself. Examples being the Charmix, Believix and Dreamix transformation songs.
* PetTheDog: Darcy, briefly in season one and occasionally in the comics. She is the only one of the Trix who show slight traces of a good side.
* PinkProductPloy:
** While Flora (whose signature color is pink) doesn't have as much screen time as Bloom or Stella, she is featured on almost all merchandise alongside those two.
** The Believix transformation added more pink to everybody's outfits, even though pink is Flora's color.
** The Enchantix redesign in Season 8 adds a lot of pink details to all the outfits.
* PowerCrystal: The Ultimate Power in season 7. The Stones of Memories also qualify.
* PowerDyesYourHair:
** The Enchantix transformation causes some of the Winx’s hair to either change its hue or gain lighter streaks.
** Happens when the girls transform into their Sirenix forms and dive underwater.
** Also happens to a lesser extent in the Winx's Tynix forms.
* PowerIncontinence: Bloom suffers this after earning her Enchantix, encountering side-effects where her spells sometimes turn on her or loses control, and she cannot miniaturize. According to Faragonda, because she did not earn her Enchantix through sacrifice but by pure force of will and belief to defeat evil, her Enchantix is rendered "incomplete".
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: In the first episode Bloom accidentally discovers and uses her magic powers. She doesn't transform for several more episodes.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Tecna, the only main character to still have short hair, has shoulder length hair in her Enchantix form. Happens to the other already long-haired girls too, as their hair tend to grow to thigh or ankle length in their fairy forms.
* ThePowerOfCreation: A standard magic power is to turn objects into something else, such as turning a rock into a goblet, or just creating objects from nothing. Living creatures can also be created, but that takes either a group effort or someone with a lot of power.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: While trapped in an energy-draining sphere by the Trix with no way out, Bloom realizes her love for her family and friends is her strength and channels it into enough willpower to free herself and defeat the witches.
* ThePowerOfHate: In Season 4, Episode 15, when Mitzi and her friends are turned into dark fairies by Ogron, their magic is amplified the more people start to hate fairies and fear the Winx. When the cityfolk start believing in the Winx again, the dark fairies lose their power.
* PragmaticAdaptation:
** Because 4Kids is one of those NeverSayDie companies, they didn't let Sky die when Icy attacks him at Red Fountain in the 4Kids dub.
** There's another change in a different episode, where the girls (except Flora) cut school and go to Earth. Aisha, Stella and Musa are stopped by a police officer and asked why they're not in school. In the original, Aisha gives the excuse that they have permission from their parents to be out of school and offers to give the cop the phone numbers, but the cop declines and lets them go. In 4Kids, Layla/Aisha speaks a foreign language, making the cop think they're not from Gardenia and so he lets them go. The 4Kids dub is more believable because, by law, the cop should've taken in all three girls and called their parents (not that he could call them, but you get it) since skipping school (aka truancy) is illegal. Of course, Italy's truancy laws may be different...
*** The Nickelodeon version changes this completely to have the Winx just go out for a night on the town, and they don't get caught sneaking out at all.
** In the original version, the Winx Club was formed in the second episode. In the 4Kids dub, the group didn't officially form until the fourth. The latter makes more sense because the girls have actually spent more time together and worked as a group whereas in the former, they're joining together when they've only known each other for one night. In fact, the comic version of this is actually closer to the 4Kids way, as the girls formed their group during a field exercise.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Bloom before she destroys Valtor in the Nickelodeon dub:
-->'''Bloom:''' Goodbye, Valtor.
* PreviouslyOn: Every episode begins with a recap of what happened in the last episode before the title card. In addition. All episodes end with a PreCap of the next episode before the credits roll.
* ProneToTears: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cry-cries]] from season 7. Pretty much anything can make them cry, specifically being called "ugly", having to say goodbye to another cry-cry, or seeing someone else cry.
* PutOnABus:
** Pepe, Icy's unwanted pet duck in S1, followed her to imprisonment in that season's finale and has never been seen again. The writers seem to have forgotten him, since Musa's pet in season four is named Pepe too. When Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} did their recaps, he was left out completely.
** In season 6, [[spoiler: Riven breaks up with Musa and leaves the Specialists. He comes back in season 8.]]
** Also in season 6, [[spoiler: Roy after Nex comes out on top in their love triangle.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: For the first half of Season 5, the Winx have to go on a quest to obtain the Sirenix transformation so they can defeat Tritannus. If they don't complete the quest within one lunar cycle, they'll lose their powers forever.
* RagsToRoyalty:
** Bloom [[spoiler:and Roxy]] are revealed to be princesses.
** Brandon will be a male example if he marries Stella, as will Timmy in the comic version if he marries Tecna, since she is a princess in that continuity.
** [[spoiler:Nebula, of all people, is a Cinderella, being crowned Queen by Morgana after abdicating the throne. Though she is only a regent for Roxy.]]
* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:Nabu receives one the episode after his death. It's complete with a sad song and other characters, even ''[[JerkAss Riven]]'', crying over his death.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Nebula tries to die with the Fairy Hunters after redeeming herself, but Bloom stops her]].
* RelationshipRevolvingDoor: Musa and Riven. There are ''rollercoasters'' with less dips and turns than the relationship between these two. It got so bad that Riven not only broke up with Musa, but was also PutOnABus -- only to reconcile and get back with her two seasons later.
* RelationshipSabotage:
** Diaspro is in love with and originally engaged to Prince Sky. However, Sky falls in love with Bloom and breaks up with Diaspro. Diaspro is still in love with Sky and tries to brainwash him with a love potion. When this fails, she turns to more conventional means such as not letting the two spend time together and feeding the two misinformation in an attempt to drive them apart. She's helped when Sky's father declares her his liaison, giving her some power over Sky.
** A subplot in season 4 involves Mitzi trying to get between Brandon and Stella, going so far as to stalk Stella and send pictures of her talking to other guys to Brandon. It doesn't last and is mostly played for laughs.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Since season 4, the theme song has been replaced every season. Before Nick aired the new seasons that they produced, they aired their recaps and seasons 3 and 4 with a new version of the season 4 theme.
* {{Retcon}}:
** In Season 1, Faragonda didn't know anything about Bloom and she passes of as "Veranda of Castillo" to get into Alfea. However, in the first Nick special that summarized Season 1, Faragonda knew who Bloom was from the start.
** When Bloom was captured by Darkar in Season 2, she learned the Avalon that was teaching at Alfea was one of his minions in disguise, and the real Avalon was captured with him. In "The Shadow Phoenix" special though, Avalon was Darker himself in disguise, and the real Avalon was nowhere to be seen at the castle.
** In season 3, we learned that Enchantix was the final fairy form. Then season 4 came around, and suddenly there are other transformation levels even higher than Enchantix, or alternate forms better suited for different environments, or forms needed to access certain magical worlds, or, well, ''anything'' to get the girls into slightly different sparkly dresses with wings [[MerchandiseDriven to sell new toys.]]
** In season 5, we learn [[spoiler:Daphne is cursed to be a spirit, despite ''everything and everyone else'' in the series before saying that she was dead]].
** In season 8, [[spoiler: Valtor wasn't really destroyed when Bloom extinguished his fire, in spite of it being described as ''[[NeverSayDie putting out his life force]]'', and Icy is apparently the princess of a realm called Dyamond and has a little sister named Sapphire, and isn't actually related to Darcy and Stormy, despite them having been confirmed to be [[SameSexTriplets triplets]] by the creator of the show long ago, and the Trix calling themselves sisters, and the Winx addressing them as sisters since the beginning of the series]].
* TheReveal:
** Season 1:
*** Sky and Brandon switched identities. Bloom's boyfriend is the actual prince, and he's engaged.
*** Bloom is the lost princess of Domino and its last remaining survivor, and the bearer of the Dragon's Flame.
*** The nymph Daphne is Bloom's older sister.
** Season 2: The Avalon teaching at Alfea is Darkar's spy. The real Avalon is locked up in Darkar's dungeon.[[note]] In the Nickelodeon special summarizing Season 2, Avalon was Darkar himself in disguise. [[/note]]
** Season 3:
*** Bloom didn't earn her Enchantix through sacrifice, but by pure force of will. As a result, her powers are incomplete.
*** Bloom's birth parents are alive, but trapped in a dimension somewhere far away.
** Season 4:
*** Roxy is the last fairy on Earth.
*** [[spoiler:Morgana is Roxy's mother, explaining why she didn't want Roxy to get hurt.]]
** Season 5: [[spoiler: Doubles as a {{Retcon}}. Daphne is what she is now due to the Ancestral Witches cursing her Sirenix powers.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:The Earth fairies were so caught up in revenge against the Wizards of the Black Circle and the people of Earth that they were about to freeze Earth over when one of their grievances was that humans had not taken care of Earth. Nebula in particular wanted vengeance even when Morgana and the other Earth fairies had given up on it.]] Thankfully, they were all convinced by the Winx to drop it.
** The Winx rashly decide to go fight Valtor after [[spoiler: [[DisneyDeath Tecna seemingly dies.]]]] [[CurbStompBattle It does]] ''[[CurbStompBattle not]]'' [[CurbStompBattle go well]].
* RichBitch: Mitzi and Diaspro both qualify big time. Even more so in Chimera and her mother Cassandra, whom are basically gold diggers.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The pixie pets, the Love & Pet pets in S4. Kiko, Bloom's cute rabbit, as well. Icy also had an adorable pet duck in Season 1, although she didn't seem to think so.
** See also: Pretty much all the creatures in every Mini-World in season 7.
** The Lumens in Season 8 are adorable, given their chibi appearances.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tecna grows suspicious of their new teacher Avalon over his lack of wings. Her investigation soon points him to be the evil Angel of Darkness, but most of the evidence was coincidental or false. So it seems Avalon is actually good, except that he was actually Lord Darkar's spy in Alfea, so Tecna was right that Avalon was evil.
* RightPlaceRightTimeWrongReason: Tressa in season 3. She felt she had been a coward running away from Valtor and his minions while letting her mom Queen Ligea be captured by them. The problem here is that everyone who actually ''fought'' Valtor became one of his minions, so it was only ''because'' of [[KnowWhenToFoldEm her cowardice]] that there's anyone left to even tell the Winx about this so they could mount this rescue mission.
* RingOfPower: Stella's ring, which turns into a scepter, provides light, and teleports people.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: In a story from the comics, the Trix go back in time to prevent the Winx from becoming a team. As items in present time appeared and vanished according to the changes in the past, everyone's memories stayed the same, allowing the Winx to figure out somebody's altering their past.
* RootingForTheEmpire: InUniverse Mitzi has no problem rooting for the Trix when they appear to foil the Winx, even ''after'' said witches nearly kill her own little sister.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Bloom (upon realizing her true origins), Stella, Aisha, and Sky. [[spoiler: Roxy in Season 4]].
** Nebula, upon being crowned Roxy's regent, converts the royal palace of Tir Nan Og into a school for fairies to guide young fairies on the right path and help them avoid falling into darkness like she did.
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[[folder:Tropes S to Z]]
* SailorEarth: The mechanics of the Realm of Magix let the fandom's imagination break loose with the creation of as many fairies and worlds as wanted.
* ScienceFantasy: The series focuses mostly on magic since the main characters are fairies with all sorts of magic powers such as [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[GreenThumb nature]], or [[LightEmUp light]]. Fairies, witches, and wizards dominate the series. The Magic Dimension is also shown to have advanced technology such as laser guns, inter-planetary spaceships, advanced holograms, inter-dimensional phones, and the like that don't seem to rely on magic at all. Tecna is the fairy of technology, showing that magic and technology can be used together.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** Valtor counts as [[HumanPopsicle "sealed evil in a block of ice"]]. The Coven was locked in an entire Dimension. In the comic, the Trix released a monster in a box to try and control it, but fail BIG TIME.
** Season Six's GreaterScopeVillain, Acheron, is a wizard trapped inside the Legendarium. [[spoiler: He's defeated when Bloom seals him inside a magic box during their fight inside the Legendarium, essentially meaning that he is now Sealed Evil In A Can Within Another Can. The Trix also end up being permanently trapped inside the Legendarium after Selina uses the key to lock it, until they are accidentally released near the end of season 7.]]
* SecondEpisodeMorning: Again, also through dub editing.
* SecondLove: [[spoiler: Nex for Aisha after Nabu dies.]]
* SecondPersonAttack: Bloom hits a crab-like creature after it attacks her rabbit, and Stella kicks the Hunting Troll in the face at Bloom's house. All in the first episode.
* SeeThruSpecs: In the first movie, ''The Secret of the Lost Kingdom'', Bloom's sister Daphne gives Bloom her mask, which allows Bloom to see her home planet Domino as it looked before the Ancestral Witches froze it.
* SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains: Actually inverted with the Winx Girls and the Trix, though in the first season, it was played straight with the girls' civilian clothes. Come the third season, a one-off power-up for the witches essentially gave them sparkling bikinis, while the power of the season for the Winx gave them frilly outfits, playing it straight for a change.
* SequelGoesForeign: Season 4 is much different than all other seasons as it shifts the primary location to Earth, particularly Bloom's hometown Gardenia, as the Winx have to get humans to believe in fairies (hence the Believix transformation).
* SeriesContinuityError:
** The worst example: Nabu. He [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to save the Earth Fairies]] in season four, episode 24. Two episodes later, he's at the Frutti Music Bar watching the Winx's last performance. Its most likely an art error.
** At the end of season four, the Winx are back in their Enchantix forms. It remains to be seen if that was an error, but in the very least, they're still Believix fairies in the beginning of season 5. Like with Nabu, it's probably an art error.
** Clarice, the troublemaker from episode one of season four, appears to be a first-year student who has never seen the Winx before. But she and her friends were in season three and ''Secret of the Lost Kingdom''.
** ''Magical Adventure'' might as well be considered a separate canon. At the beginning, Sky proposes to Bloom in Domino's palace garden. But he already proposed her at the ball at the end of ''The Secret of the Lost Kingdom''.
** The Nickelodeon TV movies summarized seasons one and two and created a few continuity errors because of time constraints.
*** Stella was originally "the fairy of the sun and moon" because of her parents, the sun king Radius and the moon queen Luna. But due to the fact she pretty much ''never'' used any Moon-related powers -- relying souly on sun and light-based ones instead -- Nickelodeon renamed her "the fairy of the shining sun." Yet, in season three, Countess Cassandra tells Chimera she would make "a better princess of the sun and moon" than Stella would.
*** In the original series, Professor Avalon was [[spoiler:impersonated by one of Darkar's minions]]. But in "The Shadow Phoenix," he was [[spoiler:[[CompositeCharacter Darkar]] in disguise]]. This broke continuity with season three, since [[spoiler:the real]] Avalon was teaching at Alfea.
** Despite graduating from Alfea in the first movie, the Winx return to being students there in the revived series (seasons 5 and beyond).
* SeriesFauxnale:
** The first movie, ''Secret of the Lost Kingdom'', was meant to be the series' grand finale as it tied up plot threads, involved saving Domino, Bloom's parents, Bloom earning a complete Enchantix and becoming a guardian fairy, and Sky becoming King of Eraklyon and proposing to Bloom. But since the series became a CashCowFranchise, it was renewed for a fourth season and continued on from there. It even helps that the movie ended on a {{cliffhanger}} that was resolved in the second movie, ''Magical Adventure''.
* SeriesGoal:
** The goal for the Winx is to defeat the ArcVillain of each season.
** Both Roxy and Bloom had majors goals to themselves[[note]]for Bloom; to find her birth parents Oritel and Marion, which lasted through the first three seasons and the first movie and for Roxy; to discover her own powers and belive in herself which lasted through season 4.[[/note]]
* ShapeShifting:
** Darcy can turn into other people.
** Wizgiz is a shape-shifting lephracaun who teaches a class on shape-shifting.
** Duman of the Wizards of the Black Circle can transform in various creatures, people, and even water.
** Kalshara can turn into various animals after absorbing Wild Magic.
* ShesAManInJapan: In the English version, the Sirenix Book has a female voice. In the Italian version, it has a male voice.
* ShesGotLegs: Almost the entire female cast is drawn with supermodel long legs.
* ShipperOnDeck: There's several examples. The most obvious would have to be Amore, the pixie of love.
* ShirtlessScene: Sky in Season 2, Episode 10, Helia after his shower in Season 3 Episode 21, Brandon/Sky go surfing in Season 4 Episode 9, Sky/Nex go surfing in Season 7 Episode 16.
* ShotForShotRemake: The four specials released by Nickelodeon, which retold Seasons 1 and 2 in a condensed format. Some scenes were altered, others were removed, while a few extra scenes were added as well.
* ShoutOut:
** Zing cosplays several movie characters, as well as say a familiar catchphrase. This includes:
--->William Wallace from ''Braveheart'' (Zing: "TO FREEDOM!")\\
Dr. Brown from ''Back to the Future'' (Zing: "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!")\\
Cooper from ''Predator'' (Zing: "I ain't got time to hurt!") The actual line from the movie was "I ain't got time to bleed."\\
Scorpion from ''Mortal Kombat'' (Zing: "GET OVER HERE!")\\
Wicked Witch of the West from ''The Wizard of Oz'' (Zing: "I'll get you, my pretty! And your little Piff, too!")
** The Halloween episode had several familiar characters people were dressed as, including:
--->Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''\\
Darth Vader from ''Franchise/StarWars'' (the guy even says to Mitzi "Everyone has a dark side.")\\
Spiderman from ''ComicBook/{{Spiderman}}''\\
Robin from ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin''\\
Doronjo from ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}''\\
There was even a little witch girl seen flying in the sky that greatly resembled Kiki from ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''.
** In the original version, season 1 episode 2, when the girls decide on a name for themselves, Stella had suggested the "Fantastic Five" (an obvious shout-out to Fantastic Four), before they all eventually went with the Winx Club name. In the 4Kids dub, she instead suggests using the first letters of their names in a [[FunWithAcronyms Acronym]], clearly referencing [[DuelingWorks Dueling Show]] WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}.
** The Patchamen (Wrong-Righters in 4Kids...) are a direct shout-out to the anime Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman, even down to the feather mantles and bird beak visors. Their names are also parodies of the Gatchamen
---> Ken/Ben\\
Joe/Bo\\
Jun/Dunko\\
Jinpei/Jinpee\\
Ryu/Kiu
** Also, when Kiu forms himself is a reference to Anime/KotetsuJeeg trasforming sequence.
** An early episode has the Trix wandering the underground tunnels that used to link the three schools together... and their maps uses [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the friggin' Triforce]] as a symbol for one of them. [[FreezeFrameBonus Blink and you'll miss it.]]
** In one episode of season 3, Bloom and Stella try on new outfits by jumping on platforms that project the clothes onto them, just like the ones used by Minmay and Hikaru in ''[[Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove Macross: Do You Remember Love?]]''.
** In the same episode, one of the outfits Bloom tries on is very likely a reference to Jem from ''[[Westernanimation/JemandtheHolograms Jem and the Holograms]]''.
** In the earlier seasons, there is a recurring Specialist with gloves that have red blades coming out of them; his name is supposedly [[{{Wolverine}} W]].
** In Season 7, Griselda puts on a fedora and moonwalks.
* ShownTheirWork:
** The "Angel of Doom" is loosely taken from Literature/TheBible warning that Satan can disguise himself as "an angel of light" (in other words, things that seem nice but lead to a greater evil...)
** Tir-Nan-Og is actually from Irish folklore.
* ShutUpHannibal: Bloom in the season 3 finale. She fights Valtor within his soul, where the wizard trolls her again, then tries to tempt Bloom into focusing on fighting the Ancestral Witches and once they do, the universe could be theirs. Bloom basically tells him that he can just shove his deal up his ass before finally killing him off for good.
* SickeninglySweet: The prison of Lightrock tries to reforms the inmates by [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul overexposing them to cuteness.]] The only thing that can actually terrify the Trix is being brought back there...
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Every time someone performs a song, their singing voice is not their actual talking voice. This is because the song is prerecorded by someone else.
* SingleBiomePlanet:
** Andros is a water planet with a few scattered islands spread out. This works out well for the mermaid population that lives there.
** The Omega Dimension is an ice planet where criminals are sent. Just about the entire planet is frozen, so anyone stuck on it has to rely on magic or scattered gadgets to survive. {{Justified|Trope}} because there's a snake monster in charge of keeping the place frozen.
* SixthRanger:
** Aisha/Layla in season 2.
** Roxy in season 4. While still officially a member of the group per WordOfGod, she is DemotedToExtra in later seasons, at most serving as MissionControl.
* SlaveMooks:
** The Army of Darkness are summoned by the Trix and only obey them.
** Valtor's minions in season 3 are brainwashed mermaids and witches.
* SoLastSeason:
** Season two had [[MidSeasonUpgrade Charmix]], which was an upgrade to their first transformation.
** Season three focuses on the Enchantix transformation, the first time the Winx had a huge costume change.
** Season 4 has Believix when Enchantix proves ineffectual against the Wizards of the Black Circle. Believix itself had two temporary upgrades in the form of Sophix to fight Diana, and Lovix to fight Nebula and Aurora. Those two transformations end up being one-time uses, and even though the Winx appear to return to Enchantix at the end of season 4, they are still using Believix at the start of season 5.
** Season 5 features Harmonix and Sirenix, which are needed to fight effectively underwater.
** Season 6 shows Bloomix and Mythix, the latter needed to enter the Legendarium.
** Season 7 has Butterflix and Tynix, the latter used to enter the Mini-Worlds.
** Season 8 has Cosmix, which is needed to fight the Staryummies and save the space worlds.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal:
** Roxy, who is the Fairy of Animals, can understand all animal languages and communicate with them.
** The Tynix bracelets allow the Winx to talk to animals.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: In the Season 6 finale, Eldora asks this during Daphne and Thoren's wedding. No one says a word, agreeing that they're a true couple, and the ceremony goes on without a hitch.
* SpoilerOpening: The Atlas dub for S3 shows clips of the Winx exclusively in their Enchantix, from the final six episodes of the season. It also features a clip of the Trix in their Disenchantix, which they don't recieve until Episode 24.
* StationaryWings: Averted in the show. The fairies' wings flutter like a hummingbird's wings do. And yes, it can be distracting.
** Played straight, however, in the CG movies, where the girls' wings occasionally flap (not flutter), but it's only for visual appeal and clearly has nothing to do with their ability to fly.
* {{Stripperiffic}}:
** Some of the girls' outfits fall under this, especially the Enchantix costumes. Oddly, season four's Believix costumes cover more, but some of the girls' casual clothes are quite risqué. And then, in the second half of the same season, the Sophix transformation gives them more revealing outfits once again. Just look at [[http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/13100000/Winx-Sophix-the-winx-club-13123429-512-384.jpg Flora]]. Her top looks like a couple of leaves sewn together, ''and'' it's backless! And the only thing holding down Aisha's [[MagicSkirt miniskirt]] is magic. Averted with Musa, whose Sophix covers more than any of their other outfits (with her Enchantix being the most revealing).
** Most noticeable with Tecna, since she started with a bodysuit that covered everything, and her costumes have gotten skimpier ever since. They have also gotten less technological looking, which is odd since her element is supposed to be technology. The Sophix even has flowers on it! This might be a hint towards the fact that she has gotten in touch with her emotions and depends far less on technology as time progresses.
** Stella's first "everyday" outfit (Season One and at least half of Season Two) was [[UpToEleven worse.]] Her skirt was just barely long enough to cover her crotch, and her shirt looked like a bikini top with a collar, albeit one that had torn and needed to be tied together to keep her breasts from showing (since there was really no way she was hiding a bra underneath it). And this was something she wore at some point in almost every episode too. It's a miracle that outfit, even by Italian standards, didn't get the show cancelled then and there. An even bigger wonder is that 4Kids ''did not digitally censor it.'' Apparently, the artists eventually realized this because every main outfit for Stella afterwards up until season six was a mini-dress. In season six, her main outfit is a skirt, seemingly only to fit in with the "school uniform" style.
** For the Trix, the "Disenchantix" form in Season 3. They wears swimsuit-like outfits with some sort of color trims, boots, semi-transparent shawls wrapped around their hips with bands around their left mid-thighs.
** Later seasons tone this down, as the characters wear more modest clothing.
* StatusBuff: Seems to be advanced magic, [[spoiler: used by Faragonda and Griffin in the season 2 finale.]]
* StatusQuoIsGod: Ever since the show was relaunched for Season 5, the Winx will always be perpetually 16 and attending Alfea, despite having graduating in the first film and being adults in the fourth season.
* StoryArc: Every season has a long story that the Winx face:
** Season 1: Bloom's realization she's a fairy and the Winx try to defeat the Trix.
** Season 2: Aisha's induction into the Winx and the quest to defeat Darkar.
** Season 3: The Winx go on a mission to defeat Valtor, as well as Bloom learning more about her birth family.
** Season 4: The Winx go to earth and meet Roxy, the last fairy on earth, to help them defeat the Wizards of the Black Circle.
** Season 5: The Winx travel underwater to defeat Tritannus, and break the curse of Sirenix on Daphne.
** Season 6: The Winx go on a quest to lock the Legendarium.
** Season 7: The Winx meet the fairy animals and go on a mission to defeat Kalshara.
** Season 8: The Winx embark on a mission to save the stars, whose lights [[NotQuiteDead Valtor]] is stealing to make himself more powerful.
* StuckOnASkiLift: This happens to the Winx and the Specialists in a season 2 episode.
* StylishProtectionGear: Aurora's outfit.
* SubvertedSuspicionAesop: In season 2, Tecna suspects the new teacher Professor Avalon of not being so benevolent. She investigates him and determines that he is the evil Angel of Darkness, but it turns out most of the clues were just coincidences, and Tecna accepts that he's not evil. At the end of the season however, it's revealed that he is not the real Avalon, but instead Lord Darkar's spy inside Alfea.
* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Stella uses her fashion knowledge / a minor detail from a field trip to solve a puzzle.
* SuggestiveCollision: It is revealed in the comic version that this was how Timmy met Tecna. During the first ball, Timmy was searching the ground trying to find one of his electronics, and since he wasn't watching where he was going, [[CrashIntoHello his face smooshes into Tecna's butt]].
* SummonMagic: In season 6, Selina (one of the main villains) has the Legendarium, a magical book. His keeper can summon any number of wild creatures from the book just by reading it out loud. The book itself is a dimension where fictional characters are real, which means, it is a magical link between the imaginary world and the real world. When the Legendarium World is accessed, the legends become real.
* SwordBeam: Shot by Domino swords.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The Winx's transformation was offscreen in Season 4, Episode 6, only getting aside comments by Ogron.
* TakeThat: In the 3rd movie, when Musa instructs the other girls to make as much noise as they could in the reef cave.
-->'''Musa:''' You call that noise!? There's more noise in a concert by Justin Bie-
-->'''Stella:''' Hey! I like Justin!
* TakenForGranite:
** There's a subversion in the season 3 finale: Valtor has captured four of the Specialists, and the Winx go to rescue them. Musa finds that Valtor had apparently turned Riven to stone, and uses her fairy dust to free him, but it turns out to be a trap. The real Riven was locked up in a prison cell with the other three captured Specialists.
** Although it was played straight in the movie, [[spoiler: it's what happened to Bloom's father and most of the population of Domino.]]
** Flora is turned into a statue while saving Stella from a Basilisk-esque mutated jellyfish in season 5.
** Happens to Roy and Nex in season 6 as they try to protect Aisha from flying basilisks on Linphea.
* TamerAndChaster: The newer seasons tone down the Winx's everyday wardrobe and fairy forms, making them less revealing and covering their cleavages and midriffs to make them more age-appropriate for a younger audience. This is most noticeable with Enchantix's Season 8 redesign.
* TeamPet: Kiko for the Winx. In season 1, the Trix had Pepe the duck, but he disappeared after season 2.
* TechnicolorDeath: Valtor/Baltor. When Bloom extinguishes his flame from within, rays of light shine from him and he explodes in a flash of light.
* TerribleTrio: The Trix during season 3, where they were less competent than before.
* TitlePlease: In the 4Kids dub, the episode titles don't appear onscreen.
* ThatPoorPlant: When Bloom practices using her healing powers, she experiments on some plants. Because she was using a book that the Avalon clone had left in the library as a trap, one of the plants was turned into a monster. Before that, upon Bloom's first arrival to Alfea, she accidentally stepped on a living plant's roots, causing it to howl in pain. It continues when Flora accidentally knocked said plant down with her hips, then finally Kiko's attempt to try to eat it with disastrous results on the bunny's part. Also, this trope is inverted in season 4, when [[spoiler: Ogron uses the last gift of destiny on a dead flower to prevent the Winx girls from using it to revive Nabu.]]
* TheBusCameBack: In season 8, Riven rejoins the main characters after previously having been written out of the show near the end of season 6. In general, season 8 plays this trope to the extreme, being an anniversary season:
** Sirenix and the fan-favorite Enchantix transformations make a return, with the former getting an upgrade and the latter getting a [[{{Bowdlerize}} less revealing]] redesign.
** Valtor returns after the Winx supposedly vanquished him in season 3.
** The ogre Knut makes his first reappearance since season 3.
** Galatea, the princess of Musa's home planet Melody, makes her first reappearance since season 3.
** Diaspro, who was last seen briefly in two episodes at the beginning of season 6, comes back to stir up trouble for Bloom and Sky (again).
* ThemeTuneRollCall: Each Winx gets their own title card in the original opening to Season 1 and the Nick Specials.
* ThisCannotBe: Lord Darkar screams this at the end of the second season when the Winx defeat him with a convergence attack with their Charmix.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: During her virtual reality exam in the tenth episode of the first season, when Bloom thinks the Trix killed Kiko and she failed to save him, she flies into a fiery rage and unleashes the full force of the Dragon Fire power on them. Fortunately, it turned out that Kiko survived after all.
* TokenMinorityCouple: Aisha and Nabu.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Aisha and Stella.
* TooDumbToLive: Quite a few examples. A special mention goes to the Trix, who sometimes are too StupidEvil to live in the comics. See Ungrateful Bastard below.
* TragicKeepsake: Aisha briefly treats the white lily brought back to life using the Black Gift she meant to resurrect Nabu with as this.
* {{Trainstopping}}: Unusual example in that a villain, Gantlos, does this to save Ogron from being run over. His shockwave stops the train from full speed.
* TraintopBattle: In S4 episode 13, Aisha, Nabu and Sky fight Ogron on top of a moving train. It quickly becomes just a fight between Ogron and Sky when Nabu is knocked off the train and Aisha had to catch him before he hit the ground.
* {{Transflormation}}:
** Halfway through the first season, Mirta is changed into a pumpkin by Icy, and Flora spends the rest of the season trying to figure out how to change her back.
** Miss Faragonda is turned into a tree at one point, but she gets better.
* TransformationDiscretionShot:
** The Winx's Enchantix TransformationSequence is completely obscured in Season 4, Episode 6, but was given a few insulting comments by Ogron.
** When Mitzi and her friends are turned into dark fairies by Ogron in Season 4, Episode 15, all we see is a shot of the manhole above as the energy shines outward from the cap. It occurs again when they revert to human form in the end.
** In the Season 5 episode "The Gem of Empathy", when Stella gets her hands on a pin with an age changer spell in it which [[FountainOfYouth turns her into a three-year old toddler]], the camera is offscreen when she ages down.
** In Season 7, Kalshara's shapeshifting is triggered by a dramatic zoom-in on her eye, as her pupil changes its shape to the form she's going to take on, before the camera fades up on her already changed to that form.
* TransformationNameAnnouncement: As the Winx transform, they announce their names and fairy types (from the Nick dub onwards):
** "Bloom, Fairy of the Dragon Flame!"
** "Stella, Fairy of the Shining Sun!"
** "Flora, Fairy of Nature!"
** "Musa, Fairy of Music!"
** "Tecna, Fairy of Technology!"
** "Aisha, Fairy of Waves!"
** "Roxy, Fairy of Animals!"
* A few extras:
** "Diaspro Princess!"
** "Daphne, Nymph of Sirenix!"
* TransformationSequence:
** All of the Winx's transformations have unique sequences when they transform.
** Although witches don't need to transform in order to unlock more powers, the Trix are shown to change their outfits via transformation before going into battle in the comics, but in a more practical and less flashy way than the fairies. In the cartoon, they probably just transform offscreen.
* TransformationTrinket: Mostly averted, as the Winx only need to shout out "Magic Winx, (transformation name)!" to transform, but two notable exceptions are Mythix, which requires the use of Mythix wands to activate, and Tynix, which require magic bracelets.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: In season four, the bad guys actually [[LampshadeHanging stand around and discuss]] the "show and dance" while the girls transform.
* TransparentHair: Definitely, since this is Animesque. This is more obvious in the Nick specials and the fifth season onward, though the first four seasons forget to show this.
* {{Troll}}: Valtor never hesitates to taunt Bloom at every opportunity, added with the fact he caused pain and suffering to the people she cares about, all to break her down so she'd be easy for him to kill and take her powers.
* TutuFancy: The Butterflix dresses.
* UnexplainedRecovery: For some unknown reason, [[spoiler:Nabu is up and walking about in the second movie after having ''died'' in the fourth season. It's likely due to the movie having been in production before season four actually aired. By the time the creators decided to create Nabu's death, they'd already placed him in ''Magical Adventure''. In season 5 he is still dead.]]
* UngratefulBastard:
** Comic version, more like ungrateful bitches. The Trix tried to use a drug they developed on themselves to pass an exam, which had nearly fatal results. The Winx were forced to save them, as it is not in their nature to just let them die from their own stupidity. Of course, the Trix were ungrateful for it, only seeing it as a major blow to their pride at being saved by Fairies. The other witch students, on the other hand, who were originally angry at the Winx for making Griffin aware of the drug they've been using to pass exams before and were forced to take them again, were grateful that the Winx did tell their headmistress after seeing what almost happened to the Trix and that they had dodged a bullet.
** Happened ONCE AGAIN when the Trix steal a supposedly bad luck-cursed necklace in order to extract the power to use for themselves. It didn't turn out so well, resulting in the isolated cabin they were working in to get set ablaze and emit a smoke that messed up their central nervous systems to the point Icy couldn't put it out herself. Bloom, Stella, and Roxy had to literally pull their fat out of the fire before they could burn to death. As usual, the Trix were angry at having being saved by the Winx of all people.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: During the fourth season, the Winx seems to have an outfit for every occasion. Even their Believix form had several custom versions for anything from flying quicker to teleporting to viewing the past... you get the idea. Not to mention Sophix and Lovix, which were forms designed for literally one story arc only each.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Season four--few people in Gardenia found plushie-sized zoo animals with big eyes and glittering wings strange... or that the animals could be ''downloaded to your house!'' The Winx were trying to help humans adjust to everyday magic, but it happened too quickly to be believable.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: Happened to Tecna in the fifth episode of season 5 after opening a cursed book that her search program (which had been sabotaged by the Trix) identified as the Sirenix book. Luckily, the other Winx were able to find a way to break the spell and return her to normal.
* UpToEleven: The Believix was itself a "beyond final" fairy evolution, Enchantix being the true final form. Not only did the Winx accomplish that but they later turned it up even higher with super forms of Believix: Sophix and Lovix.
** Harmonix and Sirenix are likely this as well. Sirenix is mentioned to be a level of Fairy that most do not acquire (the last known fairy to have it being Daphne) and Harmonix is granted in the process of obtaining Sirenix. The main difference between these and the previous "Final" forms is that they can be used both on land and in water, which previous fairy forms were not capable of; the girls are also more powerful than in their prior Believix forms going from not being able to handle the Trix (who have their own power up from Tritanus as well) to sending them running.
* UptownGirl: Stella is the princess of Solaria while Brandon is a squire. Brandon fell into the trope during the royal part where Princess Stella was to be introduced into society. He was afraid his gift to her had no chance against the ones she'd get from nobles.
** A gender flipped version of the trope took place when Bloom learned her boyfriend "Brandon" wasn't Prince Sky's squire but the real Prince Sky all the time. It probably didn't help that she learned this during the same occasion she learned he was [[ArrangedMarriage engaged]] to Princess Diaspro and that Bloom didn't know back then she's also a Princess.
* UselessBoyfriend:
** ZigZagged with the Red Fountain Specialists. It's not uncommon to see them easily get beaten by the main villains or monsters even though they go to a military academy. However, they usually can hold their own against Mooks or even main villains occasionally. They are also useful when it comes to flying the ships.
** Averted in the first movie when a powered Mandragora almost kills Bloom near the end, [[spoiler: until she gets taken by surprise by Sky who [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath runs her through the back with Oritel's sword,]] stopping her and giving Bloom a chance to finish her off for good. Mandragora made the mistake of thinking him dead for removing the sword since only a "crownless king" could remove it, but it turned out Sky had already fulfilled those prerequisites]].
** Averted again in the second movie where the girls and everyone else on Magix [[BroughtDownToNormal lose their powers]] thanks to the Trix and Ancestral Witches. The Specialists had to help train the Winx in how to properly defend themselves while powerless. While Aisha adapted easily, the others didn't. Stella in particular had proven to be pretty helpless without her magic as she couldn't even climb up a mast a single foot.
** Completely averted as of season 6 as they now acquire upgraded elemental weaponry capable of dishing out magical attacks. They also had to come to the girls' rescue when they, sans Bloom, had been BroughtDownToNormal, while miles up in the sky.
* UnexplainedRecovery: The Trix didn't take it lightly when Darkar turned against them and they fought on the Winx's side during the final battle of season 2. But when the portal to the Realix dimension closed, they just left the Trix behind! AFateWorseThanDeath? They showed up again at the beginning of season 3, but how they got out remains a mystery.
* VanillaEdition: The releases of the movies in America have been this. [[UpToEleven The only option on the dvd menus]] is to play the movies.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey:
** In Season 1, the Trix are serious villains, but their ogre Knut is a more comical villain [[spoiler: who eventually undergoes a HeelFaceTurn.]]
** In Season 2, the Trix are DemotedToDragon and the status sticks, but they aren't laughable until Season 3, when they repeatedly lose battles immediately upon engaging the Winx and have some minor infighting.
** In Season 7, Brafilius is a comical, bumbling villain who acts as a lackey for his more serious sister, Kalshara. [[spoiler:He eventually ends up having this dynamic with the Trix, who are once again serious.]]
** In Season 8, Valtor is the serious, threatening villain, while his lackey, Obscurum, is the comic relief lackey who often cracks jokes (to Valtor's annoyance), and even randomly breaks into dance. [[spoiler: He's eventually revealed to be the corrupted form of Argan, a kindly ruler of Lumenia, and [[HeelFaceTurn leaves Valtor]].]]
* VillainousBreakdown: Icy in the Season 1 finale, Lord Darkar in the Season 2 finale, and Valtor in both the penultimate episode and finale of Season 3.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Stella shows a complete inversion of this. Being a Solarian, her WeaksauceWeakness is darkness. No, not [[CastingAShadow Dark Magic]]. The ''absence of light'' slowly kills her. Artifical light may help her temporarily, but she needs sunlight to strengthen (this is the reason her dorm at Alfea gets the most sunlight).
* WeCanRuleTogether:
** Valtor gives this to Bloom in the finale of Season 3, attempting to target the Ancestral Witches who betrayed him. Naturally, she refuses.
** Morgana gives this to the Winx midway through Season 4, asking them to become Warrior Fairies and become part of her alliance against the Wizards of the Black Circle and all of Earth. The Winx refuse and keep shut, because revenge is not the answer, leading Morgana to declare them enemies.
* WhamEpisode: [[WhamEpisode/WinxClub Has its own page.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Stella is the fairy of the Sun and the Moon, but all her powers focus on the sun (except a few in the fourth season, but these focus more on stars). Nickelodeon seems to have tried to amend this by calling Stella the fairy of the shining sun.
** Sky had a dog but, aside from a brief flashback in season 2, it has never been seen again after season 1.
** And where did Hagen go after the ''[[TheMovie The Secret of the Lost Kingdom]]''? The way he and Faragonda acted indicated that she wouldn't let him go into isolation again, but he never even gets mentioned after the Movie.
** As of Season 5, the Pixie Pets aren't seen or even mentioned anymore, though this was bound to happen given that their impact on the plot during season 4 was nonexistent, and they weren't particularly popular even with the target audience.
** The pixies weren't seen or mentioned even once in season five. They returned in season six, but Digit and Tune were replaced with Cherie and Caramel with no explanation provided.
** The Witches. The first season heavily implied witches were the evil counterpart towards the fairies. Towards the end of the season, the witches turn out be...not exactly evil...with no explanation as to exactly what sets them apart from fairies anyway. In general, the witches except the Trix slowly got phased out of the show.
* WhatTheHellHero: In the sixth episode of the first season, the girls go to Cloud Tower to retrieve Stella's ring. Rather than get the heck out of there, Bloom decides it's a good idea to go snooping around the library to find out about her past, despite Tecna warning her multiple times it's dangerous. Turns out she should've listened, as not only does the group get caught, they nearly get ''killed''. Granted, that was Stella's doing (she mistakenly set the room on fire), but still.
* WhenTreesAttack: Season 6 has the Treant, ancient, human knights who shape-shifted into huge trees. Selina awakens these beings against Linphea. They kept Linphea's fairies and warriors hostage during the Winx's fight against the witches. Late Flora, with her new Bloomix powers, stabilizes them by planting their roots back into the soil.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Gardenia. It's implied it's not in Italy, though. Most likely in North America since during the Domino destruction flashback when Daphne was escaping the Coven with a baby Bloom, she goes to Earth, which zooms in on said coninent. Season 4 further implies the city is in California by zooming in to it near the beginning of the season.
* WickedStepmother: Cassandra fits the wicked part to a T. Fortunately her true colors were revealed before she married Stella's father. Played straight in the comic adaptation when the girls are involved in a VERY Cinderella-ish scenario with a girl, Milly, and her wicked adopted aunt and her two daughters.
* WingedHumanoid: Aside from the wings, the fairies look no different than humans.
* WingedUnicorn: Peg, Bloom's horse in [[TheMovie Magical Adventure]], turns into one when he eats some leaves from the new Tree of Life.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** Dark magic does this to those who can't handle it. Bloom got a taste of it when she was infected with the shadow virus. Witch schools like Cloud Tower exist mainly to prevent this.
** Per WordOfGod, the Trix suffer from this ''all the time''. Depending on how much dark energy they have build up, their mental state slides from HarmlessVillain to OmnicidalManiac. This is more visible in the comics, where they are rather weak, more of an annoyance than a real threat and sometimes even mean but otherwise normal girls. Well, most of the time. Also visible in the first season: upon stealing the Dragon's Flame they became ''immediately'' much worse.
* AWizardDidIt:
** In-universe example in S4 episode 5:
-->'''Some car mechanic''': This isn't that car, unless you magically transformed it!\\
'''Nabu''': Precisely.
** For the entire universe, the situation is "A dragon did it."
* WizardingSchool: Alfea School for Fairies and Cloud Tower School for Witches (the most literal wizarding school). Third season character Chimera attended another magic school called Beta Academy, but whether it's for witches or fairies isn't clear.
* WorldOfActionGirls: Every female character who can do magic are really powerful and can take on anything, though there are also plenty of males who are also strong and capable with and without magic, although that tends to vary on the plot.
* WorldOfMuscleMen: Most of the adolescent and adult male cast have muscular physiques. The Specialists (Timmy later in Season 4 and onwards) when introduced are only 16 years old, but already have very well developed muscles. Even Professor Palladium develops a more muscular build later on to the point he was almost seen as unrecognizable when the girls saw him like that for the first time.
* WorthyOpponent: Faragonda and Griffin, at least in the first season. They saw no problem in getting their students involved in their rivalry. Faragonda taught her fairies that [[DarkIsEvil witches are generally evil]] and how to fight them while Griffin went one step further and regulary sent her school's worst bullies (the Trix) over to cause trouble. It wasn't until the Trix went over the edge and unleashed an army of demons upon the world that they finally made peace with each other.
* WouldHitAGirl:
** The Specialists are smart enough to not recognize genders in a fight as they showed no hesitation in attacking the Trix, especially when their girlfriends are being threatened.
** Played straight HARD by Riven in the 1st movie when [[spoiler: he punches Mandragora in the face for mind-controlling him and causing him to accidentally stab Musa]].
** Played straight AGAIN by Sky in the 1st movie when [[spoiler: he stabs Mandragora through the back to stop her from strangling Bloom to death]].
** In the 3rd movie, Sky bashes Stormy in the face with a tree branch, and then slammed Darcy into the ground.
* WritersCannotDoMath:
** Both the destruction of Domino and the imprisonment of the Earth fairies are treated as ancient history despite the sole survivors of each being only teenage girls. To make it more confusing, Bloom is older than Roxy, meaning she should have been living on Earth at the time of the wizards' attack. To be fair, like Roxy, it's possible Bloom was too young for her powers to manifest, and the wizards' powers only worked against the Earth fairies, but it's kind of a stretch for the wizards not to have noticed a portal from Domino opening up on the planet when she arrived or have taken any notice of her beforehand.
** Selina and Eldora also somehow surviving the wizards' attack also brings up similar issues, since, by all accounts, Selina would have started as an Earth fairy (and should have some fairy ancestry).
** In Season 1, Daphne was an adult when she sent Bloom, who was still a baby, to Earth. In Season 2, Bloom has a vision of her life on Domino, and Daphne is seen as a little girl. Despite this, Bloom is still a baby during both events.
* WrittenInAbsence: S3 - all five Specialists have RSVP'd for Stella's party, but only two actually appear; the others' absence is explained in the dub with Flora noting that Helia's ship broke down.
* WrongInsultOffence:
-->'''Mirta:''' You're mean!
-->'''Icy:''' Mean? Try diabolical!
* XtremeKoolLetterz: You must have noticed by now if you're ''this'' far down the page.
* YouAreGrounded: In Season 1 Episode 7, the Winx are stripped of their powers and forced to clean the school as normals as the others go on a field trip, as punishment for sneaking into Cloud Tower. The 4Kids version of the episode is fittingly titled "Grounded". Averted in the Nickelodeon special adaptation where it is rewritten as a special assignment for new students.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: Despite the Winx's best efforts, [[spoiler:they are unable to stop Darkar getting the pieces of the codex]]. They are also unable to stop him capturing Bloom and [[spoiler:corrupting her into Dark Bloom]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Once Darkar feels that he doesn't need the Trix anymore, he tosses them into a black hole.
** The Trix also do this to Riven in a well done BreakTheHaughty sequence.
** [[spoiler: In season 6, Selina tries this on the Trix once she frees Acheron, but then Acheron does this to HER. After sucking the Trix into the Legendarium, he was about to do the same to Selina, making her finally realize that Bloom had been right about him all along.]]
** Tritannus does this to Icy in season 5, coldly turning on her once he's achieved his goal despite promising her all season that she will get to rule alongside him when he becomes Emperor of the Infinite Ocean.
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* [[DistressedDude Distressed Dudes]]: The Specialists aren't weak, but their strength has remained stagnant in comparison to their girlfriends, who regularly get power ups every season resulting in a power gap between them. This is most easily noticed when they get overpowered and subdued by an antagonist it seems every season and need to get rescued by their girlfriends.

** {{Subverted}} with Valtor: he was frozen in the Omega Dimension for 17 years and seems no worse for the wear when he's freed. Keyword: ''seems'': it's repeteadly pointed out he's far weaker than before being sealed into ice, and needed the Sun of Solaria to bring himself back to full power (after losing it in the second-to-last episode of season 3, him going OneWingedAngel in the last episode has him ''weaker than in human form'' in the rest of the series).

* IceQueen: Icy, taken to its literal extreme, both has powers over ice and is a very cold person. In sixth season, [[spoiler:she literally becomes (for two episodes) the mythological Snow Queen thanks to Legendarium, a magical artifact.]]

* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Winx is notorious for these. All females have impossible waists (yes, even the elderly), and in the case of those of the characters who are supposed to be young and attractive, one finds oneself wondering if their waists could even accommodate both the spine and a single pass of intestine, diaphragm and all those pesky not-liver organs be damned.

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:The Earth fairies were so caught up in revenge against the Wizards of the Black Circle and the people of Earth that they were about to freeze Earth over when one of their grievances was that humans had not taken care of Earth. Nebula in particular wanted vengeance even when Morgana and the other Earth fairies had given up on it.]] Thankfully, they were all convinced to drop it.

* AbsenteeActor: The only character to have a speaking appearance in every episode is Stella.
** Bloom doesn't have a speaking role in "The Show Must Go On" (but she does technically appear in this episode, in the crowd).